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Multiregional Economic Development in China
This book provides, in an easy-to-use format, an extensive collection of data and information on China’s 31 provinces and its interprovincial economic linkages. Intended as a comprehensive resource book, it profiles the geography, demography, and economy for each province. The materials presented, which are gathered from a variety of sources, including many not easily found in English-languag…
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- 978-3-662-46619-3
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- XV, 528
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Multiprocessor Scheduling for Real-Time Systems
This book provides a comprehensive overview of both theoretical and pragmatic aspects of resource-allocation and scheduling in multiprocessor and multicore hard-real-time systems. The authors derive new, abstract models of real-time tasks that capture accurately the salient features of real application systems that are to be implemented on multiprocessor platforms, and identify rules for mappi…
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- 978-3-319-08695-8
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- XV, 228
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- Embedded Systems
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Multiphysics Modelling and Simulation for Systems Design and Monitoring
This book reports on the state of the art in the field of multiphysics systems. It consists of accurately reviewed contributions to the MMSSD’2014 conference, which was held from December 17 to 19, 2004 in Hammamet, Tunisia. The different chapters, covering new theories, methods and a number of case studies, provide readers with an up-to-date picture of multiphysics modeling and simulation. T…
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- 978-3-319-14531-0
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- XII, 555
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- Applied Condition Monitoring
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Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation
This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 forest planning rule which requires that national forests to be managed to sustain ‘ecological int…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-21526-6
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- XI, 400
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- Managing Forest Ecosystems
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Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transpor…
This book shows how transit assignment models can be used to describe and predict the patterns of network patronage in public transport systems. It provides a fundamental technical tool that can be employed in the process of designing, implementing and evaluating measures and/or policies to improve the current state of transport systems within given financial, technical and social constraints. …
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- 978-3-319-25080-9
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- XXXVII, 641
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- Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
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Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Finance, Insurance and Investment
This book is devoted to recent developments and applications of multiple criteria decision aid tools in the field of finance, insurance and investment. It illustrates recent methods and procedures designed to solve problems related to finance, insurance and portfolio selection formulated through a mathematical programming framework and for which a large number of conflicting and incommensurable…
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- 978-3-319-21157-2
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- XIV, 272
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- Multiple Criteria Decision Making
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Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico
This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints. The case of Mexico, analyzed in this work, provides lessons for further developing countries to assess natural disasters vulnerability,…
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- 978-3-319-17358-0
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- XI, 155
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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Employee Engagement in Media Management Creativeness and Organizational Deve…
This book explores a major media management topic on the basis of case study research conducted in European, US and Brazilian media companies. More specifically, it examines the dynamics of employee engagement, aiming at organizational development through change. The book contemplates the discipline of Media Management through a management lens and focuses on the concept of employee involvement…
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- 978-3-319-16217-1
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- IX, 120
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Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering:Architecting the Design Process
This book presents Systems Engineering from a modern, multidisciplinary engineering approach, providing the understanding that all aspects of systems design, systems, software, test, security, maintenance and the full life-cycle must be factored in to any large-scale system design; up front, not factored in later. It lays out a step-by-step approach to systems-of-systems architectural design, d…
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- 978-3-319-22397-1
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- XXIII, 297
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Multimedia Data Mining and Analytics
This book provides fresh insights into the cutting edge of multimedia data mining, reflecting how the research focus has shifted towards networked social communities, mobile devices and sensors. The work describes how the history of multimedia data processing can be viewed as a sequence of disruptive innovations. Across the chapters, the discussion covers the practical frameworks, libraries, an…
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- 978-3-319-14997-4
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- XIV, 454
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