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Science fiction is often presented as a source of utopia, or even of prophecies, used in capitalism to promote social, political and technoscientif...

We are facing unprecedented challenges today. For many of us, innovation would be our last hope. But how can it be done? Is it enough to bet on the...

The reader will find in this collection a clear exposition of the method of the Screen Constant by Nuclear Charge Unit which can be applied in a si...

An ethical solution to the current health, ecological and financial problems we face is to mobilize our responsibility by overcoming our duality wi...

In this book, the authors focus on the concrete aspects of IoT (Internet of Things): the daily operation, on the ground, of this domain, including ...

By the year 2000, a balance was sought between security requirements and a respect for privacy, as well as for individual and collective freedoms. ...

"The state, that must eradicate all feelings of insecurity, even potential ones, has been caught in a spiral of exception, suspicion and oppression...

Vehicular networks were first developed to ensure safe driving and to extend the Internet to the road. However, we can now see that the ability of ...

The Earth’s oceans are currently undergoing unprecedented changes: rivers have suffered a severe reduction in their sediment transport, and as a re...

The great deltas of the globe have been threatened for several decades but their decline now appears to be inevitable; they are receding and losing...

This title offers a comprehensive coverage of the many facets of seismic engineering. The first half of the book is devoted to seismic phenomena an...

This book is focused on the seismic vulnerability assessment methods, applied to existing buildings, describing several behaviors and new approache...

Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) is a relatively new building material. Nowadays, its use is progressively changing the method of concrete placement ...

Credit risk is one of the most important contemporary problems for banks and insurance companies. Indeed, for banks, more than forty percent of th...

This book provides a detailed and up-to-date overview on classification and data mining methods. The first part is focused on supervised classifica...

The sciences are, in essence, highly semiotized. Our ways of thinking and communicating about science are based on permanent transformations from o...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is arguably the most significant tool that marketeers have to push online content. As the hub of the computational...

This book aims to extract the "molecular genes" leading to craziness! Geniuses are the ones who are "crazy enough to think they can change the worl...

Numerous formalisms have been designed to model and solve decision-making problems. Some formalisms, such as constraint networks, can express "simp...

Over the past thirty years or so, serious games, gaming and playful activities have come to occupy an important place in organizations. While this ...

Networks are now embedded in daily life thanks to smaller, faster, inexpensive components that are more powerful and increasingly connected. Parall...

Fault-tolerant control theory is a well-studied topic but the use of the sets in detection, isolation and/or reconfiguration is rather tangential. ...

The aim of this book is to understand and describe the martensitic phase transformation and the process of martensite platelet reorientation. These...

The ambition of this book is to propose a grid of reading able to illuminate the current HR transformations experienced by the big historical inter...