The preparation of this second edition of our book was triggered by a rush of fresh
developments leading to many interesting results. The text has significantly been enlarged …

Convexity is a simple and natural notion which can be traced back to Archimedes (circa 250
BC), in connection with his famous estimate of the value of π (by using inscribed and …

Manufacturing plays an important role since they are among the largest energy consumers
in modern societies. With the enhancement of environmental protection and a severe …

Applied mathematics rests on two central pillars: calculus and linear algebra. While calculus
has its roots in the universal laws of Newtonian physics, linear algebra arises from a much …

? Concise background material for each chapter, open problems, exercises, bibliography,
and comprehensive index make this work a fine pedagogical and reference resource.; New …

This paper presents an approach for designing path-following controllers for the kinematic
model of car-like mobile robots using transverse feedback linearization with dynamic …

The cutting force variations have long been studied for machining condition monitoring, due
to their sensitivity to the tool conditions. These variations could be the statistics of the …

Principal component analysis for classical data is a method used frequently to reduce the
effective dimension underlying a data set from p random variables to s≪ p linear functions of …

This article proposes a new approach to principal component analysis (PCA) for interval-
valued data. Unlike classical observations, which are represented by single points in p …

Tool wear is inevitable in manufacturing and affects the surface quality and geometric
tolerance significantly. A robust and efficient tool condition monitoring (TCM) system is …