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COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING THEORY AND ALGORITHMS, THOROUGHLY REVISED AND EXPANDED"Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms"--now in an extensively updated Third Edition--addresses the problem of optimizing an objective function in the presence of equality and inequality constraints. Many realistic problems cannot be...

The RICS New Rules of Measurement mean that the construction industry now has a way of allowing a more consistent approach to the measurement and estimating of buildings from the start of a project, right through until the end, and beyond. Measurement using the New Rules of Measurement offers comprehensive guidance on all the technical...

Written for designers and operators of safety-critical systems, Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems discusses the importance of the role that people and organizations play in the management, maintenance, modifications, and operations of equipment and also stresses that competence is needed at all levels in the organization. The methods...

Senior executives and project managers from more than 50 world-class companies offer their best practices for successful project management implementation. The first two editions of the bestselling Project Management Best Practices helped project managers navigate the increasingly complex task of working within global corporations employing distant...

A practical, step-by-step guide to designing world-class, high availability systems using both classical and DFSS reliability techniques Whether designing telecom, aerospace, automotive, medical, financial, or public safety systems, every engineer aims for the utmost reliability and availability in the systems he, or she, designs. But between the...

This title contains a collection of papers from the below symposia held during the 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PacRim10), June 2-7, 2013, in Coronado, California 2012. It include: Novel, Green, and Strategic Processing and Manufacturing Technologies; Polymer Derived Ceramics and Composites; Advanced Powder...