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Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540660518ISBN 13: 9783540660514
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ein wichtiger Bereich für das Ziel eines nachhaltig zukunftsfähigen Wirtschaftens im Bedürfnisfeld 'Bauen und Wohnen' ist der bisher in der Forschung wenig berücksichtigte Bereich der Altbaumodernisierung. Hierin liegen sehr große Potentiale, aber auch Hemmnisse für Maßnahmen zur Energieeinsparung. Außerdem fallen bei Neueinbau und Entsorgung erhebliche Mengen von Stoffströmen in vielfältiger Zusammensetzung und zum Teil mit problematischen Inhaltsstoffen an. Die Studie untersucht die komplexen Strukturen, Rahmenbedingungen, Entscheidungsprozesse, Verflechtungen der beteiligten Akteure und Hemmnisse für ein zielführendes Stoffstrommanagement bei der Altbaumodernisierung an Fallbeispielen sowie mittels zahlreicher Gespräche mit Beteiligten im Baugeschehen und eines Workshops mit Akteuren aus dem Bereich des Mietwohnbaus. Daraus werden Empfehlungen abgeleitet, die sich vor allem mit erfolgversprechenden Kooperationen zwischen den Akteuren befassen. 164 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540653686ISBN 13: 9783540653684
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The first interactive course covering first and second year algebra. Starting from such fundamental topics as integers and divisions, modular arithmetic and polynomials the content extends to rings, fields and permutation groups. The hypertext is written in Java-enhanced HTML, and Java applets illustrate the theory while also contributing interactive calculators for computing with integers, polynomials and permutations. The computer algebra system GAP is integrated throughout, allowing the calculation and manipulation of mathematical objects. In addition, collections for Mathematica not Elektronisches Buch and Maple worksheets review the algorithms presented. Multiple choice exercises provide users with instant feedback, while facilities for monitoring students and a bulletin board complete this digital course. 168 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540638423ISBN 13: 9783540638421
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Rezension' Das Buch ist für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, die nach Nordamerika expandieren wollen, eine wichtige Hilfe. Das deutsch-amerikanische Autorenteam beantwortet viele Fragen mit der Kompetenz langjähriger Erfahrung deutsch-amerikanischer Unternehmensberatung. Die kulturellen Unterschiede sind nur ein Teil der behandelten Themen. Die Besonderheiten des konsumfreundlichen, größten Binnenmarktes der Welt, das angemessene Marketing und juristische Fragen werden verständlich erläutert. Das amerikanische Rechtssystem wird in für Unternehmer wichtigen Feinheiten des Handels-, Vertrags- und Arbeitsrechts vorgestellt. Einsteiger in den amerikanischen Markt (Unternehmer, Manager oder Fachkräfte) können sich mit diesem Buch auf die neue Herausforderung vorbereiten.' (Deutscher Drucker) 216 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540663673ISBN 13: 9783540663676
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Integer Optimization addresses a wide spectrum of practically important optimization problems and represents a major challenge for algorithmics. The goal of integer optimization is to solve a system of constraints and optimization criteria over discrete variables.Integer Optimization by Local Search introduces a new approach to domain-independent integer optimization, which, unlike traditional strategies, is based on local search. It develops the central concepts and strategies of integer local search and describes possible combinations with classical methods from linear programming. The surprising effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated in a variety of case studies on large-scale, realistic problems, including production planning, timetabling, radar surveillance, and sports scheduling. The monograph is written for practitioners and researchers from artificial intelligence and operations research. 164 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540663622ISBN 13: 9783540663621
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The third Financial Cryptography conference was held in February 1999, once again at Anguilla in the British West Indies. The number of attendees continues to increase from year to year, as do the number and quality of the technical submissions. The Program Committee did a great job selecting the technical program. I thank them for all of their eo rt s. We were helped by a number of outside reviewers, including Mart n Abadi, Gerrit Bleumer, Drew Dean, Anand Desai, Mariusz Jakubowski, Andrew Odlyzko, David Pointcheval, Guillaume Poupard, Zul kar Ramzan, Aleta Ricciardi, Dan Simon, Jessica Staddon, Venkie Venka- san, Avishai Wool, and Francis Zane. I apologize for any omissions. Adi Shamir gave an excellent invited talk that forecast the future of crypt- raphy and electronic commerce. On-line certic ate revocation was the subject of a panel led by Michael Myers, following up on the success of his panel on the same topic at last year s conference. Joan Feigenbaum moderated a lively panel on fair use, intellectual property, and the information economy, and I thank her for pulling together from that discussion a paper for these proceedings. A s- cessful Rump Session allowed participants to present new results in an informal setting, superbly chaired by Avi Rubin. 280 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540664084ISBN 13: 9783540664086
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains papers selected for presentation during the 24th Interna tional Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science held on September 6-10, 1999 in Szklarska Por^ba, Poland. The symposium, organized alternately in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, focuses on theoretical aspects and mathematical foundations of computer science. The scientific program of the symposium consists of five invited talks given by Martin Dyer, Dexter Kozen, Giovanni Manzini, Sergio Rajsbaum, and Mads Tofte, and 37 accepted papers chosen out of 68 submissions. The volume contains all accepted contributed papers, and three invited papers. The contributed papers have been selected for presentation based on their scientific quality, novelty, and interest for the general audience of MFCS par ticipants. Each paper has been reviewed by at least three independent referees - PC members and/or sub-referees appointed by them. The papers were se lected for presentation during a fully electronic virtual meeting of the program committee on May 7, 1999. The virtual PC meeting was supported by software written by Artur Zgoda, Ph.D. student at the University of Wroclaw. The entire communication and access to quite a sensitive database at PC headquarters in Wroclaw was secured by cryptographic protocols based on technology of certificates. 476 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540663657ISBN 13: 9783540663652
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Conference on Spatial Information Theory - COSIT - grew out of a series of workshops / NATO Advanced Study Institutes / NSF specialist meetings concerned with cognitive and applied aspects of representing large-scale space, particularly geographic space. In these meetings, the need for a well-founded theory of spatial information processing was identified. The COSIT conference series was established in 1993 as a biennial interdisciplinary European conference on the representation and processing of information about large-scale space, after a successful international conference on the topic had been organized by Andrew Frank et al. in Pisa, Italy, in 1992 (frequently referred to as 'COSIT zero'). After two successful European conferences with strong North-American participation (COSIT '93, held on the Island of Elba, Italy; COSIT '95, held in Semmering, Austria), the conference became a truly international enterprise when COSIT '97 was held in the Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA. COSIT '99 will take place in Stade, Germany. All aspects of large-scale space, i. e. spaces too large to be seen from a single vantage point, are addressed in the COSIT conferences. These include spaces of geographic scale, as well as smaller spaces in which humans, animals, or autonomous robots have to find their way around. Spatial information theory also deals with the description of objects, processes, or events in spatial environments and it forms the foundation for the construction of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and for spatial information and communication system design in general. 500 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540662146ISBN 13: 9783540662143
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While optimality conditions for optimal control problems with state constraints have been extensively investigated in the literature the results pertaining to numerical methods are relatively scarce. This book fills the gap by providing a family of new methods. Among others, a novel convergence analysis of optimal control algorithms is introduced. The analysis refers to the topology of relaxed controls only to a limited degree and makes little use of Lagrange multipliers corresponding to state constraints. This approach enables the author to provide global convergence analysis of first order and superlinearly convergent second order methods. Further, the implementation aspects of the methods developed in the book are presented and discussed. The results concerning ordinary differential equations are then extended to control problems described by differential-algebraic equations in a comprehensive way for the first time in the literature. 240 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 3540664297ISBN 13: 9783540664291
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the first part, this book analyzes the knowledge discovery process in order to understand the relations between knowledge discovery steps and focusing. The part devoted to the development of focusing solutions opens with an analysis of the state of the art, then introduces the relevant techniques, and finally culminates in implementing a unified approach as a generic sampling algorithm, which is then integrated into a commercial data mining system. The last part evaluates specific focusing solutions in various application domains. The book provides various appendicies enhancing easy accessibility.The book presents a comprehensive introduction to focusing in the context of data mining and knowledge discovery. It is written for researchers and advanced students, as well as for professionals applying data mining and knowledge discovery techniques in practice. 332 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540663630ISBN 13: 9783540663638
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -PaCT-99 (Parallel Computing Technologies) was a four-day conference held in St. Petersburg on 6 10 September 1999. This represented the fth inter- tional conference in PaCT series, which take place in Russia every odd year. The rst, PaCT-91, was held in Novosibirsk (Academgorodok), 7 11 September, 1991. The second PaCT-93 was held in Obninsk (near Moscow), 30 August 4 September, 1993. The third, PaCT-95, was organized in St.Petersburg, 12 15 September, 1995 and the last fourth PaCT-97 was held in Yaroslavl 9-12 September, 1997. PaCT-99 was jointly organized by the Institute of Computational Mathem- ics and Mathematical Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novo- birsk) and by the Electrotechnical University of St.Petersburg. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scientists working with theory, archit- ture, software, hardware and solution of large-scale problems in order to provide integrated discussions on Parallel Computing Technologies. The Conference attracted more than 100 participants from around the world. Authors from over 23 countries submitted 103 papers and there were 2 invited papers. Of those submitted, 47 papers were selected for the conference; in ad- tion there were a number of posters presented. All the papers were internationally reviewed by at least three referees. 536 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 3540664262ISBN 13: 9783540664260
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -LCPC'98 Steering and Program Committes for their time and energy in - viewing the submitted papers. Finally, and most importantly, we thank all the authors and participants of the workshop. It is their signi cant research work and their enthusiastic discussions throughout the workshopthat made LCPC'98 a success. May 1999 Siddhartha Chatterjee Program Chair Preface The year 1998 marked the eleventh anniversary of the annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), an international - rum for leading research groups to present their current research activities and latest results. The LCPC community is interested in a broad range of te- nologies, with a common goal of developing software systems that enable real applications. Amongthetopicsofinteresttotheworkshoparelanguagefeatures, communication code generation and optimization, communication libraries, d- tributed shared memory libraries, distributed object systems, resource m- agement systems, integration of compiler and runtime systems, irregular and dynamic applications, performance evaluation, and debuggers. LCPC'98 was hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) on 7 - 9 August 1998, at the William and Ida Friday Center on the UNC-CH campus. Fifty people from the United States, Europe, and Asia attended the workshop. The program committee of LCPC'98, with the help of external reviewers, evaluated the submitted papers. Twenty-four papers were selected for formal presentation at the workshop. Each session was followed by an open panel d- cussion centered on the main topic of the particular session. 404 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 3540640630ISBN 13: 9783540640639
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This text reflects the revised WHO classification and terminology. One major change is in the introduction of a new category: papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential. Many of the tumours previously designated as papillary transitional cell carcinoma, grade I now fall into that category. Another major change is in the designation of flat lesions, and this includes a definition of carcinoma in situ. Furthermore, a number of variant forms of urothelials carcinomas are included as well as new entities not recognized when the 1st edition was issued. 120 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540664017ISBN 13: 9783540664017
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 1999 Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management, held in Ed- burgh, Scotland, September 10 11, 1999, brought together leading researchers anddevelopersintheareaofspatio-temporaldatabasestodiscussthestate-- the-art in spatio-temporal research and applications and to understand the new challenges and future research directions in this emerging and rapidly advancing area. The workshop served as a forum for disseminating research and expe- ence in spatio-temporal databases and for maximizing interchange of knowledge among researchers from the established spatial and temporal database com- nities.Theexchangeofresearchideasandresultsnotonlycontributestothe academic arena, but also bene ts the user and commercial communities. Theseproceedingscontainthe researchpapersselectedforpresentationatthe workshop. The workshop was conceived from the outset to have a general scope within its areaand to be internationalin participation.The callfor papers aimed to attract the highest quality and most up-to-date research contributions from around the world, and the workshop was co-located with VLDB 99, enabling many participants to conveniently attend both events and thereby facilitating the widest possible international participation. The call for papers attracted 30 research papers, which were submitted by authors from 14 countries and ve continents, clearly indicating the truly int- nationalnatureoftheemergingareaofspatio-temporaldatabases.Aprogram committee consisting of 25 researchers from four continents conducted four - viewsofeachpaperandselected13outstandingpapersofrpresentationand discussion at the workshop and inclusion in the proceedings. Spatio-temporal databases manage spatially and temporally referenced data. Thepapersincludedinthisvolumecoverdiverseaspectsofthemanagement ofsuchdata,andtheyhavebeenorganizedinto vegroups:understanding andmanipulatingspatio-temporaldata;integration,exchange,andvisualization; query processing; index evaluation; and constraints and dependencies. 260 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 3540662634ISBN 13: 9783540662631
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Internet, World Wide Web, Provider, Online-Dienste . - allgegenwärtige Schlagworte der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie. Was ist das Internet Welchen Nutzen bietet es Medizinern in Beruf und Ausbildung Welche spezifisch medizinischen Informations- und Kommunikationsdienste erschließen sich online Wie erhält man Zugang zum Internet und den Online-Diensten Welche medizinischen Dienste zeichnen sich bereits für die Zukunft ab Wie kann man eigene Inhalte im Internet positionieren Die kompetente Beantwortung dieser Fragen bildet den Schwerpunkt der aktualisierten, erweiterten Neuauflage dieses erfolgreichen Werkes: leicht verständlich, mit zahlreichen Illustrationen, ermöglicht es einen schnellen Einstieg in dieses komplexe Thema und eine effiziente Nutzung der diversen Dienste. 264 pp. Deutsch.
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ISBN 10: 3540658866ISBN 13: 9783540658863
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Konsum alkoholischer Getränke (Menge, Häufigkeit) in der deutschen Wohnbevölkerung wird differenziert beschrieben. Zusammenhänge zwischen den Trinkgewohnheiten einerseits sowie wichtigen Gesundheitsindikatoren andererseits werden dargestellt. Weiter werden die Sterberaten an Herz-Kreislaufkrankheiten und an allen Todesursachen von Abstinenten und Gruppen mit unterschiedlichem Alkoholkonsum verglichen. Diese erste größere Analyse zum Alkoholkonsum und seine gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen bestätigt internationale Erkenntnisse, daß leichter und moderater Alkoholkonsum unabhängig von der Getränkeart subjektive und objektive gesundheitliche Vorteile mit sich bringt und mit einer statistisch signifikant niedrigen Sterblichkeit verbunden ist, starker und sehr starker Alkoholgenuß bewirkt aber das Gegenteil.Die Analysen wurden auf dem aktuellen Stand des epidemiologischen Wissens und der statistisch-epidemiologischen Verfahren durchgeführt. Die große Mehrheit der Deutschen konsumiert lebenslang alkoholische Getränke und bleibt dabei maßvoll. Das belegen Auswertungen der Nationalen Gesundheits-Surveys. Diese erste Untersuchung an einer großen und repräsentativen Bevölkerungsstichprobe zeigt auch klar, daß maßvoller Umgang mit Alkohol gesundheitliche Vorteile mit sich bringt. Im Vergleich mit Abstinenten, aber auch mit starken Trinkern, fühlen sich die vielen Menschen, die Bier, Wein und andere Alkoholika in geringen oder moderaten Mengen genießen, gesünder, schneiden bei wichtigen Risikofaktoren für Herz und Kreislauf besser ab und haben ein erheblich kleineres Sterberisiko. 84 pp. Deutsch.
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ISBN 10: 3540655905ISBN 13: 9783540655909
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Kapillarsperre ist ein innovatives, wirtschaftliches System zur Abdeckung von Deponien und Altlasten. Es beruht auf der wasserbindenden Wirkung der in ungesättigten Böden auftretenden Kapillarkräfte. Die obere Schicht aus feinkörnigen Sanden hält die Wässer kapillar und leitet sie bei vorhandener Hangneigung zum Böschungsfuß hin ab. Der darunter angeordnete Kapillarblock aus grobkörnigen Materialien bleibt dagegen nur gering durchfeuchtet. Vorteile des Systems sind u. a. eine weitgehende Unempfindlichkeit gegenüber Austrocknung und Setzungen sowie niedrige Herstellungskosten. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick zum Stand der Technik bei Planung und Bau von Kapillarsperren, der für Fachleute in der Praxis als Arbeits- und Entscheidungsgrundlage genutzt werden kann. 224 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540660259ISBN 13: 9783540660255
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Bedeutung des Kohärenzgebotes für das Zusammenwirken der unterschiedlichen Bereiche europäischer Integration ist Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung. Das Zusammenwirken der intergouvernementalen Kooperationsbereiche der Gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (GASP) und der Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Justiz und Inneres (ZBJI) mit dem supranationalen Integrationsbereich der Gemeinschaften kann nur schwer juristisch korrekt beschrieben werden. Die Beziehungen zwischen und innerhalb dieser drei Integrationsbereiche lassen sich am ehesten mit dem Begriff eines Pflichtenbündels erfassen. Die zentrale Rolle kommt dabei dem Begriff der Kohärenz zu. Die Frage der praktischen Umsetzung des Kohärenzgebotes zeigt, daß die Mitgliedstaaten sich der Bedeutung adäquater administrativer Strukturen für die Sicherstellung einer aufeinander abgestimmten Politikgestaltung durchaus bewußt sind. Die nach Inkrafttreten des Unionsvertrages unternommenen administrativen Änderungen sind geeignet, eine kohärentere Politik des gesamten Unionsverbundes zu befördern. 192 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540661123ISBN 13: 9783540661122
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die staatliche Teilnahme am Markt, d.h. die Nachfrage nach Gütern und Dienstleistungen, hat zunehmend das Interesse der Ökonomen und Juristen gefunden. Marktöffnung, Transparenz und Rechtsschutz für Bewerber und Bieter bilden die Schlagwörter bei der rechtlichen Neuordnung des Vergaberechts. Auftraggeber und Auftragnehmer haben sich auf ein verändertes Angebots- und Nachfrageverhalten auf den öffentlichen Beschaffungsmärkten einzurichten. Die Anbindung des Vergaberechts an das Wettbewerbsrecht verdeutlicht die Entwicklung, obwohl oder garde weil nur sog. Großaufträge hiervon erfaßt werden sollen. Verständlich und nachvollziehbar geschrieben bietet dieses Buch einen schnellen Überblick über die gesamte Breite des Vergaberechts. 552 pp. Deutsch.
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ISBN 10: 3540658300ISBN 13: 9783540658306
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die moderne Klimatologie mit ihren Prognose- und Interpretationsmodellen. Es gibt einen Überblick über die Vorstellungen, die man heute vom Klima und von klimarelevanten Prozessen hat, und wie man diese konzeptionell und quantitativ - also mit Modellen - zu beschreiben versucht. Der Text ist allgemein verständlich geschrieben und setzt keine besonderen Kenntnisse der Mathematik und Physik voraus. Dieses Lehrbuch basiert auf einer Vorlesung am Meteorologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg und richtet sich hauptsächlich an Studenten der Geowissenschaften und Physik, daneben an ebenfalls mit Klima befassten Disziplinen der Land-, Forst- und Umweltwissenschaften. 268 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Aug 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540660283ISBN 13: 9783540660286
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -and should therefore constitute a part of every area of economic 3 theory. The spectrum covered by information economics today ranges from Stigler's search theory4 to industrial economics, including oligopoly theory, innovation, as well as research and develop 5 ment. However, the area information economics is most closely connected with is the theory of optimal contracts, mainly ana 6 lyzed in principal-agent models. Contract theory deals primar ily with the question of how optimal arrangements (contracts) for the purchase and sale of commodities and services between two or more agents should be structured. In these models, it is often assumed that the parties to the contract are informed differently or asymmetrically about relevant variables (e. g. the health of one party in the case of insurance contracts, or the effort in relation to employment contracts). As a result of this asymmetric in formation, phenomena such as moral hazard, adverse selection, signaling, and screening may arise. Frequently, results from con tract theory are referred to when making statements about the effects of asymmetric information on an economy. Models of this kind are often used to explain phenomena such as fixed wages or unemployment, among others. 7 However, such conclusions must be treated with caution for two reasons. In the first place, in these models, a contract (explicit or implicit) is determined by the solution of an optimization prob lem. 160 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 354066484XISBN 13: 9783540664840
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This workshop series is now over ten years old, which is a pretty long time for a very focussed topic: Configuration Management. The first conference took place in 1988 (Grassau, Germany) and the topics were focussed on version control and rebuilding. Many people consider that SCM is one of the few areas of software engineering that can be considered to be really successful. Products, that more or less fulfill their p- pose, exist, and everybody agrees that they are now mandatory for a successful so- ware project. Indeed, during the second half of the nineties, SCM has entered a maturation phase, in which good commercial products have been incorporating many of the features - signed and discussed at previous conferences of this workshop. With the generali- tion of commercial products, the question now is: What are the objectives of a sci- tific workshop on this topic Is there any more research to be done in SCM today This ninth volume in the series reflects pretty well the current state and mood in the CM community. There are an unprecedented number of papers discussing the current state of the art and trying to identify research directions (session 6). On some core topics, like versioning (session 3), and following SCM8 tracks, papers present work on unified models. Versioning models, after years of raging discussions, now seem to have found a consensus. 268 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 3540663282ISBN 13: 9783540663287
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Data analysis and inference have traditionally been research areas of statistics. However, the need to electronically store, manipulate and analyze large-scale, high-dimensional data sets requires new methods and tools, new types of databases, new efficient algorithms, new data structures, etc. - in effect new computational methods. This monograph presents new intelligent data management methods and tools, such as the support vector machine, and new results from the field of inference, in particular of causal modeling. In 11 well-structured chapters, leading experts map out the major tendencies and future directions of intelligent data analysis. The book will become a valuable source of reference for researchers exploring the interdisciplinary area between statistics and computer science as well as for professionals applying adv anced data analysis methods in industry and commerce. Students and lecturers will find the book useful as an introduction to the area. 200 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 3540664629ISBN 13: 9783540664628
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the contributions presented at the International Workshop on Current Trends in Applied Formal Methods organized October 7-9, 1998, in Boppard, Germany. The main objective of the workshop was to draw a map of the key issues facing the practical application of formal methods in industry. This appears to be particularly timely with safety and security issues becoming a real obstacle to industrial software and hardware development. As a consequence, almost all major companies have now set up departments or groups to work with formal methods and many European countries face a severe labour shortage in this new field. Tony Hoare's prediction of the art of software (and hardware) development becoming a proper engineering science with its own body of tools and techniques is now becoming a reality. So the focus of this application oriented workshop was not so much on spe cial academic topics but rather on the many practical aspects of this emerging new technology: verification and validation, and tool support and integration into the software life-cycle. By evaluating the state of the art with respect to industrial applications a discussion emerged among scientists, practising engi neers, and members of regulatory and funding agencies about future needs and developments. This discussion lead to roadmaps with respect to the future of this field, to tool support, and potential application areas and promising market segments. The contributions of the participants from industry as well as from the respective national security bureaus were particularly valuable and highly appreciated. 396 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This work considers practical parallel list-ranking algorithms. The model for which programs are written is a single-program multiple-data (SPMD) bri- ingmodel'. Thismodel isdesignated asa programmer smodelfora ne-grained computation framework called Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT), which was - troduced in [VDBN98]; the XMT framework covers the spectrum from al- rithms through architecture to implementation; it is meant to provide a pl- form for faster single-task completion time by way of instruction-level par- lelism (ILP). The performance of XMT programs is evaluated as follow: the performance of a matching optimized XMT assembly code is measured within an XMT execution model. (We use in the current paper the so-called Spawn- MT programmingmodel - the easier to implement amongthe two programming modelspresented in[VDBN98]). The XMT approach deviatesfromthe standard PRAM approach by incorporating reduced synchrony and departing from the lock-step structure in its so-called asynchronous mode. Our envisioned platform uses an extension to a standard serial instruction set. This extension e ciently implements PRAM-style algorithms using explicit multi-threaded ILP, which allows considerably more n e-grained parallelism than the previously studied parallel computing implementation platforms/models. The list ranking problem was the rst problem considered as we examined and re ned many of the concepts in the XMT framework. The problem arises in parallel algorithmson lists, trees and graphs and is considered a fundamental problemin the theory of parallelalgorithms. Experimental results are presented. 376 pp. Englisch.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1.1 Fragestellung und Zielsetzung der Arbeit Produktentstehung, Produktnutzung und Produktentsorgung hängen in ihren wechselseitigen Wirkungsweisen zusammen, was in der Forderung nach Berücksichtigung integrierter Zusammenhänge durch die Unterneh men zum Ausdruck kommt. Die Umweltpolitik fordert beispielsweise im Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz von Unternehmen, der ganzheitlichen Wir kungsweise ihres industriellen Wirtschaftens gerecht zu werden. Da der Produktionsprozeß und die Produktgestaltung in der Verantwortung der Unternehmen liegen, sind Probleme, wie der Abbau von natürlichen Ressourcen, der Anfall von Abfällen, das Entstehen von Emissionen und Entsorgungsfragen von Altprodukten, auch maßgeblich von den Unter nehmen zu lösen. Der Hersteller oder Erzeuger von Produkten bzw. Abfällen hat eine Gesamtverantwortung, die sich auch auf die Entsorgung bezieht. Für die Unternehmen bedeutet das in einer Zeit starker Wettbe werbsorientierung eine ökonomische Belastung. Einzelne Unternehmen sind bei einer begrenzten Ressourcenausstattung häufig überfordert, umweltgerecht zu produzieren und umweltgerechte Produkte zu entwik kein. Technisch komplexe Gebrauchsgüter, wie z.B. Elektronikgeräte oder Automobile, stellen diesbezüglich hohe Anforderungen. Die zwischenbetriebliche Zusammenarbeit von Unternehmen zur Errei chung einer Umweltverträglichkeit von Produkten trägt zur Wettbewerbs stärkung bei und wird dem integrativen, produktlebensphasen übergreifen den Charakter des Umweltschutzes gerecht. Sie bietet die Chance, ökonomische und ökologische Gesichtspunkte miteinander zu verknüpfen. 300 pp. Deutsch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1 2 V. E. Zakharov and S. Wabnitz 1 L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2 Kosygin Str. , 117334 Moscow, Russia 2 Laboratoire de Physique, University of Bourgogne, 9 avenue A. Savary, 21078 Dijon, France After about a quarter of a century since the first theoretical predictions of op tical solitons, the industrial application of the optical soliton concept is near to reality in the booming field of modern telecommunications, where the de mand for high-speed data transmission and routing is of ever-growing. This book contains a set of lectures that were presented at a Les Houches school on optical solitons in September 1998. The school was successful in gathering among the lecturers most of the well-recognized world leaders in the field of optical solitons. A variety of different aspects of research into optical solitons was exposed in the lectures, ranging from the mathematical fundations of integrability theory to the rapidly evolving technological advances of fiber soliton-based telecommu nication systems. The overall impression that the participants and the students received from the school is that this field of research is an excellent example of the rapid transfer that occurs nowadays from basic science to the technological implementations of the first principles. The subjects that were covered by the lectures can be broadly grouped into four main categories: optical soliton the ory, fiber soliton telecommunications, optical soliton generation methods, and all-optical information processing via spatial solitons. 404 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Proterozoic-Phanerozoic Canadian Cordilleran mobile megabelt. This suggests that variously reworked ex-cratonic basement blocks underlie much of the Cordillera. The western edge of the modern craton is probably near the Rocky Mountain-Omineca belt boundary; the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt on the east side of the Cordillera is evidently rootless and overlies the undisturbed cratonic basement. Phanerozoic differences between the Cordilleran tectonic belts, resulting from a long, dissimilar, multi-cycle history of waxing and waning orogenesis apparent from the rock record, lie chiefly in the degree of indigenous tectonic remobilization and reworking of the ancient crust. 412 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Euro-Parisaninternationalconferencededicatedtothepromotionandadvan- ment of all aspects of parallel computing. The major themes can be divided into the broad categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for p- allel computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel computing both as an industrial te- nique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. This is particularly important at a time when parallel computing is undergoing strong and sustained development and experiencing real industrial take-up. The main audience for and participants in Euro-Parareseenasresearchersinacademicdepartments,governmentlabora- ries and industrial organisations. Euro-Par s objective is to become the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specic areas. Euro-Par is also interested in applications which demonstrate the e - tiveness of the main Euro-Par themes. There is now a permanent Web site for the series fmi. uni-passau. de/cl/europar where the history of the conference is described. Euro-Par is now sponsored by the Association of Computer Machinery and the International Federation of Information Processing. Euro-Par 99 The format of Euro-Par 99follows that of the past four conferences and consists of a number of topics eachindividually monitored by a committee of four. There were originally 23 topics for this year s conference. The call for papers attracted 343 submissions of which 188 were accepted. Of the papers accepted, 4 were judged as distinguished, 111 as regular and 73 as short papers. 1580 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR'99), held in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 6-10, 1999, and hosted by the University of Tbilisi. Forty-four papers were submitted to LPAR'99. Each of the submissions was reviewed by three program committee members and an electronic program com mittee meeting was held via the Internet. Twenty-three papers were accepted. We would like to thank the many people who have made LPAR'99 possible. We are grateful to the following groups and individuals: to the program committee and the additional referees for reviewing the papers in a very short time, to the organizing committee, and to the local organizers of the INTAS workshop in Tbilisi in April 1994 (Khimuri Rukhaia, Konstantin Pkhakadze, and Gela Chankvetadze). And last but not least, we would like to thank Konstantin - rovin, who maintained the program committee Web page; Uwe Waldmann, who supplied macros for these proceedings and helped us to install some programs for the electronic management of the program committee work; and Bill McCune, who implemented these programs. 416 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK'99, held in Florence, Italy in August/September 1999. The 31 revised full papers and nine short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on data warehouse design; online analytical processing; view synthesis, selection, and optimization; multidimensional databases; knowledge discovery; association rules; inexing and object similarities; generalized association rules and data and web mining; time series data bases; data mining applications and data analysis. 420 pp. Englisch.