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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Mood Matters' makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the rise and fall of civilizations are biased by the attitudes a society holds toward the future. When the 'social mood' is positive and people look forward to the future, events of an entirely different character tend to occur than when society is pessimistic. The book presents many examples from every walk of life in support of this argument. In addition, methods are given to actually measure the social mood and to project it into the future in order to forecast what¿s likely or not over varying periods of time. Casti's writing is a pleasure to read and its contents an eye-opener.'They [the chapters] tell an engrossing story, and the mystery heightens as it goes. . . . it's chatty and knowing.' Greg Benford, Physicist and science-fiction writer, author of 'Timescape' and 'Deep Time''I am struck by how thought-provoking it all is. I am sure that your book will draw a lot of attention' Tor Norretranders, Science writer, author of 'The Generous Man' and 'The User Illusion'.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Rolando Rossi liefert die Kernformationen über die logistischen und medizinischen Erfordernisse, die Möglichkeiten und die Grenzen der Repatriierung. Er beantwortet Fragen nach Organisationskonzepten für boden- und luftgebundene Patiententransporte und schildert den praktischen Ablauf der Überwachung und Behandlung von der Übernahme bis zur Übergabe in der aufnehmenden Einrichtung. Checklisten zur Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Repatriierungen runden die kompakte Einführung ab.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 68 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Schicksalsbegriff ist, obwohl im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs aus der Mode gekommen, für die praktisch-psychotherapeutische Tätigkeit von hoher Relevanz und wird von Therapeutinnen und PatientInnen, explizit oder implizit, für kausale und prospektive Zwecke genutzt. Die vorliegende Schrift möchte, ausgehend von den philosophischen Grundannahmen hierzu, zu einer Auseinandersetzung mit den vielen Facetten des Schicksalsbegriffs anregen und einen Beitrag zur eigenen Stellung ¿dem Schicksal gegenüber¿ betragen. Schließlich werden therapierelevante Folgerungen abgeleitet.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 48 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 392 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Seit wann kennt man Keramikerzeugnisse Warum verhalten sich Keramikwerkstoffe im Vergleich zu anderen Werkstoffen völlig anders Was macht sie so besonders Wie stellt man sie her Welche modernen Anwendungen gibt es Die Autorin gibt Antworten auf diese und weitere Fragen zu einem alten und doch hochmodernen Werkstoff. Sie beschreibt gut verständlich die physikalisch-chemischen Grundlagen, welche die Andersartigkeit von Keramik in Herstellung und Eigenschaften erklären. Und sie geht auf die vielfältigen Anwendungsbereiche ein, sei es in traditionellen Gebieten oder in modernen Anwendungen wie als Katalysatorträger, Dieselpartikelfilter oder in der Energiespeicherung.Springer Vieweg in Springer Science + Business Media, Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 46, 65189 Wiesbaden 188 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Urban Mobility, SUMO 2013, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 2013. The 12 revised full papers presented tin this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical sections: models and technical innovations and applications and surveys.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Größer, schneller, heißer ¿ das Buch der kosmischen RekordeIm Universum herrschen extreme Verhältnisse. Im Weltraum sinkt die Temperatur auf 270 Minusgrade. Sterne verglühen als Supernovae, die milliardenfach heller sind als unsere Sonne. Ein Schwarzes Loch kann eine elektrische Spannung von 10 Trillionen Volt erzeugen. Und es gibt Sterne mit zwei Milliarden Kilometern Durchmesser, in denen die Umlaufbahn des Jupiter Platz hätte.Kosmos xxxtrem! bietet einen atemberaubenden neuen Blick auf das Universum und seine Erscheinungen. Bryan Gaensler richtet unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf die Extreme: auf die größten, schnellsten, heißesten, schwersten, hellsten, ältesten, dichtesten und sogar lautesten Objekte oder Prozesse des Kosmos. Das ungewöhnliche Astro-Buch präsentiert nicht nur verblüffende Fakten, sondern offenbart auch den bemerkenswerten Facettenreichtum des Universums und die extreme Physik, die dahinter steht.Dieser Parforceritt in die wildesten und spannendsten Winkel unserer physikalischen Welt begeistert von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite und erzeugt immer wieder ein überwältigendes Gefühl des Staunens. Professor Volker Springel, HeidelbergFesselnder als ein Spionagekrimi, wohltuender als eine Gutenachtgeschichte und eine angemessene Erinnerung daran, wie unfassbar glücklich wir uns schätzen dürfen, auf diesem so ausgeglichenen kleinen Felsklumpen inmitten eines extremen Kosmos zu leben. Professor Luciano Rezzolla, Frankfurt und PotsdamDiese Begeisterung für die Physik des Kosmos, die Bryan Gaensler zu einem der weltweit führenden Forscher gemacht hat, springt unweigerlich auch auf die Leser seines Buches über. Professor Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar, BochumEin ebenso unterhaltsames wie lehrreiches Buch, das Amateure und Profis gleichermaßen faszinieren wird. Professor Michael Kramer, BonnSpringer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Immer wieder ist von Krisen die Rede, beispielsweise der Familie, der Jugend, der politischen Moral und des Wirtschaftssystems. Ist die Ursache dafür ein Werteverfall Folgt unser alltägliches Verhalten wirklich ¿höheren Werten¿ Ist Werteerziehung hilfreich Basierend auf Erkenntnissen aus der Gehirnforschung, Psychologie und Soziologie beleuchtet der Autor andere, meist unbewusste Motive unseres Tuns und Lassens.Dem Leser werden unter anderem folgende Fragen beantwortet: Haben schon Tiere Vorformen von Moral Was passiert im Gehirn, wenn wir moralische Entscheidungen treffen Welche Rolle spielen die Gene und frühkindliche Erfahrungen Wie werden Kinder zu moralischen Persönlichkeiten Was tragen Eltern, Kindertagesstätten und Schulen dazu bei Welche Persönlichkeitsaspekte, Fähigkeiten und Verhaltensneigungen von Kindern begünstigen moralisches Handeln und ein gutes Leben und Zusammenleben Welche Kompetenzen helfen zur Verwirklichung von Werten wie Gesundheit, Gerechtigkeit, Freiheit oder Solidarität Das Buch wendet sich an Eltern und Menschen in sozialpädagogischen, pädagogischen und psychologischen Berufen, in Journalismus und Politik, an Studierende und alle an dieser Thematik Interessierten.Prof. Dr. Klaus Wahl forschte am Deutschen Jugendinstitut und am Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg und betreibt nun das Psychosoziale Analysen und Prävention ¿ Informations-System (PAPIS). Daneben unterrichtete er an in- und ausländischen Universitäten, derzeit lehrt er an der Universität München.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Behandlungstechniken: Therapiebaustein der Functional Kinetics (FBL Klein-Vogelbach). Mit diesen manuellen Techniken unterstützen Sie die Patienten beim Lernen und Üben der bekannten, aktiv ausgeführten Therapeutischen Übungen aus dem FBL-Konzept. Mobilisierende Massage, Widerlagernde Mobilisation. Mit welcher Technik komme ich weiter Wie funktioniert dieser Griff nochmal Schluss mit dem 'Ausprobieren'! Leicht verständlich vermitteln die Autoren Wirkungen und Ziele der einzelnen Behandlungstechniken. Alle Handgriffe des Therapeuten sind mit den anschaulichen Fotos leicht zu 'begreifen', und die Bildanleitungen werden durch didaktisch klar aufbereitete Texte präzisiert. So führt Behandeln zum Erfolg!Neu in der 3. Auflage- Stärkere Betonung der Patientenaktivierung- Videomaterial zum Downloaden mit den wichtigsten Behandlungstechniken 184 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This new edition strives yet again to provide readers with a working knowledge of chaos theory and dynamical systems. It does so through parallel introductory explanations in the book and interaction with carefully-selected programs supplied on the accompanying disk. The programs enable readers, especially advanced-undergraduate students in physics, engineering, and math, to tackle relevant physical systems quickly on their PCs, without distraction from algorithmic details. For the third edition of Chaos: A Program Collection for the PC, each of the previous twelve programs is polished and rewritten in C++ (both Windows and Linux versions are included). A new program treats kicked systems, an important class of two-dimensional problems. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Lehrbuch behandelt die dynamische makrökonomische Theorie im geschlossenen Modellrahmen des Ramsey-Modells. Mit der Wachstums-, Konjunktur- und Geldtheorie werden die Hauptgebiete der Makroökonomik behandelt. Zusätzlich werden aber auch Verteilungsaspekte berücksichtigt. Exemplarisch wird gezeigt, wie sich die dynamische makrökonomische Theorie zur quantitativen Analyse wirtschaftspolitischer Fragestellungen und auch zur Untersuchung der Verteilungswirkungen wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen nutzen lässt. Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Methoden, die in der dynamischen Makroökonomik zur Anwendung kommen und bietet damit die Grundlage für eine vertiefende Auseinandersetzung mit den einzelnen Themengebieten. 284 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Security protocols are widely used to ensure secure communications over insecure networks, such as the internet or airwaves. These protocols use strong cryptography to prevent intruders from reading or modifying the messages. However, using cryptography is not enough to ensure their correctness. Combined with their typical small size, which suggests that one could easily assess their correctness, this often results in incorrectly designed protocols.The authors present a methodology for formally describing security protocols and their environment. This methodology includes a model for describing protocols, their execution model, and the intruder model. The models are extended with a number of well-defined security properties, which capture the notions of correct protocols, and secrecy of data. The methodology can be used to prove that protocols satisfy these properties. Based on the model they have developed a tool set called Scyther that can automatically find attacks on security protocols or prove their correctness. In case studies they show the application of the methodology as well as the effectiveness of the analysis tool.The methodology¿s strong mathematical basis, the strong separation of concerns in the model, and the accompanying tool set make it ideally suited both for researchers and graduate students of information security or formal methods and for advanced professionals designing critical security protocols.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Part textbook, part exploratory work, this book aims to raise the awareness of students, physicists, and engineers in turbulence on the modeling of gravitationally induced turbulent mixing flows as produced, for instance, by Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. The discussion is centered on the differences between single-fluid and two-fluid approaches, and it is illustrated with a 0D analysis of two specific elementary models in common use. Important deviations are shown to appear on many features, among others the prominence of directed energy, the simultaneous restitution of test cases, the responses to variable acceleration and shocks, and the behavior of various length scales.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book addresses practitioners in development cooperation as well as scientists and students who are interested in the interaction of human rights and development issues. In the practice of development cooperation, linking poverty reduction programs with human rights is mainly achieved using so-called ¿Rights-based Approaches to Development.¿ In this context the right to an adequate standard of living (including access to food, water and housing), the right to health and the right to social security are of particular importance ¿ human rights that will play a key role in the design of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which is currently being negotiated as a framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals. The book provides an overview of the main international legal standards that are relevant for the protection of social rights, while also analyzing the content of those rights. Moreover, it informs readers on the current debates surrounding the extraterritorial obligations of donor countries and the duties of transnational corporations and international organizations (e.g. the World Bank and WTO) with regard to the implementation of social rights in the Global South.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Is there too much inequality We are witnessing for the first time in many decades a vigorous public debate in the United States and many European countries as to whether income inequality is approaching unjustifiable levels. The financial crisis has drawn special attention to remuneration at financial firms, as well as other more broadly based increases in inequality, and the pendulum may well have swung back toward attitudes favoring strengthened regulations. It is against this background of shifting public and political views about income inequality that the Roland Berger Foundation decided to solicit the opinions of U. S. and European political, business, and labor leaders by partnering with the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. This initiative, led by a diverse team of five authors, sought to cast light on how prominent European and U. S. leaders are making sense of rising inequality. The objective was not to provide yet another scholarly tome on inequality,or another analysis of how the general public views inequality. We are already awash in such analyses. What we don¿t know, and what we have sought to offer, is a window into how senior leaders view this historic moment. In the summer of 2009, we interviewed thirteen political, business, and labor leaders and presented these interviews in their original form.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book assists in bringing together the three stakeholders of an innovation ¿ inventor, decision maker and organization. These stakeholders have conflicting requirements and the book offers advice on how andby what methods they can communicate andthe informationthat isexpected and required in different phases of innovation. The perspectives of inventor, decision maker and organization are integrated in a business model that enables a common ¿language¿ and communication platform for the inevitably emerging tension field and that allows for asking and answering the right questions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book deals with the economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, since both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions. Embodiment of ideas and the consequences of modern reproduction technology for protection of property rights are closely examined.The evolution within arts and sciences, which often seems to return to previously scrapped ideals, is illustrated by detailed case studies, in which the importance of changing tastes, rather than progress proper, is emphasized.The author attempts an understanding for this using Darwinian evolution in combination with modern mathematical complexity theory, expressed in terms accessible to the general reader.The second edition is extended and updated especially as regards the illustration material.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Successful business communication is more than simply speaking your client¿s language. At the heart of all effective communication lies a fundamental understanding of human behavior. The natural result of globalization is a level of behaviors that we all share and expect. However, underneath this level are many other influencing factors. We tend to view the situation around us according to our own expectations which are often shaped by our cultural backgrounds. What happens, though, when our cultures are so different that the expectations collide This book combines theory and practice in a way that helps you as a busy intercultural manager understand what others are communicating to you and those around you. We take apart real examples of intercultural business interaction and show you how deeply embedded cultural norms are found within a simple conversation. Then we offer you important tools and principles that you can use to improve your own intercultural business communication. After reading this book, you should have a good understanding of the basic culture types, and be able to identify most cultures based on the principles described here. Additionally, you will know which social issues, attitudes, and values appear even in the most rational business negotiation. Most importantly, your cultural awareness will help you build successful and lasting relationships with your clients across regional and global boundaries.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Research and development (R&D) as well as innovation are the drivers of change and the key determinants of growth in many industry and service sectors. In spite of the financial turmoil and restructuring of the world economy after 2008, investment in R&D is expected to grow further. Innovation competence will continue to be a major success factor for internationally operating companies.The book presents a state-of-the-art account of innovation management and the role of R&D and innovation strategy for corporate growth and renewal. It follows a top-down approach starting from corporate strategy, and describes the effective integration of corporate R&D, business unit projects and operational performance improvements. The book offers portraits of leading innovators and high-performing corporations and provides a rich collection of best-practice examples.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Rapid application of new technologies and highly leveraged innovation processes are key for the success of companies and organizations in dynamic markets. Based on the experiences of one of the industry¿s most modern innovation centers this book provides an insight into the tools and methods used to align customer requirements, competitive challenges and technological development. Both, scientists and practitioners, will benefit from the lessons learned and presented in this volume.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -10 years ago, in the flourishing atmosphere of Indiäs high-tech city, Bangalore, SAP Labs was established as small development facility. Known to be one of the world¿s most promising destinations for foreign investments, India is where SAP AG chose to locate what is now their largest R&D and Services Center outside Germany.The unique 10-year success story of this organization is presented by two authors who were instrumental in setting up business of SAP Labs India and contributed in growing it to today¿s strength of 4000 employees.The authors discuss development, innovation, and management strategies, combining their own personal experiences and those of other longtime company employees along with statements from SAP board members, to provide a comprehensive and detailed picture of the events and reasoning behind the venture. Anyone interested in understanding the opportunities and challenges of carrying out distributed product development on a global scale from India will find this book an invaluable companion.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This bookgives a comprehensive overview of graphene oxides (GO) from atomic structures and fundamental properties to technological applications. Atomic structural models, electronic properties, mechanical properties, optical properties, and functionalizing and compositing of GO are illustrated. Moreover, the excellent physical and chemical properties offerGO promising applications in electronic nanodevices, chemical sensors and catalyst, energy storage, and biotechnology, which are also presented in this book. Therefore, this book is of interest to researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, and nanoscience.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Software Development is moving towards a more agile and more flexible approach. It turns out that the traditional 'waterfall' model is not supportive in an environment where technical, financial and strategic constraints are changing almost every day. But what is agility What are today¿s major approaches And especially: What is the impact of agile development principles on the development teams, on project management and on software architects How can large enterprises become more agile and improve their business processes, which have been existing since many, many years What are the limitations of Agility And what is the right balance between reliable structures and flexibility This book will give answers to these questions. A strong emphasis will be on real life project examples, which describe how development teams have moved from a waterfall model towards an Agile Software Development approach.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age.This second part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics related to the application of information technology in humanities, law, and narratives. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: humanities computing; narratives and their formal representation; history of ideas: the numerate disciplines; law, computer law, and legal computing.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 768 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2014), held in Christ Church, Barbados, in March 2014.The 19 revised full papers and 12 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 165 abstract registrations and 138 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: payment systems, case studies, cloud and virtualization, elliptic curve cryptography, privacy-preserving systems, authentication and visual encryption, network security, mobile system security, incentives, game theory and risk, and bitcoin anonymity.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 520 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Thisisthesecondeditionofabookonthephenomenological foundations ofmodern cosmology. The rst edition was surprisingly well timed. In the preceding 3 years, advances in astronomy had laid the foundations of the dark-energy/dark-matter c- mological model. In 1998, observations of type Ia supernova by the Supernova C- mology Project and High Z team suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. In 2000, Boomerang and Maxima observed clearly the rst acoustic peak in the anisotropy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background. The position of the peak strongly suggested that the density of the universe was near critical. These two observations reconciled popular in ationary models with the heretofore embarrassing insistence by astronomers that the clumping of galaxies required that the mass density of the universe be only about 25% of the critical density. The sup- nova data told us that the rest was dark energy in the form of an effective vacuum energy or cosmological constant. The so-called LambdaCDM model became the standard model. Eight years later, the observational data has improved tremendously as a c- parison of the gures in the two editions will demonstrate. Surprisingly, all this incredible data has failed to nd any clear failure of the CDM model. Among the observational advances, the most obvious comes from the WMAP satellitewho,alongtheground-basedexperimentslikeACBAR,yieldedtheexquisite series of peaks in the CMB temperature anisotropy spectrum shown in Fig. 7.11.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 340 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This thesis presents an in-depth, high-resolution observational study on the very beginning of the formation process: the fragmentation of dense molecular clouds known as infrared dark clouds (IRDCs). Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and Very Large Array (VLA) radio interferometers, the author has discovered a common picture of hierarchical fragmentation that challenges some of the leading theoretical models and suggests a new, observation-driven understanding of how massive star formation in clustered environments may begin: it is initiated by the hierarchical fragmentation of a dense filament from 10 pc down to 0.01 pc, and the stellar mass buildup is simultaneously fed by hierarchical accretion at similar scales. The new scenario points out the importance of turbulence and filamentary structure, which are now receiving increasing attention and further tests from both observers and theorists.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -If you have tried to implement Agile in your organization, you have probably learned a lot about development practices, teamwork, processes and tools, but too little about how to manage such an organization. Yet managerial support is often the biggest impediment to successfully adopting Agile, and limiting your Agile efforts to those of the development teams while doing the same old-style management will dramatically limit the ability of your organization to reach the next Agile level.Ángel Medinilla will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of what Agile means to an organization and the manager¿s role in such an environment, i.e., how to manage, lead and motivate self-organizing teams and how to create an Agile corporate culture. Based on his background as a ¿veteran¿ Agile consultant for companies of all sizes, he delivers insights and experiences, points out possible pitfalls, presents practical approaches and possible scenarios, also including detailed suggestions for further reading.If you are a manager, team leader, evangelist, change agent (or whatever nice title) and if you want to push Agile further in your organization, then this is your book. You will read how to change the paradigm of what management is about: it is not about arbitrary decisions, constant supervision and progress control, and the negotiation of changing requirements. It is about motivation, self-organization, responsibility, and the exploitation of all project stakeholders¿ knowledge. We live in a different world than the one that most management experts of the 20th century describe, and companies that strive for success and excellence will need a new kind of manager ¿ Agile managers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age. This third part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics related to language, ranging from linguistics to applications of computation to language, using linguistic tools. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: natural language processing; representing the lexicon; and neologisation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 884 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age. This first part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics in computer science. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: the jubilaris: Yaacov and his oeuvre; theory of computation; science computing and tools for engineering; information retrieval.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 620 pp. Englisch.