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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th KES International Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, KES-AMSTA 2012, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in June 2012.The conference attracted a substantial number of researchers and practitioners from all over the world who submitted their papers for ten main tracks covering the methodology and applications of agent and multi-agent systems, one workshop (TRUMAS 2012) and five special sessions on specific topics within the field. The 66 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on virtual organizations, knowledge and learning agents, intelligent workflow, cloud computing and intelligent systems, self-organization, ICT-based alternative and augmentative communication, multi-agent systems, mental and holonic models, assessment methodologies in multi-agent and other paradigms, business processing agents, Trumas 2012 (first international workshop), conversational agents and agent teams, digital economy, and multi-agent systems in distributed environments.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Abstract State Machines, B, VDM, and Z, which took place in Pisa, Italy, in June 2012. The 20 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The ABZ conference series is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of five related state-based and machine-based formal methods: Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, VDM, and Z. They share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. The main goal of this conference series is to contribute to the integration of these formal methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation and mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Das vorliegende Buch wendet sich an ernsthaft strebende junge Ingenieure und nicht an solche, welche sich damit begnügen, Vorlagen durchzupausen, ohne dabei die Gedankengänge und überlegungen kennenzulernen, welche zu dem end gültigen Erzeugnis führen. Es zeigt sich immer wieder, daß bei den kleinsten konstruktiven Aufgaben, die dem Anfänger ohne Vorbild gestellt werden, die Schwierigkeiten so groß sind, daß er sich ohne eine zielbewußte Führung in ein endloses Probieren verliert. Aus diesem Grunde hat der Verfasser aus einer jahrzehntelangen Lehrerfahrung heraus den Versuch unternommen, in einer leicht faßlichen und geordneten Form einen methodischen Arbeitsplan zu zeigen, der es dem Anfänger ermöglicht, auf ratio nellem Wege bei seinen Konstruktionsübungen zum Ziele zu kommen. Daß dabei, wie die Erfahrung zeigt, die Freude am Konstruieren geweckt und das Selbst bewußtsein gestärkt wird, ist als weiterer Vorteil zu buchen. Die Konstruktionslehre ist für den allgemeinen Maschinenbau geschrieben und behandelt daher die der Feinmechanik eigenen Herstellungsverfahren nicht. Um dem Buch keinen zu großen Umfang zu geben und dadurch die übersicht lichkeit und den wesentlichen Kern zu verdecken, wurden Zahlentafeln, Dia gramme usw. weggelassen, da für diesen Zweck Taschen-und Lehrbücher zur Ver fügung stehen. Der Verfasser ist sich im klaren, daß eine Konstruktionslehre, welche nur aus einer Sammlung von Richtlinien und Regeln besteht, keinem Anfänger die Technik des Konstruierens vermitteln kann. Nur Übung führt hier zum Meister. Daher wurden eine Reihe von übungsbeispielen dem Text beigefügt.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Smart Grids sollen eine sichere und interoperable Basis beispielsweise für E-Energy bilden. Dieser Leitfaden enthält neben den Grundlagen für die Architekturentwicklung von Smart Grids einen Überblick über dazu bereits existierende Arbeiten sowie eine abstrakte Referenzarchitektur. Daneben werden relevante Sicherheitsstandards beschrieben, domänenspezifische Standards wie die CIM-Norm vorgestellt sowie Methoden zur Prüfung der Standardkonformität aufgeführt. Abschließend werden Realisierungsbeispiele umrissen und erste Best Practices erörtert. 292 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch bietet umfassende Informationen zu Schäden am historischen Mauerwerk, nicht nur zu Feuchte- und Salzschäden, sondern auch zu Schäden durch Risse und lose Füllschichten. Es beginnt mit der Geschichte des Mauerwerks, mit seinen Baustoffen und mit der Mauerwerksdiagnose. Es befasst sich mit der Bauphysik und gründlich mit den verschiedenen Untersuchungsmethoden hinsichtlich der Feuchte- und Salzschäden sowie der Störung und Minderung der Tragfähigkeit des Mauerwerks. Danach folgt die Beschreibung mechanischer, chemischer und elekro-osmotischer Instandsetzungsmethoden von feuchtem, versalzenem Mauerwerk und die Erläuterung von Maßnahmen zur Wiederherstellung der Tragfähigkeit, nämlich Mauerwerksaustausch, Verpressen, Vernadelung und Injektionen. Schließlich werden die Reinigungsverfahren, der Einsatz von Konservierungsmitteln und die zusätzlich erforderlichen Maßnahmen wie Einsatz von Sanierputz, Steinergänzung, Schall- und Wärmedämmung, Putz, Beschichtungen und die Instandsetzungsmöglichkeiten bei biologischer Korrosion wie Algen- und Schimmelbefall auf Wänden aus altem Mauerwerk dargestellt.Die 2. verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage beinhaltet die aktuellen technischen Möglichkeiten bei der Instandsetzung von historischem Mauerwerk, die im Jahre 2002 noch kaum eine Rolle spielten. Auch Normen und Regelwerke sind seitdem hinzugekommen oder wurden geändert, dazu kommen neue Anforderungen zum Schall- und Wärmeschutz. Die energetische Sanierung ist heute ungleich wichtiger als damals. Die Wärmedurchgangskoeffizienten von Außenwänden gemäß der EnEV 2009 und die Wärmedämmungstechniken zur Erfüllung der hohen Anforderungen werden dargestellt sowie die Vermeidung von Tauwasser an und im historschen Mauerwerk. 357 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch bietet umfassende Informationen zu Schäden am historischen Mauerwerk, nicht nur zu Feuchte- und Salzschäden, sondern auch zu Schäden durch Risse und lose Füllschichten. Es beginnt mit der Geschichte des Mauerwerks, mit seinen Baustoffen und mit der Mauerwerksdiagnose. Es befasst sich mit der Bauphysik und gründlich mit den verschiedenen Untersuchungsmethoden hinsichtlich der Feuchte- und Salzschäden sowie der Störung und Minderung der Tragfähigkeit des Mauerwerks. Danach folgt die Beschreibung mechanischer, chemischer und elekro-osmotischer Instandsetzungsmethoden von feuchtem, versalzenem Mauerwerk und die Erläuterung von Maßnahmen zur Wiederherstellung der Tragfähigkeit, nämlich Mauerwerksaustausch, Verpressen, Vernadelung und Injektionen. Schließlich werden die Reinigungsverfahren, der Einsatz von Konservierungsmitteln und die zusätzlich erforderlichen Maßnahmen wie Einsatz von Sanierputz, Steinergänzung, Schall- und Wärmedämmung, Putz, Beschichtungen und die Instandsetzungsmöglichkeiten bei biologischer Korrosion wie Algen- und Schimmelbefall auf Wänden aus altem Mauerwerk dargestellt.Die 2. verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage beinhaltet die aktuellen technischen Möglichkeiten bei der Instandsetzung von historischem Mauerwerk, die im Jahre 2002 noch kaum eine Rolle spielten. Auch Normen und Regelwerke sind seitdem hinzugekommen oder wurden geändert, dazu kommen neue Anforderungen zum Schall- und Wärmeschutz. Die energetische Sanierung ist heute ungleich wichtiger als damals. Die Wärmedurchgangskoeffizienten von Außenwänden gemäß der EnEV 2009 und die Wärmedämmungstechniken zur Erfüllung der hohen Anforderungen werden dargestellt sowie die Vermeidung von Tauwasser an und im historschen Mauerwerk. 357 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Das Buch bietet umfassende Informationen zu Schäden am historischen Mauerwerk, nicht nur zu Feuchte- und Salzschäden, sondern auch zu Schäden durch Risse und lose Füllschichten. Es beginnt mit der Geschichte des Mauerwerks, mit seinen Baustoffen und mit der Mauerwerksdiagnose. Es befasst sich mit der Bauphysik und gründlich mit den verschiedenen Untersuchungsmethoden hinsichtlich der Feuchte- und Salzschäden sowie der Störung und Minderung der Tragfähigkeit des Mauerwerks. Danach folgt die Beschreibung mechanischer, chemischer und elekro-osmotischer Instandsetzungsmethoden von feuchtem, versalzenem Mauerwerk und die Erläuterung von Maßnahmen zur Wiederherstellung der Tragfähigkeit, nämlich Mauerwerksaustausch, Verpressen, Vernadelung und Injektionen. Schließlich werden die Reinigungsverfahren, der Einsatz von Konservierungsmitteln und die zusätzlich erforderlichen Maßnahmen wie Einsatz von Sanierputz, Steinergänzung, Schall- und Wärmedämmung, Putz, Beschichtungen und die Instandsetzungsmöglichkeiten bei biologischer Korrosion wie Algen- und Schimmelbefall auf Wänden aus altem Mauerwerk dargestellt.Die 2. verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage beinhaltet die aktuellen technischen Möglichkeiten bei der Instandsetzung von historischem Mauerwerk, die im Jahre 2002 noch kaum eine Rolle spielten. Auch Normen und Regelwerke sind seitdem hinzugekommen oder wurden geändert, dazu kommen neue Anforderungen zum Schall- und Wärmeschutz. Die energetische Sanierung ist heute ungleich wichtiger als damals. Die Wärmedurchgangskoeffizienten von Außenwänden gemäß der EnEV 2009 und die Wärmedämmungstechniken zur Erfüllung der hohen Anforderungen werden dargestellt sowie die Vermeidung von Tauwasser an und im historschen Mauerwerk.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded scientists for centuries. Over the last few hundred years, many scientific careers - and considerable resources - have been devoted to measuring their positions and motions with ever increasing accuracy. And in the last two decades of the 20th century, the European Space Agency developed and launched the Hipparcos satellite, around which this account revolves, to carry out these exacting measurements from space.What has prompted these remarkable developments Why have governments been persuaded to fund them What are scientists learning from astronomy's equivalent of the Human Genome Project This book traces the subject's history, explains why such enormous efforts are considered worthwhile, and interweaves these with a first-hand insight into the Hipparcos project, and how big science is conducted at an international level. The involvement of amateur astronomers, and the Hipparcos contributions to climate research, 'death stars' passing close to the Sun, and the search for extra-solar planets and even intelligent life itself, are some of the surprising facets of this unusual space mission. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book is based on the lectures given at the CIME school 'Quantum many body systems' held in the summer of 2010. It provides a tutorial introduction to recent advances in the mathematics of interacting systems, written by four leading experts in the field: V. Rivasseau illustrates the applications of constructive Quantum Field Theory to 2D interacting electrons and their relation to quantum gravity; R. Seiringer describes a proof of Bose-Einstein condensation in the Gross-Pitaevski limit and explains the effects of rotating traps and the emergence of lattices of quantized vortices; J.-P. Solovej gives an introduction to the theory of quantum Coulomb systems and to the functional analytic methods used to prove their thermodynamic stability; finally, T. Spencer explains the supersymmetric approach to Anderson localization and its relation to the theory of random matrices. All the lectures are characterized by their mathematical rigor combined with physical insights. 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The seminal ideas of this book played a key role in the development of group theory since the 70s. Several generations of mathematicians learned geometric ideas in group theory from this book. In it, the author proves the fundamental theorem for the special cases of free groups and tree products before dealing with the proof of the general case. This new edition is ideal for graduate students and researchers in algebra, geometry and topology. 156 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the past, services had a strong local and national focus. Professional services were very likely to be independently and autonomously organized from country to country in order to cater to local needs and local legal requirements. This has since changed radically, and highly integrated business and delivery models around the globe have become the status quo in clients' businesses and strategies. Serving clients on a global level requires professional services firms to adopt a structural change from local to distributed global sales and delivery. This book brings together many years of experience, current perspectives and future ideas of international business practitioners, academics, and market researchers. Along those lines it is structured into four parts. Part I 'Winning Strategies and Innovative Ideas' lays the book's foundation: it discusses core strategies behind the globalization movement and introduces the major paradigms and ideas. Part II 'Successful Processes for Realization' provides solutions for how to establish successful processes for delivering global professional services. Part III 'Inspired Talent Management' goes to the core of the professional services industry: attracting, developing, and keeping the right talent in the right locations. Finally, Part IV offers 'Experiences and Case Studies' on all aspects related to successfully building a globalized professional services firm. In short, this handbook provides professional services firms and their clients alike with a sound foundation for responding strategically to fundamental global changes and turning them into business advantages. It offers a comprehensive perspective of why and how to successfully globalize a professional services firm. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A look at China s relationship with its 14 neighbor countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Vietnam.This book presents a basic economic overview of each respective country and commentary on the country s relationship with China economic, political and otherwise. An excellent resource for the China-watcher hoping for a broad 360 degree, cross-border understanding of the country.'Whether you are a newcomer to China or already doing business here, you should not be without China Briefing. They are the best in their field and anessential part of any multinational businessman s intelligence on China. -Jack Perkowski, chairman and founder, ASIMCO Technologies; author, Managing the Dragon China Briefing is an established and well respected provider of good quality, useful China legal, tax and business operational information and is a greatresource to European investors. -Joerg Wutte, former president, European Chamber of Commerce, Beijing China Briefing is a must-read resource for anyone involved in China business. With so much material available on the mysteries of doing business in China,it is refreshing to read these practical, down to earth guides. They are well produced, easy to read, and incredibly insightful. -Michael Cronin, COO, Peony Capital, Beijing 96 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The problems of conditional optimization of the uniform (or C-) norm for polynomials and rational functions arise in various branches of science and technology. Their numerical solution is notoriously difficult in case of high degree functions. The book develops the classical Chebyshev's approach which gives analytical representation for the solution in terms of Riemann surfaces. The techniques born in the remote (at the first glance) branches of mathematics such as complex analysis, Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller theory, foliations, braids, topology are applied to approximation problems. The key feature of this book is the usage of beautiful ideas of contemporary mathematics for the solution of applied problems and their effective numerical realization. This is one of the few books where the computational aspects of the higher genus Riemann surfaces are illuminated. Effective work with the moduli spaces of algebraic curves provides wide opportunities for numerical experiments in mathematics and theoretical physics. 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Working Conference on Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET), held in Gdansk, Poland, on June 27, 2012, as the industrial track of the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2012).Restructuring, divesting, improving performance, and merging are among the usual transformation activities that enterprises conduct to provide answers to the challenging demands put on them. To foster the much-needed debate between researchers and practitioners on these topics, the number of papers accepted for PRET is kept low, providing the authors and the audience with ample time to engage in discussions about both the practical implications of results and the theoretical underpinnings of phenomena observed in industrial practice. This year, five papers were selected after careful review, and each paper is between 20 and 25 pages long, to allow for the presentation of details.The topics covered include enterprise architecture, business and IT alignment, and business process management and evaluation. 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the past two decades a succession of direct observations by satellites, and of extensive computer simulations, has led to the realization that the polar ionosphere plays a principal role in large-scale magnetospheric processes - a manifestation of the physics linkage involved in solar-terrestrial interactions. Spatial/temporal variations in high-latitude electromagnetic phenomena, such as dynamic aurorae, electric fields and currents, have proved to be extremely complex. Now the challenge is to comprehend the vast amount of complicated measurements made in this magnetosphere-ionosphere sysstem of the Earth. This book addresses the electrical coupling between the hot, but dilute, magnetospheric plasma and the cold, but dense, plasma in the ionosphere. In five major chapters, this book presents: - basic properties of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; - morphology of electric fields and currents at high latitudes; - global modeling of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; - modeling of ionospheric electrodynamics; - current issues, such as auroral particle acceleration, substorms, penetration of high-latitude fields into low latitudes. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Automatic computing has undergone drastic changes since the pioneering days of the early Fifties, one of the most obvious being that today the majority of computer programs are no longer written in machine code but in some programming language like FORTRAN or ALGOL. However, as desirable as the time-saving achieved in this way may be, still a high proportion of the preparatory work must be attributed to activities such as error estimates, stability investigations and the like, and for these no programming aid whatsoever can be of help. In this respect, ALGOL, as an internationally standardized notation which avoids computer-oriented concepts, provides another advantage, not often mentioned, but one which was already the guiding principle at the very beginning of the programming language venture: indeed, a correct ALGOL program is the abstractum of a computing process for which the necessary analyses have already been performed. It is the very purpose of this Handbook to establish such abstract formulations of certain computing processes. Therefore, numerical methods given in this Hand book in the form of ALGOL procedures may be put to immediate use wherever ALGOL is known and understood; in fact, application of such a method reduces to little more than calling the corresponding procedure. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects from educational and game theories, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and systems design.This issue contains 10 outstanding contributions from the International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2011, as well as 14 regular papers which were partly selected from national conferences. The topics covered are game engine, using games to teach, identifying player emotion states, assessing the effects of educational games to multi-touch interaction, natural user interface, and virtual reality. Generally, the papers present a large number of examples of edutainment applications, giving more evidence on the high potential and impact of edutainment approaches. 292 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 20 th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2012. The 22 long and 7 short papers of the Research Paper Track presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on user engagement; trust; user motivation, attention, and effort; recommender systems (including topics such as matrix factorization, critiquing, noise and spam in recommender systems); user centered design and evaluation; educational data mining; modeling learners; user models in microblogging; and visualization. The Industry Paper Track covered innovative commercial implementations or applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances in practice. 2 long and 1 short papers were accepted of 5 submissions. 416 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 5th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2012, held in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in July 2012.The 20 full papers and 11 poster papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submitted papers. They full papers are organized in the following topical sections: multiple image sets; brain; non-rigid anatomy; and frameworks and similarity measures. 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2012, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2012.The 28 full papers and 33 extended abstracts presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The conference addresses themes related to the development of future real-world technologies which will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems. 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security. In relation to energy security, traditional policy thinking has focused on ensuring supply without much emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Non-traditional security (NTS) scholars argue that threats to human security have become increasingly prominent since the end of the Cold War, and that it is thus critical to adopt a holistic and multidisciplinary approach in addressing rising energy needs. This volume represents the perspectives of scholars from across Asia, looking at diverse aspects of energy security through a non-traditional security lens. The issues covered include environmental and socioeconomic impacts, the role of the market, the role of civil society, energy sustainability and policy trends in the ASEAN region. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2012) and the 17th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD 2012), held together with the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2012) in Gdansk, Poland, in June 2012.The 17 papers accepted for BPMDS were selected from 48 submissions and cover a wide spectrum of issues related to business process development, modeling, and support. They are grouped into sections on business process in the cloud, advanced BPM in an organizational context, similarity, variations and configuration, BPM and requirements engineering, humans and business process models, and BPM technologies using computational methods.The 13 papers accepted for EMMSAD were chosen from 28 submissions and focus on exploring, evaluating, and enhancing current information modeling methods and methodologies. They are grouped in sections on modeling of enterprise architecture, modeling facts and rules, business process modeling, modeling of non-functional requirements, safety modeling and analysis, quality of models and modeling languages, and supporting the learning of conceptual modeling. 468 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume is an outgrowth of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Expert Judgment and Expert Systems,' held in Porto, Portugal, August 1986. Support for the Workshop was provided by the NATO Division of Scientific Affairs, the U.S. Army Research Institute, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. The Workshop brought together researchers from the fields of psychology, decision analysis, and artificial intelligence. The purposes were to assess similarities, differences, and complementarities among the three approaches to the study of expert judgment; to evaluate their relative strengths and weaknesses; and to propose profitable linkages between them. Each of the papers in the present volume is directed toward one or more of those goals. We wish to express our appreciation and thanks to the following persons for their support and assistance: John Adams, Vincent T. Covello, Luis da Cunha, Claire Jeseo, B. Michael Kantrowitz, Margaret Lally, Judith Orasanu, R. M. Rodrigues, and Sandor P. Schuman. 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book and its companion volume, LNCS 7282 and 7283, constitute the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2012, held in Tampere, Finland, in June 2012. The 99 papers (56 full papers, 32 short papers, and 11 demo papers) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions. Part I contains the full papers whereas Part II contains the short papers and the demo papers. 672 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The two-volume set LNCS 7324/7325 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Recognition, ICIAR 2012, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in June 2012. The 107 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on clustering and classification; image processing; image analysis; motion analysis and tracking; shape representation; 3D imaging; applications; biometrics and face recognition; human activity recognition; biomedical image analysis; retinal image analysis; and call detection and modeling. 520 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The four-volume set LNCS 7333-7336 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2012, held in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, in June 2012. The four volumes contain papers presented in the following workshops: 7333 - advances in high performance algorithms and applications (AHPAA); bioinspired computing and applications (BIOCA); computational geometry and applicatons (CGA); chemistry and materials sciences and technologies (CMST); cities, technologies and planning (CTP); 7334 - econometrics and multidimensional evaluation in the urban environment (EMEUE); geographical analysis, urban modeling, spatial statistics (Geo-An-Mod); 7335 - optimization techniques and applications (OTA); mobile communications (MC); mobile-computing, sensind and actuation for cyber physical systems (MSA4CPS); remote sensing (RS); 7336 - software engineering processes and applications (SEPA); software quality (SQ); security and privacy in computational sciences (SPCS); soft computing and data engineering (SCDE). The topics of the fully refereed papers are structured according to the four major conference themes: 7333 - computational methods, algorithms and scientific application; 7334 - geometric modelling, graphics and visualization; 7335 - information systems and technologies; 7336 - high performance computing and networks. 684 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Festschrift published in honor of Vladimir Lifschitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday presents 39 articles by colleagues from all over the world with whom Vladimir Lifschitz had cooperation in various respects. The 39 contributions reflect the breadth and the depth of the work of Vladimir Lifschitz in logic programming, circumscription, default logic, action theory, causal reasoning and answer set programming. 608 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The subject of geomagnetic micropulsations has developed extremely rapidly and it is difficult to know when is an appropriate time to pause and assess the sum total of our knowledge-both observational and theoretical. There has in recent years been a tremendous increase in both the quantity and quality of data and also many theoretical ad vances in our understanding of the phenomenon. Undoubtedly there will be further progress in both areas but it seems worthwhile now to review both our knowledge and our ignorance. This book was essen tially completed by the end of April 1969 and tries to give a summary of the subject up to that time. The Earth is enclosed in the magnetosphere, a hollow carved out of the solar wind by the Earth's magnetic field. Above the ionosphere there is a very tenuous thermal plasma of partially ionized hydrogen in diffusive equilibrium with magnetic and gravitational forces, and ener getic protons and electrons that constitute the trapped Van Allen ra diation belts. Throughout this anisotropic and inhomogeneous plasma, natural and man-made electromagnetic energy propagates in a wide variety of modes and frequency bands. This book is concerned with that class of natural signals called geomagnetic micropulsations-short period (usually of the order of seconds or minutes) fluctuations of the Earth's magnetic field. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Capillary electrophoresis (CE), also designated by the acronym HPCE for 'High Per formance Capillary Electrophoresis' is a rapidly growing analytical separation method. It unites the separation technique of classical electrophoresis on plates with the instrumental methods of chromatography with respect to direct detection of the solutes separated in the capillary and their ready identification and quantification. The initial problems of inadequate reproducibility in quantitative analysis, due to the necessity of handling extremely small volumes, have largely been solved in the sec ond generation commercial instruments. Hence, a rapid and reliable separation sys tem is available for ionic compounds from the smallest cation (the lithium ion) up to poly anions with molecular weights ranging in the millions (such as DNA molecules). The methods of gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing can be readily extended to separation techniques carried out in a capillary. For nonionic compounds an addi tional separation method is available in the form of micellar electrokinetic chroma tography (MEKC). This involves a true chromatographic separation process because the distribution of the analytes between the buffer and the micelles is superimposed on the electrophoretic migration, which contributes substantially to the selectivity. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The two-volume set LNCS 7367 and 7368 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2012, held in Shenyang, China, in July 2012. The 147 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The contributions are structured in topical sections on mathematical modeling; neurodynamics; cognitive neuroscience; learning algorithms; optimization; pattern recognition; vision; image processing; information processing; neurocontrol; and novel applications. 696 pp. Englisch.