springer berlin heidelberg dez 1998 (41 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ein einzigartiges Informatik-Dokument: Informatiker der ersten Stunde erzählen aus ihrem Leben. Es geht weniger darum, außergewöhnliche Ereignisse oder Biographien herauszustellen, als vielmehr die Informatik in die Zeitgeschichte und die Lebensumstände des einzelnen einzubetten. Eine informative, spannende und unterhaltsame Lektüre mit vielen Anregungen für den Umgang mit der modernen Computer-Technik. Der Band enthält fünf Interviews mit Personen, die die faszinierende Technik 'Computer' und die aufstrebende Wissenschaft 'Informatik' entscheidend mitgestaltet haben. Die Gespräche wurden im Rahmen eines Interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts zur 'Sozialgeschichte der Informatik' der Technischen Universität Berlin geführt, in dem soziale und kulturelle Einflüsse auf die wissenschaftliche und technische Entwicklung untersucht wurden. In den fünf Erzählungen verknüpfen die Akteure ihre Lebensumstände und Orientierungen mit dem frühen Bau elektronischer Rechenanlagen, der Erarbeitung von Programmiersprachen oder der Etablierung der Disziplin Informatik. Sie betonen immer wieder die Zufälligkeit wegweisender Informationen und veranschaulichen gleichzeitig, wie unentbehrlich Eigeninitiative und soziale wie fachliche Kompetenz sind. Die Befragten stammen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz und sind für ihre Impulse und ihre Kritik weltweit bekannt und geachtet. Sie gehören der ersten oder zweiten Generation von Informatikpionieren an und berichten über entsprechend weite Zeiträume. Ihre Geschichten zeigen, wie sich in der wissenschaftlich-technischen Entwicklung persönliche, fachliche und zeitgeschichtliche Anteile mischen.Der Band wendet sich gleichermaßen an Studierende und Lehrende der Informatik, an Nutzer und Betroffene der Computertechnik sowie an Forscher und Entwickler der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie - an alle, die aus den vergangenen Entwicklungen lernen wollen, mit den gegenwärtigen besser umzugehen. 164 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Eine Technologie-orientierte Darstellung der Hochfrequenztechnik, die die Bauteile und ihre Funktionen beschreibt und somit dem Studenten und dem Ingenieur der Praxis als Arbeitsbuch dient. Im Vordergrund stehen die praktische Umsetzung, die Aufgaben und Besonderheiten der Bauelemente, die zu Funktionseinheiten der HF-Technik zusammengeführt werden. 232 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From the reviews: 'Volume 1 covers a basic course in real analysis of one variable and Fourier series. It is well-illustrated, well-motivated and very well-provided with a multitude of unusually useful and accessible exercises. (.) There are three aspects of Courant and John in which it outshines (some) contemporaries: (i) the extensive historical references, (ii) the chapter on numerical methods, and (iii) the two chapters on physics and geometry. The exercises in Courant and John are put together purposefully, and either look numerically interesting, or are intuitively significant, or lead to applications. It is the best text known to the reviewer for anyone trying to make an analysis course less abstract. (.)' The Mathematical Gazette (75.1991.471) 688 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Robot learning is a broad and interdisciplinary area. This holds with regard to the basic interests and the scienti c background of the researchers involved, as well as with regard to the techniques and approaches used. The interests that motivate the researchers in this eld range from fundamental research issues, such as how to constructively understand intelligence, to purely application o- ented work, such as the exploitation of learning techniques for industrial robotics. Given this broad scope of interests, it is not surprising that, although AI and robotics are usually the core of the robot learning eld, disciplines like cog- tive science, mathematics, social sciences, neuroscience, biology, and electrical engineering have also begun to play a role in it. In this way, its interdisciplinary character is more than a mere fashion, and leads to a productive exchange of ideas. One of the aims of EWLR-6 was to foster this exchange of ideas and to f- ther boost contacts between the di erent scienti c areas involved in learning robots. EWLR is, traditionally, a European Workshop on Learning Robots'. Nevertheless, the organizers of EWLR-6 decided to open up the workshop to non-European research as well, and included in the program committee we- known non-European researchers. This strategy proved to be successful since there was a strong participation in the workshop from researchers outside - rope, especially from Japan, which provided new ideas and lead to new contacts. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Databaseresearchisa eldofcomputersciencewheretheorymeetsapplications. Many concepts and methods, that were regarded as issues of theoretical interest when initially proposed, are now included in implemented database systems and related products. Examples abound in the elds of database design, query languages, query optimization, concurrency control, statistical databases, and many others. The papers contained in this volume were presented at ICDT'99, the 7th - ternationalConferenceonDatabaseTheory,inJerusalem,Israel,January10 -12, 1999. ICDT is an international forum for research on the principles of database systems. It is a biennial conference, and has a tradition of being held in beau- ful European sites: Rome in 1986, Bruges in 1988, Paris in 1990, Berlin in 1992, Prague in 1995, and Delphi in 1997. From 1992, ICDT has been merged with another series of conferences on theoretical aspects of database systems, The Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), that was initiated in Dresden (1987), and continued in Visegrad (1989) and Rostock (1991). ICDT aims to enhance the exchange of ideas and cooperation in database research both within uni ed Europe, and between Europe and the other continents. ICDT'99 was organized in cooperation with: ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (Sigmod) IEEE Israel Chapter ILA - The Israel Association for Information Processing EDBT Foundation ICDT'99 was sponsored by: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel Aviv University Tandem Labs Israel, a Compaq Company This volume contains 26 technical papers selected from 89 submissions. 508 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Fortschritte bei der Erforschung, Diagnostik und Therapie gastrointestinaler Erkrankungen bedürfen einer interdisziplinären Kooperation von klinischen Gastroenterologen, Immunologen, Pädiatern, Mikrobiologen, Toxikologen und Pathologen. Der achte Band der Reihe Ökosystem Darm spiegelt den Stand des Wissens bezüglich hochaktueller Forschungsgebiete wider. 336 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand im Rahmen meiner Tätigkeit als Doktorand am Institut für Steuerungstechnik der Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungseinrichtungen der Uni versität Stuttgart (ISW) unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Prof. DrAng. A. Storr in Zusammenarbeit mit der Verfahrensentwicklung der Mercedes-Benz AG. Ihm danke ich für die gute Betreuung, die vielen, hilfreichen Anregungen und die wertvollen fachli chen Diskussionen. Bei Herrn Prof. DrAng. Dr. h. c. U. Heise! möchte ich mich rur sein entgegengebrachtes Interesse an dieser Arbeit und die Übernahme des Mitberichts bedanken. Herrn Dipl.-Ing. R. Kluth und Herrn Dipl.-Ing. D. Schützenauer möchte ich rur die freundliche Aufnahme in der Abteilung Meß,- Prüf- und Automatisierungstechnik der Verfahrensentwicklung der Mercedes-Benz AG danken. Besonders bedanken möchte ich mich bei Herrn DrAng. C. Siegel, Projektleiter des Pro jekts 'Neue Produktionssysteme', der die Anregung zu dieser Arbeit gab mit seinem Rat und seiner Erfahrung in vielen konstruktiven Gesprächen den erfolgreichen Abschluß dieser Arbeit erst möglich machte. Auch den Herren Dipl.-Ing. U. Spahn, Dipl.-Ing. P. StadtIer, Dipl.-Ing. E. Dobler, Dipl. lng. M. Schoenenberg, Dipl.-Ing. D. Ruoffund Dipl.-Ing. T. Brandl gilt mein besonde rer Dank für die sehr gute und fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit sowie die zahlreichen fachli chen Diskussionen. Alle anderen nicht namentlich genannten Mitarbeitern des ISW sowie der Verfahrens entwicklung der Mercedes-Benz AG danke ich für ihr stets kollegiales Verhalten und ih re Aufgeschlossenheit. 156 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This work was first published in 1947 in German under the title 'Re chenmethoden der Quantentheorie'. It was meant to serve a double purpose: to help both, the student when first confronted with quantum mechanics and the experimental scientist, who has never before used it as a tool, to learn how to apply the general theory to practical problems of atomic physics. Since that early date, many excellent books have been written introducing into the general framework of the theory and thus indispensable to a deeper understanding. It seems, however, that the more practical side has been somewhat neglected, except, of course, for the flood of special monographs going into broad detail on rather restricted topics. In other words, an all-round introduction to the practical use of quantum mechanics seems, so far, not to exist and may still be helpful. It was in the hope of filling this gap that the author has fallen in with the publishers' wish to bring the earlier German editions up to date and to make the work more useful to the worldwide community of science students and scientists by writing the new edition in English. From the beginning there could be no doubt that the work had to be much enlarged. New approximation methods and other developments, especially in the field of scattering, had to be added. It seemed necessary to include relativistic quantum mechanics and to offer, at least, a glimpse of radiation theory as an example of wave field quantization. 648 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Atlas mit über 750 brillanten Photos bietet jedem Mediziner in Studium, Klinik und Praxis einen schnellen Zugang zu den wichtigsten ophthalmologischen Diagnosen. Anschauliche Zeichnungen verdeutlichen die anatomischen Grundlagen und illustrieren die wichtigsten Operationen. Ausführliche Legenden vermitteln wesentliches Hintergrundwissen. Ein Farbregister macht das Nachschlagen leicht. 432 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Kongreßband 1998 in Langenbecks Archiv enthält die Hauptvorträge des 115. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie in München sowie die durch ein Peer review ausgewählten freien Vorträge. Der Band gehört nicht nur in die Hand eines jeden Chirurgen, der Anspruch auf die wissenschaftliche Ausübung seines Faches erhebt, sondern auch in jede Klinikbibliothek. 2028 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The ability to draw inferences is a central operation in any artificial intelligence system. Automated reasoning is therefore among the traditional disciplines in AI. Theory reasoning is about techniques for combining automated reasoning systems with specialized and efficient modules for handling domain knowledge called background reasoners.Connection methods have proved to be a good choice for implementing high-speed automated reasoning systems. They are the starting point in this monograph,in which several theory reasoning versions are defined and related to each other. A major contribution of the book is a new technique of linear completion allowing for the automatic construction of background reasoners from a wide range of axiomatically given theories. The emphasis is on theoretical investigations, but implementation techniques based on Prolog are also covered. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains revisedversions of selected papers presented at the Fourth Australian Workshop on Distributed Arti cial Intelligence (DAK 91), together with a set of invited papers. Each paper has been reviewed by at least two program committee members. The workshop was held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on July 17,1992. The goalof the workshopwas to promoteresearchin distributed arti cial intelligence and multi-agent systems, both nationally and internationally. Thepapers covera widerangeofissuesin the eldof distributed arti cial intelligence and multi-agent systems, such as theories, languages, and applications. Manypeoplecontributedtothesuccessofthis workshop. Wewouldliketothank all the authors who submitted papers to the workshop. Many thanks also to the members of the programme committee who diligently reviewed all the papers submitted. Finally, we thank the editorial sta of Springer-Verlag for publishing this contribution to the Lecture Notes in Arti cial Intelligence series. October 1998 Chengqi Zhang and Dickson Lukose Programme Committee Chengqi Zhang (Co-Chair) University of New England, Australia Dickson Lukose (Co-Chair) Brightware Inc. , USA Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts, USA Je rey S. Rosenschein Hebrew University, Israel Toshiharu Sugawara NTT Basic Research Labs, Japan Rose Dieng ACACIA Project, INRIA, France Norbert Glaser CRIN-INRIA Lorraine, France Sascha Ossowski Rey Juan Carlos Univ, Spain Michael Luck University of Warwick, UK Mark d Inverno University of Westminster, UK Tim Norman University of London, UK Douglas Norrie University of Calgary, Canada Bernard Moulin Laval University, Canada Zhisheng Huang University of London, UK Minjie Zhang Edith Cowan University, Australia Brahim Chaib-draa Laval University, Canada Table of Contents TeamFormationbySelf-InterestedMobileAgents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Advances in Computer Science often arise from new ideas and concepts, that prove to be advantageous for the design of complex software systems. The con ception of multi agent systems is particularly attractive, as it prommodul ises arity based on the conceptual speciality of an agent, as well as flexibility in their inte gration through appropriate interaction models. While early systems drew upon co operative agents, recent developments have realised the importance of the notion of autonomy in the design of agent based applications. The emergence of systems of autonomous problem solving agents paves the way for complex Artificial Intelligence applications that allow fosca r lability and at the same time foster the reusability of their components. In consequence, an intelligent multi agent application can be seen as a collec tion of autonomous agents, usually specialised in different tasks, together with a social model of their interactions. This approach implies a dynamic generation of complex relational structures, that agents need to be knowledgeable of in order to successfully achieve their goals. Therefore, a multi agent system designer needs to think carefully about conceptualisation, representation and enactment of the different types of knowledge that its agents rely on, for individual problem solving as well as for mutual co ordination. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Fifteen papers were presented at the first workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation held as part of the Agents World conference in Paris, July 4-- 6, 1998. The workshop was designed to bring together two developing communities: the multi-agent systems researchers who were the core participants at Agents World, and social scientists interested in using MAS as a research tool. Most of the social sciences were represented, with contributions touching on sociology, management science, economics, psychology, environmental science, ecology, and linguistics. The workshop was organised in association with SimSoc, an informal group of social scientists who have arranged an irregular series of influential workshops on using simulation in the social sciences beginning in 1992. While the papers were quite heterogeneous in substantive domain and in their disciplinary origins, there were several themes which recurred during the workshop. One of these was considered in more depth in a round table discussion led by Jim Doran at the end of the workshop on 'Representing cognition for social simulation', which addressed the issue of whether and how cognition should be modelled. Quite divergent views were expressed, with some participants denying that individual cognition needed to be modelled at all, and others arguing that cognition must be at the centre of social simulation. 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is based on the author's Ph.D. thesis which was selected during the 1994 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition as one of the two co-winning works. T.V. Raman did his Ph.D. work at Cornell University with Professor Davied Gries as thesis advisor.The author presents the computing system ASTER that audio formats electronic documents to produce audio documents. ASTER can speak both literary texts and highly technical documents containing complex mathematics (presented in (LA)TEX). 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Pathophysiologie des Schmerzes ist eine wichtige Grundlage der Medizin. Gestörte Körperfunktionen führen zu den medizinisch bedeutsamen, meist chronischen Schmerzen, wobei die Plasitiztät des peripheren und zentralen Nervensystems eine besonders wichtige Rolle spielt. Um die chronischen Schmerzen behandeln zu können, müssen die anatomischen und physiologischen Voraussetzungen der Schmerzentstehung geklärt werden. Ziel des vorliegenden Buches ist es, den derzeitigen Forschungsstand wiederzugeben, um dem Arzt und Schmerztherapeuten beispielsweise die ontogenetische Entwicklung der Schmerzempfindlichkeit und den Zusammenhang von Schmerz und Entzündung verständlich zu machen. 192 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This article discusses the community metaphor as the next stage of network computing. The first meeting in Kyoto was blessed with lovely weather. Though we did not organize a formal committee for this meeting, a number of social and computer scientists joined. Since the meeting was semi closed, besides a variety of invited presentations, a number of papers were submitted to the meeting from the US, Europe and Pacific Rim countries. The mixture of invited and selected papers made the meeting moderately open and attractive. Most of presentations made at the meeting are included in this volume. We also had plenty of discussion time during the meeting. Some of the discussion results are also included. From these papers, readers can get a clear image of the actual meeting. I would like to express my great appreciation of the co organizers, Toyoaki Nishida, Takao Terano and Fumio Hattori and all the participants who contributed to the meeting. I also wish to thank the local arrangement people of the meeting: they are Toshikazu Nishimura, Hirofumi Yamaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Keiki Takadama, Shoko Miyagawa and Yoko Kubota. Special thanks to Hirofumi Yamaki and Masayuki Okamoto, who did tremendous work for editing this volume. I also thank Andre Durand for a discussion on the ter co mmmu nityware. Though we have independently used this term, it appears that the term is a trademark of Durand Communication Inc. 408 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch zur Formalen Begriffsanalyse gibt eine systematische Darstellung der mathematischen Grundlagen und ihrer Verbindung zu Anwendungen in der Informatik, insbesondere in der Datenanalyse und Wissensverarbeitung. Das Buch vermittelt vor allem Methoden der graphischen Darstellung von Begriffssystemen, die sich in der Wissenskommunikation bestens bewährt haben. Theorie und graphische Darstellung werden dabei eng miteinander verknüpft. Die mathematischen Grundlagen werden vollständig abgehandelt und durch zahlreiche Beispiele anschaulich gemacht. Da zur Wissensverarbeitung immer stärker der Computer genutzt wird, gewinnen formale Methoden begrifflicher Analyse überall an Bedeutung. Das Buch macht die dafür grundlegende Theorie in kompakter Form zugänglich. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -State-transition systems model machines, programs, and speci cations [20, 23,284,329],butalsothegrowthanddeclineofantpopulations, nancial markets, diseases and crystals [22, 35, 178, 209, 279]. In the last decade, thegrowinguseofdigitalcontrollersinvariousenvironmentshasentailed theconvergenceofcontroltheoryandreal-timesystemstowardhybrids- tems [16] by combining both discrete-event facets of reality with Nature s continuous-time aspects. The computing scientist and the mathematician have re-discovered each other. Indeed, in the late sixties, the programming language Simula, father of modern object-oriented languages, had already been speci cally designed to model dynamical systems [76]. Today,theimportanceofcomputer-basedsystemsinbanks,telecom- nication systems, TVs, planes and cars results in larger and increasingly complex models. Two techniques had to be developed and are now fruitfully used to keep analytic and synthetic processes feasible: composition and - straction.Acompositionalapproachbuildssystemsbycomposingsubsystems that are smaller and more easily understood or built. Abstraction simpli es unimportantmattersandputstheemphasisoncrucialparametersofsystems. Inordertodealwiththecomplexityofsomestate-transitionsystemsand tobetterunderstandcomplexorchaoticphenomenaemergingoutofthe behaviorofsomedynamicalsystems,theaimofthismonographistoprese nt rststepstowardtheintegratedstudyofcompositionandabstractionin dynamical systems de ned by iterated relations. Themaininsightsandresultsofthisworkconcernastructuralorm f of complexityobtainedbycompositionofsimpleinteractingsystemspresenti ng opposedattractingbehaviors.Thiscomplexityexpressesitselfintheevo- tionofcomposedsystems,i.e.,theirdynamics,andintherelationsbetween their initial and nal states, i.e., the computations they realize. The theor- ical results presented in the monograph are then validated by the analysis ofdynamicalandcomputationalpropertiesoflow-dimensionalprototypesof chaotic systems (e.g. Smale horseshoe map, Cantor relation, logistic map), high-dimensional spatiotemporally complex systems (e.g. cellular automata), and formal systems (e.g. paperfoldings, Turing machines). Acknowledgements. ThismonographisarevisionofmyPhDthesiswhichwas completed at the Universit e catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in March 96. VIII Preface The results presented here have been in uenced by many people and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Preface VI I X Table of Contents B. Möller and J.V. Tucker (Eds.): Prospects for Hardware Foundations, LNCS 1546, pp. 1-26, 1998. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998 2 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 3 4 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 5 6 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 7 8 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 9 10 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 11 12 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 13 14 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 15 16 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 17 18 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 19 20 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 21 22 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 23 24 The NADA Group Introduction: NADA and NIL 25 26 The NADA Group Streams, Stream Transformers and Domain Representations B. Möller and J.V. Tucker (Eds.): Prospects for Hardware Foundations, LNCS 1546, pp. 27-68, 1998. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998 28 J. Blanck, V. Stoltenberg-Hansen, and J.V. Tucker Streams, Stream Transformers and Domain Representations 29 30 J. Blanck, V. Stoltenberg-Hansen, and J.V. Tucker Streams, Stream Transformers and Domain Representations 31 32 J. Blanck, V. Stoltenberg-Hansen, and J.V. Tucker Streams, Stream Transformers and Domain Representations 33 34 J. Blanck, V. Stoltenberg-Hansen, and J.V. Tucker Streams, Stream Transformers and Domain Representations 35 36 J. Blanck, V. Stoltenberg-Hansen, and J.V. Tucker Streams, Stream Transformers and Domain Representations 37 484 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Department of Electrical Engineering-ESAT at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven regularly runs a course on the state of the art and evolution of computer security and industrial cryptography. The rst course took place in 1983, the second in 1989, and since then the course has been a biennial event. The course is intended for both researchers and practitioners from industry and government. It covers the basic principles as well as the most recent - velopments. Our own interests mean that the course emphasizes cryptography, but we also ensure that the most important topics in computer security are covered. We try to strike a good balance between basic theory and real-life - plications, between mathematical background and judicial aspects, and between recent technical developments and standardization issues. Perhaps the greatest strength of the course is the creation of an environment that enables dialogue between people from diverse professions and backgrounds. In 1993, we published the formal proceedings of the course in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Volume 741). Since the el d of cryptography has advanced considerably during the interim period, there is a clear need to publish a new edition. Since 1993, several excellent textbooks and handbooks on cryptology have been published and the need for introductory-level papers has decreased. The growth of the main conferences in cryptology (Eurocrypt, Crypto,and Asiacrypt) shows that interest in the eld is increasing. 408 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The importance of hyperbolic conservation laws for scientific and industrial applications has led to a growing amount of research activity in this field. A variety of physical phenomena in fluid mechanics, astrophysics, groundwa ter flow, meteorology, reactive flow and several other areas can be effectively modeled by systems of conservation laws. In order to focus recent trends in theory and numerics in this research area and to stimulate further research in this field, we decided to organize the 'International School on Theory and Numerics for Conservation Laws', which took place in FreiburgjLittenweiler, Germany, from 20 to 24 October 1997. The school was sponsored by the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 'Nichtlineare Dif ferentialgleichungen, Modellierung, Theorie, Numerik, Visualisierung' at the University of Freiburg. It was attended by about 60 young international re searchers. This volume contains the contributions of the five main lecturers of the school. Each article covers five hours of lectures on a specific new research area in the field of theory and numerics for conservation laws. Reviews of recent de velopments are given, accompanied by new research results of the authors. The topics include a kinetic approach to conservation laws by Benoit Perthame, which can be used for the construction of approximate Riemann solvers for the full system of gas dynamics. Several ideas related to the stability and entropy analysis are discussed. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book, the last in a series of eight proceedings volumes, presents an up-to-date overview on immunology and inflammation based on a congress held in Budapest, Hungary in April 1998. It is divided into the following sections: Basic Mechanisms, Endo- and Exotoxins, Soluble Receptors, and Treatment Perspectives. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der vorliegende Band faßt die Referate eines deutsch-polnischen Experten-Hearings zusammen, bei dem Praktiker, zu deren Berufsalltag die Bekämpfung der Kriminalität im Grenzgebiet Frankfurt (Oder)/Slubice gehört, ihre vielfältigen Erfahrungen schildern. Das Ergebnis ist eine Fülle Materials aus der Arbeit des Grenzschutzes, des Zolls, der Polizei, der Staatsanwaltschaften und der Gerichte beiderseits der Grenze. Die Referate geben einen Überblick über die drastische Zunahme der Kriminalität in der Region seit Anfang der 90er Jahre, über die Ursachen für diesen Anstieg und über die Chancen für eine wirksamere Bekämpfung der Kriminalität im Grenzgebiet. 324 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this small volume experts provide succinct answers to freuqently asked questions about the properties and handling of X-ray contrast media. It is an excellent reference source for all using these agents. Basic information is given on the development, toxicology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and clinical testing of contrast agents and in question and answer form on the problems and adverse events which may be associated with them. Most of the book is concerned with the most frequently used iodinated X-ray agents but there are useful sections on the magnetic resonance and ultrasound echo enhancing agents which are assuming greater and increasing importance. This book will be of interest to both radiologists and clinicians. In this small volume experts provide succinct answers to frequently asked questions about the properties and handling of X-ray contrast agents. It is an excellent reference source for all using these agents. Basic information is given on the development, toxicology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and clinical testing of contrast agents and in question and answer form on the problems and adverse events which may be associated with them. Most of the book is concerned with the most frequently used iodinated X-ray agents but there are useful sections on the magnetic resonance and ultrasound echo enhancing agents which are assuming greater and increasing importance. This book will be of interest to both radiologists and clinicians. 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At the time of writing (mid-October 1998) we can look back at what has been a very successful ECOOP'98. Despite the time of the year - in the middle of what is traditionally regarded as a holiday period - ECOOP'98 was a record breaker in terms of number of participants. Over 700 persons found their way to the campus of the Brussels Free University to participate in a wide range of activities. This 3rd ECOOP workshop reader reports on many of these activities. It contains a careful selection of the input and a cautious summary of the outcome for the numerous discussions that happened during the workshops, demonstrations and posters. As such, this book serves as an excellent snapshot of the state of the art in the field of object oriented programming. About the diversity of the submissions A workshop reader is, by its very nature, quite diverse in the topics covered as well as in the form of its contributions. This reader is not an exception to this rule: as editors we have given the respective organizers much freedom in their choice of presentation because we feel form follows content. This explains the diversity in the types of reports as well as in their lay out. 604 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -AMAST's goal is to advance awareness of algebraic and logical methodology as part of the fundamental basis of software technology. Ten years and seven conferences after the start of the AMAST movement, I believe we are attaining this. The movement has propagated throughout the world, assembling many enthusiastic specialists who have participated not only in the conferences, which are now annual, but also in the innumerable other activities that AMAST promotes and supports. We are now facing the Seventh International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST'98). The previous meetings were held in Iowa City, USA (1989 and 1991), in Enschede, The Netherlands (1993), in Montreal, Canada (1995), in Munich, Germany (1996), and in Sydney, Australia (1997). This time it is Brazil's turn, in a very special part of this colorful country - Amazonia. Thus, 'if we have done more it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' The effort started by Teodor Rus, Arthur Fleck, and William A. Kirk at AMAST'89 was consolidated in AMAST'91 by Teodor Rus, Maurice Nivat, Charles Rattray, and Giuseppe Scollo. Then came modular construction of the building, wonderfully carried out by Giuseppe Scollo, Vangalur Alagar, Martin Wirsing, and Michael Johnson, as Program Chairs of the AMAST conferences held between 1993 and 1997. 552 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the carefully refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA'98, held in Umea, Sweden, in June 1998.The 75 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers address a variety of topics in large scale scientific and industrial-strength computing, in particular high-performance computing and networking; tools, languages, and environments for parallel processing; scientific visualization and virtual reality; and future directions in high-performance computing and communication. 608 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Computer Vision has now reached a level of maturity that allows us not only to perform research on individual methods but also to build fully integrated computer vision systems of a signi cant complexity. This opens up a number of new problems related to architectures, systems integration, validation of - stems using benchmarking techniques, and so on. So far, the majority of vision conferences have focused on component technologies, which has motivated the organization of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS). It is our hope that the conference will allow us not only to see a number of interesting new vision techniques and systems but hopefully also to de ne the research issues that need to be addressed to pave the way for more wide-scale use of computer vision in a diverse set of real-world applications. ICVS is organized as a single-track conference consisting of high-quality, p- viously unpublished, contributed papers on new and original research on c- puter vision systems. All contributions will be presented orally. A total of 65 papers were submitted for consideration by the conference. All papers were - viewed by three reviewers from the program committee. Thirty-two of the papers were selected for presentation. ICVS'99 is being held at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium and Convention Centre, in Las Palmas, on the lovely Canary Islands, Spain. The setting is spri- like, which seems only appropriate as the basis for a new conference. 572 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is gratifying that this textbook is still sufficiently popular to warrant a third edition. I have used the opportunity to improve and enlarge the book. When the second edition was prepared, only two pages on algebraic geometry codes were added. These have now been removed and replaced by a relatively long chapter on this subject. Although it is still only an introduction, the chapter requires more mathematical background of the reader than the remainder of this book. One of the very interesting recent developments concerns binary codes defined by using codes over the alphabet 7l.4- There is so much interest in this area that a chapter on the essentials was added. Knowledge of this chapter will allow the reader to study recent literature on 7l. -codes. 4 Furthermore, some material has been added that appeared in my Springer Lec ture Notes 201, but was not included in earlier editions of this book, e. g. Generalized Reed-Solomon Codes and Generalized Reed-Muller Codes. In Chapter 2, a section on 'Coding Gain' ( the engineer's justification for using error-correcting codes) was added. For the author, preparing this third edition was a most welcome return to mathematics after seven years of administration. For valuable discussions on the new material, I thank C.P.l.M.Baggen, I. M.Duursma, H.D.L.Hollmann, H. C. A. van Tilborg, and R. M. Wilson. A special word of thanks to R. A. Pellikaan for his assistance with Chapter 10. 252 pp. Englisch.