Design is everywhere in our lives--but the nature of complex systems means that few people feel empowered or equipped to design better futures. This book is a guide to co-designing service systems. Although the places we live are full of material objects, they only become meanin…
Design is everywhere in our lives--but the nature of complex systems means that few people feel empowered or equipped to design better futures. This book is a guide to co-designing service systems. Although the places we live are full of material objects, they only become meanin…
Text data that is associated with location data has become ubiquitous. A tweet is an example of this type of data, where the text in a tweet is associated with the location where the tweet has been issued. We use the term spatial-keyword data to refer to this type of data. Spati…
Focusing on traditional drainage methods for rainfed agriculture in humid temperature zones, this fully renewed and extended edition provides new theories, technologies, knowledge and experiences in drainage engineering and management. Fully renewed and extended, this edition is…
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 …
Self-healing systems promise operating cost reductions in large-scale computing environments through the automated detection of, and recovery from, faults. However, at present there appears to be little known empirical evidence comparing the different approaches, or demonstratio…
