Climate change is forcing governments and businesses to explore mitigation strategies to
avoid future catastrophe. There is an urgent need to manage climate change risks in global …

Digital twins (DTs) promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector using modern
technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. The DT is a …

With the development of technologies, such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of
Things (IoT), digital twin is being applied in industry as a precision simulation technology …

The term “System of Systems”(SoS) has been used since the 1950s to describe systems that
are composed of independent constituent systems, which act jointly towards a common goal …

A microgrid (MG) is a building block of future smart grid, it can be defined as a network of low
voltage power generating units, storage devices and loads. System of systems (SoS) is …

Resilience is the ability of a system to react to and recover from disturbances with minimal
effect on its dynamic stability. While resilience has been the focus of research in several …

Within only a couple of years, Industry 4.0 made the transition from a potential buzzword with
an uncertain future to a serious manufacturing concept that is adopted by a constantly …

This book deals with sliding mode control (SMC) of uncertain nonlinear systems, focusing in
particular on advanced and optimization based algorithms. The aim is to provide an …

Development of theory remains an essential step in the evolution of supply chain
management as an integrative business discipline. Supply chain research often involves …

The system of systems (SoS) theory is an important topic in modern systems engineering
management. Previous studies focus mainly on using it to explore large-scale physical …