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Hardcover. Condizione: gut. Auflage: 1 (14. Mai 2003). Durch die Erkenntnisse der Molekularbiologie und der Zytogenetik haben sich die Diagnostik und die Therapie hämatologischer Neoplasien in den letzten Jahren entscheidend gewandelt. Ein großer Teil der Kinder mit Leukämien und Lymphomen kann heute geheilt werden. Leukämien und Lymphome treten überwiegend sporadisch auf. Bei einigen erblichen Erkrankungen, insbesondere bei Chromosomenbruch- und Immundefizienz-Syndromen, ist das Risiko für die Entwicklung von Leukämien und Lymphomen deutlich erhöht. Nach der Identifizierung der Krankheitsgene hat sich herausgestellt, daß sie auch in der Entwicklung sporadischer Leukämien und Lymphome eine Rolle spielen. Daher ist diesen erblichen Erkrankungen ein gesonderter Abschnitt gewidmet. Mit Hilfe molekularbiologischer und zytogenetischer Methoden ist es gelungen, grundlegende Mechanismen bei der malignen Transformation und Progression myeloischer und lymphatischer Zellen immer besser zu verstehen und eine große Zahl charakteristischer genetischer Veränderungen zu identifizieren. Die für das Verständnis der Biologie hämatologischer Neoplasien wichtigen Grundlagen sind in einem weiteren Abschnitt dargestellt. In zwei Abschnitten über sporadische Leukämien und Lymphome wird ein Überblick über den aktuellen Erkenntnisstand gegeben. Darin werden die wesentlich von neuen genetischen Erkenntnissen geprägten Vorstellungen über die Entstehung von Leukämien und Lymphomen zusammengefaßt und gezeigt, wie diese Erkrankungen heute auf der Grundlage ihrer genetischen Veränderungen klassifiziert und behandelt werden. Der vorliegende Band bietet eine umfassende Übersicht über hämatologische Neoplasien, ihre molekularmedizinischen Ursachen und deren Einfluss auf Diagnose und Therapie. Folgende Themenbereiche werden behandelt1. Hereditäre Erkrankungen mit erhöhtem Risiko für hämatologische Neoplasien 2. Molekularbiologie sporadischer hämatologischer Neoplasien 3. Sporadische Leukämien 4. Sporadische Lymphome TOC:1. Hereditäre Erkrankungen mit erhöhtem Risiko für hämatologische Neoplasien.- 1.1 Chromosomeninstabilitätssyndrome. 1.2 Immundefizienz-Syndrome. 1.3 Familiäre lymphatische und myeloische Neoplasien.- 2. Biologie sporadischer hämatologischer Neoplasien.- 2.1 Differenzierung myeloischer und lymphatischer Zellen. 2.2 Zellzyklus und Apoptose. 2.3 Immundefizienz als Ursache für die Entstehung hämatologischer Neoplasien. 2.4 Viren und die Entstehung hämatologischer Neoplasien.- 3. Sporadische Leukämien.- 3.1 Chronische myeloische Leukämie (CML) und andere chronische myeloproliferative Erkrankungen (CMPE). 3.2 Myelodysplastische Syndrome. 3.3 Akute myeloische Leukämien. 3.4 Akute lymphoblastische Leukämien des Kindesalters. 3.5 Akute lymphatische Leukämien des Erwachsenenalters.- 4. Sporadische Lymphome.- 4.1 Chronische lymphatische Leukämie vom B-Zelltyp. 4.2 Niedrigmaligne B-Zell-Lymphome. 4.3 Burkitt-Lymphome und andere hochmaligne B-Zell-Lymphome. 4.4 Morbus Hodgkin. 5. Übersicht über wesentliche Beiträge zur Entwicklung der molekularmedizinischen Grundlagen der hämatologischen Neoplasien. Dieser Band ist den malignen Erkrankungen des blutbildenden Systems gewidmet. Hämatologische Neoplasien sind häufige Erkrankungen im Kindes- und jungen Erwachsenenalter und stehen an 4. Stelle der Krebsstatistik In deutscher Sprache. 522 pages. 27,4 x 19,6 x 2,6 cm.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The importance of Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly recognized in business and public sector domains. The latter is particularly suitable for KM implementations since it deals with information and knowledge resources at a large scale: much of the work of public authorities deals with the elaboration of data, information and knowledge on citizens, businesses, society, markets, the environment, law, politics, etc. Even most products of public administration and government work are delivered in the shape of information and knowledge themselves. This especially applies to policies, management, and the regulation and monitoring of society, markets and the environment. Governments expect advanced support from KM concepts and tools to exploit these huge knowledge and information resources in an efficient way. Not only does the trend towards a knowledge society call for KM solutions, but current e government developments also significantly influence the public sector. Ample access to remote information and knowledge resources is needed in order to facilitate: Citizen and businesses oriented service delivery, including one stop service provision; interorganizational co operation between governmental agencies; cross border support for complex administrative decision making; e government integration of dislocated information and knowledge sources into a fabric of global virtual knowledge. 340 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, academics have been called on for possible contributions to research relating to national (and possibly internat- nal) security. As one of the original founding mandates of the National Science Foundation, mid- to long-term national security research in the areas of inf- mation technologies, organizational studies, and security-related public policy is critically needed. In a way similar to how medical and biological research has faced signi cant information overload and yet also tremendous opportunities for new inno- tion, law enforcement, criminal analysis, and intelligence communities are facing the same challenge. We believe, similar to 'medical informatics' and 'bioinf- matics,' that there is a pressing need to develop the science of 'intelligence and security informatics' - the study of the use and development of advanced information technologies, systems, algorithms and databases for national se- rity related applications,through an integrated technological,organizational,and policy-based approach. We believe active 'intelligence and security informatics' research will help improve knowledge discovery and dissemination and enhance information s- ring and collaboration across law enforcement communities and among aca- mics, local, state, and federal agencies, and industry. Many existing computer and information science techniques need to be reexamined and adapted for - tional security applications. New insights from this unique domain could result in signi cant breakthroughs in new data mining, visualization, knowledge - nagement, and information security techniques and systems. 404 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the notes of the lectures given at the Fourth Inter- tionalSchoolonAdvanced FunctionalProgramming,heldAugust19 24,2002,at St. Anne s College in Oxford, UK. This School was preceded by earlier ones in B astad (1995, Sweden, LNCS 925),Olympia,WA (1996,USA, LNCS 1129),andBraga(1998,Portugal,LNCS 1608). The goal of this series of schools is to make recent developments in the area of functional programming widely available. The notes are published to enable individuals, small groups of students, and lecturers to study recent work in the rapidly developing area of functional programming. ThelecturesinthisSchoolintroducetools,languagefeatures,domain-speci c languages, problem domains, or programming methods. All lectures are - companied by software, and all lectures contain exercises and practical assi- ments. Most of the resources can be downloaded via the website of the School: TheLectures Richard Bird and Jeremy Gibbons show how to construct a program for ari- meticcoding.Theyusethetheoryoffoldsandunfoldstodevelopbothaprogram forarithmeticcodinganddecoding,andaproofofcorrectness.Theelegantresult shows that using theory can make a di cult proof digestible. Manuel Chakravarty and Gabriele Keller tackle the performance problem of Haskell s standard arrays. They introduce an array library with which arr- centric algorithms can be coded elegantly, which has very good performance. Koen Claessen and Colin Runciman show how to use QuickCheck to specify programpropertiesandtotestthesepropertiesonfunctionalprograms,andhow to use Hat to trace computations. The combination of the two tools which can be used to trace computations of unexpected results is a powerful debugging tool. MatthiasFelleisenexplainshowtodevelopinteractiveWebprogramsinfu- tional Scheme with continuations, using DrScheme and its built-in Web server. 224 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Therefereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2003, held in San Diego, CA, USA in June 2003 as part of FCRC 2003.The 25 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on static analysis ofobject-oriented languages, static analysis of concurrent languages, static analysis of functional languages, static analysis of procedural languages, static data analysis, static linear relation analysis, static analysis based program transformation, and static heap analysis. 524 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of TestCom 2003, the IFIP TC6/WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, during May 26 28, 2003. TestCom denotes a series of int- national working conferences on testing communicating systems in the data and telecommunication domain. The conference provides a forum for researchers, vendors and users to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts andexperiencesinthe eldoftestingofcommunicatingsystems.Thisconference in particular focuses on new ways of testing for new-generation networks. TestCom2003isthe fteenthinaseriesofannualmeetingssponsoredbyIFIP TC6/WG6.1.The14previousmeetingswereheldinVancouver,Canada(1988), Berlin, Germany (1989), McLean, USA (1990), Leidschendam, The Netherlands (1991), Montreal, Canada (1992), Pau, France (1993), Tokyo, Japan (1994), Evry, France (1995), Darmstadt, Germany (1996), Cheju Island, Korea (1997), Tomsk, Russia (1998), Budapest, Hungary (1999), Ottawa, Canada (2000), and Berlin, Germany (2002). The scope of the papers presented at TestCom 2003 covers interoperability testing, TTCN-3, automata-based testing, testing of next-generation networks, IPandUMTS,testsystemsandtools,testspeci cationdesignandmethodology, and industrial experience in testing communication systems. TheTestCom2003programconsistedof6technicalsessions,3positionsta- ment sessions, and a special session on interoperability testing. Three invited speeches gave an overview on actual trends in the testing and telecommuni- tion area and formulated requirements to the testing process. The proceedings contain the 19 regular papers accepted and presented at the conference. They were selected from 53 submitted papers in a careful selection procedure based on the assessment of three referees for each paper. The p- ceedings also include the text of the invited talk by Elaine Weyuker, Philippe Cousin, and Ana Cavalli. 332 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains most of the papers presented at the 4th International C- ference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2003), held in Genoa, Italy, May 2003. The XP 200n series of conferences were started in 2000 to promote the - change of new ideas, research and applications in the emerging eld of agile methodologies for software development. Over the years, the conference has - come the main world forum for all major advances in this important eld. Also this year the contributions to Agile Methodologies and Extreme P- gramming were substantial. They demonstrate that the topic is continuing to gain more and more momentum. In spite of some criticism of agile meth- ologies, everyone agrees that they address some unresolved needs of software practitioners. People still do not know how to develop software on time, with the desired features, and within the given budget! This volume is divided into several thematic sections, easing reader's na- gation through the content. Full papers are presented rst, followed by research reports, papers from the Educational Symposium, and papers from the Ph.D. Symposium. The presentations given during three panel sessions held at the conference conclude the book. The section on Managing Agile Processes includes contributions highlighting the sometimes di cult relationship between agile methodologies and mana- ment, and includes approaches and suggestions that should facilitate the acc- tance of agile methodologies at the di erent levels of management. 484 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2003, held in Guildford, UK in June 2003.The 40 revised full papers presented with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on boosting, combination rules, multi-class methods, fusion schemes and architectures, neural network ensembles, ensemble strategies, and applications 424 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains (revised versions) of papers presented at the 14th Wo- shop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. Parallel computing used to be nearly synonymous with supercomputing research, but as parallel processing technologies have become common features of commodity processors and systems,the focus of this workshopalsohas shifted. For example, this wo- shop marks the rst time that compiler technology for power management has been recognized as a key aspect of parallel computing. Another pattern visible in the research presented is the continuing shift in emphasis from simply nding potentialparallelismtobeingabletouseparallelisme cientlyenoughtoachieve good speedup. The scope of languages and compilers for parallel computing has thus grown to encompass all relevant aspects of systems, ranging from abstract models to runtime support environments. As inpreviousyears,keyresearcherswereinvitedto participate.Everypaper submitted was reviewed in depth and quantitatively graded on originality, s- ni cance, correctness, presentation, relevance, need to revise the write-up, and overall how appropriate it would be to accept the paper. Any concerns raised werediscussedbythe programcommittee.Insummary,the papersincludedhere represent leading-edge work from North America, Europe, and Asia. 460 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The role of singular trajectories in control theory is analysed in this volume that contains about 60 exercises and problems. A section is devoted to the applications of singular trajectories to the optimisation of batch reactors. The theoretical part based on the Martinet case concerns the singularity analysis of singular trajectories in sub-Riemannian geometry. An algorithm is given to evaluate conjugate points and a final chapter discusses open problems. The volume will interest mathematicians and engineers. 380 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The refereed proceedings of the First Iberial Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPria 2003, held in Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca, Spain in June 2003.The 130 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 full papers submitted. All current aspects of ongoing research in computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and speech recognition are addressed. 1168 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the nal proceedings for the Metainformatics Symposium 2002 (MIS 2002). This event was held during 7 10 August on the campus of Aalborg University Esbjerg, located in Esbjerg, Denmark. MIS is at once both an extension of the previous Structural Computing (SC) Workshop series (see LNCS vols. 1903 and 2266 available from Springer-Verlag for the proceedings of SC2 and SC3), and a broadening of the themes of that workshop series in several new and exciting directions. I hope you nd the work presented in these proceedings as interesting and exciting as I have. I would like to thank Dr. Siegfried Reich and Mrs. Britta Jensen for their help in compiling these proceedings. Also, this volume would not have been possible without the support of Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. In particular, I would like to thank the executive editor of the LNCS series, Mr. Alfred Hofmann. October 2002 Peter J. Nurn berg MIS 2002 Program Chair Table of Contents Introduction to MIS02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Peter J. Nurnb erg Building Metainformatical Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Peter J. Nurnb erg Lessons Learned with the Construct Development Environment . . . . . . . . . . 9 U e Kock Wiil A Meta-modeling Environment for Cooperative Knowledge Management . . 18 Jessica Rubart, Weigang Wang, J org M. Haake Personalization in Knowledge Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Klaus Tochtermann Babylon Bookmarks: A Taxonomic Approach to the Management of WWW Bookmarks . . . . . . . 42 Nikos Karousos, Ioannis Panaretou, Ippokratis Pandis, Manolis Tzagarakis Approaching Wordnets through a Structural Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Therefereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2003, held in Lyon, France in June 2003.The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on anatomy extraction and description, modeling of the cardiac mechanics and functions, electro-physiology and electro- and magnetography, motion estimation, image registration and image analysis, and data acquisition and experimental and modeling issues. 324 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The International Workshops on the Implementation of Functional Languages (IFL)havebeenrunningfor14yearsnow.Theaimoftheseworkshopsistobring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional programming languages to discuss new results and new directions of research. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes: language concepts, type che- ing, compilation techniques, (abstract) interpretation, automatic program g- eration, (abstract) machine architectures, array processing, concurrent/parallel programming and program execution, heap management, runtime pro ling and performance measurements, debugging and tracing, veri cation of functional programs, tools and programming techniques. The 14th edition, IFL 2002, was held in Madrid, Spain in September 2002. It attracted47researchersfromthefunctionalprogrammingcommunity,belonging to10di erentcountries.Duringthethreedaysoftheworkshop,34contributions were presented, covering most of the topics mentioned above. The workshop was sponsored by several Spanish public institutions: the M- istry of Science and Technology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Tourism O ce, Town Hall and Province Council of Segovia, a small Roman and medieval city near Madrid. We thank our sponsors for their generous contri- tions. This volume follows the lead of the last six IFL workshops in publishing a high-quality subset of the contributions presented at the workshop in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All speakers attending the workshop were invited to submit a revised version for publication. A total of 25 papers were submitted. Each one was reviewed by four PC members and thoroughly discussed by the PC. The results of this process are the 15 papers included in this volume. 264 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications, RTA 2003, held in Valencia, Spain in June 2003.The 26 revised regular papers and 6 system descriptions presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. All current aspects of rewriting are addressed. 532 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, TLCA 2003, held in Valencia, Spain in June 2003.The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The volume reports research results on all current aspects of typed lambda calculi, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to the application of proof assistants. 332 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -iTrust is an Information Society Technologies (IST) working group, which started on 1st of August, 2002. The working group is being funded as a concerted action/ thematic network by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) unit of the IST program. The aim of iTrust is to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary investigation of the application of trust as a means of establishing security and con dence in the global computing infrastructure, recognizing trust as a crucial enabler for meaningful and mutually bene cial interactions. The proposed forum is intended to bring together researchers with a keen interest in complementary aspects of trust, from technology-oriented disciplines and the elds of law, social sciences, and philosophy. Hence providing the c- sortium participants (and the research communities associated with them) with the common background necessary for advancing toward an in-depth underst- ding of the fundamental issues and challenges in the area of trust management in open systems. Broadly the initiative aims to: - facilitate the cross-disciplinary investigation of fundamental issues underp- ning computational trust models by bringing together expertise from te- nology oriented sciences, law, philosophy, and social sciences - facilitate the emergence of widely acceptable trust management processes for dynamic open systems and applications - facilitate the development of new paradigms in the area of dynamic open systems which e ectively utilize computational trust models - help the incorporation of trust management elements in existing standards. 364 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 Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2003, held in Ascona, Switzerland in May 2003.The 19 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The focus of the volume is on applications of efficient algorithms for combinatorial problems. 284 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 the 5th Italian Conference on AlgorithmsandComplexity(CIAC2003). Theconferencetookplaceduring May 28 30, 2003, in Rome, Italy, at the Conference Centre of the University of Rome La Sapienza. CIAC started in 1990 as a national meeting to be held every three years for Italian researchers in algorithms, data structures, complexity theory, and parallelanddistributedcomputing. Duetoasigni cantparticipationofforeign researchers, starting from the second edition, CIAC evolved into an international conference. However,alltheeditionsofCIAChavebeenheldinRome. The proceedings of CIAC were published by World Scienti c for the rst edition and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (volumes 778,1203and1767)forthesubsequenteditions. Aselectionofthepapersofthe fourth edition was published in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science Vol. 285(1),2002. Thisyearweexpecttopublishanextendedversionofselected papers presented at the conference in a special issue of the journal Theory of Computing Systems. In response to the call for papers for CIAC 2003, 57 papers were subm- ted, from which the Program Committee selected 23 papers for presentation at theconferencefrom18countries. Eachpaperwasevaluatedbyatleastthree Program Committee members with the help of 63 external reviewers. In addition to the selected papers, the Organizing Committee invited CharlesE. Leiserson(Cambridge),DavidPeleg(Rehovot),MichaelO. Rabin (CambridgeandJerusalem),JohnE. Savage(Providence),andLucaTrevisan (Berkeley)togiveplenarylecturesattheconference. Moreover,threetutorials byDavidPeleg,JaymeL. Szwarc ter(RiodeJaneiro)andLucaTrevisanwere o ered in the days preceding the conference. We wish to express our appreciation to all the authors of the submitted - pers, to the Program Committee members and the referees, to the Organizing Committee, and to the plenary and tutorial lecturers who accepted our in- tation. 308 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From the reviews:'All in all, Graham Borradaile has written and interesting and idiosyncratic book on statistics for geoscientists that will be welcome among students, researchers, and practitioners dealing with orientation data. That should include engineering geologists who work with things like rock fracture orientation measurements or clast alignment in paleoseismic trenches. It wonâEUR(TM)t replace the collection of statistics and geostatistics texts in my library, but it will have a place among them and will likely be one of several references to which I turn when working with orientation data. The text is easy to follow and illustrations are generally clear and easy to read.'(William C. Haneberg, Haneberg Geoscience) 384 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Well written textbook on industrial applications of Statistical Measurement Theory. It deals with the principal issues of measurement theory, is concise and intelligibly written, and to a wide extent self-contained. Difficult theoretical issues are separated from the mainstream presentation. Each topic starts with an informal introduction followed by an example, the rigorous problem formulation, solution method, and a detailed numerical solution. Chapter are concluded with a set of exercises of increasing difficulty, mostly with solutions. Knowledge of calculus and fundamental probability and statistics is assumed. 168 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From the reviews: 'This book is a very welcome and valuable addition to the accelerator literature. As noted by the authors, there is relatively little material in the book specifically for low-energy machines, but industrial users may still find it useful to read.' Cern Courier 388 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Some of the most challenging problems in science and engineering are being addressed by the integration of computation and science, a research eld known as computational science. Computational science plays a vital role in fundamental advances in biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and a host of other disciplines. This is through the coordination of computation, data management, access to instrumentation, knowledge synthesis, and the use of new devices. It has an impact on researchers and practitioners in the sciences and beyond. The sheer size of many challenges in computational science dictates the use of supercomputing, parallel and distri- ted processing, grid-based processing, advanced visualization and sophisticated algorithms. At the dawn of the 21st century the series of International Conferences on Computational Science (ICCS) was initiated with a rst meeting in May 2001 in San Francisco. The success of that meeting motivated the organization of the - cond meeting held in Amsterdam April 21-24, 2002, where over 500 participants pushed the research eld further. The International Conference on Computational Science 2003 (ICCS 2003) is the follow-up to these earlier conferences. ICCS 2003 is unique, in that it was a single event held at two di erent sites almost opposite each other on the globe - Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The conference ran on the same dates at both locations and all the presented work was published in a single set of proceedings, which you hold in your hands right now. 1216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The four-volume set LNCS 2657, LNCS 2658, LNCS 2659, and LNCS 2660 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2003, held concurrently in Melbourne, Australia and in St. Petersburg, Russia in June 2003. The four volumes present more than 460 reviewed contributed and invited papers and span the whole range of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and algorithmic mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all application fields making use of computational techniques. These proceedings give a unique account of recent results in the field. 1284 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Some of the most challenging problems in science and engineering are being addressed by the integration of computation and science, a research eld known as computational science. Computational science plays a vital role in fundamental advances in biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and a host of other disciplines. This is through the coordination of computation, data management, access to instrumentation, knowledge synthesis, and the use of new devices. It has an impact on researchers and practitioners in the sciences and beyond. The sheer size of many challenges in computational science dictates the use of supercomputing, parallel and distri- ted processing, grid-based processing, advanced visualization and sophisticated algorithms. At the dawn of the 21st century the series of International Conferences on Computational Science (ICCS) was initiated with a rst meeting in May 2001 in San Francisco. The success of that meeting motivated the organization of the - cond meeting held in Amsterdam April 21-24, 2002, where over 500 participants pushed the research eld further. The International Conference on Computational Science 2003 (ICCS 2003) is the follow-up to these earlier conferences. ICCS 2003 is unique, in that it was a single event held at two di erent sites almost opposite each other on the globe - Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The conference ran on the same dates at both locations and all the presented work was published in a single set of proceedings, which you hold in your hands right now. 1284 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Business-to-business (B2B) integration is a buzzword which has been used a lot in recent years, with a variety of meanings. Starting with a clear technical definition of this term and its relation to topics like A2A (Application-to-Application), ASP (Application Service Provider), A2A, and B2C (Business-to-Consumer), Christoph Bussler outlines a complete and consistent B2B integration architecture based on a coherent conceptual model. He shows that B2B integration not only requires the exchange of business events between distributed trading partners across networks like the Internet, but also demands back-end application integration within business processes, and thus goes far beyond traditional approaches to enterprise application integration approaches.His detailed presentation describes how B2B integration standards like RosettaNet or SWIFT, the application integration standard J2EE Connector Architecture and basic standards like XML act together in order to enable business process integration.The book is the first of its kind that discusses B2B concepts and architectures independent of specific and short-term industrial or academic approaches and thus provides solid and long-lasting knowledge for researchers, students, and professionals interested in the field of B2B integration.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 444 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Goals of Data Collection and Its Statistical Treatment in the Earth Sciences The earth sciences are characterised by loose and complex relationships between variables, and the necessity to understand the geographical dis tribution of observations as well as their frequency distribution. Our fre quency distributions and the looseness of relationships reflect the com plexity and intrinsic natural variation in nature, more than measurement error. Furthermore, earth scientists cannot design experiments according to statistical recommendation because the availability and complexity of data are beyond our control. Usually, the system we are studying cannot be isolated into discrete independent variables. These factors influence the first steps of research, how and where to collect specimens or observations. Some issues are particularly troublesome and common in earth science, but are rarely handled in an undergraduate statistics course. These include spatial-sampling methods, orientation data, regionalised variables, time se ries, identification of cyclicity and pattern, discrimination, multivariate systems, lurking variables and constant-sum data. It is remarkable that most earth-science students confront these issues without formal training or focused consideration.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 384 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The global purpose of IWANN conferences has been to provide a broad and - terdisciplinary forum for the interplay between neuroscience and computation. Our dream has been, and still is: (1) nd ways to understand the physiol- ical, symbolic and cognitive nature of the nervous system (NS) with the help of computational and engineering tools; and (2) nd rich and insightful sources of inspiration in biology, to develop new materials, mechanisms and probl- solving methods (PSM) of value in engineering and computation. As all of us knowwell, this dreamstarted with the AncientGreeks, reappearedin the fo- dational stage of neurocybernetics and bionics, and is now broadly accepted in the scienti c community under di erent labels such as computational neu- science(CN) andarti cialneuralnets (ANN), orgenetic algorithmsandhybrid neuro-fuzzy systems. We have also to recognize that there is a considerable lack of credibility associated with CN and ANN among some researchers, both from biology and from the engineering and computation area. Potential causes of this scepticism could be the lack of methodology, formal tools, and real-world applications, in the engineering area, and the lack also of formal tools for cognitive process modeling. There is also the possibility of the computational paradigm being inappropriate to explain cognition, because of the representational character ofanycomputationalmodel. Some moresituated approachesarelookingback to the neurophysiological epistemology of the 1960 s (mind in a body) to searchdirectlyforthemechanismsthatcouldembodythecognitiveprocess,and this means some fresh air for our old dream of connectionism. 856 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The classical view on polymer crystallization basically focused on the expla- tion of a few macroscopically observable parameters like the thickness of the resulting lamellar structure and the corresponding growth rates. However, the emerging paradigm for the description of chain crystals is too simple and cannot account for the complex non-equilibrium processes responsible for structure f- mation on various levels, ranging from the nanometer up to the millimeter scale. This complexity detected by several novel experimental results led to a renewed interest in this 'old' topic of polymer crystallization. These new ndings c- cern the early stages of the crystallization process, crystal formation in con ned geometries like ultra-thin lms and the competition between (micro)phase s- aration and crystallization in copolymers and blends. In particular, high spatial resolution techniques such as atomic force microscopy provided deeper insight into the molecular organization of crystallizable polymers. Computer simu- tions based on microscopic processes were used to improve our understanding of how polymer crystals are nucleated and how they grow. New ideas emerged about possible multistage pathways which are followed during the formation of polymer lamellae. The importance and the consequences of the non-equilibrium character of polymer crystals got signi cantly more attention. Links and ana- gies to growth phenomena and pattern formation in general are being developed. However, these ideas are still subject of intensive and controversial discussions. 408 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Fraunhofer Competence Center Knowledge Management presents in this second edition its up-dated and extended research results. In doing so it describes best practices in knowledge management from leading companies and shows how to integrate such activities into the daily business tasks and processes, how to motivate people and which capabilities and skills are required. It concludes with an overview of the leading knowledge management projects in several European countries. 420 pp. Englisch.…