ABC springer.de Springer Customized Book List Technik FRANKFURT BUCHMESSE 2007 springer.com/booksellers Technik 1 A. Abbasfar, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA H. Abut, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA; J.H.L. Hansen, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA; K. Materials for Springs Takeda, University of Nagoya, Japan (Eds.) Turbo-like Codes Design for High Speed Decoding Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Materials for springs is basically intended for engi- Systems neers related to spring materials and technologies who graduated from metallurgical or mechanical en- Turbo-like Codes introduces turbo error correcting Challenges for International Standards gineering courses in technical high school, or in oth- concept in a simple language, including a general er higher engineering schools, as well as those who theory and the algorithms for decoding turbo-like are related to the purchase or sales of spring materi- code. It presents a unified framework for the de- Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems: Chal- als. The first chapter introduces into the fundamen- sign and analysis of turbo codes and LDPC codes lenges for International Standards is organized to tal selection processes of spring materials including and their decoding algorithms. A major focus of bring together the most active scholars working on the information sources on materials database. It is Turbo-like Codes is on high speed turbo decoding, the latest techniques, standards, and emerging de- followed by the basic mechanisms and theories of which targets applications with data rates of sever- ployment on "living in the age of wireless commu- spring failures such as fatigue fracture, creep/stress al hundred million bits per second (Mbps). In this nications and smart vehicular systems." The objec- relaxation and stress corrosion cracking of metal- book a novel high-speed turbo decoder is presented tive is to incorporate speech, dialog, video, image, ve- lic materials. The focuses of the second chapter is that exploits parallelization. Parallelism is achieved hicular sensory data, and wireless communication put on ferrous and non-ferrous metallic materials, very efficiently by exploiting the flexibility of mes- modalities to model the total behavior of the driver including some materials developed in these two sage-passing algorithm. It has been shown that very and use that model towards personalization of the decades, such as high strength automobile suspen- large speed gains can be achieved by this scheme vehicle to provide a more comfortable and safer driv- sion steels etc. In the third and fourth chapters, poly- while the efficiency is maintained reasonably high. ing experience. The format of this work centers on mer materials, FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastics), ce- Memory access, which poses a practical problem for four themes: driver and driving environment recog- ramics and C/C composite materials are the main the proposed parallel turbo decoder, is solved by in- nition, telecommunication applications, noise reduc- subject respectively. In the [..] troducing the conflict-free interleaver. The latency is tion, and dialog in vehicles.Advances for In-Vehicle Features further improved by designing a special kind of con- and Mobile Systems: Challenges for International Only comprehensive treatment in this specific top- flict-free interleaver. Furthermore, an [..] Standards, is appropriate for researchers, engineers, ic Written by experts of the JSSE (Japan Society of and professionals working in signal processing tech- Features Spring Engineers), strongly woven with the Spring nologies, next generation vehicle design, and net- Turbo code concepts are explained in simple lan- producing industry works for mobile platforms. guage Turbo codes and LDPC codes are viewed in a Contents unified manner as turbo-like codes Implementation Features A Guide to Spring Material Selection.- Metallic and hardware complexity is a major focus Presents a Includes new standards being developed for smart Spring Materials.- Polymers for Spring Uses.- Non- novel class of powerful and practical turbo-like codes vehicular systems Incorporates models which have Metallic Inorganic Materials. Includes advanced theoretical framework for profes- been tested for use in evaluating the behaviour of sionals drivers Fields of interest Mechanical Engineering; Materials Science; Machin- Contents Contents ery and Machine Elements List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledg- Experiments on Decision Fusion for Driver Recog- ments. Abstract. 1 Introduction. 2 Turbo con- nition.- Driver Recognition System Using FNN and Target groups cept. 3 High speed turbo decoders. 4 Very sim- Statistical Methods.- Driver Indentification Based Scientists, practitioners, and students in mechanical ple turbo-like codes. 5 High speed turbo-like on Spectral Analysis of Driving Behavorial Signals.- engineering and materials research decoders. References. Index. An Artificial-Vision Based Environment Perceptin System.- Variable Tiem-Scale Multimedia Stream- Type of publication Fields of interest ing over 802.11 Inter-Vehicle Ad-Hoc Networks.- Monograph Communications Engineering, Networks; Mi- A Configurable Distributed Speech Recognition crowaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Signal,Image Systems.- Embedded Mobile Phone Digit-Recogni- and Speech Processing; Coding and Information Due September 2007 tion.- On the Complexity-Performance Tradeoff of Theory Two Active Noise Control Systems for Vehicles.- Comparative Studies on Single-Channel De-Noising Original Japanese edition published by JSSE, 2000 Target groups Schemes for [..] Communication System Engineers, Wireless/Wire- 2007. XV, 377 p. 336 illus. Geb. line modem designers Fields of interest Signal,Image and Speech Processing; User Interfaces Type of publication 139,05 € and Human Computer Interaction; Communica- Monograph ISBN 978-3-540-73811-4 tions Engineering, Networks Due August 2007 Target groups Researchers and professionals in Signal Processing 2007. Approx. 200 p. Geb. and Speech Recognition 106,95 € Type of publication ISBN 978-1-4020-6390-9 Contributed volume Due May 2007 2007. XVI, 284 p. Geb. 103,74 € ISBN 978-0-387-33503-2 2 Technik springer.com/booksellers R. Acharya U, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore; J.S. Suri, Ida- H.-S. Ahn, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, ISBN 978-1-84628-846-3 ho State Biomedical Research Institute, Idaho, ID, USA; J.A.E. Gwangju, Korea; K.L. Moore, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Spaan, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; S.M. Krishnan, CO, USA; Y. Chen, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA Boston, MA, USA (Eds.) Iterative Learning Control Advances in Cardiac Signal Processing Robustness and Monotonic Convergence for Interval Systems This monograph studies the design of robust, mono- This book deals with the acquisition and extraction tonically-convergent iterative learning controllers for of the various morphological features of the electro- discrete-time systems. Considering iterative learning cardiogram signals. In the first chapters the book control (ILC) in the iteration domain, a unified anal- first presents data fusion and different data mining ysis and design framework is presented that enables techniques that have been used for the cardiac state designers to consider both robustness and monoton- diagnosis. The second part deals with heart rate vari- ic convergence for typical uncertainty models. Top- ability (HRV), a non-invasive measurement of car- ics include: Conversion of the ILC system, which has diovascular autonomic regulation. Next, visualiza- dynamics in both the time and iteration domains, in- tion of ECG data is discussed, an important part of to the supervector framework, with dynamics only in the display in life threatening state. Here, the han- the iteration domain.- Development of iteration-do- dling of data is discussed which were acquired dur- main uncertainty models in the supervector frame- ing several hours. In the following chapters the book work.- ILC design for monotonic convergence for discusses aortic pressure measurement which is of plant subject to parametric interval uncertainty in significant clinical importance. It presents non-inva- the Markov matrix.- Algebraic H-infinity design for sive methods for analysis of the aortic pressure wave- ILC for plant subject to iteration-domain frequency form, indicating how it can be employed to deter- uncertainty.- Kalman-filter-based ILC algorithms for mine cardiac contractility, arterial compliance, and plant subject to iteration-domain stochastic uncer- peripheral resistance. In addition, the book demon- tainties.- Analytical determination of the base-line strates methods to extract diagnostic parameters for error of ILC algorithms. assessing cardiac function. [..] Features Contents Shows the reader how to use robust iterative learning Electrocardiogram.- Analysis of Electrocardio- control in the face of model uncertainty Helps to im- grams.- Modelling of Electrocardiogram Signals.- Vi- prove the performance of repetitive electromechani- sualization of Cardiac Health using Electrocardio- cal tasks, widespread in industry Provides a rounded grams.- Heart Rate Variability: a Review.- Data Fu- and self-contained approach to the subject of itera- sion of Multimodal Cardiac Signals.- Classification tive learning control not available elsewhere of Cardiac Patient States Using Artificial Neural Net- works.- Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Heart Rate Contents Signals for Different Cardiac