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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Bakterien ergreifen das Wort . und erzählen ihre eigene Geschichte! 'Wollten Sie je jemand anderes sein Jemand völlig anderes Jemand - oder etwas - wie in einer Kafka-Erzählung Hier ist Ihre Chance. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie wären gerade einen Millimeter groß, könnten nicht sehen und sich, wenn überhaupt, nur durch den Schlag Ihrer Geißeln durch die Flüssigkeit bewegen, in der Sie leben .' Hier ist Thermotoga maritima - Ihr Berichterstatter von einem in der Geschichte der Wissenschaft beispiellosen Ereignis. Der Erste Außerordentliche Bakterienkongress führt alles, was in der Bakterienwelt Rang und Namen hat, am Prokaryote Pond zusammen. Hier tauschen die mikroskopisch kleinen Organismen Erkenntnisse über ihre Geschichte, ihre besonderen Fähigkeiten und ihre gegenwärtige Koexistenz mit dem Menschen aus. Die Redner berichten von den Lebensräumen, die sie besiedeln, von den Strukturen ihrer Zellen, von den Krankheiten, die sie bei Mensch und Tier verursachen, und von der existenziellen Bedrohung, die Antibiotika für sie bedeuten. Ihre Unzufriedenheit mit den Menschen, von denen sie sich missverstanden, oft zu Unrecht gefürchtet und häufig abschätzig behandelt fühlen, mündet in eine große Schlussveranstaltung, auf der die Art Homo sapiens eine Neubenennung erfährt. Dieses pfiffige und unterhaltsame Buch bietet einen ungewöhnlichen und faszinierenden Blick auf die Beziehung zwischen Menschen und Bakterien. Man lernt dabei - ganz nebenbei - eine Menge über Mikroorganismen und ihre verborgene Macht. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Bakterien ergreifen das Wort . und erzählen ihre eigene Geschichte! 'Wollten Sie je jemand anderes sein Jemand völlig anderes Jemand - oder etwas - wie in einer Kafka-Erzählung Hier ist Ihre Chance. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie wären gerade einen Millimeter groß, könnten nicht sehen und sich, wenn überhaupt, nur durch den Schlag Ihrer Geißeln durch die Flüssigkeit bewegen, in der Sie leben .' Hier ist Thermotoga maritima - Ihr Berichterstatter von einem in der Geschichte der Wissenschaft beispiellosen Ereignis. Der Erste Außerordentliche Bakterienkongress führt alles, was in der Bakterienwelt Rang und Namen hat, am Prokaryote Pond zusammen. Hier tauschen die mikroskopisch kleinen Organismen Erkenntnisse über ihre Geschichte, ihre besonderen Fähigkeiten und ihre gegenwärtige Koexistenz mit dem Menschen aus. Die Redner berichten von den Lebensräumen, die sie besiedeln, von den Strukturen ihrer Zellen, von den Krankheiten, die sie bei Mensch und Tier verursachen, und von der existenziellen Bedrohung, die Antibiotika für sie bedeuten. Ihre Unzufriedenheit mit den Menschen, von denen sie sich missverstanden, oft zu Unrecht gefürchtet und häufig abschätzig behandelt fühlen, mündet in eine große Schlussveranstaltung, auf der die Art Homo sapiens eine Neubenennung erfährt. Dieses pfiffige und unterhaltsame Buch bietet einen ungewöhnlichen und faszinierenden Blick auf die Beziehung zwischen Menschen und Bakterien. Man lernt dabei - ganz nebenbei - eine Menge über Mikroorganismen und ihre verborgene Macht.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Wer studieren möchte, steht vor vielen organisatorischen und persönlichen Fragen: Was will und kann ich studieren Wie läuft das Studium ab und wie funktioniert der Bachelor Welche Hochschule ist gut und passt zu mir Wie bewerbe mich für einen Studiengang Wie finanziere ich mein Studium Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es im Ausland Bachelor nach Plan gibt Antworten auf diese Fragen: Das Buch erklärt Abiturienten, wie das Studium funktioniert und hilft bei der Entscheidung und Bewerbung für das ideale Programm an der richtigen Hochschule. Auch das Studium im Ausland wird umfassend beleuchtet. Daneben beschreibt es Möglichkeiten der Studienfinanzierung und wie man die erste eigene Wohnung findet. Durch Infoboxen, Anleitungen zur Selbstreflexion, Checklisten mit den wichtigsten Punkten, Webtipps und ein Glossar ist Bachelor nach Plan leicht verständlich und praxisnah. Der Autor macht Mut, den eigenen Weg zu gehen, seine Träume anzustreben und gelassen zu bleiben: Plane gut aber mache Dich nicht verrückt! Wer das Buch liest, findet sich schneller zurecht und vermeidet schlechte Entscheidungen. Es enthält alles, was Studieninteressierte wissen müssen, um motiviert in die schönste Zeit ihres Lebens zu starten: Das Studium. 252 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains the proceedings of two of the IFIP conferences that took place at the IFIP World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia. The proceedings of each conference are allocated separate parts in this book each with their own editors. E-Government and E-Services (EGES) page 3 Marijn Janssen / Winfried Lamersdorf Global Information Systems Processes (GISP) page 183 Jan Pries-Heje / Michael Rosemann Organization E-Government and E-Services (EGES 2010) EGES Co-chairs Marijn Janssen Delft, The Netherlands Winfried Lamersdorf Hamburg, Germany Lalit Sawhney Bangalore, India Leon Strous Helmond, The Netherlands EGES Reviewers Agarwal Ashok ACS Technologies Ltd., Bhoopal, India Mark Borman University of Sydney, Australia Erwin Fielt Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Ernest Foo Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia M.P. Gupta Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Paul Henman The University of Queensland, Australia Ralf Klischewski German University, Cairo, Egypt Christine Leitner Donau-Universit at Krems, Austria Miriam Lips Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Zoran Milosevic Deontic, Brisbane, Australia Oystein Sabo University of Agder, Norway Jochen Scholl University of Washington, Seattle, USA Leif Skiftenes University of Agder, Norway Weerakoddy Vishanth Brunel University Business School, West London, UK Dirk Werth DFKI, Saarbruc ken, Germany Maria Wimmer University Koblenz-Landau, Germany EGES Subreviewers Alexandra Chapko, Andreas Emrich and Marc Graessle German Research Center for Arti cial Intelligence, Saarbruc ken, Germany Kristof Hamann, Kai Jander, Ante Vilenica and Sonja Zaplata University of Hamburg, Germany Global Information Systems Processes (GISP 2010) GISP Co-chairs Jan Pries-Heje Roskilde University, Denmark 258 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Communications: Wireless in Developing Countries and Networks of the Future The present book contains the proceedings of two conferences held at the World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia (September 20-23) organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP): the Third IFIP TC 6 Int- national Conference on Wireless Communications and Information Technology for Developing Countries (WCITD 2010) and the IFIP TC 6 International Network of the Future Conference (NF 2010). The main objective of these two IFIP conferences on communications is to provide a platform for the exchange of recent and original c- tributions in wireless networks in developing countries and networks of the future. There are many exiting trends and developments in the communications industry, several of which are related to advances in wireless networks, and next-generation Internet. It is commonly believed in the communications industry that a new gene- tion should appear in the next ten years. Yet there are a number of issues that are being worked on in various industry research and development labs and universities towards enabling wireless high-speed networks, virtualization techniques, smart n- works, high-level security schemes, etc. We would like to thank the members of the Program Committees and the external reviewers and we hope these proceedings will be very useful to all researchers int- ested in the fields of wireless networks and future network technologies. 264 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -History of Computing: Learning from the Past Why is the history of computing important Given that the computer, as we now know it, came into existence less than 70 years ago it might seem a little odd to some people that we are concerned with its history. Isn't history about 'old things' Computing, of course, goes back much further than 70 years with many earlier - vices rightly being known as computers, and their history is, of course, important. It is only the history of electronic digital computers that is relatively recent. History is often justified by use of a quote from George Santayana who famously said that: 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'. It is arguable whether there are particular mistakes in the history of computing that we should avoid in the future, but there is some circularity in this question, as the only way we will know the answer to this is to study our history. This book contains papers on a wide range of topics relating to the history of c- puting, written both by historians and also by those who were involved in creating this history. The papers are the result of an international conference on the History of Computing that was held as a part of the IFIP World Computer Congress in Brisbane in September 2010. 229 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Currently, we see a variety of tools and techniques for specifying and implementing business processes. The problem is that there are still gaps and tensions between the different disciplines needed to improve business process execution and improvement in enterprises. Business process modeling, workflow execution and application programming are examples of disciplines that are hosted by different communities and that emerged separately from each other. In particular, concepts have not yet been fully elaborated at the system analysis level.Therefore, practitioners are faced again and again with similar questions in concrete business process projects: Which decomposition mechanism to use How to find the correct granularity for business process activities Which implementing technology is the optimal one in a given situation This work offers an approach to the systematization of the field. The methodology used is explicitly not a comparative analysis of existing tools and techniques - although a review of existing tools is an essential basis for the considerations in the book. Rather, the book tries to provide a landscape of rationales and concepts in business processes with a discussion of alternatives. 306 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This monograph provides a novel approach to the evaluation of economic policy by combining two different analytical strategies. On the one hand, the computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis, a standard tool mostly used to quantify the impact of economic measures or changes in the structural data of the economy. On the other hand, the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach, an op- misation technique that deals with problems with more than one objective. Ty- cally, CGE is well suited for the analysis of the interactions of multiple agents from the point of view of a planner single objective. Combining this technique with the MCDM approach allows developing models in which we nd many interacting agents and a decision maker with several objectives. The contribution of this work is partly methodological and partly applied. It provides a framework for the analysis of this type of problems, as well as a series of applications in which the strength of the approach is made clear. The consideration of environmental problems, as a speci c eld in which this technique of analysis can be used, is particularly well chosen. The environmental concern keeps growing steadily and has already become an issue in most of the standard economic decisions. It is therefore extremely important to nd systematic ways to introduce such a concern in the models with which we evaluate the impact of policy measures. 180 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume collects recent works on weakly dependent, long-memory and multifractal processes and introduces new dependence measures for studying complex stochastic systems. Other topics include the statistical theory for bootstrap and permutation statistics for infinite variance processes, the dependence structure of max-stable processes, and the statistical properties of spectral estimators of the long memory parameter. The asymptotic behavior of Fejér graph integrals and their use for proving central limit theorems for tapered estimators are investigated. New multifractal processes are introduced and their multifractal properties analyzed. Wavelet-based methods are used to study multifractal processes with different multiresolution quantities, and to detect changes in the variance of random processes. Linear regression models with long-range dependent errors are studied, as is the issue of detecting changes in their parameters. 205 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the workshopproceedings of the accompanying workshops of the 14th Financial Cryptograpy and Data Security International Conference 2010, held on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, January 25-28, 2010. FinancialCryptographyandData Securityis a majorinternationalforumfor research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a speci c focus on commercial contexts. The c- ference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems and especially encourages original work focusing on both fundamental and applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security. Three workshops were co-located with FC 2010: the Workshop on Real-Life CryptographicProtocolsandStandardization(RLCPS),theWorkshoponEthics in Computer Security Research (WECSR), and the Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Devices (WLC). Intimate and colorful by tradition, the high-quality program was not the only attraction of FC. In the past, FC conferences have been held in highly research-synergistic locations such as Tobago, Anguilla, Dominica, Key West, Guadelupe, Bermuda, the Grand Cayman, and Cozumel Mexico. 2010 was the rst year that the conference was held on European soil, in the Spanish Canary Islands, in Atlantic waters, a few miles across Morocco. Over 100 researchers from more than 20 countries were in attendance. 257 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mathematics as a production factor or driving force for innovation Those, who want to know and understand why mathematics is deeply involved in the design of products, the layout of production processes and supply chains will find this book an indispensable and rich source.Describing the interplay between mathematical and engineering sciences the book focusses on questions likeHow can mathematics improve to the improvement of technological processes and products What is happening already Where are the deficits What can we expect for the future 19 articles written by mixed teams of authors of engineering, industry and mathematics offer a fascinating insight of the interaction between mathematics and engineering. 402 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the conference Arti- cial Intelligence in Theory and Practice (IFIP AI 2010), which formed part of the 21st World Computer Congress of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Pr- essing (WCC-2010), in Brisbane, Australia in September 2010. The conference was organized by the IFIP Technical Committee on Artificial Int- ligence (Technical Committee 12) and its Working Group 12.5 (Artificial Intelligence Applications). All papers were reviewed by at least two members of our Program Committee. - nal decisions were made by the Executive Program Committee, which comprised John Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Ilias Maglogiannis (University of Central Greece, Lamia, Greece), Eunika Mercier-Laurent (KIM, France) and myself. The best papers were selected for the conference, either as long papers (maximum 10 pages) or as short papers (maximum 5 pages) and are included in this volume. The international nature of IFIP is amply reflected in the large number of countries represented here. I should like to thank the Conference Chair, Tharam Dillon, for all his efforts and the members of our Program Committee for reviewing papers under a very tight de- line. 268 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thisvolumecontainstheinvitedandregularpaperspresentedat TCS 2010,the 6thIFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, organised by IFIP Tech- cal Committee 1 (Foundations of Computer Science) and IFIP WG 2.2 (Formal - scriptions of Programming Concepts) in association with SIGACT and EATCS. TCS 2010 was part of the World Computer Congress held in Brisbane, Australia, during September 20 23, 2010 ( ). TCS 2010 is composed of two main areas: (A) Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation, and (B) Logic, Semantics, Speci cation and Veri cation. The selection process led to the acceptance of 23 papers out of 39 submissions, eachofwhichwasreviewedbythreeProgrammeCommitteemembers.TheProgramme Committee discussion was held electronically using Easychair. The invited speakers at TCS 2010 are: Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Australia) Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and LIX, Paris, France) Sabina Rossi (Venice, Italy) James Harland (Australia) and Barry Jay (Australia) acted as TCS 2010 Chairs. We take this occasion to thank the members of the Programme Committees and the external reviewers for the professional and timely work; the conference Chairs for their support; the invited speakers for their scholarly contribution; and of course the authors for submitting their work to TCS 2010. 400 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -st This volume contains the proceedings of two conferences held as part of the 21 IFIP World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia, 20-23 September 2010. th The first part of the book presents the proceedings of DIPES 2010, the 7 IFIP Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems. The conference, int- duced in a separate preface by the Chairs, covers a range of topics from specification and design of embedded systems through to dependability and fault tolerance. rd The second part of the book contains the proceedings of BICC 2010, the 3 IFIP Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing. The conference is concerned with emerging techniques from research areas such as organic computing, autonomic computing and self-adaptive systems, where inspiraton for techniques - rives from exhibited behaviour in nature and biology. Such techniques require the use of research developed by the DIPES community in supporting collaboration over multiple systems. We hope that the combination of the two proceedings will add value for the reader and advance our related work. 332 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC) is one of the most important conferences in the area of computer science at the worldwide level and it has a federated structure, which takes into account the rapidly growing and expanding interests in this area. Informatics is rapidly changing and becoming more and more connected to a number of human and social science disciplines. Human-computer interaction is now a mature and still dynamically evolving part of this area, which is represented in IFIP by the Technical Committee 13 on HCI. In this WCC edition it was interesting and useful to have again a Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction in order to p- sent and discuss a number of contributions in this field. There has been increasing awareness among designers of interactive systems of the importance of designing for usability, but we are still far from having products that are really usable, and usability can mean different things depending on the app- cation domain. We are all aware that too many users of current technology often feel frustrated because computer systems are not compatible with their abilities and needs in existing work practices. As designers of tomorrow's technology, we have the - sponsibility of creating computer artifacts that would permit better user experience with the various computing devices, so that users may enjoy more satisfying expe- ences with information and communications technologies. 328 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Welcome to the Second International IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium on st Cultural Computing (ECS 2010), which was part of the 21 IFIP World Computer Congress, held in Brisbane, Australia during September 21-23, 2010. On behalf of the people who made this conference happen, we wish to welcome you to this inter- tional event. The IFIP World Computer Congress has offered an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their findings and research results in several prominent areas of computer science and engineering. In the last World Computer Congress, WCC 2008, held in Milan, Italy in September 2008, IFIP launched a new initiative focused on all the relevant issues concerning computing and entertainment. As a - sult, the two-day technical program of the First Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS 2008) provided a forum to address, explore and exchange information on the state of the art of computer-based entertainment and allied technologies, their design and use, and their impact on society. Based on the success of ECS 2008, at this Second IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS 2010), our challenge was to focus on a new area in entertainment computing: cultural computing. 256 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1 The Third International OPAALS Conference was an opportunity to explore and discuss digital ecosystem research issues as well as emerging and future trends in the field. The conference was organized by IPTI - Instituto de Pesquisas em Tecnologia e Inovação ( ipti. org. br). IPTI is a member of the OPAALS Framework P- gramme 7 Network of Excellence, which is led by the London School of Economics and Political Science. OPAALS is a multi-disciplinary research network of excellence for developing the science and technology behind digital ecosystems. The conference was held within the scope of a broader EU-Brazil bilateral workshop hosted by IPTI in cooperation with the Brazilian government and the European Commission and designed to foster EU support of information and communications technologies (ICT) enablement and socio-economic development in Brazil. The event was held in the city of Aracajú, Sergipe, in the northeast of Brazil, during March 22-23, 2010. Aracajú is the capital of the state of Sergipe and is located on the coast, a tropical region with lush vegetation, rivers and mangroves and an e- nomic landscape dominated by fisheries, tourism and the challenges associated with fostering local economic development in the presence of low ICT penetration. Digital ecosystems (DEs) in some ways represent the next generation of ICT and Internet usage. Applicable to many contexts, they will perhaps have the greatest effect in enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to compete on the global stage. 324 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Subdivision' is a way of representing smooth shapes in a computer. A curve or surface (both of which contain an in nite number of points) is described in terms of two objects. One object is a sequence of vertices, which we visualise as a polygon, for curves, or a network of vertices, which we visualise by drawing the edges or faces of the network, for surfaces. The other object is a set of rules for making denser sequences or networks. When applied repeatedly, the denser and denser sequences are claimed to converge to a limit, which is the curve or surface that we want to represent. This book focusses on curves, because the theory for that is complete enough that a book claiming that our understanding is complete is exactly what is needed to stimulate research proving that claim wrong. Also because there are already a number of good books on subdivision surfaces. The way in which the limit curve relates to the polygon, and a lot of interesting properties of the limit curve, depend on the set of rules, and this book is about how one can deduce those properties from the set of rules, and how one can then use that understanding to construct rules which give the properties that one wants. 232 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Biomedical engineering and medical informatics are challenging and rapidly growing areas. Applications of information technology in these areas are of paramount imp- tance. The aim of the first ITBAM conference was to bring together scientists, - searchers and practitioners from different disciplines (mathematics, bioinformatics, biology, medicine, biomedical engineering and computer science) having such c- mon interests. We hope that ITBAM conferences will provide opportunities for fru- ful discussions between all attendees and provide a platform where participants can exchange their most recent results, identify future directions and challenges, initiate possible collaborative research and system development, and develop common l- guages for solving problems in the realm of biomedical engineering, bioinformatics and medical informatics. The importance of computer-aided diagnosis and therapy has drawn more and more attention worldwide and laid the foundation for modern medicine with excellent potential for promising applications such as telemedicine, Web-based healthcare and analysis of genetic information. For this conference, after a peer-review process, we finally selected 13 long papers and 8 short papers that are now published in this volume. They are divided in to the following groups: workflow management and database; decision support and data management in biomedicine; medical data modelling and information retrieval; data mining in bioinformatics; knowledge representation and data management in bio- formatics; biological data and signal processing. The papers show how broad the spectrum of topics in applications of information technology to biomedical engine- ing and medical informatics is. 252 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Given that context-free grammars (CFG) cannot adequately describe natural languages, grammar formalisms beyond CFG that are still computationally tractable are of central interest for computational linguists. This book provides an extensive overview of the formal language landscape between CFG and PTIME, moving from Tree Adjoining Grammars to Multiple Context-Free Grammars and then to Range Concatenation Grammars while explaining available parsing techniques for these formalisms.Although familiarity with the basic notions of parsing and formal languages is helpful when reading this book, it is not a strict requirement. The presentation is supported with many illustrations and examples relating to the different formalisms and algorithms, and chapter summaries, problems and solutions. The book will be useful for students and researchers in computational linguistics and in formal language theory. 260 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Enterprise Architecture, Integration, and Interoperability and the Networked enterprise have become the theme of many conferences in the past few years. These conferences were organised by IFIP TC5 with the support of its two working groups: WG 5. 12 (Architectures for Enterprise Integration) and WG 5. 8 (Enterprise Interoperability), both concerned with aspects of the topic: how is it possible to architect and implement businesses that are flexible and able to change, to interact, and use one another's s- vices in a dynamic manner for the purpose of (joint) value creation. The original qu- tion of enterprise integration in the 1980s was: how can we achieve and integrate - formation and material flow in the enterprise Various methods and reference models were developed or proposed - ranging from tightly integrated monolithic system - chitectures, through cell-based manufacturing to on-demand interconnection of bu- nesses to form virtual enterprises in response to market opportunities. Two camps have emerged in the endeavour to achieve the same goal, namely, to achieve interoperability between businesses (whereupon interoperability is the ability to exchange information in order to use one another's services or to jointly implement a service). One school of researchers addresses the technical aspects of creating dynamic (and static) interconnections between disparate businesses (or parts thereof). 196 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Lectures on scientific data, educational lectures, and the various other forms of oral presentation are the basis for every medical meeting. Physicians are not professionally trained in giving lectures. This becomes very obvious when one visits a medical meeting. Often the message of the presentation is lost because of poor preparation, slides that fail to communicate effectively, and a generally unconvincing performance by the lecturer. To give a high-quality lecture that will be remembered for its content and form, one first has to learn some basic rules about preparation, PowerPoint slides, and oral communication. This book will enable the reader to overcome all the common presentation mistakes and to start a new career as a professional lecturer and esteemed faculty member. 92 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built 'above' the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs: the 'ladder' in the Old Testament, that angels ascended and descended. In all this, the aim of the book is to demonstrate to readers the unceasingly renewed spirit of geometry and that even so-called 'elementary' geometry is very much alive and at the very heart of the work of numerous contemporary mathematicians. It is also shown that there are innumerable paths yet to be explored and concepts to be created. The book is visually rich and inviting, so that readers may open it at random places and find much pleasure throughout according their own intuitions and inclinations. Marcel Berger is the author of numerous successful books on geometry, this book once again is addressed to all students and teachers of mathematics with an affinity for geometry. 848 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Absolut praxisnah und immer eher mit einem zwinkernden Auge, statt mit dem erhobenen Zeigefinger beantwortet der vorliegende Leitfaden folgende Fragestellungen und Themen rund um die Erstellung einer wissenschaftlichen Ausarbeitung: - Wie und wo recherchiere ich Wie verwalte ich die Quellen - Wie zitiere und referenziere ich korrekt - Welches Material darf ich hinsichtlich der Urheberrechte verwenden - Wie baue ich meine Gliederung auf - Welche Software-Tools sind für welche Aufgaben besonders geeignet - Wie erstelle ich Grafiken, Charts, Formeln, Diagramme - Wie bette ich sie ein - Wie funktioniert der Austausch mit dem Verlag bzw. mit der Druckerei - Neue deutsche Rechtschreibung, Stil, normgerechte Zeichnungen. Als solide Basis für eine studentische Arbeit oder auch eine Dissertation ist zu diesem Buch eine komfortable LaTeX-Vorlage online frei erhältlich. 156 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Algorithms are essential building blocks of computer applications. However, advancements in computer hardware, which render traditional computer models more and more unrealistic, and an ever increasing demand for efficient solution to actual real world problems have led to arising gap between classical algorithm theory and algorithmics in practice.The emerging discipline of Algorithm Engineering aims at bridging this gap. Driven by concrete applications, Algorithm Engineering complements theory by the benefits of experimentation and puts equal emphasis on all aspects arising during a cyclic solution process ranging from realistic modeling, design, analysis, robust and efficient implementations to careful experiments.This tutorial - outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar held in Dagstuhl Castle in September 2006 - covers the essential aspects of this process in ten chapters on basic ideas, modeling and design issues, analysis of algorithms, realistic computer models, implementation aspects andalgorithmic software libraries, selected case studies, as well as challenges in Algorithm Engineering. Both researchers and practitioners in the field will find it useful as a state-of-the-art survey. 513 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Emerged during the last two decades, nanoscience stands out for its interdisciplinarity. Barriers between disciplines seem to disappear at the convergence of the very small, where basic principles and tools are universal. Novel properties are inherent to nanosized systems due to a quantum effects and a reduction in dimensionality: nanoscience is likely to revolutionize many areas of human activity, such as materials science, nanoelectronics, information processing, biotechnology and medicine. This textbook spans over all fields of nanoscience, covering its broad applications. After a sound introduction to the physical and chemical principles of nanoscience, the text then moves onto the wider fields of microscopy, nanoanalysis, synthesis, nanocrystals, nanowires, nanolayers, carbon nanostructures, bulk nanomaterials, nanomechanics, nanophotonics, nanofluidics, nanomagnetism, nanotechnology for computers, nanochemistry, nanobiology, and nanomedicine. Didactically structured and replete with hundreds of illustrations, this uniquely compiled textbook is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students of all natural sciences. 772 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Buch bietet eine schlanke Einführung, sowohl in die klassischen als auch in die moderneren Methoden der Theorie der Automorphen Formen, und führt auf einem sehr zugänglichem Niveau in die adelische und darstellungstheoretische Sichtweise ein. Durch die Konzentration auf das Wesentliche der Theorie und die Beschränkung auf den 'Grundkörper Q' wird der Leser schnell zu den wesentlichen Zielen und Ergebnissen geführt.Für an Zahlentheorie und angrenzenden Gebieten wie z.B. algebraische/arithmetische Geometrie interessierte Studierende der Mathematik bietet das Buch einen optimalen Einstieg in das Thema. 260 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches used to model residential locations within the context of developing land-use and transport models. These approaches illustrate the range of choices that modellers have to make in order to represent residential choice behaviour. The models presented in this book represent the state-of-the-art and are valuable both as key building blocks for general urban models, and as representative examples of complexity science. 252 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -After the rst edition of this book was published in early 2005, the world has changed dramatically and at a pace never seen before. The changes that - curred in 2008 and 2009 were completely unthinkable two years before. These changes took place not only in the Finance sector, the origin of the crisis, but also, as a result, in other economic sectors like the automotive sector. Governments now own substantial parts, if not majorities, in banks or other companies which recorded losses of double digit billions of USD in 2008. 2008 saw the collapse of leading stand-alone U. S. investment banks. In many co- tries interest rates fell close to zero. What has happend While the economy showed strong growth in 2004 to 2006, the Subprime or Credit Crisis changed the picture completely. What started in the U. S. ho- ing market in late 2006 became a full- edged global nancial crisis and has a ected nancial markets around the world. A decline in U. S. house prices and increasing interest rates caused a higher rate of subprime mortgage delinqu- cies in the U. S. and, due to the wide distribution of securitized assets, had a negative e ect on other markets. As a result, markets realized that risks had been underestimated and volatility increased. This development culminated in the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in mid September 2008. 389 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This monograph provides a concise introduction to the overlapping generations approach to the intertemporal economics of renewable natural resources. In contrast to the dominant infinitely-lived agent (ILA) approach it acknowledges that natural resources typically outlive the individuals who use them. Finite lifetimes, generations overlap and competing natural and man-made capital facilitate long-run intergenerational inefficiency and inequity (unsustainability) of market allocations. While avoiding any presumption of either doomsday or a golden age, the book investigates the structural and institutional preconditions needed to ensure that renewable resources are used efficiently and equitably across generations. The primary aim of this book is to provide an easy-to-follow guide to the analytically much more demanding journal literature. This is achieved by using the same model type throughout the book and by adhering to functional specifications that allow for explicit equilibrium solutions. 173 pp. Englisch. …