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Testing and Balancing HVAC Air and Water Systems

Testing and Balancing HVAC Air and Water Systems

This thoroughly revised book will provide the reader with an understanding of the principles and practices of testing and balancing (TAB) heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) air and water systems. It is for anyone interested in testing and balancing. For the novice and the experienced testing and balancing technician it is a field reference book of procedures equations and information tables. For those interested in getting into TAB or who are new to the HVAC industry it is a text for learning more about HVAC systems and testing and balancing. For the mechanical engineer building owner facility manager commissioning agency or energy manager this book can be used for teaching TAB writing more effective specifications and learning about TAB and how it interacts with system commissioning indoor air quality and energy management. It is the intent of this book to improve the communications between owners mechanical engineers designers vendors contractors TAB engineers supervisors and technicians to ensure that HVAC systems are being thoroughly tested and balanced. This book is used in test and balance self-study courses in-house training programs seminars and other training formats as preparation for TAB certification and as a text in colleges and technical schools. The sixth edition has general and specific testing and balancing procedures for constant air volume systems variable air volume systems return air and exhaust air systems positive and negative pressure conditioned spaces and fans and fan performance in Chapters 1 through 9. Chapters 10–12 cover testing and balancing fume hood systems and cleanrooms and commissioning HVAC systems. Chapters 13 and 14 provide information on water systems and centrifugal pumps including water balancing procedures using flow meters system components and temperatures and water pumps and pump performance. Chapter 15 reviews analog and digital controls. Chapters 16–20 cover terminology for fluid flow psychrometrics refrigeration¸ air distribution water distribution fans and pumps motors electrical and instrument usage and care. Chapters 21 and 22 are equations and tables. | Testing and Balancing HVAC Air and Water Systems

GBP 120.00
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The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting

The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting

Accessible to the Lean novice and shop floor employee The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting explores line balancing and the pre-assembly of components into a finished product in a just-in-time fashion (JIT Kitting). It explains how to use time studies develop yamazumi charts discover and eliminate waste balance your line and create new standard work content for the shop floor. The book facilitates a clear understanding of the seven deadly wastes (muda) as well as what you can do to eliminate them from your facility. Describing the purpose and use of standard work it explains how to properly staff work cells and how to develop flex plans for fluctuations in demand using this data. The first few chapters explain how to determine takt time and how to use that information along with time studies to identify when you are not meeting customer demand. The chapters on JIT Kitting explain how there are other advantages to kitting besides eliminating waste and increasing productivity. The book explains how you can use JIT Kitting to improve quality by having the parts available and limiting the options of numerous parts to the operator. It also provides the understanding needed to ensure the right parts are installed thereby correcting issues with the build of materials.

GBP 170.00
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Project Success and Quality Balancing the Iron Triangle

Project Success and Quality Balancing the Iron Triangle

Projects are inherently risky since they involve some level of uncertainty doing something new in the target environment but the percentage of projects seen as a success is still disappointingly low especially for IT projects. The ‘Iron Triangle’ of time/cost/quality suggests that all three aspects are equal but with quantitative methods for monitoring project performance the focus is primarily on managing cost and time. This book seeks to redress the balance explaining the rationale and benefits of focusing more on quality (fitness for purpose and conformance to requirements) before detailing a range of tools and techniques to support rebalancing the management of projects programmes and portfolios. It shows how managing project quality actively can reduce costs through minimising wastage and reduce delays through avoiding rework leading to improved project success rates and customer satisfaction. | Project Success and Quality Balancing the Iron Triangle

GBP 36.99
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Balancing the Commons in Switzerland Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations

Balancing the Commons in Switzerland Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations

Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and forests in Switzerland. The book focuses on the differences and similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and forms of commoners’ organisations (corporations of citizens and corporations) which have managed common property for several centuries and have shaped the cultural landscapes of Switzerland. At the core of the book are five case studies from the German French and Italian speaking regions of Switzerland. Beginning in the Late Middle Ages and focusing on the transformative periods in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it traces the internal and external political economic and societal changes and examines what impact these changes had on commoners. It goes beyond the work of Robert Netting and Elinor Ostrom who discussed Swiss commons as a unique case of robustness by analysing how local commoners reacted to but also shaped changes by adapting and transforming common property institutions. Thus the volume highlights how institutional changes in the management of the commons at the local level are embedded in the public policies of the respective cantons and the state which generates a high heterogeneity and an actual laboratory situation. It shows the power relations and very different routes that local collective organisations and their members have followed in order to cope with the loss of value of the commons and the increased workload for maintaining common property management. Providing insightful case studies of commons management this volume delivers theoretical contributions and lessons to be learned for the commons worldwide. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons natural resource management and agricultural development. | Balancing the Commons in Switzerland Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations

GBP 38.99
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Mass and Energy Balancing Calculations for Plant Design

Mass and Energy Balancing Calculations for Plant Design

The aim of this text is to provide a comprehensive set of calculations relating to mass and energy balances for an entire process plant. An ammonia synthesis plant will be taken as a calculation model to develop the relevant mass and energy balances necessary for the design and subsequent production as the production of ammonia synthesis gas is an internationally used process. Instead of teaching the basics of mass and energy balances the text aims to give a detailed series of process integrated and illustrated calculations to help readers develop and design a process plant. • Details complete mass and energy calculations related to a manufacturing plant and includes stepwise procedures for mass and energy balances • Demonstrates how the series of integrated calculations will lead to the production of a specified amount of final product • Features “teaching” appendices that lay out applications of prior-assumed knowledge which can be used in conjunction with the main text where more detailed explanation may be needed • Contains problems linked to various manufacturing sections covered in the text to help readers consolidate their knowledge This book will serve undergraduate Chemical Engineering students as a teaching aid in capstone design and related courses and gives useful insights to advanced students researchers and industry personnel within the Chemical Engineering field. | Mass and Energy Balancing Calculations for Plant Design

GBP 44.99
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True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases and one which has significant environmental impacts is not serving the world adequately. This volume argues that True Cost Accounting in our food system can create a framework for a systemic shift. What sounds on the surface like a practice relegated to accountants is ultimately a call for a new lens on the valuation of food and a new relationship with the food we eat starting with the reform of a system out of balance. From the true cost of corn rice and water to incentives for soil health the chapters economically compare conventional and regenerative more equitable farming practices in and food system structures including taking an unflinching look at the true cost of cheap labour. Overall this volume points towards the potential for our food system to be more human-centred than profit-centred and one that has a more respectful relationship to the planet. It sets forth a path forward based on True Cost Accounting for food. This path seeks to fix our current food metrics in policy and in practice by applying a holistic lens that evaluates the actual costs and benefits of different food systems and the impacts and dependencies between natural systems human systems agriculture and food systems. This volume is essential reading for professionals and policymakers involved in developing and reforming the food system as well as students and scholars working on food policy food systems and sustainability. | True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

GBP 31.99
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Person-centred Health Care Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients

Person-centred Health Care Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients

Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care yet in practice it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare which although deeply embedded in health professionalism is long overdue for critical analysis and debate. It appears incontestable because patients have greater immediate health needs than clinicians and the patient-clinician encounter is often recognized as a moral enterprise as well as a service contract. However Buetow argues that the implication that clinician welfare is secondary can harm clinicians patients and health system performance. Revaluing participants in health care as moral equals this book advocates an ethic of virtue to respect the clinician as a whole person whose self-care and care from patients can benefit both parties because their moral interests intertwine and warrant equal consideration. It then considers how to move from values including moral equality in health care to practice for people in their particular situations. Developing a genuinely inclusive concept of person-centred care – accepting clinicians as moral equals – it also facilitates the coalescence of patient-centred care and evidence-based health care. This reflective and provocative work develops a constructive alternative to the taken-for-granted principle of primacy of patient welfare. It is of interest to students and academics in the health and caring sciences philosophy ethics medical humanities and health management. | Person-centred Health Care Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients

GBP 39.99
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The Humanitarian Parent Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

The Humanitarian Parent Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

Aid sector staff work in some of the world’s most challenging environments from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time the aid worker was typified by the lone white male flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now as the world changes and the sector diversifies how can family life be reconciled with the challenges and travel commitments of this particularly difficult career? This book delves deep into these challenges exposing the problems that persist and pointing a path for organisations to adopt a more human-centred staff-centred parent-centred feminist approach to humanitarian and development work. Drawing on the author’s own experiences as an aid worker as well as extensive original interviews and desk research the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life from finding a partner who is willing and able to live in the same location to dating in difficult contexts to being away from home and extended family finding child care and settling children in new countries and cultures. Local workers face their own challenges often suffering from a lack of support in comparison to their international colleagues. For many the cost is too great and the sector suffers from a brain drain as experienced staff leave. It doesn’t need to be this way. The book points a way for organisations to adopt policies that support mothers and fathers. As well as being a useful guide for aid professionals who are themselves navigating these issues the book will be perfect for organisations looking to reform and for students wishing to understand the realities of a career in aid. | The Humanitarian Parent Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

GBP 31.99
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Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South Balancing Urgency and Justice

Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South Balancing Urgency and Justice

This book explores how in the wake of the Anthropocene the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty justice and democracy especially in the global South. Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions conceptually from and for the global South and highlights issues of justice and inclusivity. It argues that while urgency is critical for energy transitions in a climate-changed world we must be wary of conflating goals and processes and enquire what urgency means for due process. Drawing from a range of authors with expertise spanning environmental justice design theory ethics of technology conflict and gender it examines case studies from countries including Bolivia Sri Lanka India The Gambia and Lebanon in order to expand our understanding of what energy transitions are and how just energy transitions can be done in different parts of the world. Overall driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency to flag relevant but often overlooked issues and to provide new pathways forward. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions environmental justice climate change and developing countries. The Open Access version of this book available at https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003052821 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South Balancing Urgency and Justice

GBP 36.99
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Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation Balancing Efficiency Agility and Guest Experience in the Era of Disruption

Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation Balancing Efficiency Agility and Guest Experience in the Era of Disruption

Hospitality managers are at a critical inflection point. Digital technology advancements are ramping up guest expectations and introducing nontraditional competitors that are beginning to disrupt the whole industry. The hospitality managers whose organizations are to thrive need to get their organizations into a position where they can effectively leverage digital technologies to simultaneously deliver breakthroughs in efficiency agility and guest experience. Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation is a much-needed guidebook to digital disruption and transformation for current and prospective hospitality and leisure managers. The book: • Explains digital technology advancements how they cause disruption and the implications of this disruption for hospitality and leisure organizations. • Explains the digital business and digital transformation imperative for hospitality and leisure organizations. • Discusses the different digital capabilities required to effectively compete as a digital business. • Discusses the new and/or enhanced roles hospitality and leisure managers need to play in effecting the different digital capabilities as well as the competencies required to play these roles. • Discusses how hospitality and leisure managers can keep up with digital technology advancements. • Unpacks more than 36 key digital technology advancements discussing what they are how they work and how they can be implemented across the hospitality and leisure industry. This book will be useful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying strategic management IT information systems or digital business–related courses as part of degrees in hospitality and leisure management; as well as practitioners studying for professional qualifications. | Hospitality Management and Digital Transformation Balancing Efficiency Agility and Guest Experience in the Era of Disruption

GBP 36.99
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Apparel Manufacturing Technology

Apparel Manufacturing Technology

This book aims to provide a broad conceptual and theoretical perspective of apparel manufacturing process starting from raw material selection to packaging and dispatch of goods. Further engineering practices followed in an apparel industry for production planning and control line balancing implementation of industrial engineering concepts in apparel manufacturing merchandising activities and garment costing have been included and they will serve as a foundation for future apparel professionals. The book addresses the technical aspects in each section of garment manufacturing process with considered quality aspects. This book also covers the production planning process and production balancing activities. It addresses the technical aspects in each section of garment manufacturing process and quality aspects to be considered in each process. Garment engineering questions each process/operation of the total work content and can reduce the work content and increase profitability by using innovative methods of construction and technology. This book covers the production planning process production balancing activities and application of industrial engineering concepts in garment engineering. Further the merchandising activities and garment costing procedures will deal with some practical examples. This book is primarily intended for textile technology and fashion technology students in universities and colleges researchers industrialists and academicians as well as professionals in the apparel and textile industry. | Apparel Manufacturing Technology

GBP 44.99
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Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

First published in 1998 Anthony McMahon details the accounts of public agency child welfare dealing abused and neglected children and their families and the pressures on child welfare workers. Opening up the discussion on the ambiguities whilst dealing with balancing child welfare work whilst dealing with the societal pressure of the non-intrusion into family life. | Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't Working in Child Welfare

GBP 31.99
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts the volume illuminates the aesthetic cultural political and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.

GBP 42.99
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Delta Urbanism: The Netherlands

Delta Urbanism: The Netherlands

Delta Urbanism is a major new initiative that explores the growth development and management of deltaic cities and regions with the aim of balancing various goals in a sustainable manner: urbanization port commerce industrial development flood defense public safety ecological balance tourism and recreation. This book is a detailed history and overview of how one low-lying country has developed the policies tools technology planning public outreach and international cooperation needed to save their populated deltas. | Delta Urbanism: The Netherlands

GBP 130.00
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The Design Studio Method Creative Problem Solving with UX Sketching

The Design Studio Method Creative Problem Solving with UX Sketching

The struggle with balancing creative products that are innovative technically feasible and financially sound is one designers and web professionals go through every day. The Design Studio Method is a creative problem solving process that allows you to quickly generate ideas evaluate them and reach consensus achieving that balancing act. Brian Sullivan's The Design Studio Method gives answers that you have been looking for showing you how to be innovative and efficient without sacrificing quality and collaboration. This book simplifies the complicated method explaining each step each participant's involvement and how to adapt the method to your needs. The Design Studio Method provides step-by-step procedures to ensure your success. From illumination to generation to presentation all the way to iteration this book provides the road map you'll need to start generating innovate products. Shows you how to involve all members of the creative process—from clients to directors—so that everyone participates critiques and innovates. Features real-world examples of Design Studio projects that highlight the successes of this method and ways to adapt it to your needs. Includes a website that showcases videos covering each step of the method and other procedures that crop up along the way. | The Design Studio Method Creative Problem Solving with UX Sketching

GBP 180.00
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Control Basics for Mechatronics

Control Basics for Mechatronics

Mechatronics is a mongrel a crossbreed of classic mechanical engineering the relatively young pup of computer science the energetic electrical engineering the pedigree mathematics and the bloodhound of Control Theory. All too many courses in control theory consist of a diet of ‘Everything you could ever need to know about the Laplace Transform’ rather than answering ‘What happens when your servomotor saturates?’ Topics in this book have been selected to answer the questions that the mechatronics student is most likely to raise. That does not mean that the mathematical aspects have been left out far from it. The diet here includes matrices transforms eigenvectors differential equations and even the dreaded z transform. But every effort has been made to relate them to practical experience to make them digestible. They are there for what they can do not to support pages of mathematical rigour that defines their origins. The theme running throughout the book is simulation with simple JavaScript applications that let you experience the dynamics for yourself. There are examples that involve balancing such as a bicycle following a line and a balancing trolley that is similar to a Segway. This can be constructed ‘for real’ with components purchased from the hobby market. | Control Basics for Mechatronics

GBP 26.99
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Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Character Behavior

Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Character Behavior

Steve Rabin’s Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Character Behavior gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers character behavior in game AI. This volume is complete with articles by leading game AI programmers that focus on individual AI behavior such as character interactions modelling knowledge efficient simulation difficulty balancing and making decisions with case studies from both commercial and indie games. Key Features Provides real-life case studies of game AI in published commercial games Material by top developers and researchers in Game AI Downloadable demos and/or source code available online

GBP 39.99
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EMDR Supervision A Handbook

EMDR Supervision A Handbook

This unique handbook provides a guide for supervisors of therapists who use Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and those undergoing training in EMDR supervision. Whilst drawing on the literature on supervision theory and research this book provides a down-to-earth guide to this topic focusing on the European system of accreditation. The book guides the EMDR supervisor and supervisor-in-training in the difficult task of balancing the roles of educator enabler and evaluator. Using the author’s unique blend of warmth humour and humility the book includes vignettes of real-life situations encountered by the author and provides practical solutions to dilemmas encountered in EMDR supervision. | EMDR Supervision A Handbook

GBP 26.95
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Museum and Gallery Studies The Basics

Museum and Gallery Studies The Basics

Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view it covers the key ideas approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice the book address important questions such as: What are museums and galleries? Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection? How are museums and galleries funded? What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider? How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing? This user-friendly text is an essential read for anyone wishing to work within museums and galleries or seeking to understand academic debates in the field. | Museum and Gallery Studies The Basics

GBP 19.99
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Readers Reading and Librarians

Readers Reading and Librarians

This vital book reaffirms librarians’enthusiasm for books and readers in the midst of the evolution of libraries-from reading centers to information centers where librarians are now Web masters information scientists and media experts. Readers Reading and Librarians explores the future of the book as a medium. With nearly two hundred open-ended interviews with readers who read for pleasure this book looks at how and why they choose or reject certain books. Readers Reading and Librarians examines: reasons for the current decline in pleasure reading the need for librarians to sponsor book groups the current focus on “electronic wonders” balancing the missions of acting as an advisory service for readers and maintaining your library's technological services and much more!

GBP 32.99
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Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

This is an account of the dramatic events leading to the reunification of Germany. The author looks into the complex intertwining of popular action national politics and international moves that culminated in the historic events of 1989. After providing a brief historical background the author analyzes the sequence of events in East Germany the interplay between East German discontent and Bonn's policies and Chancellor Kohl's role in mobilizing domestic and international support for reunification. Paying special attention to the attitudes and actions of other powers particularly Russia the author provides a detailed look at the decisive negotiations with Gorbachev that cleared the way for German reunification. The book combines action on the streets with cabinet politics and the challenge of balancing domestic priorities with international concerns. | Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

GBP 39.99
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The Game Design Toolbox

The Game Design Toolbox

This book presents 71 practical game design tools that readers can use to solve real-world game design problems. Written to be a toolbox for game designers it offers a hands-on approach with clear and easy-to-use tools so that readers can quickly find the right solution to the problem they are facing. This book is divided into six game design phases: ideation exploration commitment problem solving balancing and tuning. Each category contains an array of relevant tools and the accompanying indexes offer suggestions for tools to use for specific problems. Support Materials for this book offer further teaching materials exercises and complementary FAQs. Written to be a practical resource this book will be a useful toolbox for junior and veteran game designers alike. | The Game Design Toolbox

GBP 44.99
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Cloud Reliability Engineering Technologies and Tools

Cloud Reliability Engineering Technologies and Tools

Coud reliability engineering is a leading issue of cloud services. Cloud service providers guarantee computation storage and applications through service-level agreements (SLAs) for promised levels of performance and uptime. Cloud Reliability Engineering: Technologies and Tools presents case studies examining cloud services their challenges and the reliability mechanisms used by cloud service providers. These case studies provide readers with techniques to harness cloud reliability and availability requirements in their own endeavors. Both conceptual and applied the book explains reliability theory and the best practices used by cloud service companies to provide high availability. It also examines load balancing and cloud security. Written by researchers and practitioners the book’s chapters are a comprehensive study of cloud reliability and availability issues and solutions. Various reliability class distributions and their effects on cloud reliability are discussed. An important aspect of reliability block diagrams is used to categorize poor reliability of cloud infrastructures where enhancement can be made to lower the failure rate of the system. This technique can be used in design and functional stages to determine poor reliability of a system and provide target improvements. Load balancing for reliability is examined as a migrating process or performed by using virtual machines. The approach employed to identify the lightly loaded destination node to which the processes/virtual machines migrate can be optimized by employing a genetic algorithm. To analyze security risk and reliability a novel technique for minimizing the number of keys and the security system is presented. The book also provides an overview of testing methods for the cloud and a case study discusses testing reliability installability and security. A comprehensive volume Cloud Reliability Engineering: Technologies and Tools combines research theory and best practices used to engineer reliable cloud availability and performance. | Cloud Reliability Engineering Technologies and Tools

GBP 56.99
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