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  • Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Editor Taufik Abrão
    ISBN 978-953-51-0983-9
    284 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 1956
    Heuristic Search is an important sub-discipline of optimization theory and finds applications in a vast variety of fields, including life science and engineering. Search methods have been useful in solving tough engineering-oriented problems that eit ...
  • Operations Management
    Operations Management
    Editor Massimiliano M. Schiraldi
    ISBN 978-953-51-1013-2
    240 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 1057
    Operations Management is an area of business concerned with managing the process that converts inputs into outputs, in the form of goods and/or services. Increasingly complex environments together with the recent economic swings and substantially s ...
  • Theory and Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
    Theory and Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
    Editor Victor (Wai Kin) Chan
    ISBN 978-953-51-1012-5
    276 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 1118
    The purpose of this book is to introduce researchers and practitioners to recent advances and applications of Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS). Random sampling is the key of the MCS technique. The 11 chapters of this book collectively illustrates how suc ...
  • PID Control, Implementation and Tuning
    PID Control, Implementation and Tuning
    Editor Tamer Mansour
    ISBN 978-953-307-166-4
    238 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 7862
    The PID controller is considered the most widely used controller. It has numerous applications varying from industrial to home appliances. This book is an outcome of contributions and inspirations from many researchers in the field of PID control. Th ...
  • Process Management
    Process Management
    Editor Maria Pomffyova
    ISBN 978-953-307-085-8
    338 pages, April, 2010
    Downloads: 8592
    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, ...
  • Supply Chain Management
    Supply Chain Management
    Editor Pengzhong Li
    ISBN 978-953-307-184-8
    590 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 5367
    The purpose of supply chain management is to make production system manage production process, improve customer satisfaction and reduce total work cost. With indubitable significance, supply chain management attracts extensive attention from business ...
  • Six Sigma Projects and Personal Experiences
    Six Sigma Projects and Personal Experiences
    Editor Abdurrahman Coskun
    ISBN 978-953-307-370-5
    184 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 4246
    In the new millennium the increasing expectation of customers and products complexity has forced companies to find new solutions and better alternatives to improve the quality of their products. Lean and Six Sigma methodology provides the best soluti ...
  • Practical Concepts of Quality Control
    Practical Concepts of Quality Control
    Editor Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad
    ISBN 978-953-51-0887-0
    119 pages, December, 2012
    Downloads: 964
    This book aims to provide a concise account of the essential elements of quality control. It is designed to be used as a text for courses on quality control for students of industrial engineering at the advanced undergraduate, or as a reference for r ...
  • Manufacturing System
    Manufacturing System
    Editor Faieza Abdul Aziz
    ISBN 978-953-51-0530-5
    448 pages, May, 2012
    Downloads: 2016
    This book attempts to bring together selected recent advances, tools, application and new ideas in manufacturing systems. Manufacturing system comprise of equipment, products, people, information, control and support functions for the competitive dev ...
  • Sustainable Development - Energy, Engineering and Technologies - Manufacturing and Environment
    Sustainable Development - Energy, Engineering and Technologies - Manufacturing and Environment
    Editor Chaouki Ghenai
    ISBN 978-953-51-0165-9
    264 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 2327
    The technological advancement of our civilization has created a consumer society expanding faster than the planet's resources allow, with our resource and energy needs rising exponentially in the past century. Securing the future of the human race wi ...
  • Nanofibers
    Nanofibers
    Editor Ashok Kumar
    ISBN 978-953-7619-86-2
    438 pages, February, 2010
    Downloads: 6060
    “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 ...
  • Environmental Management
    Environmental Management
    Editor Santosh Sarkar
    ISBN 978-953-307-133-6
    258 pages, August, 2010
    Downloads: 4935
    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 ...
  • Risk Management Trends
    Risk Management Trends
    Editor Giancarlo Nota
    ISBN 978-953-307-314-9
    266 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 3186
    In many human activities risk is unavoidable. It pervades our life and can have a negative impact on individual, business and social levels. Luckily, risk can be assessed and we can cope with it through appropriate management methodologies. The book ...
  • Management and Services
    Management and Services
    Editor Mamun Habib
    ISBN 978-953-307-118-3
    112 pages, October, 2010
    Downloads: 4207
    Management in all business areas and organisational activities are the acts of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Service is intangible, therefore, it is not too easy to define the theory application in varieties of s ...
  • Knowledge Management
    Knowledge Management
    Editor Pasi Virtanen and Nina Helander
    ISBN 978-953-7619-94-7
    272 pages, March, 2010
    Downloads: 4516
    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 ...
  • Factory Automation
    Factory Automation
    Editor Javier Silvestre-Blanes
    ISBN 978-953-307-024-7
    602 pages, March, 2010
    Downloads: 4451
    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 ...
  • Quality Assurance and Management
    Quality Assurance and Management
    Editor Mehmet Savsar
    ISBN 978-953-51-0378-3
    424 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1558
    The purpose of this book is to present new concepts, state-of-the-art techniques and advances in quality related research. Novel ideas and current developments in the field of quality assurance and related topics are presented in different chapters, ...
  • Ergonomics - A Systems Approach
    Ergonomics - A Systems Approach
    Editor Isabel L. Nunes
    ISBN 978-953-51-0601-2
    232 pages, April, 2012
    Downloads: 1410
    This book covers multiple topics of Ergonomics following a systems approach, analysing the relationships between workers and their work environment from different but complementary standpoints. The chapters focused on Physical Ergonomics address the ...
  • Production Scheduling
    Production Scheduling
    Editor Rodrigo da Rosa Righi
    ISBN 978-953-307-935-6
    242 pages, January, 2012
    Downloads: 1746
    Generally speaking, scheduling is the procedure of mapping a set of tasks or jobs (studied objects) to a set of target resources efficiently. More specifically, as a part of a larger planning and scheduling process, production scheduling is essential ...
  • Quality Management and Six Sigma
    Quality Management and Six Sigma
    Editor Abdurrahman Coskun
    ISBN 978-953-307-130-5
    276 pages, August, 2010
    Downloads: 3463
    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 ...