This book offers students an accessible and applied introduction to microeconomics in tourism and hospitality through a comprehensive analysis of the market mechanism, demand and supply, firm behavior and strategy, and transaction and institution.This book not only helps students to master core microeconomic theories that are essential for understanding the tourism and hospitality industry, but, more importantly, it guides students to analyze consumer behavior and firm strategy spe...

This book focuses on transmission systems for pure electric and hybrid vehicles. It first discusses system development and optimization technologies, comprehensively and systematically describing the development trends, structures and technical characteristics, as well as the related technologies and methods. It highlights the principles, implementation process and energy management of the power transmission system based on the pure electric and hybrid mode management method, and examines ...

This book introduces readers to the theory, design and applications of automotive transmissions. It covers multiple categories, e.g. AT, AMT, CVT, DCT and transmissions for electric vehicles, each of which has its own configuration and characteristics. In turn, the book addresses the effective design of transmission gear ratios, structures and control strategies, and other topics that will be of particular interest to graduate students, researchers and engineers. Moreover, it includes real...

Discover data analytics methodologies for the diagnosis and prognosis of industrial systems under a unified random effects modelIn Industrial Data Analytics for Diagnosis and Prognosis - A Random Effects Modelling Approach, distinguished engineers Shiyu Zhou and Yong Chen deliver a rigorous and practical introduction to the random effects modeling approach for industrial system diagnosis and prognosis. In the book’s two parts, general statistical concepts ...

The book focuses on the design of resilient control schemes for intelligent connected vehicle platoon systems. The issues of physical faults, malicious cyber-attacks and external disturbances are studied from the perspective of resilient control. The contents of this book introduce a variety of control schemes in detail, and give simulation or experimental verification cases. To enable readers to learn the resilient control methods of vehicle platoon systems is the main benefit of this boo...

The book focuses on the research methods of networked control systems via sliding mode. The problems with network disturbances, network induced delay, out-of-sequence and packet loss, and network attacks are studied in detail. The content studied in this book is introduced in detail and is verified by simulation or experiment. It is especially suitable for readers who are interested in learning the control scheme of networked systems. This book can benefit researchers, engineers, and stude...

Reliability Based Aircraft Maintenance Optimization and Applications presents flexible and cost-effective maintenance schedules for aircraft structures, particular in composite airframes. By applying an intelligent rating system, and the back-propagation network (BPN) method and FTA technique, a new approach was created to assist users in determining inspection intervals for new aircraft structures, especially in composite structures. This book also discusses the influence of Structure Hea...

This three-volume set LNCS 15161, 15162 and 15163 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference, COCOON 2024, held in Shanghai, China, during August 23–25, 2024.The 90 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 277 submissions. COCOON 2024 provided an excellent venue for researchers working in the area of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing.

This book summarizes the technical method and construction process of pipe jacking. It has a total of 17 chapters and one appendix. It includes how to prepare the pipe jacking construction, how to choose the pipe and equipment for jacking, how to choose the engineering environment, how to do the geological survey before jacking, how to design the working pit, what's the procedure of pipe jacking, how to do the measurement and monitoring during jacking, how to do the treatment and acceptanc...

This book provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements in the electrochemical energy storage and conversion of two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials and their composites, including their synthesis and associated challenges. It covers the precise design and construction of local atomic and electronic structures at the interface of catalysts, the interaction mechanism, and the regulation of catalyst solid surface interface properties under environmental and external field influences.

The book covers Oriental management theories as well as their applications; research on positivism; long-term focus; exclusive interviews and accumulating first-hand data, etc. It also addresses the following topics: Chinese family businesses that have survived for more than one hundred years(e.g. INFINITUS, Beijing TRT); Chinese enterprises and firms that follow the oriental management culture serve as the dynamic engines to the 2nd largest economic entity in the world (e.g., Huawei Techn...

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of corporate compliance as a central mechanism of modern corporate governance and legal regulation. It explains how compliance programs prevent corporate misconduct, manage legal risk, and function within administrative and criminal enforcement frameworks.The book begins by defining the nature, values, and principles of corporate compliance, and examines risk-based compliance management and institutional models for complian...