New eBooks

HVDC Grids : For Offshore and Supergrid of the Future
Dirk Van Hertem, Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt, and Jun Liang

HVDC Grids : For Offshore and Supergrid of the Future discusses HVDC grids based on multi-terminal voltage-source converters (VSC), which are suitable for the connection of offshore wind farms, and possibly for a continent wide overlay grid. 

Sustainable Fuel Technologies Handbook
Suman Dutta and Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

This handbook examines the production methods, storage systems and implementation in various engines, as well as the safety related issues associated with each stage of production, storage and utilization. With a comparison of cost and a techno-economic evaluation checking the feasibility of sustainable fuel use, this handbook is an invaluable reference source for researchers, professionals, and scientists working in the field of sustainability.

Advances in Electric Power and Energy : Static State Estimation
Mohamed E. El-Hayward

This book addresses a wide-range of issues concerning static state emission and the potential threats to the integrity of their own and neighboring systems. Expert contributors provide an overview of the topic and  review common threats such as cascading black-outs to model-based anomaly detection to the operation of micro-grids and much more. The book also includes a discussion  of a mathematical programming approach to state estimation in power systems.
 

Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment
Peter M. Curtis

This book offers relevant insight into the Mission Critical Environment with an emphasis on business resiliency, data center efficiency, and green power technology. Industry improvements, standards, and techniques have been incorporated into the text and address the latest issues prevalent in the Mission Critical Industry.   It discusses the United States energy infrastructure's dependency on oil, and its relation to energy security in the mission critical industry.  The topics addressed throughout this book include safety, fire protection, energy security and data center cooling, along with other common challenges and issues facing industry engineers today.

Quantum Computing : The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Brian Clegg

A non technical guide to quantum computing, this book explains algorithms and their quantum counterparts, explores the physical building blocks and quantum weirdness necessary to make a quantum computer, and uncovers the capabilities of the current generation of machines.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Seventh Edition and The Standard for Project Management (ENGLISH)
Project Management Institute

The PMBOK Guide - Seventh Edition  is a must-have resource for project manager professionals. This updated Seventh Edition includes: a full range of developmental processes and how they can be tailored, an expanded list of models, methods and artifacts, and the integration with the PMI standard+™  to improve project outcomes. 

Human-Automation Interaction Design : Developing a Vehicle Automation Assistant 
Jediah Clark, Neville A. Stanton, and Kirsten Revel 

This text presents a four-step approach for applying communicative concepts to driving automation, including: scoping, piloting, designing, and testing. It further provides experimental data on how practical human-human communication strategies can be applied to interaction in automated vehicles.

Artificial Intelligence and Its Contexts : Security, Business and Governance
Anna Visvizi and Marek Bodziany

This book offers a comprehensive approach to the role of AI in today’s world and how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts politics, economy, and society.  The book has been divided into three parts:  Part one, how AI will be used for security and defense purposes, including combat in war zones? Part two looks at the value added of AI and machine learning for decision-making in the fields of politics and business. Part three consists of case studies that discuss how AI is being used in the realms of politics, security and defense.

Greener and Scalable e-Fuels for Decarbonization of Transport
Avinash Kumar Agarwal and Hardikk Valera

This book highlights ways of using gaseous and liquid e-fuels, synthetic petrol and diesel, etc in existing engines and their effects on tailpipe emissions. Other topics include: procedures for the calibration and optimization adaptation of these fuels, and their economical facets. This book will be of interest to those in academia and industry involved in fuels, IC engines, engine instrumentation, and environmental research.
 

Choose your WoW - Second Edition : A Disciplined Agile Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working
Scott Ambler and Mark Lines

Disciplined Agile® (DA™) is the only comprehensive tool kit available for guidance on building high-performance agile teams and optimizing your way of working (WoW). As a hybrid of the leading agile, lean, and traditional approaches, DA provides hundreds of strategies to help you make better decisions within your agile teams, balancing self-organization with the realities and constraints of your unique enterprise context.

Bacterial Fish Diseases
Gowhar Hamid Dar

A practical resource useful for researchers and academics, this book will help readers to understand the nature and consequences of bacteria-related disease in fishes. This reference is beneficial for understanding the economic losses due to bacterial pathogens in fish fauna and its impact on the economy and provides sufficient information with regard to good aquaculture practices.

Project Management in Logistics and Supply Chain Management : Practical Guide with Examples from Industry, Trade and Services
Dirk H. Hartel

This practice-oriented guide describes the basics of planning and implementing  project management in logistics and supply chain management. The practical guide presents a range of methods and tools to monitor and assess project risk. 

Platforms and Artificial Intelligence : The Next Generation of Competences
Ahmed Bounfour

This book describes how platforms invest in AI and how AI will impact the next generation of competences, following a twofold approach to do so: on the one hand, the book seeks to understand how platforms for investment in intangibles and AI are organized, but on the other hand, it provides a framework to describe how AI will change jobs and competences in the future.

Hacking Artificial Intelligence : A Leader's Guide from Deepfakes to Breaking Deep Learning
Davey Gibian

AI can fail and be left vulnerable to hacking. The ability to hack AI and the technology industry's lack of effort to secure it is thought by experts to be the biggest unaddressed technology issue of our time. Hacking Artificial Intelligence sheds light on these hacking risks, explaining them to those who can make a difference.

Elon Musk : Risking It All
Michael Vlismas

Journalist and author Michael Vlismas traces Musk’s remarkable life. Vlismas provides intimate detail of Musk’s first years in America and the development of his entrepreneurial vision to becoming the boundary-pushing billionaire with grand plans of inhabiting Mars. Thoroughly researched, this engaging book dispels several myths and offers other sides to the controversy around Musk’s father.

Landesman's Public Health Management of Disasters: the Practice Guide, 5th edition
Ed. Linda Young Landesman

This book is both a comprehensive textbook and an essential tool for those who have a role in disaster management. Landesman’s serves as the only comprehensive work detailing public health’s permanent role and responsibility in emergency management.

Emerging Technologies for Sustainable and Smart Energy
Anirbid Sircar, Gautami Tripathi, Namrata Bist, Kashish Ara Shakil, Mithileysh Sathiyanarayanan

This book focuses on the role and significance of emerging technologies in the energy sector, covers the various technological interventions for both conventional and unconventional energy resources, and provides meaningful insights into smart and sustainable energy solutions. The book also discusses future directions for smart and sustainable developments in the energy sector.

The Digital Supply Chain
Bart L. MacCarthy and Dmitry Ivanov

The book examines the origin, emergence and building blocks of the Digital Supply Chain, showing how and where the virtual and physical supply chain worlds interact. It reviews the enabling technologies that underpin digitally controlled supply chains and examines how the discipline of supply chain management is affected by enhanced digital connectivity, discussing purchasing and procurement, supply chain traceability, performance management, and supply chain cyber security.

AI and the Future of the Public Sector : The Creation of Public Sector 4. 0
Tony Boobier

Renowned executive and consultant Tony Boobier delivers a comprehensive reference of the most relevant and central issues regarding the adoption and implementation of AI in the public sector. This book explains why data and analytics are the solution to significant and ongoing problems in public service, and to effectively provide services in an environment of reduced funding.

Understanding Artificial Intelligence : Fundamentals and Applications
Albert Chun-Chen Liu

Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Fundamentals and Applications covers the fundamental concepts and key technologies of AI while exploring its impact on the future of work. Requiring no previous background in artificial intelligence, this easy-to-understand textbook addresses AI challenges in healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing, agriculture, government, and smart city development. 

Energy Storage Systems : Optimization and Applications
V. K. Mathew 

This book discusses generalized applications of energy storage systems using experimental, numerical, analytical, and optimization approaches. The book broadly covers thermal management of electronic components in portable electronic devices; modeling and optimization aspects of energy storage systems; management of power generation systems involving renewable energy; testing, evaluation, and life cycle assessment of energy storage systems.