Croeso i Gymru, Welcome to Wales. Croeso i Ddreigiau Cymru, Welcome to Welsh Dragons. But don't worry, you don't need to speak Welsh to enjoy this heartwarming tale of a friendly Welsh Dragon who, with the help of his shepherd friend, tries to dispel the idea that dragons are fierce and frightening. Along the way he encounters a valiant but timorous knight, a bold blacksmith and the even bolder women folk of a small Welsh village. A really fun read for children of all ages, follow Caradog'...

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First EAI International Summit, Smart City 360°, held in Bratislava, Slovakia and Toronto, ON, Canada, in October 2015.The 77 carefully reviewed papers include eight conferences: The Bratislava program covered the Conference on Sustainable Solutions beyond Mobility of Goods (SustainableMoG 2015), the MOBIDANUBE conference which strengthens research in the field of mobility opportunities and within Dan...

The two-volume set LNICST 150 and 151 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Internet of Things Summit, IoT360 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014.This volume contains 30 revised full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions at the following three conferences: the First International Conference on Mobility and Smart Cities, Mobility IoT 2014; the First International Conference on Software-Defined and Virtu...

Automation is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension and plays an increasingly important role in the global economy and in our daily lives. Engineers combine automated devices with mathematical and organizational tools to create complex systems for a rapidly expanding range of applications and human activities. This handbook incorporates these new developments and presents a widespread and well-structured conglomeration of new emerging application areas of automation. Bes...

Improve the energy efficiency of process industry practicesSustainability in the Process Industry explains process integration and optimization and discusses applications for improving the energy and water efficiency of industrial as well as nonindustrial energy users. Approaches for adapting these methodologies to include the integration of waste and renewable energy sources are covered. This authoritative text contains eight industrial-based case studies and nine testi...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2015.The 18 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: critical information infrastructure protection; critical infrastructure resilience assessment; emergency management: critical infrastruct...

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO IMPLEMENTING A GREEN SUPPLY CHAINThis detailed resource provides a stage-by-stage production methodology within the life cycle of a product to ensure environmental compliance and economic goals. After covering basic concepts and background, Green Supply Chain Management: Product Life Cycle Approach discusses green engineering technologies, green value chain management, and green information management systems.The book delivers the knowledge to...

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMSTECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONSThis book provides a systematic overview of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), offering an insight into the reference architectures developed within the main research projects. It delves into each of the layers of such architectures, from physical to application layer, describing the technological issues which are being currently faced by some of the most important ITS researc...

In this title, the authors leap into a novel paradigm of scalability and cost-effectiveness, on the basis of resource reuse. In a world with much abundance of wirelessly accessible devices, WSN deployments should capitalize on the resources already available in the region of deployment, and only augment it with the components required to meet new application requirements. However, if the required resources already exist in that region, WSN deployment converges to an assignment and scheduli...

This volume collects selected papers of the 3rd CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2014. CESA is the most important automotive electronics conference in France. The topical focus lies on state-of-the-art automotive electronics with respect to energy consumption and autonomous driving. The target audience primarily comprises industry leaders and research experts in the automotive industry.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice. The book presents the most noteworthy methods and results discussed at the International Conference on Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat), which took place in Riga, Latvia on October 18 – 21,...

The purpose of the 2012 3rd International Asia Conference on industrial engineering and management innovation (IEMI2012) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to industrial engineering and management innovation.