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Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology consists of transmitting radio signals over frequency bandwidths from 500 MHz to several GHz. Its unique character...

During the first decade of this new millennium, it is estimated that more than €100 billion will be invested in the third generation (3G) Universal...

Today's information technology, along with Artificial Intelligence (AI), is moving towards total communication between all computerized systems. AI...

Uncertainty and Optimization in Structural Mechanics Optimization is generally a reduction operation of a definite quantity. This process naturally...

Combining multiple sensors in order to better grasp a tricky, or even critical, situation is an innate human reflex. Indeed, humans became aware, v...

Optical imaging of biological systems has undergone spectacular development in recent years, producing a quantity and a quality of information that...

Recently, UNESCO has gradually started to recognize world geoparks ? territorial spaces with a geological heritage of international importance. Th...

Since the publication of the first Shanghai ranking in 2003, the international rankings of universities have become evermore important. This book e...

This book presents the basic tools required to obtain the dynamical models for aerial vehicles (in the Newtonian or Lagrangian approach). Several c...

Urban Mobility Systems in the World provides insight into the geographical organization of urban mobility systems around the world. These "systems"...

Today, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban plan...

Technological changes have often produced important social changes that translate into spatial and planning practice. Whereas the intelligent city ...

Sustainable urban planning and urban renewal are major challenges of the 21st century. In this context, Urbanism and Town Planning proposes a geohi...

Agile development methods began to emerge around 20 years ago. However, it was not until the early 2000s that they began to be widely used in indus...

The valuation of the liability structure can be determined by real options because the shares of a company can be regarded as similar to the purcha...

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environm...

This book explores two combined approaches (strategy and accounting) from a cross-disciplinary perspective in order to improve knowledge of value c...

Vapor Surface Treatments There are many different vapor phase surface treatments of materials that can be used to produce a wide variety of end res...

With the impact of the recent financial crises, more attention must be given to new models in finance rejecting “Black-Scholes-Samuelson” assumptio...

This book is issued from a 30 years’ experience on the presentation of variational methods to successive generations of students and researchers in...

There has been a phenomenal growth in video applications over the past few years. An accurate traffic model of Variable Bit Rate (VBR) video is nec...

Over the last few years vehicular networks have been receiving a lot of attention from academia, industry, standardization bodies, and the various ...

The funding of innovative projects that are fundamentally ambiguous often leads to situations where decision-making is difficult. However, decision...

This book describes the various devices used in radio communication and broadcasting to achieve high selectivity filtering and coupling. After prov...