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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Beginning with a brief history of the Internet, this book delves into a review of current research, active learning strategies, Web courseware, metacognition, strategies for Web discussions, promoting student self-regulation, building interactive Web pages, basic HTML coding, managing Web sites, using databases, automated testing, and security and legal issues. Experience shows that Web teaching may be used in an extremely wide range of subject areas. Modern course management software has demystified the use of the Web for teaching, allowing instructors to focus on instructional design and improving student experiences instead of only the technical skills of building Web sites. Web-Teaching helps readers pick and choose what aspects of the Web to employ to achieve the greatest student learning gains.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume was prepared by a select group of international experts in response to a need expressed by the Canadian government to identify and analyze some of the major challenges facing governments in conducting business in the knowledge-based economy. Special emphasis is placed on identifying the policy issues which governments will need to address in the upcoming years.This volume presents essays in three primary categories:

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fixed-interval smoothing is a method of extracting useful information from inaccurate data. It has been applied to problems in engineering, the physical sciences, and the social sciences, in areas such as control, communications, signal processing, acoustics, geophysics, oceanography, statistics, econometrics, and structural analysis. This monograph addresses problems for which a linear stochastic state space model is available, in which case the objective is to compute the linear least-squares estimate of the state vector in a fixed interval, using observations previously collected in that interval. The author uses a geometric approach based on the method of complementary models. Using the simplest possible notation, he presents straightforward derivations of the four types of fixed-interval smoothing algorithms, and compares the algorithms in terms of efficiency and applicability. Results show that the best algorithm has received the least attention in the literature. Fixed Interval Smoothing for State Space Models: includes new material on interpolation, fast square root implementations, and boundary value models; is the first book devoted to smoothing; contains an annotated bibliography of smoothing literature; uses simple notation and clear derivations; compares algorithms from a computational perspective; identifies a best algorithm. Fixed Interval Smoothing for State Space Models will be the primary source for those wanting to understand and apply fixed-interval smoothing: academics, researchers, and graduate students in control, communications, signal processing, statistics and econometrics.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again turned their attention to space and places. The hypothesis is that these are not accidental episodes but a full-blown revolution in the way of viewing economic processes and their links with social and cultural structures. In other words, this new sensitivity to places offers the possibility of rethinking issues typical of economics in a different perspective that might be defined as local development, one of the terms most (ab)used in the contemporary scientific and political debate. In this book the authors will thus try to support more strongly, although in a necessarily simplified manner, the possibility of constructing a theory of local development. The key idea is that there is no single development model operating at a given time and valid for all places, but that it is more correct to talk of multiple development paths that co-exist in the same place at the same time (multiplicity of development paths). The central point is not to identify the succession of distinct hegemonic models (Fordism versus post-Fordism, mass production versus lean production and so on), but to show how the complexity of the contemporary economy demands new concepts to explain its apparent contradictions. In the authors' view, the conception of a theory of local development implies radical rethinking in institutionalist terms of the way of viewing the economy and production, recognising that behind economic development lies a wealth of institutional assets that make the encounter between local and global more open and varied than ever before (institutional biodiversity).

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Landmarks are preferred image features for a variety of computer vision tasks such as image mensuration, registration, camera calibration, motion analysis, 3D scene reconstruction, and object recognition. Main advantages of using landmarks are robustness w. r. t. lightning conditions and other radiometric vari ations as well as the ability to cope with large displacements in registration or motion analysis tasks. Also, landmark-based approaches are in general com putationally efficient, particularly when using point landmarks. Note, that the term landmark comprises both artificial and natural landmarks. Examples are comers or other characteristic points in video images, ground control points in aerial images, anatomical landmarks in medical images, prominent facial points used for biometric verification, markers at human joints used for motion capture in virtual reality applications, or in- and outdoor landmarks used for autonomous navigation of robots. This book covers the extraction oflandmarks from images as well as the use of these features for elastic image registration. Our emphasis is onmodel-based approaches, i. e. on the use of explicitly represented knowledge in image analy sis. We principally distinguish between geometric models describing the shape of objects (typically their contours) and intensity models, which directly repre sent the image intensities, i. e. ,the appearance of objects. Based on these classes of models we develop algorithms and methods for analyzing multimodality im ages such as traditional 20 video images or 3D medical tomographic images.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - To 19th-century writers the dynamic periodical press seemed both an influential medium and a means to pay the bills. A suprising number of women, despite limited education, parental opposition and the competitive nature of this developing profession sought to earn a living through journalism. Others saw the press as a valuable mechanism for educating the masses or a powerful channel for influencing public opinion. How did these women fare in Grub Street Could they harness the power of the press Who were the 'lady journalists' The women featured in this book range from Mary Russell Mitford to Flora Shaw to Margaret Gatty. Drawing on varied contemporary sources - memoirs, letters, magazines, journals, newspapers, and contemporary fiction about journalism - and her own database covering hundreds of women, Barbara Onslow assesses their contributions to journalism and how it affected the careers of writers as diverse as George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anna Maria Hall, and Mary Braddon and Charlotte Yonge.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Information on future mortality trends is essential for population forecasts, public health policy, actuarial studies, and many other purposes. Realising the importance of such needs, this volume contains contributions to the theory and practice of forecasting mortality in the relatively favourable circumstances in developed countries of Western Europe. In this context techniques from mathematical statistics and econometrics can provide useful descriptions of past mortality. The naive forecast obtained by extrapolating a fitted model may give as good a forecast as any but forecasting by extrapolation requires careful justification since it assumes the prolongation of historical conditions. On the other hand, whilst it is generally accepted that scientific and other advances will continue to impact on mortality, perhaps dramatically so, it is impossible to quantify more than the outline of future consequences with a strong degree of confidence. The decision to modify an extrapolation of a model fitted to historical data (or conversely choosing not to modify it) in order to obtain a forecast is therefore strongly influenced by subjective and judgmental elements, with the quality of the latter dependent on demographic, epidemiological and indeed perhaps more general considerations. The thread running through the book reflects therefore the necessity of integrating demographic, epidemiological, and statistical factors to obtain an improvement in the prediction of mortality.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Metrology and Properties of Engineering Surfaces provides in a single volume a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the crucial topics involved in the metrology and properties of engineering surfaces. The subject matter is a central issue in manufacturing technology, since the quality and reliability of manufactured components depend greatly upon the selection and qualities of the appropriate materials as ascertained through measurement. The book can in broad terms be split into two parts; the first deals with the metrology of engineering surfaces and covers the important issues relating to the measurement and characterization of surfaces in both two and three dimensions. This covers topics such as filtering, power spectral densities, autocorrelation functions and the use of Fractals in topography. A significant proportion is dedicated to the calibration of scanning probe microscopes using the latest techniques. The remainder of the book deals with the properties of engineering surfaces and covers a wide range of topics including hardness (measurement and relevance), surface damage and the machining of brittle surfaces, the characterization of automobile cylinder bores using different techniques including artificial neural networks and the design and use of polymer bearings in microelectromechanical devices. Edited by three practitioners with a wide knowledge of the subject and the community, Metrology and Properties of Engineering Surfaces brings together leading academics and practitioners in a comprehensive and insightful treatment of the subject. The book is an essential reference work both for researchers working and teaching in the technology and for industrial users who need to be aware of current developments of the technology and new areas of application.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 7. 2 Element Stiffness Matrix of a Space Truss Local Coordinates 221 7. 3 Transformation of the Element Stiffness Matrix 223 7. 4 Element Axial Force 224 7. 5 Assemblage ofthe System Stiffness Matrix 225 7. 6 Problems 236 8 STATIC CONDENSATION AND SUBSTRUCTURING 8. 1 Introduction 239 8. 2 Static Condensation 239 8. 3 Substructuring 244 8. 4 Problems 259 9 INTRODUCTION TO FINITE ELEMENT MEmOD 9. 1 Introduction 261 9. 2 Plane Elasticity Problems 262 9. 3 Plate Bending 285 9. 4 Rectangular Finite Element for Plate Bending 285 9. 5 Problems 298 APPENDIX I Equivalent Nodal Forces 301 APPENDIXll Displacement Functions for Fixed-End Beams 305 GLOSSARY 309 SELECTED BmLIOGRAPHY 317 INDEX 319 ix Preface This is the first volume of a series of integrated textbooks for the analysis and design of structures. The series is projected to include a first volume in Matrix Structural Analysis to be followed by volumes in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering as well as other volumes dealing with specialized or advanced topics in the analysis and design of structures. An important objective in the preparation of these volumes is to integrate and unify the presentation using common notation, symbols and general format. Furthermore, all of these volumes will be using the same structural computer program, SAP2000, developed and maintained by Computers and Structures, Inc. , Berkeley, California.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language. It focuses in particular on the presence of a hierarchy of intellectual constructions in different formats of representation. These diverse approaches, which share a common assumption of the inner nature of representation, call for a new epistemology - even a new psychophysics - based on a theory of reference which is intrinsically cognitive. As a contribution to contemporary research, the reading presents the core of theories developed in Central Europe between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by philosophers, physicists, psychologists and semanticists who shared a dynamic approach and a pronounced concern with problems of interaction and dependence. These theories offer innovative solutions to some of the epistemological and philosophical problems currently at the centre of debate, like part-whole, theory of relations, and conceptual and linguistic categorization.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book contains selected contributions from the Sixth Meeting of the International Geographical Union's Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification, held in Perth, Australia, in September 1999. Collectively, these contributions explicitly seek to understand not only the mechanisms responsible for the problem of land degradation but their social and economic implications, the means of overcoming the problems, and the policy instruments whereby remedial measures may be implemented. This breadth of approach is both distinctive and essential if the problems are to be tackled effectively. The authorship comprises of specialists (mostly geographers) from universities, research organizations, and government agencies, who provide a truly international perspective with contributions from Iceland to Australia and from the USA to Japan. Audience: The book presents current research findings which will be of particular benefit to professionals and practitioners, as well as researchers and tertiary-level educationalists who are involved with land degradation.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a model-based approach to quality improvement through design of experiments. After a description of statistical methods for data analysis and design of experiments it addresses the following topics: Taguchi's approach to quality improvement; Reduction of errors transmitted from factors to the response; Robustness against errors in product/process parameters and external noise factors; Optimization procedures for product/process design; Quality improvement through mechanistic models; Quality improvement of products with both qualitative and quantitative factors; and Quality improvement based on replicated observations. The book provides systematic and detailed practical guidance to a model-based approach to quality engineering problems. All methods are illustrated by real-world examples that make them readily accessible to readers. All mathematical proofs are given in appendices to the relevant chapters. The book is written for a wide range of engineers, quality engineering professionals, engineering designers, engineering statisticians, and all those who want to apply design of experiments to solving quality improvement problems. The text is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and statistics.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Rae Earnshawand John A. Vince --_. . _----- 1 Introduction The USPresident's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)recently advised the US Senate of the strategic importance of investing in IT for the 21st century, particularlyin the areas of software,human-computer interaction, scalable information infrastructure, high-end computing and socioeconomic issues [1]. Research frontiers ofhuman-computer interaction include the desire that interac tion be more centered around human needs and capabilities, and that the human environment be considered in virtual environments and in other contextual infor mation-processing activities. The overall goal is to make users more effective in their information or communication tasks by reducing learning times, speeding performance, lowering error rates, facilitating retention and increasing subjective satisfaction. Improved designs can dramatically increase effectiveness for users, who range from novices to experts and who have diverse cultures with varying educational backgrounds. Their lives could be made more satisfying, their work safer, their learning easier and their health better.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Parking Structures provides a single-source reference for parking structure designers, builders, and owners. This third edition is still the only such book. It addresses how to select the best functional and structural designs for a given situation, ensure long-term durability, design for easy maintenance, decide on the number and placement of entrances and exits, design an easily understood wayfinding system, design for ADA compliance, plan for internal auto and pedestrian traffic circulation, select the most effective and energy efficient lighting system, avoid the most common design and construction pitfalls, provide for adequate patron safety and security, carry out needed repairs, and extend the parking structure life. Parking Structures addresses all the major issues related to parking garages. It is an essential reference for parking structure owners, structural engineers, architects, contractors, and other professionals.New in the third edition: This third edition of Parking Structures includes new material on metric dimensions and recommendations for functional design globally, new research on flow capacity and queuing at parking entry/exits, an entirely new chapter on planning for a new parking structure, including cost issues and alternatives to structure construction, pedestrian considerations, safety in parking facilities, plazas above parking structures, an expanded chapter on seismic design, seismic retrofit, life cycle cost analysis, and upgrades to existing structures.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Sauerstofflangzeittherapie bei chronischen Lungenerkrankungen gewinnt an Bedeutung. Bisher ist diese Maßnahme eine Domäne der Pneumologen. Zunehmend begegnet diese Therapie den Allgemeinmedizinern und Internisten.Das vorliegende Buch stellt die Indikationsstellung zur und die Durchführung der Sauerstofflangzeittherapie dar. Die praxisrelevante Information wird schnörkellos, klar gegliedert, gut strukturiert und in verständlicher Sprache übermittelt. Übersichtlich werden die Grundlagen, die Diagnostik und die Wahl der optimalen Therapieform dargestellt. Mustertexte zu verschiedenen Indikationen erleichtern die Verordnung einer Sauerstofflangzeittherapie. 108 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ist es gerecht, einen Drogenkonsumenten wegen Betäubungsmittelbesitzes zu bestrafen, der damit zunächst nur sich selbst schädigt Verdient derjenige Strafe, der einen anderen auf dessen Verlangen hin tötet oder verletzt Der Autor prüft diese grundsätzlichen Fragen anhand der Rechtsphilosophie Immanuel Kants. Er zeigt dabei auf, daß die Bestrafung eines bloß selbstschädigenden oder konsentiert fremdschädigenden Verhaltens ungerecht ist, weil dies alleine kein Unrecht darstellt, das Strafe gerechter Weise vergelten könnte. Die Folgen dieses liberalen Gehalts des Vergeltungsgedankens für die Strafrechtsdogmatik und für die Diskussion um die Legitimität 'opferloser' Delikte werden eingehend untersucht. Ein Gesetzgebungsvorschlag zu Par. 228 StGB rundet das Werk ab.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Sauerstofflangzeittherapie bei chronischen Lungenerkrankungen gewinnt an Bedeutung. Bisher ist diese Maßnahme eine Domäne der Pneumologen. Zunehmend begegnet diese Therapie den Allgemeinmedizinern und Internisten.Das vorliegende Buch stellt die Indikationsstellung zur und die Durchführung der Sauerstofflangzeittherapie dar. Die praxisrelevante Information wird schnörkellos, klar gegliedert, gut strukturiert und in verständlicher Sprache übermittelt. Übersichtlich werden die Grundlagen, die Diagnostik und die Wahl der optimalen Therapieform dargestellt. Mustertexte zu verschiedenen Indikationen erleichtern die Verordnung einer Sauerstofflangzeittherapie.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume presents a broad range of critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare's two comedies, The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing. The essays approach the plays from a number of theoretical positions: feminist, historicist, deconstruction and psychoanalytic, as well as offering general commentary and a discussion of film versions and stage productions. The introduction explains the development of these critical pieces, making the two plays considered accessible to students at all levels. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -EDO2000wasthesecondinternationalworkshoponsoftwareengineeringfor distributedobjectsystems. EDO2000wasacontinuationofEDO 99,the rst workshopinthisseries,whichwasheldinconjunctionwithICSE 99. Distributedobjecttechnologies asexempli edbyCORBAandtheCORBA Services,COM+,EJB,andtheJ2EE areincreasinglybeingadoptedbyvarious enterprisesasafundamentaltechnologyfortheirITinfrastructures. Asacon- quence,extensiveindustrypracticeofusingthetechnologiesisbeinggained. At thesametime,thetechnologiescontinuetoadvanceandnewfunctionalityand servicescontinuetobeintroduced. Inordertousetheexistingandemergingfunctionsofdistributedobjectte- nologiese ectively,andtobettermeettoday sdemandingbusinessandcomp- ingrequirements,advancesinsoftwareengineeringmethodsandtechniquesfor distributedobjectsarestronglyneeded. Softwareengineeringfordistributed- jectsistheresearchareathatprovidessolutionsofprovenpracticeforissuesand problemsthatareuniquetosystemsemployingdistributedobjecttechnologies. EDOis the premierworkshopthatbringstogetherthe researchandpractice communityofsoftwareengineeringfordistributedobjects. Wereceivedabout30submissionsandtheinternationalprogramcommittee selected15papers. Weclusteredacceptedpapersintosessionsandtheauthors ofthesepaperschampionedthesessionsandtookaleadinthediscussions. The workshoporganizersselectedparticularauthorstogivebriefpresentationsthat wereaimedtokicko thediscussionineachsession. Theresultofthedi erent sessionswassummarizedattheendoftheworkshopandthesesessionsummaries areincludedintheseproceedings. Alsointraditionwiththeworkshopseries,wehadaninvitedindustrialp- sentation. ThisyearWalterSchwarztalkedaboutanenterpriseapplication- tegrationprojectinthe nancialdomainthatdeployedajudiciouscombination ofdistributedobjectmiddlewareandmarkuplanguagestoachieveintegration of nancialtradingsystems. December2000 WolfgangEmmerichandStefanTai ProgramCo-chairs EDO2000 Program Committee Organization ConferenceChair: VolkerGruhn,UniversityofDortmund,Germany ProgramCo-chairs:WolfgangEmmerich,UniversityCollegeLondon,UK StefanTai,IBMWatsonResearch,U. S. A. OrganizingChair: PremDevanbu,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,U. S. A. Referees JeanBezivin,UniversityofNantes,France GordonBlair,LancasterUniversity,UK AlfredBro ckers,AdessoGmbH,Germany PeterCroll,UniversityofWollongong,Australia ElisabettaDiNitto,PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy AlfonsoFuggetta,PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy WilliHasselbring,UniversityofOldenburg,Germany JusukeHashimoto,NEC,Japan WalterHuersch,Zuehlke,Switzerland ArnoJacobson,INRIA,France MehdiJazayeri,TUVienna,Austria GertiKappel,UniversityofLinz,Austria WojtekKozacynski,Rational,USA BerndKr amer,FUHagen,Germany Je Magee,ImperialCollege,UK NenadMedvidovic,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA NeilRoodyn,Cognitech,UK DavidRosenblum,UniversityofCaliforniaIrvine,USA IsabelleRouvellou,IBMWatsonResearch,USA WalterSchwarz,DGBank,Germany DirkSlama,ShinkaTechnologies,Germany DanielSteinmann,UBS,Switzerland AlfredStrohmeier,EPFL,Switzerland StanSutton,IBMWatsonResearch,USA Sponsoring Institutions AdessoGmbH,Germany IBMWatsonResearch,U. S. A. Z uhlkeEngineeringGmbH,Germany Table of Contents Invited Industry Presentation ApplicationIntegrationwithCORBAandXML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 WalterSchwarz MiddlewareSelection MiddlewareSelection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 StanleyM. SuttonJr. AKeyTechnologyEvaluationCaseStudy: ApplyingaNewMiddlewareArchitectureontheEnterpriseScale . . . . . . . . . . . 8 MichaelGoedickeandUweZdun AnArchitectureProposalforEnterpriseMessageBrokers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 J ornGuySu ßandMichaelMewes ResourceManagement ResourceManagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 StoneyJacksonandPremDevanbu TheImportanceofResourceManagementin EngineeringDistributed.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1. 1 The Pressure on Information Technology (IT) 'In today's environment, the ability to react quickly to change by reducing the devel opment life cycle in order to be first to market will give a company an important com petitive edge. ' -James Martin The market conditions of the 21 st century put business under continual pressure. The most successful companies are those who are able to reduce their time to market, to launch initiatives before their competitors, to respond very rapidly to opportunities in the marketplace or to change direction in response to a move by the competition or a change in circumstances. All of these business initiatives rely on support from Infor mation Technology (IT). For a business to launch a new product in three months time, the supporting IT processes must be available and working in that three month time frame. In this fast moving environment, late IT delivery is not acceptable and may pose a major risk to the business. The marketplace of 21 st century business measures timescales in months, whereas in the past, timescales of two to three years were more typical. Internet related and e business projects frequently require even tighter timescales, measured in days rather than months. This need for speed puts tremendous pressure on IT departments. Pressure does not just come from the need for speed. There is also an ever-increasing rate of change within business. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book we intend to discuss economic fluctuations and growth and possible stabilizing fiscal policies. Since these topics are major preoccupa tions of economic theorists and have been extensively discussed since the classics, one may wonder why another book on these subjects. A possible defense is that we are going to do so in the framework of a two-sector model where the main featureS of each sector depend on the characteristics of the goods produced by the sector itself. The conventional wisdom suggests that the problem of (dis )aggregation in growth and business cycle theory is basically a quantitative one: the model should consider as many sectors, goods, and agents as necessary to provide a sufficiently rich picture, the upper bound obviously resulting from the tractability of the problem. In this attitude the same equilibrium (or diseqUilibrium) assumptions generally hold true throughout all sectors. Here we want to prove the relevance of an alternative approach: we look at the qualitative differences across sectors and at the peculiarities of each market as at the determinants of the economic dynamics. This tradition goes back over one hundred years to Tugan-Baranowkj and has been de veloped by Aftalion, Fanno, Spiethof, and Lowe, but has never been sys tematically formalized. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures The answer is not to be found in globalization, technological innovation, or our personal failings to adapt to changing circumstances as we are so often told. The answer lies mainly with the historical legacy of the 'golden era' and the obsession with market individualism. An obsession that the New Democrats in America and the New Labour in Britain have failed to exorcize. Yet the forces of knowledge-driven capitalism provide an unprecedented opportunity at the beginning of the twenty-first century to build societies based on the individual and collective intelligence of all. Capitalism and Social Progress shows how this can be achieved. 338 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains updated versions of the ten papers presented at the First International Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (TSDM 2000) held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Prin- ples and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2000) in Lyons, France in September, 2000. The aim of the workshop was to bring together experts in the analysis of temporal and spatial data mining and knowledge discovery in temporal, spatial or spatio-temporal database systems as well as knowledge engineers and domain experts from allied disciplines. The workshop focused on research and practice of knowledge discovery from datasets containing explicit or implicit temporal, spatial or spatio-temporal information. The ten original papers in this volume represent those accepted by peer review following an international call for papers. All papers submitted were refereed by an international team of data mining researchers listed below. We would like to thank the team for their expert and useful help with this process. Following the workshop, authors were invited to amend their papers to enable the feedback received from the conference to be included in the nal papers appearing in this volume. A workshop report was compiled by Kathleen Hornsby which also discusses the panel session that was held. 180 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The publication of a third edition after only five years confirms the widespread popularity of this book. Apart from the numerous additions and modifications consequent on the substantial expansion of knowledge in this field, the authors have further improved the value of this text with the excellent chapter, as men tioned in their preface, on general aspects of the problem. The advances referred to in this chapter, particularly molecular genetics and database access, have transformed the diagnosis of skeletal dysplasias. However, this basic text remains an essential starting point for anyone confronted with an unfamiliar condition. Among the references listed on page xix, Dr Kozlowski's paper 'The radiographic clues in the diagnosis of bone dysplasias', Pediatric Radiology 1985; 15: 1-3, is still essential reading. John Masel Preface to the First Edition The skeleton is involved to a significant extent in more than 500 genetic and congenital syndromes and although the majority of these are individually rare, collectively they are not uncommon. Diagnostic precision, which is crucial for accurate prognostication and effective management, is frequently dependent upon recognition of radiological stigmata. For this reason the radiologist plays a key role in the appraisal and investigation of persons with disorders of this type. With these points in mind we have written this handbook for use in the radiographic reporting room. We have endeavored to provide the essential information which will facilitate radiodiagnosis and have striven for clarity and accuracy. 284 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An introduction to the recent advances and developments in iterative methods for solving Markovian queuing and manufacturing problems. With numerous exercises and fully-worked examples, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the formulation and computation of queuing and manufacturing systems. 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Software measurement is one of the key technologies employed to control and manage the software development process. Research avenues such as the applicability of metrics, the efficiency of measurement programs in industry, and the theoretical foundations (of software engineering ) have been investigated to evaluate and improve modern software development areas such as object-orientation, compone- based develop-ment, multimedia systems design, reliable telecommunication systems etc. In the tradition of our software measurement research communities, the German Computer Science Interest (GI) Group on Software Measurement and the Canadian Interest Group in Software Metrics (CIM) have attended to these concerns in recent years. Initially, research initiatives were directed at the definition of new methods of software measurement and the validation of these methods themselves. This was then followed by more and more investigation into practical applications of software measurement and key findings in this area of software engineering have been published in: - Dumke/Zuse: Theory and Practice of Software Measurement, 1994 - Ebert/Dumke: Software-Metriken in der Praxis, 1996 - Lehner/Dumke/Abran: Software Metrics - Research and Practice in Software Measurement, 1997 - Dumke/Abran: Software Measurement - Current Trends in Research and Practice, 1999 We would also like to mention that the proceedings of the Lac Supérieur workshop have been made available on the web at lrgl. uqam. ca This new book includes the proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Software Measurement held in Berlin in October 2000. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL)focusesonpracticalapplicationsofdeclarativelanguages. Thecollection ofpapersinthisvolumewaspresentedatPADL2001. Thesymposiumwasheld inLasVegas,Nevada,March11 12,2001. Fortypapersweresubmittedinresponsetothecallforpapers. Twenty-three paperswere nallyselectedforpresentationatthesymposium. Thesymposium includedinvitedtalksbyJoeArmstrongofBluetail,RaghuRamakrishnanfrom theUniversityofWisconsinatMadison,andDavidS. Warrenfromthe State UniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook. ThesymposiumwassponsoredandorganizedbyCOMPULOGAMERICAS ,anetworkofresearchgroupsdedicated topromotingresearchinlogicprogrammingandrelatedareas,bytheAssoc- tionforLogicProgramming,theDepa- mentofComputerScience,UniversityofTexasatDallasandtheDepartment ofComputerScienceattheStateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook. The supportofmanyindividualswascrucialtothesuccessofthissymposium. My thankstoGiridharPemmasani,SamikBasu,DivyangiAnchan,ShachiPoddar, and Shabbir Dahodwala for their help with organizing and managing the - viewingprocess. SpecialthankstoR. C. Sekarforsettingupandmanagingthe PADL2001 web site and to Gopal Gupta for handling all the organizational details. Manythankstotheprogramcommitteemembersforalltheirhelpin- viewingandtheiradvice. Finally,mythankstoalltheauthorswhotookinterest inPADL2001andsubmittedpapers. January2001 I. V. Ramakrishnan ProgramChair ProgramCommittee S. Antoy PortlandStateUniv. S. Debray Univ. ofArizona M. Fromherz XeroxPARC C. Geyer FederalUniversityofRioGrandedoSul,Brazil B. Goldberg NYU N. Heintze BellLabs,LucentTechnologies S. Krishnamurthi BrownUniversity L. Maranget INRIARocquencourt E. Meijer UtrechtUniversity G. Morrisett CornellUniversity U. Nilsson LinkopingUniversity C. Palamidessi PennStateUniv. E. Pontelli NewMexicoStateUniv. I. V. Ramakrishnan(PCChair) SUNYStonyBrook D. Sands ChalmersUniversityofTechnology R. Sekar SUNYStonyBrook D. Srivastava AT&TLabsResearch T. Swift SUNYStonyBrook K. Ueda WasedaUniversity R. Yap NationalUniversityofSingapore N-F. Zhou CUNYBrooklynCollegeandGraduateCenter Referees S. Antoy S. Krishnamurthi C. R. Ramakrishnan S. Debray L. Maranget D. Sands Frank G. Morrisett R. Sekar M. Fromherz K. NarayanKumar D. Srivastava C. Geyer U. Nilsson P. Swift B. Goldberg C. Palamidessi K. Ueda N. Heintze G. Pemmasani R. Yap O. Kaser E. Pontelli N-F. Zhou SponsoringInstitutions COMPULOGAMERICAS, cs. nmsu. edu/~complog AssociationforLogicProgramming, cwi. nl/projects/alp TableofContents AModelCheckerforValue-PassingMu-CalculusUsingLogic Programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 C. R. Ramakrishnan DesignandImplementationoftheHigh-LevelSpeci cationLanguage CSP(LP)inProlog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 M. Leuschel Frapp e:FunctionalReactiveProgramminginJava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 A. Courtney FromSubjectDirectoriestoSubjectMeta-directoriesviaDeclarative Programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 A. BrogiandG. Caruso ProgrammingGoal-DrivenWebSitesUsinganAgentLogicLanguage . . . . 60 M. Baldoni,C. Baroglio,A. Chiarotto,andV. Patti High-LevelServerSideWebScriptinginCurry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 M. Hanus LogicProgrammingTechniquesforDynamicVRMLWebContent Generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 A. GuptaandP. Tarau SoftConstraintsforSecurityProtocolAnalysis:Con dentiality. . . . . . . . . . 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers in this volume were presented at PARA 2000, the Fifth International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing. PARA 2000 was held in Bergen, Norway, June 18-21, 2000. The workshop was organized by Parallab and the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen. The general theme for PARA 2000 was New paradigms for HPC in industry and academia focusing on: { High-performance computing applications in academia and industry, { The use of Java in high-performance computing, { Grid and Meta computing, { Directions in high-performance computing and networking, { Education in Computational Science. The workshop included 9 invited presentations and 39 contributed pres- tations. The PARA 2000 meeting began with a one-day tutorial on OpenMP programming led by Timothy Mattson. This was followed by a three-day wor- hop. The rst three PARA workshops were held at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby (1994, 1995, and 1996). Following PARA'96, an - ternational steering committee for the PARA meetings was appointed and the committee decided that a workshop should take place every second year in one of the Nordic countries. The 1998 workshop was held at Ume a University, Sweden. One important aim of these workshops is to strengthen the ties between HPC centers, academia, and industry in the Nordic countries as well as worldwide. The University of Bergen organized the 2000 workshop and the next workshop in the year 2002 will take place at the Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. 420 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For the New Century Issue of the journal 'Theroretical Chemistry Accounts' the advisory editors identified papers from the first century of theoretical chemistry and discussed their importance for the twentieth century with an eye towards the twenty-first century. Sixty-six such perspectives are published in the New Century Issue. To make this unique collection available to younger scientists for entertaining reading and re-reading of the original publications, the publisher decided to reprint a special edition of the issue. 208 pp. Englisch.