springer international publishing mrz 2016 (311 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents atheory as well as methods to understand and to purposively influence complexsystems. It suggests a theory of complex systems as nested systems, i. e.systems that enclose other systems and that are simultaneously enclosed by evenother systems. According to the theory presented, each enclosing system emergesthrough time from the generative activities of the systems they enclose. Systems are nestedand often emerge unplanned, and every system of high dynamics is enclosed by asystem of slower dynamics. An understanding of systems with faster dynamics,which are always guided by systems of slower dynamics, opens up not only newways to understanding systems, but also to effectively influence them.The aim and subjectof this book is to lay out these thoughts and explain their relevance to thepurposive development of complex systems, which are exemplified in case studies from an urban system. Theinterested reader, who is not required to be familiar with system-theoreticalconcepts or with theories of emergence, will be guided through the developmentof a theory of emergent nested systems. The reader will also learn about newways to influence the course of events - even though the course of events is,in principle, unpredictable, due to the ever-new emergence of real novelty. 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book introduces a novel approach to the design and operation of large ICT systems. It views the technical solutions and their stakeholders as complex adaptive systems and argues that traditional risk analyses cannot predict all future incidents with major impacts. To avoid unacceptable events, it is necessary to establish and operateanti-fragileICT systems that limit the impact of all incidents, and which learn from small-impact incidents how to function increasingly well in changing environments. The book applies four design principles and one operational principle to achieve anti-fragility for different classes of incidents. It discusses how systems can achieve high availability, prevent malware epidemics, and detect anomalies. Analyses of Netflix's media streaming solution, Norwegian telecom infrastructures, e-government platforms, and Numenta's anomaly detection software show that cloud computing is essential to achieving anti-fragility for classes of events with negative impacts. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book aims at describing in detail the different layout techniques for remarkably boosting the electrical performance and the ionizing radiation tolerance of planar Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) without adding any costs to the current planar Complementary MOS (CMOS) integrated circuits (ICs) manufacturing processes. These innovative layout styles are based on pn junctions engineering between the drain/source and channel regions or simply MOSFET gate layout change. These interesting layout structures are capable of incorporating new effects in the MOSFET structures, such as the Longitudinal Corner Effect (LCE), the Parallel connection of MOSFETs with Different Channel Lengths Effect (PAMDLE), the Deactivation of the Parallel MOSFETs in the Bird's Beak Regions (DEPAMBBRE), and the Drain Leakage Current Reduction Effect (DLECRE), which are still seldom explored by the semiconductor and CMOS ICs industries. Several three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations and experimental works are referenced in this book to show how these layout techniques can help the designers to reach the analog and digital CMOS ICs specifications with no additional cost. Furthermore, the electrical performance and ionizing radiation robustness of the analog and digital CMOS ICs can significantly be increased by using this gate layout approach. 84 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -RRAM technology has made significant progress in the past decade as a competitive candidate for the next generation non-volatile memory (NVM). This lecture is a comprehensive tutorial of metal oxide-based RRAM technology from device fabrication to array architecture design. State-of-the-art RRAM device performances, characterization, and modeling techniques are summarized, and the design considerations of the RRAM integration to large-scale array with peripheral circuits are discussed. Chapter 2 introduces the RRAM device fabrication techniques and methods to eliminate the forming process, and will show its scalability down to sub-10 nm regime. Then the device performances such as programming speed, variability control, and multi-level operation are presented, and finally the reliability issues such as cycling endurance and data retention are discussed. Chapter 3 discusses the RRAM physical mechanism, and the materials characterization techniques to observe the conductive filaments and the electrical characterization techniques to study the electronic conduction processes. It also presents the numerical device modeling techniques for simulating the evolution of the conductive filaments as well as the compact device modeling techniques for circuit-level design. Chapter 4 discusses the two common RRAM array architectures for large-scale integration: one-transistor-one-resistor (1T1R) and cross-point architecture with selector. The write/read schemes are presented and the peripheral circuitry design considerations are discussed. Finally, a 3D integration approach is introduced for building ultra-high density RRAM array. Chapter 5 is a brief summary and will give an outlook for RRAM's potential novel applications beyond the NVM applications. 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains lecture notes from the coursesgiven by Vlad Bally and Rama Cont at the Barcelona Summer School on StochasticAnalysis (July 2012).The notes of the course by Vlad Bally, co-authoredwith Lucia Caramellino, develop integration by parts formulas in an abstractsetting, extending Malliavin's work on abstract Wiener spaces. The results areapplied to prove absolute continuity and regularity results of the density fora broad class of random processes.Rama Cont's notes provide anintroduction to the Functional Itô Calculus, a non-anticipative functionalcalculus that extends the classical Itô calculus to path-dependent functionalsof stochastic processes. This calculus leads to a new class of path-dependentpartial differential equations, termed Functional Kolmogorov Equations, whicharise in the study of martingales and forward-backward stochastic differentialequations.This book will appeal to both young and senior researchers in probability and stochastic processes, as well as to practitioners in mathematical finance. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Approximately 10% of North Americans have some communication disorder. These can be physical as in cerebral palsy and Parkinson's disease, cognitive as in Alzheimer's disease and dementia generally, or both physical and cognitive as in stroke. In fact, deteriorations in language are often the early hallmarks of broader diseases associated with older age, which is especially relevant since aging populations across many nations will result in a drastic increase in the prevalence of these types of disorders. A significant change to how healthcare is administered, brought on by these aging populations, will increase the workload of speech-language pathologists, therapists, and caregivers who are often already overloaded. Fortunately, modern speech technology, such as automatic speech recognition, has matured to the point where it can now have a profound positive impact on the lives of millions of people living with various types of disorders. This book serves as a common ground for two communities: clinical linguists (e.g., speech-language pathologists) and technologists (e.g., computer scientists). This book examines the neurological and physical causes of several speech disorders and their clinical effects, and demonstrates how modern technology can be used in practice to manage those effects and improve one's quality of life. This book is intended for a broad audience, from undergraduates to more senior researchers, as well as to users of these technologies and their therapists. 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book introduces a theory of higher matrix factorizationsfor regular sequences and uses it to describe the minimal free resolutions of high syzygy modules over complete intersections. Such resolutions have attracted attention ever since the elegant construction of the minimal free resolution of the residue field by Tate in 1957. The theory extends the theory of matrix factorizations of a non-zero divisor, initiated by Eisenbud in 1980, which yields a description of the eventual structure of minimal free resolutions over a hypersurface ring. Matrix factorizations have had many other uses in a wide range of mathematical fields,from singularity theory to mathematical physics. 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Presentingthe first systematic treatment of the behavior of Néron models under ramifiedbase change, this book can be read as an introduction to various subtleinvariants and constructions related to Néron models of semi-abelian varieties,motivated by concrete research problems and complemented with explicitexamples.Néron models of abelian andsemi-abelian varieties have become an indispensable tool in algebraic andarithmetic geometry since Néron introduced them in his seminal 1964 paper.Applications range from the theory of heights in Diophantine geometry to Hodgetheory.We focus specifically on Néron component groups, Edixhoven's filtrationand the base change conductor of Chai and Yu, and we study these invariantsusing various techniques such as models of curves, sheaves on Grothendiecksites and non-archimedean uniformization. We then apply our results to thestudy of motivic zeta functions of abelian varieties. The final chaptercontains alist of challenging open questions. This book is aimed towardsresearchers with a background in algebraic and arithmetic geometry. 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book not only explores the ways in which theeconomic crisis and associated austerity policies have adversely impacted thephysical and human infrastructure and conduct of scientific research, but alsoconsiders how science can help us to understand the crisis and provide originalsolutions. Starting with a detailed but accessible analysis of the scientificmethod and the nature of scientific prediction, the book proceeds to addressthe failure to forecast the economic crisis and the origins of the continuinginertia in economic policy and theory. Attention is drawn in particular to theshortcomings of neoclassical economics in terms of its description of theeconomic system as being mechanical in nature and characterized by equilibrium.This perspective mirrors the limitations and outdated ideas of nineteenthcentury physics, which the book contrasts with the insights offered by modernphysics. The impact of neoliberal ideologies on scientific research is alsodiscussed in detail, highlighting their stifling effect on innovation anddiversification. In closing, the book emphasizes the need for stateintervention to guide and support scientific research as the core engine ofeconomic development that will deliver a sustainable future. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume constitutes the proceedings of the5th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction, andSimulation, held in Novedrate, Italy, in September 2015.The 16 revised full papers together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They focus on the design, development, use, and applicationof games for purposes other than entertainment. As such they cover areas likecognition, psychology, technology-enhanced education, evaluation and assessment,multimedia and information technology, and feature new scientific approachesand results from experiments and real-life applications. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop onClinical Image-Based Procedures, CLIP 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI2015 in Munich, Germany, in October 2015.The 15 papers presented in thisvolume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.CLIPfocuses on translational research; therefore, the goal of the works presentedin this workshop is to bring basic research methods closer to the clinicalpractice. A highlight of this workshop is the subject of strategies forpersonalized medicine to enhance diagnosis, treatment and interventions. 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11thInternational Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 20-22, 2015, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and technically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS).The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers and practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems.The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected originally 115 paper submissions. They were organized in topical sections names: web interfaces and applications; internet technology; society, e-business and e-government; web intelligence; and mobile information systems. 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bookconstitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16thInternational Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2015, held inIstanbul, Turkey, in May 2015. The workshop was held in conjunction with the14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems,AAMAS 2015.The 12revised full papers included in this volume ware carefully selected from 22submissions. The papers focus on theinfluence of social sciences and multi-agent systems, with a strongapplication/empirical vein, and its emphasis is stressed on exploratory agentbased simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in thesocial sciences and using social theories as an inspiration to new frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the 9th International Conference on Passwords, PASSWORDS2015, held in Cambridge, UK, in December 2015.The 6 revised full papers presented together with 3 revised short paperswere carefully reviewed and selected from 32 initial submissions. Thepapers are organized in topical sections on human factors, attacks, and cryptography. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This concise, easy-to-read guidebook is designed as a go-to resource for clinician educators working to establish the foundation for a successful academic career. This book begins with preliminary lessons such as interviewing for a first faculty position, how to prepare a robust curriculum vitae, how to evaluate a letter of offer, and understanding the process of academic promotion. Further chapters highlight the refinement of essential academic skills, including how to effectively give a lecture, how to approach clinical supervision, incorporating technology in educational innovation, and how to give feedback, among other topics. Chapters pertaining to clinical care cover a range of topics, including how to maintain excellent clinical documentation, how to evaluate clinical research, and how to avoid medico-legal problems. Clinician educators, while essential to the academic workforce, often feel overwhelmed by the newness and breadth of responsibilities that go with their first faculty job. Addressing that problem, this guidebook also emphasizes careful attention to preserving a healthy work/life balance as clinician educators navigate the demands of their professional and personal lives. The Clinician Educator Guidebook: Steps and Strategies for Advancing Your Career is derived from the larger acclaimed text, The Academic Medicine Handbook, and is an indispensable resource for a unique group of dedicated faculty who play an essential role in academic medicine. 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Within the context of healthcare, there has been a long-standing interest in understanding the posture and movement of the human body. Gait analysis work over the years has looked to articulate the patterns and parameters of this movement both for a normal healthy body and in a range of movement-based disorders. In recent years, these efforts to understand the moving body have been transformed by significant advances in sensing technologies and computational analysis techniques all offering new ways for the moving body to be tracked, measured, and interpreted. While much of this work has been largely research focused, as the field matures, we are seeing more shifts into clinical practice. As a consequence, there is an increasing need to understand these sensing technologies over and above the specific capabilities to track, measure, and infer patterns of movement in themselves. Rather, there is an imperative to understand how the material form of these technologies enables them also to be situated in everyday healthcare contexts and practices. There are significant mutually interdependent ties between the fundamental characteristics and assumptions of these technologies and the configurations of everyday collaborative practices that are possible them. Our attention then must look to social, clinical, and technical relations pertaining to these various body technologies that may play out in particular ways across a range of different healthcare contexts and stakeholders. Our aim in this book is to explore these issues with key examples illustrating how social contexts of use relate to the properties and assumptions bound up in particular choices of body-tracking technology. We do this through a focus on three core application areas in healthcare-assessment, rehabilitation, and surgical interaction-and recent efforts to apply body-tracking technologies to them. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many scientific disciplines rely on observational data of systems for which it is difficult (or impossible) to implement controlled experiments. Data analysis techniques are required for identifying causal information and relationships directly from such observational data. This need has led to the development of many different time series causality approaches and tools including transfer entropy, convergent cross-mapping (CCM), and Granger causality statistics. A practicing analyst can explore the literature to find many proposals for identifying drivers and causal connections in time series data sets. Exploratory causal analysis (ECA) provides a framework for exploring potential causal structures in time series data sets and is characterized by a myopic goal to determine which data series from a given set of series might be seen as the primary driver. In this work, ECA is used on several synthetic and empirical data sets, and it is found that all of the tested time series causality tools agree with each other (and intuitive notions of causality) for many simple systems but can provide conflicting causal inferences for more complicated systems. It is proposed that such disagreements between different time series causality tools during ECA might provide deeper insight into the data than could be found otherwise. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The mapping of the surface of stars requires diverse skills, analysis techniques and advanced modeling, i.e. the collaboration of scientists in various specialties. This volume gives insights into new techniques allowing for the first time to obtain resolved images of stars. It takes stock of what has been achieved so far in Chile, on the ESO VLTI instrument or, in the States, on the CHARA instrument. In recent times interferometry, combined with adaptive optics has allowed to reconstruct images of stars. Besides the Sun (of course) by now five stars have been resolved in detail. In addition to interferometry, this book highlights techniques used for mapping the surfaces of stars using photometry made by space observatories; Zeeman- and Doppler Imaging; mapping the surface element abundances via spectroscopy. This book will also take stock of the best images of the solar surface, made by connecting the differential rotation to the underlying physical parameters derived from helioseismology. Recent measurements of flattening of the solar surface by SDO showed that the Sun's shape is linked to the rotation of the core. It is shown how such a result is generalizable to the stars. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book introduces ongoingreflections within the research community on established information systemsdevelopment topics and emerging concepts, approaches and ideas in the field ofhealthcare information systems. By promoting research on theoretical andmethodological issues related to both information systems development ingeneral and healthcare information systems in particular, it presents currentresearch in order to promote improved practice. It comprises a selection of thebest papers presented at the 24th International Conference on InformationSystems Development (ISD) held in Harbin, China, August 25 - 27, 2015. 240 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bookinvestigates the impact of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes onmacroeconomic instability and economic growth in recipient countries. Employingthe New Institutional Economics approach as an analytical framework, it identifiesthe determinants of economic and political institutional quality by taking intoaccount a broad variety of indicators such as parliamentary forms ofgovernment, the aggregate governance level, civil and economic liberties,property rights etc. The book subsequently estimates the impact of theseinstitutional determinants on real economic growth, both directly and alsoindirectly, through the channel of macroeconomic instability, in recipientcountries. Moreover, it illustrates the effectiveness of IMF programmes in thecase of Pakistan, a frequent user of IMF resources. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In honour of Prof. Kalevi Holsti's 80th birthday, this book includes key texts by the renowned Canadian International Relations scholar on war, the state, peace, and the international order. The first part includes texts on the Study of War, Use of Force in International Politics: Four Revolutions, and The Decline of Interstate War, while the second part analyses International Sports Competition and the Creation and Sustenance of Statehood, as well as Internationalism and Nationalism within the Multi-Community State. The third part addresses The Peacemakers: Issues and International Order, Governance Without Government: Polyarchy in 19th-Century European International Politics, and The Post-Cold War 'Settlement' in Comparative Perspective. Prof. Holsti is a former president of the International Studies Association and the author of a major textbook that was translated into Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesian. Thousands of undergraduates around the world are acquainted with his work. 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The relatively frequent occurrence of rapid onset and very brief, but often florid, psychotic states, with periodic recurrence, alongside relatively low rates of PTSD and chronic psychosis, were unexpected findings from the 2004 East Timor Mental Health Study, conducted in the context of the country's recently won independence and in the wake of the atrocities endured in the protracted fight for sovereignty. Further unanticipated was the frequent association of recurrence with the time of the new moon (fulan lotuk) and other times or places of sacred (lulik) or associated cultural significance. The perceived violation of culturally sacrosanct lulik obligations often also appeared to foreshadow the initial onset of such patterns of distress. Significant episodes of trauma and loss appeared a hidden feature of affected individuals histories, which we argue have become symbolically entwined with local cultural understandings of ritual obligation, sacredness, and taboo.This volume develops a dynamic but contextualized multi-level formulation of psychosis and psychotic-symptoms, able to incorporate a range of factors from the biological, through the sociocultural, to the political. The work is truly interdisciplinary drawing on both the quantitative and qualitative findings of our own study but further supported through local ethnography and broader anthropological enquiry into the outcomes of psychosis in non-Western settings; psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic anthropology; evidence and theory exploring links between trauma, dissociation and psychosis; and novel culturally-adaptable psychosocial focused interventions for psychosis. We situate both evidence and theorising in wider epistemological and political context, including in relation to the movement for Global Mental Health. Culturally patterned presentations of brief remitting-relapsing psychosis are ultimately conceived as the trade-off between competing fragmentary and synthetic forces: the former in part secondary to the lasting and deleterious effects of overwhelming loss, trauma and adversity; the latter emboldened by cultural meaning and social response in the context of broad ecological pressures demanding survival and resilience. 212 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offersreaders essential orientation on cybersecurity safeguards, and first andforemost helps them find the right balance between financial expenditures andrisk mitigation. This is achieved by pursuing a multi-disciplinary approach thatcombines well-founded methods from economics and the computer sciences.Established decision making techniques are embedded into a walk-through for thecomplete lifecycle of cybersecurity investments. Insights into the economic aspectof the costs and benefits of cybersecurity are supplemented by established andinnovative economic indicators. Readers will find practical tools and techniquesto support reasonable decision making in cybersecurity investments. Further,they will be equipped to encourage a common understanding using economicaspects, and to provide cost transparency for the senior management. 292 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An intelligent agent interacting with the real world will encounter individual people, courses, test results, drugs prescriptions, chairs, boxes, etc., and needs to reason about properties of these individuals and relations among them as well as cope with uncertainty. Uncertainty has been studied in probability theory and graphical models, and relations have been studied in logic, in particular in the predicate calculus and its extensions. This book examines the foundations of combining logic and probability into what are called relational probabilistic models. It introduces representations, inference, and learning techniques for probability, logic, and their combinations. The book focuses on two representations in detail: Markov logic networks, a relational extension of undirected graphical models and weighted first-order predicate calculus formula, and Problog, a probabilistic extension of logic programs that can also be viewed as a Turing-complete relational extension of Bayesian networks. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Query reformulation refers to a process of translating a source query-a request for information in some high-level logic-based language-into a target plan that abides by certain interface restrictions. Many practical problems in data management can be seen as instances of the reformulation problem. For example, the problem of translating an SQL query written over a set of base tables into another query written over a set of views; the problem of implementing a query via translating to a program calling a set of database APIs; the problem of implementing a query using a collection of web services. In this book we approach query reformulation in a very general setting that encompasses all the problems above, by relating it to a line of research within mathematical logic. For many decades logicians have looked at the problem of converting 'implicit definitions' into 'explicit definitions,' using an approach known as interpolation. We will review the theory of interpolation, and explain its close connection with query reformulation. We will give a detailed look at how the interpolation-based approach is used to generate translations between logic-based queries over different vocabularies, and also how it can be used to go from logic-based queries to programs. 185 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes revised selected papers from the14th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2015,held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2015.The 35 papers presented in this volume were carefullyreviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The contributions are organized intopical sections named: digital forensics; steganography and steganalysis;digital watermarking; reversible data hiding; and visual cryptography. 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference onCritical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2014, held in Limassol,Cyprus, in October 2014. The 20 fulland 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed andselected from 74 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named:cyber-physical systems and sensor networks; security of water systems; powerand energy system security; security and recovery policies, cyber security; andsecurity tools and protocols. 404 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thisbook constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th JointInternational Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2015, held in Yichang,China, in November 2015.The theme of the JIST 2015 conference was 'Big Data andSocial Media'. The JIST 2015 conference consisted of main technical tracksincluding 2 keynotes, 2 invited talks, a regular technical paper track (fulland short papers), an in-use track, a poster and demo session, workshop, andtutorial.The 14 full and 8 short papers in this volume were carefullyreviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The paper cover the followingtopics: ontology and reasoning, linked data, learning and discovery, RDF andquery, knowledge graph, knowledge integration, query and recommendation, andapplications of semantic technologies. 348 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2015, held in Bochum, Germany, in November 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The focus of the conference was on all aspects of the design, development, deployment, validation, and application of smart cards and secure elements in secure platforms or systems. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on ArtificialEvolution, EA 2015, held in Lyon, France, in October 2015.The 18 revised papers were carefully reviewed andselected from 31 submissions. The focus of the conference is on followingtopics: Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Optimization, Co-evolution,Artificial Life, Population Dynamics, Theory, Algorithmics and Modeling,Implementations, Application of Evolutionary Paradigms to the Real World,Dynamic Optimization, Machine Learning and hybridization with other softcomputing techniques. 264 pp. Englisch.