"This book explores the field of complexity. It features in-depth coverage of important theoretical ideas, including fractals, chaos, non-linear dynamics, artificial life and self-organisation. It also provides overviews of complexity in several applied areas, including parallel…
Foundations of Complex-system Theories analyzes and compares, for the first time, the key ideas and general methods used in studying complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences. It highlights the features common to the three areas, clarifies conceptual confusions…
In this book, we focus on intelligent systems that are based on the integration of expert systems, hypermedia, and data-base technologies, for together they offer a rich environment for creating computer applications that can increase productivity enormously and act as intellige…
The increasing importance being placed on software quality has led to a large number of new measures being proposed for quality design principles such as coupling. Given the importance of object-oriented development techniques, object-oriented metrics are needed to measure diffe…
It is a well-known fact that installation of capacitors in power systems, especially at the distribution levels, results in considerable economical benefits. However, the extent to which these benefits are achieved depends on how the capacitors are placed on the system. Due to t…
Finite time thermodynamic models which simulate the working of actual vapor compression refrigeration systems are developed. The characteristic performance curves of the refrigeration systems that include simple vapor compression system, mechanical subcooling and two-stage syste…
A key part of a fruit fly's development is the formation of segmentsin its body. These structures are built by the protein forms of so-called segment polarity (SP) genes. It is the asymmetric expression of SP genes which creates the fruit-fly's segmental structure. The SP genes …
