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The book presents the latest power conversion and control technology in modern wind energy systems. It has nine chapters, covering technology overview and market survey, electric generators and modeling, power converters and modulation techniques, wind turbine characteristics and configurations, and control schemes for fixed- and variable-speed wind energy systems. The book also provides in-depth steady-state and dynamic analysis of squirrel cage induction generator, doubly fed induction generator, and synchronous generator based wind energy systems.

To illustrate the key concepts and help the reader tackle real-world issues, the book contains more than 30 case studies and 100 solved problems in addition to simulations and experiments. The book serves as a comprehensive reference for academic researchers and practicing engineers. It can also be used as a textbook for graduate students and final year undergraduate students.

B. Wu, K. Lang, N. Zargari and S. Kouro, Power Conversion and Control of Wind Energy Systems, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2011.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the design principles and implementation of CMOS circuits and systems for passive wireless microsystems. Major subjects covered in the book include: passive wireless microsystems, radio-frequency power harvest, data encoding, modulators and demodulators, low-power precision voltage references, clock generation and calibration, and low-power analog-to-digital converters. This book's contents serve as an exhaustive survey of recently published work in this fast evolving field, and are presented with an emphasis on both the design principles and in-depth comparison of the pros and cons of the designs.

F. Yuan, CMOS Circuits for Passive Wireless Microsystems, Springer, New York, ISBN: 978-1-4419-7679-6, Oct. 2010

This book provides a comprehensive modeling approach, detailed control design methodologies and procedures, and wide coverage of the applications of voltage-sourced power electronic converters in electric power systems. Typical applications include wind power conversion and integration in the utility power system; solar-PV power conversion and integration in electric power systems; and, various types of distributed energy resource integration in electric distribution systems.

A. Yazdani and R. Iravani, Voltage-Sourced Converters in Power Systems, IEEE/John-Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-52156-4, 464 pages, Feb. 2010.

Illustrating essential aspects of adaptive image processing from a computational intelligence viewpoint, the second edition of Adaptive Image Processing: A Computational Intelligence Perspective provides an authoritative and detailed account of computational intelligence (CI) methods and algorithms for adaptive image processing in regularization, edge detection, and early vision.

K.H. Yap, L. Guan, S.W. Perry, H.S. Wong, Adaptive Image Processing: A Computational Intelligence Perspective, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, December 2009.

First edition published in 2002.

The information presented in this book reflects the evolution of wireless technologies, their impact on the profession, and the industry's commonly accepted best practices. Organized into seven main areas of expertise, A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK) enhances readers' understanding of: wireless access technologies; network and service architecture; network management and security; radio frequency engineering, propagation, and antennas; facilities infrastructure, agreements, standards, policies, and regulations; and wireless engineering fundamentals.

G. Giannattasio, J. Erfanian, P. Wills, H. Nguyen, T.Croda, K. Rauscher, X. Fernando, N. Pavlidou and D. Wong, A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK), IEEE COMSOC Wireless ISBN: 978-0-470-4336-9, 2009

Many new topologies and circuit design techniques have emerged recently to improve the performance of CMOS active inductors and transformers. However, a comprehensive treatment of the theory, topology, characteristics, and design constraints has not been available. CMOS Active Inductors and Transformers: Principle, Implementation, and Applications provides a systematic presentation and a detailed examination of the operation principles and implementations, and discusses their emerging applications in high-speed analog signal processing and data communications.

F. Yuan, CMOS Active Inductors and Transformers - Principle, Implementation, and Applications, Springer, New York, ISBN: 978-0-387-76477-1, 2008.

This book presents the latest cutting-edge technology in high-power converters and medium voltage drives, and provides a complete analysis of various converter topologies, modulation techniques, practical drive configurations, and advanced control schemes. Supplemented with more than 250 illustrations, the author illustrates key concepts with simulations and experiments. Practical problems, along with accompanying solutions, are presented to help you tackle real-world issues.

B. Wu, High-Power Converters and AC Drives, Wiley-IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-0-471-73171-9, 2006.

Presents state-of-the-art in visual media retrieval. Coverage of adaptive content-based retrieval systems and techniques in image and video database applications. Includes a novel machine-controlled interactive retrieval (MCIR) method that optimizes image search in distributed digital libraries over the Internet.

P. Muneesawang and L. Guan, Multimedia Database Retrieval: A Human Centered Approach, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-25627-6, 2006.

This book deals with the analysis and design of CMOS current-mode circuits for data communications. CMOS current-mode sampled-data networks, i.e. switched-current circuits, are excluded. Major subjects covered in the book include: a critical comparison of voltage-mode and current-mode circuits; the building blocks of current-mode circuits: design techniques; modeling of wire channels, electrical signaling for Gbps data communications; ESD protection for current-mode circuits and more. This book will appeal to IC design engineers, hardware system engineers and others.

F. Yuan, CMOS Current-Mode Circuits for Data Communications, Springer, New York, ISBN: 0-387-29758-8, 2006.

Computer Methods for Analysis of Mixed-Mode Switching Circuits provides an in-depth treatment of the principles and implementation details of computer methods and numerical algorithms for analysis of mixed-mode switching circuits. Major topics include: computer-oriented formulation of mixed-mode switching circuits; network functions of linear and nonlinear time-varying systems; numerical Laplace inversion based integration algorithms and inconsistent initial conditions; time domain analysis of periodically switched linear and nonlinear circuits including response, sensitivity, noise, clock jitter, and statistical quantities.

F. Yuan and A. Opal, Computer Methods for Analysis of Mixed-Mode Switching Circuits, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, ISBN 1-4020-7922-2, 2004.

Multimedia stands as one of the most challenging and exciting aspects of the information era. Although there are books available that deal with various facets of multimedia, the field has urgently needed a comprehensive look at recent developments in the systems, processing, and applications of image and video data in a multimedia environment.Multimedia Image and Video Processing fills that need. Beginning with existing standards and their impact on multimedia image and video processing, experts from around the world address a broad spectrum of topics in a tutorial style. Their authoritative contributions cover the pros and cons of current and new architectures, conventional and intelligent image processing techniques, new developments in the compression and coding of video and images, and content-based image and video retrieval.

L. Guan, S.Y. Kung and J. Larsen, eds., Multimedia Image and Video Processing, CRC Press, ISBN: 0-8493-3492-6, 2000.

Reporting the state of the art of color image processing, this monograph fills an existing gap in the literature on digital signal and image processing. It can serve the needs of different users at different levels: as a textbook which covers a graduate image processing course, as a up-to-date reference for researchers since it offers a broad survey of the relevant literature, and as a relevant information source for development engineers who work in the design and the implementation of various image processing tasks. Part of the material in the book was the basis of seminars at the University of Toronto. The book contains numerous examples and pictures of color image processing results, as well as tables which summarize the results of the analysis. Algorithms implemented in JAVA can be downloaded from the author's website .

K. Plataniotis and A. N. Venetsanopoulos, Color Image Processing and Applications, Springer Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-540-66953-1, 2000.

This text is designed for students majoring in mechanical, industrial, aerospace, civil, environmental, and chemical engineering (or technology) who need a fundamental understanding of electrical engineering. Thus, instructors can adapt the material accordingly for their one- or two-term course. Divided into four parts: Part I: Fundamentals of Electric Circuits; Part II: Analog Electronics and Instrumentation; Part III: Digital Electronics and Computer Fundamentals; Part IV: Electromechanical and Control Systems. Many worked-out examples illustrate the applications of each topic.

S. A. Boctor, P. F. Ryff, M. T. Ghorab, P. Hiscocks, M. R. Holmes, Electrical Concepts and Applications, Cengage Learning, ISBN: 0-3142-0202-1, 1997.

This book is devoted to the study of fuzzy reasoning as applied to decision making and control processes. It contains a collection of important contributions covering a wide well-selected range of topics within the field. The book contains twenty-one papers, written by thirty-four distinguished contributors and is divided into five parts.

S. G. Tzafestas and A. N. Venetsanopoulos (eds.), Fuzzy Reasoning in Information, Decision and Control Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-2643-1, 1994.

This book presents recent developments which can have a very significant impact on neural network research, in addition to the selective review of the existing vast literature on artificial neural networks. This book can be read in different ways, depending on the background, the specialization, and the ultimate goals of the reader. A specialist will find in this book well-defined and easily reproducible algorithms, along with the performance evaluation of various neural network architectures and training schemes. Artificial Neural Networks can also help a beginner interested in the development of neural network systems to build the necessary background in an organized and comprehensive way.

N. B. Karayiannis and A. N. Venetsanopoulos, Artificial Neural Networks: Learning Algorithms, Performance Evaluation and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN-0-7923-9297-3, 1993.

G. Vernazza, A.N. Venetsanopoulos and C. Braccini (eds.), Image Processing Theory and Applications, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993.

Pitas and A. N. Venetsanopoulos, Nonlinear Filters in Image Processing: Principles and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 0-7923-9049-0, 1990.