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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -20 anni fa ¿ anzi qualcuno in più ¿ iniziava le sue pubblicazioni ¿Lettera Matematica PRISTEM¿, espressione di un gruppo di ricerca della ¿Bocconi¿ cui aderiscono anche docenti e studiosi di altre Università. La ¿Letterä ha rappresentato un tentativo coraggioso di svecchiare la comunicazione matematica, di renderla meno accademica e più giornalistica con l¿uso delle immagini, del colore e di un linguaggio diretto. Un tentativo di inserire la Matematica nei più ampi processi che riguardano la scuola e la società.In questo libro, i tre direttori della rivista sfogliano le sue annate per ricordare storie e personaggi (matematici e non) attorno a cui la ¿Letterä è cresciuta e che di fatto hanno contribuito alla formazione della sua linea editoriale.Le testimonianze, i ricordi e i commenti sono seguiti anno per anno da un articolo comparso quell¿anno sulla ¿Letterä. Ne esce una descrizione del mondo matematico, visto dall¿interno, molto più vivace di quanto solitamente si pensa che sia. Altro che semplice calcolo! La Matematica va avanti e la ¿Letterä racconta in quali direzioni. Talora procede con appassionate discussioni e qualche polemica che accompagna la ricerca o l¿insegnamento o la gestione delle istituzioni scientifiche: anche di queste, in 20 anni, la ¿Letterä ha cercato di dare puntualmente conto. 332 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned ¿why anyone would want such a thing¿ when the idea was first introduced.Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, Network Geeks charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from the viewpoint of a self-proclaimed geek who witnessed these developments first-hand. With boundless enthusiasm and abundant humour, Brian Carpenter leads the reader on a journey from post-war Britain to post-millennium New Zealand, describing how the Internet grew into today¿s ubiquitous, global network, including the genesis of the World-Wide Web in the hotbeds of a particle collider at CERN. Illuminating the science and technology behind the apparent ¿magic trick¿ of the Internet, Network Geeks opens a window into the initially bewildering world of the Internet engineering geek. After reading this book, you may wish to join this world yourself.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Engineering Design Challenge addresses teaching engineering design and presents design projects for first-year students and interdisciplinary design ventures. A short philosophy and background of engineering design is discussed. The organization of the University of Wyoming first-year Introduction to Engineering program is presented with an emphasis on the first-year design challenges. These challenges are presented in a format readily incorporated in other first-year programs. The interdisciplinary design courses address the institutional constraints and present organizational approaches that resolve these issues. Student results are summarized and briefly assessed. A series of short intellectual problems are included to initiate discussion and understanding of design issues. Sample syllabi, research paper requirements, and oral presentation evaluation sheets are included.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This handbook accelerates the development of analytical writing skills for high school students, students in higher education, and working professionals in a broad range of careers. This handbook builds on the idea that writing clarifies thought, and that through analytical writing comes improved insight and understanding for making decisions about innovation necessary for socioeconomic development. This short handbook is a simple, comprehensive guide that shows differences between descriptive writing and analytical writing, and how students and teachers work together during the process of discovery-based learning. This handbook provides nuts and bolts ideas for team projects, organizing writing, the process of writing, constructing tables, presenting figures, documenting reference lists, avoiding the barriers to clear writing, and outlines the importance of ethical issues and bias for writers. Finally, there are ideas for evaluating writing, and examples of classroom exercises for students and teachers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 140 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose ¿ relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions ¿ that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Relationale Typenbildung und Mehrebenenvergleich dienen der empirischen Rekonstruktion gesellschaftlicher Heterogenität. Mit diesen Verfahren stellt der Autor neue Wege der dokumentarischen Methode vor: Die relationale Typenbildung erfasst Zusammenhänge zwischen Handlungsorientierungen, die in unterschiedlichen Erfahrungsbereichen liegen. Ausgehend von einer durchgängig komparativen Analyse werden hier Relationen von fallübergreifenden Orientierungen typisiert. Der Mehrebenenvergleich geht hingegen dem Verhältnis differenter Sozialebenen (z.B. Biographie, Organisation, Funktionssystem) nach. Für zentrale Probleme dieser komplexen Vorgehensweise bietet der Band, der methodologische Überlegungen mit forschungspraktischen Beispielen verknüpft, Lösungswege an.Springer VS in Springer Science + Business Media, Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 46, 65189 Wiesbaden 140 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿Weird Worlds¿ is the third book in David Seargent¿s ¿Weird¿ series. This book assumes a basic level of astronomical understanding and concentrates on the ¿odd and interesting¿ aspects of planetary bodies, including asteroids and moons. From our viewpoint here on Earth, this work features the most unusual features of these worlds and the ways in which they appear ¿weird¿ to us. Within our own Solar System, odd facts such as the apparent reversal of the Sun in the skies of Mercury, CO2-driven fountains of dust on Mars, possible liquid water (and perhaps primitive life!) deep within the dwarf planet Ceres, and a variety of odd facts about the planetary moons are all discussed. A special chapter is devoted to Saturn¿s giant moon Titan, and its methane-based weather system and ¿hydrological¿ cycle. This chapter also includes recent speculation on the possibility of methane-based organisms and the form that these might take, if they really do exist. Beyond our Solar System, the book looks at the range of worlds discovered and hypothesized.In ¿Weird Worlds,¿ the author discusses planets where temperatures are so high that it rains molten iron, and others so cold that liquid methane floods across plains of ice! Worlds are described where the lightest element acts like a metal and where winds blow at thousands of miles per hour ¿ as well as possible planets whose orbits are essentially parabolic.In keeping with previous titles in David Seargent¿s ¿Weird¿ series, ¿Weird Worlds¿ contains several projects that astronomers of all levels can undertake.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses kompakte Lehrbuch ist der zweite von zwei einführenden Bänden in die Analysis. Es zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass es alle klassischen Themen der AnalysisII genau im Umfang einer vierstündigen Vorlesung präsentiert und gleichzeitig auf typische Schwierigkeiten im ersten Studienjahr eingeht. Insbesondere bietet es vorlesungserprobte plakative Erläuterungen von anfangs ungewohnten abstrakten Begriffen und allgemein nützliche Tipps für die Vorbereitung auf schriftliche oder mündliche Prüfungen. Beginnend mit der Topologie metrischer Räume über die Differentialrechnung von Funktionen mehrerer reeller Variabler bis zu gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen und Fourierreihen, enthält das Buch alle wesentlichen und prüfungsrelevanten Inhalte. Dem besseren Verständnis dienen illustrierende Beispiele, Gegenbeispiele und Übungsaufgaben sowie zahlreiche Hinweise auf Zusammenhänge mit bereits bekannten Resultaten aus der Analysis I.Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die eine Vorlesung in AnalysisII besuchen, also Studierende der Mathematik, der Physik und der Informatik. Es eignet sich aber auch direkt als Vorlesungsmanuskript für Dozierende.¿Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 160 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Systemanalyse kompakt zeigt Ihnen die Schwerpunkte derAnforderungsanalyse im Rahmen der Software- und Systemanalyse auf. Die Anforderungsanalyse bildet das Fundament eines jeden Systementwicklungsprojektes undentscheidet daher maßgeblich über Erfolg oder Misserfolg Ihres Projektes. Gerade in der Analysephase eröffnet sich Ihnen das Potenzial zur effizienten und zielorientierten Beeinflussung der Systementwicklung: Erstellen Sie eine vollständige und eindeutige Anforderungsdefinition, bei der Aufwand undErgebnis in optimalem Verhältnis zueinander stehen.Dabei hilft Ihnen Systemanalyse kompakt. Das Buch bringt die Haupttätigkeiten der Systemanalyse auf den Punkt. Dabei vermittelt es mit den vom International RequirementsEngineering Board festgelegten Begriffen, Definitionen und Zusammenhängen neben grundlegenden organisatorischen Rahmenbedingungen zahlreiche pragmatische Ansätze, wieSie das grundlegend notwendige Wissen umfassend ermitteln verständlich dokumentieren effektiv verwalten und angemessen prüfen.Lösungsvorschläge zu konkreten Problemen der Systementwicklung und praxiserprobte Tippsunterstützen Sie bei Ihrer täglichen Arbeit. So können Sie dafür sorgen, dass dieAnforderungen an ein System von allen Projektbeteiligten verstanden und verwirklicht werden können.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 176 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This monograph is concerned with the fitting of linear relationships in the context of the linear statistical model. As alternatives to the familiar least squared residuals procedure, it investigates the relationships between the least absolute residuals, the minimax absolute residual and the least median of squared residuals procedures. It is intended for graduate students and research workers in statistics with some command of matrix analysis and linear programming techniques.¿Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wie kommt es zur Entdeckung des Neuen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung Konsens herrscht darüber, dass dies allein mit einer gedanklichen Operation möglich ist, die Charles Sanders Peirce mit dem Namen ¿Abduktion¿ belegt hat. In dem Buch wird nicht nur herausgearbeitet, was Peirce selbst unter dem Begriff der Abduktion verstand, sondern auch, wie die Abduktion in der konkreten qualitativen Sozialforschung herbeigeführt und wie sie später im Forschungsprozess geprüft werden kann. In der hier vorliegenden zweiten Auflage wird die neueste Literatur zur Abduktion aufgearbeitet und die Bedeutung der Kommunikation für das Zustandekommen von Abduktionen sichtbar gemacht.'Insgesamt ist der Band nicht nur informativ, er ist über weite Strecken auch durchaus eine vergnügliche Lektüre, insbesondere dort, wo Reichertz die pointierte und bilderreiche Sprache von Peirce in größeren Ausschnitten wiedergibt.' Soziologische Revue, 03/2008Springer VS in Springer Science + Business Media, Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 46, 65189 Wiesbaden 160 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In allen pädagogischen Studiengängen ist das Verstehen und Reflektieren soziologischer Texte ein Bestandteil der Ausbildung. Die Komplexität der Theorien konfrontiert Studierende mit dem Problem, Soziologie in dieser Form nicht verstehen und die Kernaussagen nicht nachvollziehen zu können. Das Lehrbuch setzt genau an diesem Punkt an, indem die Schwierigkeiten im Umgang mit Soziologie selbst thematisiert werden. Im Anschluss an eine komprimierte Darstellung der jeweils wichtigsten Handlungstheorien wird in einem 'Beobachtungsteil' dokumentiert, welche Verständnismöglichkeiten und -probleme in einer tatsächlichen Seminarsituation aufgetaucht sind. Exemplarische Textstellen und Probleme in der Diskussion der Theorien werden auf diese Weise markiert und erläutert. Damit wird mehr Verstehen von Soziologie möglich.Springer VS in Springer Science + Business Media, Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 46, 65189 Wiesbaden 156 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Digital measurement of the analog acoustical parameters of a music performance hall is difficult. The aim of such work is to create a digital acoustical derivation that is an accurate numerical representation of the complex analog characteristics of the hall. The present study describes the exponential sine sweep (ESS) measurement process in the derivation of an acoustical impulse response function (AIRF) of three music performance halls in Canada. It examines specific difficulties of the process, such as preventing the external effects of the measurement transducers from corrupting the derivation, and provides solutions, such as the use of filtering techniques in order to remove such unwanted effects. In addition, the book presents a novel method of numerical verification through mean-squared error (MSE) analysis in order to determine how accurately the derived AIRF represents the acoustical behavior of the actual hall.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -How did life originate on Earth For over 50 years, scientists believed that life was the result of a chemical reaction involving simple molecules such as methane and ammonia cooking in a primordial soup. Recent space observations have revealed that old stars are capable of making very complex organic compounds. At some point in their evolution, stars eject those organics and spread them all over the Milky Way galaxy. There is evidence that these organic dust particles actually reached the early Solar System. Through bombardments by comets and asteroids, the young Earth inherited significant amounts of stardust. Was the development of life assisted by the arrival of these extraterrestrial materials In this book, the author describes stunning discoveries in astronomy and solar system science made over the last 10 years that have yielded a new perspective on the origin of life.Other interesting topics discussed in this bookThe discovery of diamonds and other gemstones in spaceThe origin of oilNeon signs and fluorescent lights in spaceSmoke from the starsStardust in our handsWhere oceans come fromThe possibility of bacteria in spaceSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿Manned Spaceflight Log¿ discusses over 40 recent spaceflights from September 2006 through September 2012, a time of great change in human spaceflight history. Following on from ¿Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006,¿ the authors continue the story until the end of September 2012, with new chapters detailing the development and accomplishments of human spaceflight, expanded tables and additional photographs, many in color, throughout. The book opens with a new foreword by Colonel Alfred M. Worden, USAF Retired, NASA Astronaut and CMP of Apollo 15, which reflects on the changing history of human spaceflight and the prospects for future operations.The first chapter explains how human spaceflight has approached the different challenges of exploring space and provided the hardware to meet those challenges. This chapter also describes the various attempts to reach orbital flight and the often confusing distinction between ballistic, sub-orbital, and so-called ¿astro-flights¿ of the X-15 rocket research aircraft program. Chapter 2 recalls key historic moments and missions across five decades of human spaceflight. Each decade has provided useful lessons for the next and a foundation for future achievement. The new mission entries are collected in the third section in chronological order. A review of the next steps in human spaceflight, including plans to occupy the International Space Station well into the 2020s and the growth of the Chinese manned space program including a large space station and planned base on the Moon, is discussed in Chapter 4. The tables provide a complete up-to-date overview of human spaceflight operations and experience from April 1961 to September 2012 and a selected chronology of important milestones from those years. Completing the book is a comprehensive bibliography that lists all the major Springer-Praxis human spaceflight titles and other important works that provide the reader with a resource to continuefurther research.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 432 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -For over three decades, this best-selling classic has been used by thousands of students in the United States and abroad as a must-have textbook for a transitional course from calculus to analysis. It has proven to be very useful for mathematics majors who have no previous experience with rigorous proofs. Its friendly style unlocks the mystery of writing proofs, while carefully examining the theoretical basis for calculus. Proofs are given in full, and the large number of well-chosen examples and exercises range from routine to challenging.The second edition preserves the book¿s clear and concise style, illuminating discussions, and simple, well-motivated proofs. New topics include material on the irrationality of pi, the Baire category theorem, Newton's method and the secant method, and continuous nowhere-differentiable functions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The engineering, deployment and security of the future smart grid will be an enormous project requiring the consensus of many stakeholders with different views on the security and privacy requirements, not to mention methods and solutions. The fragmentation of research agendas and proposed approaches or solutions for securing the future smart grid becomes apparent observing the results from different projects, standards, committees, etc, in different countries. The different approaches and views of the papers in this collection also witness this fragmentation.This book contains three full-paper length invited papers and 7 corrected and extended papers from the First International Workshop on Smart Grid Security, SmartGridSec 2012, which brought together researchers from different communities from academia and industry in the area of securing the Future Smart Grid and was held in Berlin, Germany, on December 3, 2012.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -InhaltsangabeMedical, health, biomedicine information resources.- Data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery.- Development of new architectures and applications for health information systems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2013, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in April 2013.The 16 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers address not only typical persuasive domains like health and environment, but also cover emerging research topics, such as data safety and evaluation of persuasive technologies.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles/Trains, Nets4Cars 2013 and Nets4Trains 2013, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in May 2013.The 12 full papers of the road track and 5 full papers of the rail track presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They address topics such as intra-vehicle, inter-vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications (protocols and standards), mobility and traffic models (models, methodologies, and techniques), testing, and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2012, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2012.The 16 revised full papers, 5 poster papers presented with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The focus of the papers is on following topics: compiling for parallelism, automatic parallelization, optimization of parallel programs, formal analysis and verification of parallel programs, parallel runtime systems, task-parallel libraries, parallel application frameworks, performance analysis tools, debugging tools for parallel programs, parallel algorithms and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2012, held in conjunction with the 11th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012) at Valencia, Spain, in June 2012.The volume contains 13 revised selected presented at DALT 2012.The papers cover the following topics: declarative languages and technologies, computational logics, declarative approaches to engineering agent-based systems, models of business interactions among agents, and models of trust, commitments, and reputation for agents.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Augemented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2012, in Nice, France in September 2012. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers cover the topics of image registration and fusion, calibration, visualization and 3D perception, hardware and optical design, real-time implementation, as well as validation, clinical applications, and clinical evaluation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Field-programmable logic has been available for a number of years. The role of Field-Programmable Logic Devices (FPLDs) has evolved from simply implementing the system `glue-logic' to the ability to implement very complex system functions, such as microprocessors and microcomputers. The speed with which these devices can be programmed makes them ideal for prototyping. Low production cost makes them competitive for small to medium volume productions. These devices make possible new sophisticated applications, and bring up new hardware/software trade-offs and diminish the traditional hardware/software demarcation line. Advanced design tools are being developed for automatic compilation of complex designs and routings to custom circuits. Digital Systems Design and Prototyping Using Field Programmable Logic covers the subjects of digital systems design and (FPLDs), combining them into an entity useful for designers in the areas of digital systems and rapid system prototyping. It is also useful for the growing community of engineers and researchers dealing with the exciting field of FPLDs, reconfigurable and programmable logic. The authors' goal is to bring these topics to students studying digital system design, computer design, and related subjects in order to show them how very complex circuits can be implemented at the desk. Digital Systems Design and Prototyping Using Field Programmable Logic makes a pioneering effort to present rapid prototyping and generation of computer systems using FPLDs. From the Foreword: `This is a ground-breaking book that bridges the gap between digital design theory and practice. It provides a unifying terminology for describing FPLD technology. In addition to introducing the technology it also describes the design methodology and tools required to harness this technology. It introduces two hardware description languages (e.g. AHDL and VHDL). Design is best learned by practice and the book supports this notion with abundant case studies.' Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University CD-ROM INCLUDED! Digital Systems Design and Prototyping Using Field Programmable Logic, First Edition includes a CD-ROM that contains Altera's MAX+PLUS II 7.21 Student Edition Programmable Logic Development Software. MAX+PLUS II is a fully integrated design environment that offers unmatched flexibility and performance. The intuitive graphical interface is complemented by complete and instantly accessible on-line documentation, which makes learning and using MAX+PLUS II quick and easy. The MAX+PLUS II version 7.21 Student Edition offers the following features: Operates on PCs running Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0. Graphical and text-based design entry, including the Altera Hardware Description Language (AHDL) and VHDL. Design compilation for Product-term (MAX 7000S) and look-up table (FLEX 10K) device architectures. Design verification with full timing simulation. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This text is an introduction to the modern theory and applications of probability and stochastics. The style and coverage is geared towards the theory of stochastic processes, but with some attention to the applications. In many instances the gist of the problem is introduced in practical, everyday language and then is made precise in mathematical form.The first four chapters are on probability theory: measure and integration, probability spaces, conditional expectations, and the classical limit theorems. There follows chapters on martingales, Poisson random measures, Levy Processes, Brownian motion, and Markov Processes.Special attention is paid to Poisson random measures and their roles in regulating the excursions of Brownian motion and the jumps of Levy and Markov processes. Each chapter has a large number of varied examples and exercises.The bookis based on the author¿s lecture notes in courses offered over the years at Princeton University. These courses attracted graduate students from engineering, economics, physics, computer sciences, and mathematics.Erhan Cinlar has received many awards for excellence in teaching, including the President¿s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. His research interests include theories of Markov processes, point processes, stochastic calculus, and stochastic flows. The book is full of insights and observations that only a lifetime researcher in probability can have, all told in a lucid yet precise style.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 572 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For over three decades, this best-selling classic has been used by thousands of students in the United States and abroad as a must-have textbook for a transitional course from calculus to analysis. It has proven to be very useful for mathematics majors who have no previous experience with rigorous proofs. Its friendly style unlocks the mystery of writing proofs, while carefully examining the theoretical basis for calculus. Proofs are given in full, and the large number of well-chosen examples and exercises range from routine to challenging.The second edition preserves the book's clear and concise style, illuminating discussions, and simple, well-motivated proofs. New topics include material on the irrationality of pi, the Baire category theorem, Newton's method and the secant method, and continuous nowhere-differentiable functions.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. Having three objectives the book first aims to give an interdisciplinary account of the drivers, consequences and challenges of ongoing changes in mountainous areas of Southeast Asia. Second, the book describes how innovation processes can contribute to addressing these challenges and third, how knowledge creation to support change in policies and institutions can assist in sustainably develop mountain areas and people¿s livelihoods.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 500 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Selecting new product or service ideas that are worthwhile to beexploited has always been a major challenge to firms of all kinds. Recent developments, however, add a new facet to the evaluationchallenge. Initiatives such as innovation contests, in which interested users may submit their ideas or solutions to firm relevant problems, frequently lead to several tens of thousands of submissions.Consequently, solutions are needed that help identifying the most promising ideas. The book ¿Open Evaluation¿ proposes a potential solution: integrating external stakeholders into the assessment ofproduct and service ideas by means of IT, i.e. open evaluation. Based on both qualitative and quantitative research, the author examines design options, strategies, and the capacity of open evaluation to efficiently and effectively support decision-making for innovation.¿Springer Gabler in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book contains the extended and revised versions papers from the Second International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD 2012), held in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 2012, organized and sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology (IICREST), in cooperation with the Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and Technical University of Sofia. The theme of BMSD 2012 was 'From Business Modeling to Service-Oriented Solutions'.The 7 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. Each paper was reviewed by at least two internationally known experts from the BMSD Program Committee. The papers focus on business models, service engineering, and information systems architectures.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.