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Himansu Sekhar Behera, Janmenjoy Nayak, Bighnaraj Naik, Danilo Pelusi ... 829 pages - Publisher: Springer; (August, 2019) - Language: English.

This proceeding discuss the latest solutions, scientific findings and methods for solving intriguing problems in the fields of data mining, computational intelligence, big data analytics, and soft computing. This gathers outstanding papers from the fifth International Conference on “Computational Intelligence in Data Mining” (ICCIDM), and offer a “sneak preview” of the strengths and weaknesses of trending applications, together with exciting advances in computational intelligence, data mining, and related fields.

Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Mauro Rossi ... 296 pages - Publisher: Springer; (December, 2018) - Language: English.

This edited volume assesses capabilities of data mining algorithms for spatial modeling of natural hazards in different countries based on a collection of essays written by experts in the field. The book is organized on different hazards including landslides, flood, forest fire, land subsidence, earthquake, and gully erosion. Chapters were peer-reviewed by recognized scholars in the field of natural hazards research. Each chapter provides an overview on the topic, methods applied, and discusses examples used. The concepts and methods are explained at a level that allows undergraduates to understand and other readers learn through examples. This edited volume is shaped and structured to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of all covered topics. It serves as a reference for researchers from different fields including land surveying, remote sensing, cartography, GIS, geophysics, geology, natural resources, and geography. It also serves as a guide for researchers, students, organizations, and decision makers active in land use planning and hazard management.

Pedro Ponce-Cruz, Arturo Molina Gutiérrez, Ricardo A. Ramírez-Mendoza, Efraín Méndez Flores, Alexandro Antonio Ortiz Espinoza, David Christopher Balderas Silva ... 178 pages - Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; (June, 2020) ... Language: English - AmazonSIN: B08LGNKST8.

Metaheuristic optimization has become a prime alternative for solving complex optimization problems in several areas. Hence, practitioners and researchers have been paying extensive attention to those metaheuristic algorithms that are mainly based on natural phenomena. However, when those algorithms are implemented, there are not enough books that deal with theoretical and experimental problems in a friendly manner so this book presents a novel structure that includes a complete description of the most important metaheuristic optimization algorithms as well as a new proposal of a new metaheuristic optimization named earthquake optimization. This book also has several practical exercises and a toolbox for MATLAB® and a toolkit for LabVIEW are integrated as complementary material for this book. These toolkits allow readers to move from a simulation environment to an experimentation one very fast. This book is suitable for researchers, students, and professionals in several areas, such as economics, architecture, computer science, electrical engineering, and control systems.

The unique features of this book are as follows: Developed for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners + A friendly description of the main metaheuristic optimization algorithms + Theoretical and practical optimization examples + A new earthquake optimization algorithm + Updated state-of-the-art and research optimization projects.

Anil K. Chopra ... 992 pages - ISBN-10: 1292249188 - ISBN-13: 978-1292249186 ... Publisher: Pearson; 5th edition (October, 2019) - Language: English.

For courses in Structural Dynamics. Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering for both students and professional engineersAn expert on structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, Anil K. Chopra fills an important niche, explaining the material in a manner suitable for both students and professional engineers with his Fifth Edition of Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering. No prior knowledge of structural dynamics is assumed, and the presentation is detailed and integrated enough to make the text suitable for self-study. As a textbook on vibrations and structural dynamics, this book has no competition. The material includes many topics in the theory of structural dynamics, along with applications of this theory to earthquake analysis, response, design, and evaluation of structures, with an emphasis on presenting this often difficult subject in as simple a manner as possible through numerous worked-out illustrative examples. The Fifth Edition includes new sections, figures, and examples, along with relevant updates and revisions.

James K. Wight ... 1168 pages - Publisher: Pearson; 7th edition (April, 2015) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 013348596X - ISBN-13: 978-0133485967.

Ali Kaveh ... 422 pages - Publisher: Research Studies; 3rd edition (December, 2004) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0863803040 - ISBN-13: 978-0863803048.

In this extensively revised and updated edition numerous concepts of graph theory are developed and applied to the formation of highly sparse structural matrices. For efficient handling, the nonzero entries of these matrices are given special patterns by powerful ordering algorithms created by the author. Presents ideas which are not only applicable to skeletal structures but can also be used equally for the analysis of other systems. Contains new concepts, methods and worked examples. Computer programs are included in the appendices to facilitate the use of several techniques featured in the text.