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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This new edition is intended for third and fourth year undergraduates in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, and the Applied Sciences, and can serve as a springboard for further work in Continuum Mechanics or General Relativity. Starting from a basic knowledge of calculus and matrix algebra, together with fundamental ideas from mechanics and geometry, the text gradually develops the tools for formulating and manipulating the field equations of Continuum Mechanics. The mathematics of tensor analysis is introduced in well-separated stages: the concept of a tensor as an operator; the representation of a tensor in terms of its Cartesian components; the components of a tensor relative to a general basis, tensor notation, and finally, tensorSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is an introduction to linear algebra, designed as a textbook for upper-division courses. It includes the basic results on vector spaces over fields, determinants, the theory of single linear transformation, and inner product spaces. The text presents proofs of the main theorems and includes numerical examples and exercises; applications to geometry, group theory and differential equations are given.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book introduces the Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral on the real line in a natural way as an extension of the Riemann integral. Many applied mathematicians will in all probability find themselves needing to use the Lebesgue or Lebesgue-Stieltjes Integral without having the necessary theoretical background. It is to such readers that this book is addressed. Exercises which extend and illustrate the theory, and provide practice in techniques, are included.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This is a textbook suitable for a year-long course in analysis at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. It is intended for students with a strong background in calculus and linear algebra.The topics covered in this course are the calculus of functions of one variable, an introduction to general topology, the general theory of integration, and the calculus, differential and integral, for functions of several variables.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic notions of probability through the discussion of a variety of problems and applications. The most important feature is the attempt to explain fundamental ideas in classical probability to non-specialists whose only prerequisite is algebra. The book can be used as a text for a first course in probability. Each chapter ends with a few problems with answers at the end of the book.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Lectures on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups are based on the ¿Topics in Group Theory' course focused on finitely generated solvable groups that was given by Gilbert G. Baumslag at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. While knowledge about finitely generated nilpotent groups is extensive, much less is known about the more general class of solvable groups containing them. The study of finitely generated solvable groups involves many different threads; thereforethese notes contain discussions on HNN extensions; amalgamated and wreath products; and other concepts from combinatorial group theory as well as commutative algebra. Along with Baumslag¿s Embedding Theorem for Finitely Generated Metabelian Groups, two theorems of Bieri and Strebel are presented to provide a solid foundation for understanding the fascinating class of finitely generated solvable groups. Examples are also supplied, which help illuminate many of the key concepts contained in the notes. Requiring only a modest initial group theory background from graduate and post-graduate students, these notes provide a field guide to the class of finitely generated solvable groups froma combinatorial group theory perspective.¿Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In recent years, statistics has played in an increasing important role in the courtroom. Written at a popular level, this collection of articles by leading statistical consultants discusses the impact of testimony on the consultants, judges, and juries. The primary issue is how well the legal system accepts and interprets statistical evidence and how the recepton of this evidence by the legal process can be improved.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 468 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -'Prove It With Figures' displays some of the tools of the social and statistical sciences that have been applied to the proof of facts in the courtroom and to the study of questions of legal importance. It explains how researchers can extract the most valuable and reliable data that can conveniently be made available, and how these efforts sometimes go awry. In the tradition of Zeisel's 'Say It with Figures,' a standard in the field of social statistics since 1947, it clarifies, in non-technical language, some of the basic problems common to all efforts to discern cause-and-effect relationships. Designed as a textbook for law students who seek an appreciation of the power and limits of empirical methods, the work also is a useful reference for lawyers, policymakers, and members of the public who would like to improve their critical understanding of the statistics presented to them. The many case histories include analyses of the death penalty, jury selection, employment discrimination, mass torts, and DNA profiling. Hans Zeisel was Professor of Law and Sociology Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he pioneered the application of social science to the law. Earlier, he had a distinguished career in public opinion and market research. He has written on a wide variety of topics, ranging from research methodology and history to law enforcement, juries, and Sheakespeare. He was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Assoication and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 1980 he was inducted into the Market Research Hall of Fame. David Kaye is Regents Professor at the Arizona State University, where he teaches evidence and related topics. An author of several law textbooks and treatises, his work also has appeared in journals ofSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This text, intended for a first course in performance evaluation, is a self-contained treatment covering all aspects of queuing theory.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 428 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Impulsive Control in Continuous and Discrete-Continuous Systems is an up-to-date introduction to the theory of impulsive control in nonlinear systems. This is a new branch of the Optimal Control Theory, which is tightly connected to the Theory of Hybrid Systems. The text introduces the reader to the interesting area of optimal control problems with discontinuous solutions, discussing the application of a new and effective method of discontinuous time-transformation. With a large number of examples, illustrations, and applied problems arising in the area of observation control, this book is excellent as a textbook or reference for a senior or graduate-level course on the subject, as well as a reference for researchers in related fields.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This text originated as a lecture delivered November 20, 1984, at Queen's University, in the undergraduate colloquium senes. In another colloquium lecture, my colleague Morris Orzech, who had consulted the latest edition of the Guinness Book of Records, reminded me very gently that the most 'innumerate' people of the world are of a certain trible in Mato Grosso, Brazil. They do not even have a word to express the number 'two' or the concept of plurality. 'Yes, Morris, I'm from Brazil, but my book will contain numbers different from one.''' He added that the most boring 800-page book is by two Japanese mathematicians (whom I'll not name) and consists of about 16 million decimal digits of the number Te. 'I assure you, Morris, that in spite of the beauty of the appar ent randomness of the decimal digits of Te, I'll be sure that my text will include also some words.' And then I proceeded putting together the magic combina tion of words and numbers, which became The Book of Prime Number Records. If you have seen it, only extreme curiosity could impel you to have this one in your hands. The New Book of Prime Number Records differs little from its predecessor in the general planning. But it contains new sections and updated records.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 568 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Dynamical systems theory and related numerical algorithms provide powerful tools for studying the solution behavior of differential equations and mappings. The papers in this volume are based on lectures given at the first two workshops held as part of the 1997- 1998 IMA Academic Year on Emerging Applications of Dynamical Systems. The first workshop concentrated on complex computational issues in dynamical systems. The second workshop addressed the development and application of special iterative methods for large scale systems. It also considered global model reduction schemes for PDEs.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 496 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR) methods have matured over the past 20 years and are now the method of choice for certain difficult problems, such as compressible flow. SAMR presents difficult technical challenges, both in terms of the numerical techniques involved and the complexity of the programming effort, especially on parallel computers. In order to gain insight into managing these difficulties, much research effort has been directed at mesh generation, parallel computation, and improvements in accuracy, aimed primarily at refinement interfaces. A major stumbling block in this endeavor is that many of these techniques entail substantial amounts of problem specific detail. Standardization is highly unlikely, except within narrowly defined problem domains. The papers presented in this collection are based on talks given at the Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods, held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, on March 12-13 1997. They describe research to improve the general understanding of the application of SAMR to practical problems; identify issues critical to efficient and effective implementation on high performance computers; stimulate the development of a community code repository for software including benchmarks to assist in the evaluation of software and compiler technologies. The ten chapters of this volume have been divided into two parts reflecting two major issues in the topic: (I) programming complexity of SAMR algorithms and (II) applicability and numerical challenges of SAMR methods. Part I presents three programming environments and two libraries that address the concerns of efficient execution and reduced software development times of SAMR applications. Part II describes an overview of applications that can benefit from SAMR methods, ranging from crack propagation and industrial boilers toSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is concerned with a class of discrete-time stochastic control processes known as controlled Markov processes (CMP's), also known as Markov decision processes or Markov dynamic programs. Starting in the mid-1950swith Richard Bellman, many contributions to CMP's have been made, and applications to engineering, statistics and operations research, among other areas, have also been developed. The purpose of this book is to present some recent developments on the theory of adaptive CMP's, i. e. , CMP's that depend on unknown parameters. Thus at each decision time, the controller or decision-maker must estimate the true parameter values, and then adapt the control actions to the estimated values. We do not intend to describe all aspects of stochastic adaptive control; rather, the selection of material reflects our own research interests. The prerequisite for this book is a knowledgeof real analysis and prob ability theory at the level of, say, Ash (1972) or Royden (1968), but no previous knowledge of control or decision processes is required. The pre sentation, on the other hand, is meant to beself-contained,in the sensethat whenever a result from analysisor probability is used, it is usually stated in full and references are supplied for further discussion, if necessary. Several appendices are provided for this purpose. The material is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 contains the basic definitions about the stochastic control problems we are interested in; a brief description of some applications is also provided.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Linear algebra is one of the most imprortant mathematical and computational tools in the sciences. A knowledge of linear algebra is essential for research in statistics or the application of statistics. This book presents the aspects of numerical linear algebra that are important to statisticians.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -My book 'Asymptotic Expansions for Ordinary Differential Equations' published in 1965 is out of print. In the almost 20 years since then, the subject has grown so much in breadth and in depth that an account of the present state of knowledge of all the topics discussed there could not be fitted into one volume without resorting to an excessively terse style of writing. Instead of undertaking such a task, I have concentrated, in this exposi tion, on the aspects of the asymptotic theory with which I have been particularly concerned during those 20 years, which is the nature and structure of turning points. As in Chapter VIII of my previous book, only linear analytic differential equations are considered, but the inclusion of important new ideas and results, as well as the development of the neces sary background material have made this an exposition of book length. The formal theory of linear analytic differential equations without a parameter near singularities with respect to the independent variable has, in recent years, been greatly deepened by bringing to it methods of modern algebra and topology. It is very probable that many of these ideas could also be applied to the problems concerning singularities with respect to a parameter, and I hope that this will be done in the near future. It is less likely, however, that the analytic, as opposed to the formal, aspects of turning point theory will greatly benefit from such an algebraization.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This marks the 100th volume to appear in the Applied Mathematical Sci ences series. Partial Differential Equations, by Fritz John, the first volume of the series, appeared in 1971. One year prior to its appearance, the then mathematics editor of Springer-Verlag, Klaus Peters, organized a meeting to look into the possibility of starting a series slanted toward applications. The meeting took place in New Rochelle, at the home of Fritz and Char lotte John. K.O. Friedrichs, Peter Lax, Monroe Donsker, Joe Keller, and others from the Courant Institute (previously, the Institute for Mathemat ical Sciences) were present as were Joe LaSalle and myself, the two of us having traveled down from Providence for the meeting. The John home, a large, comfortable house, especially lent itself to the informal, relaxed, and wide-ranging discussion that ensued. What emerged was a consensus that mathematical applications appeared to be poised for a period of growth and that there was a clear need for a series committed to applied mathematics. The first paragraph ofthe editorial statement written at that time reads as follows: The mathematization of all sciences, the fading of traditional scientific boundaries, the impact of computer technology, the growing importance of mathematical-computer modeling and the necessity of scientific planning all create the need both in education and research for books that are introductory to and abreast of these developments.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume contains the discussions of two workshops: one devoted to wavelets, multigrid and other fast algorithms (multipole, FFT) and their use in wave propagation, and another devoted to waves in random and other complex media.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Inverse problems in wave propagation concern extraction of information about distant structural features from the measurements of scattered waves. Tasks of this nature arise in geophysics, ocean acoustics, civil and environmental engineering, ultrasonic nondestructive testing, biomedical ultrasonics, radar, astrophysics, and other areas of science and technology. The papers in this volume represent most of these scientific and technical topics, together with fundamental mathematical investigations of the relation between waves and scatterers.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 520 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This self-contained book offers a new and direct approach to the theories of special functions with emphasis on spherical symmetry in Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimensions. Written after many years of lecturing to mathematicians, physicists and engineers in scientific research institutions in Europe and the USA, it uses elementary concepts to present the spherical harmonics in a theory of invariants of the orthogonal group. One of the highlights of this book is the extension of the classical results of the spherical harmonics into the complex. This is particularly important for the complexification of the Funk-HeckeSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume is based on the proceedings of a workshop, Evolutionary Algorithms, that was an integral part of the 1996-97 IMA program on Mathematics in High-Performance Computing. It brought together top researchers working in the area of Evolutionary Computation for a week of intensive interaction. Some very surprising and impressive applications were presented at the workshop, including data decomposition, deriving control parameters for modeling systems using partial differential equations, and even new best known solutions to bin packing problems. The workshop did a great deal to clarify the current state of the theory in Evolutionary algorithms and was useful for bringing people together and strengthening the evolutionarySpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -1. Preservation of Moduli of Continuity for Bernstein-type Operators.- 2. Lp-Korovkin Type Inequalities for Positive Linear Operators.- 3. On Some Shift-Invariant Integral Operators, Multivariate Case.- 4. Multivariate Probabilistic Wavelet Approximation.- 5. Probabilistic Approach to the Rounding Problem with Applications to Fair Representation.- 6. Limit Theorems for Random Multinomial Forms.- 7. Multivariate Boolean Trapezoidal Rules.- 8. Convergence Results for an Extension of the Fourier Transform.- 9. Euler Functions E (z) with Complex and Applications.- 10. On the Role of l in Approximation Theory.- 11. The Action Constants.- 12. Bivariate Probability Distributions Similar to Exponential.- 13. Probability Waiting-Time Results for Pattern and Frequency Quotas in the Same Inverse Sampling Problem Via the Dirichlet.- 14. Asymptotic Normality of the Collision Resolution Interval for a Multiple Access Protocol.- 15. An Example of Non-Gaussian Density Process.- 16. Limit Theorems for Functionals of Markov Processes and Renormalizable Stable Fields.- 17. Stable Models in Testable Asset Pricing.- 18. A Note on the Death Process with a Random Parameter.- 19. Stochastic Approximation under Dependent Noises, Detecting Signals and Adaptive Control.- 20. Uniform Norm of Polynomials Constrained with Many Zeros in Two Disjoint Intervals.- 21. Admissible Location of Sample Points of Interpolation by Bivariate C1 Quadratic Splines.- 22. On a Bernstein-Type Operator of Bleimann, Butzer and Hahn III.- 23. A Problem of Analytic Monotone Extension in Three Dimensions.- 24. On the Joint Estimation of Stable Law Parameters.- 25. Representations and Properties of Geometric Stable Laws.- 26. Rearrangements of Conditionally Integrable Functions.- 27. Wavelet Transforms and WaveletApproximations.- 28. Approximations and Derivatives of Probability Functions.- 29. Rate of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem for Generalized Convolutions.- 30. Order Completeness of L1 with Applications to Stochastics.- 31. On Reliability Analysis of Consecutive-k-out-of-n-F Systems and their Generalizations - A Survey.- 32. The Uniform Closure of Convex Semi-Lattices.- 33. Another Pairwise Independent, Stationary Chain.- 34. The Lebesgue Integral as an Improper Riemann Integral.- 35. Tests of Existence of Generalized Riemann Integrals.- 36. Remark on a Theorem About Polynomials.- Participants.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 472 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Polymers occur in many different states and their physical properties are strongly correlated with their conformations. The theoretical investigation of the conformational properties of polymers is a difficult task and numerical methods play an important role in this field. The two major approaches used in the field are molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods, and the book includes reviews of both as well as applications to particular polymeric systems. It will be of interest to workers in polymer statistical mechanics and also to a wider audience interested in numerical methods and their application in polymeric systems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Grid generation is a common feature of many computational tasks which require the discretization and representation of space and surfaces. The papers in this volume discuss how the geometric complexity of the physical object or the non-uniform nature of the solution variable make it impossible to use a uniform grid. This volume will be of interest to computational scientists and mathematicians working in a broad variety of applications including fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, materials science, chemistry and physics.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This elegant little book discusses the famous problem concerning the minimum number of colors required to print a map such that no two adjoining countries have the same color, no matter how convoluted the boundaries; this is one of the problems that came to define the field now known as topology. The book begins by discussing the history of the problem, and then goes into the mathematics, pleasantly enough that anyone with an elementary knowledge of geometry can follow it, but with enough rigor that a mathematician can also read it with pleasure.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quantum Communication and Measurement. The series of international conferences on quantum communication and measurement was established to encourage scientists working in the interdisciplinary research fields of quantum communication science and technology. The first such conference, organized by C. Benjaballah and O. Hirota under the title 'Quantum Aspects of Optical Communication,' assembled approximately 80 researchers in Paris in 1990. The second conference, held in Nottingham in 1994, was organized by V. P. Belavkin, R. L. Hudson, and O. Hirota and attracted about 130 participants from 22 countries. The present conference, organized by O. Hirota, A. S. Holevo, C. M. Caves, H. P. Yuen, and L. Accardi, was heldSeptember 25-30, 1996, in Fuji-Hakone Land, Japan, andjnvolved about 120 researchers from 15 countries. The topics at this third conference included the foundations of quantum communi cation and information theory, quantum measurement theory, quantum cryptography and quantum computation, quantum devices and high-precision measurements, gener ation of nonclassical light, and atom optics. Special emphasis was placed on bringing together research workers in experimental and engineering fields of quantum commu nication and quantum computing and theoreticians working in quantum measurement and information theory. Nineteen plenary and parallel sessions and one poster ses sion were organized, at which a total of 82 papers were presented. Interesting and stimulating scientific discussions took place between and after sessions as well as in the evenings.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 564 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Statistical Analysis of Discrete Data provides an introduction to cur rent statistical methods for analyzing discrete response data. The book can be used as a course text for graduate students and as a reference for researchers who analyze discrete data. The book's mathematical prereq uisites are linear algebra and elementary advanced calculus. It assumes a basic statistics course which includes some decision theory, and knowledge of classical linear model theory for continuous response data. Problems are provided at the end of each chapter to give the reader an opportunity to ap ply the methods in the text, to explore extensions of the material covered, and to analyze data with discrete responses. In the text examples, and in the problems, we have sought to include interesting data sets from a wide variety of fields including political science, medicine, nuclear engineering, sociology, ecology, cancer research, library science, and biology. Although there are several texts available on discrete data analysis, we felt there was a need for a book which incorporated some of the myriad recent research advances. Our motivation was to introduce the subject by emphasizing its ties to the well-known theories of linear models, experi mental design, and regression diagnostics, as well as to describe alterna tive methodologies (Bayesian, smoothing, etc. ); the latter are based on the premise that external information is available. These overriding goals, to gether with our own experiences and biases, have governed our choice of topics.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 388 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Fuzzy Logic in Management demonstrates that difficult problems and changes in the management environment can be more easily handled by bringing fuzzy logic into the practice of management. This explicit theme is developed through the book as follows: Chapter 1, 'Management and Intelligent Support Technologies', is a short survey of management leadership and what can be gained from support technologies. Chapter 2, 'Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic', provides a short introduction to fuzzy sets, fuzzy relations, the extension principle, fuzzy implications and linguistic variables. Chapter 3, 'Group Decision Support Systems', deals with group decision making, and discusses methods for supporting the consensus reaching processes. Chapter 4, 'Fuzzy Real Options for Strategic Planning', summarizes research where the fuzzy real options theory was implemented as a series of models. These models were thoroughly tested on a number of real life investments, and validated in 2001. Chapter 5, 'Soft Computing Methods for Reducing the Bullwhip Effect', summarizes research work focused on the demand fluctuations in supply chains. The program enhanced existing theoretical frameworks with fuzzy logic modeling. Chapter 6, 'Knowledge Management', outlines the collection, storing, transfer and management of knowledge using fuzzy logic. The principles are worked out in detail with software agents. Chapter 7, 'Mobile Technology Application', introduces various applications including empirical facts and how mobile technology can be supported with software agents.Implicitly the book develops themes that successful companies should use to (1) master effectiveness and quality in both the details and the whole, (2) build on and work with flexibility, and (3) support continuous learning in both the organizational and the individual level.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This self-contained volume surveys three decades of mathematical control theory and at the same time describes how the work of Roger Brockett shaped and influenced its development. Nine survey articles written by leading experts in the field, who have also been closely associated with Roger Brockett at various stages in his career, treat the subject cohesively and in depth. This volume will provide an important reference for graduate students and researchers, as well as for mathematicians, engineers and scientists whose work involves concepts and the language of control and systems theory.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 396 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -On Om × GIn Highest Weight Vectors.- Invariant Theory of Matrices.- Symmetries of Elementary Particles Revisited.- Perturbative SU(1,1).- A Dual Structure for the Quantal Rotation Group, SU(2).- Some Points in the Quantization of Relativistic Grassmann Dependent Interaction Systems.- q-Difference Intertwining Operators for Uq(sl(4)) and q-Conformal Invariant Equations.- A Quantum Mechanical Evolution Equation for Mixed States from Symmetry and Kinematics.- Quantum Mechanical Motions over the Group Manifolds and Related Potentials.- Quantum Violation of Weak Equivalence Principal in the Brans-Dicke Theory.- Quantum Unitary and Pseudounitary Groups and Generalized Hadron Mass Relations.- Linear Coxeter Groups.- Diffeomorphism Groups, Quasi-Invariant Measures, and Infinite Quantum Systems.- Algebraic Shells and the Interacting Boson Model of the Nucleus.- Recent Developments in the Application of Vector Coherent States.- Algebraic Theory of the Three-Body Problem.- Quantum Effect of Nonlinear Born-Infeld Field.- Some Aspects of q-and qp-Boson Calculus.- Quarks and Partons as Two Different Manifestations of One Covariant Entity.- Spectra and Eigenfunctions of Representation Operators for Quantum Groups and q-Oscillators.- Geometry of Automorphisms for Free Groups.- Quantum Central Limit Theorems.- Non-Euclidean Cristallography.- Different Bases of -Deformed Poincare Algebra.- q-Nonlinearity, Deformations and Planck Distribution.- Hidden Symmetries, Symmetry Breaking and Emergence of Complexity.- Meyer Sets and the Finite Generation of Quasicrystals.- A Topological Study of Induced Representations.- Hamiltonian Structure of Multicomponent KdV Equations.- Irreducible Representations of Fundamental Algebra for Quantum Mechanics on SD and Gauge Structures.- The Birth ofGauge Theory.- Algebraic Approach to the Hypercoulomb Problem.- Confrontation of Supersymmetry in Elementary Particles and Nuclear Physics.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 480 pp. Englisch.