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Provides a clear, useful framework and methods for R&D, including robust technology development, product planning, and product design and development management

Quality Strategy for Research and Development integrates the Japanese and Western perspectives on Quality Function Deployment (QFD), updates the strategy of Robust Engineering (RE), and relates their unique frameworks to current, widely adopted philosophies of quality assurance.

Featuring real-world case studies, more than thirty tables, and over seventy figures, this essential guide identifies key...

Developed from the authors' courses at Syracuse University and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Access Control, Security, and Trust: A Logical Approach equips readers with an access control logic they can use to specify and verify their security designs. Throughout the text, the authors use a single access control logic based on a simple propositional modal logic.

The first part of the book presents the syntax and semantics of access control logic, basic access control concepts, and an introduction to confidentiality and integrity policies. The second...

Compared to its cousin innovation, academic research on creativity has been less well covered in journals and books. This is despite the fact that creativity has a profound role in many different subject disciplines.

This book is a unique collection of some of the latest research from a range of leading creativity researchers. Providing a clear understanding of the main concepts, this book:

• Introduces creativity from an inter-disciplinary perspective
• Discusses the environmental determinants of creativity development
• Explores creativity research in the...

"Competing Chinese Political Visions: Hong Kong vs. Beijing on Democracy" examines the uniqueness of the Hong Kong model of democracy--a model the Chinese Communist Party not surprisingly views as too Westernized, excessively pluralistic, and too easily shaped by foreign intervention and influence.

"Competing Chinese Political Visions" examines the features that define Hong Kong's democracy, including competitive elections, a number of mini-political parties, legitimate checks and balances, the right to protest, and a vibrant social movement. Drawing on a wealth of recent research,...