In today's complex and fast-paced world, decision-making is critical to problem-solving across industries and academia. However, traditional optimization techniques often need help to cope with the challenges posed by dynamic and intricate environments.

Uploaded March 2025

The first text to take a systems engineering approach to artificial intelligence (AI), from architecture principles to the development and deployment of AI capabilities. Most books on artificial intelligence (AI) focus on a single functional building block, such as machine learning or human-machine teaming.

Uploaded March 2025

3D printing is said to revolutionize architecture: Thanks to new technologies, plastic, concrete, or metal can be extruded in a liquid state and then hardened into its final form.

Uploaded March 2025

Building Department Administration is a comprehensive one-stop resource critical to the successful management and operation of building safety administration. It is also a required reference for professional ICC certifications such as Certified Building Official (CBO) and Certified Fire Marshal (CFO).

Uploaded March 2025

This book describes how to calibrate, measure and specify ultrasonic flow meters to ensure that the legal metrology requirements are met in custody transfer and fiscal applications.
This book is intended for meteorologists who are in charge of specifying ultrasonic flow meters, calibrating or accurately measuring water, oil and natural gas flowrate in custody transfer and fiscal measurement applications.

Uploaded March 2025

With increasing population growth, urbanization, and climate change, water management becomes more demanding. This book presents innovative solutions for present as well as future challenges we are facing in water conservation and water quality protection.

Uploaded October 2024

Drawing on a range of literary, pictorial, and bibliographical sources, Waste Paper in Early Modern England reveals how layers of meaning accreted around paper fragments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how, because of the widespread sensitivity to the life cycle of paper and books, wasted pages prompted meaningful imaginative work.

Uploaded October 2024

In The Computable City , Michael Batty investigates the circularity of this peculiar evolution: how computers and communications changed the very nature of our city models, which, in turn, are used to simulate systems composed of those same computers.

Uploaded October 2024

Sustainable Solutions for E-Waste and Development is an academic reference source that takes an incisive journey through the nexus of sustainable development and the surging menace of e-waste.

Uploaded October 2024

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation. To begin this conversation, we examine the smart village discourse, debates in design theory, non-western traditions of innovation, and sustainable development.

Uploaded October 2024