springer international publishing dez 2015 (932 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It is predicted that robots will surpass human intelligence within the next fifty years.The ever increasing speed of advances in technology and neuroscience, coupled with the creation of super computers and enhanced body parts and artificial limbs, is paving the way for a merger of both human and machine.Devices which were once worn on the body are now being implanted into the body, and as a result, a class of true cyborgs, who are displaying a range of skills beyond those of normal humans-beings, are being created. There are cyborgs which can see colour by hearing sound, others have the ability to detect magnetic fields, some are equipped with telephoto lenses to aid their vision or implanted computers to monitor their heart, and some use thought to communicate with a computer or to manipulate a robotic arm. This is not science-fiction, these are developments that are really happening now, and will continue to develop in the future. However, a range of legal and policy questions has arisen alongside this rise of artificial intelligence.Cyber-Humans provides a deep and unique perspective on the technological future of humanity, and describes how law and policy will be particularly relevant in creating a fair and equal society and protecting the liberties of different life forms which will emerge in the 21st century.Dr Woodrow (Woody) Barfield previously headed up the Sensory Engineering Laboratory, holding the position of Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor at the University of Washington. His research revolves around the design and use of wearable computers and augmented reality systems and holds both JD and LLM degrees in intellectual property law and policy. He has published over 350 articles and major presentations in the areas of computer science, engineering and law. He currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 312 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Scientific disciplines have their own view on catastrophes. Here, natural scientists, engineers, physicians as well as historians and social scientists define and discuss geo-hazards and associated technical disasters, natural disasters as a business case, medicine and its catastrophes. After war aspects of the Shoah are described with Gershom Sholem¿s Concept of Jewish Totality, and the situation of Displaced Persons in Germany as well as the Nakba for Palestinians related to the happiness of Jews celebrating their new State of Israel. The book also reminds of Hamburg¿s Flood Disaster in 1962, the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and other historical catastrophes in Japan, the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and the Age of Enlightenment, and the eruption of the Tambora in 1815 followed by the ¿year without summer¿.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Our society has entered a data-driven era, one in which not only are enormous amounts of data being generated daily but there are also growing expectations placed on the analysis of this data. Some data have become simply too large to be displayed and some have too short a lifespan to be handled properly with classical visualization or analysis methods. In order to address these issues, this book explores the potential solutions where we not only visualize data, but also allow users to be able to interact with it. Therefore, this book will focus on two main topics: large dataset visualization and interaction.Graphic cards and their image processing power can leverage large data visualization but they can also be of great interest to support interaction. Therefore, this book will show how to take advantage of graphic card computation power with techniques called GPGPUs (general-purpose computing on graphics processing units). As specific examples, this book details GPGPU usages to produce fast enough visualization to be interactive with improved brushing techniques, fast animations between different data representations, and view simplifications (i.e. static and dynamic bundling techniques).Since data storage and memory limitation is less and less of an issue, we will also present techniques to reduce computation time by using memory as a new tool to solve computationally challenging problems. We will investigate innovative data processing techniques: while classical algorithms are expressed in data space (e.g. computation on geographic locations), we will express them in graphic space (e.g., raster map like a screen composed of pixels). This consists of two steps: (1) a data representation is built using straightforward visualization techniques; and (2) the resulting image undergoes purely graphical transformations using image processing techniques. This type of technique is called image-based visualization.The goal of this book is to explore new computing techniques using image-based techniques to provide efficient visualizations and user interfaces for the exploration of large datasets. This book concentrates on the areas of information visualization, visual analytics, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. This book opens up a whole field of study, including the scientific validation of these techniques, their limitations, and their generalizations to different types of datasets.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this book, we aim to provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the scalability and efficiency challenges in large-scale web search engines. More specifically, we cover the issues involved in the design of three separate systems that are commonly available in every web-scale search engine: web crawling, indexing, and query processing systems. We present the performance challenges encountered in these systems and review a wide range of design alternatives employed as solution to these challenges, specifically focusing on algorithmic and architectural optimizations. We discuss the available optimizations at different computational granularities, ranging from a single computer node to a collection of data centers. We provide some hints to both the practitioners and theoreticians involved in the field about the way large-scale web search engines operate and the adopted design choices. Moreover, we survey the efficiency literature, providing pointers to a large number of relatively important research papers. Finally, we discuss some open research problems in the context of search engine efficiency.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 140 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Thismost recentbook from lunar expert Charles J. Byrne combines the latest comprehensive imagery, topography and gravity data from all three recentMoon missions, Kaguya, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and GRAIL. Thesemajor polar-orbit surveys are presented herein compact form for the convenience of amateur andpractical astronomers concerned with the Moon.Chosen from the Near and Far Side's large craters and basins over 200 km in diameter, eachof the 71 highlighted features is depictedwith a two-page presentation of the data that includes false color topographic maps next to the mission images. Additionally, the featuresare presented in the estimated chronological sequence of their creation, based on a consideration of stratigraphy (overlapping layers from neighboring features) andthe relative degradation of surface features. Using this sequence as a way to conveythe relative ages of lunar features, the author presents various theories concerning the Moon¿s impact and thermal history e.g. the available evidence allows for constraints to be placed on the duration of the Late Heavy Bombardment period. The relationships between impact dynamics and variations in the gravity field of the Moonare also discussed. The new mission data makes possible this renewed conjecture about the history and evolution of the Moon, which is presented here withmuch worthwhile information for amateurs and professionals alike.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -On the Web, a massive amount of user-generated content is available through various channels (e.g., texts, tweets, Web tables, databases, multimedia-sharing platforms, etc.). Conflicting information, rumors, erroneous and fake content can be easily spread across multiple sources, making it hard to distinguish between what is true and what is not. This book gives an overview of fundamental issues and recent contributions for ascertaining the veracity of data in the era of Big Data. The text is organized into six chapters, focusing on structured data extracted from texts. Chapter 1 introduces the problem of ascertaining the veracity of data in a multi-source and evolving context. Issues related to information extraction are presented in Chapter 2. Current truth discovery computation algorithms are presented in details in Chapter 3. It is followed by practical techniques for evaluating data source reputation and authoritativeness in Chapter 4. The theoretical foundations and various approaches for modeling diffusion phenomenon of misinformation spreading in networked systems are studied in Chapter 5. Finally, truth discovery computation from extracted data in a dynamic context of misinformation propagation raises interesting challenges that are explored in Chapter 6. This text is intended for a seminar course at the graduate level. It is also to serve as a useful resource for researchers and practitioners who are interested in the study of fact-checking, truth discovery, or rumor spreading.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This updated second edition has all of the information needed for your successful forays into deep sky observing. Coe uses his years of experience to give detailed practical advice about how to find the best observing site, how to make the most of the time spent there, and what equipment and instruments to take along. There are comprehensive lists of deep sky objects of all kinds, along with Steve's own observations describing how they look through telescopes with apertures ranging from 4 inches to 36 inches (0.1 - 0.9 meters).Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 352 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Inchworms, tiger moths, underwings, owlet moths, silkworms,sphinx moths, grass moths, and butterflies. Collectively, these and many others are the Lepidoptera, one of the most diverse groups of animals on the planet.Lepidoptera can be found in the highest tropical canopies,the driest deserts, and at the leading edge of science. The adults include some of the most beautiful insects that have inspired artists and have sailed through the dreams of human cultures for millennia. The immature stages (¿caterpillars¿), like the underwing depicted on the cover, link together vital processes in diverse terrestrial ecosystems that are only barely documented let alone understood.The people that study these animals are lepidopterists, and the goal of this book is to introduce them with their own words. In twenty chapters, lepidopterists tell their stories, and these tales mirror the diversity of nature in their range and depth. You will find individuals that wrestle with the challenges of scientific careers, stories of far flung travel sand close calls, and historical perspectives on recent decades of scientific break throughs.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the18th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative LanguagesPADL 2016, held in St. Petersburg, FL, USA, in January 2016.The 11 revised papers presented were carefully reviewedand selected from 17 initial submissions for inclusion in the book. PADL is a forumfor researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novelapplications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarativeconcepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This bookconstitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 17thAsia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2015, in Guangzhou, China, in September2015.The 15 fullpapers were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The volumepresents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: BigData Applications in Telecoms, BDAT 2015, Big Social Data, BSD 2015, and WebData Mining and Applications, WDMA 2015. The papers cover various issues in thearea of the World Wide Web with the underlying technologies and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop onAlgebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2014, held in September 2014 in SinaiaRomania.The 8 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 13presentations and focus together with one invited paper on foundations ofalgebraic specification, approaches to formal specification including processcalculi and models of concurrent, distributed and mobile computingspecification languages, methods, and environments, semantics of conceptualmodeling methods and techniques, model-driven development, graphtransformations, term rewriting and proof systems, integration of formalspecification techniques, formal testing and quality assurance, validation, andverification.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on HybridSystems Biology, HSB 2013, held as part of the ECAL 2013 event, in TaorminaItaly, in September 2013; and the Third International Workshop on HybridSystems Biology, HSB 2014, held as part of CAV 2014, in Vienna, Austria, inJuly 2014.This volume presents 8 full papers together with 2invited tutorials/surveys from 21 submissions.The HSB 2013 workshop aims at collecting scientistsworking in the area of hybrid modeling applied to systems biology, in order todiscuss about current achieved goals, current challenges and future possibledevelopments.The scope of the HSB 2014 workshop is the general areaof dynamical models in biology with an emphasis on hybrid approaches, which arenot restricted to a narrow class of mathematical models, and which takeadvantage of techniques developed separately in different sub-fields.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE/\* Style Definitions \*/table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:'Table Normal';mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso- style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes ;mso-style-parent:'';mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-paginati on:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans -serif';mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:m inor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}This book constitutes the revised selected papers of theFirst International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMMI2015, held in July 2015 in Lille, France, in conjunction with the 32ndInternational Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2015.The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefullyreviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers communicate thespecific needs and nuances of medical imaging to the machine learning communitywhile exposing the medical imaging community to current trends in machinelearning.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain, MRMD 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, on March 29, 2015. The workshop was held in connection with ECIR 2015.The 14 full papers presented, including one invited paper, a workshop overview and five papers on the VISCERAL Retrieval Benchmark, were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: importance of data other than text for information retrieval; semantic data analysis; scalability approaches towards big data sets.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Thisbook constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th InternationalConference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2014held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2014.The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58submissions. The papers reflect a growing effort to increase the disseminationof new results among researchers and professionals related to evaluation ofnovel approaches to software engineering. By comparing novel approaches withestablished traditional practices and by evaluating them against softwarequality criteria, the ENASE conferences advance knowledge and research insoftware engineering, identify most hopeful trends, and propose new directionsfor consideration by researchers and practitioners involved in large-scalesoftware development and integration.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the proceedings of the SecondOpenSHMEM Workshop, held in Annapolis, MD, USA, in August 2015.The 12 technical papers and one short position paperspresented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17submissions. The topics of the workshop included extensions to the OpenSHMEMAPI, implementation of the API for current and emerging architectures, tools todebug and profile OpenSHMEM programs, experience porting applications to theOpenSHMEM programming model, and changes to the OpenSHMEM specification toaddress the needs of programming exascale systems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Passwords, PASSWORDS 2014, held in Trondheim, Norway, in December 2014.The 8 revised full papers presented together with 2 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on hash functions, usability, analyses and new techniques.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Sets out a simple month-by-month program to reveal all of the night sky's biggest and most beautiful secrets in just one year ¿ and with only a few hours of stargazing each monthBy investing just an hour a week and $50 in binoculars, it¿s possible to learn a few simple techniques and quickly gain a real insight into the night sky's ever-changing patterns ¿ and what they tell us about Earth, the seasons and ourselves. Searching more for a learned appreciation of nature and our exact place within the cosmos than academic scientific knowledge, science and travel writer Jamie Carter takes the reader on a 12 month tour of the night sky's incredible annual rhythms that say so much about Earth. During the journey he learns about the celestial mechanics at work in the skies above that are ¿ to the beginner ¿ almost beyond belief. As well as the vital constellations and clusters, and the weird and wonderful nebulas, he searches out ¿dark sky destinations¿ across the globe that help increase knowledge and give a new perspective on familiar night sky sights. On the journey he witnesses a solar eclipse and grapples with star-charts, binoculars, smartphone apps, telescopes, spots satellites and attempts basic astro-photography. By year's end, the reader will be able to glance at the night sky from anywhere on the planet and tell what direction he or she is facing, what time it is, where all the planets are and even where the Galactic Center Point is.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 436 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on DistributedComputing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2016, held in Bhubaneswar, India, inJanuary 2016.The 6 fullpapers, 7 short papers and 11 poster papers presented in this volume werecarefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The ICDCIT conferencefocusses on distributed computing, internet technologies, and societalapplications. The book also contains 3 full paper invited talks.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2015, held in Cottbus, Germany, in September 2015.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2015, held in Seoul, South Korea, in October 2015. The 14 papers and 3 abstracts were selected from 40 submissions and cover diverse topics ranging from tactics of cyber crime investigations to digital forensic education, network forensics, and international cooperation in digital investigations.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutesthe proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models forthe Web Graph, WAW 2015, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in December 2015.The 15 fullpapers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: properties of largegraph models, dynamic processes on large graphs, and properties of PageRank onlarge graphs.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scientific trackof the 8th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2016, held in ViennaAustria, in January 2016.The SWQD conference offers a range of comprehensive and valuableinformation by presenting new ideas from the latest research papers, keynotespeeches by renowned academics and industry leaders, professional lecturesexhibits, and tutorials.The fivescientific full papers accepted for SWQD were each peer reviewed by three ormore reviewers and selected out of 13 high-quality submissions. Further, nineshort papers were also presented and are included in this book. In additionone keynote paper by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines is also included.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, STM 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2015, in conjunction with the 20th European Symposium Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2015.The 15 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as security metrics and classification; data protection; intrusion detection and software vulnerabilities; cryptographic protocols; controlling data release; and security analysis, risk management and usability.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Thisbookconstitutestherefereedproceedingsoftwojointevents:the25thInternationalWorkshop onSoftwareMeasurement(IWSM)andthe10thInternationalConferenceonSoftwareProcessand ProductMeasurement(Mensura),referred to asIWSM¿Mensura2015andheldinKraków,Poland,in October2015.Softwaremeasurementisakeymethodologyinestimating,managing,andcontrollingsoftwaredevelop mentandmanagementprojects.The13paperspresentedinthisvolumewe recarefullyreviewedandselectedfrom32submissions. Theypresentvarioustheoreticalandempiricalresultsrelatedtosoftwaremeasur ementandits applicationinindustrialprojects.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2014, held in Nancy, France, in September 2014. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as the inducing of logic programs, learning from data represented with logic, multi-relational machine learning, learning from graphs, and applications of these techniques to important problems in fields like bioinformatics, medicine, and text mining.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the revised proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web) held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015.The 10 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on recommender systems, multimedia recommendation, social and semantic web; and process management.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2015, which took place in Poznan, Poland, in June 2015. The 26 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions and were revised and extended after the event. The workshop topics covered knowledge-based business information systems (AKTB), business and IT alignment (BITA), transparency-enhancing technologies and privacy dashboards (PTDCS), semantics usage in enterprises (FSFE), and issues related to DBpedia. In addition two keynote papers are included in this book.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume provides a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of different nations by combining individual data with institutional components. The composite index presented in this book, the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI), aims to measure the quality and scale of the entrepreneurial process in 130 countries around the world. The authors have developed a system that links institutions and agents through a National Entrepreneurial System (ecosystem) in which each biotic and abiotic component is reinforced by the other at a country level. The enclosed data, from both individual- and country-level institutions, provides policymakers a tool for understanding the entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses of their respective economies, thereby enabling the implementation of policies that foster productive entrepreneurship.Distinct from both output-based entrepreneurship indexes (i.e., new firm counts) and process-based indexes (i.e., comparisons of policies and regulations), the GEI is designed to profile national systems of entrepreneurship. The GEI is a construction of individual and institutional measures that integrates 31 variables from various data sources into 14 pillars, three sub-indexes and a ¿super index¿. The relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development appears to be more or less mildly S-shaped. The findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to development. The Index also does not focus exclusively on high-growth entrepreneurship; it also considers the characteristics of entrepreneurship that enhance productivity: innovation, market expansion, being growth oriented, and having an international outlook. Moreover, because entrepreneurship can have both economic and social consequences for the individual, the GEI captures the dynamic, institutionally embedded interactions between the individual-level attitudes, abilities, and aspirations that drive productive entrepreneurship.Thisunique book will be invaluable for researchers, policymakers and entrepreneurskeen to expand their understanding of entrepreneurship and development.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system. Important factors influencing the decision-making of individuals and firms in this system are discussed. The role of social environment and networks is stressed. The approach of agent-based modelling is presented and compared with standard economic modelling and other simulation techniques in the context of modelling complex adaptive systems. Practical questions in building agent-based models of labour¿education market system with social networks are discussed. These questions include modelling the structure of education system and agent behaviour there; modelling and calibrating the labour market without and with firms; generating the social network, defining its behaviour and calibrating it; and embedding the resulting system into a larger model.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 104 pp. Englisch.