Computer Science, Engineering, Materials Science, Physics/Astronomy Cover Title Pub'd Price (net) Siciliano, Bruno; Sciavicco, Lorenzo; Villani, Luigi; Oriolo, Giuseppe
Robotics Modelling, Planning and Control Based on the successful Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators by Sciavicco and Siciliano (Springer, 2000), Robotics provides the basic know-how on the foundations of robotics: modelling, planning and control. It has been expanded to include coverage of mobile robots, visual control and motion planning. A variety of problems is raised throughout, and the proper tools to find engineering-oriented solutions are introduced and explained. The text includes coverage of fundamental topics like kinematics, and trajectory ⁄ 89,95 Nov-08 planning and related technological aspects including actuators and sensors. £ 69,95
To impart practical skill, examples and case studies are carefully worked out and interwoven through the text, with frequent resort to simulation. In addition, end-of- chapter exercises are proposed, and the book is accompanied by an electronic solutions manual containing the MATLAB® code for computer problems; this is available free of charge to those adopting this volume as a textbook for courses.
(Series: Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing)
2009, XXIV, 632 p. 298 illus. With online files/update., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-641-4 Rigden, John S. ; Stuewer, Roger H.
The Physical Tourist A Science Guide for the Traveler Typical travel guides have sections on architecture, art, literature, music and cinema. Rarely are any science-related sites identified. For example, a current travel guide for Germany contains one tidbit on science: Einstein is identified as the most famous citizen of Ulm. By contrast, this travel guide walks a tourist through Berlin and identifies where ⁄ 19,90 Max Planck started the quantum revolution, where Einstein lived and gave his early Nov-08 £ 15,99 talks on general relativity, and where, across the street, Einstein’s books were burned by the Nazis. Or, if you are walking in Paris, this guide tells you where radioactivity was discovered and where radium was discovered. Scientific discoveries of the past, like art of the past, have shaped life in the 21st century. From this travel guide, a tourist will learn what other guides leave out.
2009, VIII, 249 p. 115 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8932-1 Bulterman, Dick C.A.; Rutledge, Lloyd W.
SMIL 3.0 Flexible Multimedia for Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books The SMIL 3.0 language is the W3C’s standard language for web-based multimedia. This book provides a comprehensive guide to all of SMIL’s elements and attributes for all versions, from the complete SMIL Language profile to SMIL Tiny. Driven by dozens of examples and illustrated code fragments, every aspect of SMIL is treated in this book. ⁄ 49,95 Nov-08 Starting with essential background on XML and the streaming media infrastructure, this £ 39,99 book considers recent features – such as smilText and smilState – as well as the structuring, layout and timing aspects required to master SMIL. In addition, the book describes advanced SMIL functionality, including transitions, animation and embedded metadata, all from an application-oriented perspective. (Series: X.media.publishing)
2nd ed., 2009, XXVIII, 508 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78546-0
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Helrich, Carl S.
Modern Thermodynamics with Statistical Mechanics
With the aim of presenting thermodynamics in as simple and as unified a form as possible, this textbook starts with an introduction to the first and second laws and then promptly addresses the complete set of the potentials in a subsequent chapter and as a central theme throughout. Before discussing modern laboratory measurements, the book shows that the fundamental quantities sought in the laboratory are those which are required for determining the potentials. Since the subjects of thermodynamics and ⁄ 69,95 Nov-08 statistical mechanics are a seamless whole, statistical mechanics is treated as integral £ 55,99 part of the text. Other key topics such as irreversibility, the ideas of Ilya Prigogine, chemical reaction rates, equilibrium of heterogeneous systems, and transition-state theory serve to round out this modern treatment. An additional chapter covers quantum statistical mechanics due to active current research in Bose-Einstein condensation. End-of-chapter exercises, chapter summaries, and an appendix reviewing fundamental prerequisites supply students with helpful reinforcement and practice with key concepts.
2009, XIV, 402 p. 111 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85417-3 Biskup, Joachim
Security in Computing Systems Challenges, Approaches and Solutions
With Security in Computing Systems, Joachim Biskup introduces, surveys and assesses the fundamentals of security with respect to all activities that individuals or groups directly or indirectly perform by means of computers and computer networks.
He has organized his comprehensive overview on multilateral security into four cross- referencing parts: challenges and basic approaches; fundamentals of information flow and inference control; security mechanisms with an emphasis on control and monitoring on the one hand and on cryptography on the other; and implementations. Besides presenting informal surveys and introductions to these topics, the book carefully elaborates the fundamental ideas by at least partially explaining the required precise ⁄ 64,95 Nov-08 formalizations and outlining the achieved mathematical verifications. Moreover, the £ 51,99 need to employ the various security enforcement methods in a well-coordinated way is emphasized and thoroughly exemplified, and this includes case studies on UNIX, Oracle/SQL, CORBA, Kerberos, SPKI/SDSI and PGP.
Overall, this monograph provides a broad and comprehensive description of computer security threats and countermeasures, ideal for graduate students or researchers in academia and industry who require an introduction to the state of the art in this field. In addition, it can be used as the basis for graduate courses on security issues in computing.
2009, XXVIII, 694 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78441-8
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Borodich, F. M.
IUTAM Symposium on Scaling in Solid Mechanics Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Cardiff, UK, 25-29 June, 2007
This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Scaling in Solid Mechanics', held in Cardiff from 25th to 29th June 2007. The Symposium was convened to address and place on record topical issues in theoretical, experimental and computational aspects of scaling approaches to solid mechanics and related fields. Scaling is a rapidly expanding area of research having multidisciplinaryapplications. The expertise represented in the Symposium was accordingly very wide, and many of the world's greatest authorities in their respective fields participated.
Scaling methods apply wherever there is similarity across many scales or a need to bridge different scales, e.g. the nanoscale and macroscale. The emphasis in the Symposium was upon fundamental issues such as: mathematical foundations of scaling methods based on transformations and connections between multi-scale approaches ⁄ 104,95 and transformations. The Symposium remained focussed on fundamental research Nov-08 issues of practical significance. The topics considered included damage accumulation, £ 83,00 growth of fatigue cracks, development of patterns of flaws in the earth's core and in ice, abrasiveness of rough surfaces, and so on. The Symposium showed that scaling methods cannot be reduced solely to dimensional analysis and fractal approaches. Modern scaling approaches consist of a great diversity of techniques.
These proceedings contain lectures on state-of-the-art developments in self-similar solutions, fractal models, models involving interplay between different scales, size effects in fracture of solids and bundles of fibres, scaling in problems of fracture mechanics, nanomechanics, contact mechanics and testing of materials by indentation, scaling issues in mechanics of agglomeration of adhesive particles, and in biomimetic of adhesive contact.
(Series: IUTAM Bookseries)
2009, XIV, 310 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9032-5 Glikin, Arkady E.
Polymineral-Metasomatic Crystallogenesis
"Polymineral-Metasomatic Crystallogenesis" is dedicated to the foundations of polymineral crystallogenesis in solutions typically occurring in nature. Effects, laws, and mechanisms of a metasomatic crystal replacement, joint crystal growth of different phases, mixed crystal formation, and aggregate re-crystallization as well as oriented overgrowth (epitaxy and quasi-epitaxy) and crystal habit origin are considered experimentally. The behaviour of these processes in nature are discussed in addition to ⁄ 149,95 Nov-08 pseudomorphs, poikilitic crystals (and other replacement forms), features of rapakivi £ 118,50 structure, fluorite morphology, and many more. The concept is a generalization of the classic theory on crystallogenesis which is complicated by phase interaction in polymineral systems.
"Polymineral-Metasomatic Crystallogenesis" is designed for chemists, geologists, physicists, and postgraduates and advanced undergraduate students of these fields.
2009, XIV, 314 p. 114 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8982-4
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Taylor, Ian J.; Harrison, Andrew
From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web Evolving Distributed Communities
This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of emerging distributed-systems technologies and has been significantly enhanced and extended into the many new state-of-the-art infrastructures and technologies that have appeared since the successful 1st edition. The focus is also broadened, retaining the technical aspects, but including historical contexts for each of the technologies.
The 2nd edition fills in the gaps and includes an additional 13 chapters on new higher ⁄ 62,95 popular technologies, including bittorrent, OGSA/WS-RF, workflow technologies, portals Nov-08 and enhanced deployment sections for the new technologies - taking a more applied £ 40,00 approach. Further background issues such as state/stateless services and describing various possible communication methods from history and the basic connectivity are also presented. Additional info is available from www.p2pgridbook.com
Offering a comprehensive representation of the distributed systems field, this new text offers invaluable insight to both students and researchers.
(Series: Computer Communications and Networks)
2nd ed., 2009, XXIV, 448 p. 123 illus., Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-122-0 Havelock, David; Kuwano, Sonoko; Vorländer, Michael
Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics
The Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics will compile the techniques and applications of signal processing as they are used in the many varied areas of Acoustics. The Handbook will emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of signal processing in acoustics. Each Section of the Handbook will present topics on signal processing which are important in a specific area of acoustics. These will be of interest to specialists in these areas because they will be presented from their technical perspective, rather than a generic engineering approach to signal processing. Non- specialists, or specialists from different areas, will find the self-contained chapters ⁄ 339,00 accessible and will be interested in the similarities and differences between the Nov-08 approaches and techniques used in different areas of acoustics. £ 268,00
The Handbook will have many illustrations, tables, and key equations. Signal processing techniques which find major application in different areas of acoustics will be presented from differing perspectives. There will be an extensive index for cross-referencing of material in the book.
2009, 1933 p. 700 illus. in color. In 2 volumes, not available separately., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-77698-9
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Schroeder, Manfred
Number Theory in Science and Communication With Applications in Cryptography, Physics, Digital Information, Computing, and Self-Similarity
"Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non- mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of applied mathematics . It stresses intuitive understanding rather than abstract theory and highlights important concepts such as continued fractions, the golden ratio, quadratic residues and Chinese remainders, trapdoor functions, pseudo primes and primitive elements. Their applications to problems in the real world are one of the main themes of the book. This revised fifth edition is augmented by recent advances in coding theory, permutations ⁄ 64,95 and derangements and a chapter in quantum cryptography. Nov-08 £ 51,99 From reviews of earlier editions –
"I continue to find [Schroeder’s] Number Theory a goldmine of valuable information. It is a marvelous book, in touch with the most recent applications of number theory and written with great clarity and humor.’ Philip Morrison (Scientific American)
"A light-hearted and readable volume with a wide range of applications to which the author has been a productive contributor – useful mathematics outside the formalities of theorem and proof." Martin Gardner
5th ed., 2009, XXIV, 432 p. 103 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85297-1 Sólyom, Jenö
Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids Volume II: Electronic Properties
This book is the second of a single-authored, three-volume series that aims to deliver a comprehensive and self-contained account of the vast field of solid-state physics. It goes far beyond most classic texts in the presentation of the properties of solids and experimentally observed phenomena, along with the basic concepts and theoretical methods used to understand them and the essential features of various experimental techniques.
The first volume deals with the atomic and magnetic structure and dynamics of solids, the second with those electronic properties that can be understood in the one-particle approximation, and the third with the effects due to interactions and correlations between electrons. ⁄ 129,95 Nov-08 This volume is devoted to the electronic properties of metals and semiconductors in the £ 103,00 independent-electron approximation. After a brief discussion of the free-electron models by Drude and Sommerfeld, the methods for calculating and measuring the band structure of Bloch electrons moving in the periodic potential of the crystal are presented. The dynamics of electrons in applied electric and magnetic fields is treated in the semiclassical approximation. The effects due to the quantization of the energy levels in strong magnetic field are also discussed. The overview of the transport and optical properties of metals and semiconductors is followed by a phenomenological description of superconductivity. The last chapter deals with the physics of semiconductor devices.
This comprehensive treatment provides ample material for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses. It will also be a valuable reference for researchers in the field of condensed matter physics.
2009, XXII, 646 p. 238 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85315-2
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Chen, Shan-Ben; Wu, Jing
Intelligentized Methodology for Arc Welding Dynamical Processes Visual Information Acquiring, Knowledge Modeling and Intelligent Control ⁄ 99,95 Nov-08 £ 79,00 (Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)
2009, XXIV, 278 p. 502 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85641-2
Lang, Kenneth R.
The Sun from Space
The first edition of The Sun From Space, completed in 1999, focused on the early accomplishments of three solar spacecraft, SOHO, Ulysses and Yohkoh, primarily during a minimum in the Sun's 11-year cycle of magnetic activity. This comprehensive Second Edition includes the main findings of these three spacecraft over an entire activity cycle, including two minima and a maximum, and discusses the significant results of six further solar missions. It contains the relevant discoveries of the past decade, integrated into chapters completely rewritten for the purposes of this book. This provides a fresh perspective on the major topics of solar enquiry, written in an enjoyable, easily understood text accessible to all readers, from the interested ⁄ 69,95 layperson to the student or professional. Nov-08 £ 52,50 After describing the scientific objectives of the nine solar missions and a historical perspective on studies of the Sun and heliosphere, the author presents key advances in our understanding of the solar interior, the heating of the million-degree outer atmosphere of the Sun, known as the solar corona, the origin and nature of the solar winds, the cause, prediction and propagation of explosive solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and all aspects of space-weather interactions of the Sun with the Earth, with unprotected astronauts on the Moon or Mars, and with spacecraft in outer space.
(Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
2nd ed., 2009, XXX, 558 p. 124 illus., 67 in color., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76952-1 Bangash, M.Y.H.
Shock, Impact and Explosion Structural Analysis and Design
The dynamics of shock, impact and explosions are an important consideration in the design of structures. This book provides a detailed and illustrated study of structural dynamics of almost all types of shocks, impacts and explosions.
After a comprehensive survey of accidents and explosions, the author covers all areas of basic structural dynamics and provides a full treatment of impact dynamics. Two ⁄ 249,00 Nov-08 chapters are devoted to a detailed analysis and numerical modelling for explosions £ 197,00 occurring in air underground and underwater as well as formulations for the finite element analysis of shock impact and explosion. The last part of the book deals with many detailed case studies on structures of numerous materials like steel, composites, and concrete structures.
Shock, Impact and Explosion is devoted to research and practising engineers, designers, technologists, mathematician and specialists in computer-aided techniques.
2009, XLIV, 1366 p. 695 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-77067-1
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Adams, Jeanne C.; Brainerd, Walter S.; Hendrickson, Richard A.; Maine, Richard E.; Martin, Jeanne T.; Smith, Brian T.
The Fortran 2003 Handbook The Complete Syntax, Features and Procedures
The Fortran 2003 Handbook is a definitive and comprehensive guide to Fortran 2003 and its use. Fortran 2003, the latest standard version of Fortran, has many excellent features that assist the programmer in writing efficient, portable and maintainable programs. This book is an informal description of Fortran 2003, developed to provide not only a readable explanation of features, but also some rationale for the inclusion of features and their use. ⁄ 62,95 Nov-08 Topics and features include: The syntactic features of the language are described £ 45,00 completely in the appendices; Each chapter begins with a summary of the main terms and concepts described in the chapter; Each of the intrinsic procedures is described in detail; The complete syntax of Fortran 2003 is supplied; Contains a listing of the new and obsolescent features; Numerous examples are given.
This handbook is intended for anyone who wants a comprehensive survey of Fortran 2003, including those familiar with programming language concepts but unfamiliar with Fortran.
2009, XII, 712 p. 32 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-378-9 Hazzan, Orit; Dubinsky, Yael
Agile Software Engineering
This textbook presents the current issues in software development methods. Special emphasis is placed on agile software development, being one of the mainstream paradigms for the management of software projects.
Features and topics: (1) Examines the Agile manifesto and its implications. (2) Discusses the delivery of software projects on time and within budgets by using agile software development environment. (3) Considers the customer role in agile software
development environments. (4) Looks at measures to control and monitor the software ⁄ 26,95 Nov-08 development process. (5) Offers Agile software development processes from a cognitive £ 19,95 perspective. (6) Explores the concept of agility from the management perspective. (7) Investigates the impact of agility on the organization level. (8) The wider context of each topic to software engineering is emphasized.
This comprehensive and concise introduction offers a reader-friendly approach to the topic. Written for advanced undergraduates, this clear foundation course will also be valuable for practitioners.
(Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
2009, VIII, 296 p. 30 illus., Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-198-5
Newman, Jay
Physics of the Life Sciences ⁄ 66,95 Nov-08 £ 50,50 2008, XVIII, 718 p. 1500 illus., 600 in color., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-77258-5
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Thomas, Donald; Moorby, Philip
The Verilog® Hardware Description Language Thomas & Moorby’s The Verilog Hardware Description Language has become the standard reference text for Verilog. This edition presents the new IEEE 1364-2001 standard of the language. The examples have all been updated to illustrate the new features of the language. A cross referenced guide to the new and old features is provided. Thus, designers already familiar with Verilog can quickly learn the new features. Newcomers to the language can use it as a guide for reading “old” specifications. ⁄ 54,95 The Verilog Hardware Description Language, Fifth Edition, is a valuable resource for Nov-08 £ 43,99 engineers and students interested in describing, simulating, and synthesizing digital systems; the extensive number of simulatable examples and wide range of representation styles covered ensure its quick use in design. The book is also ready for use in university courses, having been used for introductory logic design and simulation through advanced VLSI design courses. An appendix with tutorial help and a work-along style is keyed into the introduction for new students. Material supporting a computer-aided design course on the inner working of simulators is also included.
5th ed., 2009, XXII, 386 p. With CD-ROM., Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-84930-0 Burkhardt, Charles E.; Leventhal, Jacob J.
Foundations of Quantum Physics The intent of the authors in writing this book is to avoid a modern trend in textbooks that is to condense and compress the texts into smaller sizes. The authors believe that a textbook should be more than a one or two semester acquaintance. This is especially true for a course such as quantum mechanics which is likely taken by physics majors who will use the subject for the rest of their careers. Perhaps in years to come, this ⁄ 86,95 student, now a working physicist, is interested in a subject skipped in the course. He or Nov-08 £ 68,99 she knows where to find the material in a book that is quite familiar to him or her; a book they retained from their course and kept in a personal library. The goal in writing this book is to have that kind of staying power and be a long-term companion for physicists. The authors will also provide an instructor's solution manual, which will be available to adopting professors.
2009, XVII, 530 p. 133 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-77651-4 Song, Lolan
Innovation Together Microsoft Research Asia Academic Research Collaboration Since its establishment in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia’s trademark and long term commitment has been to foster innovative research and advanced education in the Asia-Pacific region. Through open collaboration and partnership with universities, government and other academic partners, MSRA has been consistently advancing the state-of-the-art in computer science. This book was compiled to record these ⁄ 79,95 outstanding collaborations, as Microsoft Research Asia celebrates its 10th Anniversary. Nov-08 £ 63,99 The selected papers are all authored or co-authored by faculty members or students through collaboration with MSRA lab researchers, or with the financial support of MSRA. Papers previously published in top-tier international conference proceedings and journals are compiled here into one accessible volume of outstanding research. Innovation Together highlights the outstanding work of Microsoft Research Asia as it celebrates ten years of achievement and looks forward to the next decade of success.
2009, XVIII, 222 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-87860-7
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Blundell, Barry G.
An Introduction to Computer Graphics and Creative 3-D Environments
This book introduces the fundamentals of 2-D and 3-D computer graphics. Additionally, a range of emerging, creative 3-D display technologies are described, including stereoscopic systems, immersive virtual reality, volumetric, varifocal, and others.
Interaction is a vital aspect of modern computer graphics, and issues concerning interaction (including haptic feedback) are discussed. Included with the book are anaglyph, stereoscopic, and Pulfrich viewing glasses. Topics covered include: - ⁄ 54,95 Nov-08 essential mathematics, - vital 2-D and 3-D graphics techniques, - key features of the £ 35,00 graphics, - pipeline, - display and interaction techniques, - important historical milestones.
Designed to be a core teaching text at the undergraduate level, accessible to students with wide-ranging backgrounds, only an elementary grounding in mathematics is assumed as key maths is provided. Regular ‘Over to You’ activities are included, and each chapter concludes with review and discussion questions.
2008, XX, 480 p. 248 illus., 227 in color., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-041-4
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