This volume covers leading-edge research in a cross-section of fields centring on engineering applications including current research data on graphene as a solid state diffusion barrier for microelectronics; improvements of reinforced silica aerogel nanocomposites thermal properties for architecture applications; a selective mapping from orthogonal variability model to constraint satisfaction problem; modelling enterprise application integration solutions; application of hybrid particle swarm optimisation algorithms to inverse radiation problems; compliant shape memory alloy actuator design, modelling and motion control; controlling of patient environment remotely by a single click; and development of charging management system for a large number of Ni-Cd/Ni-MH batteries.