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. 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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. 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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 SPRINGER TITLES IN: COMPUTER SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, MATERIALS SCIENCE, PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY PAGE 2 OF 9 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 SPRINGER TITLES IN: COMPUTER SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, MATERIALS