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Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ecrit dans un style qui convient aux mathématiciens et à leur formation, cette introduction à la mécanique des milieux continus et à la modélisation mathématique reste néanmoins proche de la physique. En particulier, les Auteurs font une distinction claire entre ce qui est admis et ce qui est prouvé. Outre les fondements de la mécanique des milieux continus, cet ouvrage contient des introductions plus ou moins détaillées à diverses disciplines connexes: magnétohydrodynamique, combustion, dynamique des fluides géophysiques, Les Auteurs ont voulu éviter une approche trop abstraite des problèmes traités et garder un langage mathématique élémentaire (les pré-requis sont l'algèbre linéaire et le calcul différentiel et intégral connus de tout étudiant de licence ou de classes préparatoires et de tout ingénieur). Ce livre sera utile à un public très large, depuis les ingénieurs modélisateurs jusqu'aux étudiants des deux premiers cycles de l'Université, des Classes préparatoires. 292 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Based on a graduate course given by the author at Yale University this book deals with complex analysis (analytic capacity), geometric measure theory (rectifiable and uniformly rectifiable sets) and harmonic analysis (boundedness of singular integral operators on Ahlfors-regular sets). In particular, these notes contain a description of Peter Jones' geometric traveling salesman theorem, the proof of the equivalence between uniform rectifiability and boundedness of the Cauchy operator on Ahlfors-regular sets, the complete proofs of the Denjoy conjecture and the Vitushkin conjecture (for the latter, only the Ahlfors-regular case) and a discussion of X. Tolsa's solution of the Painlevé problem. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das vorliegende Buch setzt sich im ersten Teil mit der Gestaltung von Datenbanksystemen auseinander, wobei der gesamte Gestaltungsprozess auch an konkreten Beispielen aus der Praxis verdeutlicht wird. Vorgestellt werden anhand einer Fallstudie die Planung, die Auswahl, die Entwicklung und die Einführung eines Datenbanksystems in die betriebliche Anwendung. In Ergänzung werden die Datenbanksysteme (SQL) und CASE-Systeme (Oracle Designer) erklärt. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden moderne Datenbankkonzepte und -architekturen beschrieben, so vor allem die Verteilten und Föderierten Datenbanksysteme, die Objektorientierten und Analyseorientierten Datenbanksysteme (Data Warehouse-Systeme). Abschließend werden die Entwicklungstendenzen aufgezeigt. TOC:Einleitung.- Teil A. Planung, Auswahl und Entwicklung von Datenbanksystemen: Nutzung von Datenbanksystemsprachen und -entwicklungssystemen: Data Base Engineering - Gestaltung und Einsatz von Datenbanksystemen; Datenbanksystemsprachen; Werkzeuggestützte Entwicklung von Datenbanksystemen (DB-CASE-Systeme); Fallstudie zur Gestaltung eines Datenbanksystems - das Datenbanksystem TOPBIKE.- Teil B. Moderne Datenbank-Konzepte in der betrieblichen Praxis: Architekturen und Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Datenbanksystemen: Architekturen und Konzepte von Datenbanksystemen; Datenbanksysteme in verteilten Informationssystemen; Objektorientierte und Objekt-Relationale Datenbanksysteme; Analyseorientierte Datenbanksysteme; Zusammenfassung und Ausblick. 444 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents the revised version of seven tutorials given at the NETWORKING 2002 Conference in Pisa, Italy in May 2002.The lecturers present a coherent view of the core issues in the following areas:- peer-to-peer computing and communications- mobile computing middleware- network security in the multicast framework- categorizing computing assets according to communication patterns- remarks on ad-hoc networking- communication through virtual technologies- optical networks. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Phase transformations in solids typically lead to surprising mechanical behaviour with far reaching technological applications. The mathematical modeling of these transformations in the late 80s initiated a new field of research in applied mathematics, often referred to as mathematical materials science, with deep connections to the calculus of variations and the theory of partial differential equations. Thisvolume gives a brief introduction to the essential physical background, in particular for shape memory alloys and a special class of polymers (nematic elastomers).Then the underlying mathematical concepts are presented with a strong emphasis on the importance of quasiconvex hulls of sets for experiments, analytical approaches, and numerical simulations. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The AMDO 2002 workshop took place at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) on 21 23 November, 2002, sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), AERFAI (Spanish Association for Pattern Rec- nition and Image Analysis), the CICYT (Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Spanish Government), the European Commission (Human Potential Programme: High Level Scienti c Conferences), and the Mathematics and C- puter Science Department of the UIB. In addition, Egse (Eurographics Spanish Chapter)helpedwithdisseminationandpromotion. Thesubjectoftheworkshop wasongoingresearchinarticulatedmotiononasequenceofimagesandsophis- cated models for deformable objects. The goals of these areas are to understand and interpret the motion of complex objects that can be found in sequences of images in the real world. These topics (geometric and physically deformable models, motion analysis, articulated models and animation, visualization of - formable models, 3D recovery from motion, single or multiple human motion analysis and synthesis, applications of deformable models and motion analysis, face tracking, recovering and recognition models, etc. ) are actually very int- esting ways of organizing important research to solve more general problems. Another objective of this workshop was to relate elds using computer graphics, computer animation, or applications in several disciplines combining synthetic andanalyticalimages. Inthisregarditisofparticularinteresttoencouragelinks betweenresearchersinareasofcomputervisionandcomputergraphicswhohave common problems and frequently use similar techniques. Theworkshopincluded vesessionsofpresentedpapersandtwotutorials. - vited talks treating various aspects of the topics were: Haptic-based Deformable Solid of Arbitrary Topology, by Prof. H. Qin from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA); Passive 3D Human Motion Capture: Vision-Based Tracking Meets Computer Animation, by Prof. I. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on - formation and Communications Security (ICICS2002). The three previous c- ferenceswereheldinBeijing(ICICS97),Sydney(ICICS99)andXian(ICICS01), where we had an enthusiastic and well-attended event. ICICS2002 is sponsored and organized by the Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore, in co-operation with the Engineering Research Center for Information Security Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International C- munications and Information Security Association (ICISA). During the past ve years the conference has placed equal emphasis on the theoretical and practical aspects of information and communications security and has established itself as a forum at which academic and industrial people meet and discuss emerging security challenges and solutions. We hope to uphold this tradition by o ering you yet another successful meeting with a rich and interesting program. The response to the Call For Papers was overwhelming, 161 paper submissions were received. Therefore, the paper selection process was very competitive and di cult-only41paperswereacceptedandmanygoodpapershadtoberejected. The success of the conference depends on the quality of the program. We are indebted to our program committee members and the external referees for the wonderful job they did. 512 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -High communication efforts and poor problem solving results due to restricted overview are two central issues in collaborative problem solving. This work addresses these issues by introducing the processes of agent melting and agent splitting that enable individual problem solving agents to continually and autonomously reconfigure and adapt themselves to the particular problem to be solved. The author provides a sound theoretical foundation of collaborative problem solving itself and introduces various new design concepts and techniques to improve its quality and efficiency, such as the multi-phase agreement finding protocol for external problem solving, the composable belief-desire-intention agent architecture, and the distribution-aware constraint specification architecture for internal problem solving.The practical relevance and applicability of the concepts and techniques provided are demonstrated by using medical appointment scheduling as a case study. 312 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book has grown out of lectures held at a summer school on cosmology, in response to an ever increasing need for an advanced textbook that addresses the needs of both postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers from various disciplines ranging from mathematical physics to observational astrophysics. Bridging the gap between standard textbook material in cosmology and the forefront of research, this book also constitutes a modern source of reference for the experienced researcher in classical and quantum cosmology. 500 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) and Protocols for Mul- media Systems (PROMS) have been two successful series of international events bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry in all areas of multimedia systems. In 2002, for the rst time, these two workshops were held jointly, in what we hope was the rst of a new series of challenging and topical international workshops. IDMS/PROMS 2002 contributed to scienti c, strategic, and practical - vances in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols, and - telligent management tools, with emphasis on their provision over broadband networks. Along with tutorials, regular papers and technical demonstrations, IDMS/PROMS 2002 resulted in high-quality original work. The areas of interest of IDMS/PROMS cover mobile multimedia systems, multimediamiddleware,multimediacommunicationprotocols,quality-of-service issues, resource management, next-generation Internet, active and program- ble networking for multimedia applications, multimedia-speci c mobile agents, multimedia distribution and transport, multimedia tra c engineering, multi- dia encoding and compression, ubiquitous computing, multimedia applications, development tools for distributed multimedia applications, performance of p- tocolsandapplications,multimediacontentmanagement,serviceaccess,acco- ting and tari policing for multimedia teleservices, and standards (e.g., MPEG) and related issues. The IDMS/PROMS 2002 call for papers attracted 112 submissions from Asian, Australian, European, North American, and South American countries. These were subject to thorough review work by the Program Committee m- bers and additional reviewers who carried out their work using a specially built conferencesystem,WebChairing,developedinCoimbrabyFlordeUtopia,which allowed full control of the submission and reviewing processes. 392 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 36th Séminaire de Probabilités contains an advanced course on Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities by A. Guionnet and B. Zegarlinski, as well as two shorter surveys by L. Pastur and N. O'Connell on the theory of random matrices and their links with stochastic processes. The main themes of the other contributions are Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities, Stochastic Calculus, Martingale Theory and Filtrations. Besides the traditional readership of the Séminaires, this volume will be useful to researchers in statistical mechanics and mathematical finance. 516 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In recent years, autonomous robots, including Xavier, Martha [1], Rhino [2,3], Minerva,and Remote Agent, have shown impressive performance in long-term demonstrations. In NASA's Deep Space program, for example, an - tonomous spacecraft controller, called the Remote Agent [5], has autonomously performed a scienti c experiment in space. At Carnegie Mellon University, Xavier [6], another autonomous mobile robot, navigated through an o ce - vironment for more than a year, allowing people to issue navigation commands and monitor their execution via the Internet. In 1998, Minerva [7] acted for 13 days as a museum tourguide in the Smithsonian Museum, and led several thousand people through an exhibition. These autonomous robots have in common that they rely on plan-based c- trol in order to achieve better problem-solving competence. In the plan-based approach, robots generate control actions by maintaining and executing a plan that is e ective and has a high expected utility with respect to the robots' c- rent goals and beliefs. Plans are robot control programs that a robot can not only execute but also reason about and manipulate [4]. Thus, a plan-based c- troller is able to manage and adapt the robot's intended course of action - the plan - while executing it and can thereby better achieve complex and changing tasks. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Two-scale systems described by singularly perturbed SDEs have been the subject of ample literature. However, this new monograph develops subjects that were rarely addressed andcould be given the collective description 'Stochastic Tikhonov-Levinson theory and its applications.' The book provides a mathematical apparatus designed to analyze the dynamic behaviour of a randomly perturbed system with fast and slow variables. In contrast to the deterministic Tikhonov-Levinson theory, the basic model is described in a more realistic way by stochastic differential equations. This leads to a number of new theoretical questions but simultaneously allows us to treat in a unified way a surprisingly wide spectrum of applications like fast modulations, approximate filtering, and stochastic approximation.Two-scale systems described by singularly perturbed SDEs have been the subject of ample literature. However, this new monograph develops subjects that were rarely addressed andcould be given the collective description 'Stochastic Tikhonov-Levinson theory and its applications.' The book provides a mathematical apparatus designed to analyze the dynamic behaviour of a randomly perturbed system with fast and slow variables. In contrast to the deterministic Tikhonov-Levinson theory, the basic model is described in a more realistic way by stochastic differential equations. This leads to a number of new theoretical questions but simultaneously allows us to treat in a unified way a surprisingly wide spectrum of applications like fast modulations, approximate filtering, and stochastic approximation. 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As CMOS semiconductor technology strides towards billions of transistors on a single die new problems arise on the way. They are concerned with the - minishing fabrication process features, which a ect for example the gate-to-wire delay ratio. They manifest themselves in greater variations of size and operating parameters of devices, which put the overall reliability of systems at risk. And, most of all, they have tremendous impact on design productivity, where the costs of utilizing the growing silicon 'real estate' rocket to billions of dollars that have to be spent on design, veri cation, and testing. All such problems call for new - sign approaches and models for digital systems. Furthermore, new developments in non-CMOS technologies, such as single-electron transistors, rapid single- - quantum devices, quantum dot cells, molecular devices, etc. , add extra demand for new research in system design methodologies. What kind of models and design methodologies will be required to build systems in all these new technologies Answering this question, even for each particular type of new technology generation, is not easy, especially because sometimes it is not even clear what kind of elementary devices are feasible there. This problem is of an interdisciplinary nature. It requires an bridges between di erent scienti c communities. The bridges must be built very quickly, and be maximally exible to accommodate changes taking place in a logarithmic timescale. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume consists of the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2002), organized under the auspices of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS). The conference was held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur during December 12-14, 2002. The conference attracted 108 submissions (of which two were withdrawn). Of these, a total of 26 papers were selected for presentation in the conference. As in the last year, the PC meeting was held electronically (stretching over nearly three weeks in August 2002) and was a great success. In addition to the contributed papers, we had ve invited speakers this year: Hendrik Lenstra, Jr., Harry Mairson, Dale Miller, Chih-Hao Luke Ong, and Margus Veanes. We thank them for accepting our invitation and for providing abstracts (or even full papers) for the proceedings. Two workshops were organized in conjunction with the conference - both in Kanpur. A workshop on Parameterized Complexity was held during December 10-11, organized by Mike Fellows and Venkatesh Raman. The second workshop actually consisted of three miniworkshops: on Coding Theory by Madhu Sudan; on Finite Field Algorithms by Hendrik Lenstra, Jr.; and on Sieve Theory by R. Balasubramanian. We wish to thank all the reviewers and PC members who contributed greatly to making the conference a success. We also wish to thank the team at Springer- Verlag for their help in preparing the proceedings. 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatthe8thWorkshoponJobSched- ingStrategiesforParallelProcessing,whichwasheldinconjunctionwith HPDC11andGGF5inEdinburgh,UK,onJuly24,2002. Thepapershave beenthroughacompletereviewprocess,withthefullversionbeingreadand evaluatedby vetosevenmembersoftheprogramcommittee. Wewouldliketo takethisopportunitytothanktheprogramcommittee,AndreaArpaci-Dusseau, WalfredoCirne,AllenDowney,WolfgangGentzsch,AllanGottlieb,MoeJette, RichardLagerstrom,JensMache,CathyMcCann,ReaganMoore,BillNitzberg, MarkSquillante,andJohnTowns,foranexcellentjob. Thanksarealsodueto theauthorsfortheirsubmissions,presentations,and nalrevisionsforthisv- ume. Finally,wewouldliketothanktheMITLaboratoryforComputerScience andtheSchoolofComputerScienceandEngineeringattheHebrewUniversity fortheuseoftheirfacilitiesinthepreparationoftheseproceedings. Thisyearsawanemphasisontwomainthemes. The rstwastheclassical MPPschedulingarea. Themainfocusinthisareawasonback lling,including severaladvancedvariationsonthebasicscheme. Itisalsonoteworthythatseveral papersdiscussedtheuseofadaptivenessinjobscheduling. Thesecondmajor themewasschedulinginthecontextofgridcomputing,whichisemergingasan areaofmuchactivityandrapidprogress. Thesearecomplementedbyaninvited paperprovidinganoverviewoftheschedulingandresourcemanagementare aof theGlobalGridForum(GGF)e ort. Thiswastheeighthannualworkshopinthisseries,whichre ectsthec- tinuedinterestinthisarea. Theproceedingsofpreviousworkshopsareavailable fromSpringer-VerlagasLNCSvolumes949,1162,1291,1459,1659,1911,and 2221(andsince1998theyhavealsobeenavailableonline). Wehopeyou ndthesepapersinterestinganduseful. September2002 DrorFeitelson LarryRudolph UweSchwiegelshohn Table of Contents ASelf-TuningJobSchedulerFamilywithDynamicPolicySwitching . . . . . . . . 1 AchimStreit PreemptionBasedBack ll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 QuinnO. Snell,MarkJ. Clement,andDavidB. Jackson JobSchedulingfortheBlueGene/LSystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 ElieKrevat,Jos eG. Castan os,andJos eE. Moreira SelectiveReservationStrategiesforBack llJobScheduling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 SrividyaSrinivasan,RajkumarKettimuthu,VijaySubramani, andPonnuswamySadayappan Multiple-QueueBack llingSchedulingwithPrioritiesandReservations forParallelSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 BarryG. LawsonandEvgeniaSmirni SchedulingJobsonParallelSystemsUsingaRelaxedBack llStrategy. . . . . 88 WilliamA. Ward,Jr. ,CarrieL. Mahood,andJohnE. West TheImpactofMoreAccurateRequestedRuntimes onProductionJobSchedulingPerformance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Su-HuiChiang,AndreaArpaci-Dusseau,andMaryK. Vernon EconomicSchedulinginGridComputing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 CarstenErnemann,VolkerHamscher,andRaminYahyapour SNAP:AProtocolforNegotiatingServiceLevelAgreements andCoordinatingResourceManagementinDistributedSystems. . . . . . . . . . 153 KarlCzajkowski,IanFoster,CarlKesselman,VolkerSander, andStevenTuecke LocalversusGlobalSchedulerswithProcessorCo-allocation inMulticlusterSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 AncaI. D. BucurandDickH. J. Epema PracticalHeterogeneousPlaceholderScheduling inOverlayMetacomputers:EarlyExperiences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 ChristopherPinchak,PaulLu,andMarkGoldenberg CurrentActivitiesintheSchedulingandResourceManagementArea oftheGlobalGridForum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 BillNitzbergandJenniferM. Schopf Author Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 ASelf-TuningJobSchedulerFamily withDynamic PolicySwitching Achim 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This year marks the fourth year of the International Working Conference on Active Networks; this volume contains the papers accepted for full presentation at the conference. These proceedings are proof that Active Networks is a vibrant eldwithtrulyinternationalparticipation,withresearchdonenotonlyinthe contextofformalprograms(suchasFAINandDARPAActiveNets),butalso in a number of independent research programs. We received signi cantly more submissions than could possibly be accom- datedduringthetwodaysofsessions,andcombinedwiththedesireforhigh standards this has resulted in a very selective program. The distinguished p- gramcommitteedidanoutstandingjobofreviewingthepapers,withdetailed commentsandsuggestionstotheauthors,eachpaperreceivingfrom4to6 reviews.Ofthe53paperssubmitted,9wereacceptedunconditionally.Anad- tionalsetofpaperswereconditionallyaccepted,withprogramcommitteem- bers working with the authors to insure that review concerns were addressed, while shepherding towards nal publication; 11 of these papers are included in the proceedings. An additional set of poster presentations were given for worthy submissionsthatcouldnotbeaccommodatedwithintheselimitations,aswell as position papers and work in progress. ThebestpaperawardwenttoNadiaShalaby,YitzchakGottlieb,andMike Wawrzoniak for Snow on Silk: A NodeOS in the Linux Kernel, which begins these proceedings and the papers in the node operating systems session. These proceedingsalsocontainactivenetworkingpaperson:servicedeployment,d- covery,andcomposition;monitoringandmanagement;mobilewireless;system architecture; and peer-to-peer and group communication. In keeping with the working natureoftheconference,signi canttimewasreservedfordiscussion, andpanelsonactivemobilenetworking,peer-to-peer,andthefutureprospects for active network research and deployment. We would like to thank the technical program committee members for their hard work in reviewing and shepherding papers. We would like to thank Be- hardPlattner,PlaciFlury,andLukasRuffortheirconsiderabletimeandsupport inconferenceorganization,andforprovidingtheinfrastructureattheSwissF- eralInstituteofTechnology(ETH),Z urich that made the work of the program committee considerably easier. And of course it is the work of the authors that isthecoreoftheseproceedings,andtheattendees participationthatmakesfor an outstanding working conference. We hope you enjoy the fruits of their labor. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2002, held in Singapore, in December 2002.The 34 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions on the basis of 875 review reports. The papers are organized in topical sections on public key cryptography, authentication, theory, block ciphers, distributed cryptography, cryptanalysis, public key cryptanalysis, secret sharing, digital signatures, applications, Boolean functions, key management, and ID-based cryptography. 596 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The growth of the Internet and the availability of powerful computers and hi- speed networks as low-cost commodity components are changing the way we do computing. These new technologies have enabled the clustering of a wide variety of geographically distributed resources, such as supercomputers, storage systems, data sources, and special devices and services, which can then be used as a uni ed resource. Furthermore, they have enabled seamless access to and interaction among these distributed resources, services, applications, and data. The new paradigm that has evolved is popularly termed 'Grid computing'. Grid computing and the utilization of the global Grid infrastructure have presented signi cant challenges at all levels, including application development, progr- ming models, systems, infrastructures and services, networking, and security, and have led to the development of a global research community. Grid 2002 is the third in a series of workshops developed to provide a - rum for this growing Grid Computing research community. Grid 2000, the rst workshop in the series, was chaired by Rajkumar Buyya and Mark Baker, and was held in conjunction with HiPC 2002 in Bangalore, India. Grid 2001 (Chair: Craig A. Lee) and Grid 2002 were held in conjunction with Supercomputing, the world's premier meeting for high-performance computing. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th Annual Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2002), which was held in Lub eck (Germany) during November 24-26, 2002. The main objective of the conference was to p- vide an interdisciplinary forum discussing the theoretical foundations of machine learning as well as their relevance to practical applications. The conference was colocated with the Fifth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2002). The volume includes 26 technical contributions which were selected by the program committee from 49 submissions. It also contains the ALT 2002 invited talks presented by Susumu Hayashi (Kobe University, Japan) on 'Mathematics Based on Learning', by John Shawe-Taylor (Royal Holloway University of L- don, UK) on 'On the Eigenspectrum of the Gram Matrix and Its Relationship to the Operator Eigenspectrum', and by Ian H. Witten (University of Waikato, New Zealand) on 'Learning Structure from Sequences, with Applications in a Digital Library' (joint invited talk with DS 2002). Furthermore, this volume - cludes abstracts of the invited talks for DS 2002 presented by Gerhard Widmer (Austrian Research Institute for Arti cial Intelligence, Vienna) on 'In Search of the Horowitz Factor: Interim Report on a Musical Discovery Project' and by Rudolf Kruse (University of Magdeburg, Germany) on 'Data Mining with Graphical Models'. The complete versions of these papers are published in the DS 2002 proceedings (Lecture Notes in Arti cial Intelligence, Vol. 2534). ALT has been awarding the E. 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual international forum for participants to exchange research results, innovative ideas, and state-of-the-art developments in digital libraries. Built upon the successes of the first four ICADL conferences, the 5th ICADL Conference in Singapore was aimed at further strengthening the position of ICADL as a premier digital library conference that draws high quality papers and presentations from all around the world, while meeting the needs and interests of digital library communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The theme of the conference, 'Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge & Technology,' reflects the shared belief of the organizers that success in the development and implementation of digital libraries lies in the achievement of three key areas: the richness and depth of content to meet the needs of the communities they intend to serve; the technologies that are employed to build user-centered environments through organization, interaction, and provision of access to that content; and the human elements of management policies, maintenance, and vision necessary to keep pace with new content, new technologies, and changing user needs. 560 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the Thirteenth - nual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2002) tobeheldinVancouver,CanadaonNovember21-23,2002.Thisisthe rsttime thatISAAChasventuredintoNorthAmerica,asitistraditionallyheldinthe Asia-Paci c region. ISAAC is an annual international symposium that covers the very broad areas of algorithms and computing in general. The scope of this symposium - cludes both theoretical and applied research from these elds. The main aim of the symposium is to promote the exchange of ideas in this active research community. The speci c themes targeted for ISAAC 2002 were Computational Geometry,AlgorithmsandDataStructures,ApproximationAlgorithms,Ran- mizedAlgorithms,GraphDrawingandGraphAlgorithms,Combinatorial- timization,ComputationalBiology,ComputationalFinance,Cryptography,and Parallel and Distributed Computing. Inresponsetoourcallforpapers,wereceivedcloseto160submissions.The challenging task of selecting the papers for presentation was performed by the membersofourprogramcommittee,theirsupportsta ,andreferees.Allof them deserve special thanks for their hard work in the di cult task of selecting amere54papersfromthehigh-qualitysubmissions.Unfortunately,duetothe timeconstraintsimposedbyathree-dayconference,wewereforcedtoturn away many excellent papers. John Iacono will receive the traditionalbestpaperaward for his paper entitled KeyIndependentOptimality. Our three invited speakers are Luc Devroye from McGill University who will speak onRandomTries,J anos Pach from New York University who will speak onMonotoneDrawingsofPlanarGraphs,andNic- las Pippenger from the University of British Columbia who will speak on the ExpectedAcceptanceCountsforFiniteAutomatawithAlmostUniformInput. No conference can succeed without exceptional local organization. For the often overlooked and thankless task of nding a suitable venue and banquet location,dealingwiththelogisticsofregistration,organizinglunchesandco ee, etc.,wewouldliketothankthetheorganizingcommittee,NadjaRence,andOlga Stachova for all their e orts above and beyond the call of duty. We thank our sponsorsSimonFraserUniversity,thePaci cInstituteofMathematicalSciences, the institute for Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems, andBajaiInc.fortheirgeneroussupport.Finally,wethankalltheauthorsand participants. We hope this edition of ISAAC will be a success. 676 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Forthe29thtime,SOFSEM(SOFtwareSEMinar)washeld.Havingtransformed over the years from a local event to a fully international conference, the c- temporary SOFSEM is a mix of a winter school and a conference striving for multidisciplinarity in computer science, accompaniedby workshops dedicated to a narrow eld (this year multimedia and softcomputing) and a student forum. This volume constitutes the proceedings of SOFSEM 2002 held in Milovy, Czech Republic, November 22 29, 2002. This year, 23 papers were submitted from 11 countries. The selection of the 11 best papers accepted by the Program Committee was based on their contribution to the state of the art, technical soundness, clarity of presentation, and relevance of bibliography. The Steering Committee supported by the Advisory Board recommended 12 invited talks focusedonthefollowingkeytopicareas:distributedandparallelsystems,syst em design and testing, databases and information systems, and fundamentals. SOFSEM is the result of considerable e ort by a number of people. It is our pleasure to record our thanks to the Advisory Board for its support, to the Steering Committee for its general guidance, and to the Organizing Committee for making SOFSEM 2002 happen. It has been an honor for us to work with the members of the Program Committee and other referees who devoted a lot of e ort to reviewing the submitted papers. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this monograph, we study the problem of high-dimensional indexing and systematically introduce two efficient index structures: one for range queries and the other for similarity queries. Extensive experiments and comparison studies are conducted to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed indexing methods.Many new database applications, such as multimedia databases or stock price information systems, transform important features or properties of data objects into high-dimensional points. Searching for objects based on these features is thus a search of points in this feature space. To support efficient retrieval in such high-dimensional databases, indexes are required to prune the search space. Indexes for low-dimensional databases are well studied, whereas most of these application specific indexes are not scaleable with the number of dimensions, and they are not designed to support similarity searches and high-dimensional joins. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2002) held at the M ovenpick Hotel, Lub eck, G- many, November 24 26, 2002. The conference was supported by CorpoBase, DFKI GmbH, and JessenLenz. The conference was collocated with the 13th International Conference on - gorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2002). Both conferences were held in parallel and shared ve invited talks as well as all social events. The combination of ALT 2002 and DS 2002 allowed for a comprehensive treatment of recent de- lopments in computational learning theory and machine learning some of the cornerstones of discovery science. In response to the call for papers 76 submissions were received. The program committee selected 17 submissions as regular papers and 29 submissions as poster presentations of which 27 have been submitted for publication. This selection was based on clarity, signi cance, and originality, as well as on relevance to the rapidly evolving eld of discovery science. 484 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explains key financial concepts, mathematical tools and theories of mathematical finance. It is organized in four parts. The first brings together a number of results from discrete-time models. The second develops stochastic continuous-time models for the valuation of financial assets (the Black-Scholes formula and its extensions), for optimal portfolio and consumption choice, and for obtaining the yield curve and pricing interest rate products. The third part recalls some concepts and results of equilibrium theory and applies this in financial markets. The last part tackles market incompleteness and the valuation of exotic options. 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Over more than two centuries the development of economic theory has created a wide array of different theories, concepts and results. Nevertheless, there is no general theory, which mrifies these varied theories into a comprehensive one. Economics has been split between partial and conflicting representations of the functioning of market economies. We have a collection of separate theories such as the Marxian economics, the Keynesian economics, the general equilibrium theory, and the neoclassical growth theory. These diverse economic theories have co-existed but not in a structured relationship with each other. Economic students are trained to understand economic phenomena by severally incompatible theories one by one in the same course. Since the end of Second Wodd War many crises in economic theory have been announced. The economist experienced the crisis of the general equilibrium economics, the crisis of the neoclassical growth economics, the crisis of the Keynesian economics, not to mention the crises of the Marxian economics. It is quite reasonable to expect the loss of confidence in theoretical economics even among professional economists after so many crises in a very short period of time. But a crisis offers new opportmrities for change, either for better or for worse. The past crises in theoretical economics may be perceived as a historical opportmrity to construct a general economic theory by which the traditional theories are integrated into a higher whole. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES) was heldMay27 28,2002inconjunctionwithCAiSE02,the14thInternationalC- ferenceonAdvancedInformationSystemsEngineering.Theworkshopcomprised three tracks: a track on Web services co-chaired by Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano) and Jian Yang (Tilburg University); a track on e-business, co-chaired byMariaE.Orlowska(UniversityofQueensland)andChristophBussler(Oracle Corporation, USA); and a track on e-services and the Semantic Web, co-chaired byRickHull(BellLaboratories,LucentTechnologies,USA)andSheilaMcIlraith (Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, USA). The Internet is changing the way businesses operate. Organizations are using the web to deliver their goods and services, to nd trading partners, and to link theirexisting(maybelegacy)applicationstootherapplications.Webservicesare rapidly becoming the enabling technology of today s e-business and e-commerce systems, and will soon transform the Web as it is now into a distributed c- putation and application framework. On the other hand, e-business as an emerging concept is also impacting so- ware applications, the everyday services landscape, and the way we do things in almost each domain of our life. There is already a body of experience accu- lated that demonstrates the di erence between just having an online presence andusingtheWebasastrategicandfunctionalmediumine-business-to -business interaction (B2B) as well as in marketplaces. Finally, the emerging Semantic Web paradigm promises to annotate Web artifactstoenableautomatedreasoningaboutthem.Whenappliedtoe-services, the paradigm hopes to provide substantial automation for activities such as discovery, invocation, assembly, and monitoring of e-services. But much work remains to be done before realizing this vision. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was init- ted in 1995 by AIT, INRIA, and UNU/IIST to provide a forum for researchers in computer science from the Asian region and to promote interaction with - searchers from other regions. The rst six conferences were held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore, Katmandu, Manila, Phuket, and Penang. The proc- dings have been published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of Springer-Verlag. This year, the main themes chosen for ASIAN 2002 were: Internet Computing and Modeling, Grid, Peer-to-Peer, and Cluster Computing. The program committee selected 17 papers out of 30 submissions, and these papersshowverywelltherichnessofthis eldofscienti cinvestigations.Wehave indeed papers on topics ranging from scienti c cluster computing to advanced networkingapplicationsforthegeneralpublic,andfromnetworkprotocoldes ign and evaluation to the architecture of the Grid. The invited speakers of ASIAN 2002 were Alessandro Bassi (University of Tennessee), Brigitte Plateau (Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble), and Shinji Shimojo (Osaka University). The program committee thanks them for accepting its invitation. The conference was held in Hanoi, Vietnam. We are much obliged to the Asian Institute of Technology of Hanoi, and its director Prof. Nguyen Cong Thanh, for coordinating the local arrangements. Many thanks are due to our sponsoring institutions: the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), INRIA (France), and Waseda University (Japan). Finally, I wish to thank warmly the program committee and the additional referees,fortheire cienthandlingofthepapersunderunusualtimeconstraints. 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Obwohl die Bedeutung des Dienstleistungssektors auch bei uns steigt, hat er bisher nicht die Bedeutung wie in anderen Ländern gewonnen und der Sektor gehört auch nicht zu den 'Exportweltmeistern'. Dieses Buch zeigt, dass Dienstleister, die als Netzwerk organisiert sind, ihre Wettbewerbsposition verbessern können, da sie Kundennähe mit effizientem Systemhintergrund verbinden. Nach einem konzeptionellen Überblick werden empirische Ergebnisse einer internationalen Benchmarkingstudie zu den Erfolgsfaktoren von Dienstleistungsnetzwerken vorgestellt. Dabei werden fünf Erfolgsfaktoren identifiziert und deren Umsetzung in Form von 'Best Practices Case Studies' aufgearbeitet. Diese Fallstudien stellen die international erfolgreichsten Benchmarks vor. Die Vorstellung von Franchising und Cooperations-Netzwerken und Überlegungen zum 'idealen Dienstleistungswerk' bilden den Schluss des Buches. 496 pp. Deutsch.