Download or read book MEGA CRISES written by Ira Helsloot and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural disasters, intense and protracted conflicts, terrorism, corporate crises, cyber threats to infrastructures and mega-events. We are witnessing the rise of mega-crises and a new class of adversity with many unknowns. The prospect of mega-crises presents professionals and students in the field of crisis management with four major tasks. First, they should engage in “deep thinking” about the causes of the increasing occurrence of mega-crises. Second, they should identify and work through the dominant trends which complicate contemporary crisis management. Third, they should upgrade institutional crisis management capacity. Fourth, they should improve societal resilience since no institutional complex can mitigate or manage these mega-crisis on its own. This book is divided into four primary parts, each of which looks at one facet of mega-crises. Part I focuses on the concept of a mega-crisis and mega-crisis management; Part II examines crisis management of mega-natural disasters; Part III evaluates crisis management of man-made mega-crises; and Part IV identifies mega-threats and vulnerabilities. Additional major topics include Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Gustav; the London Bombings; the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks of July 7, 2005; corporate meltdowns; the subprime crisis; the Olympic Games; electricity grids; global climate change; the Dutch Delta; risks to food security; and mega-crises and the Internet. This comprehensive text will provide practitioners and academics with the results of an across-the-board research effort in the prospects, nature, characteristics, and the effects of mega-crises.
Download or read book Artificial Evolution written by Lhassane Idoumghar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2019, held in Mulhouse, France, in October 2019. The 16 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of artificial evolution, such as evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization, co-evolution, artificial life, population dynamics, theory, algorithmic and modeling, implementations, application of evolutionary paradigms to the real world (industry, biosciences...), other biologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, artificial ants, artificial immune systems, cultural algorithms...), memetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint handling, parallel algorithms, dynamic optimization, machine learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques.
Download or read book Modelling Identification and Control written by International Association of Science and Technology for Development and published by Anaheim, Calif. ; Calgary : Acta Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing written by Bernabé Dorronsoro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes selected papers presented during the 8th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META 2021, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in October 201. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partiqally held online. The 16 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 53 submissions. They are organized in the topical sections on combinatorial optimization; continuous optimization; optimization and machine learning; applications.
Download or read book Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference written by M. H. Hamza and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commande sans capteur de la machine synchrone aimants permanents written by Omrane Ines and published by Academiques. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La commande vectorielle de la machine synchrone a aimants permanents necessite une connaissance precise de la position rotorique. Traditionnellement, cette position est obtenue a partir de l'utilisation d'un capteur mecanique. Depuis des annees, l'attention de la communaute scientifique s'est portee sur la limitation du nombre de capteurs vu que leur presence, non seulement augmente le cout et la complexite materielle totale, mais aussi reduit sa fiabilite avec une sensibilite additionnelle aux perturbations exterieures. Dans une premiere partie, nous proposons le capteur le mieux adapte pour une application automobile. Ce capteur est base sur le couplage intelligent entre un observateur et un capteur logiciel base sur la technique d'injection de signaux. Dans une deuxieme partie, nous proposons une methode simple et rapide permettant l'estimation de la resistance et des inductances statoriques a l'arret. La combinaison de l'identification a l'arret et du capteur logiciel permet une bonne estimation de la position de la machine synchrone a aimants permanents sur une large plage de vitesse y compris les basses vitesses et a l'arret.
Download or read book Computational Intelligence in Software Engineering written by Witold Pedrycz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
