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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Stochastic analysis is not only a thriving area of pure mathematics with intriguing connections to partial differential equations and differential geometry. It also has numerous applications in the natural and social sciences (for instance in financial mathematics or theoretical quantum mechanics) and therefore appears in physics and economics curricula as well. However, existing approaches to stochastic analysis either presuppose various concepts from measure theory and functional analysis or lack full mathematical rigour. This short book proposes to solve the dilemma: By adopting E. Nelson's 'radically elementary' theory of continuous-time stochastic processes, it is based on a demonstrably consistent use of infinitesimals and thus permits a radically simplified, yet perfectly rigorous approach to stochastic calculus and its fascinating applications, some of which (notably the Black-Scholes theory of option pricing and the Feynman path integral) are also discussed in the book.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the framework of the Diderot Mathematical Forum (DMF) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), December 19-20, 1997, a Videoconference was held linking three teams of specialists in Amsterdam, Madrid and Venice respectively. The general subject of this videoconference, the second one of the DMF series, was Mathematics and Environment and more specifically, Problems related to Water.This volume contains the texts of the Madrid site contributions with important, new and unpublished, examples on the modeling, mathematical and numerical analysis and treatment of the associated control problems of relevant questions arising in Oceanography and Environment.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ein Jahrtausendereignis - ein technischer Triumph: Menschen waren auf dem Mond! Oder - und kann das überhaupt möglich sein - sind wir einer Täuschung unterlegen Einer politisch motivierten globalen Inszenierung, deren Bilder und Filme in einem Studio entstanden sind (Aus dem Video-Trailer zum Buch)Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents recent advances (from 2008 to 2012) concerning use of the Naïve Bayes model in unsupervised word sense disambiguation (WSD).While WSD, in general, has a number of important applications in various fields of artificial intelligence (information retrieval, text processing, machine translation, message understanding, man-machine communication etc.), unsupervised WSD is considered important because it is language-independent and does not require previously annotated corpora. The Naïve Bayes model has been widely used in supervised WSD, but its use in unsupervised WSD has led to more modest disambiguation results and has been less frequent. It seems that the potential of this statistical model with respect to unsupervised WSD continues to remain insufficiently explored.The present book contends that the Naïve Bayes model needs to be fed knowledge in order to perform well as a clustering technique for unsupervised WSD and examines three entirely different sources of such knowledge for feature selection: WordNet, dependency relations and web N-grams. WSD with an underlying Naïve Bayes model is ultimately positioned on the border between unsupervised and knowledge-based techniques. The benefits of feeding knowledge (of various natures) to a knowledge-lean algorithm for unsupervised WSD that uses the Naïve Bayes model as clustering technique are clearly highlighted. The discussion shows that the Naïve Bayes model still holds promise for the open problem of unsupervised WSD.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿¿Humorvoll geschrieben und bestückt mit zahlreichen Beispielen bietet dieses heitere und zugleich lehrreiche Werk einen Überblick über die unterschiedlichen Bereiche der Gedächtnisforschung und Methoden zur Steigerung der Gedächtnisleistung. Überraschende Resultate aus zahlreichen psychologischen Experimenten räumen auf mit falschen Vorstellungen zum Gehirntraining undzur Gehirnverjüngung. Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse werden mit anschaulichen und unterhaltsamen, für die Alltagspraxis tauglichen Strategien verbunden und mit passenden Strategien für den jeweiligen Gedächtnistyp abgerundet.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 344 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿Da es wohl kaum jemanden gibt, der nicht gesund sein und sich wohlfühlen möchte, sind Wellness, Gesundheit wie auch das Verständnis von Faktoren, die uns krank machen, von entscheidenderBedeutung. Gustave Nicolas Fischer und Virginie Dodler stellen die wichtigsten 100 Aha-Experimente auf diesem Gebiet kurzweilig und anschaulich dar. Durch die daraus resultierenden erstaunlichen Entdeckungen wird jeder Leser den Einfluss der Psyche auf die Gesundheit noch besser verstehen. Dazu gibt es praktische Lösungsansätzezur Begleitung auf dem Weg zumphysischen Wohlbefinden.¿Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Fünf Informatikpioniere aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, die die Entwicklung ihres Fachs durch Impulse und Kritik entscheidend geprägt haben, erzählen ihr Leben vor dem Hintergrund der entstehenden Informatik. Der frühe Bau elektronischer Rechenanlagen wird dabei ebenso angesprochen wie das Entstehen von Programmiersprachen oder die Etablierung der Disziplin. In den Gesprächen geht es weniger darum, außergewöhnliche Ereignisse oder Biographien herauszustellen, als vielmehr die Informatik in die Zeitgeschichte und die Lebensumstände des einzelnen einzubetten. Es zeigt sich, daß bei aller Zufälligkeit der Situationen und Bedingtheit der Entscheidungen persönliche Orientierung und Initiative sowie soziale und fachliche Kompetenz ausschlaggebend für den einschneidenden Fortschritt waren. Fachleute und Laien, Nutzer und Kritiker des Computers werden bei der aufschlußreichen und zugleich unterhaltsamen Lektüre Anregungen zum Überdenken eigener und gängiger Positionen finden.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mehr als die einfache Logik eines Frühmenschen brauchen Sie nicht, um die Grundzüge der Mathematik zu verstehen. Denn Sie treffen in diesem Buch viele einfache, fast gefühlsmäßig zu erfassende mathematische Prinzipien des täglichen Lebens. Deswegen kann der Autor bei seinem Versuch, die Mathematik 'begreiflich' zu machen, in die Steinzeit zurückgehen - genauer gesagt: etwa in die Jungsteinzeit, 10.000 Jahre vor unserer Zeitrechnung. Ackerbau und Viehzucht hatten schon begonnen. Dort treffen Sie Eddi Einstein, den Denker und Rudi Radlos, den Erfinder - die Hauptakteure. Ein dritter Geselle ist Siggi Spökenkieker, der Druide und Seher. Siggi ist mit der Gabe der Präkognition gesegnet. So können wir Eddi, den Denker, mit Erkenntnissen ausstatten, die erst Jahrtausende später von bedeutenden Philosophen und Mathematikern erlangt worden waren. Die wahre Meisterin dieser Wissenschaftsdisziplin ist jedoch Wilhelmine Wicca. Sie war so klug wie die drei Kerle zusammen. Deshalb galt sie auch als Hexe - was damals ein Ehrentitel war - und als weise Frau. 434 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces, and Communicability, held in Huerta Grande, Argentina, in December 2011. The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics addressed span the entire spectrum of interactive design, e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-tourism, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2011, held in Gargnano del Garda, Italy, in June/July 2011. The 19 papers, presented together with 2 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on statistical learning, genomics, computational intelligence for health at the edge, proteomics, intelligent clinical decision support systems (i-CDSS), bioinformatics, and data clustering.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Quantum Interaction, QI 2012, held in Paris in June 2012. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover various topics on quantum interaction.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software technology advances from the pioneers in the field. The school's focus is applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors extensive interaction between participants and speakers.LASER 2011 is devoted to software verification tools. There have been great advances in the field of software verification in recent years. Today verification tools are being increasingly used not only by researchers, but by programming practitioners. The summer school will focus on several of the most prominent and practical of such tools from different areas of software verification (such as formal proofs, testing and model checking). During the school the participants will not only learn the principles behind the tools, but also get hands-on experience, trying the tools on real programs.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings and the doctoral symposium of the 12th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2012, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2012.The volume contains four workshops and a doctoral consortium, each focusing on specific research issues that contribute to the main themes of the ICWE conference:MDWE 2012: Eighth International Workshop on Model-Driven and Agile Engineering for the WebComposableWeb 2012: Fourth International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the WebWeRE 2012: Third Workshop on the Web and Requirements EngineeringQWE 2012: Third International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the workshop on Usable Security, USEC 2012, and the third Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research, WECSR 2012, held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Financial Cryptology and Data Security, FC 2012, in Kralendijk, Bonaire. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions and cover all aspects of data security. The goal of the USEC workshop was to engage on all aspects of human factors and usability in the context of security. The goal of the WECSR workshop was to continue searching for a new path in computer security that is Institutional review boards at academic institutions, as well as compatible with ethical guidelines for societies at government institutions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the two workshops held at the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2011, held in Wollongong, Australia, in November. The workshops were, Workshop on Agent Based Simulation for a Sustainable Society (ABSSS 2011) and International Workshop on Multi-Agent Smart Computing (MASmart 2011). The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover topics from agent based simulation for a sustainable society and on multi-agent smart computing.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2012, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2012.The 5 regular papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The volume also contains two tutorial papers in the section perspectives on big data analytics. The regular contributions are organized in topical sections on: data analytics applications; knowledge discovery through information extraction; and data models in analytics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Brain imaging brings together the technology, methodology, research questions and approaches of a wide range of scientific fields including physics, statistics, computer science, neuroscience, biology, and engineering. Thus, methodological and technological advances that enable us to obtain measurements, examine relationships across observations, and link these data to neuroscientific hypotheses happen in a highly interdisciplinary environment. The dynamic field of machine learning with its modern approach to data mining provides many relevant approaches for neuroscience and enables the exploration of open questions. This state-of-the-art survey offers a collection of papers from the Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging, MLINI 2011, held at the 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing, NIPS 2011, in the Sierra Nevada, Spain, in December 2011. Additionally, invited speakers agreed to contribute reviews on various aspects of the field, adding breadth and perspective to the volume. The 32 revised papers were carefully selected from 48 submissions. At the interface between machine learning and neuroimaging the papers aim at shedding some light on the state of the art in this interdisciplinary field. They are organized in topical sections on coding and decoding, neuroscience, dynamcis, connectivity, and probabilistic models and machine learning.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 2012.Following the tradition of this workshop series, each paper war revised by the authors to incorporate ideas from the workshop, and is followed in these proceedings by an edited transcription of the presentation and ensuing discussion. The volume contains 14 papers with their transcriptions as well as an introduction, i.e. 29 contributions in total. The theme of the workshop was 'Bringing protocols to life'.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage, HCITOCH 2011, held in Córdoba, Argentina, in September 2011. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The volume is intended to be a meeting point of all those who freely wish to boost and perfect the set of strategies and techniques to improve the human-computer interaction, tourism, and cultural heritage.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Ferran Hurtado on the occasion of his 60th birthday; it contains extended versions of selected communications presented at the XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, held at the University of Alcalá, Spain, in June 2011.Ferran Hurtado has played a central role in the Spanish community of Computational Geometry since its very beginning, and the quantity and quality of the international participants in the conference is an indisputable proof of his relevance in the international level.The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers present original research in computational geometry, in its broadest sense. Topics included are discrete and combinatorial geometry, linear programming applied to geometric problems, geometric algorithms and data structures, theoretical foundations of computational geometry, questions of interest in the implementation of geometric algorithms, and applications of computational geometry.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes selected best papers from the 10th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2011, held in Angers, France, in October 2011.Initially, 33 full papers and 10 post papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. This book presents the 19 best papers selected from these contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ant colony optimization; multi-objective optimization; analysis; implementation and robotics; combinatorial optimization; learning and parameter tuning; new nature inspired models; probabilistic algorithms; theory and evolutionary search; and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2012, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2012, in Nice, France, in October 2012.The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The main aim of this workshop is to help advance the scientific research within the broad field of machine learning in medical imaging. It focuses on major trends and challenges in this area, and it presents work aimed to identify new cutting-edge techniques and their use in medical imaging.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿Understanding X-Rays¿ is a book planned to fill the gap between basic and advanced knowledge of Radiology.It meets the moment when a - diologist is not available,and a diagnosis is required. Each section is introduced by a chapter on ¿how to ¿understand¿X-rays¿, encouraging a complete and systematic approach to radiographs focusing on every part of the image.A three-point approach is presented,consi- ing of the ¿quick look¿,a systematic detailed scrutiny of the images,and - nally a brief look at ¿review areas¿. Most difficulties in interpreting radiographs do not arise from iden- fying the clearly normal or abnormal,but the huge grey expanse between. Therefore,normal variants that may masquerade as disease are discussed in detail.Likewise,common appearances,often incidental and unimp- tant,are covered thoroughly,as these appearances can readily be misint- preted as being due to significant disease. The chapters on disease entities follow a logical sequence of conge- tal, traumatic, infective, neoplastic and miscellaneous conditions. Po- traumatic sequelae are discussed in much greater detail in each section. To limit the handbook to a pocket-sized format,certain aspects of Radi- ogy receive scant attention and some are excluded altogether.(The foll- ing are not included: physics,instrumentation,machine construction,- teriography,and ultrasound imaging of obstetrics, the eye and vascular structures.Aspects such as congenital heart disease,bone dysplasias,bone tumours and barium meal examinations are not discussed at any length).Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 688 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book reports cutting-edge cases of emerging health technologies.Some health care fields are experiencing paradigmatic shifts because of robotic technologies and the new relationships that they create in r-Health (r-Curing and r-Caring) activities.The book explores emerging health care technologies such as image-guided surgical robotics, pharmacy robots, new visualisation methods (3D, 4D & ¿5D¿) and home telehealth management systems and their acceptance in the workplace but also, more generally, their special role in business and society. These technologies allow health care professionals to effectively reach far beyond the current service offerings, providing new methods for communication, diagnosis, and treatment. The relocation of certain knowledge areas from physicians to patients in self-care management or the reconfiguration of health care expertise from one health profession to another are examples of topics developed in this book. The book describes the emerging relocation of innovative visual knowledge and expertise within health care organisations and beyond, such as in the patient¿s home environment.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In a knowledge-based economy, the development of a particular type of services, knowledge intensive business services (KIBS), becomes one of the characteristic trends in economic evolution.Current research focuses mainly on service innovation in developed countries, but little consideration is given to the situation in developing countries.Based on empirical research in the People¿s Republic of China, this book aims to contribute to a better appreciation and understanding of the innovative characteristics of KIBSs in developing countries.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Restricted-orientation convexity is the study of geometric objects whose intersections with lines from some fixed set are connected. This notion generalizes standard convexity and several types of nontraditional convexity. We explore the properties of this generalized convexity in multidimensional Euclidean space, describes restricted-orientation analogs of lines, hyperplanes, flats, and halfspaces, and identify major properties of standard convex sets that also hold for restricted-orientation convexity. We then introduce the notion of strong restricted-orientation convexity, which is an alternative generalization of convexity, and show that its properties are also similar to those of standard convexity.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This is the second part of a trilogy published in the Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a distinguished Mexican sociologist and professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico. Rodolfo Stavenhagen wrote this collection of six essays on The Emergence of Indigenous Peoples between 1965 and 2009. These widely discussed classic texts address: Classes, Colonialism and Acculturation (1965); Indigenous Peoples: An Introduction (2009); The Return of the Native: The Indigenous Challenge in Latin America (2002); Indigenous Peoples in Comparative Perspective (2004); Mexicös Unfinished Symphony: The Zapatista Movement (2000); and Struggle and Resistance: Mexicös Indians in Transition (2006). This volume discusses the emergence of indigenous peoples as new social and political actors at the national and international level. These texts deal with human rights, especially during the years he the author served as United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 172 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book traces the political history of the concept of social policy. ¿Social policy¿ originated in Germany in the mid 19th century as a scholarly term that made a career in politics. The term became more prominent only after World War II. Kaufmann, the doyen of the sociology of social policy in Germany, argues that ¿social policy¿ responds to the modern disjunction between ¿state¿ and ¿society¿ diagnosed by the German philosopher Hegel. Hegel¿s disciple Lorenz von Stein saw social policy as a means to pacify the capitalist class conflict. After World War II, social policy expanded in an unprecedented way, changing its character in the process. Social policy turned from class politics into a policy for the whole population, with new concepts ¿ like 'social security', 'redistribution' and 'quality of life' - and new overarching formulas, 'social market economy' and 'social state' (the German version of ¿welfare state¿). Both formulas have remained indeterminate and contested, indicating the inherent openness of the idea of the ¿social¿.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In order to survive as a social institution a firm needs a constitutional social contract, even though implicit, among its stakeholders. This social contract must exist if an institution is to be justified. The book focuses on two main issues: To find out the terms of the hypothetical agreement among the firm's stakeholders in an ex ante perspective and to understand the endogenous mechanism generating appropriate incentives that induce to comply with the social contract itself, as seen in the ex post perspective.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.