Water and wastewater engineering is the worlds biggest industry with more professionals working in it than in any other single industry sector. This accessible student textbook introduces the reader to the key concepts of water technology by explaining the fundamentals of hydrobiology, aquatic ecosystems, water treatment and supply and...
In today’s real-world applications, there is an increasing demand of integrating new information and knowledge on-demand into model building processes to account for changing system dynamics, new operating conditions, varying human behaviors or environmental influences.
Evolving fuzzy systems (EFS) are a powerful tool...
Simplicity in nature is the ultimate sophistication. The world's magnificence has been enriched by the inner drive of instincts, the profound drive of our everyday life. Instinct is an inherited behavior that responds to environmental stimuli. Instinctive computing is a computational simulation of biological and cognitive instincts, which...
Welcome to the workshop program of the 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010), held in San Francisco, December 2010. These workshop proceedings represent high-quality research and industry papers that showcase recent and new working developments in service-oriented computing and related fields.
Uncertain data is inherent in many important applications, such as environmental surveillance, market analysis, and quantitative economics research. Due to the importance of those applications and rapidly increasing amounts of uncertain data collected and accumulated, analyzing large collections of uncertain data has become an important task....
We were early adopters of Extreme Programming (XP), testing on XP teams
that weren’t at all sure where testers or their brand of testing fit in. At the time,
there wasn’t much in the agile (which wasn’t called agile yet) literature about
acceptance testing, or how professional testers might contribute. We learned
not...
Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been
encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries—
health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name
a few—have told...
Cultural heritages include rich information related to social, historical and
cultural values. Affected by climate, environmental and other factors, some
valuable heritage information is threatened through destruction or disappearance,
and some is still not utilized sufficiently. How to investigate and utilize
such information...
The chapters in this volume were presented at the July–August 2006 NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Imaging for Detection and Identification. The
conference was held at the beautiful Il Ciocco resort near Lucca, in the glorious
Tuscany region of northern Italy. For the eighth time we gathered at this
idyllic spot to explore and...
It is widely recognized that a professional engineer needs to be aware of a range of issues
much wider than the mere technical knowledge necessary to practice the chosen
engineering discipline. The Engineering Council, for example, requires that the formation
of a professional engineer should include, amongst other things,
Event-based distributed systems are playing an ever increasing role in
areas such as enterprise management, information dissemination, finance,
environmental monitoring and geo-spatial systems. Event-based processing
originated with the introduction of Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules to
database systems in the 1980s. Since then,...
