Author: Brockhoff, Klaus ISBN: 3540648194 / 9783540648192 Year: 1998 Availability: In Stock
Research and development is no longer a headquarters function. More and more companies internationalize their R&D activities. The pros and cons of this approach are discussed in this book. The organ...
Author: Joanna Jozefowska ISBN: 038771717X / 9780387717173 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
As the field of Supply Chain Management has matured, maintaining the precise flow of goods to maintain schedules (hence, minimizing inventories) on a just-in-time basis still remains as a major chal...
Author: Debenham, John ISBN: 3540637656 / 9783540637653 Year: 1998 Availability: In Stock
This systematic and detailed monograph describes a design methodology for knowledge-based systems. Such systems contain knowledge as well as information and data. The information and data can be mod...
Author: Fischer, Josef, Manfred M.; Fröhlich ISBN: 3540419691 / 9783540419693 Year: 2001 Availability: In Stock
The book addresses the relationship between knowledge, complexity and innovation systems. It integrates research findings from a broad area including economics, business studies, management studies,...
Author: Arjan van der, Schaft ISBN: 1852330732 / 9781852330736 Year: 2000 Availability: In Stock
This book gives a unified treatment of classical input-output stability theory and recent developments in nonlinear robust and passivity-based control. The synthesis between these areas is provided ...
Author: Jasbir Bath ISBN: 0387324666 / 9780387324661 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
The push toward lead-free soldering in computers, cell phones and other electronic and electrical devices has taken on a greater urgency as laws have been passed or are pending in the United States,...
Author: Frankl, Frieder, Paolo, Rubik ISBN: 3540664696 / 9783540664697 Year: 2000 Availability: In Stock
The challenge of our time is the greening of products. Different tools and concepts to support this process have been developed in the past decade. Among others, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) appears ...
Author: K.Ya.; Filatov, Kondratyev, Nikolai ISBN: 1852331127 / 9781852331122 Year: 1999 Availability: 45-60 days
Diminishing water resources are becoming of increasing concern because in many countries the sources of drinking water are close to being exhausted. Therefore, there is an urgent need to study and a...
Author: Elias Kougianos, Nagarajan Ranganathan, Priyardarsan Patra, Saraju P. Mohanty ISBN: 0387764739 / 9780387764733 Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
Low-Power High-Level Synthesis for Nanoscale CMOS Circuits addresses the need for analysis, characterization, estimation, and optimization of the various forms of power dissipation in the presence o...
Author: Bühler, L., Müller, U. ISBN: 3540412530 / 9783540412533 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This book serves as an introduction to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for graduate and advanced undergraduate engineering students. It may be used by engineers and physicists in research institutions an...
Author: Stoehr, Thomas ISBN: 3540421653 / 9783540421658 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The book provides a solid framework for managing e-business projects. With the increased popularity of web technologies, a growing number of people are now becoming involved in e-business. The book ...
Author: Boutellier, Gassmann, Maximilian von, Oliver, Roman, Zedtwitz ISBN: 3540668322 / 9783540668329 Year: 2000 Availability: In Stock
What are the secrets of competitive R&D on a global scale? The nineties have seen the largest international R&D expansion ever. Investigating more than 1000 R&D laboratories of 80 companies, this bo...
Author: Christian Longhi, R. Arena ISBN: 3540638105 / 9783540638100 Year: 1998 Availability: In Stock
Market economy has become today the predominant economic system in the world. One of the tasks of the book is to define analytically the essential features of a market economy. The other purpose is ...
Author: G.W., M.H., Meetham, Van de Voorde ISBN: 3540668616 / 9783540668619 Year: 2000 Availability: In Stock
This concise survey describes the requirements on materials operating in high-temperature environments and the processes increasing temperature capability of metals, ceramics, and composites. The ma...
Author: Cardarelli, Francois ISBN: 1846286689 / 9781846286681 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
This truly unique and practical book provides easy and rapid access to the accurate physical and chemical properties of all classes of materials.
Particular emphasis is placed on the properties of ...
Author: A.J.M Ferreira ISBN: 1402091990 / 9781402091995 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
This book illustrates how MATLAB compact and powerful programming framework can be very useful in the finete element analysis of solids and structures. The book shortly introduces finite element con...
Author: Ian S., Robinson ISBN: 3540426477 / 9783540426479 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
This book will cover the fundamental principles of measuring oceans from space, but will contain state-of-the-art developments in data analysis and interpretation and in sensors. Completely new will...
Author: George, Herrmann, Kienzler, Reinhold ISBN: 3540669655 / 9783540669654 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
The aim of the book is to present, in a novel and unified fashion, the elements of Mechanics in Material Space or Configurational Mechanics, with applications to fracture and defect mechanics. This ...
Author: Schuler GmbH ISBN: 3540611851 / 9783540611851 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
The "Metal Forming Handbook" presents the fundamentals of metal forming processes and press design. As a textbook and reference work in one, it provides an in-depth study of the major metal forming ...
Author: Heinz, Tschaetsch ISBN: 3540332162 / 9783540332169 Year: 2006 Availability: In Stock
This sourcebook presents the most important metal-working and shearing processes - and their related machines and tooling - in a concise form supplemented by ample illustrations, tables and flow cha...
Author: Marco Conti Enrico Gregori Luciano Lenzini ISBN: 3540198830 / 9783540198833 Year: 1997 Availability: In Stock
With the continued success of Local Area Networks (LANs) there has been an increasing demand to extend their capabilities. This need has given rise to Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), which throug...
Author: J.P., M.; Ehrfeld, Matlosz, W.; Baselt ISBN: 3540424989 / 9783540424987 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
IMRET 5 featured more than 80 oral and poster communications, covering the entire interdisciplinary field from design, production, modeling and characterization of microreactor devices to applicatio...
Author: Anderson, Brian D.O., Goro, Obinata ISBN: 1852333715 / 9781852333713 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Modern methods of filter design and controller design often yield systems of very high order, posing a problem for their implementation. Over the past two decades or so, sophisticated methods have b...
Author: Agostino, Brandimarte, Paolo; Villa ISBN: 354065500X / 9783540655008 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
Advanced modeling techniques are a necessary tool in order to design and manage manufacturing systems effectively. This book contains a set of tutorial chapters on topics ranging from aggregate prod...
