One of the effects of global climate change is the increasing variability of extreme flood events and cyclones. Current measures to mitigate...

An examination of ethical challenges that technology presents to the allegedly sacrosanct idea of the human and a proposal for a new ethics ...

Based on the authors' combined hands-on IT and financial experience of 30 years, this work presents a non-technical approach to the process ...

<p>This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of coastal zone management. The authors review the existing management ...

Manage your business from a services perspective What if technology was designed to serve the business — every time? That's service ma...

Robin Milner presents a unified structural theory for modelling networks of agents that is destined to have far-reaching significance. More...

In the era of ubiquitous computing and networking, millions of electronic devices with computing facilities in the public space are connecte...

Due to the progress in VLSI technology, integrated circuit chips are now available that allow video/image signal processing to be performe...

Special Edition Using Storage Area Networks opens with an overview of the need for data storage in an enterprise environment, the different ...

Content based image retrieval is the set of techniques for retrieving relevant images from an image database on the basis of automatically d...

France (landscape ecology, Harvard University) brings together perspectives from innovators in watershed management to introduce the diversi...

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has become the international label for the 'new approach' to water resources management. This v...