In its updated edition, this book covers techniques used in simulating crowds, particularly in video games and film. Covers path planning, and introduces the important concept of gaze attention - individuals seeming conscious of their environment and of others.
This book introduces the techniques needed to produce realistic simulations and animations of particle and rigid-body systems. Features:... Læs mere
This book provides an introduction to the mathematical modelling of real world financial markets and the rational pricing of derivatives, which is part of the theory that not only underpins modern financial practice but is a thriving area of mathematical research.
Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter.
Providing up-to-date numerical data across a range of topics related to renewable energy technologies, Renewable Energies and CO2 offers a one-stop source of key information to engineers, economists and all other professionals working in the energy and climate change sectors.
This book presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. It examines technological and philosophical concepts that managers, technicians and all those interested in the design of artifacts need to consider.
Stochastic Recursive Algorithms for Optimization presents algorithms for constrained and unconstrained optimization and for reinforcement learning.
This book explains the underlying physical mechanisms of flow-induced pulsation and vibration, and their possible effects. Discusses links between state-of the-art CFD computation and notorious practical problems, and offers data on normal vibration levels.
1987 Green Paper on The European Commission's June Telecommunications included the proposal to create a European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
AIDS continually presents new questions for the obstetrician and gynecologist. These and other questions were addressed by the 19th Study Group of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, whose findings are reported here.
In two comprehensive volumes, updated and revised in a second edition, this textbook spans elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic types, and several variables. This second part emphasizes functional analytic methods and applications to differential geometry.