Covering the period from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the beginnings of the Renaissance, this is an indispensable volume which brings the complex and colourful history of the Middle Ages to life.

Laser-Assisted Microtechnology deals with laser applications to a wide variety of problems in microelectronic design and fabrication.

The only remaining issue is how to tap the enormous potential value buried in Code Halos. This book provides the model for doing just that. This is more than just a Big Data story. This is about the next era of business.

Reinforcement, Velocity measurement, Test equipment, Prestressed concrete, Flaw detection, Strength of materials, Testing conditions, Reinforced concrete, Transducers, Modulus of elasticity, Poisson ratio, Sonic testing, Error correction, ...

This book provides a reference guide for researchers, scientists and industrialists working in the area of soft computing, and highlights the latest advances in and applications of soft computing techniques in multidisciplinary areas.

Part travelogue, part environmental exposé, Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes.

Intelligent technical systems are networked, embedded systems incorporating real-time capacities that are able to interact with and adapt to their environments.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 11 symposia and workshops held at the 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, SpaCCS 2017, held in Guangzhou, China, in ...