springer berlin heidelberg sep 2010 (177 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Buch behandelt schwere Probleme auf Graphen, für die es vermutlich keine effizienten Algorithmen gibt. Der Autor stellt verschiedene Methoden vor, wie mit der algorithmischen Härte solcher Probleme umgegangen werden kann. Damit führt er seine Leser an die Fronten der aktuellen Forschung auf diesem Teilgebiet der Algorithmik. Durch die leicht verständliche Darstellung, viele erklärende Abbildungen, Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben sowie die geeignete Auswahl von Resultaten und Techniken ist der Band besonders für den Einsatz in der Lehre geeignet. 344 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Buch behandelt in zahlreichen Fällen das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Vertragsfreiheit, Inhaltskontrolle, Verbraucher- und Diskriminierungsschutz ( AGG ). Den Schwerpunkt bildet allerdings die klassische Rechtsgeschäftslehre. Das Buch wendet sich nicht nur an Studienanfänger, sondern möchte auch vor dem Staatsexamen bei einem zweiten Durchgang durch den Allgemeinen Teil nützliche Dienste leisten. Zur Erleichterung der Stoffwiederholung dienen umfangreiche Merke -Sätze, die die examensrelevanten Probleme des Allgemeinen Teils widerspiegeln. Die Falllösungen sind im Interesse einer das erforderliche Prüfungswissen vermittelnden und vertiefenden Darstellung ausführlicher gehalten, als dies von einer Examensklausur erwartet werden kann. Gerade bei Klausuren, die u.a. Fragen der Anfechtung von Willenserklärungen zum Inhalt haben, treten im Staatsexamen immer wieder erhebliche Fehler auf. Die Verfasser möchten deshalb insbesondere ein vertieftes Verständnis des Rechts der Irrtumsanfechtung wecken. 376 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses Buch beinhaltet vielfältige Übungsaufgaben zur Epidemiologie, zur deskriptiven und induktiven Statistik und zur Gesundheitsökonomie. Zu allen Aufgaben werden umfangreiche Lösungen präsentiert. Das Übungsbuch ist vor allem geeignet für Public Health Studiengänge und gesundheitsökonomische Lehrveranstaltungen an wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Fakultäten von Universitäten und Fachhochschulen. 132 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Hilbert Functions play major roles in Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, and are becoming increasingly important also in Computational Algebra. They capture many useful numerical characters associated to a projective variety or to a filtered module over a local ring.Starting from the pioneering work of D.G. Northcott and J. Sally, we aim to gather together in one place many new developments of this theory by using a unifying approach which gives self-contained and easier proofs.The extension of the theory to the case of general filtrations on a module, and its application to the study of certain graded algebras which are not associated to a filtration are two of the main features of the monograph.The material is intended for graduate students and researchers who are interested in Commutative Algebra, in particular in the theory of the Hilbert Functions and related topics. 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The purpose and motivation of these lectures can be summarized in the following two questions: - What is the ground state (and its properties) of dense matter - What is the matter composition of a compact star The two questions are, of course, strongly coupled to each other. Depending on your point of view, you can either consider the rst as the main question and the second as a consequence or application of the rst, or vice versa. If you are interested in fundamental questions in particle physics you may take the former point of view: you ask the question what happens to matter if you squeeze it more and more. This leads to fundamental questions because at some level of suf cient squeezing you expect to reach the point where the fundamental degrees of freedom and their interactions become important. That is, at some point you will reach a form of matter where not molecules or atoms, but the constituents of an atom, namely neutrons, protons, and electrons, are the relevant degrees of freedom. 147 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In diesem Lehrbuch werden die Methoden der Funktionalanalysis mit ihren Anwendungen in der Theorie elliptischer Differentialgleichungen behandelt. Gleichzeitig werden dem Leser die analytischen und funktionalanalytischen Sätze näher gebracht, die für die numerische Approximation elliptischer (und anderer) Differentialgleichungen bedeutsam sind. Neben dem klassischen Stoff der linearen Funktionalanalysis werden daher ausführlich die Sobolevschen Funktionenräume (auch von negativer und gebrochener Ordnung) sowie die Existenz- und Regularitätstheorie elliptischer Differentialgleichungen behandelt. Besonderer Wert wird auf die Umsetzung der Funktionalanalysis gelegt, also der Anwendung der abstrakten Theorie auf den konkreten Fall. Dies geschieht durch eine Vielzahl von Anwendungsbeispielen. Zahlreiche sorgfältig ausgewählte und kommentierte Aufgaben runden die Darstellung ab. 296 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die fünfte Auflage dieses Lehrbuchs wurde in wesentlichen Punkten überarbeitet und ergänzt und ist somit fast ein neues Buch geworden. Unser Ziel ist es, Studierenden der Wirtschaftswissenschaften jene mathematischen Grundkenntnisse zu vermitteln, die im weiteren Studium benötigt werden. Demgemäß werden Lineare Algebra, Analysis und Optimierung sowohl grundsätzlich als auch in der Anwendung auf ökonomische Fragestellungen behandelt. Ausgeklammert bleibt dabei die Stochastik. Auf mathematische Präzision wurde durchaus Wert gelegt, ohne diesen Begriff überzustrapazieren. Beispiele, einige zum Verständnis der Methodik, andere mit Bezug auf wirtschaftliche Probleme, ergänzen den Text. Zum Verständnis sollten die mathematischen Grundkenntnisse aus der Schule leicht ausreichen. Das Buch ist speziell für Studienanfänger gestaltet. Abbildungen ergänzen den Stoff und sollen die Inhalte leichter verständlich machen. 328 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The topic of lattice quantum spin systems is a fascinating and by nowwell-established branch of theoretical physics. However, many important questions remain to be answered. Their intrinsically quantum mechanical nature and the large (usually effectively infinite) number of spins in macroscopic materials often leads to unexpected or counter-intuitive results and insights. Spin systems are not only the basic models for a whole host of magnetic materials but they are also important as prototypical models of quantum systems. Low dimensional systems (as treated in this primer), in 2D and especially 1D, have been particularly fruitful because their simplicity has enabled exact solutions to be determined in many cases. These exact solutions contain many highly nontrivial features. This book was inspired by a set of lectures on quantum spin systems and it is set at a level of practical detail that is missing in other textbooks in the area. It will guide the reader through the foundations of the field. In particular, the solutions of the Heisenberg and XY models at zero temperature using the Bethe Ansatz and the Jordan-Wigner transformation are covered in some detail. The use of approximate methods, both theoretical and numerical, to tackle more advanced topics is considered. The final chapter describes some very recent applications of approximate methods in order to show some of the directions in which the study of these systems is currently developing. 154 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Dieses Buch ist bestimmt für alle Schüler und Studenten, die sich in der Mathematik unsicher fühlen, da sich Lücken in ihren Grundkenntnissen befinden. Sie können ihre mathematische Fähigkeiten hiermit auffrischen. Das Buch beinhaltet das komplette Grundwissen der Mathematik, das als Einstiegsniveau für ein Universitäts- oder Hochschulstudium in den Bereichen Ingenieurwissenschaften, Naturwissenschaften, Informatik, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Mathematik und verwandten Studiengängen benötigt wird. Es handelt sich hier um ein Übungsbuch. Auf den linken Seiten stehen Aufgaben, womit Sie direkt beginnen können. Auf den rechten Seiten steht kurz und klar die Theorie, die Sie benötigen um die Aufgaben auf den linken Seiten zu lösen.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der große Vorzug des Goldhornschen Skripts liegt in seiner kompromißlosen Konzentration aufs Wesentliche. Im einzelnen:Die Auswahl des Stoffes deckt ein breites Spektrum mathematischer Konzepte und Methoden ab, die für die heutige Physik relevant sind. Im Gegenzug wird das bei vielen Dozenten und Buchautoren so beliebte Herumreiten auf angeblich erhellenden Einzelheiten überall dort vermieden, wo sie sich in der Praxis als nicht wirklich erhellend erwiesen haben. Gerade in dieser Hinsicht wurde das Skript im Laufe einer langjährigen Lehrerfahrung immer weiter optimiert. Die umfangreiche Sammlung von Übungsaufgaben liefert natürlich etliche Details nach, die in der Vorlesung vermißt werden könnten.Die Anordnung des Materials folgt nicht so sehr einer mathematischen Systematik als vielmehr den kurrikularen Bedürfnissen des Physikstudiums. Das wirkt zwar oft etwas unkonventionell, vermeidet aber den verbreiteten Mißstand, daß wichtige mathematische Begriffe und Methoden von den Dozenten der Physik ad hoc eingeführt werden müssen, weil das betreffende Material im mathematischen Grundkurs erst viel später an der Reihe ist. Dabei werden auch Vorwärtszitate in Kauf genommen, und diese werden didaktisch nutzbringend eingesetzt, indem abstraktere und für die Studierenden schwer motivierbare theoretische Überlegungen zurückgestellt werden, bis sie schließlich als Lösung eines schon durch mehrfache Erfahrung vertrauten Problems in Erscheinung treten. D ie Präsentation und sprachliche Ausgestaltung folgt dem Prinzip, daß gute Didaktik nicht darin besteht, möglichst viele Worte zu machen, sondern durch wenige gut gewählte Worte erreicht wird, unterstützt durch geeignete Illustrationen und ein breites Angebot von sinnvollen Übungsaufgaben.Die meisten Behauptungen werden auch bewiesen oder hergeleitet, doch handelt es sich nur im Ausnahmefall um die detaillierte Ausführung eines mathematisch rigorosen Beweises. Zumeist ist es eine recht knappe Darstellung des prinzipiellen Gedankengangs, manchmal unterstützt durch Veranschaulichungen oder physikalische Motivationen. Die Beweisteile, die am ausführlichsten dargestellt sind, sind Rechengänge, wie sie auch für die Praxis des Physikers typisch sind. Manchmal wird ein leichter Spezialfall bewiesen und die dringend benötigte allgemeinere Version schlicht berichtet.Hier und da werden exemplarisch auch mathematische Beweise in aller Strenge und Ausführlichkeit dargeboten, um die Studierenden mit der mathematischen Denk- und Ausdrucksweise zu konfrontieren und ihre Kritikfähigkeit bezüglich mathematischer Vertrauenswürdigkeit einer Argumentation zu schulen. Dies scheint mir in der Tat - zumindest für die begabteren Studierenden - ein wichtiger Aspekt zu sein, angesichts einer schier unübersehbaren Flut von Fachliteratur, bei der junge Wissenschaftler es oft als eine Herausforderung empfinden, zwischen vertrauenswürdigen und weniger vertrauenswürdigen Beiträgen zu unterscheiden. Am anderen Ende des Spektrums finden sich ab und zu auch knappe Ergebnisberichte über tiefliegende Resultate, die den Rahmen der Vorlesung sprengen würden.Die Aufgabensammlung enthält etwa zu 70 - 80 % Aufgaben, bei denen das Schwergewicht auf dem Einüben von Rechentechniken liegt. Theoretische Aufgaben, die helfen, Begriffe zu klären, Beweisschritte nachzutragen, logisches Argumentieren zu üben oder Ausblicke auf zusätzlichen Stoff zu geben, sind durchaus vertreten, aber nur zu 20 - 30 %.Zu dem Skript gehört ein sorgfältig gestaltetes Glossar ('Kurzfassung'), das alle formalen Definitionen und Sätze enthält und als Nachschlagewerk zur Klausur- und Prüfungsvorbereitung an die Studierenden verkauft wurde.Die Beweise und Beweisskizzen des Skripts enthalten häufig Argumentationen, die eigentlich mathematisch nicht haltbar sind. In vielen Fällen ist es möglich, sie durch korrekte Beweisschritte zu ersetzen, ohne den Text aufzublähen, und dies möchte ich selbstverständlich tun. Wo dies nicht möglich ist, möchte ich deutlich erklären, daß hier eine Beweislücke in Kauf genommen wird. Im Sinne der begrifflichen Klarheit und der Schulung der mathematischen Kritikfähigkeit erscheint es mir nämlich dringend geboten, dem Leser stets reinen Wein darüber einzuschenken, ob er es hier mit einem strengen Beweis, einer Beweisskizze oder einer bloßen Plausibilitätserklärung zu tun hat. Was als Beweis bezeichnet wird, kann ein knapp skizzierter Beweis sein, aber es darf kein fehlerhafter Beweis sein.An manchen Stellen lassen sich Beweise noch verkürzen oder vereinfachen, manchmal unter Heranziehung neuerer Methoden im elementaren Kontext. Ich möchte der Sprachbarriere zwischen Mathematik und Physik entgegenwirken, indem ich überall dort, wo für ein und dieselbe Sache unterschiedliche Konventionen oder Terminologien benutzt werden, explizit auf diesen Umstand hinweise und die beiden Terminologien gleichberechtigt nebeneinander stelle. 356 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Following the pioneering discovery of alpha clustering and of molecular resonances, the field of nuclear clustering is presently one of the domains of heavy-ion nuclear physics facing both the greatest challenges and opportunities.After many summer schools and workshops, in particular over the last decade, the community of nuclear molecular physics decided to team up in producing a comprehensive collection of lectures and tutorial reviews covering the field. This first volume, gathering seven extensive lectures, covers the follow topics:\* Cluster Radioactivity\* Cluster States and Mean Field Theories\* Alpha Clustering and Alpha Condensates\* Clustering in Neutron-rich Nuclei\* Di-neutron Clustering\* Collective Clusterization in Nuclei\* Giant Nuclear MoleculesBy promoting new ideas and developments while retaining a pedagogical nature of presentation throughout, these lectures will both serve as a reference and as advanced teaching material for future courses and schools in the fields of nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics. 328 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have been central to defining our humanness. What emerges is a new human, the homo novus, a human being without illusions.Leading authors from many different fields explore these issues by addressing a range of illusions and providing evidence for the need, despite considerable reluctance, to relinquish some of our most cherished ideas about ourselves. 312 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The main pacemakers of scienti c research are curiosity, ingenuity, and a pinch of persistence. Equipped with these characteristics a young researcher will be s- cessful in pushing scienti c discoveries. And there is still a lot to discover and to understand. In the course of understanding the origin and structure of matter it is now known that all matter is made up of six types of quarks. Each of these carry a different mass. But neither are the particular mass values understood nor is it known why elementary particles carry mass at all. One could perhaps accept some small generic mass value for every quark, but nature has decided differently. Two quarks are extremely light, three more have a somewhat typical mass value, but one quark is extremely massive. It is the top quark, the heaviest quark and even the heaviest elementary particle that we know, carrying a mass as large as the mass of three iron nuclei. Even though there exists no explanation of why different particle types carry certain masses, the internal consistency of the currently best theory-the standard model of particle physics-yields a relation between the masses of the top quark, the so-called W boson, and the yet unobserved Higgs particle. Therefore, when one assumes validity of the model, it is even possible to take precise measurements of the top quark mass to predict the mass of the Higgs (and potentially other yet unobserved) particles. 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Science used to be experiments and theory, now it is experiments, theory and computations. The computational approach to understanding nature and technology is currently flowering in many fields such as physics, geophysics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, and most engineering disciplines. This book is a gentle introduction to such computational methods where the techniques are explained through examples. It is our goal to teach principles and ideas that carry over from field to field. You will learn basic methods and how to implement them. In order to gain the most from this text, you will need prior knowledge of calculus, basic linear algebra and elementary programming. 480 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the last 15 years we have seen a major transformation in the world of music. - sicians use inexpensive personal computers instead of expensive recording studios to record, mix and engineer music. Musicians use the Internet to distribute their - sic for free instead of spending large amounts of money creating CDs, hiring trucks and shipping them to hundreds of record stores. As the cost to create and distribute recorded music has dropped, the amount of available music has grown dramatically. Twenty years ago a typical record store would have music by less than ten thousand artists, while today online music stores have music catalogs by nearly a million artists. While the amount of new music has grown, some of the traditional ways of nding music have diminished. Thirty years ago, the local radio DJ was a music tastemaker, nding new and interesting music for the local radio audience. Now - dio shows are programmed by large corporations that create playlists drawn from a limited pool of tracks. Similarly, record stores have been replaced by big box reta- ers that have ever-shrinking music departments. In the past, you could always ask the owner of the record store for music recommendations. You would learn what was new, what was good and what was selling. Now, however, you can no longer expect that the teenager behind the cash register will be an expert in new music, or even be someone who listens to music at all. 212 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mathematical modelling is ubiquitous. Almost every book in exact science touches on mathematical models of a certain class of phenomena, on more or less speci c approaches to construction and investigation of models, on their applications, etc. As many textbooks with similar titles, Part I of our book is devoted to general qu- tions of modelling. Part II re ects our professional interests as physicists who spent much time to investigations in the eld of non-linear dynamics and mathematical modelling from discrete sequences of experimental measurements (time series). The latter direction of research is known for a long time as 'system identi cation' in the framework of mathematical statistics and automatic control theory. It has its roots in the problem of approximating experimental data points on a plane with a smooth curve. Currently, researchers aim at the description of complex behaviour (irregular, chaotic, non-stationary and noise-corrupted signals which are typical of real-world objects and phenomena) with relatively simple non-linear differential or difference model equations rather than with cumbersome explicit functions of time. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has become clear that such equations of a s- ciently low order can exhibit non-trivial solutions that promise suf ciently simple modelling of complex processes; according to the concepts of non-linear dynamics, chaotic regimes can be demonstrated already by a third-order non-linear ordinary differential equation, while complex behaviour in a linear model can be induced either by random in uence (noise) or by a very high order of equations. 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and dust in the circumstellar environments in general. This field has received a tremendous boost with the reliable identification of minerals by the Infrared Space Observatory. The first edition of this book, published in 2003, was the first comprehensive and coherent account of this exciting field. Data obtained in the meantime with the Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope, the stardust mission to the comet 81P / Wild 2, and with the Cassini mission, together with progress in ground-based observations and laboratory astrophysics form the basis for this updated and widely extended second edition.Beyond addressing the specialist in the field, the book is intended as a high-level but readable introduction to astromineralogy for both the nonspecialist researcher and the advanced student. 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first volume of a subseries of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics which will appear randomly over the next years. Each volume will describe some important topic in the theory or applications of Lévy processes and pay tribute to the state of the art of this rapidly evolving subject with special emphasis on the non-Brownian world. The three expository articles of this first volume have been chosen to reflect the breadth of the area of Lévy processes. The first article by Ken-iti Sato characterizes extensions of the class of selfdecomposable distributions on R^d. The second article by Thomas Duquesne discusses Hausdorff and packing measures of stable trees. The third article by Oleg Reichmann and Christoph Schwab presents numerical solutions to Kolmogoroff equations, which arise for instance in financial engineering, when Lévy or additive processes model the dynamics of the risky assets. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The MODELS series of conferences is the premier venue for the exchange of - novative technical ideas and experiences focusing on a very important new te- nical discipline: model-driven software and systems engineering. The expansion ofthisdisciplineisadirectconsequenceoftheincreasingsigni canceandsuccess of model-based methods in practice. Numerous e orts resulted in the invention of concepts, languagesand tools for the de nition, analysis,transformation, and veri cationofdomain-speci cmodelinglanguagesandgeneral-purposemodeling language standards, as well as their use for software and systems engineering. MODELS 2010, the 13th edition of the conference series, took place in Oslo, Norway, October 3-8, 2010, along with numerous satellite workshops, symposia and tutorials. The conference was fortunate to have three prominent keynote speakers: Ole Lehrmann Madsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA) and Pamela Zave (AT&T Laboratories, USA). To provide a broader forum for reporting on scienti c progress as well as on experience stemming from practical applications of model-based methods, the 2010 conference accepted submissions in two distinct tracks: Foundations and Applications. The primary objective of the rst track is to present new research results dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art of the discipline, whereas the second aims to provide a realistic and veri able picture of the current state-- the-practice of model-based engineering, so that the broader community could be better informed of the capabilities and successes of this relatively young discipline. This volume contains the nal version of the papers accepted for presentation at the conference from both tracks. 448 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -th Welcome to the proceedings of the 10 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), held 20-22 September, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Intelligent Virtual Agents are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as behavior, gesture, and speech. IVAs are capable of real-time perception, cognition, and action that allow them to participate in a dynamic physical and social environment. IVA 2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main forum for prese- ing research on modeling, developing, and evaluating Intelligent Virtual Agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. The development of IVAs - quires expertise in multimodal interaction and several AI fields such as cognitive modeling, planning, vision, and natural language processing. Computational models are typically based on experimental studies and theories of human-human and hum- robot interaction; conversely, IVA technology may provide interesting lessons for these fields. Visualizations of IVAs require computer graphics and animation te- niques, and in turn supply significant realism problem domains for these fields. The realization of engaging IVAs is a challenging task, so reusable modules and tools are of great value. The fields of application range from robot assistants, social simulation, and tutoring to games and artistic exploration. The enormous challenges and diversity of possible applications of IVAs have - sulted in an established annual conference. 492 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book includes extended versions of the selected papers from VISIGRAPP 2009, the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 5-8, 2009 and organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). VISIGRAPP comprises three component conferences, namely, the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), and the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications (IMAGAPP). VISIGRAPP received a total of 422 paper submissions from more than 50 co- tries. From these, and after a rigorous double-blind evaluation method, 72 papers were published as full papers. These figures show that this conference is now an - tablished venue for researchers in the broad fields of computer vision, computer graphics and image analysis. From the full papers, 25 were selected for inclusion in this book. The selection process was based on the scores assigned by the Program Committee reviewers as well as the Session Chairs. After selection, the papers were further revised and extended by the authors. Our gratitude goes to all contributors and referees, without whom this book would not have been possible. 388 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These proceedings contain the papers of IFIP/SEC 2010. It was a special honour and privilege to chair the Program Committee and prepare the proceedings for this conf- ence, which is the 25th in a series of well-established international conferences on security and privacy organized annually by Technical Committee 11 (TC-11) of IFIP. Moreover, in 2010 it is part of the IFIP World Computer Congress 2010 celebrating both the Golden Jubilee of IFIP (founded in 1960) and the Silver Jubilee of the SEC conference in the exciting city of Brisbane, Australia, during September 20-23. The call for papers went out with the challenging motto of 'Security & Privacy Silver Linings in the Cloud' building a bridge between the long standing issues of security and privacy and the most recent developments in information and commu- cation technology. It attracted 102 submissions. All of them were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality by at least five member of the Program Committee. The Program Committee meeting was held electronically over a period of a week. Of the papers submitted, 25 were selected for presentation at the conference; the acceptance rate was therefore as low as 24. 5% making SEC 2010 a highly competitive forum. One of those 25 submissions could unfortunately not be included in the proceedings, as none of its authors registered in time to present the paper at the conference. 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The eld of bioinformatics has two main objectives: the creation and main- nance of biological databases and the analysis of life sciences data in order to unravel the mysteries of biological function. Computer science methods such as patternrecognition,machinelearning,anddatamining haveagreatdealtoo er the eld of bioinformatics. The Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB) meeting was established in 2006 under the auspices of the International Asso- ation of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) to create a focus for the application and development of computer science methods to life science data. The 5th PRIB conference was held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 22 24 September 2010. A total of 46 papers were submitted to the conference for peer review. Of those, 38 (83%) were accepted for publication in these proceedings. The invited speakers were Rita Casadio (Bologna Biocomputing Group, Italy), Florence d Alch e-Buc (Universit e d Evry-Val d Essonne, France), Daniel - son (Tu bingen University, Germany), and Natasa Przulj (Imperial College L- don, UK). Tutorials weredeliveredby Concettina Guerra (Universit` adi Padova, Italy), Clarisse Dhaenens (Laboratoire LIFL/INRIA, France), Laetitia Jourdan (Laboratoire LIFL/INRIA, France), Neil Lawrence (University of Manchester, UK), and Dick de Ridder (Delft University of Technology). 472 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The first International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2010, was held at the China National Convention Center, Beijing, China on Sept- ber 20, 2010 in conjunction with the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2010. Machine learning plays an essential role in the medical imaging field, including image segmentation, image registration, computer-aided diagnosis, image fusion, ima- guided therapy, image annotation, and image database retrieval. With advances in me- cal imaging, new imaging modalities, and methodologies such as cone-beam/multi-slice CT, 3D Ultrasound, tomosynthesis, diffusion-weighted MRI, electrical impedance to- graphy, and diffuse optical tomography, new machine-learning algorithms/applications are demanded in the medical imaging field. Single-sample evidence provided by the patient's imaging data is often not sufficient to provide satisfactory performance; the- fore tasks in medical imaging require learning from examples to simulate a physician's prior knowledge of the data. The MLMI 2010 is the first workshop on this topic. The workshop focuses on major trends and challenges in this area, and works to identify new techniques and their use in medical imaging. Our goal is to help advance the scientific research within the broad field of medical imaging and machine learning. The range and level of submission for this year's meeting was of very high quality. Authors were asked to submit full-length papers for review. A total of 38 papers were submitted to the workshop in response to the call for papers. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -th This volume is part of the three-volume proceedings of the 20 International Conference on Arti cial Neural Networks (ICANN 2010) that was held in Th- saloniki, Greece during September 15-18, 2010. ICANN is an annual meeting sponsored by the European Neural Network Society (ENNS) in cooperation with the International Neural Network So- ety (INNS) and the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS). This series of conferences has been held annually since 1991 in Europe, covering the eld of neurocomputing, learning systems and other related areas. As in the past 19 events, ICANN 2010 provided a distinguished, lively and interdisciplinary discussion forum for researches and scientists from around the globe. Ito eredagoodchanceto discussthe latestadvancesofresearchandalso all the developments and applications in the area of Arti cial Neural Networks (ANNs). ANNs provide an information processing structure inspired by biolo- cal nervous systems and they consist of a large number of highly interconnected processing elements (neurons). Each neuron is a simple processor with a limited computing capacity typically restricted to a rule for combining input signals (utilizing an activation function) in order to calculate the output one. Output signalsmaybesenttootherunitsalongconnectionsknownasweightsthat excite or inhibit the signal being communicated. ANNs have the ability 'to learn' by example (a large volume of cases) through several iterations without requiring a priori xed knowledge of the relationships between process parameters. 560 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume comprises the 6th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Infor- tion Processing. As the world proceeds quickly into the Information Age, it encounters both successes and challenges, and it is well recognized nowadays that intelligent information processing provides the key to the Information Age and to mastering many of these challenges. Intelligent information processing supports the most - vanced productive tools that are said to be able to change human life and the world itself. However, the path is never a straight one and every new technology brings with it a spate of new research problems to be tackled by researchers; as a result we are not running out of topics; rather the demand is ever increasing. This conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia and industry to present their latest research findings in all aspects of intelligent information processing. This is the 6th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing. We received more than 50 papers, of which 35 papers are included in this program as regular papers and 4 as short papers. We are grateful for the dedicated work of both the authors and the referees, and we hope these proceedings will continue to bear fruit over the years to come. All papers submitted were reviewed by two referees. A conference such as this cannot succeed without help from many individuals who contributed their valuable time and expertise. 364 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The success of public sector investment in eGovernment initiatives strongly depends on effectively exploiting all aspects of ICT systems and infrastructures. The related objectives are hardly reachable without methodological frameworks that provide a holistic perspective and knowledge on the contexts of eGovernment initiatives. Yet public administrators usually have a mix of legal and administrative knowledge, while lacking an information systems background.With this book, Viscusi, Batini and Mecella provide a comprehensive methodology for service-oriented information systems planning, with special emphasis on eGovernment initiatives. They present the eG4M methodology which structurally supports the development of optimal eGovernment plans, considering technological, organizational, legal, economic and social aspects alike. The approach is focused on two pillars: the quality of the provided services and related processes, and the quality of the data managed in the administrative processes and services.The book is written for public administrators, decision-makers, practitioners, ICT professionals and graduate students, providing a comprehensive perspective of the challenges, opportunities and decisions related to strategic and operational planning of service-oriented information systems in eGovernment. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -- Those who want to learn about AOM nd in this special issue a concise collection of descriptions of solid and mature AOM approaches. They only have to take the time to understand one case study in order to appreciate the sample models shown in all papers. - Those who want to apply AOM for a particular purpose and are looking for the most appropriate AOM technique can use the papers presented in this specialissue to identify the mostpromisingapproach(es).By identifying similarities between their problem and the case study they should be able to determine candidate AOM approaches easily. - Those working on their own AOM approach can readily identify approaches that were able to handle concerns that their own approach is not able to handle elegantly. This stimulates cross-fertilization between approaches and collaborative research. - Thoseengineering researchersthat areworkingon enhancing softwaredev- opment processes can use the example models presented in this special issue to understand the potential bene ts of using AOM techniques at di erent phases of the software development life-cycle. 440 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Graphs are among the simplest and most universal models for a variety of s- tems, not just in computer science, but throughout engineering and the life sciences. When systems evolve we are interested in the way they change, to p- dict, support, or react to their evolution. Graph transformation combines the idea of graphs as a universal modelling paradigm with a rule-based approach to specify their evolution. The area is concerned with both the theory of graph transformation and their application to a variety of domains. The biannual International Conferences on Graph Transformation aim at bringingtogetherresearchersandpractitionersinterestedin the foundations and applicationsof graphtransformation.The fth conference,ICGT 2010,was held at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) in September/October 2010, alongwith severalsatellite events.It continuedthe line ofconferences previously held in Barcelona (Spain) in 2002, Rome (Italy) 2004, Natal (Brazil) in 2006 and Leicester (UK) in 2008, as well as a series of six International Workshops on Graph Transformation with Applications in Computer Science from 1978 to 1998. Also, ICGT alternates with the workshop series on Application of Graph Transformation with Industrial Relevance (AGTIVE). The conference was held under the auspices of EATCS and EASST. 432 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -th I3E 2010 marked the 10 anniversary of the IFIP Conference on e-Business, e- Services, and e-Society, continuing a tradition that was invented in 1998 during the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TrEC 1998, in Hamburg (Germany). Three years later the inaugural I3E 2001 conference was held in Zurich (Switzerland). Since then I3E has made its journey through the world: 2002 Lisbon (Portugal), 2003 Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2004 Toulouse (France), 2005 Poznan (Poland), 2006 Turku (Finland), 2007 Wuhan (China), 2008 Tokyo (Japan), and 2009 Nancy (France). I3E 2010 took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) November 3-5, 2010. Known as 'The Pearl' of South America, Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan, colorful, and vibrant city, surprising its visitors with a vast variety of cultural and artistic performances, European architecture, and the passion for tango, coffee places, and football disc- sions. A cultural reference in Latin America, the city hosts 140 museums, 300 theaters, and 27 public libraries including the National Library. It is also the main educational center in Argentina and home of renowned universities including the U- versity of Buenos Aires, created in 1821. Besides location, the timing of I3E 2010 is th also significant--it coincided with the 200 anniversary celebration of the first local government in Argentina. 320 pp. Englisch.