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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -of of classes of finite Properties products conjugacy groups 4r6radoldbrancf, This of finite was studied in the 1980's. The group theory. topic intensively book 'Products of Classes in edited Z. Arad and [22] Conjugacy Groups,' by M. a of the results obtained this Herzog, gives comprehensive picture during period. It realized several authors that this research could be extended to was by of irreducible characters. Werefer the reader to the products papers [1, 2, 11, 13-16,21,23,35,40,51,52,651. In several of these the authors found an between analogy pr- papers of classes and of irreducible characters which led to ucts conjugacy products of table introduced H.L.Blau and Z. Arad in in the notion algebra, by [7], in uniform the of of order to a decomposition products study way conjugacy and irreducible characters of finite Since the classes groups. then, theory in of Z. - of table was H. algebras extensively developed papers Arad, F. D. M.R. E. H. J. isha, Blau, B-dnger, Chillag, Darafsheh, Erez, Fisman, V. M. A. C. and B. Xu Miloslavsky, Muzychuk, Rahnamai, Scopolla [3-5,7- 10,12,17-20,25,29-33,35,41]. Table as be onsidered a class of defined, c special algbras, may C-algbras Y. Kawada and G. Hoheisel table introduced a by [49] [48].:More precisely, where the is a structure constants are Each algebra C-algebra nonnegative. finite two natural table the table of yields algebras: algebra conjugacy group classes and the table of characters. 140 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a synopsis of modern deep-field astronomy, based on the powerful telescopes and instruments developed in recent years. It is organized along topical themes, such as the extragalactic background radiation at different wavelengths, the evolution of galaxies, the history of star formation, the nature of absorbers, the reionization of the intergalactic medium, the validity of photometric redshifts, gravitational lensing, and clustering of galaxies. Stellar and substellar objects were not neglected, however, and one session was devoted to nearby bodies such as trans-Neptunian solar system objects, brown dwarfs, and stars with special characteristics. 408 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Sophus Lie (1842-1899) is one of Norways greatest scientific talents. His mathematical works have made him famous around the world no less than Niels Henrik Abel. The terms 'Lie groups' and 'Lie algebra' are part of the standard mathematical vocabulary. In his comprehensive biography the author Arild Stubhaug introduces us to both the person Sophus Lie and his time. We follow him through: childhood at the vicarage in Nordfjordeid; his youthful years in Moss; education in Christiania; travels in Europe; and learn about his contacts with the leading mathematicians of his time. 572 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference, PSI 2001, held in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2001.The 50 revised papers presented together with 2 invited memorial papers devoted to the work of Andrei Ershov were carefully selected during 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement. The book offers topical sections on computing and algorithms, logical methods, verification, program transformation and synthesis, semantics and types, processes and concurrency, UML specification, Petri nets, testing, software construction, data and knowledge bases, logic programming, constraint programming, program analysis, and language implementation. 568 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Themultiset (a set with multiplicities associated with its elements, in the form of natural numbers) is a notion which has appeared again and again in many areas of mathematics and computer science, sometimes called abag (some h- torical information appears in the enclosed paper by A. Syropoulos). As a data structure, this notion stands in-between strings/lists, where a linear ordering of symbols/items is present, andsets, where no ordering and no multiplicity is considered;inamultiset,onlythemultiplicityofelementsmatters,nottheir ordering. Actually, in between lists and multisets we also havepomsets, partially ordered multisets. Con ning ourselves to computer science, we may mention many areas where multisets are used: formal power series, Petri nets, data bases, logics, formal language theory (in relation with Parikh mapping, commutative grammars, etc), concurrency, and so on. In the last few years, the notion has occurred in a rather natural way in the molecular computing area. An aqueous solution of chemical compounds, swimming together in a given space, without any given spatial relation between individual elements, is just a multiset. Actually, this chemical metaphor was used several years before the occurrence of what is now called molecular computing, as the basic ingredient of the Gamma language and the Chemical Abstract Machine (a comprehensive survey of these ideas is provided by J. -P. Ban atre, P. Fradet, D. Le Metayer). 372 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -MessagefromtheGeneralCo-Chairs It is our pleasure to welcome you to the Eighth International Conference on High Performance Computing and to Hyderabad, a leading center for Infor- tionTechnologyinIndia.Thismessagepaystributetomanyvolunteerswho made this meeting possible. We are indebted to Professor Burkhard Monien for his superb e orts as p- gramchairinorganizinganexcellenttechnicalprogram.Wewouldliketothank the vice chairs, Guang Gao, Allan Gottlieb, Bruce Maggs, Cauligi Raghavendra, and Horst Simon, for their e orts in putting together a strong program comm- tee, who in turn reviewed the submissions and composed an excellent technical program.WewouldliketothankCauligiRaghavendraforhise ortsinorga- zing the invited session on networks. Many volunteers have been associated with HiPC over the years, and they have continued their excellent service in organizing the meeting: Vipin Kumar invited the keynote speakers and coordinated the keynotes, Sartaj Sahni handled the poster/presentation session, Sandhya Dwarkadas and Tulika Mitra handled - blicity, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and her assistant Mario Espinoza interfaced with the authors and Springer-Verlag in bringing out these proceedings, Manav Misra put together the tutorials, Ajay Gupta did a ne job in handling inter- tional nancial matters, Dheeraj Sanghi administered scholarships for students from Indian academia, Sudheendra Hangal handled the exhibits with inputs from R.Govindarajan,SajalDasactedasvicegeneralchair,C.P.Ravikumarand Vinod Sanjay, though not listed in the announcements, managed publicity w- hin India. We would like to thank all of them for their time and e orts. OurspecialthanksgotoA.K.P.Nambiarforhiscontinuede ortsinhandling nancial matters as well as coordinating the activities within India. 464 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers in this volume were presented at ICLSSC 2001, the Third Inter- tionalConferenceonLarge-ScaleScienti cComputing. ICLSSC2001washeldin Sozopol,Bulgaria,June6 10,2001. Theconferencewasorganizedandsponsored bytheCentralLaboratoryonParallelProcessingoftheBulgarianAcademyof Sciences,andtheDepartmentofNumericalAnalysisandStatisticsoftheUniv- sityofRouse,Bulgaria. SupportwasalsoreceivedfromtheCenterofExcellence BIS21 (fundedbytheEuropeanCommission),SIAM(SocietyforIndustrial andAppliedMathematics)anditsActivityGrouponSupercomputing. Weare indebtedtoourcolleagueswhohelpedusintheorganizationofthisconference. Wethanktheorganizersofthespecialsessions:O. Axelsson,I. Dimov,A. Ebel, K. Georgiev, V. Getov, S. Heinrich, O. Iliev, A. Karaivanova, S. Margenov, P. Minev, M. Sch afer, and Z. Zlatev. We also thank I. Lirkov for the help in puttingtogetherthisbook. Thepurposeoftheconferencewastobringtogetherscientistsworkingwith largecomputationalproblemsinindustry,andspecialistsinthe eldofnume- calanalysis methodsande cientexploitationofmodernhigh-speedcomputers. Someclassesofmethodsappearagainandagaininthenumericaltreatmentof problemsfromdi erent eldsofscienceandengineering. Theaimofthisconf- encewastoselectsomeofthesenumericalmethodsandplanfurtherexperiments onseveraltypesofparallelcomputers. Thekeylecturesreviewedthemostimp- tantnumericalalgorithmsandscienti capplicationsonparallelcomputers. The invited speakers included university and practical engineers from industry, as wellasappliedmathematicians,numericalanalysts,andcomputerexperts. The generalthemeforICLSSC2001wasLarge-ScaleScienti cComputing,focusing on: Robustpreconditioningalgorithms, MonteCarlomethods, Advancedprogrammingenvironmentsforscienti ccomputing, Large-scalecomputationsinairpollutionmodeling, Large-scalecomputationsformechanicalengineeringproblems,and Numericalmethodsforincompressible ow. The workshop itself attracted about 80 participants from around the world. Authors from over 15 countries submitted 52 papers, of which 7 were invited, and 45 were contributed. The Fourth International Conference (ICLSSC 2003) willtakeplacein2003. SvetozarMargenov October 2001 JerzyWa sniewski PlamenYalamov TableofContents I Invited Papers OptimizingTwo-LevelPreconditionings fortheConjugateGradientMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 O. AxelssonandI. Kaporin OntheParallelizationoftheSparseGridApproachforDataMining. . . . . 22 J. GarckeandM. Griebel JavaCommunicationsforLarge-ScaleParallelComputing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 V. GetovandM. Philippsen ContinuousPathBrownianTrajectoriesforDi usionMonteCarlo viaFirst-andLast-PassageDistributions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 J. A. Given,M. Mascagni,andCh. -O. Hwang MultilevelMonteCarloMethods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 S. Heinrich IterativeAggregation/DisaggregationMethods forComputingSomeCharacteristicsofMarkovChains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 I. MarekandP. Mayer Time-IntegrationAlgorithmsfortheComputerTreatment oftheHorizontalAdvectioninAirPollutionModels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Z. Zlatev II Robust Preconditioning Algorithms MIC(0)PreconditioningofRotatedTrilinearFEMEllipticSystems. . . . . . 95 I. GeorgievandS. Margenov SobolevSpacePreconditioningforMixedNonlinear EllipticBoundaryValueProblems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 J. Kar atsonandI. Farag o OnaSchurComplementApproachforSolvingTwo-Level FiniteElementSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 M. NeytchevaandO. Axelsson VIII III Monte Carlo Methods On-LineStateEstimationofManeuveringObjects bySequentialMonteCarloAlgorithm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 D. Angelova,E. Semerdjiev,Tz. Semerdjiev,andP. Konstantinova OntheDyadicDiapho. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The notion of amenability has its origins in the beginnings of modern measure theory: Does a finitely additive set function exist which is invariant under a certain group action Since the 1940s, amenability has become an important concept in abstract harmonic analysis (or rather, more generally, in the theory of semitopological semigroups). In 1972, B.E. Johnson showed that the amenability of a locally compact group G can be characterized in terms of the Hochschild cohomology of its group algebra L^1(G): this initiated the theory of amenable Banach algebras. Since then, amenability has penetrated other branches of mathematics, such as von Neumann algebras, operator spaces, and even differential geometry. Lectures on Amenability introduces second year graduate students to this fascinating area of modern mathematics and leads them to a level from where they can go on to read original papers on the subject. Numerous exercises are interspersed in the text. 316 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers collected here are those selected for presentation at the Eighth IFIP Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI 2001) held in Toronto, Canada in May 2001. The conference is organized by the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 2.7 (13.4) for Interface User Engineering, Rick Kazman being the conference chair, Nicholas Graham and Philippe Palanque being the chairs of the program committee. The conference was co-located with ICSE 2001 and co-sponsored by ACM. The aim of the IFIP working group is to investigate the nature, concepts, and construction of user interfaces for software systems. The group's scope is: - to develop user interfaces based on knowledge of system and user behavior; - to develop frameworks for reasoning about interactive systems; and - to develop engineering models for user interfaces. Every three years, the working group holds a working conference. The Seventh one was held September 14-18 1998 in Heraklion, Greece. This year, we innovated by organizing a regular conference held over three days. 376 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The engineering life cycle for complex systems design and development, where partners are dispersed in different locations, requires the set-up of adequate and controlled processes involving many different disciplines. The 'design integration' and the final 'system physical/functional integration and qualification' imply a high degree of cross-interaction among the partners. The - place technical information systems supporting the life cycle activities are specialized with respect to the needs of each actor in the process chain and are highly heterogeneous between them. To globally innovate in-place processes, specialists must be able to work as a unique team, in a virtual enterprise model. To this aim, it is necessary to make interoperable the different technical information systems and to define co-operative engineering processes, which take into account 'distributed roles', 'shared activities', and 'distributed process controls'. In this frame an innovative study, aimed at addressing this process with the goal of identifying proper solutions - in terms of design, implementation, and deployment - has been carried out with the support of the European Community and the participation of major industrial companies and research centers. 296 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book series on the ethics of science and technology assessment edited by the Europ ische Akademie is devoted to the publication of the work-reports of its project groups, works on the foundations of ethics, the philosophy science, and other issues related to the work of the Europ ische Akademie. In addition, the series comprises the proceedings of conferences organized by the academy. The 13th volume documents the proceeding of the academy's spring symposium in 2000 on Rationing in Medicine which was held in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler on March 23-25, 2000. An intense discussion on the future of health care in Europe has been stimulated by increasing difficulties of securing adequate and needs orientated medical care in the face of scarce resources and medical progress. Un fortunately, quite of ten a rational discussion of rationing is drowned out by the politic al talk of the day. But only an open and well-informed debate, if anything at ali, can lead to transparent and just rationing procedures which eventually might be acceptable to the public at large. For this debate much can be learnt from observing the experiences other countries have made with their health care arrangements. What kinds of mistakes should be avoided and what might be useful in the different states and perhaps also in the supra-national context of an emerging Europe are interesting and important issues. 152 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The term 'agent' is one of those catchwords that mean widely differing things to different people. To telecommunications people it is little more than a mobile piece of code that may be executed at any place. At the other extreme, AI people often associate with agents human-like traits such as social behavior. In between, software people view agents as fairly self-contained pieces of software that, at the low end, pretty much act like objects and, at the high end, more or less auto- mously decide when and how to react to stimuli or proactively initiate effects that can be observed from their environment. Software agents are particularly important when it comes to distributed en- ronments. There, much of the communication takes place asynchronously, that is the sequence of events cannot be planned ahead in all detail. Instead, agents are given rules as to how to interpret the current situation and, given a common goal, so that they adjust their response accordingly. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -SAGA 2001, the rst Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations and Applications, took place on December 13-14, 2001 in Berlin, Germany. The present volume comprises contributed papers and four invited talks that were included in the nal program of the symposium. Stochastic algorithms constitute a general approach to nding approximate solutions to a wide variety of problems. Although there is no formal proof that stochastic algorithms perform better than deterministic ones, there is evidence by empirical observations that stochastic algorithms produce for a broad range of applications near-optimal solutions in a reasonable run-time. The symposium aims to provide a forum for presentation of original research in the design and analysis, experimental evaluation, and real-world application of stochastic algorithms. It focuses, in particular, on new algorithmic ideas invo- ing stochastic decisions and exploiting probabilistic properties of the underlying problem domain. The program of the symposium re ects the e ort to promote cooperation among practitioners and theoreticians and among algorithmic and complexity researchers of the eld. In this context, we would like to express our special gratitude to DaimlerChrysler AG for supporting SAGA 2001. The contributed papers included in the proceedings present results in the following areas: Network and distributed algorithms; local search methods for combinatorial optimization with application to constraint satisfaction problems, manufacturing systems, motor control unit calibration, and packing exible - jects; and computational learning theory. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical 1 Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. 2 In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1. Draft International Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote. International Standard ISO/IEC 8652 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, 3 Information Technology. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 8652:1987), of which it constitutes a 4 technical revision. Annexes A to J form an integral part of this International Standard. Annexes K to P are for information 5 only. xi 15 June 2001 Foreword ISO/IEC 8652:1995(E) with COR.1:2000 - Ada Reference Manual Introduction 1 This is the Ada Reference Manual. 592 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since their introduction nearly 40 years ago, research on Petri nets has diverged in many different directions. Various classes of Petri net, motivated either by theory or applications, with its own specific features and methods of analysis, have been proposed and studies in depth.These successful developments have led to a very heterogeneous landscape of diverse models, and this, in turn, has stimulated research on concepts and approaches that contribute to unifying and structuring the diverse landscape. This state-of-the-art survey presents the most relevant approaches to unifying Petri nets in a systematic and coherent way. The 14 chapters written by leading researchers are organized in topical sections on application-oriented approaches, unifying frameworks, and theoretical approaches. 500 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is the result of the workshop 'Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societies', held in Barcelona on June 4, 2000 as part of the Autonomous Agents 2000 Conference, and organized by Rino Falcone, Munindar Singh, and Yao-Hua Tan. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers from di - ent elds (Arti cial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Cognitive Science, Game Theory, and Social and Organizational Sciences) that could contribute to a b- ter understanding of trust and deception in agent societies. The workshop scope included theoretical results as well as their applications in human-computer - teraction and electronic commerce. This book includes the revised and extended versions of the works presented at the workshop, incorporating many points that emerged in our discussions, as well as invited papers from experts in the eld, which in our view allows a complete coverage of all relevant issues. We gratefully acknowledge the nancial support from the Italian National Research Council - Institute for Cognitive S- ence and Technology and the ALFEBIITE European Project, contract number IST-1999-10298. We would like to express our gratitude to Cristiano Castelfranchi for his stimulating and valuable comments and suggestions both for the organization of the workshop and for the preparation of this book. 208 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book provides a solid framework for managing e-business projects. With the increased popularity of web technologies, a growing number of people are now becoming involved in e-business. The book is primarily intended for current and prospective e-business project managers who wish to share ideas, experiences, and best practices. Recent market surveys of GartnerGroup, Forrester, and StandishGroup indicate that many e-business projects fail due to a lack of operational excellence in project management. Some project management techniques proven in traditional IT projects for decades can be also applied to e-business projects, but not all. This book shows which proven techniques are still valid and provides new techniques for situations that are unique to or have a special significance in e-business projects. Based on real-world experience, 99 concise key success factors are discussed preparing the reader to manage e-business projects on time and on budget. 292 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The tenth Portuguese Conference on Arti cial Intelligence, EPIA 2001 was held in Porto and continued the tradition of previous conferences in the series. It returned to the city in which the rst conference took place, about 15 years ago. The conference was organized, as usual, under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Arti cial Intelligence (APPIA, EPIA maintained its international character and continued to provide a forum for p- senting and discussing researc h on di erent aspects of Arti cial Intelligence. To promote motivated discussions among participants, this conference streng- ened the role of the thematic workshops. These were not just satellite events, but rather formed an integral part of the conference, with joint sessions when justi ed. This had the advantage that the work was presented to a motivated audience. This was the rst time that EPIA embarked on this experience and so provided us with additional challenges. 436 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The mathematical theory and practice of cryptography and coding underpins the provision of effective security and reliability for data communication, processing, and storage. Theoretical and implementational advances in the fields of cryptography and coding are therefore a key factor in facilitating the growth of data communications and data networks of various types. Thus, this Eight International Conference in an established and successful IMA series on the theme of 'Cryptography and Coding' was both timely and relevant. The theme of this conference was the future of coding and cryptography, which was touched upon in presentations by a number of invited speakers and researchers. The papers that appear in this book include recent research and development in error control coding and cryptography. These start with mathematical bounds, statistical decoding schemes for error correcting codes, and undetected error probabilities and continue with the theoretical aspects of error correction coding such as graph and trellis decoding, multifunctional and multiple access communication systems, low density parity check codes, and iterative decoding. These are followed by some papers on key recovery attack, authentication, stream cipher design, and analysis of ECIES algorithms, and lattice attacks on IP based protocols. 432 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Japanese Society for Arti cial Intelligence (JSAI) was established in July 1986.Sincethen,wehaveheldconferenceseveryyear.AlthoughJSAIisthe second largest community in the world focusing on the area of Arti cial - telligence and we have over 3,000 members, the importance of the research presented and discussions held at the annual conferences has not been fully recognized in the Arti cial Intelligence communities elsewhere in the world, partlybecausemostpresentationsaremadeintheJapaneselanguage.T- refore, the program committee of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of JSAI decided to open the door to the world and hold international workshops - ring the conference on May 20th and 25th, 2001 in Matsue City, Japan. TheworkshopproposalsweregatheredfromthemembersofJSAI.We accepted the following up-to-date and exciting topics: 1) Social Intelligence DesignchairedbyProf.ToyoakiNishida,UniversityofTokyo,2)Agent-Based ApproachesinEconomicandSocialComplexSystemschairedbyProf.Akira Namatame, National Academy of Defense, 3) Rough Set Theory and Granular ComputingchairedbyProf.ShusakuTsumoto,ShimaneMedicalUniversity, 4)ChanceDiscoverychairedbyProf.YukioOsawa,and5)Challengein KnowledgeDiscoveryandDataMiningchairedbyProf.TakashiWashio, OsakaUniversity.Theseworkshopswerehighlywelcomeandsuccessful.A total of 116 people in Japan and 30 researchers from abroad participated in them. This volume of the proceedings contains selected papers presented at the workshops.Thecontentsofthevolumearedividedinto veparts,eachof whichcorrespondstothetopicsoftheworkshops.Eachpaperwasstrictly reviewedbythecommitteemembersoftheworkshops.Theyalsocoverrecent divergentareasofarti cialintelligence.Webelievethatthevolumeishighly useful for both researchers and practitioners who have interests in recent advances in arti cial intelligence. October 2001 TakaoTerano JSAIWorkshopsasInternationalTrends Looking at the current economic, political, and ecological situations, we - come aware of the dynamic environment surrounding all human activities. Hand in hand, the expansion of the World Wide Web is activating the whole globe as an information system including humans, computers, and networks. 588 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -INDOCRYPT 2001, the Second Annual Crypto Conference, is proof of the s- ni cant amount of enthusiasm generated among Indian as well as International crypto communities. INDOCRYPT 2001 was organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, also located in Madras (now Chennai). This event was enthusiastically co-sponsored by eAl- traz ConsultingPrivate Ltd, Chennai, Odyssey Technologies Ltd, Chennai, and Shanmuga Arts Science Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA), Th- javur. The Program Committee Co-chair, Prof.C.Pandu Rangan was responsible for local organization and registration. The Program Committee considered 77 papers and selected 31 papers for presentation. These papers were selected on the basis of perceived originality, quality, and relevance to the eld of cryptography. The proceedings include the revised version of the accepted papers. Revisions were not checked as to their contents and authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their submissions. The selection of papers is a very challengingand demandingtask. We wish to thank the Program Committee members who did an excellent job in reviewing the submissions in spite of severe time constraints imposed by the tight p- cessingschedule. Each submission was reviewed by at least three referees (only a few by two). The Program Committee was ably assisted by a large number of reviewers in their area of expertise. The list of reviewers has been provided separately. Our thanks go to all of them. 372 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -SAC 2001, the eighth annual workshop on selected areas in cryptography, was held at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Previous SAC wo- shops were held at Queen s University in Kingston (1994, 1996, 1998, and 1999), at Carlton University in Ottawa (1995 and 1997) and at the University of Wat- loo (2000). The conference was sponsored by the center for applied cryptographic research (CACR) at the University of Waterloo, Certicom Corporation, C- munications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO), Ecole Polytechnique F ed erale de Lausanne, Entrust Technologies, and ZeroKnowledge. We are gra- ful to these organizations for their support of the conference. The current SAC board includes Carlisle Adams, Doug Stinson, Ed Dawson, Henk Meijer, Howard Heys, Michael Wiener, Serge Vaudenay, Sta ord Tavares, and Tom Cusick. We would like to thank all of them for giving us the mandate to organize SAC 2001. The themes for SAC 2001 workshop were: Design and analysis of symmetric key cryptosystems. Primitives for private key cryptography, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, and MACs. E cient implementations of cryptographic systems in public and private key cryptography. Cryptographic solutions for web and internet security. 376 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. It also contains extended abstracts of submissions that were accepted as posters. The workshop was held at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. As in previous years, the workshop focused on issues in optimizing compilers, languages, and software environments for high performance computing. This continues a trend in which languages, compilers, and software environments for high performance computing, and not strictly parallel computing, has been the organizing topic. As in past years, participants came from Asia, North America, and Europe. This workshop re ected the work of many people. In particular, the members of the steering committee, David Padua, Alex Nicolau, Utpal Banerjee, and David Gelernter, have been instrumental in maintaining the focus and quality of the workshop since it was rst held in 1988 in Urbana-Champaign. The assistance of the other members of the program committee - Larry Carter, Sid Chatterjee, Jeanne Ferrante, Jans Prins, Bill Pugh, and Chau-wen Tseng - was crucial. The infrastructure at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center provided trouble-free logistical support. The IBM T. J. Watson Research Center also provided nancial support by underwriting much of the expense of the workshop. Appreciation must also be extended to Marc Snir and Pratap Pattnaik of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for their support. 400 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is a synopsis of modern deep-field astronomy, based on the powerful telescopes and instruments developed in recent years. It is organized along topical themes, such as the extragalactic background radiation at different wavelengths, the evolution of galaxies, the history of star formation, the nature of absorbers, the reionization of the intergalactic medium, the validity of photometric redshifts, gravitational lensing, and clustering of galaxies. Stellar and substellar objects were not neglected, however, and one session was devoted to nearby bodies such as trans-Neptunian solar system objects, brown dwarfs, and stars with special characteristics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Here is an accessible, algorithmically oriented guide to some of the most interesting techniques of complexity theory. The book shows that simple algorithms are at the heart of complexity theory. The book is organized by technique rather than by topic. Each chapter focuses on one technique: what it is, and what results and applications it yields. 388 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The information received from BeppoSAX, Chandra and other instruments in the last two years has more than doubled the number of samples of Gamma-Ray Bursts localized and followed up for afterglow search. This has also increased the interest of astronomers in GRBs. This book reviews the research of the last two years and covers the global properties of GRBs, GRB afterglows, GRB host galaxies, cosmology using GRBs, and theories for GRBs and their afterglows. Theoretical and observational aspects are presented as well as tools for the analysis of the data.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 484 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications, WAA 2001, held in Hong Kong, China in December 2001. The 24 revised full papers and 27 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 67 full paper submissions. The book offers topical sections on image compression and coding, video coding and processing, theory, image processing, signal processing, and systems and applications. 472 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Twenty-five articles have been selected from the first 14 volumes of the 'Séminaire de Probabilités', all out of print, for their historical and/or mathematical interest. Among the many articles devoted to Martingale theory in the early volumes of the Séminaire, we have chosen to reprint those that are particularly significant from a historical point of view, as well as those that can still be useful today. They are reprinted here verbatim, with a short retrospective comment, for the benefit of researchers in the theory of stochastic processes, in mathematical finance, or in history of mathematics. 564 pp. Französisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -After the positive experience made in 1999, with the research and consequent publication of the volume 'Banking Privatisation in Europe. The Process and the Consequences on Strategies and Organisational Structures', published by Springer-Verlag, we have decided to set up a new group of researchers to study the present changes within the European postal systems and the privatisation developments. Starting from our competencies and specific knowledge - financial markets and management of bank intermediaries - our research has basically focussed onto the posts' financial services offer and their future perspectives. The subject is particularly interesting considering the radical changes, which are giving to 'the postal activity and the competition itself a new profile. And this reality paves the way to new opportunities in the market segment of financial services for retail customers and, at the same time, it brings in new threats. Our approach is the approach of compared analysis in Europe in order to detect common trends in the development or possible specific features, as well as positioning perspectives of the different national Posts in the single market of financial services. Our working group has benefited from the collaboration of researchers and experts with different nationality, university education and experience. Eminent representatives of postal companies, regulation and control bodies, banks and financial institutes have been interviewed and have allowed precious elements to deepen our knowledge and capacity of interpreting the present trends. 284 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Geomorphology deals with some of the most striking patterns of nature. From mountain ranges and mid-ocean ridges to river networks and sand dunes, there is a whole family of forms, structures, and shapes that demand rationalization as well as mathematical description. In the various chapters of this volume, many of these patterns are explored and discussed, and attempts are made to both unravel the reasons for their very existence and to describe their dynamics in quantitative terms. Particular focus is placed on lava and mud flows, ice and snow dynamics, river and coastal morphodynamics and landscape formation. Combining a pedagogical approach with up-to-date reviews of forefront research, this volume will serve both postgraduate students and lecturers in search of advanced textbook material, and experienced researchers wishing to get acquainted with the various physical and mathematical approaches in a range of closely related research fields. 596 pp. Englisch.…