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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 444 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 208 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 Practice 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 496 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ich war 14, als ich glticklicher Besitzer meines ersten Computers, eines Sinclair ZX81, wurde und nicht viel alter, als ich gemeinsam mit meinem guten Freund Stephan Schulz begann, Computer-Software zu programmieren und zu vermark ten. Wahrscheinlich gibt es keine bessere Schule fur die direkte Kopplung von Entwicklung und Verkauf, als irgendwann im Leben alles das einmal selbst ge macht zu haben. Wir experimentierten mit Direktmarketing, Verkauf tiber Resel ler, Distribution und strategischen Partnern. Leider wurden wir dabei nicht reich und mussten nach dem Abitur dann doch Studieren und damit etwas Verntinftiges lernen, urn nicht zu verhungern. Trotz eines BWL-Studiums bin ich der IT-Branche treu geblieben und habe seit 1987 in verschiedenen Marketingfunktionen gearbeitet. Ich habe in der Zeit eine groBe Zahl von IT-Unternehmen auch aus der Nahe kennen gelernt und neben groBen Erfolgsgeschichten auch so manchen Untergang miterlebt. Die meisten der Kollegen, die ich dabei kennen gelernt habe, werden mir recht geben, dass unser Alltag, Marketing in der IT-Branche, mit dem, was wir einmal gelernt haben, nur in den Grundztigen tibereinstimmt und dass leider auch die Patentrezepte amerika nischer Marketinggurus nicht ganz so einfach auf deutsche Verhaltnisse zu tiber tragen sind.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Schwerpunktthemen des diesjährigen Workshops:Sicherheit und Verfügbarkeit in Echtzeit- und Automatisierungssystemen: Verläßlichkeit und Fehlertoleranz (Safety); Eindringsicherheit und Bedrohungsszenarien ( Security); Verifizierbarkeit und Zertifizierbarkeit. Sicherheitsgerichtete Technologien: Engineering-Standards, Validierung; Entwurfsmethodik; Implementierung. Aktuelle Echtzeitanwendungen: Erfahrungen und Echtzeitprogrammierung. PEARL und Echtzeitprogrammierung in der Ausbildung. Die Vorträge zu diesen Themen, u.a. über praktischen Einsatz, Methoden und Erfahrungen sowie Ausblicke in die Zukunft sind Inhalt dieses Bandes.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 148 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Für das Management von Multimediaprojekten gab es bisher keine unternehmensübergreifenden, praxistauglichen Vorgehensmodelle, die auf spezifische Probleme der Multimediabranche zugeschnitten sind. Vorgehensmodelle aus anderen Bereichen, wie etwa der Informatik, berücksichtigen nicht das hohe Gewicht gestalterischer und wirtschaftlicher, marketingorientierter Aufgaben in Multimediaprojekten. Das vorliegende Buch leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag, die in vielen Agenturen eher noch ad hoc geführten Projekte besser planbar und steuerbar zu machen. Die Autorin analysiert Vorgehensweisen und Methoden, die in der Praxis zur Schaffung kreativer Multimedia-Konzepte eingesetzt werden, und entwickelt diese zu einem allgemeingültigen Vorgehensmodell weiter. Zur Erfassung der branchenüblichen Vorgehensweisen führte die Autorin eine empirische Untersuchung in mehreren repräsentativen Multimedia-Agenturen durch.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 208 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Ratgeber informiert Sie umfassend und leicht verständlich über alle praxisrelevanten Rechtsfragen. Welche Rechte und Pflichten haben Sie als Arbeitgeber oder Arbeitnehmer Was müssen Sie beim Kauf einer Praxis beachten Wie errechnet sich Ihre Steuer Wie kooperieren Sie erfolgreich mit Ärzten Welche Rechte haben Sie gegenüber Patienten und Krankenkassen Was ist wichtig zu wissen, wenn Sie werben wollen Klare Antworten von A bis Z bieten schnelle Orientierung und helfen Ihnen, Fehler zu vermeiden.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Zahl der übergewichtigen Patienten nimmt ständig weiter zu. Um ihnen helfen zu können, müssen die Ursachen und therapeutische Möglichkeiten abgeklärt werden. - Welche Rolle spielt die genetische Disposition - Kann Adipositas die Ursache für Krebserkrankungen sein - Wer soll wieviel abnehmen - Wie sinnvoll sind Diäten Psychotherapien Medikamente - Ist der Magenballon obsolet Antwort auf diese und viele weitere Fragen gibt in übersichtlicher Weise das vorliegende Buch. Zahlreiche Tabellen und Grafiken verdeutlichen aktuelle Studienergebnisse ohne zu großen wissenschaftlichen Ballast. Alle Bereiche des interdisziplinären Problems Adipositas werden leichtverständlich für Ärzte und Ernährungsberater dargestellt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. This volume 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Einsatz von Software-Agenten zur Koordination wirtschaftlicher Prozesse und auf elektronischen Marktplätzen ist Kernthema dieses Buches. Dabei werden Potenziale und Chancen, Anwendungen und Prototypen, aber auch Herausforderungen, Grenzen und Risiken der Agententechnologie für den Einsatz aufgezeigt. Theoretische Grundlagen und Beispiele aus Projekten und deren Konzepte dienen als Basis für die Realisierung eines eigenen agentenbasierten Markplatzes in Java. Im Vordergrund stehen daher praktische Ansätze zur Realisierung wirtschaftlicher Mechanismen und deren Implementierungen in eigenen Software-Agenten.Die beigefügte CD enthält eine eingeschränkte Lizenzversion des kommerziellen Agentensystems 'Living Agents Runtime System' sowie die im Buch beschriebenen Java-Klassen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 344 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Neben grundsätzlichen Aussagen zur Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse stellen die Autoren Ergebnisse aus der Forschung über Konzeptionen zur Nachhaltigkeit vor. Weitere Beiträge befassen sich mit der Risikobewertung und -kommunikation, der Technikfolgenabschätzung in verschiedenen Technikfeldern und widmen sich den Themen Mobilität und Stoffströme. Die Autoren setzen die jeweiligen Aktivitäten in den unterschiedlichen Forschungsfeldern in einen Kontext zur deutschen Forschung zur Systemanalyse und formulieren eine eigenständige deutsche Strategie für diesen Bereich.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 420 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. Neuware -be done before realizing this vision.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -. 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 BillNitzberg 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 560 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In many complex systems one can distinguish ¿fast¿ and ¿slow¿ processes with radically di erent velocities. In mathematical models based on di er- tialequations,suchtwo-scalesystemscanbedescribedbyintroducingexpl- itly a small parameter on the left-hand side ofstate equationsfor the ¿fast¿ variables,and these equationsare referredto assingularly perturbed. Surpr- ingly, this kind of equation attracted attention relatively recently (the idea of distinguishing ¿fast¿ and ¿slow¿ movements is, apparently, much older). Robert O¿Malley, in comments to his book, attributes the originof the whole historyofsingularperturbationsto the celebratedpaperofPrandtl[79]. This was an extremely short note, the text of his talk at the Third International Mathematical Congress in 1904: the young author believed that it had to be literally identical with his ten-minute long oral presentation. In spite of its length, it had a tremendous impact on the subsequent development. Many famous mathematicians contributed to the discipline, having numerous and important applications. We mention here only the name of A. N. Tikhonov, whodevelopedattheendofthe1940sinhisdoctoralthesisabeautifultheory for non-linear systems where the fast variables can almost reach their eq- librium states while the slow variables still remain near their initial values: the aerodynamics of a winged object like a plane or the ¿Katiushä rocket may serve an example of such a system. It is generally accepted that the probabilistic modeling of real-world p- cesses is more adequate than the deterministic modeling.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. Neuware -conferencesystem,WebChairing,developedinCoimbrabyFlordeUtopia,which allowed full control of the submission and reviewing processes. 392 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 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. Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 676 pp. Englisch.