Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540427880 ISBN 13: 9783540427889
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Autorin beschreibt die Vielzahl der Faktoren, die das Eßverhalten der Menschen beeinflussen: die Eigenschaften der Speisen, wie Geruch und Geschmack, Farbe und Temperatur, Zubereitungsart und Nährwert, aber auch Eßerziehung und Eßkultur; sie erklärt, wie Nahrungsvorlieben,- abneigungen und Eßstörungen entstehen. 276 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540429093 ISBN 13: 9783540429098
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Qualitätsoptimierung bedeutet höhere Patientenzufriedenheit und sichert langfristig die Existenz Ihrer Praxis.Der Leitfaden bietet Ihnen alle Informationen für ein perfektes Qualitäts- und Praxismanagement, orientiert an den neuesten Standards der Qualitätssicherung.- Optimierte Abläufe in Diagnostik und Therapie- Ausgewogener Einsatz aller Ressourcen- Gezieltes FehlermanagementMit konkreten Vorschlägen, Tipps und Checklisten! 152 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540435956 ISBN 13: 9783540435952
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This research monograph introduces some new aspects to the theory of harmonic functions and related topics. The authors study the analytic algebraic structures of the space of boundedharmonic functions on locally compact groups and its non-commutative analogue, the space of harmonic functionals on Fourier algebras. Both spaces are shown to be the range of a contractive projection on a von Neumann algebra and therefore admit Jordan algebraic structures. This provides a natural setting to apply recent results from non-associative analysis, semigroups and Fourier algebras. Topics discussed include Poisson representations, Poisson spaces, quotients of Fourier algebras and the Murray-von Neumann classification of harmonic functionals. 112 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540432515 ISBN 13: 9783540432517
Anbieter: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das finanzwirtschaftliche Risikomanagement. Die Darstellung der konzeptionellen Grundlagen umfaßt neben einer entscheidungstheoretisch fundierten Betrachtung des Risikomanagements auch institutionelle Aspekte des Risikomanagements in Unternehmen. Die Messung, Bewertung und Steuerung von Marktrisiken und Ausfallrisiken bildet den Schwerpunkt des Buches. Im Bereich der Marktrisiken führt das Buch in die Bewertung von Optionen, Futures und Swaps ein, einschließlich des Value-at-Risk-Konzepts und der Steuerung von Marktpreisrisiken anhand von Hedgingstrategien. Die Ausführungen zu Ausfallrisiken umfassen sowohl die ex-post- als auch die ex-ante-Quantifizierung von Bonitätsrisiken mit traditionellen und neuen Methoden. Den Abschluß bilden Portfoliomodelle und die Nutzung von Kreditderivaten.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540646507 ISBN 13: 9783540646501
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Basiert auf einer Vorlesung des Autors, die nun in Zusammenarbeit mit Rudolf Scharlau neu bearbeitet herausgegeben wird. Enthält eine moderne Einführung in die Theorie der quadratischen Formen mit Betonung auf Hauptergebnisse der Theorie über rationale Zahlen. Der erste Teil behandelt in knapper, aber vollständiger Form die algebraischen Grundlagen für quadratische Formen über Bewertungsringe und Körper. Plus: Theorie der Clifford-Algebren. 176 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540423761 ISBN 13: 9783540423768
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The goal of this book is to create awareness for a change in mind-set that we will all have to face and go through. The necessity for this new mind set is being driven by the situation that a completely new business world, a new reality, is being created at the point where the phenomenon commonly referred to as the 'new economy' converges with the well-known old economy. During the very late 1990s, this new reality was being driven by an almost incredible increase in yields in the financial markets, where conventional but value-driven and stable stocks such as Philip Morris, General Electric, or Bayer, did not attract as many investors as before - if we can call some of them investors at all. Companies in the high-tech or the new market segments are all part of the new economy. This new economy has created new business ideas, business models, and a new reality, in which chief executive officers (CEOs) were in the mid twenties and had basically no clue as to what real business is and how much a dollar counts. Now, as this convergence is happening, the painful reality and the business rules of the old economy get us back down to earth. The CEOs become more senior, business plans are validated more carefully, and just having the famous '. com' in your company name does not get you any further or lead you to any of required money. 252 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540437754 ISBN 13: 9783540437758
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Biomolecular computing is an interdisciplinary eld that draws together mol- ular biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and mathematics. DNA n- otechnology and molecular biology are key relevant experimental areas, where knowledge increases with each passing year. The annual international meeting on DNA-based computation has been an exciting forum where scientists of d- ferent backgrounds who share a common interest in biomolecular computing meetanddiscusstheirlatestresults. Thecentralgoalofthisconeren f ceisto bring together experimentalists and theoreticians whose insights can calibrate each other s approaches. DNA7, The Seventh International Meeting on DNA Based Computers,washeldatTheUniversityofSouthFloridainTampa,FL, USA, June 10 13,2001. The organizerssought to attract the most signi cant - centresearch,withthehighestimpactonthedevelopmentofthediscipline. The meeting had 93 registered participants from 14 countries around the world. The program committee received 44 abstracts, from which 26 papers were presented at the meeting, and included in this volume. In addition to these papers, the Program Committee chose 9 additional papers from the poster presentations, and their revised versions have been added to this volume. As is now a tradition, four tutorials were presented on the rst day of the meeting. The morning started with general tutorials by Erik Winfree (Caltech) andJunghueiChen(UniversityofDelaware),designedtobridgebetweentheir respectiveareasofexpertise,computerscienceandmolecularbiology. Mores- cialized tutorials on encoding DNA sequences and on non-standard DNA motifs and interactions were given in the afternoon by Anne Condon (University of British Columbia) and Nadrian C. Seeman (New York University), respectively. 408 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540433422 ISBN 13: 9783540433422
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This fresh and original text on quantum mechanics focuses on: the development of numerical methods for obtaining specific results; the presentation of group theory and the systematic use of operators; the introduction of the functional integral and its applications in approximation; the discussion of distant correlations and experimental measurements. Numerous exercises with hints and solutions, examples and applications, and a guide to key references help the student to work with the text. 580 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540426647 ISBN 13: 9783540426646
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book reviews the present understanding of the history of software and establishes an agenda for further research. By exploring this current understanding, the authors identify the fundamental elements of software. The problems and questions addressed in the book range from purely technical to societal issues. Thus, the articles presented offer a fresh view of this history with new categories and interrelated themes, comparing and contrasting software with artefacts in other disciplines, so as to ascertain in what ways software is similar to and different from other technologies.This volume is based on the international conference 'Mapping the History of Computing: Software Issues', held in April 2000 at the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn, Germany. 292 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 354042993X ISBN 13: 9783540429937
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Rezeptbuch vermittelt einpr sam alle Informationen f den Einsatz der wichtigsten radiologischen Verfahren. Mit vielen Tipps und Tricks, die den Arbeitsablauf erleichtern. 248 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540434496 ISBN 13: 9783540434498
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mit dem vorliegenden Band wird der Ertrag eines internationalen Symposions dokumentiert, das vom 19. bis zum 24. September 2000 in Heidelberg stattgefunden hat. Ziel des Symposiums war es, zentrale Regelungsbereiche des Menschenrechtsübereinkommens zur Biomedizin des Europarates einer rechtsvergleichenden Analyse zu unterziehen. Dabei wurde einerseits die Vereinbarkeit des Übereinkommens mit zahlreichen nationalen Rechtsordnungen untersucht, andererseits aber auch der Frage nachgegangen, ob das Menschenrechtsübereinkommen vielleicht sogar über Europa hinaus prägend wirken kann. 24 Länderberichte, 7 Generalberichte sowie 4 Grundlagenreferate liefern wichtige Informationen und Diskussionsanstöße zu den zentralen Problembereichen des Menschenrechtsübereinkommens. 864 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540436758 ISBN 13: 9783540436751
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For the fth time in its history, in cooperation with Springer-Verlag, the European C- ference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) conference series is glad to offer the object-oriented research community the ECOOP 2001 Workshop Reader, a c- pendium of workshop reports, panel transcripts, and poster abstracts pertaining to the ECOOP 2001 conference, held in Budapest from 18 to 22 June, 2001. ECOOP 2001 hosted 19 high-quality workshops covering a large spectrum of - search topics. The workshops attracted 460 participants on the rst two days of the conference. Originally 22 workshops were chosen from 26 proposals by a workshop selection committee, following a peer review process. Due to the overlaps in the areas of interest and the suggestions made by the committee six of the groups decided to merge their topicsintothreeworkshops.Thisbookcontainsinformationonthepanel,postersessi on, and 17 workshop reports, for which we have to thank our workshop organizers, who did a great job in preparing and formatting them. The reports are organized around the main line of discussion, comparing the - rious approaches and giving a summary on the debates. They also include the list of participants, af liations, contact information, and the list of contributed position papers. Although they usually do not include abstracts or excerpts of the position papers, they do give useful references to other publications and websites, where more information may be found. 244 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540437231 ISBN 13: 9783540437239
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Biometric authentication refers to identifying an individual based on his or her distinguishing physiological and/or behavioral characteristics. It associates an individual with a previously determined identity based on that individual s appearance or behavior. Because many physiological or behavioral characteristics (biometric indicators) are distinctive to each person, biometric identifiers are inherently more reliable and more capable than knowledge-based (e.g., password) and token-based (e.g., a key) techniques in differentiating between an authorized person and a fraudulent impostor. For this reason, more and more organizations are looking to automated identity authentication systems to improve customer satisfaction, security, and operating efficiency as well as to save critical resources. Biometric authentication is a challenging pattern recognition problem; it involves more than just template matching. The intrinsic nature of biometric data must be carefully studied, analyzed, and its properties taken into account in developing suitable representation and matching algorithms. The intrinsic variability of data with time and environmental conditions, the social acceptability and invasiveness of acquisition devices, and the facility with which the data can be counterfeited must be considered in the choice of a biometric indicator for a given application. In order to deploy a biometric authentication system, one must consider its reliability, accuracy, applicability, and efficiency. Eventually, it may be necessary to combine several biometric indicators (multimodal-biometrics) to cope with the drawbacks of the individual biometric indicators. 212 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 354043724X ISBN 13: 9783540437246
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The AI conference series is the premier event sponsored by the Canadian - ciety for the Computational Studies of Intelligence / Soci et e canadienne pour l' etude d'intelligence par ordinateur. Attendees enjoy our typically Canadian - mosphere -hospitable and stimulating. The Canadian AI conference showcases the excellent research work done by Canadians, their international colleagues, and others choosing to join us each spring. International participation is always high; this year almost 40% of the submitted papers were from non-Canadian - searchers. We accepted 24 papers and 8 poster papers from 52 full-length papers submitted. We also accepted eight of ten abstracts submitted to the Graduate Student Symposium. All of these accepted papers appear in this volume. The Canadian AI Conference is the oldest continuously-held national AI c- ference in the world. (ECCAI's predecessor, AISB, held meetings in 1974, but these have since become international.) Conferences have been held biennially since 1976, and annually since 2000. AI 2002 again joined its sister Canadian computer science conferences, Vision Interface and Graphics Interface, enri- ing the experience for all participants. The joint meeting allows us to stay - formed about other areas, to make new contacts, and perhaps to investigate cross-disciplinary research. This year the conferences was held on the beautiful campus of the University of Calgary, and many participants took the opportunity to tour nearby Ban and the magni cent Rocky Mountains. 392 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540429700 ISBN 13: 9783540429708
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Erfolgreiches Wissensmanagement setzt voraus, dass es in die tägliche Arbeit integriert ist, wie sie durch die Geschäftsprozesse eines Unternehmens vorgegeben wird. Wissensmanagement muss deshalb als integraler Bestandteil von Geschäftsprozessen und deren Gestaltung betrachtet werden. Wissen ist für ein Unternehmen relevant, wenn es die Geschäftsprozesse verbessert. In diesem Buch werden praxisrelevante Techniken und Vorgehensweisen beschrieben, mit deren Hilfe relevantes Wissen identifiziert, gesichert und gezielt zur Bearbeitung von Prozessaktivitäten bereitgestellt werden kann. TOC:Software-Unterstützung für das geschäftprozessorientierte Wissensmanagement: Ein Überblick.- Geschäftsprozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement - Die MO2GO-Methode.- Unsichtbar oder vergessen - Wie man 'verborgenen Wissensprozessen' auf die Schliche kommt.- Integrierte Prozess- und Kommunikationsmodellierung als Ausgangspunkt für die Verbesserung von wissensintensiven Geschäftsprozessen.- Wissensorientiertes Projektmanagement als Implementiertungsansatz für Knowledge Management.- Wissensmanagement im Projektgeschäft bei der Deutschen Telekom.- Über die Integration von Geschäftsprozessen und Lessons Learned mit der Experience Factory.- Wissensintensive Geschäftsprozesse - der PROMOTE-Ansatz.- Wissenstransparenz als Wettbewerbsvorteil.- Management bei BMW.- Prozessorienterte Modellierung eines Dokumentenmanagement-Systems: der MOVE/WOMIS-Kontextnavigator in der Praxis. 484 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540434429 ISBN 13: 9783540434429
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über das DomainLaw - dem Namens- und Kennzeichenrecht im Internet. Behandelt werden zentrale Bereiche des DomainLaw wie beispielsweise das Vergabeverfahren sowie der nationale, europäische und internationale Rechtsschutz von Domain-Namen. Eine Reihe potentieller Rechtsprobleme werden dargestellt, die es zu wissen gilt, wenn man selbst Domaininhaber/in ist oder sich anderweitig mit diesem Bereich beschäftigt. Das Werk dient als zuverlässiger und verständlicher Rechtsberater, um sich in dem sehr komplexen Bereich des Namens- und Kennzeichenrechts im Internet orientieren zu können. Es richtet sich sowohl an Praktiker aus Wirtschaft, Justiz und Anwaltschaft, als auch an Studierende und Wissenschaftler. 284 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540433449 ISBN 13: 9783540433446
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the 200 I International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2(01) held at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, September 3-5,2001. OR 200 1 was organized under the auspices of the German Society of Operations Research, Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR e. V.). The conference and the annual general meeting were attended by 360 participants from 20 countries. The presentation of 220 papers was organized in 15 sections. According to Duisburg as hosting city for this event OR 200 1 emphasized on contributions of OR in the areas of energy, transport and traftk. The program consisted of2 plenary lectures (Reinhard Selten and Jörg Hennerkes) and 15 invited semiplenary lectures. 97 papers were submitted for publication. Following the advice of the section chairs the program committee decided to accept 59 papers for this volume. The selected manuscripts will be published also in electronic form on the W orld Wide Web at 1. We want to thank all referees and authors for delivering their final manuscript in due time. We are also grateful to the other members of the local organizing committee and especially to Stefan Krebs, Corinna Schu and David Betge for the perfect conference management. Roland Düsing, Ralph Gollmer and Steffen Stock supported us in editing the abstracts and the final version of this proceeding volume. Last but not least thanks to all the assistants and student assistants for their operations on OR 2001 in Duisburg. 520 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540437495 ISBN 13: 9783540437499
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Software professionals and companies live in a new world today. Increasingly complex systems need to be built faster and cheaper. While many of the est- lished approaches in software quality are still valid, the software quality c- munity is going through a paradigm shift that requires a re-assessment of our current method and tool portfolio, as well as creating new and more e ective solutions. We have selected two themes for this conference to highlight this paradigm shift. Our rst theme, 'production of attractive and reliable software at Internet speed' sums up the dilemma many software organisations face. In order to be competitive, software should contain advanced features and run reliably - yet it should be developed quickly and cost e ectively for the right market window. Finding the right balance between these objectives is a critical question that will determine business success in the years to come. Our second theme, 'production of software with a dynamic partnership n- work' highlights the current trend of using partnerships and subcontractors as integral players in the software development process. Partnerships sometimes need to be created quickly to respond to a market opportunity, yet the costs and speed of cooperation must be competitive. Di erent companies have di erent processes, quality tools and cultures, yet they should cooperate seamlessly for the best result. 384 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540437037 ISBN 13: 9783540437031
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The third in a series of international conferences on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2002, was held in Turku, Finland, May 15-17, 2002. Turku, situated in the south western corner of the country, is the former capital of Finland. The conference was organized jointly by Abo Akademi University and Turku Centre for Computer Science. The theme of IFM 1999 was the integration of state and behavioral based formalisms. For IFM 2000 this was widened to include all aspects pertaining to the integration of formal methods and formal notations. One of the goals of IFM 2002 was to further investigate these themes. Moreover, IFM 2002 explored the relations between formal methods and graphical notations, especially the industrialstandardlanguageforsoftwaredesign,theUni edModelingLanguage (UML). The themes of IFM 2002 re ect what we believe is a growing trend in the Formal Methods and Software Engineering research communities. Over the last threedecades,computerscientistshavedevelopedarangeofformalismsfocusing on particular aspects of behavior or analysis, such as sequential program str- tures,concurrentprogramstructures,dataandinformationstructures,temporal reasoning, deductive proof, and model checking. Much e ort is now being - voted to integrating these methods in order to combine their advantages and ensure they scale up to industrial needs. Graphical notations are now widely used in software engineering and there is growing recognition of the importance ofprovidingthesewiththeformalunderpinningsandformalanalysiscapabilities found in formal methods. 416 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540437606 ISBN 13: 9783540437604
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the First International Sem- tic Web Conference (ISWC 2002) held in Sardinia, Italy, 9 12th June, 2002. The conference followed on from the highly successful Semantic Web Working Symposium held at Stanford University, USA in 2001. A total of 133 papers were submitted to ISWC 2002, comprising 95 research papers, 22 position papers, and 16 system description papers. Each submission was evaluated by at least two referees, mainly members of the Program Comm- tee. This resulted in the selection of 40 papers for presentation at the conference and publication in this volume. Of these, 27 are research papers, 6 are position papers, and 7 are system description papers. We would like to thank the many people who made ISWC 2002 possible. In particular, we are grateful to the following groups and individuals: Je Pan for help with the conference management software and proceedings; the p- gram committee for their reviewing e orts and advice on organizational details; Michele Missiko and Nicoletta Dess for conference organization and local co- dination; J er ome Euzenat for nancial organization and the conference web site; Asunci on G omez-P erez for organizing the tutorials; Raphael Malyankar for - ganizing the poster session; Ste en Staab, Siegfried Handschuh, and Marc Ehrig for organizing semantic markup; Deborah McGuinness and Ying Ding for - ranging sponsorship; and the sponsors themselves for their moral and nancial support. 500 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540433279 ISBN 13: 9783540433279
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Model reduction is an important engineering problem in which one aims to replace an elaborate model by a simpler model without undue loss of accuracy. The accuracy can be mathematically measured in several possible norms and the Hankel norm is one such. The Hankel norm gives a meaningful notion of distance between two linear systems: roughly speaking, it is the induced norm of the operator that maps past inputs to future outputs. It turns out that the engineering problem of model reduction in the Hankel norm is closely related to the mathematical problem of finding solutions to the sub-optimal Nehari-Takagi problem, which is called 'the sub-optimal Hankel norm approximation problem' in this book. Although the existence of a solution to the sub-optimal Hankel norm approximation problem has been known since the 1970's, this book presents explicit solutions and, in particular, new formulae for several large classes of infinite-dimensional systems for the first time. 152 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540436766 ISBN 13: 9783540436768
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
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 IPCO 2002, the NinthInternationalConferenceonIntegerProgrammingandCombinatorial- timization, Cambridge, MA (USA), May 27-29, 2002. The IPCO series of c- ferences highlights recent developments in theory, computation, and application of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. IPCO was established in 1988 when the rst IPCO program committee was formed. IPCO is held every year in which no International Symposium on Ma- ematical Programming (ISMP) takes places. The ISMP is triennial, so IPCO conferences are held twice in every three-year period. The eight previous IPCO conferences were held in Waterloo (Canada) 1990, Pittsburgh (USA) 1992, Erice (Italy) 1993, Copenhagen (Denmark) 1995, Vancouver (Canada) 1996, Houston (USA) 1998, Graz (Austria) 1999, and Utrecht (The Netherlands) 2001. In response to the call for papers for IPCO 2002, the program committee received 110 submissions, a record number for IPCO. The program committee met on January 7 and 8, 2002, in Aussois (France), and selected 33 papers for inclusion in the scienti c program of IPCO 2002. The selection was based on originality and quality, and re ects many of the current directions in integer programming and combinatorial optimization research. 504 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540419225 ISBN 13: 9783540419228
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Einzigartig im deutschsprachigen Raum!- Die wichtigsten Indikationsgebiete- Anatomie, Physiologie, Pathophysiologie- Verfahren, Nebenwirkungen und Komplikationen- Aktuelle Bildgebung in der perkutanen Schmerztherapie- Gepulste Technik bei der Radiofrequenz- Intradiskale Läsion (IDET) 324 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540429794 ISBN 13: 9783540429791
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bereits in der 5. Auflage erfolgreich! Sowohl Grundlagen der Tauchmedizin als auch Ergebnisse der experimentellen tauchmedizinischen Forschung werden behandelt. Die Probleme des Tieftauchens mit Gasgemischen, des Sporttauchens mit Luft im konventionellen Bereich und der stundenlangen Überexposition der Caissonarbeiter in Tunneln werden abgehandelt. Seit 1985 wird bei Gasembolie, Dekompressionskrankheit des Gehirns/Rückenmarks und Innenohrschäden die Behandlung mit hyperbarem Sauerstoff (HBO) angewandt; die Ergebnisse werden mit aussagekräftigen Zahlen belegt. Das Rechenmodell ZH-L8 ADT, bei Tauchcomputern der jüngsten Generation in Anwendung, wird beschrieben. Ein aussagefähiger Überblick über praktische Tauchmedizin, experimentelle Forschung und Aufbau und Funktion von Dekompressionscomputern! 276 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540429026 ISBN 13: 9783540429029
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Customer Relationship Management stellt das Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen Herstellern, Händlern und Kunden vor neue Herausforderungen. Wie gestaltet man eine einheitliche Kommunikation mit dem Kunden über verschiedene Kanäle Wie kann eine individuelle Ansprache des Kunden erreicht werden Wie nutzt man neue Technologien, um ein genaueres Bild vom Kunden zu gewinnen Und welche Maßnahmen zur Kundenbindung sind Erfolg versprechend Die Optimierung der Beziehungsqualität nach wirtschaftlichen Kriterien bildet den Kern des Customer Relationship Managements (CRM). Die Autoren widmen sich umfassend den betriebswirtschaftlichen und informationstechnologischen Aspekten dieses Managementansatzes und schließen mit ihrer konsequenten Ausrichtung auf den Anwendungsbereich des Handels eine Lücke in der bestehenden CRM-Literatur. Aktuelle Fallbeispiele aus der Handelsbranche vermitteln anschauliches Wissen für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung. 476 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540430903 ISBN 13: 9783540430902
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Recent work has implicated inflammatory processes in the pathophysiology of a variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke and multiple sclerosis. In this book leading experts in the field discuss molecular, in vivo and clinical aspects of neuroinflammation. It is hoped, with the wealth of research being conductied in this area, that novel therapeutic targets will be identified which will allow successful therapeutic intervention in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 354043352X ISBN 13: 9783540433521
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We live in an uncertain world, is a truism most of us hear more often than we would like. What one usually means to say by this is that we do not know what will happen in the future. Since changes, even major ones, have occurred in the past, it is possible that they will occur again in the future. In politics institutions are ways of coping with continuity and change. In democratic systems the electoral institutions provide ways of peaceful adjustment to changes in popular opinions. This book is about uncertainty as it pertains to electoral institutions. We shall deal with the ways in which analytic models are capable of taking into account voter uncertainty, ignorance and incompetence. We shall also discuss how uncertainty pertains to electoral outcomes. Given voter opinions, there is often a wide variation in the possible electoral outcomes. This could be called procedure-dependence of outcomes. Its existence shows that uncertainty is not something that can characterize only future events. It can pertain to past ones as well. This work is part of the Democracy and Constitution Project of Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS). The idea of writing a book on the performance of voting procedures under uncertain cir cumstances came up in my correspondence with Dr. Per Molander of SNS a few years ago. 172 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540434704 ISBN 13: 9783540434702
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains essays in honour of Claus Weddepohl who, after 22 years, is retiring as professor of mathematical economics at the Department of Quantitative Economics of the University of Amsterdam. Claus Weddepohl may be viewed as th~ first Dutch mathematical economist in the general equi librium tradition of Arrow, Debreu and Hahn. The essays in this book are centered around the themes Equilibrium, Markets and Dynamics, that have been at the heart of Weddepohl's work on mathematical economics for more than three decades. The essays have been classified according to these three themes. Admittedly such a classification always is somewhat arbitrary, and most essays would in fact fit into two or even all three themes. The essays have been written by international as well as Dutch friends and colleagues including Weddepohl's former Ph. D. students. The book starts with a review of Claus Weddepohl's work by Roald Ramer, who has been working with him in Amsterdam for all those years. The review describes how Weddepohl became fascinated by general equilibrium theory in the early stages of his career, how he has been working on the theory of markets throughout his career, and how he turned to applications of nonlinear dynamics to price adjustment processes in a later stage of his career. The first part of the book, Equilibrium, collects essays with general equilib rium theory as the main theme. 364 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540429204 ISBN 13: 9783540429203
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One of the main problems and aims of nature conservation in Europe is to protect semi-open landscapes. The development during the past decades is characterized by an ongoing intensivation of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures lying fallow caused by changing economic conditions on the other hand. In several countries the estabishment of larger 'pasture landscapes' with a mixed character of open grassland combined with shrubs and forests has been recognized as one solution to this problem. The book gives an overview of the European projects concerning to this topic - nature conservation policy and strategies, scientific results and practical experiences creating large scale grazing systems. TOC:Introduction.- Grazing as Phenomenon in Europe.- Grazing as a Nature Conservation Strategy.- Grazing and Habitat Dynamics - Results of Scientific Research.- Outlook. 460 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 3540431888 ISBN 13: 9783540431886
Anbieter: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -People have always asked what distinguishes the living from the inanimate world and what uni es the two. The elds of biology and physics have a long history of exchange. Milestones at the molecular level were the discoveries of the structure ofDNA,RNA,andproteins. It is not by coincidence that this exchange has intensi ed in recent years. Laboratory experiments reach down to the level of single molecules. Moreover, thereisnowavastamountofgenomicinformation,whichisstillgrowingex- nentially due to the various sequencing projects. Biologists increasingly feel the need for theoretical models to interpret these data in a quantitative way. At the sametime,theoreticalphysicshasmadesigni cantprogressinareaslikelyto be relevant for the understanding of biological systems. Some important ex- plesarecooperativephenomena,statisticsfarfromthermodynamicequilibrium, systemswithquencheddisorder,andsoftmatter. Some forms of biological matter have indeed become established areas of - searchwithinphysics,suchasbiomembranes,heteropolymers,molecularmotors, microtubules,neuralsystemsetc.Thisvolumeisfocusedonadi erentaspect of the living world that can be calledbiologicalinformation,itscoding,rep- duction,andevolution.Biologicalinformationistranslatedintostructuresand patternsoveranenormousrangeofscales,fromsinglebiomoleculestospecies networks coupled over entire continents. Thestatisticaltheory of biological information lives not only in three-dim- sional space. It involves various abstract spaces in which this information is encodedandevolves,suchasnucleotidesequences,genenetworks,ortopologies of the tree of life . The articles collected highlight a few directions of research that may become important parts of this emerging eld. The rst part of the book,MolecularInformationandEvolution,startswith twoarticlesonsequencesimilarityanalysis,acentralthemeinbioinformatics which has surprisingly deep connections to statistical physics. The genetic code, RNA,andproteinsarethreeexamplesoftheintricateinterplayofsequence, structure,andfunctioninevolution. 356 pp. Englisch.