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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Aus den Besprechungen: 'Ein Lehrbuch, wie ich es mir als Student gewünscht hätte: Nahezu jeder Begriff wird vor seiner Einführung ausführlich motiviert, man findet eine Unmenge.von hervorragenden Figuren, jedes Kapitel enthält sowohl eine Einleitung, in der skizziert wird, 'wohin der Hase laufen soll', als auch eine Rückschau mit den wichtigsten Ergebnissen. Man findet reichlich Übungen (mit Lösungshinweisen) sowie multiple choice tests (mit Lösungen) am Ende eines jeden Kapitels. Der Stil ist locker und unterhaltsam und unterscheidet sich wohltuend von den üblichen trockenen Mathematik-Lehrbüchern.Ein hervorragendes Lehrbuch, dessen Lektüre nicht nur für Physiker und Ingenieure nützlich, sondern auch für Mathematikstudenten eine willkommene Ergänzung zum 'täglichen Brot' sein dürfte'. Zentralblatt für Mathematik.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dieses Lehrbuch hat sich zum Standardwerk in der Ausbildung von Ingenieuren, Naturwissenschaftlern und Informatikern entwickelt. Hervorgegangen aus langjähriger Lehrtätigkeit der Autoren an der Technischen Universität in München, bietet es Studenten technischer Disziplinen eine gründliche Einführung in alle relevanten Themen. Es stellt konkrete und studentenfreundliche Rechenschemata zur Verfügung, die hervorragend zur Prüfungsvorbereitung geeignet sind. Ideal geeignet als Vorlesungsbegleiter, Repetitorium für Prüfungen und Nachschlagewerk in der Praxis.'. Eine charakteristische Besonderheit dieses Lehrbuches sind die zahlreichen und äußerst vielseitigen Anwendungsbeispiele aus Physik, Chemie, Biologie und vor allem der Mechanik und Elektrotechnik, mit denen die eingeführten Begriffe und hergeleiteten Formeln regelmäßig illustriert werden.' GAMM Mittgn.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Das Standardwerk für Ingenieure, Naturwissenschaftler und Informatiker jetzt in der 6. Auflage: Band 1 des zweibändigen Lehrbuchs Höhere Mathematik. Neben dem üblichen Vorlesungsstoff bieten die Autoren auch weiterführende Anregungen. Dieser Band umfasst neben Differential- und Integralrechnung für Funktionen in einer und mehreren reellen Variablen auch Vektoranalysis, Integralsätze und die n-dimensionale Vektor- und Matrizenrechnung. Eine Fülle eindrucksvoller Abbildungen, praxisbezogener Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben tragen zur Anschaulichkeit bei. Besonders gekennzeichnete Zusammenfassungen mit detaillierten Rechenschemata eignen sich hervorragend zur Prüfungsvorbereitung.'Ein glänzendes Buch, das durch seine präzise und doch anschauliche Darstellung, vor allem aber durch die Vielfalt der enthaltenen Beispiele, aus der großen Zahl von Werken ähnlicher Zielrichtung hervortritt. ' Int. Math. Nachr. Österreich.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der Bericht Benchmarking Deutschland beurteilt den Wirtschafts- und Sozialstandort Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Entwicklung des Arbeitsmarktes und der Politikbereiche, die im Wesentlichen auf die Beschäftigungsdynamik einwirken. Ziel dieses Berichts ist die Erkennung von Stärken und Schwächen und die Suche nach praktisch umsetzbaren Reformansätzen. Das Benchmarking Deutschland, das erste seiner Art, ist in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsgruppe Benchmarking des Bündnisses für Arbeit entstanden. Es gründet sich auf einen umfassenden Bestand an international vergleichbaren Daten sowie die führende einschlägige Literatur und gibt in der kompakten und leicht zugänglichen Form eines Kompendiums die von den Akteuren gemeinsam anerkannten Datenlage wieder. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 2001 International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS 2001) held in Coimbra, Portugal, organized by COST Action 263, is the second of what we expect will become a series of successful QofIS workshops. The previous workshop was held in Berlin in the year 2000. The areas of interest of QofIS cover the design, implementation and provision of Quality of Service, spanning key issues of current and emerging communication systems such as packet-level issues, flow-level issues, network-level issues, architectural issues, and applications. The emphasis of the QofIS2001 w orkshop is on horizontal (end-to-end) as well as vertical (top-down) provision of quality of services, covering all components of end systems and networks, with the aim of identifying solutions enabling feasible and coherent QoS provision. The QofIS2001 cal l for papers attracted 87 submissions from 23 Asian, Australian, European, North American, and South American countries. These were subject to thorough review work by the Programme Committee members and additional reviewers who carried out their work using a specially built conference system, WebChairing, developed in Coimbra by Flor de Utopia, that allowed full control of the submission and reviewing processes. Based on the comments and recommendations of the reviews, the final programme was defined in a Programme th Committee meeting held at the University of Karlsruhe on June 5 , 2001. 352 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Welcome to Free Convection Film Flows and Heat Transfer! Free convection lm ows occur in many industrial processes. However, engineers still have to deal with many unresolved problems. This book systematically summarizes my recent research results that have been referred to and cited by many other researchersinthis eld.Thepurposeofthisbookistoprovideapracticalguide to university students, graduate students, design engineers, researchers, and scientistswhowishtofurtherunderstandthecharacteristicsoffreeconvection lm ows and heat transfer. I hope this book will serve as a useful tool for them, as well as a guide to future research. This book includes three related parts (1) accelerating convective bou- ary layers of Newtonian uids, (2) accelerating lm boiling and condensation of Newtonian uids, and (3) accelerating lm ows of non-Newtonian pow- law uids. These phenomena are all caused by buoyancy or gravity, and can be summed up in terms of the free convection lm ows. In addition, the free convection lm ows of Newtonian uids can be taken as a special case of non-Newtonian power-law uids. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Just like the previous workshop at VLDB 1999 in Edinburgh, the purpose of this workshop is to promote telecom data management as one of the core research areas in database research and to establish a strong connection between the telecom and database research communities. As I wrote in the preface of those proceedings, data management in telecommuni- tions is an interesting area of research given the fact that both service management and service provisioning are very data intensive, and pose extreme requirements on data management technology. Given the feedback on the previous workshop we decided to keep the same program set-up for this workshop: an invited speaker, a collection of research papers, and a panel discussion. We received 18 good quality papers from which we selected 12 to construct a very interesting program. The program has been divided into four sections. The first section focuses on CDR data warehouse and data mining technology. Data warehousing and data mining around customer usage data remains an important area of interest for telecommunication operators. The growing competition, especially in the mobile market, means that operators have to put more effort into customer retention and satisfaction. The second section focuses on performance issues around databases in telecommunication. Since telecommunication databases are characterized by their extreme requirements, for example in terms of volumes of data to be processed or response times, high volume data management and embedded and real-time data management are key aspects of the telecommunication data management problems in today's operational environments. 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the 1990s, growth theory has incorporated imperfect competition in its investigations. This innovation has proven to be seminal: Cleviating from growth models with perfect competition, the new framework featured forward looking entrepreneurs. Firms maximize profits intertemporarily, i. e. their in vestment leads to instantaneous sunk costs and offers flows of future profits. Firms finance this investment by launching shares. The capital market is per fectly competitive, implying that the return on a share is equal to the return on a bond. As opposed to the capital market, the goods market is imperfectly competitive. As a result of investment, firms enjoy market power. That is, firms may acquire the capability to provide a product that is differentiated in, e. g. , styling, technology, accessibility, or reputation. The launch of a dif ferentiated product allows to capture a market niche, and successful firms may price above marginal cost. The resulting profit flows are channelled to the firms' shareholders. The introduction of monopolistic competition into growth theory is valuable: real world economies may be portrayed rather by such an imperfect competition framework than by a perfect competition approach. Starting with Romer (1990), in growth theory, modeling of imperfect competition has been notoriously bound to a focus on the impact of research and development (R&D) on economic growth. In the existing literature, growth-affecting investment is restricted to R&D investment. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Digital manipulation of landform is revolutionizing how our built environment is designed and constructed. On a technical level, three dimensional geometric modeling of topography has its origins at the interface of geographic information systems (GIS) and computer aided geometric modeling (CAD): the former with its representations of spatial attribute information with digital terrain in several representations (Triangulated Irregular Networks, contour lines, etc. ); the latter focusing primarily on the parameterization and combination of geometric primitives. The broadening of these two disciplines to embrace new surveying and navigation advances, e. g. global positioning systems (GPS), together with developments in engineering on the application side, are leading to powerful new suites of functionality. There has been a pronounced need for a forum where these traditionally separate parties can interact. These proceedings contain the technical papers selected and formally presented as part of the scientific program of the First International Symposium on Digital Earth Moving, 2001 (DEM 2001) held September 5 7, 2001 at the CIM Institute for Computing Science and Industrial Technologies of the University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI iCIMSI) in Manno (Lugano), Switzerland. It is the first volume published on this explicit theme. Thirty six submissions were received, from fifteen countries, with thirteen select papers and posters presented in the official program and in this publication. 136 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 scientific track of the 7th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI\*IA 2001, held in Bari, Italy, in September 2001.The 25 revised long papers and 16 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning; automated reasoning; knowledge representation; multi-agent systems; natural language processing; perception, vision, and robotics; and planning and scheduling. 412 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -ThesearetheproceedingsofthefourthbiennialconferenceintheIntelligentData Analysisseries. TheconferencetookplaceinCascais,Portugal,13 15September 2001. Thethemeofthisconferenceseriesistheuseofcomputersinintelligent waysindataanalysis,includingtheexplorationofintelligentprogramsfordata analysis. Dataanalytictoolscontinuetodevelop,drivenbythecomputerrevo- tion. Methodswhichwouldhaverequiredunimaginableamountsofcomputing power,andwhichwouldhavetakenyearstoreachaconclusion,cannowbe appliedwitheaseandvirtuallyinstantly. Suchmethodsarebeingdevelopedby avarietyofintellectualcommunities,includingstatistics,arti cialintelligence, neuralnetworks,machinelearning,datamining,andinteractivedynamicdata visualization. Thisconferenceseriesseekstobringtogetherresearchersstudying theuseofintelligentdataanalysisinthesevariousdisciplines,tostimulate- teractionsothateachdisciplinemaylearnfromtheothers. Soastoencourage suchinteraction,wedeliberatelykepttheconferencetoasingletrackmeeting. Thismeantthat,ofthealmost150submissionswereceived,wewereableto selectonly23fororalpresentationand16forposterpresentation. Inaddition tothesecontributedpapers,therewasakeynoteaddressfromDarylPregibon, invitedpresentationsfromKatharinaMorik,RolfBackhofen,andSunilRao,and aspecial datachallenge session,whereresearchersdescribedtheirattemptsto analyseachallengingdatasetprovidedbyPaulCohen. Thisacceptancerate enabledustoensureahighqualityconference,whilealsopermittingustop- videgoodcoverageofthevarioustopicssubsumedwithinthegeneralheading ofintelligentdataanalysis. Wewouldliketoexpressourthanksandappreciationtoeveryoneinvolved intheorganizationofthemeetingandtheselectionofthepapers. Itisthe behind-the-scenese ortswhichensurethesmoothrunningandsuccessofany conference. Wewouldalsoliketoexpressourgratitudetothesponsors:Fundac ao paraaCi enciaeaTecnologia,Minist eriodaCi enciaedaTecnologia,Faculdade deCi enciaseTecnologia,UniversidadeNovadeLisboa,Funda c aoCalousteG- benkianandIPEInvestimentoseParticipac oesEmpresariais,S. A. September2001 FrankHo mann DavidJ. Hand NiallAdams GabrielaGuimaraes DougFisher Organization IDA2001wasorganizedbythedepartmentofComputerScience,NewUniversity ofLisbon. ConferenceCommittee GeneralChair: DouglasFisher(VanderbiltUniversity,USA) ProgramChairs: DavidJ. Hand(ImperialCollege,UK) NiallAdams(ImperialCollege,UK) ConferenceChair: GabrielaGuimaraes(NewUniversityofLisbon,Portugal) PublicityChair: FrankH oppner(Univ. ofAppl. SciencesEmden,Germany) PublicationChair: FrankHo mann(RoyalInstituteofTechnology,Sweden) LocalChair: FernandoMoura-Pires(UniversityofEvora,Portugal) AreaChairs: RobertaSiciliano(UniversityofNaples,Italy) ArnoSiebes(CWI,TheNetherlands) PavelBrazdil(UniversityofPorto,Portugal) ProgramCommittee NiallAdams(ImperialCollege,UK) PieterAdriaans(Syllogic,TheNetherlands) RussellAlmond(EducationalTestingService,USA) ThomasB ack(InformatikCentrumDortmund,Germany) RiccardoBellazzi(UniversityofPavia,Italy) MichaelBerthold(Tripos,USA) LiuBing(NationalUniversityofSingapore) PaulCohen(UniversityofMassachusetts,USA) PaulDarius(LeuvenUniversity,Belgium) FazelFamili(NationalResearchCouncil,Canada) DouglasFisher(VanderbiltUniversity,USA) KarlFroeschl(UniversityofVienna,Austria) AlexGammerman(RoyalHolloway,UK) AdolfGrauel(UniversityofPaderborn,Germany) GabrielaGuimaraes(NewUniversityofLisbon,Portugal) LawrenceO. Hall(UniversityofSouthFlorida,USA) FrankHo mann(RoyalInstituteofTechnology,Sweden) AdeleHowe(ColoradoStateUniversity,USA) Klaus-PeterHuber(SASInstitute,Germany) DavidJensen(UniversityofMassachusetts,USA) JoostKok(LeidenUniversity,TheNetherlands) RudolfKruse(UniversityofMagdeburg,Germany) FrankKlawonn(UniversityofAppliedSciencesEmden,Germany) VIII Organization HansLenz(FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany) DavidMadigan(Soliloquy,USA) RainerMalaka(EuropeanMediaLaboratory,Germany) HeikkiMannila(Nokia,Finland) FernandoMouraPires(UniversityofEvora,Portugal) SusanaNascimento(UniversityofLi. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Cambridge International Workshop on Security Protocols has now run for eight years. Each year we set a theme, focusing upon a speci c aspect of security protocols, and invite position papers. Anybody is welcome to send us a position paper (yes, you are invited) and we don't insist they relate to the current theme in an obvious way. In our experience, the emergence of the theme as a unifying threadtakesplaceduringthediscussionsattheworkshopitself.Theonlyground rule is that position papers should formulate an approach to some unresolved issues, rather than being a description of a nished piece of work. Whentheparticipantsmeet,wetrytofocusthediscussionsupontheconc- tual issues which emerge. Security protocols link naturally to many other areas of Computer Science, and deep water can be reached very quickly. Afterwards, we invite participants to re-draft their position papers in a way which exposes the emergent issues but leaves open the way to their further development. We also prepare written transcripts of the recorded discussions. These are edited (in some cases very heavily) to illustrate the way in which the di erent arguments and perspectives have interacted. We publish these proceedings as an invitation to the research community. Although many interesting results rst see the light of day in a volume of our proceedings, laying claim to these is not our primary purpose of publication. Rather, we bring our discussions and insights to a wider audience in order to suggest new lines of investigation which the community may fruitfully pursue. 272 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 Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2001, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in September/October 2001. The 14 revised full papers and 15 revised technical notes were carefully selected during a highly competitive reviewing process from a total of 160 submissions (90 paper submissions and 70 technical notes submissions). All current aspects of research and development in the booming area of ubiquitous computing are addressed. The book offers topical sections on location awareness, tools and infrastructure, applications for groups, applications and design spaces, research challenges and novel input, and output. 388 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume constitutes the proceedings of REFLECTION 2001, the Third Int- national Conference on Metalevel Architectures and Separation of Crosscutting Concerns, which was held in Kyoto, September 25-28, 2001. Metalevel architectures and re ection have drawn the attention of researchers and practitioners throughout computer science. Re ective and metalevel te- niques are being used to address real-world problems in such areas as: progr- ming languages, operating systems, databases, distributed computing, expert systems and web computing. Separation of concerns has been a guiding principle of software engineering for nearly 30 years, but its known bene ts are seldom fully achieved in practice. This is primarily because traditional mechanisms are not powerful enough to handle many kinds of concerns that occur in practice. Over the last 10 years, to overcome the limitations of traditional frameworks, many researchers, including several from the re ection community, have proposed new approaches. For the rst time, papers on advanced approaches to separation of concerns were explicitly solicited. Following the success of previous conferences such as IMSA'92 in Tokyo, Re ection'96 in San Francisco, and Re ection'99 in Saint Malo, we hope that the conference provided an excellent forum for researchers with a broad range of interests in metalevel architectures, re ective techniques, and separation of concerns in general. 300 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This text looks at the development and reusability of multimedia content in web-based learning systems. The author discusses the development of a component-based framework that enables developers to employ reusable software components enhanced with metadata. The text contains complete instructional visualizations in a rich learning context. Two activities for making stand-alone visualizations group-aware are addressed. No other work has addressed the issue of transparent collaboration based on instructional visualizations enhanced with metadata in such a way. 200 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 4th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, 2001, held in Toronto, Canada, in October 2001.The 33 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 122 abstracts and 102 papers submitted. The papers are organized in topical sections on metamodeling, activity diagrams, OCL, architecture and patterns, analysis and testing, performance and databases, graph transformations, real-time and embedded systems, associations and ontology, statecharts, components, and use cases. 532 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The importance of production and use of high quality software is still growing, as more and more businesses depend on information technology. Well educated, highly skilled, and experienced employees characterize the situation in most companies in the developed countries. Increasingly they work together in temporary networks with geographically distributed offices. Using and developing their knowledge is a key issue in gaining competitive advantages. We have learned during recent years that the exchange and development of knowledge (which we call learning) demands a great deal of human interaction. However, it is widely recognized that information systems will, in many cases, enable the sharing of experience across distributed organizations and act as a knowledge repository. A Learning Software Organization (LSO) will turn Intellectual Capital into market shares and profit, as it establishes the means to manage its knowledge. The LSO workshop series was created in 1999 to provide a communication forum that addresses the questions of organizational learning from a software point of view and builds upon existing work on Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. It aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers for an open exchange of experience with successes and failures in organizational learning. Right from the beginning, fostering interdisciplinary approaches and providing an opportunity to learn about new ideas has been a central issue of the workshop series. The feedback that we have obtained in recent years has encouraged us to continue our work for a better understanding of the setup and running of Learning Software Organizations. 260 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -DISC, the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of distributed computing. DISC 2001 was held on Oct 3 5, 2001, in Lisbon, Portugal. This volume includes 23 contributed papers. It is expected that these papers will be submitted in more polished form to fully refereed scienti c journals. The extended abstracts of this year s invited lectures, by Gerard LeLann and David Peleg, will appear in next year s proceedings. We received 70 regular submissions. These submissions were read and eval- ted by the program committee, with the help of external reviewers when needed. Overall, the quality of the submissions was excellent, and we were unable to - cept many deserving papers. This year s Best Student Paper award goes to Yong-Jik Kim for the paper A Time Complexity Bound for Adaptive Mutual Exclusion by Yong-Jik Kim and James H. Anderson. October 2001 Jennifer Welch Organizing Committee Chair: Luis Rodrigues (University of Lisbon) Publicity: Paulo Ver ssimo (University of Lisbon) Treasurer: Filipe Araujo (University of Lisbon) Web: Alexandre Pinto (University of Lisbon) Registration: Hugo Miranda (University of Lisbon) Steering Committee Faith Fich (U. of Toronto) Michel Raynal (vice-chair) (IRISA) Maurice Herlihy (Brown U. ) Andr e Schiper (chair) (EPF Lausanne) Prasad Jayanti (Dartmouth) Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M U. ) Shay Kutten (Technion) Program Committee Marcos K. Aguilera (Compaq SRC) Mark Moir (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) Lorenzo Alvisi (U. Texas, Austin) Stephane Perennes (CNRS U. 360 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The aim of the annual Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)istoprovideaforumforthepresentationoforiginalresearchinthe implementationandexperimentalevaluationofalgorithmsanddatastructures. ALENEX2001,thethirdintheseries,washeldinWashington,DC,onJanuary 5 6, 2001. This volume collects extended versions of the 15 papers that were selected for presentation from a pool of 31 submissions. It also includes the abstracts from the three invited speakers, who were supported by DIMACS SpecialFocusonNextGenerationNetworks. Wewouldliketotakethisopportunitytothankthesponsors,authors,and reviewers that made ALENEX 2001 a success. We would also like to thank Springer-Verlag for publishing these papers in their series ofLecture Notes in ComputerScience. June2001 AdamBuchsbaum JackSnoeyink ALENEX2001Sponsors Thefollowingprovideddirect nancialsupport,whichenabledustohostinvited speakersandprovidereducedregistrationfeestostudents. DIMACSSpecialFocusonNextGenerationNetworks TheHopkinsCenterforAlgorithmEngineering NECResearchInstitute Thefollowingprovidedin-kindsupport,facilitatingtheworkshop. AT&T SIAM,theSocietyforIndustrialandAppliedMathematics SIGACT,theACMSIGonAlgorithmsandComputationTheory ALENEX2001ProgramCommittee NinaAmenta,(UniversityofTexas,Austin) AdamBuchsbaum,(AT&TLabs Research;Co-chair) RudolfFleischer,(HongKongUniversityofScience&Technology) LyleMcGeoch,(AmherstCollege) S. Muthukrishnan,(AT&TLabs Research) JackSnoeyink,(UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill;Co-chair) MattStallmann(NorthCarolinaStateUniversity) DorotheaWagner(Universit atKonstanz) VI Preface ALENEX 01ExternalReviewers SunilArya RolfDrechsler MarinaPapatrianta lou LydiaAyers LeszekGasieniec FrankSchulz ThereseBiedl Ra aeleGiancarlo MichaelSeel UlrikBrandes RobertoGrossi JopSibeyn FrancBrglez DavidJohnson RobertoSolis-Oba KenClarkson JuhaK arkk ainen ThomasWillhalm SabineCornelsen BernardMoret ALENEXSteeringCommittee RobertoBattiti(UniversityofTrento,Italy) AndrewV. Goldberg(IntertrustSTARLab) MichaelT. Goodrich(JohnsHopkinsUniversity) DavidS. Johnson(AT&TBellLaboratories) CatherineC. McGeoch(AmherstCollege) BernardM. E. Moret(UniversityofNewMexico,chair) TableofContents ALENEX 01 Solvinga Hard ProblemtoApproximatean Easy One:Heuristicsfor MaximumMatchingsandMaximumTravelingSalesmanProblems. . . . . . . 1 S. P. Fekete (TU Berlin), H. Meijer (Queen s University), A. Rohe (Universit atBonn),andW. Tietze(TUBerlin) CNOP APackageforConstrainedNetworkOptimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 K. MehlhornandM. Ziegelmann(MPISaarbrucken) TheAsymmetricTravelingSalesmanProblem: Algorithms,InstanceGenerators,andTests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 J. Cirasella (Boston Arch. Center Library), D. S. Johnson (AT&T), L. A. McGeoch,(AmherstCollege),andW. Zhang(WUSTL) NetworkTomographythroughEnd-to-EndMeasurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 D. Towsley(UMass. ,Amherst) ExperimentalResultsonStatisticalApproaches toPageReplacementPolicies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 V. Leung (Sandia National Laboratories) and S. Irani (University of California,Irvine) EstimatingResemblanceofMIDIDocuments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 M. MitzenmacherandS. Owen(Harvard) ExperimentsonAdaptiveSetIntersectionsforTextRetrievalSystems. . . . 91 E. D. Demaine(UWaterloo),A. L opez-Ortiz(Univ. ofNewBrunswick), andJ. I. Munro(UWaterloo) PVD:AStableImplementationforComputingVoronoiDiagrams ofPolygonalPockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 S. Sethia,M. Held,andJ. S. B. Mitchell(SUNYStonyBrook) HierarchicalClusteringofTrees:AlgorithmsandExperiments. . . . . . . . . . . 117 I. FinocchiandR. Petreschi(Universit`adiRoma LaSapienza ) TravelPlanningwithSelf-MadeMaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 U. Brandes, F. Schulz, D. Wagner, and.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume of the LNCS series contains the papers accepted for presentation at the Third IFIP international working conference on active networks (IWAN 2001). The workshop was held at the Sheraton University City Hotel, in Philadelphia USA, and was hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. Active networks aim to ease the introduction of network services by adding dynamic programmability to network devices such as routers, and making aspects of the programmability accessible to users. Active networks research has focused on the development and testing of active techniques, that enable dynamic programmability in a networked environment. These techniques have a wide variety of applications. At IWAN 2001 we aimed to bring together members of the various communities using active and related techniques, and provide a forum for discussion and collaboration, involving researchers, developers, and potential users. Papers presented at IWAN 2001 covered the application of active techniques to many aspects of network based communication, including active multicast, active QoS, active security, active GRIDs, and active management. In addition, there were papers on architectures, language, and API issues. Although there were only 22 submissions, the standard of the 10 accepted papers was very high. This indicated clearly a substantial amount of ongoing high quality research in active networking, despite the current unfavorable economic conditions in the telecommunications industry. The papers also demonstrated that the research is genuinely global, and justifies an international workshop of this type. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted their work. 180 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of EMSOFT 2001, the First International Workshop on Embedded Software. The workshop was organized October 8 10, 2001, at Tahoe City, California. The steering committee of the workshop has the following members: G erard Berry (Esterel Technologies, France) Paul Hudak (Yale University, USA) Hermann Kopetz(Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Edward Lee (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Ragunathan Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Douglas Schmidt (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA) Joseph Sifakis (Verimag Grenoble, France) The workshop was sponsored jointly by the DARPA Information Technology O ce within the MobIES (Model-based Integration of Embedded Systems) p- gram (Dr. Janos Sztipanovits), and by the National Science Foundation (Dr. Helen Gill). The workshop URL is emsoft. org. Embedded software is software that interacts with physical processes. As - bedded systems increasingly permeate our daily lives on all levels, from micr- copic devices to international networks, the cost-e cient development of reliable embedded software is one of the grand challenges in computer science today. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers in all areas of computer science that are traditionally distinct but relevant to embedded software devel- ment, and to incubate a research community in this way. 488 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With a standard program committee and a pre-review process, the Third - ternational Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry (ADG 2000) held in Zurich, Switzerland, September 25 27, 2000 was made more formal than the previous ADG 96 (Toulouse, September 1996) and ADG 98 (Beijing, August 1998). The workshop program featured two invited talks given by Christoph M. Ho mann and Jurgen Bokowski, one open session talk by Wen-tsun Wu, 18 regular presentations, and 7 short communications, together with software demonstrations (see wang/ADG2000/). Some of the most recent and signi cant research developments on geometric deduction were - ported and reviewed, and the workshop was well focused at a high scienti c level. Fifteen contributions (out of the 18 regular presentations selected by the program committee from 31 submissions) and 2 invited papers were chosen for publication in these proceedings. These papers were all formally refereed and most of them underwent a double review-revision process. We hope that this volume meets the usual standard of international conference proceedings, rep- sentsthecurrentstateoftheartofADG,andwillbecomeavaluablereferencefor researchers, practitioners, software engineers, educators, and students in many ADG-related areas from mathematics to CAGD and geometric modeling. ADG2000washostedbytheDepartmentofComputerScience,ETHZurich. 340 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Multimedia technologies are rapidly attracting more and more interest every day. The Internet as seen from the end user is one of the reasons for this phenomenon, but not the only one. Video on Demand is one of the buzzwords today, but its real availability to the general public is yet to come. Content providers - such as publishers, broadcasting companies, and audio/video production rms - must be able to archive and index their productions for later retrieval. This is a formidable task, even more so when the material to be sorted encompasses many di erent types of several media and covers a time span of several years. In order for such a vast amount of data to be easily available, existing database design models and indexing methodologies have to be improved and re ned. In addition, new techniques especially tailored to the various types of multimedia must be devised and evaluated. For archiving and trasmission, data compression is another issue that needs to be addressed. In many cases, it has been found that compression and indexing can be successfully integrated, since compressing the data by ltering out irrelevancy implies some degree of und- standing of the content structure. 240 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the contributions to the Joint German/Austrian Con- rence on Arti cial Intelligence, KI 2001, which comprises the 24th German and the 9th Austrian Conference on Arti cial Intelligence. They are divided into the following categories: - 2 contributions by invited speakers of the conference; - 29 accepted technical papers, of which 5 where submitted as application papers and 24 as papers on foundations of AI; - 4 contributions by participants of the industrial day, during which companies working in the eld presented their AI applications. After a long period of separate meetings, the German and Austrian Societies for Arti cial Intelligence, KI and OGAI, decided to hold a joint conference in Vienna in 2001. The two societies had previously held one joint conference. This took place in Ottstein, a small town in Lower Austria, in 1986. At that time, the rise of expert system technology had also renewed interest in AI in general, with quite some expectations for future advances regarding the use of AI techniques in applications pervading many areas of our daily life. Since then fteen years have passed, and we may want to comment, at the beginning of a newcentury, on the progress that has been made in this direction. 492 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1. 1 The Pressure on Information Technology (IT) 'In today's environment, the ability to react quickly to change by reducing the devel opment life cycle in order to be first to market will give a company an important com petitive edge. ' -James Martin The market conditions of the 21 st century put business under continual pressure. The most successful companies are those who are able to reduce their time to market, to launch initiatives before their competitors, to respond very rapidly to opportunities in the marketplace or to change direction in response to a move by the competition or a change in circumstances. All of these business initiatives rely on support from Infor mation Technology (IT). For a business to launch a new product in three months time, the supporting IT processes must be available and working in that three month time frame. In this fast moving environment, late IT delivery is not acceptable and may pose a major risk to the business. The marketplace of 21 st century business measures timescales in months, whereas in the past, timescales of two to three years were more typical. Internet related and e business projects frequently require even tighter timescales, measured in days rather than months. This need for speed puts tremendous pressure on IT departments. Pressure does not just come from the need for speed. There is also an ever-increasing rate of change within business. 304 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Sometimes milestones in the evolution of the DAGM Symposium become immediately visible. The Technical Committee decided to publish the symposium proceedings completely in English. As a consequence we successfully negotiated with Springer Verlag to publish in the international well accepted series 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science'. The quality of the contributions convinced the editors and the lectors. Thanks to them and to the authors. We received 105 acceptable, good, and even excellent manuscripts. We selected carefully, using three reviewers for each anonymized paper, 58 talks and posters. Our 41 reviewers had a hard job evaluating and especially rejecting contributions. We are grateful for the time and effort they spent in this task. The program committee awarded prizes to the best papers. We are much obliged to the generous sponsors. We had three invited talks from outstanding colleagues, namely Bernhard Nebel (Robot Soccer - A Challenge for Cooperative Action and Perception), Thomas Lengauer (Computational Biology - An Interdisciplinary Challenge for Computational Pattern Recognition), and Nassir Navab (Medical and Industrial Augmented Reality: Challenges for Real Time Vision, Computer Graphics, and Mobile Computing). N. Navab even wrote a special paper for this conference, which is included in the proceedings. We were proud that we could convince well known experts to offer tutorials to our participants: H. P. Seidel, Univ. Saarbrücken - A Framework for the Acquisition, Processing, and Interactive Display of High Quality 3D Models; S. Heuel, Univ. Bonn - Projective Geometry for Grouping and Orientation Tasks; G. Rigoll, Univ. 476 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 2nd International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA 2001) was the continuation of the successful ISMDA 2000, a conference held in Fra- furt, Germany, in September 2000. The ISMDA conferences were conceived to integrate interdisciplinary research from scienti c elds such as statistics, s- nal processing, medical informatics, data mining, and biometrics for biomedical data analysis. A number of academic and professional people from those elds, including computer scientists, statisticians, physicians, engineers, and others, - alized that new approaches were needed to apply successfully all the traditional techniques, methods, and tools of data analysis to medicine. ISMDA 2001, as its predecessor, aimed to provide an international forum for sharing and exchanging original research ideas and practical development ex- riences. This year we broadened the scope of the conference, to included methods for image analysis and bioinformatics. Both are exciting scienti c research elds and it was clear to the scienti c committee that they had to be included in the areas of interest. Medicine has been one of the most di cult application areas for computing. The number and importance of the di erent issues involved suggests why many data analysis researchers nd the medical domain such a challenging eld. New interactive approaches are needed to solve these problems. 324 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -d + 1-dimensional manifold, whose is a union of d-dimensional boundary disjoint v manifolds and d, a linear : -+ The manifold -Zod V(Md+l) V(Zod) V(Zld). ma- is with the orientation. The axiom in that z0g, Zod opposite gluing [Ati88] requires if we two such d + 1-manifolds a common d-subma- glue together along (closed) fold of in their the linear for the has to be the boundaries, composite compo- map tion of the linear of the individual d + 1-manifolds. maps the of and as in we can state categories functors, [Mac88], Using language axioms as follows: concisely Atiyah's very Definition 0.1.1 A in dimension d is a ([Ati88]). topological quantumfield theory between monoidal functor symmetric categories [Mac881 asfollows: V : --+ k-vect. Cobd+1 finite Here k-vect denotes the whose are dimensional v- category, objects for field tor over a field k, which we assume to be instance, a perfect, spaces The of of characteristic 0. set between two vector is morphisms, simply spaces the set of linear with the usual The has as composition. category Cobd+1 maps manifolds. such closed oriented d-dimensional A between two objects morphism. Zd d oriented d 1-- d-manifolds and is a + 1-cobordism, an + Zod meaning gMd+l = Zd is the d- mensional manifold, Md+l, whose Lj boundary _ZOd of the d-manifolds. consider union two we as joint (Strictly speaking morphisms cobordisms modulo relative Given another or homeomorphisms diffeomorphisms). 392 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Information Security Conference 2001 brought together individuals involved in multiple disciplines of information security to foster the exchange of ideas. The conference, an outgrowth of the Information Security Workshop (ISW) series, was held in Málaga, Spain, on October 1-3, 2001. Previous workshops were ISW '97 at Ishikawa, Japan; ISW '99 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and ISW 2000 at Wollongong, Australia. The General Co chairs, Javier López and Eiji Okamoto, oversaw the local organization, registration, and performed many other tasks. Many individuals deserve thanks for their contribution to the success of the conference. José M. Troya was the Conference Chair. The General Co chairs were assisted with local arrangements by Antonio Maña, Carlos Maraval, Juan J. Ortega, José M. Sierra, and Miguel Soriano. This was the first year that the conference accepted electronic submissions. Many thanks to Dawn Gibson for assisting in developing and maintaining the electronic submission servers. The conference received 98 submissions of which 37 papers were accepted for presentation. These proceedings contain revised versions of the accepted papers. Revisions were not checked and the authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers. The Program Committee consisted of Elisa Bertino, Università di Milano; G. R. 576 pp. Englisch.…