Springer jul 1993 (232 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Quality is the major topic in international industry today and its importance should increase in the 1990s. This book presents a step-by-step approach for implementing a quality improvement process in any type of organization. Making Quality Happen utilizes quality as the strategic weapon that should help an organization achieve its overall objective by improving the organization's customer impact, reducing its cost structure, increasing its competative market share and maximizing its employee productivity. The quality improvement process detailed by NcNealy should make quality and integral part of any organization, and not an added or extraneous feature.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Model Checking. 3. Symbolic Model Checking. 4. The SMV System. 5. A Distributed Cache Protocol. 6. Mu-Calculus Model Checking. 7. Induction and Model Checking. 8. Equivalence Computations. 9. A Partial Order Apporach. 10. Conclusion. References. Index. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - ''A valuable resource for those concerned with experimental teratology and risk assessment and those requiring general information about the causes of birth defects. The treatment of these issues is sophisticated, succinct, and logical.'' --- American Scientist , from a review of a previous volume The current volume covers intergenerational factors in pregnancy outcome, the thresholds for developmental toxicants, and four other subjects. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 1 Introduction.- 1.1 The compass of taxonomy and systematics.- 1.2 The 1960s and the emergence of new ideas.- 1.3 Cladistics and numerical taxonomy: the conflict.- 1.4 Assumptions and philosophy of cladistics and the use of parsimony criteria.- 1.5 Taxonomy and the comparative method in biology.- 2 Characters, Taxa and Species.- 2.1 Nature and handling of data.- 2.2 Characters.- 2.2.1 Discrete coding of continuous characters and ratios.- 2.2.2 Identifying primitive and advanced character states.- 2.2.3 Homoplasy: convergence, parallelisms and reversals.- 2.2.4 Homology versus analogy.- 2.2.5 Character state transitions.- 2.2.6 Dealing with missing data and polymorphic characters.- 2.3 Classes of characters requiring special consideration.- 2.3.1 Characters subject to strong selection pressures.- 2.3.2 Environmental effects.- 2.3.3 Molecular sequence characters.- 2.3.4 Electron microscopy and the use of microcharacters.- 2.3.5 Colour as a taxonomic character.- 2.3.6 Cryptic and internal characters.- 2.3.7 Animal artefacts.- 2.3.8 Behavioural characters.- 2.4 Taxa and species concepts.- 2.4.1 Phylogenetic groups: monophyly, polyphyly and paraphyly.- 2.5 What is a species .- 2.5.1 Biological species concept.- 2.5.2 Phvlogenetic species concept.- 2.5.3 Evolutionary species concept.- 2.5.4 Problems with parthenogenetic species and asexual clones - some further considerations.- 3 Phylogenetic Reconstruction - Cladistics and Related Methods.- 3.1 Cladistics and cladograms.- 3.1.1 Parsimony.- 3.1.2 Compatibility analysis.- 3.1.3 Maximum likelihood and related methods.- 3.2 Parsimony and finding the shortest trees.- 3.2.1 Finding the shortest trees and the impact of computerization.- 3.2.2 Tree facts and figures.- 3.2.3 Building trees from distance data.- 3.2.4 Rooting trees.- 3.2.5 Consistency and other indices.- 3.2.6 Weighting characters.- 3.2.7 Coping with multiple trees.- 3.2.8 Consensus trees.- 3.2.9 Comparing trees.- 3.3 Which method - an overview.- 3.3.1 How well does parsimony analysis estimate trees .- 3.3.2 Compatibility versus parsimony.- 3.3.3 Congruence between data sets (or how do we know when to believe a phylogeny ).- 3.3.4 Reticulate evolution, hybrids and intraspecific evolution.- 3.4 Cladistics and classification.- 4 Phenetic Methods in Taxonomy.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.1.1 Similarity and distance measures.- 4.1.2 Measures using binary characters.- 4.1.3 Distance and similarity measures using continuous data.- 4.2 Analysing similarity and distance data.- 4.3 Hierarchic clustering procedures.- 4.3.1 Nearest neighbour clustering.- 4.3.2 Furthest neighbour (complete linkage).- 4.3.3 Unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages (UPGMA).- 4.3.4 Weighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages (WPGMA).- 4.3.5 Centroid clustering.- 4.4 Ordination methods.- 4.4.1 Principal components analysis.- 4.4.2 Principal coordinate analysis.- 4.4.3 Canonical variate analysis.- 4.4.4 Non-metric multidimensional scaling.- 5 Keys and Identification.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.1.1 Purpose of keys.- 5.1.2 Good practice in writing keys.- 5.2 Types of keys.- 5.2.1 Dichotomous keys.- 5.2.2 Multiple-entry keys.- 5.3 Efficiency.- 5.3.1 Length of dichotomous keys.- 5.3.2 Reliability.- 5.3.3 Choice of characters.- 5.3.4 Likelihood of encountering taxon.- 5.4 Computerized key construction.- 5.4.1 Interactive identification.- 5.4.2 Matching.- 5.4.3 Automated taxon descriptions.- 5.4.4 Databases.- 6 Nomenclature and Classification.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The binomial system and the hierarchy of taxa.- 6.3 The International Commissions.- 6.3.1 Codes of nomenclature.- 6.3.2 Independence of the Codes.- 6.4 Basic principles of nomenclature.- 6.4.1 Priority.- 6.4.2 Synonymy.- 6.4.3 Homonymy.- 6.4.4 The type concept.- 6.5 Miscellaneous group-related factors.- 6.5.1 Animals and animal-like Protista.- 6.5.2 Plants and plant-like Protista.- 6.5.3 Fungi.- 6.5.4 Lichens.- 6.5.5 'Blue-green algae' (Cyanophyta versus Cyanobacteria).- 6.5.6 Bact.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Methodology Called 'MINK' for Study of Climate Change Impacts and Responses on the Regional Scale. An Introductory Editorial.- Paper 1. The Mink Methodology: Background and Baseline.- Paper 2. Agricultural Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change in the Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas (MINK) Region.- Paper 3. Impacts and Responses to Climate Change in Forests of the MINK Region.- Paper 4. Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Possible Responses in the MINK Region.- Paper 5. Climate Change Impacts on the Energy Sector and Possible Adjustments in the MINK Region.- Paper 6. Consequences of Climate Change for the MINK Economy: Impacts and Responses.- An Overview of the MINK Study.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM, also known as NSOM) is a new local probe technique with a resolving power of 10--50 nm. Not being limited by diffraction, near-field optics (NFO) opens new perspectives for optical characterization and the understanding of optical phenomena, in particular in biology, microelectronics and materials science. SNOM, after first demonstrations in '83/'84, has undergone a rapid development in the past two to four years. The increased interest has been largely stimulated by the wealth of optical properties that can be investigated and the growing importance of characterization on the nanometer scale in general. Examples include the use of fluorescence, birefrigence and plasmon effects for applications in particular in biology, microelectronics and materials science, to name just a few. This volume emerged from the first international meeting devoted exclusively to NFO, and comprises a complete survey of the 1992 activities in the field, in particular the variety of instrumental techniques that are currently being explored, the demonstration of the imaging capabilities as well as theoretical interpretations - a highly nontrivial task. The comprehensive collection of papers devoted to these and related subjects make the book a valuable tool for anybody interested in near-field optics.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments whereby the best objectives (questions) and optimal means for achieving these objectives (heuristics) are chosen. This book includes a discussion and some proposals regarding the way the logic of questions can be applied to understanding scientific research and draws upon work in artificial intelligence in a discussion of heuristics and methods for appraising heuristics (metaheuristics). It also includes a discussion of a third source for scientific objectives and heuristics; episodes and examplars from the history of science and the history of philosophy. This book is written to be accessible to advanced students in philosophy and to the scientific community. It is of interest to philosophers of science, philosophers of biology, historians of physics, and historians of biology.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Royal Society has initiated a series of meetings to discuss the effect advances in technology will have on our way of life in the next century. The two previous meetings have been concerned with housing and waste treat ment. The subject of the third meeting, communications, is no less critical to life, but it offers particular problems and uncertainties, especially in the forecasting of future trends. Indeed, some have doubted if there can be profitable debate on long-term development in such a fast-moving field. The importance of the topic justifies an attempt, and the reader will judge whether the authors have met the challenge. Communications today bears little resemblance to that of the 1970s. Then we knew about satellites and optical fibres, and we had seen lasers and silicon chips, but most of us could never imagine the potential of the new technologies within our grasp. We had also not assessed the thirst of the popUlation for more and better ways of talking and writing to each other. It was the combination of market need and technical capability that created the com munications revolution. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Twelfth International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Sciences and Engineering (MaxEnt 92) was held in Paris, France, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), July 19-24, 1992. It is important to note that, since its creation in 1980 by some of the researchers of the physics department at the Wyoming University in Laramie, this was the second time that it took place in Europe, the first time was in 1988 in Cambridge. The two specificities of MaxEnt workshops are their spontaneous and informal charac ters which give the participants the possibility to discuss easily and to make very fruitful scientific and friendship relations among each others. This year's organizers had fixed two main objectives: i) to have more participants from the European countries, and ii) to give special interest to maximum entropy and Bayesian methods in signal and image processing. We are happy to see that we achieved these objectives: i) we had about 100 participants with more than 50 per cent from the European coun tries, ii) we received many papers in the signal and image processing subjects and we could dedicate a full day of the workshop to the image modelling, restoration and recon struction problems.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The final aim of the book is to construct effective discretization methods to solve multidimensional weakly singular integral equations of the second kind on a region of Rn e.g. equations arising in the radiation transfer theory. To this end, the smoothness of the solution is examined proposing sharp estimates of the growth of the derivatives of the solution near the boundary G. The superconvergence effect of collocation methods at the collocation points is established. This is a book for graduate students and researchers in the fields of analysis, integral equations, mathematical physics and numerical methods. No special knowledge beyond standard undergraduate courses is assumed. 180 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book incorporates research papers and surveys written byparticipants ofan International Scientific Programme onApproximation Theory jointly supervised by Institute forConstructive Mathematics of University of South Florida atTampa, USA and the Euler International MathematicalInstituteat St. Petersburg, Russia. The aim of theProgramme was to present new developments in ConstructiveApproximation Theory. The topics of the papers are:asymptotic behaviour of orthogonal polynomials, rationalapproximation of classical functions, quadrature formulas,theory of n-widths, nonlinear approximation in Hardyalgebras,numerical results on best polynomialapproximations, wavelet analysis.FROM THE CONTENTS: E.A. Rakhmanov: Strong asymptotics fororthogonal polynomials associated with exponential weightson R.- A.L. Levin, E.B. Saff: Exact Convergence Rates forBest Lp Rational Approximation to the Signum Function andfor Optimal Quadrature in Hp.- H. Stahl: Uniform RationalApproximation of x .- M. Rahman, S.K. Suslov: ClassicalBiorthogonal Rational Functions.- V.P. Havin, A. PresaSague: Approximation properties of harmonic vector fieldsand differential forms.- O.G. Parfenov: Extremal problemsfor Blaschke products and N-widths.- A.J. Carpenter, R.S.Varga: Some Numerical Results on Best Uniform PolynomialApproximation of x on 0,1 .- J.S. Geronimo: PolynomialsOrthogonal on the Unit Circle with Random RecurrenceCoefficients.- S. Khrushchev: Parameters of orthogonalpolynomials.- V.N. Temlyakov: The universality of theFibonacci cubature formulas. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study of hypersurface quadrilateral singularities can bereduced to the study of elliptic K3 surfaces with a singularfiber of type I \* 0 (superscript \*, subscript 0), andtherefore these notes consider, besides the topics of thetitle, such K3 surfaces too.The combinations of rational double points that can occur onfibers in the semi-universal deformations of quadrilateralsingularities are examined, to show that the possiblecombinations can be described by a certain law from theviewpoint of Dynkin graphs. This is equivalent to sayingthat the possible combinations of singular fibers inelliptic K3 surfaces with a singular fiber of type I \* 0(superscript \*, subscript 0) can be described by a certainlaw using classical Dynkin graphs appearing in the theoryof semi-simple Lie groups. Further, a similar descriptionfor thecombination of singularities on plane sextic curvesis given. Standard knowledge of algebraic geometry at thelevel of graduate students is expected. A new method basedon graphs will attract attention of researches. 248 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The subject of this book is a new direction in the field ofprobability theory and mathematical statistics which can becalled 'stability theory': it deals with evaluating theeffects of perturbing initial probabilistic models andembraces quite varied subtopics: limit theorems, queueingmodels, statistical inference, probability metrics, etc. Thecontributions are original research articles developing newideas and methods of stability analysis. 244 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In many fields of science and practice large amounts of dataand informationare collected for analyzing and visualizinglatent structures as orderings or classifications forexample. This volume presents refereed and revised versionsof 52 papers selected from the contributions of the 16thAnnualConference of the 'German Classification Society'.The papers are organized in three major sections on DataAnalysis and Classification (1), InformationRetrieval,Knowledge Processing and Software (2), Applications andSpecial Topics (3). Moreover, the papers were grouped andordered within the major sections. So, in the first sectionwe find papers on Classification Methods, FuzzyClassification, Multidimensional Scaling, DiscriminantAnalysis and Conceptual Analysis. The second sectioncontains papers on Neural Networks and ComputationalLinguisticsin addition to the mentioned fields. Anessential part of the third section attends to Sequence Dataand Tree Reconstruction as well as Data Analysis andInformatics in Medicine. As special topics the volumepresents applications in Thesauri, Archaeology, MusicalScience and Psychometrics. 532 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This monograph gives a logical treatment of two centralaspects of the concept of information, namely informationprocessing and information structure. The structure ofinformation is treated as a topic in model theory, whileinformation processing is seen as an aspect of proof theory.A wide spectrum of substructural subsystems ofintuitionistic propositional logic and of Nelson'sconstructive logic with strong negation is investigated. Inparticular, the problems of cut-elimination, functionalcompleteness, and coding of proofs with lambda-terms arehandled. Finally, an interpretation of these systems interms of states of information and operations over thesestates is presented. 180 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The first Sino-Japanese symposium on Coagulation, Fibrinolysis and Platelets, originating from the Hamamatsu symposium, held in early 1990, was held in Hanchow, Mainland China in October, 1990. During that meeting, Taipei was selected as the next meeting place. We took great pleasure in carrying out this noble endeavor and were honored to have Professor Stenflo, Professor Hedner from Sweden, Professor Aoki and many other distinguished scientists from Japan joining us on this Second Sino-Japanese symposium. Our only regret was that our friends from Mainland China did not attend. The topics covered during the 3-day symposium included areas of both basic and clinical research. The symposium has been an excellent opportunity for all the participants to exchange ideas and improve their expertise, and at the same time, to expand frontiers in the field of coagulation, fibrinolysis and platelets. The symposium was very successful both in terms of contributing greatly to raise the level of research and development in the field of thrombosis and hemostasis and in helping to promote international scientific cooperation and friendship. We would like to express our appreciation to the members of our organizing and scientific committee for their devotion to this project. We also wish to thank our National Science Council and Department of Health, and the Asia and Pacific Council for Science and Technology, as well as the many other sponsors for their financial support. Without them, this instructive and invaluable symposium and this proceedings would not have been possible. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A number of factors converged to prompt this volume at this particular time. For several years, supervisors in predoctoral and internship programs have noted the need for a compendium of selected articles to illustrate the range of research and practice of pediatric psychology. Although the field is still relatively young, the many new pediatric psychologists in recent years might benefit from a perspective on the history and development of the psychological concepts, the organizational home in the Society of Pediatric Psychology (Section V of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the Ameri can Psychological Association), and its publication archive, Journalof Pe diatric Psychology. Such 'classics' help capture the richness and excitement that portrays the field. Noting the continuing need for resources to serve the specialty, the Ex ecutive Committee of the Society of Pediatric Psychologyauthorized the spon sorship of publication of the HandbookofPediatric Psychology (Routh, 1988) as a synthesis of the field by expert chapter authors. The Society then ap pointed a committee led by C. Eugene Walker and Annette M. La Greca to develop a series of biennial volumes entitled Advancesin Pediatric Psychology. A number of discussions among the editorial board of the Journal and with Plenum Publishing Corporation, the Journal's publisher, recognized the value of articles carefully selected to exemplify how pediatric psychology is done. 404 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990.' 268 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since 1975 the Commission has been stimulating R & D work aimed at energy saving. The conference objective was to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of recent R & D relevant to energy efficiency, taking into account environmental aspects, in the energy intensive process industries. 1340 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Schrödinger Equations and Diffusion Theory addresses the question 'What is the Schrödinger equation ' in terms of diffusion processes, and shows that the Schrödinger equation and diffusion equations in duality are equivalent. In turn, Schrödinger's conjecture of 1931 is solved. The theory of diffusion processes for the Schrödinger equation tell us that we must go further into the theory of systems of (infinitely) many interacting quantum (diffusion) particles.The method of relative entropy and the theory of transformations enable us to construct severely singular diffusion processes which appear to be equivalent to Schrödinger equations.The theory of large deviations and the propagation of chaos of interacting diffusion particles reveal the statistical mechanical nature of the Schrödinger equation, namely, quantum mechanics.The text is practically self-contained and requires only an elementary knowledge of probability theory at the graduate level. 323 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Technological advances are revolutionizing computers andnetworks to supportdigital video and audio, leading to newdesign spaces in computer systems and applications. Underthe surface of exciting multimedia technologies liesa mineof research problems. This volume presents the proceedingsof an international workshop which brought together theleading researchers in allaspects of multimedia computing,communication, storage, and applications.The field of multimedia has witnessed an explosive growth inthe last few years and the selection of papers for thisworkshop was extremely competitive. The volume contains 26full papers and 14 short papers selected from 128contributions, organized into parts on: network andoperating system support for multimedia; multimediaon-demand services; media synchronization; distributedmultimedia systems; network andoperating system support formultimedia; multimedia models, frameworks, and documentarchitectures; and multimedia workstations and platforms. 432 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains work on the decision problem done inKazan (Russia), Tallinn (Estonia), and Vienna (Austria). Theauthors met several times to discuss and exchange theirresults and finally decided to write this monographtogether. Besides a unified treatment of previouslypublished results there are many new results first presentedin this volume.The monograph opens with an introduction and a chapter onterminology, followed by chapters on:- Semantic clash resolution as decision procedure,- Completeness of ordering refinements,- Semantic tree based resolution variants,- Deciding the class K by an ordering refinement,- A resolution based method for building finite models.A final chapter on applications completes the volume. 220 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents a collection of coordinated scientificpapers describing the work conducted and the resultsachieved within the LOGIDATA+ project, a research actionfunded by the Italian national research council CNR.Theaim of the LOGIDATA+ project is the definition ofadvanced database systems which significantly extend thefunctionalities of the current systems, with specificreference to the application areas for which relationalsystemsare not considered satisfactory. These new systemswill allow the definitionof data with complex structures,the representation of semantic relationships betweenobjects, and the use of powerful query and update languages.They will be based on a combination of techniquesoriginatingfrom relational databases and logic programming,with contributions from object-oriented programming.The goal of the LOGIDATA+ project is the design, definition,and prototype implementation of a database management systemwith complex structures and a class hierarchy, to beaccessed through a rule-based language. This book presentsan integrated view of the project at the end of the firstphase. The second phase will be mainly concerned with theimplementation of prototypes. 292 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is now more than twenty-five years since object-oriented programming was 'inve- ed' (actually, more than thirty years since work on Simula started), but, by all accounts, it would appear as if object-oriented technology has only been 'discovered' in the past ten years! When the first European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming was held in Paris in 1987, I think it was generally assumed that Object-Oriented Progr- ming, like Structured Programming, would quickly enter the vernacular, and that a c- ference on the subject would rapidly become superfluous. On the contrary, the range and impact of object-oriented approaches and methods continues to expand, and, - spite the inevitable oversell and hype, object-oriented technology has reached a level of scientific maturity that few could have foreseen ten years ago. Object-oriented technology also cuts across scientific cultural boundaries like p- haps no other field of computer science, as object-oriented concepts can be applied to virtually all the other areas and affect virtually all aspects of the software life cycle. (So, in retrospect, emphasizing just Programming in the name of the conference was perhaps somewhat short-sighted, but at least the acronym is pronounceable and easy to rem- ber!) This year's ECOOP attracted 146 submissions from around the world - making the selection process even tougher than usual. The selected papers range in topic from programming language and database issues to analysis and design and reuse, and from experience reports to theoretical contributions. 552 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a comprehensive exposition of M-idealtheory, a branch ofgeometric functional analysis whichdeals with certain subspaces of Banach spaces arisingnaturally in many contexts. Starting from the basicdefinitions the authors discuss a number of examples ofM-ideals (e.g. the closed two-sided ideals of C\*-algebras)and develop their general theory. Besides, applications toproblems from a variety of areas including approximationtheory, harmonic analysis, C\*-algebra theory and Banachspace geometry are presented.The book is mainly intended as a reference volume forresearchers working in one of these fields, but it alsoaddresses students at the graduate or postgraduate level.Each of its six chapters is accompanied by aNotes-and-Remarks section which explores furtherramifications of the subject and gives detailed referencesto the literature. An extensive bibliography is included. 404 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The final aim of the book is to construct effective discretization methods to solve multidimensional weakly singular integral equations of the second kind on a region of Rn e.g. equations arising in the radiation transfer theory. To this end, the smoothness of the solution is examined proposing sharp estimates of the growth of the derivatives of the solution near the boundary G. The superconvergence effect of collocation methods at the collocation points is established. This is a book for graduate students and researchers in the fields of analysis, integral equations, mathematical physics and numerical methods. No special knowledge beyond standard undergraduate courses is assumed.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 180 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cet ouvrage présente un cours de Statistique Asymptotique (avec compléments de cours et exercices). Il a été enseigné au DEA de Paris 7 de Statistique et Modèles Mathématiques en Economie et en Finance. Le but est de présenter avec un maximum d'exemples (variables indépendantes, dépendantes, diffusions, processus, .) les divers points de vue utilisés en Statistique Asymptotique, leurs cohérences et leurs différences. Ainsi se côtoient les théories d'Hajek, Le Cam, Bahadur, Ibragimov, Has'minskii, Efron, Amari, . Le but de ce livre est de donner une vue assez large en Statistique Asymptotique et de faciliter l'accèsà des ouvrages plus difficiles développant chacun l'une de ces différentes théories de façon plus approfondie. Le dernier chapitre du livre met en application sur un exemple particulier (celui des ruptures de modèles) les théories présentées au cours des chapitres précédents et met en évidence la différence des résultats qu'elles apportent. 144 pp. Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book incorporates research papers and surveys written byparticipants ofan International Scientific Programme onApproximation Theory jointly supervised by Institute forConstructive Mathematics of University of South Florida atTampa, USA and the Euler International MathematicalInstituteat St. Petersburg, Russia. The aim of theProgramme was to present new developments in ConstructiveApproximation Theory. The topics of the papers are:asymptotic behaviour of orthogonal polynomials, rationalapproximation of classical functions, quadrature formulastheory of n-widths, nonlinear approximation in Hardyalgebras,numerical results on best polynomialapproximations, wavelet analysis.FROM THE CONTENTS: E.A. Rakhmanov: Strong asymptotics fororthogonal polynomials associated with exponential weightson R.- A.L. Levin, E.B. Saff: Exact Convergence Rates forBest Lp Rational Approximation to the Signum Function andfor Optimal Quadrature in Hp.- H. Stahl: Uniform RationalApproximation of x .- M. Rahman, S.K. Suslov: ClassicalBiorthogonal Rational Functions.- V.P. Havin, A. PresaSague: Approximation properties of harmonic vector fieldsand differential forms.- O.G. Parfenov: Extremal problemsfor Blaschke products and N-widths.- A.J. Carpenter, R.S.Varga: Some Numerical Results on Best Uniform PolynomialApproximation of x on 0,1 .- J.S. Geronimo: PolynomialsOrthogonal on the Unit Circle with Random RecurrenceCoefficients.- S. Khrushchev: Parameters of orthogonalpolynomials.- V.N. Temlyakov: The universality of theFibonacci cubature formulas.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Complex dynamics is today very much a focus of interest. Though several fine expository articles were available, by P. Blanchard and by M. Yu. Lyubich in particular, until recently there was no single source where students could find the material with proofs. For anyone in our position, gathering and organizing the material required a great deal of work going through preprints and papers and in some cases even finding a proof. We hope that the results of our efforts will be of help to others who plan to learn about complex dynamics and perhaps even lecture. Meanwhile books in the field a. re beginning to appear. The Stony Brook course notes of J. Milnor were particularly welcome and useful. Still we hope that our special emphasis on the analytic side will satisfy a need. This book is a revised and expanded version of notes based on lectures of the first author at UCLA over several Vinter Quarters, particularly 1986 and 1990. We owe Chris Bishop a great deal of gratitude for supervising the production of course notes, adding new material, and making computer pictures. We have used his computer pictures, and we will also refer to the attractive color graphics in the popular treatment of H. -O. Peitgen and P. Richter. We have benefited from discussions with a number of colleagues, and from suggestions of students in both our courses. 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The subject of this book is a new direction in the field ofprobability theory and mathematical statistics which can be called 'stability theory': it deals with evaluating the effects of perturbing initial probabilistic models and embraces quite varied subtopics: limit theorems, queueing models, statistical inference, probability metrics, etc. The contributions are original research articles developing new ideas and methods of stability analysis.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 244 pp. Englisch.…