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Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems extends optimal control and adaptive control design methods to multi-agent systems on communication graphs. It develops Riccati design techniques for general linear dynamics for cooperative state feedback design, cooperative observer design, and cooperative dynamic output feedback design. Both continu...

Strategies for achieving first-to-market status with each new product Project management...

This new book updates and expands Harold Burton's classic book, UHT Processing of Milk and Milk Products, to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of thermal processing of liquid and particulate foods. The food products covered now include soups, sauces, fruit juices, and other beverages, in addition to milk and milk products. Pasteur...

What makes the 21 st century different from the 20 th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social and global black swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory ? the only theory capable of e...

As a technology, bone densitometry is really quite extraordinary. The ability to quantify the density of the bones at a variety of skeletal sites has truly revolutionized the approach to a number of diseases, the most important of which is osteoporosis. Using the information from the machines, especially dual-energy X ray absortiometry (DXA) tec...

Troubleshooting tips and techniques for keeping projects and management careers on track...

E-mail is today's most powerful marketing medium. It is also the most misunderstood. This dynamic...

This book addresses the graph colouring problem, focusing on state-of-the-art algorithms, and looking at how related structures can be exploited to produce high-performance heuristics algorithms. Topics and applications covered include operations research, metaheuristics, combinatorial optimization, and scheduling. The book will be of interest t...

Brewing is designed for those involved in the malting, brewing, and allied industries who have little or no formal training in brewing science. While some elementary knowledge of chemistry and biology is necessary, the book clearly presents the essentials of brewing science and its relationship to brewing technology. Brewing focuses on the p...

This book covers all the steps from identification of operations and resources to the transformation of virtual models into real-world algorithms. The matrix-based approach presented here is a solution to the real-time application of control in discrete event systems and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), and offers a sound practical basis fo...