Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2003, held in Heidelberg, Germany in October 2002. The 20 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 105 submissions...read more

Product Description: Welcome to 1M 2003, the eighth in a series of the premier international technical conference in this field. As IT management has become mission critical to the economies of the developed world, our technical program has grown in relevance, strength and quality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all the papersaccepted forpresentation atthe 11thIFIP/IEEEInternationalWorkshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM 2000), which was held at the Thompson Conference Center, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, from 4 to 6 December, 2000...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents a state-of-the art review of instrumentation and automation practices in the paper, rubber, plastics and polymerization industries, including original research and practical projects. Among subject areas covered are: rubber industry process control and related topics; modeling and control of paper industry processes; applications of adaptive and predictive control in the pulp and paper industry; batch reactor control technology; adaptive process control concepts for plastics processing units; modeling and control of polymerization processes; paper industry process control; measurement and modeling problems in polymer processing of non-sheet processes; control of extrusion and blow molding; mill-wide control in the paper industry; user's needs and expected developments in sensors for the control of production of sheet products; instrumentation for polymer processing and modeling of paper industry processes...read more