Improving stability in developing nations through automation 2006 [[electronic resource] ] : a proceedings volume from the IFAC Conference on Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability through Automation ISA '06, 15-17 June 2006, Prishtina, Kosovo / / edited by P. Kopacek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458466403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Elsevier for International Federation of Automatic Control, 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-74678-5; 9786610746781; 0-08-046764-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (127 p.)
• Collana: IPV - IFAC Proceedings Volume
• Altri autori (Persone): KopacekPeter
• Disciplina: 629.8
• Soggetti: Automatic control; Technology - Social aspects - Developing countries; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Cassino4. 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 StabilityReferences; 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 Solution5. 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 Group's Activity; 8. Conclusion and Warning; Complexity of Social System Cybernetics: Risk and Uncertainty Management in Negotiations
• Sommario/riassunto: Technological development has caused profound changes and social stability. Regions which have had stable populations for centuries have experienced enormous population growth leading to the emergence of sometimes unmanageable megaplex cities as well as bringing about macroscopic environmental change. The scope of this IFAC SWIIS Conference is to offer insights into mitigating unwanted side-effects of rapid development and to share methodologies for appropriate ways of managing the introduction of technologies which will alter social stability.Contributions included in this volume cover a