Systems & Control Engineering Books

New and Published Books

1. Knowledge Service Engineering Handbook

   Edited by Jussi Kantola, Waldemar Karwowski

   Series: Ergonomics Design & Mgmt. Theory & Applications

   Edited by Jussi Kantola, the founding faculty member of the world’s first university Knowledge Service Engineering Department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Waldemar Karwowski from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at UCF, Knowledge Service...

   Published May 16th 2012 by CRC Press
2. Engineering Systems Integration

   Theory, Metrics, and Methods

   By Gary O. Langford

   Dreamers may envision our future, but it is the pragmatists who build it. Solve the right problem in the right way, mankind moves forward. Solve the right problem in the wrong way or the wrong problem in the right way, however clever or ingenious the solution, neither credits mankind. Instead, this...

   Published May 8th 2012 by CRC Press
3. Projects and Complexity

   Edited by Francesco Varanini, Walter Ginevri

   Helpful to those tasked with managing complex environments, Projects and Complexity introduces a new way of looking at projects and fostering the culture needed to achieve sustainable results. It brings together experts from the academic, military, and business worlds to explore project management...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Auerbach Publications
4. Systems Engineering and Architecting

   Creating Formal Requirements

   By Larry Bellagamba

   Systems Engineering and Architecting: Creating Formal Requirements presents formal requirements to help you accomplish key systems engineering and architecting activities more efficiently. The formal requirements—explicit, executable, verifiable instructions—explain how to model systems behavior,...

   Published March 25th 2012 by CRC Press
5. Shipboard Propulsion, Power Electronics, and Ocean Energy

   By Mukund Patel

   Shipboard Propulsion, Power Electronics, and Ocean Energy fills the need for a comprehensive book that covers modern shipboard propulsion and the power electronics and ocean energy technologies that drive it. With a breadth and depth not found in other books, it examines the power electronics...

   Published February 16th 2012 by CRC Press
6. Chemical Physics

   Electrons and Excitations

   By Sven Larsson

   A full understanding of modern chemistry is impossible without quantum theory. Since the advent of quantum mechanics in 1925, a number of chemical phenomena have been explained, such as electron transfer, excitation energy transfer, and other phenomena in photochemistry and photo-physics. Chemical...

   Published February 14th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Foundations of Predictive Analytics

   By James Wu, Stephen Coggeshall

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series

   Drawing on the authors’ two decades of experience in applied modeling and data mining, Foundations of Predictive Analytics presents the fundamental background required for analyzing data and building models for many practical applications, such as consumer behavior modeling, risk and marketing...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
8. Physiology, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering

   Edited by Andrew Wood

   Series: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

   Physiology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering provides a multidisciplinary understanding of biological phenomena and the instrumentation for monitoring these phenomena. It covers the physical phenomena of electricity, pressure, and flow along with the adaptation of the physics of the phenomena...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
9. Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance

   Edited by Sankar K. Pal, Alfredo Petrosino, Lucia Maddalena

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series

   Information on integrating soft computing techniques into video surveillance is widely scattered among conference papers, journal articles, and books. Bringing this research together in one source, Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance illustrates the application of soft computing...

   Published January 24th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
10. Dynamic Force Spectroscopy and Biomolecular Recognition

    Edited by Anna Rita Bizzarri, Salvatore Cannistraro

    Molecular recognition, also known as biorecognition, is the heart of all biological interactions. Originating from protein stretching experiments, dynamic force spectroscopy (DFS) allows for the extraction of detailed information on the unbinding process of biomolecular complexes. It is becoming...

    Published January 24th 2012 by CRC Press