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Book SynopsisThe TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world. The program has offered a variety of contributions, allowing to look at many aspects of the navigational safety from various different points of view. Topics presented and discussed at the Symposium were: navigation, safety at sea, sea transportation, education of navigators and simulator-based training, sea traffic engineering, ship's manoeuvrability, integrated systems, electronic charts systems, satellite, radio-navigation and anti-collision systems and many others.This book is part of a series of six volumes and provides an overview of International recent issues about ECDIS, E-Navigation and Safety at Sea and is addressed to scientists and professionals involved in research and development of navigation, safety of navigation and sea transportation.Table of Contentse-Navigation ConceptECDISVisualization and Presentation of Navigational InformationData Transmission and Communication SystemsSafety at Sea

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Book SynopsisThe TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world. The program has offered a variety of contributions, allowing to look at many aspects of the navigational safety from various different points of view. Topics presented and discussed at the Symposium were: navigation, safety at sea, sea transportation, education of navigators and simulator-based training, sea traffic engineering, ship's manoeuvrability, integrated systems, electronic charts systems, satellite, radio-navigation and anti-collision systems and many others.This book is part of a series of six volumes and provides an overview of Problems in Maritime Navigation, Transport and Shipping and is addressed to scientists and professionals involved in research and development of navigation, safety of navigation and sea transportation.Table of ContentsWeather Routing and Meteorological AspectsIce NavigationShip ConstructionShip Propulsion and Fuel EfficiencySafe Shipping and Environment in the Baltic Sea RegionOil Spill ResponseLarge Cetaceans

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Book SynopsisSuccess is Assured was born from a pair using those design practices over a century ago: The Wright Brothers. They set about methodically learning the causal relationships between the different design decisions they needed to make and the performance of the airplane. The Wright Brothers fundamentally transformed the front end of development into a sharply focused learning and decision-making process, and thereby eliminated the late - process rework in which their competition was stuck.Similarly, Toyota built an amazing manual product development system that consistently created a cadence of high quality products that customers want. Myriads of Lean principles, jargon, and tools have been introduced and applied with minimal impact on design loopbacks, engineering productivity, and knowledge reuse within small to midsize engineering companies and almost no penetration within highly complex engineering companies. This book teaches methodologies to relentlessly expose knowledge Trade Review"Success Is Assured is a practical guide to successful product development using 'Set-Based Design' principles and an 'Intelligent Fast Failure' approach. The authors rely on their extensive industry experience in their respective fields and as successful industry consultants helping to transform the way existing companies do business. An easy-to-read addition to the field with many new, useful conceptual models." - Charlie Camarda, Astronaut STS-114 Discovery (Return to Flight mission), Former Director of Engineering, NASA Johnson Space Center"In 1953, my dad led his development team at GM to design and build the iconic 55 Chevy in just 23 months - unheard of then and certainly not possible today. How did they succeed in that? Through focused learning and decision making leveraging strong engineering expertise. Over the last decade, we have strayed from that, focusing too much on tasks and schedules. This book shows us how to rebuild that capability through new analytical tools for decision-focused learning and the creation and reuse of visual knowledge. This is increasingly important as complexity is increasing dramatically and the need for effective and speedy product development is critical to success."- David Cole, Ph.D., Chair, AutoHarvest; Chair Emeritus, Center for Auto Research; Chair, Building America’s Tomorrow; Automotive Hall of Fame Inductee"I wish this book was already written when we started our Lean Journey almost 11 years ago. It is a breakthrough in the thinking process on how to make decisions that will drive your business results to 'Success is Assured'! From the very core definition of the 'True North' of Product Development to the Enabler of all Enablers (the Causal Map), the authors' experience provides everyone clarity on how to learn faster and innovate better while having a lot more fun! My team and I are very enthusiastic and we almost cannot hold ourselves in anticipation of the great achievements we'll be able to provide to our business partners."- Manoel de Queiroz Cordova Santos, Business Excellence Manager - Product Development, Embraer S.A."Transforming New Product Development for complex products is a difficult endeavor. As if the technical challenges generated by the large number of variables and interdependencies were not enough, the current leadership practices could drive the wrong behaviors, creating additional complications. What new behaviors should be embraced by leadership? How to tackle complicated technical interdependencies in a new and robust way? This book does an excellent job in covering both questions, using an approach that includes real and fictional stories, peppered with a lot of examples. Highly recommended for both leadership and technical experts embarking in their New Product Development transformation."- Ovidiu Contras, Lean Coach, Bombardier Aerospace "This book is invaluable for any team or organization aiming to design complex systems successfully. The practical knowledge based approach for robust decision making explained in the book, with lucid examples, is exceptionally relevant. The case study story is something most teams and organizations dealing with the design and development of complex systems can easily correlate with."- Ramakrishnan Raman, ESEP, Assistant Sector Director – INCOSE Asia Oceania; Principal Systems Engineer – Honeywell"As for any company in charge of developing new products, the key challenge is to define the solution that provides the best trade-offs between customer’s needs and the Company’s goals and capabilities to provide maximum value to both. The traditional Point-Based Design quickly converges on a solution based on a single point in the design space – a process which inevitably creates rework, delays and cost overruns. This book explains in a very effective instructive style the Set-Based Design approach - a most powerful method to develop better solutions. The key principle is to focus upfront in building key knowledge to make decisions by exploring the trade-offs between critical parameters and mapping an area of feasibility. This is the first book that describes Set-Based Design in an easy to apply way. It provides a set of powerful tools and methods developed by the authors and shows how to apply them through many examples. It provides clarity in how to conduct the development process and build it step by step with different enablers to assure success! This book is indispensable for anyone willing to make their process of product development much more valuable." - Luc Delamotte, Senior Coach Lean Engineering, Lean Community Manager, Thales"I have always liked Michael´s approach to this complex subject. He has always been curious to learn more and challenge every ‘truth' he encountered on his way seeking 'Success is Assured'. In this book the authors capture the true essence of the matter, what it takes to assure the success of the product development project. A real 'how to' book which will help many product developers to shorten lead times and to innovate! Read the book and apply the knowledge and your success will be assured."- Peter Palmér, Chairman, Lean Product & Process Development Exchange (LPPDE); Senior Manager, R&D Way Office, Scania"I highly recommend Success is Assured! To my knowledge, it is the only book in print that provides a detailed methodology on the application of set-based design to complex system development using real-world examples."- Donny Blair, Senior Director of Engineering, L3 Technologies "If you are still not convinced about the merits of Lean Product Development, read this book and you will be. Even if you are not an engineer."- Dr. Göran Gustafsson, Chalmers University of TechnologyTable of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I HOW TO ESTABLISH “SUCCESS IS ASSURED” PRIOR TO MAKING DECISIONS IN YOUR ORGANIZATION. 1 Pratt & Whitney Case Study: Their Journey to“Success is Assured. 2 “True North”. 3 The Enablers. 4 Causal Mapping. 5 Aligning “True North” across Organizational Boundaries. 6 Making the Transition. Part II A STORY OF SET-BASED CAUSAL MAPPING ACCELERATING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING. 7 Introduction to the Story. 8 Monday Morning, Infrared Technologies Corporation. 9 Tuesday Morning, Infrared Technologies Corporation. 10 Wednesday Morning, Infrared Technologies Corporation. 11 Thursday Morning, Unmanned Aircraft, Inc. 12 Thursday Afternoon, UA Teleconference with Power Flow Corp. 13 Wednesday Morning, Week 2, Teleconference between the Navy, IRT, and UA. 14 Monday Morning, Week 3, UA Headquarters. 15 Tuesday Morning, Week 3, UA Headquarters. 16 Friday Morning, Week 3. Appendix I: Character List Quick Reference. Appendix II: A Brief History of Lean Product Development and Set-Based Concurrent Engineering. Appendix III: Causal Mapping for Problem-Solving. Appendix IV: Causal Mapping for Making a Set of Decisions. Appendix V: Causal Mapping for Achieving or Improving a Customer Interest. Appendix VI: Causal Mapping for Moving a Limit Curve in a Specific Direction. Appendix VII: Problem K-Brief. Index

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents 1 The Systems Development Environment 2 The Origins of Software 3 Managing the Information Systems Project 4 Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects 5 Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects 6 Determining System Requirements 7 Structuring System Process Requirements 8 Structuring System Data Requirements 9 Designing Databases 10 Designing Forms and Reports 11 Designing Interfaces and Dialogues 12 Designing Distributed and Internet Systems 13 System Implementation 14 Maintaining Information Systems Download the detailed table of contents

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Book SynopsisWe relate to things and things relate to us. Emerging technologies do this in ways that are interesting and exciting, but often also inaccessible or invisible. In this open access book, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised by this situation inquiring into what it means to live with and relate to things that can actively relate to us, and that relate to each other in ways that do not involve us at all.Case studies include Amazon''s Alexa, the Internet of Things, Pokémon Go and Roomba the robot vacuum cleaner. Authors explore everything from the care work undertaken by objects, reciprocal human/machine learning, technological mediation as a form of control, and what it takes to reveal things that tend to be hidden and that often (by design) conceal the ways in which they use us.As a whole, Relating to Things is a collaborative philosophical inquiry into the nature and consequences of contemporary technological things. It is a design inquiry Trade ReviewThis is one of the first collections to take seriously our changing relationship with non-human actors, yet in doing so it is also a profoundly human book. As disturbing as it is enlightening, Relating to Things is full of insight and curiosity about what it means to live in an increasingly sentient material world. Essential reading for anybody trying to make sense of the politics of relationality in design and the coming world of active objects. -- Damon Taylor, School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton, UKRelating to Things is an extraordinarily rich exploration of how humans and technologies act, depend upon, and guide one another. Emerging at the intersection of philosophy of technology and design studies, this collection helps us to see how we have come to relate to our creations and how our freedom to design and redesign these relations can open the door to very different futures. This is an essential read for those wanting to gain a deeper sense of how to live with technologies that ask more, give more, take more, and share more with us every day. -- Professor Shannon Vallor, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden) I: Caring for Things That Care for Us 1. Privacy as Care: An Interpersonal Model of Privacy Exemplified by Five Cases in the Internet of Things Dylan Wittkower (Old Dominion University, USA) 2. Attachment to Things, Artifacts, Devices, Commodities: An Inconvenient Ethics of the Ordinary Michel Puech (Paris-Sorbonne University, France) 3. The New Assisted Living: Caring for Alexa Caring for Us Diane Michelfelder (Macalester College, USA) II: Learning from Things That Learn from Us 4. Handling Things that Handle Us: Things Get to Know Who We Are and Tie Us Down to Who We Were Bruno Gransche (University of Siegen, Germany) 5. Can Ethics be Learned? Videogames as an Ethical Sandbox Fanny Verrax (independent scholar and consultant, France) 6. Casting Things as Partners in Design: Toward a More-than-Human Design Practice Elisa Giaccardi (TU Delft, Netherlands) III: Controlling Things That Control Us 7. Hostile Design and the Materiality of Surveillance Robert Rosenberger (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 8. A Tool for the Impact and Ethics of Technology: The Case of Interactive Screens in Public Spaces Steven Dorrestijn (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands) 9. Postphenomenology of Augmented Reality Galit Wellner (Tel Aviv University, Israel) IV: Revealing Things That Reveal Us 10. Imagining Things: Unfolding the “of” in Philosophy of Technology, through Object-Oriented Ontology Yoni Van Den Eede (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) 11. The Disappearing Acts of the Morse Things: A Design Inquiry into the Withdrawal of Things Ron Wakkary (Simon Fraser University, Canada; TU Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sabrina Hauser (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Doenja Oogjes (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 12. Revealing Relations of Fluid Assemblages Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden) 13. Designing Networks that Reveal Themselves Holly Robbins (TU Delft, Netherlands) 14. Reflection and Commentary Erik Stolterman (Indiana University, USA)

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Book SynopsisPractice-based case studies from around the world exploring empathy within service design.

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Book SynopsisEmerging imaging techniques have opened new fronts to investigate tissues, cells, and proteins. Transformative technologies such as microCT scans, super-resolution microscopy, fluorescence-based tools, and other methods now allow us to study the mechanics of cancer, dissect the origins of cellular force regulation, and examine biological specimens at the nanoscale.The Handbook of Imaging in Biological Mechanics presents the spectrum of imaging techniques used for noninvasive visualization of the morphology and mechanics of the large and smallfrom organs to individual macromolecules. The handbook presents optimal imaging technologies to study deformation, stress, and constitutive behavior of tissues, cells, and proteins. It also describes a suite of technologies available for probing the mechanics of surfaces, membranes, and single molecules. With chapters authored by highly recognized experts in their area, the handbook covers the entire spectrum of biomechanicaTable of ContentsIntroduction. Tissue and Organ Imaging Methods: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods. Tissue and Organ Imaging Methods: Ultrasound. Tissue and Organ Imaging Methods: Radiography and Computed Tomography. Tissue and Organ Imaging Methods: High Throughput and Image Quantification. Tissue and Organ Imaging Methods: Multiscale Imaging and Modeling. Cellular and Molecular Imaging Methods: Microenvironments: Native ECM. Cellular and Molecular Imaging Methods: Microenvironments: In Vitro Culture Systems. Cellular and Molecular Imaging Methods: Cellular and Subcellular Biophysics. Cellular and Molecular Imaging Methods: Nuclear Biophysics. Cellular and Molecular Imaging Methods: Channels. Cellular and Molecular Imaging Methods: Surfaces and Single Molecule Measurements.

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Book SynopsisContent.- A Methodology for Complex Embedded Systems Design: Petri Nets within a UML Approach.- Efficient System Modeling for Complex Real-Time Industrial Networks using the ACCORD/UML Methodology.- Analog/Digital Co-Design.- A Design Methodology for Embedded Systems based on Multiple Processors.- An Architecture for Reliable Distributed Computer-Controlled Systems.- Generic Architecture Platform for Multiprocessor System-On-Chip Design.- JPURE A Purified Java Execution Environment for Controller Networks.- Optimizing Functional distribution in Complex System Design.- Customizing Software Toolkits for Embedded Systems-On-Chip.- Framework for System Design, Validation and Fast Prototyping of Multiprocessor System-On-Chip.- The Specification Language SpecC within the PARADISE Design Environment.- Real-Time Support for Online Controller Supervision and Optimisation.- A Product Family Approach to Graceful Degradation.- Environment Modelling in Closed Specifications of Embedded Systems.- Test Case Design for the Validation of Component-Based Embedded Systems.- Timing Constraints Validation using UPPAAL: Schedulability Analysis.- A New Dynamic Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems.- Deriving Message Passing Protocols from Collective Behavior.- Java Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Middleware for Distributed Embedded Systems.- A Verified Hardware Synthesis of Esterel Programs.- EXPLORA Generic Design Space Exploration during Embedded System Synthesis.- Automatic Code Generation for Multirate Simulink Models with Support for the OSEK Real-Time Operating System.Table of ContentsPreface. Workshop Organisation. Session 1: Methodology I. A Methodology for Complex Embedded Systems Design: Petri Nets within a UML Approach; R. J. Machado, et al. Efficient System Modeling for Complex Real-Time Industrial Networks using the ACCORD/UML Methodology; S. Gérard, et al. Analog/Digital Co-Design; F. Heuschen, K. Waldschmidt. A Design Methodology for Embedded Systems based on Multiple Processors; L. Carro, et al. Session 2: Architecture. An Architecture for Reliable Distributed Computer-Controlled Systems; L. M. Pinho, F. Vasques. Generic Architecture Platform for Multiprocessor System-On-Chip Design; A. Baghdadi, et al. JPURE - A Purified Java Execution Environment for Controller Networks; D. Beuche, et al. Optimizing Functional distribution in Complex System Design; O. P. Dias, et al. Session 3: Design Environments. Customizing Software Toolkits for Embedded Systems-On-Chip; A. Halambi, et al. Framework for System Design, Validation and Fast Prototyping of Multiprocessor System-On-Chip; N. E. Zergainoh, et al. The Specification Language SpecC within the PARADISE Design Environment; A. Rettberg, et al. Session 4: Methodology II. Real-Time Support for Online Controller Supervision and Optimisation; M. Deppe, O. Oberschelp. A Product Family Approach to Graceful Degradation; W. Nace, P. Koopman. Environment Modelling in Closed Specifications of Embedded Systems; M. Katara, A. Luoma. Session 5: Test and Validation. Test Case Design for the Validation of Component-Based Embedded Systems; W. Fleisch. Timing Constraints Validation using UPPAAL: Schedulability Analysis; H. Sun. Session 6: Distribution andCommunication. A New Dynamic Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems; Y. Qiao, et al. Deriving Message Passing Protocols from Collective Behavior; P. Kellomäki. Java Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Middleware for Distributed Embedded Systems; D. Kim, et al. Session 7: Synthesis. A Verified Hardware Synthesis of Esterel Programs; K. Schneider. EXPLORA&endash;Generic Design Space Exploration during Embedded System Synthesis; F. Cieslok, et al. Automatic Code Generation for Multirate Simulink Models with Support for the OSEK Real-Time Operating System; C. Homburg, et al.

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Book Synopsis.- Boolean Networks..- Computation of immediate neighbours of monotone Boolean functions..- Three-State Gene Expression Model Parameterized for Single-Cell Multi-Omics Data..- On Model Reductions of Boolean Networks..- AEON 2025: Robust Control of Partially-Specified Boolean Networks (tool paper)..- Looking for Signs: Reasoning About FOBNNs Using SAT..- Continuous Petri Nets Faithfully Fluidify Most Permissive Boolean Networks..- Continuous and Hybrid models..- Efficient stochastic simulation of gene regulatory networks using hybrid models of transcriptional bursting..- Exploring Metastable Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks with ISOKANN..- Rule-based models..- Reachability Analysis for Parametric Rule-Based Models..- A rule-based modeling approach for studying animal collectives: a case study of juvenile honeybee thermotaxis..- A Formal Approach to Identify Structural Patterns in RNA..- Model inference and machine learning..- Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Gene Regulatory Network Inference..- Optimal input design for model selection in systems with cell-to-cell variability..- Decoding Gene Regulation in Alzheimer’s disease with Transfer Learning and Explainable Machine Learning..- Influence Graphs of Phytoplankton Species Interactions using Logical Learning..- Evaluating PDE discovery methods for multiscale modeling of biological signals..- Optimizing Feature Extraction Methods using Class Similarity Ratio for EMG-based Hand Gesture Classification..- Population models and control..- Eukaryotic ancestry in a finite world..- Minimal metabolic exchanges for microbial communities in a chemostat at steady state..- Seed inference in interacting microbial communities using combinatorial optimization..- A model-free control strategy for selective disruption of parkinsonian brain oscillations.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains selected papers for the Parcella '88, the Fourth International Workshop on "Parallel Processing by Cellular Automata and Arrays" held in Berlin from October 17 to 21, 1988. The profile of the Parcella workshop series is focused on problems of processing by regular structures, i.e. their "flexibilization" or adapting to "irregular" algorithms and, closely related to this, on the "regularization" of algorithms for their embedding into regular structures. It seems that these problems will have an increasing priority within the list of central problems in parallelization and will determine the profile of Parcella for the next years.Table of ContentsMultiprocessor arrays: Topology, efficiency and fault-tolerance.- Unsolved theoretical problems in homogeneous structures.- On simultaneous realizations of boolean functions, with applications.- Parallel microprogramming as a tool for multi-microprocessor systems.- A survey of parallel computational geometry algorithms.- Parallel memories for straight line and rectangle access.- Programming with active data.- Prolog implementations for cellular architectures.- Modular highly-parallel computation and architectures.- Parallel computation and supercomputers and applications.- Fast parallel algorithms and the complexity of parallelism (basic issues and recent advances).- Process-structured architectures to transform information flowing through.- Basic research for cellular processing.- Parallel algorithms in image processing.- VLSI arrays implementing parallel line-drawing algorithms.- Parallel conflict-free optimal access to complete extended q-ary trees.- Systolic preconditioning algorithms for the jacobi iterative solution of sparse linear systems.- Multiprocessor systems for large numerical applications.- Systolic array for eigenvalue of jacobi matrix.- A transitive closure algorithm for a 16-state cellprocessor.- Control of sensory processing — A hypothesis on and simulation of the architecture of an elementary cortical processor.- Bounds for l-selection and related problems on grids of processors.- Recursive design of communication schemes for parallel computation with relacs.- Solution of dense systems of linear equations using cellular processors.- Running order statistics on a bit-level systolic array.- Realization of sets of permutations by permutation networks.- Simulation of learning networks.- Given's rotation on an instruction systolic array.- Worst case analysis for reducing algorithms on instruction systolic arrays with simple instruction sets.- Self-checking processing elements in cellular arrays.- Cellular diagnostic in parallel systems.- Reliable networks for boolean functions with small complexity.- Pipeline-automata — A model for acyclic systolic systems.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction to Linux Administration.- Chapter 2: Managing User Accounts.- Chapter 3: Filesystem Management.- Chapter 4: Basic System Configuration.- Chapter 5: Package Management.- Chapter 6: Introduction to Shell Scripting.- Chapter 7: System Monitoring and Performance.- Chapter 8: Introduction to Security.- Chapter 9: Networking and Remote Access.- Chapter 10: Backup and Disaster Recovery.

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