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Give your business the edge with crowd-power! Crowdsourcing is an innovative way of outsourcing tasks, problems or requests to a group or community online. There are lots of ways business can use crowdsourcing to their advantage: be it crowdsourcing product ideas and development, design tasks, market research, testing, capturing or analyzing data, and even raising funds. It offers access to a wide pool of talent and ideas, and is an exciting way to engage the public with your business. Crowdsourcing For Dummies is your plain-English guide to making crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation work for you. It gives step-by-step advice on how to plan, start and manage a crowdsourcing project, where to crowdsource, how to find the perfect audience, ...

This book is a clear and lucid presentation of Evolutionary Algorithms, with a straightforward, bottom-up approach that provides the reader with a firm grasp of the basic principles of EAs. Covering the theory, history, mathematics, and applications of evolutionary optimization algorithms, this timely and practical book offers lengthy examples, a companion website, MATLAB code, and a Solutions Manual--making it perfect for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and practicing engineers involved in engineering and computer science....

This book has evolved over three years with the development of new techniques and perspectives within Professor Ribeiro's Probabilistic Aspects of Harmonics Task Force of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. Key features: * Exhaustive reference on the analysis of time-varying waveform distortions in power systems , detailing many different approaches * Contains case studies and basic application examples, tables, and graphs to enable better understanding of the methods presented* Written by a range of professionals, varying from university lecturers to practising power engineers, and edited by a well-known professor in power issues...

Control theory is the main subject of this title, in particularanalysis and control design for hybrid dynamic systems.The notion of hybrid systems offers a strong theoretical andunified framework to cope with the modeling, analysis and controldesign of systems where both continuous and discrete dynamicsinteract. The theory of hybrid systems has been the subject ofintensive research over the last decade and a large number ofdiverse and challenging problems have been investigated.Nevertheless, many important mathematical problems remainopen.This book is dedicated mainly to hybrid systems with constraints;taking constraints into account in a dynamic system description hasalways been a critical issue in control. New tools are providedhere for stability a...