Improving stability in developing nations through automation 2006 : a proceedings volume from the IFAC Conference on Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability through Automation ISA '06, 15-17 June 2006, Prishtina, Kosovo /
The contributions included in this volume cover a very broad field of interest for subjects such as social aspects of technology transfer, managing the introduction of technological change, ethical aspects, technology and environmental stability, and anticipating secondary and tertiary effects of te...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Survey Papers
- Mechatronics Education and International Stability
- The Development Of University-Level Education Programmes in Advanced Engineering in Kosovo
- Abstract
- 1. Background and Context
- 2. Mechatronics & Engineering Management
- 3. Engineering Management Education & Mechatronics Management
- 4. Developing a Kosovan Mechatronics Management Programme
- 5. Curriculum Design: Theoretical Approach
- 4. Summary
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Terrorism, Human Rights and Ethics: A Modelling Approach
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction: What Is 'Terrorism'?
- 2. Context for Terrorism
- 3. Ethical Analysis
- 4. The Ethics of Counter Terrorism
- 5. Human Rights and the Fear of Terrorism
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Energy Providing and Consumption Can Cause Instability
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Control (Systems) Engineering and Conflict Solution
- 3. Energy Production and Consumption in the World
- 4. Modelling
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- 7. References
- Mechatronics
- A Role of Mechanical Engineering in Mechatronics
- Abstract
- 1. Mechatronic Systems and Mechatronics
- 2. Mechanical Issues
- 3. Experiences at University of Cassino
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- A Mechatronics Management Laboratory
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2 Equipment
- 3. Organisation for Effective, Active Learning
- 4. Summary and Outlook
- 5. Acknowledgement
- 6. Literature
- Various
- Social Stability in a Stressed Ecosystem
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ecological Decline
- 3. Challenges to Social Stability
- 4. Underemployment and Stress on Existing Social Paradigms
- 5. A New Social Paradigm
- 6. Views of Human Society
- 7. Social Determinants
- 8. Representative Approaches to Global Stability
- 9. Conditions for Sustainable Stability
- References
- Critical Infrastructure
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Critical Infrastructure
- 3. Security
- 4. Dependability
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Decision Making in TOC-Product-Mix Selection Via Fuzzy Cost Function Optimization
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Fuzzy System Approch to Toc Product-Mix Problem
- 3. Conclusions
- References
- Learnmaths: A Case Study of the Development of Learning Software to Support Social Inclusion
- Abstract
- 1. Background and Context
- 2. Learning Disability in Mathematics
- 3. The Need for Education Support Solutions
- 4. The Learnmaths Assitive Technology Solution
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Current Ethical Scruples Concerning Information Engineering
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Privacy and Security, Two Dramas of Our Days
- 3. Privacy and Security Means Liberty and Solidarity with all their Coherence and Contradictions
- 4. Who Guards the Guards?
- Feedback of Enlightened Democracy
- 5. Advances in Conflict Resolution
- 6. Strong Ethics of a Sceptic View
- 7. Hungarian Situation and Some about Our Gr.