Mathematical Preliminaries -- Elasticity Problems -- Elastoplastic Problems -- Sensitivity Analysis for Some Composites -- Fracture and Fatigue Models for Composites -- Reliability Analysis -- Multiresolutional Wavelet Analysis.Composite materials play a vital role in modern engineering from aerospace to nuclear devices. Computational mechanics endeavours to provide precise numerical models of …
Relevance of Smart Economy in Smart Cities in Africa -- African Cities in Time and Space: Past, Emerging Trends and Perspectives -- Africa’s Smart City Foundation: Urbanization, Urban Form and Structure, Land Tenure and Basic Infrastructures -- Cities in the Context of Climate Change: Opportunities for Local Authorities in Climate Action in Africa -- Biodiversity for Smart Cities in Africa --…
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Introduction: Signals and Signal Processing. Local Analysis. A Roadmap for the Book -- Continuous Analysis: The Short Time Fourier Transform STFT. The Continuous Wavelet Transform CWT. Case Studies. Notes and Exercises -- The Discrete Wavelet Transform: Redundancy of the CWT and the STFT. The Haar-System. Generalization to Daubechies Wavelets. Multiscale Analysis. A Unifying Viewpoint: Basis Sy…
Theoretical Approaches -- Conservation laws for three-phase partially saturated granular media -- Thermally-induced pore pressure generation in a nearly-saturated cementitious material -- Strain localisation simulation in non-isothermal multiphase geomaterials -- Non-linear behaviour in the deformation and localization analysis of unsaturated soil -- A process-oriented approach to compute THM p…
Hydraulic Behaviour -- Laboratory Experiments and Simulations on the Significance of Non-Equilibrium Effect in the Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relationship -- Determination of hydro-mechanical Properties of Sand -- Column test apparatus for the inverse estimation of soil hydraulic parameters under defined stress condition -- Water permeability of unsaturated compacted kaolin -- Moisture reten…
Deregulation and Markets in the Electricity Industry -- Decision Making and Uncertainties in the Electricity Industry -- Modelling Electricity Prices -- Modeling Competition in the Electricity Industry -- Optimizing Generation and Trading Portfolios -- Risk Management and Risk Controlling -- Technology Assessment -- Investment Decisions -- Final Remarks.Around the world, liberalization and priv…
Efficient Distributed Computation Modulo a Shared Secret -- Multiparty Computation, an Introduction -- Foundations of Modern Cryptography -- Provable Security for Public Key Schemes -- Efficient and Secure Public-Key Cryptosystems.The aim of this text is to treat selected topics of the subject of contemporary cryptology, structured in five quite independent but related themes: - efficient distr…
On the instability of double diffusive convection in porous media under boundary data periodic in space -- Modelling of a free piston problem -- Reflections on frequently used viscoplastic constitutive models -- On hereditary models of polymers -- Edge contact forces in continuous media -- Tangent stiffness of a Timoshenko beam undergoing large displacements -- Qualitative estimates for cross-s…
Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps in Rd -- Martingale Theory and the Stochastic Integral for Point Processes -- Brownian Motion, Stochastic Integral and Ito's Formula -- Stochastic Differential Equations -- Some Useful Tools in Stochastic Differential Equations -- Stochastic Differential Equations with Non-Lipschitzian Coefficients -- Applications -- How to Use the Stochastic Calculu…