Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems

How does social regulation shape who is "deviant" and who is "normal"? Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is an introduction to the sociology of what has traditio

This is a book about the development of dependable, embedded software. It is for systems designers, implementers, and verifiers who are experienced in general embedded software development, but who ar

In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” There is a pervasive feeling

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, to the development, validation, and verification of critical systems, i.e. those systems whose malfunc

Computer scientists, electrical engineers, and other researchers working in communications and telecommunications explore recent developments in mission critical communications systems for use in

This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise

This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise

Risk management deals with prevention, decision-making, action taking, crisis management and recovery, taking into account the consequences of unexpected events. The authors of this book are intereste

Lagrangian systems constitute a very important and old class in dynamics. Their origin dates back to the end of the eighteenth century, with Joseph-Louis Lagrange’s reformulation of classical mechanic

Presents the theory and methodology for reliability assessments of safety-critical functions through examples from a wide range of applications Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems: Theory and Appli

In a volume that is the product of the longtime Interdisciplinary and Critical Perspectives in Accounting (ICPA) Project, Broadbent (Royal Holloway, U. of London; U. Of Roehampton, London) and Laughli

The demand for large-scale dependable, systems, such as Air Traffic Management, industrial plants and space systems, is attracting efforts of many word-leading European companies and SMEs in the area,

Lagrangian systems constitute a very important and old class in dynamics. Their origin dates back to the end of the eighteenth century, with Joseph-Louis Lagrange’s reformulation of classical mechanic

Mawere, a Ph.D. student of social anthropology at U. of Cape Town, argues that Africans have various critical methods and concepts of ontology and epistemology that can and should be recognized as leg

The complex IT requirements of a critical care unit have led to the development of numerous information systems. In this concise handbook, the authors share their experience and research findings on how to unleash the power of the technology and overcome potential problems. Clinical Information Systems in Critical Care explains the key aspects of the information systems currently available, covering topics such as how to select the best system to match the requirements of a critical care unit, the issues surrounding data maintenance, patient confidentiality and the concept of the paperless patient record. It discusses both the benefits that may justify investment in the technology and hurdles that may arise, and offers advice for avoiding common problems. Clinical Information Systems in Critical Care is essential reading for all clinicians and health managers involved in developing, implementing, maintaining and using clinical information systems.

Cleaning Agents and Systems is the first volume in the Handbook for Critical Cleaning, Second Edition.Should you clean your product during manufacturing? If so, when and how? Cleaning is essential for

Expanded from their version in the first volume of the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 17 articles explore technical approaches to emergency response.

Having discussed communications interoperability as a purely technical problem in his earlier co-authored text Emerging Public Safety Wireless Communication Systems (Artech, 2001), Desourdis (a senior

Previous writings on ??~critical' approaches to information systems are fragmented. This text provides a coherent set of reference points for students and researchers to see the issues at levels of

"Safety-Critical Systems: Problems, Process and Practice" contains the papers presented at the seventeenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Brighton, UK, in February 2009.The Symposi

This comprehensive systematic overview covers the static and dynamic critical phenomena of real, non-ideal fluids in the nearest vicinity of the critical point, offers new approaches and presents rese

Taking a unique approach to systems analysis and design, this insightful book provides learners with a critical personal framework for considering and developing knowledge and practice of systems anal

SDL (Specification and Description Language) is a modern, high-level programming language intended for the description of complex, event-driven, real-time and communicating systems. SDL was originally