De Gruyter Handbook Of Drone Warfare
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Author | : James Patton Rogers |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2024-09-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3110742039 |
In 2010, 60 states had a military drone program. Today at least 113 countries and 65 non-state actors now have access to weaponized drone technologies. Alongside this, established ‘drone powers’ – the U.S., China, Turkey, and Iran – have expanded their own use of military drones, increasing the sale and deployment of drones around the world. In the De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, drone expert, policy adviser, and historian, Dr James Patton Rogers, brings together 37 of the world’s leading voices on the growing issues of commercial and military drone technologies. From the origins of military drones in the early 1900s and the resurgence of drone use during the War on Terror, through to the global proliferation of drones across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, this handbook explores the moral, ethical, technological, legal, military, geopolitical, social, and strategic issues at the heart of drone warfare. The first handbook of its kind, the volume also addresses Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine, the rise of Iranian and Houthi drones, and provides a focused analysis of the future of drone warfare and the opportunities and perils of AI, autonomy, and swarming technologies in the coming Third Drone Age.
Author | : Rajappan, Roopa Chandrika |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2024-04-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Picture a world where autonomous systems operate continuously and intelligently, utilizing real-time data to make informed decisions. Such systems have the potential to revolutionize agriculture, urban infrastructure, and industrial automation. This transformation, often termed the Internet of Self-Sustaining Systems (IoSS), is a pivotal topic that demands academic attention and exploration. Addressing this critical issue head-on is The Convergence of Self-Sustaining Systems With AI and IoT, which offers an in-depth examination of this transformative convergence. It serves as a guiding light for academic scholars seeking to unravel the vast potential of self-sustaining systems coupled with AI and IoT. Inside its pages, readers will delve into AI-driven autonomous agriculture, eco-friendly transportation solutions, and intelligent energy management. Moreover, the book explores emerging technologies, security concerns, ethical considerations, and governance frameworks. Join us on this intellectual journey and position yourself at the forefront of the AI and IoT revolution that promises a sustainable, autonomous future.
Author | : Senior Fellow Marc Ambinder |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2024-10-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019775662X |
National Security, Journalism, and Law in an Age of Information Warfare helps one understand how secret-keepers, journalists, and sources are navigating unprecedented challenges in an age when trust in government and traditional media is low and the spread of disinformation through social media undermines efforts to inform and protect the public.
Author | : Leopoldina Fortunati |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2024-09-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110792273 |
The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture provides a comprehensive discussion of how social robots take form, function, and meaning for individuals, relationships, cultures, and societies. Through a path-breaking integration of perspectives coming from sociology, communication and media, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology, political science, and science and technology studies, it focuses on the critical and social meaning of present developments in social robotic technologies. This book looks at artificial agents – from voice-based assistants to humanoid robots— as their use transforms private and public contexts and gives rise to both new possibilities and new perils for human being and becoming, organizations as well as social structures and institutions. The handbook traces the consequences and key problems of social robotics across broad social contexts in both public and political as well as domestic and intimate spaces. Further, it attends carefully to the implications of social robotics for various human identity groups, including those based on gender, ethnicity, culture, class, ability, and age. Deep attention to interdisciplinarity, inclusivity, ethics, and socio-cultural futures serves as the guiding inspiration behind each contribution within this handbook.
Author | : Jing Sun |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-06-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3110573369 |
The book introduces the fundamentals (principle, structure, characteristics, classification etc.) of control systems. The dynamic behavior are also illustrated in detail. The authors also present the time/ frequency/stability/error response analyses of control system. This book is an essential reference for graduate students, scientists and practitioner in the research fields of mechanical and electrical engineering.
Author | : Marat V. Markin |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2020-04-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3110598884 |
The book is intended as a text for a one-semester graduate course in operator theory to be taught "from scratch'', not as a sequel to a functional analysis course, with the basics of the spectral theory of linear operators taking the center stage. The book consists of six chapters and appendix, with the material flowing from the fundamentals of abstract spaces (metric, vector, normed vector, and inner product), the Banach Fixed-Point Theorem and its applications, such as Picard's Existence and Uniqueness Theorem, through the basics of linear operators, two of the three fundamental principles (the Uniform Boundedness Principle and the Open Mapping Theorem and its equivalents: the Inverse Mapping and Closed Graph Theorems), to the elements of the spectral theory, including Gelfand's Spectral Radius Theorem and the Spectral Theorem for Compact Self-Adjoint Operators, and its applications, such as the celebrated Lyapunov Stability Theorem. Conceived as a text to be used in a classroom, the book constantly calls for the student's actively mastering the knowledge of the subject matter. There are problems at the end of each chapter, starting with Chapter 2 and totaling at 150. Many important statements are given as problems and frequently referred to in the main body. There are also 432 Exercises throughout the text, including Chapter 1 and the Appendix, which require of the student to prove or verify a statement or an example, fill in certain details in a proof, or provide an intermediate step or a counterexample. They are also an inherent part of the material. More difficult problems are marked with an asterisk, many problems and exercises are supplied with "existential'' hints. The book is generous on Examples and contains numerous Remarks accompanying definitions, examples, and statements to discuss certain subtleties, raise questions on whether the converse assertions are true, whenever appropriate, or whether the conditions are essential. With carefully chosen material, proper attention given to applications, and plenty of examples, problems, and exercises, this well-designed text is ideal for a one-semester Master's level graduate course in operator theory with emphasis on spectral theory for students majoring in mathematics, physics, computer science, and engineering. Contents Preface Preliminaries Metric Spaces Vector Spaces, Normed Vector Spaces, and Banach Spaces Linear Operators Elements of Spectral Theory in a Banach Space Setting Elements of Spectral Theory in a Hilbert Space Setting Appendix: The Axiom of Choice and Equivalents Bibliography Index
Author | : Edward Yu Bormashenko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
The revealing of the phenomenon of superhydrophobicity (the "lotus-effect") has stimulated an interest in wetting of real (rough and chemically heterogeneous) surfaces. In spite of the fact that wetting has been exposed to intensive research for more than 200 years, there still is a broad field open for theoretical and experimental research, including recently revealed superhydrophobic, superoleophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces, so-called liquid marbles, wetting transitions, etc. This book integrates all these aspects within a general framework of wetting of real surfaces, where physical and chemical heterogeneity is essential. Wetting of rough/heterogeneous surfaces is discussed through the use of the variational approach developed recently by the author. It allows natural and elegant grounding of main equations describing wetting of solid surfaces, i.e. Young, Wenzel and Cassie-Baxter equations. The problems of superhydrophobicity, wetting transitions and contact angle hysteresis are discussed in much detail, in view of novel models and new experimental data.
Author | : Krystyna Jackowska |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-06-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3110598973 |
"This book introduces the main aspects of modern applied electrochemistry. Starting with the basics of thermodynamic background, structure of interfaces and selected techniques used in analytical and material chemistry, the authors address the principles of electrochemistry in material sience: corrosion, electrocatalysis, electrodeposition, energy storage and conversion. The application of nanostructured materials in these processes, as well as interfacing of electrochemistry with biology and medicine is discussed. The final part of the book is devoted to photoelectrochemistry and solar energy conversion in photoelectrochemical cells of various types. The goal of this book is to show that electrochemistry has many applications, not only for understanding of various phenomena in nowadays life but also in practical devices and can stimulate new science-enabled technologies, nourishing leaps from bench-top to large-scale industries, providing also means for protecting our environment"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Christian J. Tams |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2023-01-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1800884060 |
This book questions whether investment law influences the wider field of general international law, and more specifically, whether approaches adopted by tribunals in investment arbitrations have radiated, or should radiate, into other fields of international law.
Author | : Ferenc Darvas |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2014-08-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3110388758 |
"Flow Chemistry fills the gap in graduate education by covering chemistry and reaction principles along with current practice, including examples of relevant commercial reaction, separation, automation, and analytical equipment. The Editors of Flow Chemistry are commended for having taken the initiative to bring together experts from the field to provide a comprehensive treatment of fundamental and practical considerations underlying flow chemistry. It promises to become a useful study text and as well as reference for the graduate students and practitioners of flow chemistry." Professor Klavs Jensen Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Broader theoretical insight in driving a chemical reaction automatically opens the window towards new technologies particularly to flow chemistry. This emerging concept promotes the transformation of present day's organic processes into a more rapid continuous set of synthesis operations, more compatible with the envisioned sustainable world. These two volumes Fundamentals and Applications provide both the theoretical foundation as well as the practical aspects.