Download or read book Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability 1998 written by I. Dumitrache and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1998-09-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent years, a number of people actively involved in engineering, but also in other fields, have worked on the topic of international stability. Workshops have been held in various places and organized by different people and institutions. This conference, the sixth event in the SWIIS series, continued the tradition set in the earlier five SWIIS meetings. The goal was the beneficial application of systems engineering methods onto description of conditions, in which nations or groups interact with one another. Scientists from other fields such as political science, economics, social science, and international studies also had a platform to present and discuss their ideas. In the technical program of this conference, 2 survey papers and 19 regular papers - grouped into 8 sessions - were presented. Papers were given in the following areas: Methodological analysis; Investigation of development: stability, sustainable development; Modelling of stability; Application of control principles to international stability; International policy co-operation; Cultural and educational aspects in international stability; East/West/North/South relationships; Global development - regional impact; and Negotiation and mediation in conflict.

Download or read book Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability SWIIS 95 written by Peter Kopacek and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1996 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback. These proceedings contain the papers presented at the IFAC Conference on Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability (SWIIS '95) held in Vienna, Austria, 29 September - 1 October 1995.International stability refers to conditions in which nations interact with one another in ways permitting gradual change within a mutually-acceptable scale and direction. The conference followed the tradition set by the previous four SWIIS meetings and considered the beneficial application of systems engineering methods to these conditions with respect to all national and international, regional and global, political and ecological aspects. Scientists from fields such as political science, economics, social science and international studies were, therefore, also present to discuss their ideas and help to meet this objective.The following areas of international stability were covered: methodological analysis, investigation of development, mode

Download or read book Technology and International Stability SWIIS 2003 written by Peter Kopacek and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-03-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proceedings in the volume from the IFAC workshop Waterford, Republic of Ireland, 3-5 July 2003

Download or read book Improving Stability in Developing Nations through Automation 2006 written by Peter Kopacek and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological development has caused profound changes and social stability. Regions which have had stable populations for centuries have experienced enormous population growth leading to the emergence of sometimes unmanageable megaplex cities as well as bringing about macroscopic environmental change. The scope of this IFAC SWIIS Conference is to offer insights into mitigating unwanted side-effects of rapid development and to share methodologies for appropriate ways of managing the introduction of technologies which will alter social stability. Contributions included in Improving Stability in Developing Nations through Automation 2006 cover a very broad field of interest for subjects such as social aspects of technology transfer, managing the introduction of technological change, ethical aspects, technology and environmental stability, and anticipating secondary and tertiary effects of technological development. - 3 survey papers, 17 technical papers and a summary of the panel discussion - Bringing together scientists and engineers working in these subjects to discuss solutions

Download or read book Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability written by Marion Hersh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be truly ethical both the undertaking itself and its implementation must be ethically sound. The contributors discuss varied topics from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, including l robot ethics; l outer space; l international development; l internet privacy and security; l green branding; l arms conversion; l green employment; and l deliberate misinformation about climate change Important questions are answered, such as l what is meant by engineering ethics and its practical implications; l how decisions made by engineers in their working lives make an impact at the global as well as the local level; and l what ethics-related questions should be asked before making such decisions. Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability will be a valuable resource for practising and student engineers as well as all who are interested in professional ethics, especially as it relates to engineering. Researchers and policy makers concerned with the effects of engineering decisions on environmental sustainability and international stability will find this book to be of special interest.

Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cumulated Index to the Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HCTL Open International Journal of Technology Innovations and Research IJTIR written by Dr. Flah Aymen and published by HCTL Open Publications Solutions, India. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HCTL Open International Journal of Technology Innovations and Research (IJTIR) [ISSN (Online): 2321-1814] is an International, Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed, Online journal devoted to various disciplines of Science and Technology. HCTL Open IJTIR is a bi-monthly journal published by HCTL Open Publications Solutions, India and Hybrid Computing Technology Labs, India. - Get more information at: http://ijtir.hctl.org/

Download or read book Distributed Computer Control Systems 1998 DCCS 98 written by International Federation of Automatic Control and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer control systems are increasingly required to be highly dependable and to have deterministic timing properties. Distributed architectures have the potential to meet this challenge. The advantages of distributed computer control systems include the possibility of composing large systems out of pre-tested components with small integration effort, their well-defined fault containment properties and their capacity to make effective use of mass-produced silicon chips. The IFAC Workshop series on Distributed Computer Control Systems (DCCS) highlights and traces the growth of key concepts in this field at their various stages of development. Theoretical and practice-oriented viewpoints receive equal emphasis and there is a creative blending of the disciplines of computer science and control engineering. The 1998 DCCS Workshop was notable for the attention given to true real-time communication networks and protocols. The complexity of the trade-off between services, dependability mechanisms and system-level properties was highlighted, and rigorous modelling and analysis methodologies were discussed. Event-triggered and time-triggered protocols were contrasted. Models for analysing and predicting response times in distributed systems and for predicting the effect of response-time jitter on the performance of feedback control loops were presented. The application of formal methods to the specification and development of safety-critical control software also received much attention. Distributed object methodologies and object request brokers were also highlighted as being promising approaches for the programming of large-scale, heterogeneous distributed systems. Applications reported included control systems for traffic lights, jet engines, automobiles, fully-automatic trains and flexible manufacturing systems.

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1998 written by H. J. C. Huijberts and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NOLCOS '98 is the fourth edition of the IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Design Symposium, which is organised every three years. The symposium presented the state of the art in the design of nonlinear control systems. It explored current theoretical developments as well as their latest applications to engineering problems. The symposium provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of papers which described new design methodologies for the control of nonlinear plants and featured novel applications of these methods. The symposium included six plenary lectures and 30 sessions, including five invited sessions. The range of topics under discussion included amongst others: Applications of nonlinear control; Algebraic theory of nonlinear systems; Geometric theory of nonlinear systems; Discrete-time nonlinear control systems; Stabilizability and feedback stabilization; Nonlinear observers and filters; Optimal control of nonlinear systems; Variable structure systems; Nonlinear robust and H-Infinity control; Adaptive control of nonlinear systems; Singular perturbations in nonlinear control; Expert control for nonlinear systems; Computational methods for design and control.

Download or read book International Negotiations A Bibliography written by Amos Lakos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international system comprises a plurality of sovereign states often pursuing conflicting interests. One means of resolving or managing conflicts between those states is diplomatic bargaining or negotiation. In the last fifteen years, the study of negotiation has attracted researchers from various disciplines in the social sciences, and the vol

Download or read book Space Robotics 1998 written by S. Rondeau and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference which was originally planned as workshop took place on October 19 to 22, 1998 in St-Hubert, Montréal. The idea of a conference devoted to Space Robotics matured when two IFAC Technical Committees, Aerospace Control and Robotics decided to co-sponsor such an event. The final decision converged with technological maturity of Space Robotics itself. It became obvious that robotics is a unique but viable technology that can be used in Space exploration. Robotics is the intelligent connection of perception to action. This broad definition of robotics encompasses both science and technology. In the early days, the changing technology in manufacturing was driving the development in robotics. New manufacturing technology required new, economical and efficient methods of production. Development was geared towards robots in the form of manipulators. In later years, the development was driven by demand in service industry, military and special applications. One of those special applications is related to Space and its exploration. The rapid development in Space related technologies brought forward questions about the need for automation technologies that would allow for operations in Space in an efficient and safe way. Some Space operations could not have possibly been done without extensive use of automation and especially robotics. There are numerous robotics meetings and conferences across the world but it became obvious that the meetings addressing particular problems in space robotics would be useful and helpful. The Program Committee tried to include in conference presentations all specific fields of robotics that are important in Space applications. On manipulators' side, kinematics, manipulation, dexterity, sensors and control systems have been covered. On mobile robots' side new control techniques, telerobotics, nonholonomic systems, and trajectory planning have been considered. Also, applications and Space operations have been reviewed. Altogether 30 papers were selected and accepted by the International Organizing Committee. Papers were presented in 8 sessions in three days. There were also three keynote speeches presented by invited speakers and three distinguished speakers to present keynote lectures on three separate occasions. Speakers were chosen in order to give a broad overview of space robotics activities in all involved countries. Participants came from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and the USA. In day 1, eight papers were presented in two sessions. Session 1 was related to Dextrous Robots and Session 2 to Mobile Robots (Part 1 and 2). Day 2 included a keynote speech on the topic of "Robotics and On-Board Autonomy: For What and How Far Can We Go?", followed by Session 3: Robot Controllers and Session 4: Vision Systems and Control. Day 3 consisted of 5 sessions, Session 5: Manipulation Control, Session 6: Kinematics, Session 7: Nonholonomic Systems, Session 8: Space Operation (Part 1 and Part 2).

Download or read book Control Applications in Marine Systems 1998 written by K. Kijima and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-four papers from the October 1998 conference discuss the latest achievements and trends in the fields of marine control systems, maneuvering models, navigation systems, traffic guidance and control systems, main engine and machinery control systems, safety and fault control systems, condition monitoring and quality control systems, and simulators. Sample topics are adaptive ship steering autopilot design with saturating and slew rate limiting actuator, a new type of marine governor considering pitch motion, robust polynomial eigenstructure assignment applied to an unmanned underwater vehicle, autopilot algorithms for high speed craft, Bayesian estimation of directional wave spectra based on ship motions, and real-time communication networks onboard ships. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Linear Time Delay Systems 1998 written by J.-M. Dion and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1999-01-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There exists today an increasing interest in the study of time delay systems because delayed systems are encountered frequently in practice and time delays are often a source of instability. The first workshop in this rapidly growing field of time delay systems was organized by the Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, France and sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Systems. The 50 participants had the possibility to attend 4 plenary sessions and 2 invited sessions as well as 30 contributed papers selected from 40 submitted papers coming from 17 countries. The technical papers, arranged in 11 sessions, covered the field of linear time delay systems, including algebraic and structural properties, stability analysis, stabilization, Hinf control, robust stabilization and some applications.

Download or read book Micromechanics of Fracture in Generalized Spaces written by Ihar Alaksandravich Miklashevich and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the detailed analysis of the modern development of the mechanics of deformable media can be found the deep internal contradiction. From the one hand it is declared that the deformation and fracture are the hierarchical processes which are linked and unite several structural and scale levels. From the other hand the sequential investigation of the hierarchy of the deformation and destruction is not carried out. The book's aim is filling this mentioned gap and investigates the hot topic of the fracture of non-ideal media. From the microscopic point of view in the book we study the hierarchy of the processes in fractured solid in the whole diapason of practically used scales. According the multilevel hierarchical system ideology under "microscopic we understand taking into account the processes on the level lower than relative present strata. From hierarchical point of view the conception of "microscopic fracture can be soundly applied to the traditionally macroscopic area, namely geomechanics or main crack propagation. At the same time microscopic fracture of the nanomaterials can be well-grounded too. This ground demands the investigation on the level of inter-atomic interaction and quantum mechanical description. The important feature of the book is the application of fibred manifolds and non-Euclidean spaces to the description of the processes of deformation and fracture in inhomogeneous and defected continua. The non-Euclidean spaces for the dislocations' description were introduced by J.F. Nye, B.A. Bilby, E. Kröner, K. Kondo in fiftieth. In last decades this necessity was shown in geomechanics and theory of seismic signal propagation. The applications of non-Euclidean spaces to the plasticity allow us to construct the mathematically satisfying description of the processes. Taking into account this space expansion the media with microstructure are understood as Finsler space media. The bundle space technique is used for the description of the influence of microstructure on the continuum metrics. The crack propagation is studied as a process of movement in Finsler space. Reduction of the general description to the variational principle in engineering case is investigated and a new result for the crack trajectory in inhomogeneous media is obtained. Stability and stochastization of crack trajectory in layered composites is investigated. The gauge field is introduced on the basis of the structure representation of Lie group generated by defects without any additional assumption. Effective elastic and non-elastic media for nanomaterials and their geometrical description are discussed. The monograph provides the basis for more detailed and exact description of real processes in the material. The monograph will be interesting for the researchers in the field of fracture mechanics, solid state physics and geomechanics. It can be used as well by the last year students wishing to become more familiar with some modern approaches to the physics of fracture and continual theory of dislocations. In Supplement, written by V.V.Barkaline, quantum mechanical concept of physical body wholeness according to H. Primas is discussed with relation to fracture. Role of electronic subsystem in fracture dynamics in adiabatic and non-adiabatic approximations is clarified. Potential energy surface of ion subsystem accounting electron contribution is interpreted as master parameter of fracture dynamics. Its features and relation to non-euclidean metrics of defected solid body is discussed. Quantum mechanical criteria of fracture arising are proposed.

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: