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Multi-Objective Optimization in Theory and Practice is a traditional two-part approach to solving multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems namely the use of classical methods and evolutionary algorithms.

This first book is devoted to classical methods including the extended simplex method by Zeleny and preference-based techniques. This part covers three main topics through nine chapters. The first topic focuses on the design of such MOO problems, their complexities including nonlinearities and uncertainties, and optimality theory. The second topic introduces the founding solving methods including the extended simplex method to linear MOO problems and weighting objective methods. The third topic deals with particular structures of MOO problems, such as mixed-integer programming, hierarchical programming, fuzzy logic programming, and bimatrix games.

Multi-Objective Optimization in Theory and Practice is a user-friendly book with detailed, illustrated calculations, examples, test functions, and small-size applications in Mathematica® (among other mathematical packages) and from scholarly literature. It is an essential handbook for students and teachers involved in advanced optimization courses in engineering, information science, and mathematics degree programs.

The surge of multicore processors coming into the market and on users’ desktops has made parallel computing the focus of attention once again. This time, however, it is led by the industry, which ensures that multicore computing is here to stay. Nevertheless, there is still so much research work to be done in multicore hardware-software designs before consumer applications can leverage the benefits of this new paradigm. This ebook is being put forward as a platform for immediate collection of state-of-the-art technologies in both hardware and software designs for multicore computing. With the burgeoning prevalence of multicore processors in embedded systems, real-time systems, multimedia systems, bioinformatics systems, network systems, to list a few, this ebook attempts to cover the design and verification issues related to different application domains as a singular source of reference to the state-of-the-art techniques in multicore processor design and software programming that covers multiple application domains. This ebook will be of immense help to system and software engineers, including both experts and non-experts in parallel computing.

Multidisciplinary Interventions for People with Diverse Needs is a book written from an interdisciplinary perspective with the objective of helping readers to understand the problems faced by people with special needs.

Key Features:

- provides an updated theoretical and contextual foundation of medical issues

- provides information about the meaning, evaluation and intervention of the problems related to a variety of debilitating diseases and disability conditions (dementia, language disorders, diabetes, alterations of consciousness, celiac disease and disability in general)

- contains an accessible, well written, didactic text which is useful to both students and working professionals

The book equips the reader with information about different approaches to medical and social issues that arise when dealing with persons who are experiencing some degree of disability. For teachers and working professionals, the handbook serves as a guide for teaching, for the development of the structure of training courses, for the design of evaluation models and intervention of the topics addressed in the book.

The combination of information about the professional and human aspects of special needs education makes this book a useful reference for pedagogues, psychologists, students, teachers and professionals involved in social science, healthcare, and sports medicine, among other fields.

Affective computing is an emerging field situated at the intersection of artificial intelligence and behavioral science. Affective computing refers to studying and developing systems that recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human emotions. It has recently seen significant advances from exploratory studies to real-world applications.

Multimodal Affective Computing offers readers a concise overview of the state-of-the-art and emerging themes in affective computing, including a comprehensive review of the existing approaches in applied affective computing systems and social signal processing. It covers affective facial expression and recognition, affective body expression and recognition, affective speech processing, affective text, and dialogue processing, recognizing affect using physiological measures, computational models of emotion and theoretical foundations, and affective sound and music processing.

This book identifies future directions for the field and summarizes a set of guidelines for developing next-generation affective computing systems that are effective, safe, and human-centered.The book is an informative resource for academicians, professionals, researchers, and students at engineering and medical institutions working in the areas of applied affective computing, sentiment analysis, and emotion recognition.

This textbook provides a quick and easy understanding of multistage interconnection networks (MINs) for engineers. The book contents focus on the design, performance metrics, and evaluation of these networks which are crucial in modern computer architecture. The contents equip engineering students, apprentices and professionals with in-depth knowledge and analysis of MINS, enabling them to build complex computer architectures for efficient data communications and cost effective solutions for circuit design. The book starts with an introduction to MINS and subsequently progresses to the evaluation of a range of MINS (SEN, Gamma-Minus, FTSN, FTGN, SEGIN). Key highlights of the book include: & Easy to understand notes on design, reliability and fault tolerance & Covers a wide range of MIN types with notes on design variants & Supplementary information aiding comprehension of the main content. & A curated list of references for further exploration and deeper understanding.

Fungi are extremely versatile microorganisms as a biotechnology tool having the advantage of being relatively easy to grow, thus making them suitable for large scale production. Fungi have been successfully employed for biotransformations ranging from food manufacturing to drug design. Mycofactories comprise a substantial share of significant current research in the area of fungal biotechnology, and constitutes an effort to compile high level research in this domain. Topics include applications of fungi as a main source for the production of enzymes, manufacture of food derivatives, pigments and additives, and applications in bioremediation.

This volume presents an illuminating analysis of the ways in which normalization processes and practices operate in a welfare state in an age of neoliberalism. This informative book problematizes the meaning of the phrase ‘normalization processes and practices’, that for an Anglophone audience may smack of functionalism. The historical context of the deliberate adoption of normalization processes and practices in Sweden in the post-World War II era was, in the first instance, an expression of the inclusivity designed to decrease inequalities and to achieve social justice. However all the contributors to this volume, show very clearly how notions of normalcy, of normalization, in a neoliberal time operate not only to create an integrating and equalizing context but also, and much more critically, to exclude certain groups of people, and produce a structural inequality that in recent years has been discussed under the term of ‘utanförskap’ or outsiderhood.

Critiquing these interventions, the contributors to this volume show how diverse groups of people - immigrants, families considered 'at risk' by social services, pregnant women, young girls - are variously the objects of context-specific normalization processes and practices that make any resistance to such interventions difficult, if not impossible. What people 'normally do', cloaks that 'normal doing' with a fog of invisibilization that suffocates any form of protest. Normalization thus takes on specific forms of repression in particular circumstances, for instance through the ethnocentric imposition of norms of behaviour on migrants where that ethnocentricity is neither made evident nor acknowledged. This system of normalization also operates in schools, resulting in the reproduction of inequalities and discrimination from an early age. In such normalization processes 'the normal' or 'the usual' becomes a means for reinterpreting structural inequalities in terms of individual choice, and for displacing the responsibilities for change onto those positioned as outsiders. The individual chapters highlight how the operations of normalizing processes work to obscure their functioning, thus making any critique of both the underlying assumptions and their operationalization almost impossible.

This textbook provides an overview of next-generation Field-Effect Transistor (FET) technologies at the intersection of nanoelectronics, device miniaturization, and advanced applications. With a special emphasis on the evolution of semiconductor engineering, the book examines the shift from conventional CMOS to emerging FET architectures aimed at extending Moore ' s Law.

Across 18 chapters, the book explores Tunnel FETs (TFETs), carbon-based FETs, and 2D-material transistors, with discussions on performance, scalability, and reliability. It features detailed analyses of advanced device structures such as HJ-DGV-TFETs, dual-pocket step-channel TFETs, and AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, as well as their roles in memory, photonics, and biomedical systems. The use of nanomaterials in biosensor integration and digital circuit design is also a key theme.

Key features:

-Traces technological transitions from CMOS to novel FETs

-Examines nanoengineered device architectures and materials

-Investigates applications in optoelectronics, memory, and biosensing

-Analyzes simulation approaches for performance optimization

-Highlights interdisciplinary innovations across electronics and healthcare.

Nanobiomedicine: Fundamentals and Implementation in Theranostic Applications explores how the fusion of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and medicine is transforming modern healthcare. Addressing the limitations of conventional diagnostics and therapies, the book explains how nanoparticles enable targeted drug delivery, improved imaging, and combined diagnostic-therapeutic (theranostic) applications, especially in cancer care.

Chapters cover the fundamentals of nanomaterials, their use in photodynamic therapy, immunotherapy, and gene therapy, and their role in protecting and transporting drugs, DNA, and RNA. The book also highlights the growing impact of Artificial Intelligence, with applications in Alzheimer’s detection, AI-driven drug discovery, and ML/DL-based nanomedicine design.

Key Features

Explain nanoparticle-based drug and gene delivery for targeted treatment

Demonstrate theranostic applications integrating diagnosis and therapy

Highlight nanomedicine in cancer treatment to reduce damage to healthy cells

Explore AI-assisted diagnostics and drug discovery for personalised healthcare

Present emerging nanomaterial strategies for imaging, formulation, and acute therapy

This Reference eBook deals with an existing classification of a nanosized structure and an analysis of its properties. It summarizes an information about how a grain size affects physical, mechanical, thermal, and other properties of a nanostructured material. A basic method, which is employed for a fabrication of an isolated nanoparticle, an ultradisperse powder, a compact nanocystalline, nanoporous, and amorphous material, a fullerene, a nanotube, and a nanostuctured coating, is considered. Investigation methods, which are applied to study the nanostructured material, are briefly described. A modern understanding of a formation of the nanostructured and nanocomposite coating, which are fabricated using a ion-plasma deposition method, is reposted. A potential application of the nanostructured material and coating in a field of engineering is demonstrated.

Readership: Graduate, Postgraduate, Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Industry Professionals.

The eBook contains 9 Chapters, 87 Figures, 14 Tables, 411 References-totally, 155 Pages. It was approved by two Scientific Boards from National Kharkov University and Sumy State University.

A main content of this eBook is a basis for lectures presented for students at Sumy State University (the Physical-Technical Faculty), Kharkov National University (the Physical Faculty), Omsk State University (the Physical Faculty, the Department of Material Science), East-Kazakhstan State Technical University (Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan), and Moscow State University (the Physical Faculty, Moscow, Russia).

A source of this eBook is original papers of leading world-known scientists, who ware involved in a field of new nano composite material fabrication, nanotechnologies, and researches. This version had not been published elsewhere. It is interesting for a wide circle of specialists, Masters, aspirants, scientific researchers, and a technical staff of Higher Education System, Research Institutes and Laboratories. It covers recent data since 2008 to 2010 year.