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Security and Fault Tolerance in Internet of Things
No full textThis book covers various aspects of security, privacy and reliability in Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical System design, analysis and testing. In particular, various established theories and practices both from academia and industry are presented and suitably organized targeting students, engineers and researchers. Fifteen leading academicians and practitioners wrote this book, pointing to the open problems and biggest challenges on which research in the near future will be focused
Electro-Hydraulic Actuation Systems: Design, Testing, Identification and Validation
No full textThis brief presents the general guidelines for design, testing, identification and validation of electro-hydraulic actuation system. An analytical procedure for sizing the
system for given loading and actuation rates has been elaborately explained. The
system size is projected in terms of actuator capacity, servo valve flow rating, pump
capacity and motor capacity. To verify the system design, the flow rates and system
pressure values from experimental data have been compared with those from analytical
calculations. The system performance in closed-loop operation is measured by comparing commanded position with the actual position. The flapper nozzle servo valve
acting as direction control valve forms the core component of this system. As an
attempt to provide a one-stop solution in completely understanding the working and
dynamics of the valve, elaborate mathematical modelling is carried out from first
principles and governing equations. However, due to OEM propriety, the servo valve
internal parameters are not disclosed to the end-user. Thus, to identify the servo valve
internal parameters, system identification approach has been adopted. A step-by-step
approach for building mathematical models from experimental data using system
identification toolbox (MATLAB) has been presented. The mathematical models built
using first principles and through system identification are simulated, and the results are
verified with the experimental results.
The brief is arranged in the following chapters: Chap. 1 lays out analytical approach
to size the system in terms of load and flow rate calculations; Chap. 2 presents
mathematical models of the flapper nozzle type direction control servo valve; Chap. 3
gives an insight into servo valve performance plots; Chap. 4 introduces the concept of
system identification and lays out the procedure for identification and implementation;
Chap. 5 presents simulation and test results followed by the conclusion in Chap. 6
Biometrics under Biomedical Considerations
No full textThis book addresses biometrics from a biomedical engineering point of view. Divided into five sections, it discusses topics including the influence of pathologies on various biometric modalities (e.g. face, iris, fingerprint), medical and security biometrics, behavioural biometrics, instrumentation, wearable technologies and imaging. The final chapters also present a number of case studies.
The book is suitable for advanced graduate and postgraduate students, engineers and researchers, especially those in signal and image processing, biometrics, and biomedical engineering
Speak To Lead : 28 Strategi Komunikasi Pemimpin Untuk Mencapai Tujuan Kepemimpinan
No full textSejumlah aktivitas utama pemimpin, sangat memerlukan kemampuan komunikasi. Speak to Lead, buku ini memperjelas pentingnya peranan komunikasi untuk mendukung pencapaian tujuan pemimpin. Apa yang selama ini kurang disadari tentang faktor kegagalan pemimpin dalam mencapai tujuan-tujuan penting kepemimpinan, semakin terlihat jelas bahwa sumber masalah utamanya adalah gagal melakukan komunikasi pemimpin yang efektif.
Pemimpin efektif dan komunikasi efektif adalah hal yang tak terpisahkan. Kemampuan komunikasi akan memperkuat kemampuan pemimpin mencapai tujuan kepemimpinannya. Sebaliknya, kemampuan komunikasi yang lemah, juga merupakan titik lemah yang mengakibatkan banyak pemimpin tidak efektif. Segala sesuatu yang tidak berjalan lancar, macet, bahkan berbagai kegagalan eksekusi strategi, seringkali penyebabnya adalah komunikasi pemimpin yang tidak efektif..
Speak to Lead, menyampaikan tentang bagaimana seharusnya pemimpin berbicara. Buku ini membagikan 28 strategi komunikasi pemimpin yang dikelompokkan dalam 3 bagian utama, yaitu:
The Person, menyampaikan 3 kualitas diri pemimpin yang layak didengar,
The Message, menyampaikan 12 pesan komunikasi yang harus disampaikan pemimpin,
The Way, menyampaikan 13 cara komunikasi pemimpin yang efektif.
Apapun tujuan kepemimpinan Anda, Anda memerlukan kemampuan komunikasi pemimpin, untuk mencapainya. Speak to Lead, memberikan inspirasi terpenting mengenai berbicara sebagai pemimpin untuk mencapai tujuan kepemimpinan Anda
Computational Intelligence and Sustainable Systems
No full textThis book features research related to computational intelligence and energy and thermal aware management of computing resources. The authors publish original and timely research in current areas of power, energy, temperature, and environmental engineering as and advances in computational intelligence that are benefiting the fields. Topics include signal processing architectures, algorithms, and applications; biomedical informatics and computation; artificial intelligence and machine learning; green technologies in information; and more. The book includes contributions from a wide range of researchers, academicians, and industry professionals. The book is made up both of extended papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Sustainable System (ICICSS 2018), September 20-21, 2018, and other accepted papers on R&D and original research work related to the practice and theory of technologies to enable and support Intelligent Computing applications.
Presents the most recent challenges and developments in computational intelligence for sustainable systems and their best practices for application;
Includes high quality research contributions from a wide range of scholars, researchers, academicians and professionals;
Features expanded papers from the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Sustainable System (ICICSS 2018), September 20-21, 2018
Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array Digital Microfluidic Biochips
No full textThis book provides an insightful guide to the design, testing and optimization of micro-electrode-dot-array (MEDA) digital microfluidic biochips. The authors focus on the characteristics specific for MEDA biochips, e.g., real-time sensing and advanced microfluidic operations like lamination mixing and droplet shape morphing. Readers will be enabled to enhance the automated design and use of MEDA and to develop a set of solutions to facilitate the full exploitation of design complexities that are possible with standard CMOS fabrication techniques. The book provides the first set of design automation and test techniques for MEDA biochips. The methods described in this book have been validated using fabricated MEDA biochips in the laboratory. Readers will benefit from an in-depth look at the MEDA platform and how to combine microfluidics with software, e.g., applying biomolecular protocols to software-controlled and cyberphysical microfluidic biochips.
Presents a method for droplet size-aware high-level synthesis, targeting reservoir placement, operation scheduling, module placement, and routing of droplets of various sizes in a MEDA biochip;
Enables efficient and adaptive error recovery, through a probabilistic-timed-automata (PTA)-based strategy for error recovery in MEDA biochips;
Includes structural and functional test methods for MEDA biochips;
Describes a droplet size-aware sample preparation method, referred to as the weighted sample-preparation method (WSPM), for MEDA biochips
Data Analytics: Paving the Way to Sustainable Urban Mobility
No full textThis book aims at showing how big data sources and data analytics can play an important role in sustainable mobility. It is especially intended to provide academicians, researchers, practitioners and decision makers with a snapshot of methods that can be effectively used to improve urban mobility. The different chapters, which report on contributions presented at the 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, held on May 24-25, 2018, in Skiathos Island, Greece, cover different thematic areas, such as social networks and traveler behavior, applications of big data technologies in transportation and analytics, transport infrastructure and traffic management, transportation modeling, vehicle emissions and environmental impacts, public transport and demand responsive systems, intermodal interchanges, smart city logistics systems, data security and associated legal aspects. They show in particular how to apply big data in improving urban mobility, discuss important challenges in developing and implementing analytics methods and provide the reader with an up-to-date review of the most representative research on data management techniques for enabling sustainable urban mobilit
Engineering Research Methodology
No full textThe book covers all the important aspects of research methodology, and addresses the specific requirements of engineering students, such as methods and tools, in detail. It also discusses effective research in engineering today, which requires the ability to undertake literature reviews utilizing different online databases, to attribute credit for any prior work mentioned, to respect intellectual property rights while simultaneously maintaining ethics in research, and much more. Further, the book also considers soft skills like research management and planning, dealing with criticism in research and presentation skills, which are all equally important and need to include in research methodology education. Lastly, it provides the technical knowhow needed to file patents in academia, an important area that is often ignored in research methodology books. The book is a particularly valuable resource for PhD students in India and South East Asia, as research methodology is a part of their coursework
Optical Communications: Advanced Systems and Devices for Next Generation Networks
No full textThis book provides a representative collection of chapters that discuss these
emerging technologies and their application in optical communication networks to
transport current and emerging IP traffic. They approach the state of the art of
several critical applications for next-generation communication networks to support
the increasing rates of increasingly heterogeneous traffic. It addresses the challenging need to promote the understanding of the state of the art as it evolves, thus filling a critical gap between the classical textbook that normally discusses mature, steady technologies and the short paper that discusses a specific contribution to the state of the art, which is assumed to be known by the reader. I therefore congratulate
the editors and authors for this worthy editorial endeavor