Filter by
Metaheuristics and Optimization in Civil Engineering
This timely book deals with a current topic, i.e. the applications of metaheuristic algorithms, with a primary focus on optimization problems in civil engineering. The first chapter offers a concise overview of different kinds of metaheuristic algorithms, explaining their advantages in solving complex engineering problems that cannot be effectively tackled by traditional methods, and citing the…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-26243-7
- Collation
- XI, 302
- Series Title
- Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies
- Call Number
- -
Evaluation of Fire Flow Methodologies
This SpringerBrief offers careful assessments of the appropriateness and effectiveness of currently available methodologies for fire flow. It explains the water supply requirements for firefighting including rate of flow, the residual pressure required at that flow, and the duration that is necessary to control a major fire in a specific structure. First reviewing existing fire flow calculation…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4939-2889-7
- Collation
- 7 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Evacuation Modeling Trends
This book presents an overview of modeling definitions and concepts, theory on human behavior and human performance data, available tools and simulation approaches, model development, and application and validation methods. It considers the data and research efforts needed to develop and incorporate functions for the different parameters into comprehensive escape and evacuation simulations, wit…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-20708-7
- Collation
- VII, 133
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
European Perspectives on Behavioural Law and Economics
This anthology highlights the theoretical foundations as well as the various applications of Behavioural Law and Economics in European legal culture. By the same token, it fosters the dialogue between European and American Law and Economics scholars. The traditional neo-classical microeconomic theory explains human behaviour by using Rational Choice. According to this model, people tend to m…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11635-8
- Collation
- 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Education as cultivation in Chinese culture
Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards teaching and learning compared to Western models of education. The book starts with a discussion of human nature in Chinese scho…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789812872234
- Collation
- viii, 288 pages : illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 951
Ethics, Law and Governance of Biobanking National, European and Internationa…
Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine. Genomics challenges our values and has always been controversial and difficult to regulate. In the future lies the promise of tailored medical treatments and pharmacogenomics but the borders between medical research and clinical practice are becoming blurred. We see sequencing platforms for research th…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9573-9
- Collation
- VIII, 277
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization Dedicated to the Memory of Pro…
The chapters which appear in this volume are selected studies presented at the First International Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization (OPT-i), Kos, Greece, 4-6 June 2014 and works written by friends, former colleagues and students of the late Professor M. G. Karlaftis; all in the area of optimization that he loved and published so much in himself. The subject areas repr…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-18320-6
- Collation
- 215 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8 Preservation of Cul…
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its contributions to national and international projects on this topic and is extending its interests…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-09408-3
- Collation
- 362 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering
The Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering is designed to be the authoritative and comprehensive reference covering all major aspects of the science of earthquake engineering, specifically focusing on the interaction between earthquakes and infrastructure. The encyclopedia comprises approximately 265 contributions. Since earthquake engineering deals with the interaction between earthquake distu…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-642-35344-4
- Collation
- 954 b/w illustrations, 1477 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3
Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantifi cation, Volume 3. Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Dynamics of Multiphysical Systems: From Active Materials to Vibroacoustics, 2016, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. Th e collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamen…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-29753-8
- Collation
- VIII, 379
- Series Title
- Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography