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  • Advances in Risk Management
    Advances in Risk Management
    Editor Giancarlo Nota
    ISBN 978-953-307-138-1
    270 pages, August, 2010
    Downloads: 2765
    Risk management is an important part of governance sciences and has applications in several domains ranging from enterprise risk management to environmental surveillance. The ideas and approaches described in the book deal with general aspects of ris ...
  • Future Manufacturing Systems
    Future Manufacturing Systems
    Editor Tauseef Aized
    ISBN 978-953-307-128-2
    268 pages, August, 2010
    Downloads: 2893
    This book is a collection of articles aimed at finding new ways of manufacturing systems developments. The articles included in this volume comprise of current and new directions of manufacturing systems which I believe can lead to the development of ...
  • Quality Management and Six Sigma
    Quality Management and Six Sigma
    Editor Abdurrahman Coskun
    ISBN 978-953-307-130-5
    276 pages, August, 2010
    Downloads: 3503
    If you do not measure, you do not know, and if you do not know, you cannot manage. Modern Quality Management and Six Sigma shows us how to measure and, consequently, how to manage the companies in business and industries. Six Sigma provides principle ...
  • Environmental Management
    Environmental Management
    Editor Santosh Sarkar
    ISBN 978-953-307-133-6
    258 pages, August, 2010
    Downloads: 4974
    There has been a steady increase in anthropogenic pressure over the past few years due to rapid industrialization, urbanization and population growth, causing frequent environmental hazards. Threats of global environmental change, such as climate cha ...
  • Process Management
    Process Management
    Editor Maria Pomffyova
    ISBN 978-953-307-085-8
    338 pages, April, 2010
    Downloads: 8694
    The content of the book has been structured into four technical research sections with total of 18 chapters written by well recognized researchers worldwide. These sections are: 1. process and performance management and their measurement methods, ...
  • Factory Automation
    Factory Automation
    Editor Javier Silvestre-Blanes
    ISBN 978-953-307-024-7
    602 pages, March, 2010
    Downloads: 4541
    Factory automation has evolved significantly in the last few decades, and is today a complex, interdisciplinary, scientific area.  In this book a selection of papers on topics related to factory automation is presented, covering a broad spectrum, s ...
  • Knowledge Management
    Knowledge Management
    Editor Pasi Virtanen and Nina Helander
    ISBN 978-953-7619-94-7
    272 pages, March, 2010
    Downloads: 4568
    This book is a compilation of writings handpicked in esteemed scientific conferences that present the variety of ways to approach this multifaceted phenomenon. In this book, knowledge management is seen as an integral part of information and communi ...
  • Nanofibers
    Nanofibers
    Editor Ashok Kumar
    ISBN 978-953-7619-86-2
    438 pages, February, 2010
    Downloads: 6190
    “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” ⎯ this was the title of the lecture Prof. Richard Feynman delivered at California Institute of Technology on December 29, 1959 at the American Physical Society meeting. He considered the possibility to ...