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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simone sterlacchini”
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  • Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

    Edited by Simone Sterlacchini, Stefan Greiving, Theo Van Asch, Jordi Corominas, Jean-Philippe Malet ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a cross disciplinary treatment of the rapidly growing field of integrated approaches in risk assessment in mountainous areas. All major aspects related to hazard and risk assessment, risk management, and governance are illustrated with a wide range of case studies.The first part of the book focuses on new techniques for assessing the natural hazards of different types of mass ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    by Robert Garrett ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration is a practical guide to SharePoint 2013 for intermediate to advanced SharePoint administrators and power users, covering the out-of-the-box feature set and capabilities of Microsoft's collaboration and business productivity platform.SharePoint 2013 is an incredibly complex product, with many moving parts, new features, best practices, and "gotchas." Author Rob ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Fusion Methodologies in Crisis Management

    Higher Level Fusion and Decision Making

    Edited by Galina Rogova, Peter Scott ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book emphasizes a contemporary view on the role of higher level fusion in designing crisis management systems, and provide the formal foundations, architecture and implementation strategies required for building dynamic current and future situational pictures, challenges of, and the state of the art computational approaches to designing such processes. This book integrates recent advances in ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • From Science to Society

    New Trends in Environmental Informatics

    Edited by Benoît Otjacques, Patrik Hitzelberger, Stefan Naumann, Volker Wohlgemuth ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in connection with green information systems and green information & communication technology (ICT). It provides valuable insights into a broad range of cross-cutting concerns in ICT and the environmental sciences, and showcases how ICT can be used to effectively address environmental and energy efficiency issues. Offering a selection of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    by Mashael Mohammed Al Saud ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a number of methods ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations

    by Frederic R. Siegel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global warming/climate change, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Semantic Web-based Intelligent Geospatial Web Services

    by Peng Yue ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    By introducing Semantic Web technologies into geospatial Web services, this book addresses the semantic description of geospatial data and standards-based Web services, discovery of geospatial data and services, and generation of composite services. Semantic descriptions for geospatial data, services, and geoprocessing service chains are structured, organized, and registered in geospatial ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

    Edited by Pamela S. Showalter, Yongmei Lu ...
    Series Book 2 - Geotechnologies and the Environment
    This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Landmarks

    GIScience for Intelligent Services

    by Kai-Florian Richter, Stephan Winter ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book covers the latest research on landmarks in GIS, including practical applications. It addresses perceptual and cognitive aspects of natural and artificial cognitive systems, computational aspects with respect to identifying or selecting landmarks for various purposes, and communication aspects of human-computer interaction for spatial information provision. Concise and organized, the book ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Map Framework

    A Formal Model of Maps as a Fundamental Data Type in Information Systems

    by Markus Schneider, Mark McKenney ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book explores the concept of a map as a fundamental data type. It defines maps at three levels. The first is an abstract level, in which mathematic concepts are leveraged to precisely explain maps and operational semantics. The second is at a discrete level, in which graph theory is used to create a data model with the goal of implementation in computer systems. Finally, maps are examined at ... Read more

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  • Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

    by Daniele Fabrizio Bignami ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Strategic Engineering for Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics

    Edited by Amin Hosseinian-Far, Muthu Ramachandran, Dilshad Sarwar ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book demonstrates the use of a wide range of strategic engineering concepts, theories and applied case studies to improve the safety, security and sustainability of complex and large-scale engineering and computer systems. It first details the concepts of system design, life cycle, impact assessment and security to show how these ideas can be brought to bear on the modeling, analysis and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD