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Dependable Embedded Systems
This Open Access book introduces readers to many new techniques for enhancing and optimizing reliability in embedded systems, which have emerged particularly within the last five years. This book introduces the most prominent reliability concerns from today’s points of view and roughly recapitulates the progress in the community so far. Unlike other books that focus on a single abstraction le…
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- 978-3-030-52017-5
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- XIII, 608
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- Embedded Systems (EMSY)
- Call Number
- 620 DEP
Investor-State Dispute Settlement and National Courts : Current Framework and…
This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between domestic courts and international tribunals. The current system of foreign investment protection consists of more than 3,000 international investment agreements (IIAs), m…
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- 978-3-030-44164-7
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- X, 117
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
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- 340 KAU i
From Bilateral Arbitral Tribunals and Investment Courts to a Multilateral Inv…
This open access book considers the potential setup for a future Multilateral Investment Court (MIC). The option of an MIC was first discussed by the EU Commission in 2016 and has since been made an official element of the EU Common Commercial Policy. In 2017, UNCITRAL also decided to discuss the possibility of an MIC, and on 20 March 2018, the Council of the EU gave the EU Commission the manda…
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- 978-3-662-59732-3
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- XIV, 222
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
- Call Number
- 340 BUN b
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other tools requires thinking about values in the context of a pandemic as well as in a post-COVID world. Instilling values must …
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- 978-3-031-08424-9
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- X, 250
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 40)
- Call Number
- 600 VAL
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, p…
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- 978-3-030-84570-4
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- VII, 245
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 38)
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- 500 ZWA c
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (…
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of aerospace, marine, energy, statistical, mechanical and management engineering. Five pre-existing departments merged in 2013, and the research results are here summarized to ce…
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- 978-3-031-53397-6
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- XI, 161
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
- Call Number
- 620 DEC
Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than re…
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- 978-3-030-72192-3
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- XII, 284
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
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- 620 STR
Transmedial Narration : Narratives and Stories in Different Media
This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms on their own term…
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- 1
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- 9783030012946
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- VIII, 152 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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Advances in Automotive Production Technology – Towards Software-Defined Man…
This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcome of the 2nd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2022). The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in three parts and cover a wide variety of topics: (A) Software-defined Manufacturing, (B) Data-driven Technologies, and (C) Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainability. SCAP2022 was organized by…
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- 1
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- 9783031279331
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- X, 388 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Networ…
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for em…
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- 1
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- 9789811326943
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- XV, 302 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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