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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Measuring the masses of galaxies as a function of redshift is perhaps one of the most challenging open issues in current astronomical research. The evolution of the baryonic and dark matter components of galaxies is not only a critical test of the hierarchical formation paradigm, but ultimately also provides new clues on the complex interplay between star formation, the cooling and heating of gas and galaxy merging processes.This book reviews current techniques to measure the baryonic (stellar) and dark masses of nearby galaxies, and focusses on ongoing attempts to measure these same quantities in galaxies at higher and higher redshifts. It also gives room to future perspectives, with special emphasis on new survey projects and satellite missions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 388 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Machine Learning has become a key enabling technology for many engineering applications and theoretical problems alike. To further discussions and to dis- minate new results, a Summer School was held on February 11¿22, 2002 at the Australian National University. The current book contains a collection of the main talks held during those two weeks in February, presented as tutorial chapters on topics such as Boosting, Data Mining, Kernel Methods, Logic, Reinforcement Learning, and Statistical Learning Theory. The papers provide an in-depth overview of these exciting new areas, contain a large set of references, and thereby provide the interested reader with further information to start or to pursue his own research in these directions. Complementary to the book, a recorded video of the presentations during the Summer School can be obtained at mlg. anu. edu. au/summer2002 It is our hope that graduate students, lecturers, and researchers alike will nd this book useful in learning and teaching Machine Learning, thereby continuing the mission of the Summer School. Canberra, November 2002 Shahar Mendelson Alexander Smola Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University Thanks and Acknowledgments We gratefully thank all the individuals and organizations responsible for the success of the workshop.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Arguably the central problem in operations research and management science (OR/MS) addressed by e-Business is better coordination of supply and de mand, including price discovery and reduction of transactions costs of buyer seller interactions. In capital-intensive industries like chemicals and steel, the out-of-pocket costs of excess capacity and the opportunity costs of underuti lized capacity have been important factors driving the growth of exchanges for improving demand and supply coordination through e-Business platforms. Stefan Spinler addresses in his dissertation one of the most interesting aspects of this evolution for OR/MS, the parallel development of long-term and short-term markets for capacity and output, accompanied by a range of exotic options and forwards as the basic mechanisms supporting transac tions. This is a fascinating research topic because it builds on the powerful framework of real options, while connecting directly to key operations deci sions (capacity planning, staffing, maintenance, and so forth) of the plants and technologies whose output is the focus of contracts. From the perspec tive of practice, the use of these contracting mechanisms, as facilitated by a new breed of B2B exchanges, represents an opportunity for further improving supply chain performance and capital asset productivity.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -TheCIAAconferenceseriesprovidesaforumforthenewproblemsand challenges. Intheseconferences,boththeoreticalandpracticalresultsrelatedto theapplicationandimplementationofautomatawerepresentedanddiscussed, andsoftwarepackagesandtoolkitsweredemonstrated. Theparticipantsofthe conferenceserieswerefrombothresearchinstitutionsandindustry. Wethankalloftheprogramcommitteemembersandrefereesfortheire orts inrefereeingandselectingpapers. Thisvolumewaseditedwithmuchhelpfrom NanetteSaesandHannekeDriever,whiletheconferenceitselfwasrunsmoothly withthehelpofElmarieWillemse,NanetteSaes,andTheoKoopman. VI Foreword WealsowishtothanktheSouthAfricanNRF(forfundingairfares)andthe DepartmentofComputerScience,UniversityofPretoria,fortheir nancialand logisticsupportoftheconference. WealsothanktheeditorsoftheLectureNotes inComputerScienceseriesandSpringer-Verlag,inparticularAnnaKramer,for theirhelpinpublishingthisvolume. October2002 BruceW. Watson DerickWood CIAA 2001 Program Committee BernardBoigelot Universit¿edeLiege,Belgium Jean-MarcChamparnaud Universit¿edeRouen,France MaximeCrochemore UniversityofMarne-la-Vall¿ee,France OscarIbarra UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaBarbara,USA LauriKarttunen XeroxPaloAltoResearchCenter,USA NilsKlarlund AT&TLaboratories,USA DenisMaurel Universit¿edeTours,France MehryarMohri AT&TLaboratories,USA Jean-EricPin Universit¿eParis7,France KaiSalomaa Queen¿sUniversity,Canada HelmutSeidl TrierUniversity,Germany BruceWatson(Chair) UniversityofPretoria,SouthAfrica EindhovenUniversity,TheNetherlands DerickWood(Co-chair) HongKongUniversityofScience andTechnology,China ShengYu UniversityofWesternOntario,Canada Table of Contents UsingFiniteStateTechnologyinNaturalLanguageProcessingofBasque. . . 1 I¿nakiAlegria,MaxuxAranzabe,NereaEzeiza,AitzolEzeiza, andRubenUrizar CascadeDecompositionsareBit-VectorAlgorithms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 AnneBergeronandSylvieHamel SubmoduleConstructionandSupervisoryControl:AGeneralization. . . . . . . 27 GregoSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The theory of stochastic processes indexed by a partially ordered set has been the subject of much research over the past twenty years. The objective of this CIME International Summer School was to bring to a large audience of young probabilists the general theory of spatial processes, including the theory of set-indexed martingales and to present the different branches of applications of this theory, including stochastic geometry, spatial statistics, empirical processes, spatial estimators and survival analysis. This theory has a broad variety of applications in environmental sciences, social sciences, structure of material and image analysis. In this volume, the reader will find different approaches which foster the development of tools to modelling the spatial aspects of stochastic problems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -ThesearetheproceedingsofCHES2002,theFourthWorkshoponCryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. After the rst two CHES Workshops held in Massachusetts, and the third held in Europe, this is the rst Workshop on the West Coast of the United States. There was a record number of submissions this year and in response the technical program was extended to 3 days. As is evident by the papers in these proceedings, there have been again many excellent submissions. Selecting the papers for this year¿s CHES was not an easy task, and we regret that we could not accept many contributions due to the limited availability of time. There were 101 submissions this year, of which 39 were selected for presentation. We continue to observe a steady increase over previous years: 42 submissions at CHES ¿99, 51 at CHES 2000, and 66 at CHES 2001. We interpret this as a continuing need for a workshop series that c- bines theory and practice for integrating strong security features into modern communicationsandcomputerapplications. Inadditiontothesubmittedcont- butions, Jean-Jacques Quisquater (UCL, Belgium), Sanjay Sarma (MIT, USA) and a panel of experts on hardware random number generation gave invited talks. As in the previous years, the focus of the Workshop is on all aspects of cr- tographic hardware and embedded system security. Of special interest were c- tributionsthatdescribenewmethodsfore cienthardwareimplementationsand high-speed software for embedded systems, e. g. , smart cards, microprocessors, DSPs, etc. CHES also continues to be an important forum for new theoretical and practical ndings in the important and growing eld of side-channel attacks. 632 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This reference work looks at modern concepts of computer security. It introduces the basic mathematical background necessary to follow computer security concepts before moving on to modern developments in cryptography. The concepts are presented clearly and illustrated by numerous examples. Subjects covered include: private-key and public-key encryption, hashing, digital signatures, authentication, secret sharing, group-oriented cryptography, and many others. The section on intrusion detection and access control provide examples of security systems implemented as a part of operating system. Database and network security is also discussed. The final chapters introduce modern e- business systems based on digital cash.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 700 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Notwithstanding the important role of direct clinical and endoscopic examination in modern management of pathological conditions of the larynx, radiological study the and, more specifically, cross-sectional imaging by CT and MRI make definite diagnostic contributions by virtue of their potential to display superbly the deeper extent of laryngeal lesions. Indeed, remarkable progress has been achieved during recent years in CT and MRI techniques as applied to the neck region. This book sets out to provide a sorely needed update of our knowledge of the diagnostic potential of these cross-sectional methods and constitutes a very welcome addition to our series 'Medical Radiology', which aims to cover all important clinical imaging fields of modern diagnostic radiology. It will be of great interest to general and head and neck radiologists as well as to ENT surgeons and radiotherapists. Professor R. Hermans and the other distinguished contributors to this work are internationally renowned experts in the field and they have accumulated vast experi ence and a wealth of radio-pathological knowledge of the larynx over the years. I would like to congratulate them most sincerely for this outstanding volume, its comprehensive contents and its superb illustrations. I hope that this book will meet with the same great success as previously published volumes in the series. I would appreciate any constructive criticism that might be offered.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -From the reviews of the 3rd edition: 'The textbook of Walter Larcher (.) belongs certainly to the most successful manuals that ever existed.' (Photosynthetica, Czech Republic)'(.) it continues to be one of the major texts in the field of ecophysiology.'(Plant Growth Regulation, The Netherlands)'This book is really a must reading for those interested in sustainable forestry.' (Journal of Sustainable Forestry, USA)'The book, (.), should be on the shelf of any scientist, teacher, or student seeking an introduction to the field of plant ecophysiology that is also an excellent reference.' (The Quarterly Review of Biology, USA)Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 536 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Fourteen years is a long time, and especially in the field of cosmology new observational results and new theoretical ideas seem to appear at a steadily increasing rate. It is achallenge to try to review the current status, to give a reasonably fair account of new developments, and not to increase the size of the book out of all proportion. So this fourth edition is practically a new book, with many chapters and sections newly written, not just updated. I have kept the original layout of the book with three parts concerned with (I) the standard model, (II) some basic implications of quantum field theory, and (III) quest ions of structure formation. I have given special emphasis to the new observations of the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, and attempted to explain their importance for cosmology as well as for structure formation models. There have also been improved measurements in almost every cosmologically relevant field, from the Rubble constant to element abundances and galaxy distribution statistics. Quite surprisingly, the standard cosmological models can still accommodate all these new obser vations.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 608 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -An early view of eukaryotic chromosomes was that of static structures, which stored DNA not in use within a given cell type. It was thought that packaging of DNA into higher levels of chromatin structure would suffice to repress gene expression and that the challenge to the cell would be to rescue specific sequences from these structures. The exten sive packaging of inactive DNA was considered the primary difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes and except for that point both would be similarly regulated by cis-acting sequences and trans acting factors. Our view of eukaryotic chromosomes has evolved dra matically over the last decade. The picture of chromosomes that is emerging is that of dynamic breathing organelles actively regulating the flow of genetic information from the genome. Indeed chromatin is so fluid that even maintaining gene quiescence is an active process and is tightly regulated. Chromatin dynamics is a consequence of protein complexes that modify histones, remove histone modifications, mobi lize nucleosomes or stabilize nucleosomes. Awide variety of such com plexes have now been described. Some are abundant and may play glo bal roles in chromosome fluidity and function. Others are more rare and specialized for specific functions at discreet loci. Moreover, several complexes share biochemical activities and genetic studies suggest overlapping functions in vivo. Many components of these complexes were first revealed in genetic screens, while others were discovered by novel cell biological or biochemical approaches.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 316 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It is now becoming recognized in the measurement community that it is as important to communicate the uncertainty related to a specific measurement as it is to report the measurement itself. Without knowing the uncertainty, it is impossible for the users of the result to know what confidence can be placed in it; it is also impossible to assess the comparability of different measurements of the same parameter. This volume collects 20 outstanding papers on the topic, mostly published from 1999-2002 in the journal 'Accreditation and Quality Assurance.' They provide the rationale for why it is important to evaluate and report the uncertainty of a result in a consistent manner. They also describe the concept of uncertainty, the methodology for evaluating uncertainty, and the advantages of using suitable reference materials. Finally, the benefits to both the analytical laboratory and the user of the results are considered.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Optical Solitons represent one of the most exciting and fascinating concepts in modern communications, arousing special interest due to their potential applications in optical fibre communication. This volume focuses on the explicit integration of analytical and experimental methods in nonlinear fibre optics and integrated optics. It covers all important recent technical issues in optical-soliton communication. For example, individual chapters are devoted to topics such as dispersion management and fibre Bragg grating. All authors are leading authorities in their fields.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 424 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The monograph text is based on lectures delivered by author during many years for students of Applied Iechanics Department of Bauman Ioscow State Technical University. The monograph includes also analitical results of scientific research obtained in collaboration with industry. Progress in developing new equipment has called for a better understand ing of the physical peculiarities pertaining to the action of designed structures in real conditions. This is necessary for increasing the accuracy of the analysis and making these structures more reliable. It has been found that classical determined perturbations are not principal and that determinism-based methods of classical mechanics prove insufficient for understanding and explaining physical effects that arise at the operation of instruments located on moving objects, the vibration of rocket engines, the motion of a vehicle, and the action of wind and seismic loads. Therefore the necessity arose for devising a new physical model to analyze these dynamic processes and, in particular, for creating a new mathematical apparatus that would allow us to take into account non-deterministic external excitations. The theory of random processes that had been developed well enough as applied to problems of radio engineering and automatic control, where the effect produced by random excitations appeared to be commensurable with that of deterministic excitations and where the ignoring of the random ex citations would bring about incorrect results, became such an apparatus.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 468 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Consumer markets for foods and beverages in developed countries are well supplied and highly fragmented. Yet, the question being asked is how close retailers actually come to fulfilling their customers' requirements. The concept of consumer value is one of the main pillars underpinning the theory of market differentiation. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of satisfaction in relation to the consumption of food, with both food science and consumer science playing central parts. It approaches food quality from both the technical and the consumer satisfaction perspectives, and assesses the roles of management and regulatory tools in delivering food quality for all. Each area is discussed in detail, using the appropriate technical terminology, but keeping the text accessible to readers from both academic traditions, as well as to non-specialist readers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 356 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In a distilled and pedagogical fashion, the contributions to this volume of the famous summer school in Les Houches cover the recent developments in supersymmetric string theory, the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and string duality. Further chapters deal with quantum gravity and D-brane geometry. Black hole mechanics and cosmology are treated too, as well as the AdS-CFT correspondence. The book is a comprehensive introduction to the recent developments in string/M-theory and quantum gravity. It addresses graduate students in physics and astrophysics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 704 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Any book under this title which creates both anticipation and anxiety must be the work of a lot of people, present any new findings with objectivity and cover the subject as exhaustively as possible. As such, it must cover the possible reproducible mechanisms of action/reaction EMF-Biological Organism, the appropriate models that allow quantitative measurements, the basic biological reproducible effects and possible therapeutic effects along with their prevalent metrics and international exposure criteria. This is exactly the main objective of this book. It is also believed that it provides some new results and conclusions which complement, clarify and verify the existing results in the literature included in the references [1] and [2]. Electromagnetic Radiation is a form of energy, which is transmitted in the form of waves which correspond to spatial and time variations of the electric and magnetic field. Electromagnetic fields appear in a vast set of frequencies (spectra) that are divided in frequency zones, according to the manner they are produced or used. Areas greater than 300 gigacycles (GHz), which include the solar spectrum, as well as x and gamma rays, have been studied sufficiently under a different angle in relation to possible biological effects. People are well aware of the harmful effects of sun radiation when they are exposed to the sunlight for extended periods of time and of the catastrophic effects of nuclear bombs and nuclear reactor leaks.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 812 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The precedent book with the title 'Structural Analysis of Point Defects in Solids: An introduction to multiple magnetic resonance spectroscopy' ap peared about 10 years ago. Since then a very active development has oc curred both with respect to the experimental methods and the theoretical interpretation of the experimental results. It would therefore not have been sufficient to simply publish a second edition of the precedent book with cor rections and a few additions. Furthermore the application of the multiple magnetic resonance methods has more and more shifted towards materials science and represents one of the important methods of materials analysis. Multiple magnetic resonances are used less now for 'fundamental' studies in solid state physics. Therefore a more 'pedestrian' access to the meth ods is called for to help the materials scientist to use them or to appreciate results obtained by using these methods. We have kept the two introduc tory chapters on conventional electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) of the precedent book which are the base for the multiple resonance methods. The chapter on optical detection of EPR (ODEPR) was supplemented by sections on the structural information one can get from 'forbidden' transitions as well as on spatial correlations between defects in the so-called 'cross relaxation spectroscopy'. High-field ODEPR/ENDOR was also added. The chapter on stationary electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) was supplemented by the method of stochastic END OR developed a few years ago in Paderborn which is now also commercially available.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 508 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The inorganic and organic water constituents, often called color-producing agents (CPAs), responsible for water color are generally referred to as water quality parameters. Utilization of water color for assessment of water quality parameters can be achieved by using the established techniques in aquatic optics attained over many decades. Aquatic optics can be subdivided according to whether the natural water body is salty (marine), inland or fresh (limnological), or coastal (often brackish). The authors describe the transformation of water color under varying natural and anthropogenically-driven conditions and, for the first time in a quantitative manner, a closed circle of issues related to remote sensing of water quality in optically complex waters generally inherent to inland and marine coastal waters. Primarily, the text synthesizes the solutions of problems in remote sensing, incorporating mathematics, hydrobiology/hydochemistry, atmospheric optics and ecology.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Plants collaborate with many micro-organisms in the rhizosphere to form mutualistic associations. One of the best examples is the mycorrhizal symbio sis between plants and fungi. Here, fungi support plants with mineral nutri ents and other services and the fungi, in turn, receive photosynthates from the autotrophic plants. Mycorrhizal associations are common in almost all eco systems and 80 % of all land plants associate with these mutualistic soil fungi. There is an increasing awareness among biologists, ecologists and mycolo gists that mycorrhizal associations need to be considered in order to under stand the ecology and evolution of plants, plant communities and ecosystems. In the last decade, many advances and breakthroughs have been made in mycorrhizal ecology. We aim to summarise these advances in this Volume, with special emphasis given to the ecological function of the mycorrhizal symbiosis. This Volume is divided into six sections. The first section gives an intro duction to the mycorrhizal symbiosis and discusses the progress that has been made in understanding the ecological function of this association. The second section deals with the eco-physiology of mycorrhizal plants. It also covers the influence of global changes on the symbiosis. The third section dis cusses the influences of mycorrhizal fungi on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It also discusses factors that influence the diversity and structure of mycorrhizal fungal communities. The fourth section shows the multi trophic nature of the mycorrhizal symbiosis.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 496 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It has been hard for me to escape the imprint of my early, strong, but scattered trains of thought. There was, at the beginning, little to go by; and I saw no clear way to go. This book is accordingly filled with internal tensions that are not, as yet, fully annealed. Subsequent writers may re-present the work, explaining it in a simpler way. Others may simply invert it. I mean by this that, by writing it backwards, from its found ends {practical machinable teeth) to its tentative beginnings (dimly perceived geometrical notions), one might conceivably write a manual, not on how to understand these kinds of gears, but on how to make them. Indeed a manual will need to be written. If this gearing is to be further investigated, evaluated and checked for applicability, prototypes will need to be made. I wish to say again however that my somewhat convoluted way of presenting these early ideas has been inevitable. It has simply not been possible to present a tidy set of explanations and rules without exploring first (and in a somewhat backwards-going direction) the complexities of the kinematic geometry. There remains, now in this book, a putting together of primitive geometric intuition, computer aided exploration of certain areas, geometric explanations of the discovered phenomena, and a loose sprinkling of a relevant algebra cementing the parts together.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 520 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Zukunft des Internet ist mobil! Mobile Infonnationssysteme umfassen alle Fonnen der Nutzung von mobilen Endgeraten, insbesondere PDAs und Handys zu betrieblichen Zwecken. Die dynamische Entwicklung auf diesem Gebiet und die zunehmende Integration in das Internet haben ein vollig neues Anwendungs-und Geschaftsfeld entstehen lassen, das vor allem durch die erwarteten Marktpotenzia Ie von hoher Relevanz ist. Unternehmen, die in der 'Wireless Economy' erfolg reich bestehen wollen, mfissen sich daher umfassend mit den Rahmenbedingun gen und den eingesetzten Technologien auseinandersetzen. Nach dem enonnen Aufschwung des Internet, der nicht zuletzt auf die Kommerzi alisierung zurUckzufiihren ist, bahnt sich im Bereich mobiler Anwendungen eine dem E-Commerce vergleichbare Entwicklung an. Mobile Commerce wird von manchen sogar als Teilgebiet des E-Commerce verstanden. Diese Einordnung ist aber weder ganz richtig noch eindeutig moglich, da Mobile Commerce zum einen als Spezialisierung, Erweiterung oder besondere Auspragung des E-Commerce verstanden wird, zum anderen jedoch besondere Merkmale aufweist, die M Commerce als unabhiingiges und neues Anwendungsgebiet qualifiziert. Eine Konvergenz ist durch die zunehmende Internetanbindung aber erkennbar. Unab hangig von der akademischen Frage der richtigen Klassifikation oder Einordnung ist damber hinaus eine generelle Bedeutungszunahme mobiler und drahtloser Anwendungssysteme zu beobachten, die fiber das Thema Mobile Commerce weit hinaus gehen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 364 pp. Deutsch.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wissenschaftler sind darauf angewiesen, mehr und mehr Forschungsprojekte in Zusammenarbeit mit Unternehmen durchzuführen. Für den Erfolg dieser Kooperationen müssen sie etwas tun, was ihnen zunächst einmal fremd sein dürfte: sich und ihre Forschung vermarkten. Professionelles Marketing zu lernen, dazu blieb aber während des Studiums weder Zeit noch Gelegenheit. Der vorliegende Ratgeber füllt diese Lücke und vermittelt in übersichtlichen Abschnitten die Inhalte einer Workshopreihe, die für Wissenschaftler aller Fachrichtungen entwickelt wurde.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Welche Lagerungen sind bei einem Patienten mit Hirndruck möglich und welche Formen der spinalen Störung gibt es Zu diesen und weiteren Fragen gibt das Buch verständliche Antworten, strukturiert nach dem Pflegemodell von Nancy Roper (ATL).Außerdem: Zusammenfassung am Ende jedes Kapitels Glossar mit wichtigen Fachbegriffen Separates Kapitel zu Medikamenten und deren Wirkungen Eigenes Kapitel zum Thema Kinder und NeugeboreneSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 512 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Measuring the masses of galaxies as a function of redshift is perhaps one of the most challenging open issues in current astronomical research. The evolution of the baryonic and dark matter components of galaxies is not only a critical test of the hierarchical formation paradigm, but ultimately also provides new clues on the complex interplay between star formation, the cooling and heating of gas and galaxy merging processes.This book reviews current techniques to measure the baryonic (stellar) and dark masses of nearby galaxies, and focusses on ongoing attempts to measure these same quantities in galaxies at higher and higher redshifts. It also gives room to future perspectives, with special emphasis on new survey projects and satellite missions. 388 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Machine Learning has become a key enabling technology for many engineering applications and theoretical problems alike. To further discussions and to dis- minate new results, a Summer School was held on February 11-22, 2002 at the Australian National University. The current book contains a collection of the main talks held during those two weeks in February, presented as tutorial chapters on topics such as Boosting, Data Mining, Kernel Methods, Logic, Reinforcement Learning, and Statistical Learning Theory. The papers provide an in-depth overview of these exciting new areas, contain a large set of references, and thereby provide the interested reader with further information to start or to pursue his own research in these directions. Complementary to the book, a recorded video of the presentations during the Summer School can be obtained at anu. edu. au/summer2002 It is our hope that graduate students, lecturers, and researchers alike will nd this book useful in learning and teaching Machine Learning, thereby continuing the mission of the Summer School. Canberra, November 2002 Shahar Mendelson Alexander Smola Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University Thanks and Acknowledgments We gratefully thank all the individuals and organizations responsible for the success of the workshop. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Policy evaluation and programme choice are important tools for informed decision-making, for the administration ofactive labour market programmes, training programmes, tuition subsidies, rehabilitation programmes etc. Whereas the evaluation of programmes and policies is mainly concerned with an overall assessment of impact, benefits and costs, programme choice considers an optimal allocation of individuals to the programmes. This book surveys potential evaluation strategies for policies with multiple programmes and discusses evaluation and treatment choice in a coherent framework. Recommendations for choosing appropriate evaluation estimators are derived. Furthermore, a semiparametric estimator of optimal treatment choice is developed to assist in the optimal allocation of participants. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -TheSixthInternationalConferenceonImplementationandApplicationof- tomata(CIAA2001) the rstoneheldinthesouthernhemisphere was heldattheUniversityofPretoriainPretoria,SouthAfrica,on23 25July2001. ThisvolumeofSpringer sLectureNotesinComputerSciencecontainsall thepapers(includingtheinvitedtalkbyGregorv. Bochmann)thatwerep- sentedatCIAA2001,aswellasanexpandedversionofoneoftheposterpapers displayedduringtheconference. Theconferenceaddressedtheissuesinautomataapplicationandimplemen- tion. Thetopicsofthepaperspresentedinthisconferencerangedfromautomata applicationsinsoftwareengineering,naturallanguageandspeechrecognition, andimageprocessing,tonewrepresentationsandalgorithmsfore cientimp- mentationofautomataandrelatedstructures. Automatatheoryisoneoftheoldestareasincomputerscience. Researchin automatatheoryhasbeenmotivatedbyitsapplicationssinceitsearlystagesof development. Inthe1960sand1970s,automataresearchwasmotivatedheavily byproblemsarisingfromcompilerconstruction,circuitdesign,stringmatching, etc. Inrecentyears,manynewapplicationsofautomatahavebeenfoundin variousareasofcomputerscienceaswellasinotherdisciplines. Examplesofthe newapplicationsincludestatechartsinobject-orientedmodeling, nitetra- ducersinnaturallanguageprocessing,andnondeterministic nite-statemodels incommunicationprotocols. Manyofthenewapplicationscannotsimplyutilize theexistingmodelsandalgorithmsinautomatatheorytosolvetheirproblems. Newmodels,ormodi cationsoftheexistingmodels,areneededtosatisfytheir requirements. Also,thesizesofthetypicalproblemsinmanyofthenewapp- cationsareastronomicallylargerthanthoseusedinthetraditionalap plications. Newalgorithmsandnewrepresentationsofautomataarerequiredtoreducethe timeandspacerequirementsofthecomputation. TheCIAAconferenceseriesprovidesaforumforthenewproblemsand challenges. Intheseconferences,boththeoreticalandpracticalresultsrelatedto theapplicationandimplementationofautomatawerepresentedanddiscussed, andsoftwarepackagesandtoolkitsweredemonstrated. Theparticipantsofthe conferenceserieswerefrombothresearchinstitutionsandindustry. Wethankalloftheprogramcommitteemembersandrefereesfortheire orts inrefereeingandselectingpapers. Thisvolumewaseditedwithmuchhelpfrom NanetteSaesandHannekeDriever,whiletheconferenceitselfwasrunsmoothly withthehelpofElmarieWillemse,NanetteSaes,andTheoKoopman. VI Foreword WealsowishtothanktheSouthAfricanNRF(forfundingairfares)andthe DepartmentofComputerScience,UniversityofPretoria,fortheir nancialand logisticsupportoftheconference. WealsothanktheeditorsoftheLectureNotes inComputerScienceseriesandSpringer-Verlag,inparticularAnnaKramer,for theirhelpinpublishingthisvolume. October2002 BruceW. Watson DerickWood CIAA 2001 Program Committee BernardBoigelot Universit edeLiege,Belgium Jean-MarcChamparnaud Universit edeRouen,France MaximeCrochemore UniversityofMarne-la-Vall ee,France OscarIbarra UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaBarbara,USA LauriKarttunen XeroxPaloAltoResearchCenter,USA NilsKlarlund AT&TLaboratories,USA DenisMaurel Universit edeTours,France MehryarMohri AT&TLaboratories,USA Jean-EricPin Universit eParis7,France KaiSalomaa Queen sUniversity,Canada HelmutSeidl TrierUniversity,Germany BruceWatson(Chair) UniversityofPretoria,SouthAfrica EindhovenUniversity,TheNetherlands DerickWood(Co-chair) HongKongUniversityofScience andTechnology,China ShengYu UniversityofWesternOntario,Canada Table of Contents UsingFiniteStateTechnologyinNaturalLanguageProcessingofBasque. . . 1 I nakiAlegria,MaxuxAranzabe,NereaEzeiza,AitzolEzeiza, andRubenUrizar CascadeDecompositionsareBit-VectorAlgorithms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 AnneBergeronandSylvieHamel SubmoduleConstructionandSupervisoryControl:AGeneralization. . . . . . . 27 Gregorv. Bochmann CountingtheSolutionsofPresburgerEquations withoutEnumeratingThem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 BernardBoigelotandLouisLatour Brzozowski sDerivativesExtendedtoMultiplicities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These post-proceedings contain 27 papers that were accepted for presentation at the Fifth International Workshop on Information Hiding, held 7-9 October 2002, in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. The papers were selected from 78 submissions on the basis of their scienti c excellence and novelty by the program committee. We tried to have a balanced program covering several aspects of information hiding. The program committee was composed of Ross J. Anderson (Univ- sity of Cambridge, UK), Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland), Ingemar J. Cox (NEC Research Institute, USA), John McHugh (SEI/CERT, USA), Ira S. Moskowitz (Naval Research Laboratory, USA), Job Oostveen (Philips Research, The Netherlands), Andreas P tzmann (Dresden University of Technology, Germany), Mike Reiter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), and me. We all wish to thank all the authors of submissions for o ering their papers for consideration. This year, contrary to the four previous workshops, the call for papers - quested anonymous submissions. However, anonymity was not compulsory and we did accept some papers in which the identity of the authors was clear. Each submission was assigned to three members of the program committee. Papers submitted by program committee members were assigned to four reviewers. The program committee relied on the advice of outside colleagues. We also insisted that 12 of the 27 accepted papers should be revised according to the comments of the reviewers. 444 pp. Englisch.