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complement the invited papers and to make the proceedings an essential requirement for anyone working in the field of numerical methods in water resources. The Conference follows the successful first and second International Conferences held at Princeton University (1976) and Imperial College London (1978).
Reliability Engineering and Risk Assessment Ernest J. Henley and Hiromitsu Kumamoto Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, 1981, £25.35
With this comprehensive and easy-to-understand volume, Ernest J. Henley and Hiromitsu Kumamoto build on their successful work in conducting short courses and seminars to disseminate, quite clearly, the new reliability and risk assessment technology. Their self-contained treatment includes chapters on risk analysis, fault tree and decision table construction, qualitative aspects of system analysis, quantification of basic events, confidence limits for reliability parameters, databases, quantitative aspects of system analysis, system quantification for dependent basic events, component and cut-set importance, storage tanks, control and protective systems, Markov and Monte Carlo methods, and case studies and applications.
Power from Sea Waves Edited by Brian Count A c a d e m i c P r e s s . L o n d o n . 1980, 4 5 0 p p . £ 2 3 . 6 0 ($57) The dramatic rise in the price of fuel since the early seventies and the realization that the age of cheap abundant energy had gone forever, has led to a renewed interest in the so-called alternative resources - - geothermal, solar, wave, wind and tidal power. Ocean wave power attracted interest for a number of reasons. First. estimates of the resource size indicated that the average power available off the Atlantic coastline was greater than the maximum demand for electrical power. The United Kingdom as a small island with a large coastline and high energy requirements is well placed to exploit this resource. Secondly, in 1974 new devices were invented which were capable of extracting wave energy at higher efficiencies than was previously thought possible and in the same year an energy.~programme was initiated to encourage research and broaden our knowledge of the subject. Despite problems during the past five years, good progress has been made with increasing support and interest from the mathematical community. Consequently, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications sponsored a conference entitled 'Power from Sea Waves" at Edinburgh in June 1979. It brought together people actively engaged in theoretical aspects of wave energy research and this book contains the carefully edited proceedings of that conference. The book is divided into three major sections. The first series of papers examines the global energy scene and then discusses the overall problems of wave power technology and measurement of ocean waves. The second section is devoted to ocean wave measurement and prediction, and the third consists of a series of papers on the problems of analysing the behaviour of devices in waves. A final paper attempts to examine the possible future of wave energy. This innovative work will be of interest to those involved in research into wave power and general hydrodynamics. It will also serve as a useful reference for university courses covering hydrodynamic theory and related topics.
Engineering Software I I Edited by R. A. Adey CML
Publications, Southampton,
1981, £ 3 5 . 0 0
As with the first, the Second International Conference on Engineering Software has focused on the use and applications of computers in engineering. A special theme of this conference was the impact of microcomputer systems. The book is divided into the following sections: techniques, mechanical engineering analysis and design, graphics, computer-aided design, civil and structural engineering, hydraulics and water resources, electrical and electronic engineering, geometric design, applications of microcomputer systems, finite element analysis.
Statistical Pattern Classification Using Contextual Information K. S. Fu and T. S. Yu J o h n W i l e y , C h i c h e s t e r , 1981, 2 0 8 p p . £ 1 4 . 5 0 In the past decade there have been numerous attempts to develop systems for automatic interpretation of digital image data. None of the systems developed for this purpose have made extensive use of context information. This book is the outcome of a conclusive investigation into the feasibility of applying a spatial stochastic model to analyse digital satellite data. The effectiveness of this model is demonstrated by the reasonable increase in computation time and significantly improved classification results.
Use of Microprocessors G. L. Simons National
Computing
Centre, Manchester, £12.50
Microprocessors are rapidly encroaching on an ever growing number of activities. This book highlights these main areas focusing on the business world, manufacturing, communications, education, medicine, transport, entertainment and the domestic environment.
Eurographics 80 Proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 3-5 S e p t e m b e r 1980. U S $ 4 6 . 2 5 (Dfl. 95.00) This important publication coincides with the establishment of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics Associationt. Here is a subject range as wide as computer graphics itself, caused by the desire to reflect the interest of all computer graphics professionals. Quintessential aspects of computer graphics are represented here, both of theoretical progress and of practical applications. The main subjects covered are: Man-machine interactive systems based on CORE standards - - Special algorithms for computer graphics - - Special purpose and general purpose graphics packages: Distributed graphics: Raster graphics systems and Interdisciplinary applications. Summaries of industrial seminars related to existing graphic products are also included.
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Reliability Engineering and Risk Assessment Ernest J. Henley and Hiromitsu Kumamoto Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, 1981, £25.35
With this comprehensive and easy-to-understand volume, Ernest J. Henley and Hiromitsu Kumamoto build on their successful work in conducting short courses and seminars to disseminate, quite clearly, the new reliability and risk assessment technology. Their self-contained treatment includes chapters on risk analysis, fault tree and decision table construction, qualitative aspects of system analysis, quantification of basic events, confidence limits for reliability parameters, databases, quantitative aspects of system analysis, system quantification for dependent basic events, component and cut-set importance, storage tanks, control and protective systems, Markov and Monte Carlo methods, and case studies and applications.
Power from Sea Waves Edited by Brian Count A c a d e m i c P r e s s . L o n d o n . 1980, 4 5 0 p p . £ 2 3 . 6 0 ($57) The dramatic rise in the price of fuel since the early seventies and the realization that the age of cheap abundant energy had gone forever, has led to a renewed interest in the so-called alternative resources - - geothermal, solar, wave, wind and tidal power. Ocean wave power attracted interest for a number of reasons. First. estimates of the resource size indicated that the average power available off the Atlantic coastline was greater than the maximum demand for electrical power. The United Kingdom as a small island with a large coastline and high energy requirements is well placed to exploit this resource. Secondly, in 1974 new devices were invented which were capable of extracting wave energy at higher efficiencies than was previously thought possible and in the same year an energy.~programme was initiated to encourage research and broaden our knowledge of the subject. Despite problems during the past five years, good progress has been made with increasing support and interest from the mathematical community. Consequently, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications sponsored a conference entitled 'Power from Sea Waves" at Edinburgh in June 1979. It brought together people actively engaged in theoretical aspects of wave energy research and this book contains the carefully edited proceedings of that conference. The book is divided into three major sections. The first series of papers examines the global energy scene and then discusses the overall problems of wave power technology and measurement of ocean waves. The second section is devoted to ocean wave measurement and prediction, and the third consists of a series of papers on the problems of analysing the behaviour of devices in waves. A final paper attempts to examine the possible future of wave energy. This innovative work will be of interest to those involved in research into wave power and general hydrodynamics. It will also serve as a useful reference for university courses covering hydrodynamic theory and related topics.
Engineering Software I I Edited by R. A. Adey CML
Publications, Southampton,
1981, £ 3 5 . 0 0
As with the first, the Second International Conference on Engineering Software has focused on the use and applications of computers in engineering. A special theme of this conference was the impact of microcomputer systems. The book is divided into the following sections: techniques, mechanical engineering analysis and design, graphics, computer-aided design, civil and structural engineering, hydraulics and water resources, electrical and electronic engineering, geometric design, applications of microcomputer systems, finite element analysis.
Statistical Pattern Classification Using Contextual Information K. S. Fu and T. S. Yu J o h n W i l e y , C h i c h e s t e r , 1981, 2 0 8 p p . £ 1 4 . 5 0 In the past decade there have been numerous attempts to develop systems for automatic interpretation of digital image data. None of the systems developed for this purpose have made extensive use of context information. This book is the outcome of a conclusive investigation into the feasibility of applying a spatial stochastic model to analyse digital satellite data. The effectiveness of this model is demonstrated by the reasonable increase in computation time and significantly improved classification results.
Use of Microprocessors G. L. Simons National
Computing
Centre, Manchester, £12.50
Microprocessors are rapidly encroaching on an ever growing number of activities. This book highlights these main areas focusing on the business world, manufacturing, communications, education, medicine, transport, entertainment and the domestic environment.
Eurographics 80 Proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 3-5 S e p t e m b e r 1980. U S $ 4 6 . 2 5 (Dfl. 95.00) This important publication coincides with the establishment of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics Associationt. Here is a subject range as wide as computer graphics itself, caused by the desire to reflect the interest of all computer graphics professionals. Quintessential aspects of computer graphics are represented here, both of theoretical progress and of practical applications. The main subjects covered are: Man-machine interactive systems based on CORE standards - - Special algorithms for computer graphics - - Special purpose and general purpose graphics packages: Distributed graphics: Raster graphics systems and Interdisciplinary applications. Summaries of industrial seminars related to existing graphic products are also included.
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