für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book demonstrates the practical implementation of a sustainability performance evaluation management system (SPEMS) for individual industry organizations and their Network of Interested Partners (NIP). NIP is a new concept for supply chains which involves forming mutually beneficial partnerships among commercial organizations and their local communities to achieve sustainability (i.e. social, economic and environmental balance). ····· 10361102011
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In industry there is a high demand for methods that can efficiently solve search problems. Evolutionary Computing (EC) is proven to be well suited to solve search problems, especially optimization tasks. However, despite the advantages and increasing popularity, there are numerous open questions related to the design and parameter tuning of these algorithms. To answer these questions the author of this book introduces neutral evolutionary search achieved by objective function transformation(s) resulting several advantageous features: (a) Simplifies the design of an evolutionary solver by giving population sizing principles and directions to choose the right selection operator. (b) No parameter tuning required to adjust a solver for different environments, introducing robustness. (c) The applied technique is simple and computationally cheap. (d) It boosts the performance of an evolutionary algorithm on high dimensional (constrained and unconstrained) problems. The analysis throughout this book processes an interesting idea which can be useful for those who wish to apply EC to problem solving: specialists, researchers, lecturers, graduate and undergraduate students. ····· 10361101993
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray `Automatic item-level identification of goods provides an opportunity to improve the efficiency of any supply chain.` As the above statement is applicable to almost all types of businesses, use of radio frequency identification (RFID) as an advanced identification method has recently become highly popular among several industries. However, the paper industry has been remarkably slower in utilizing RFID than many others, because of the characteristics of a paper reel, which makes paper reel identification one of the most challenging RFID applications. To be efficiently utilizable across the entire paper industry, RFID identification requires high reliability and consistency over the long and complicated, even intercontinental, supply chains. The main focus of this book is to specify means and methods for efficient and feasible use of passive ultra high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in the paper reel supply chain. The presented analysis should help shed some light to this new and exciting technology and application environment, and should be especially useful to professionals working in SCM, or anyone interested in RFID. ····· 10361101930
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The word quality is now well known around the world and this is no more an abstract idea or a marketing gimmick to sell the product. Businesses around the world have been following quality practices for more than fifty years and the standards, procedures and institutions are well developed now. Many businesses in manufacturing sector, most of which are subsidiaries of multinational companies, are following quality policies and have developed procedures to achieve it. Same is not the case for everywhere in the world. This is due to the unawareness of an Integrated Approach to Quality and Productivity that will result in enhancement of Business Excellence. There is a need to develop a business excellence model that derives firms towards a new approach of quality and productivity. This integrated model would develop operational linking strategies to deal explicitly with confidence towards simultaneous maintenance and continuous improvement of business process to enhance stakeholder`s value. This model would thus facilitate Firms to produce products/services that meets Customer Satisfaction. ····· 10361101745
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In the recent years Wavelets have opened the door to a flow of new ideas and algorithms that have invaded most traditional fortresses of signal processing. They allow to deal with problems of texture recognition such as shift sensitivity,poor directionality and absence of phase information which conventional methods fail to resolve. This book is intended to make the theory of wavelets understandable to beginners.It covers all types of complex wavelets that exploits the Gabor-like properties of the dual-tree complex wavelet transform, shift invariance and six directional subbands at each scale, and uses a feature vector comprising of a variance and an entropy at different scales of each of the directional subbands. Experimental results demonstrate its robustness against noise and a higher classification accuracy than a discrete wavelet transform based classifier. ····· 10361101654
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In today`s highly competitive, volatile and increasingly global manufacturing environment, manufacturing companies are increasingly aware of the need for agility and effectiveness at the supply- chain level, rather than simply at company level. Business Process Re-engineering and the resulting emphasis on core competence has influenced a move towards de-centralisation, flatter organisation structures and increased use of outsourcing . It has been said that it is now supply-chain versus supply-chain and that this poses both opportunity and threat for SMEs. A detailed description of Extended Enterprise is provided and a conceptual reference model is developed, with the aim of providing a strategic planning tool, which will help organisations to identify the extent to which they operate as part of an EE. The model is intended also to help organisations in their evolution towards more effective operation within EE. This book provides a thorough review of literature with respect to supply-chain integration and Extended Enterprise. Current practice is evaluated on the basis of the literature review and a case study of company. ····· 10361101574
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Supplier selection is one of the vital processes which have an impact on the competitiveness of firms by affecting their costs, the quality of goods and services produced, and customer satisfaction. Suppliers` evaluation is a multi criteria decision problem associated with several perspectives such as cost, quality, logistics, production, finance and sales. This necessitates the involvement of different parties within a firm and requires a group of decision makers to work collaboratively to come up with an acceptable solution. Additionally, the evaluations should be repeated regularly and the decision process should be as short as possible to be responsive in a competitive environment. In this work, a web-based group decision support system (GDSS) is developed to solve the supplier selection problem by using an AHP model. The GDSS provides a flexible and dynamic environment which enables the participation of several parties with the use of advanced web technologies to cope with the complexities of the supplier selection problem. This book is of interest for those who are involved in decision making processes of evaluation problems and those who are interested in developing a GDSS. ····· 10361101562
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray With the price of smartphones falling and their quality/capabilities increasing, the consumption of smartphones is on the rise. Smartphones have become a pocket computer and a must have necessity for many people. People want to have access to the internet at all times and smartphones provide this. Moreover, smartphones offer students with a new way of learning referred to as mobile learning. This thesis looks at how students are using their smartphones socially and for their education which is an unexplored topic. This thesis also looks at the potentials of mobile learning and the question of whether smartphones are replacing laptops. In this thesis I surveyed 100 students to find out how smartphones affect their social life and education. From my results I found some very interesting findings which provide a new insight into how students are benefiting from using their smartphones for educational purposes. My results also show that 68% of my respondents are addicted to using their smartphone and that many students are now beginning to replace laptops with their smartphones for many functions. ····· 10361101537
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Joint representations have experimented a significant height in signal processing during the last decades, to such an extent that there is no topic they have not been utilized for. Within a sea of joint representations existent in the literature, one of them concerns the present work: the log-Gabor multiresolution transform. Its significant mathematical properties (low spectral overlapping, high selectivity, shift-invariance, self-invertibility, complex-valued) and similarity to the cortical area V1 of the Visual Human System allow to extract salient features which traces new routes to face image processing tasks, in particular in the areas of image fusion and compression. ····· 10361101455
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In this study, the potential for a wastewater recycling scheme in the Guadalquivir river basin, located in southern Spain, was examined. Spatial analysis was used to identify candidate territories with the necessary criteria: irrigation zones in close proximity to large population centres, sufficient wastewater treatment infrastructure and geographical characteristics conducive to the implementation of a wastewater recycling scheme. ····· 10361101441
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In the recent years, project scheduling and management has been challenging many researchers and has become an intriguing field of study. There are many factors such as personnel, budget, time, materials,etc. that need to be taken into account before running a project. Practical situations have been successfully modeled in mathematical formulations and many problem test cases have been introduced to deal with project scheduling problems. However, having been proved as NP-hard problem, only projects with small numbers of activities can be solved using linear or integer programming approaches while a real project may involve hundreds or even thousands of tasks or activities to be completed. This study proposes an efficient algorithm based on Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) to deal with large-scale project scheduling problems, where an activity can be performed in different modes under precedence relations and resource constraints. ····· 10361101398
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray As the world is transforming into the knowledge based society, the capacity and competency of the human resources are the major concerns. Moreover, the great leap forward of the technology has demanded competent technical human resource. More precisely, the technical literacy has become the basic needs of the society. Visualizing this essence, almost all countries are now focusing in the engineering education and the reform agenda in engineering education is in the high priority. As a matter of fact, high skilled engineering human resources have become the driving force for the development of the country and prosperity of the people in every country. This work is an attempt to explore issues and strategies of engineering education to attain quality, taking a case of Nepal. This work is focused on exploring and analyzing current issues associated with the quality of engineering higher education and recommending the future strategies for reforming engineering higher education in Nepal. ····· 10361101379
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The discipline known as computer vision strives to extract a sense of meaning from the patterns of light falling across a sensor. Many difficulties hinder the advancement of this cause, ranging from ambiguity as to what form best encapsulates the structure of the information, to the intractable computational bandwidth required to process sensor images of sufficiently high resolution. One promising outlet to overcoming such difficulties is to learn from the single system that has already found solutions to many of the inherent problems: biological vision. I develop a system of neurons inspired by a subset of the visual areas present in the primate brain in order to direct the gaze of a pan-tilt camera in real-time to salient areas demarcated by one or more low-level visual features. The ultimate goal of this work is to achieve a system that can visually navigate a scene in a similar manner and time-frame as humans. ····· 10361101334
für 26.01€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Morison s equation uses two empirical constant coefficients for drag and inertial forces calculation. The values of these empirical coefficients must be determined from laboratory and field experiments. In a typical wave load investigation, the wave force together with corresponding water particle velocity and acceleration are measured. The measured data is then analysed to calculate constant values for Morison s coefficients. One of the methods used in the derivation of Morison s coefficients is the conventional method of moments. However, the coefficients obtained from this method show considerable scatter. The purpose of this investigation is to explain the cause of the scatter and to introduce a more efficient form of the method of moments. Morison s coefficients derived from the conventional method of moments will be compared with corresponding values from the new method of moments to determine the impact of the new method in reducing the observed scatter in Morison s coefficients. ····· 10361101324
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A distributed architecture based on the usage of intelligent user interfaces and multiagent systems to facilitate cooperative Internet-based remote interaction with a multirobot system is presented in this book. The proposed system relies on the agent paradigm for dealing with the complexity of cooperative remote interaction systems with multirobots, while taking advantage of intelligent user interfaces for obtaining high degree of naturalness during the interaction sessions. This generic architecture, featuring multimodality and adaptivity, supports an unlimited number of robots, an unlimited number of behaviors, and offers different operation modes making it a suitable platform for mobile multirobot remote applications. A concern is made around the user-centered experience, in order to provide the user with seamless interaction despite the scalability. Two different application scenarios based on this architecture are implemented and demonstrated to verify the architecture`s efficacy. At the time of writing, this work presents the first attempt of using Adobe Flash as an implementation tool for generating a real-time Internet-based multirobot interface. ····· 10361101297
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In recent years, industrialization has been observed to be the main culprit globally, responsible for the pollution of the atmosphere. This has not only caused global warming, but also affected the transmissivity of the terrestrial region and thereby, severely affected the amount of solar radiation received by the earth. This work is an outcome of an attempt to study the different techniques/models for the estimation of global solar radiation on horizontal surface. The emphasis is on an understanding of the subject as well as on the different methods of calculation. The subject matter has been distributed in to five chapters. In Chapter 1, the introduction of the problem has been outlined. In Chapter 2, detailed formulations for the estimation of solar radiation by sunshine hour duration models have been presented. In Chapter 3, the temperature parameter is taken under consideration for the estimation of solar radiation. In Chapter 4, estimation includes all the other models which include climatic parameters such as latitude, altitude, transmissivity, albedo, humidity etc. In Chapter 5, possible areas of future work have been discussed. ····· 10361101066
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Technical development in industry requires a harmony between the controlled process, the control system and the human. This requirement needs to use safety and fast bi-directional communication. The tool for this goal is the efficient and accurate real-time control. Some technologies consist of extremely fast and extremely slow processes. Extremely fast processes require high-powered data collection and data conversion, high-speed process control system with extremely short real-time cycle, high computational capability, and high memory capacitance. Extremely slow processes require continuous communication with the process to perceive slow and fine changes, ability to distinguish a finite state of process from any temporary state of process, and capability to recognize and evaluate the relatively faster short- time events. The goal of this work is to develop a new method to achieve higher efficiency and safety in controlling of large-scale systems by Thom`s catastrophe theory. The new method will be introduced by a large-scale system, the steam production technology which includes extremely fast and extremely slow processes. ····· 10361101022
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The aim of this research was to design and construct highly sensitive bio-analytical devices, useful in clinical profiling of patients in disease screening, diagnosis or monitoring disease progression. These novel types of immunosensors are based on either fiber optics or micro-array technology in which indium tin oxide (ITO), deposited on the non-conductive surfaces of transducers, allow the electropolymerization of newly synthesized monomers, be they light sensitive or affinity-based, for subsequent specific immobilization of bioreceptors. ····· 10361101013
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Textile in general and apparel in particular have the highest consumption throughout the world. There are several factors that determine what would be the actual requirement of expenditures on textiles. In all the factors life of a garment is the most important factor. Here our focus would be on resin finish fabric which comes under the title of special finishes. A garment undergoes several washes during its life cycle. In every washing it is exposed to two factors, one is physical friction and second is the chemicals. Combine effects of physical friction and chemicals reduce the life of the garment. Resins are basically cross linkers which bind with the fabric surface and make a bond with fabric structure and spread over the fabric in form of a thin layer. This layer resists the effects of physical friction and chemicals, with the passage of time and laundering this layer gets weaker and weaker. This book is based on the study of physical and chemicals effects that resin finished fabric undergoes due to successive home laundering. All the observations in form of graphs, pictures and tabular illustrations are included to understand this manuscript. ····· 10361100946
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In order for organisations to maintain resilience, competitiveness and performance, they must have a system in place to manage the risks associated to their organisations. The challenge is to determine how much risk and uncertainty is acceptable, and how to cost effectively manage the risk and uncertainty while meeting the organisation`s strategic and operational objectives. For many large organisations, quality or so called customer perceived quality`, has become an issue of survival. Furthermore, increased competitiveness is necessary in order to become the obvious choice for the customer.Companies view culture as something to be influenced to achieve organisational goals of productivity and profitability. Attempts to change the culture of an organisation, may meet with varied levels of success. The author anticipates finding ways to improve organisational culture, which in turn would facilitate quality improvement within an organisation. ····· 10361100897
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In this book, various state-of-art techniques about face recognition has been studied. The main portion of the book discuss about the face recognition system based on the probability distribution functions (PDF) of pixels in colour channels. This book studies into two main issues of face recognition, one of which is facial image illumination enhancement and the other one is classification stage where the face images are being recognized. In the pre-processing stage a novel facial image equalization method is studied and discussed. Further more PDF based face recognition is analytically is studied. ····· 10361100808
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In the last years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are acquiring more importance as a promising technology based on tiny devices called sensor nodes or motes able to monitor a wide range of physical phenomenon through sensors. The severe hardware restrictions of sensor nodes in relation to computation, communication and specifically, energy, have posed new technical and conceptual challenges. In particular, research is moving towards heterogeneous networks that will contain different devices running custom WSN operating systems. Operating systems specifically designed for sensor nodes are intended to efficiently manage the hardware resources and facilitate the programming. Nevertheless, they often lack the generality and the high-level abstractions expected at this abstraction layer. The book address the problem of designing and implementing a generic sensor node-centric architecture distinguishing clearly the different abstraction levels in a sensor node. Programming language extensions have to be also specified on top of the architecture, in order to write portable applications. In this way, architecture deals with the problem of heterogeneity and portability. ····· 10361100765
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Natural gas is an increasingly important source of the world s energy. Estimating future supplies of this valuable commodity is an important economic and strategic endeavor. However, world gas supply forecasting has proved difficult because its exploration, transportation, and customer bases depend so heavily on fluctuating economic factors. Gas production fluctuations from several countries were affected by the relationship between gas and oil industries, economic burdens, and governmental-policy implementations. This work presents innovative approaches for analyzing and forecasting natural gas supply for individual countries and the world. These new methods include the multicyclic modeling, artificial intelligence technology, and time-series analysis. Most industrialized countries are depleting their gas resources much faster than are developing countries. Fuel switching and gas dependence by industrial and commercial sectors and production decline of crude oil in these countries are among the reasons for the high depletion rate. Russia and major Arabian Gulf countries will be major sources of world gas supply representing about 62% of world s future recoverable conventional gas. ····· 10361100689
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In modern automotive industry, the state-of-art technology of fuel injection controllers utilizes feed-forward control with a mass airflow sensor located upstream of the throttle, plus a proportional and integral (PI) type feedback control. The feed-forward control is simply implemented with look-up tables, which requires a laborious process of calibration and tuning. With the development of micro-controllers for engine control units (ECU), a variety of advanced control schemes has been introduced to automotive industry. This research work, firstly, investigated neural network based feed-forward control method to improve the performance of fuel injector. In addition, based on the air/fuel ratio model developed, a nonlinear model predictive control scheme is implemented successfully, and the control performance and robustness are evaluated by introducing system uncertainties. ····· 10361100405· 1 · ::::: · 17 ·· 18 ·· 19 ·· 20 ·· 21 ·· 22 ·· 23 · ::::: · 47 ·
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