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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch führt schrittweise in die faszinierende Welt statistischer Analysen ein. Es erfordert weder Vorwissen in Statistik noch in einem bestimmten Fachgebiet, nur einige Grundkenntnisse in Mathematik und Neugier auf Daten, die vor allem beobachtete Merkmale von Personen sind. Das Buch enthält viele Beispiele für Fragen, die mit Hilfe von Daten beantwortet werden können und einfache Zahlenbeispiele für verschiedene Arten von Analysen. Es ist daher geeignet für Erstsemester und für alle, die damit beginnen, sich an Studien zu beteiligen, die Datenanalysen erfordern.Der Leser findet insbesondere Antworten auf folgende Fragen: Was ist typisch und wie variabel sind beobachtete Merkmale Wie sieht man, ob und wie die beobachten Merkmale voneinander abhängen Was sind statistische Modelle Wozu braucht man sie Wie interpretiert man beobachtete Ergebnisse Was sind Wahrscheinlichkeiten und was sind Zufallssvariablen und ihre Verteilungen Wie ergänzen sie beobachtete Merkmale In welchen Situationen und wie kann man beurteilen, ob ein beobachtetes Ergebnis von allgemeinerer Bedeutung ist Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 388 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Standardwerk zum Luftverkehr (Fachzeitschrift FVW International), das auch in chinesischer und ungarischer Sprache erschienen ist, gibt eine aktuelle und umfassende Darstellung der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Situation des Personenluftverkehrs. Es ist für alle geschrieben, die sich als Studierende oder Praktiker des Tourismus mit dem Luftverkehr befassen. Der Leser findet verkehrspolitische Rahmenbedingungen ebenso erklärt wie die betriebswirtschaftlichen Hintergründe von Tarifen, Produkten und Vertriebsformen. Zusammen mit aktuellen Themen wie Umweltschutz, Geschäftsmodelle und Entwicklung der Angebotsstrukturen wird so das komplexe System Luftverkehr verständlich gemacht.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 600 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Spectral theory of bounded linear operators teams up with von Neumann¿s theory of unbounded operators in this monograph to provide a general framework for the study of stable methods for the evaluation of unbounded operators. An introductory chapter provides numerous illustrations of unbounded linear operators that arise in various inverse problems of mathematical physics. Before the general theory of stabilization methods is developed, an extensive exposition of the necessary background material from the theory of operators on Hilbert space is provided. Several specific stabilization methods are studied in detail, with particular attention to the Tikhonov-Morozov method and its iterated version.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 144 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch wendet sich an IT-Entwickler, Projektmanager und CIOs. Hauptgegenstand ist die gezielte Entwicklung von Skills jenseits der klassischen 'IT-Denke'.Tatsache ist, dass entsprechend statistischen Erhebungen über 60% aller Software-Projekte nicht zum gewünschten Erfolg führen, d.h. nicht in Budget, Zeit oder Qualität zur Auslieferung kommen. Wenigstens die Hälfte dieser Projektfehler geht zu Lasten fehlender Skills der verantwortlichen IT-Profis. Das vorliegende Werk arbeitet diese Problematik auf, stellt hierzu die entsprechenden Themenschwerpunkte sehr praxisnah in den Mittelpunkt und bietet Lösungen an.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch vermittelt einen Überblick über die Theoretische Physik in zwei Stufen.Die ersten vier Kapitel über Mechanik, Elektrodynamik, Quantenmechanik und Statistische Thermodynamik behandeln begriffliche Grundlagen und vereinheitlichende Prinzipien mit einem Mindestmaß an mathematischem Aufwand. Die Beispiele wurden unter dem Gesichtspunkt der physikalischen Allgemeinbildung ausgesucht und didaktisch so aufbereitet, dass elementare Kenntnisse der Analysis ausreichen.Der zweite Durchgang vertieft den Stoff und greift schwierigere Themen sowie forschungsrelevante Methoden auf; die mathematischen Ansprüche sind höher, wenn auch noch immer moderat. Für eine Reihe von inzwischen selbständigen Gebieten wie Chemische Thermodynamik, Hydrodynamik, Quantenfeldtheorie usw. werden die theoretischen Grundlagen bereitgestellt.Das Buch wendet sich an Studierende unterschiedlicher Studiengänge (Lehramt an Gymnasien sowie Bachelor, Master oder Diplom in Physik). Zwar kann es die Theoretische Physik nicht vollständig, sondern nur beispielhaft abdecken, es bereitet jedoch gründlich auf weiterführende Lektüre und auf vertiefende oder spezialisierende Studien vor, weil die Sprechweise und auch die formale Beschreibung von der Forschung her abgeleitet sind.Bemerkungen zur Physikgeschichte und zu philosophischen Implikationen sowie biographische Notizen runden den Text ab.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 396 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -History is not what we were wearing, It is how we had been utterly ruined. B.Pasternak.¿Spektorsky¿ In the spring of 1999 the police found me lying unconscious with a broken forehead next to my bike in the outskirts of Paris, and delivered me to a hospital. It took a few weeks for French doctors to bring me to consciousness. But I did not recognize my son and said about my wife: ¿this woman says that she is my wife¿. A doctor asked me how many years we had been married. I answered correctly, ¿twenty four¿, and the doctor wrote down: ¿arithmetical abilities are preserved¿. Later, French doctors told me that with such a trauma any Frenchman would succumb immediately. But then they added: ¿Russians are very tough so you should live several months more¿. In a Western textbook I had read regarding effects of poisons: ¿as for alcohol the lethal dose for Russians is several times higher¿. Perhaps the same applies to traumas.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Ergebnisse der Pisa-Studie sind erschreckend und gleichzeitig logisch. Sie spiegeln wider, was interessierte, engagierte, »nahe am Kind« arbeitende Pädagogen seit langem vermuteten und befürchteten: Unsere Kinder sind zu wenig leistungsfähig, weil sie zu wenig leistungso- entiert erzogen sind. Sie haben es nicht gelernt, sich Kenntnisse zu erarbeiten und dauerhaft einzuprägen. Und sie haben nicht gelernt, dasjenige Verhalten zu erbringen, das die Grund- raussetzung für die Erarbeitung kognitiver Leistungen ist. Verbirgt sich hinter dem Schlagwort »Leistungsgesellschaft« vielleicht eine Gesellschaft, die immer weniger leistungsfähig ist, aber sich im Gegensatz dazu immer mehr leistet Das wäre verhängnisvoll für die Zukunft unseres Landes. Wie immer ist nach solchen schockierenden Ergebnissen oder Meldungen eine Menge Aktivität zu finden, die sich leider manchmal in wildem Aktionismus äußert und auch schnell wieder erschöpft ¿ dies oft nicht, ohne zunächst hohe Kosten verursacht zu haben. Es ist hingegen bekannt, dass Störungen des Sozialverhaltens von Kindern und Jugend- chen sowohl an Häufigkeit als auch an Intensität zunehmen. Die Medien sind täglich voll von immer neuen Berichten über Verhaltensexzesse von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Dieser Trend ist seit vielen Jahren ungebrochen. Häufig fällt es schwer, erziehungsbedingte und krankhei- wertige Verhaltensauffälligkeiten voneinander zu trennen. Oftmals benötigen die betreff- den Kinder und Jugendlichen zur Korrektur ihrer Fehlverhaltensweisen den gleichzeitigen Einsatz mehrerer Helfersysteme: Familie, Schule und Ausbildungseinrichtung, Organe der Jugendhilfe bis hin zu Justizorganen, aber auch psychologische, psychiatrische und psychot- rapeutische Hilfen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Handlungsvorgaben der Medizin und die Leistungserbringung selbst sind inzwischen vielfach schriftlich niedergelegt. Obwohl die Behandlungsdokumentation nur der medizinischen Versorgung dienen soll, kommt ihr bei der forensischen Aufarbeitung hohe Bedeutung zu. Ihr Umfang wird auch von der haftungsrechtlichen Diskussion mitbestimmt. Die Beiträge arbeiten den Stand der Diskussion zur Haftung für fehlerhafte Befunddokumentation und fehlerhafte Aufklärungsdokumentation heraus. Gefahren einer Manipulation werden aufgezeigt. Die Jurisprudenz bedient sich darüber hinaus bei der Rechtsfindung medizinischer Leitlinien und ordnet diese in die zu entscheidenden Einzelfälle ein. Die Autoren weisen auf Unterschiede in der Leitlinienkompetenz hin und differenzieren hinsichtlich ihrer Verbindlichkeit für den Arzt. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge des XVIII. Kölner Symposiums der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rechtsanwälte im Medizinrecht sind zugleich Arbeitsmittel für die Rechtspraxis.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch stellt eine Einführung in die faszinierende Welt des Wetters und Klimas dar. Dabei wird besonderer Wert auf eine verständliche Darstellung gelegt. Dazu tragen auch die zahlreichen Abbildungen bei, die in dieser Auflage noch um rund 20 erweitert wurden. Nach der Behandlung der physikalischen Grundlagen der Atmosphäre folgen die Kapitel, die sich mit den (synoptischen) Wettererscheinungen und der Wettervorhersage befassen. Die allgemeine Zirkulation stellt dann das Bindeglied zwischen dem kurzfristigen Wetter und dem langzeitlichen Klimaverhalten dar. Die Kapitel zum Klimawandel sowie zum Stadtklima runden das Buch ab.Gegenüber der 4. Auflage werden die Ausführungen zu den wetterbestimmenden langen Wellen in der Atmosphäre, dem Verhalten von Hurrikanen (u.a. dem New-Orleans-Hurrikan Katrina) sowie den Wettervorhersagemodellen wesentlich erweitert. In Bezug auf die vielfältigen Klimaaspekte werden wesentliche Erweiterungen vorgenommen zum Klimasystem der Erde als Ganzes, zu den Klimazonen und Klimaklassifikationen sowie zum globalen, hemisphärischen und mitteleuropäischen Klimawandel. Eingegangen wird auch auf den Zusammenhang zwischen Klimaänderungen und der Entwicklung der Menschheit.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 412 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die algebraische Zahlentheorie ist eine der traditionsreichsten und gleichzeitig heute besonders aktuellen Grunddisziplinen der Mathematik. In dem vorliegenden Buch wird sie in einem ausführlichen und weitgefaßten Rahmen abgehandelt, der sowohl die Grundlagen als auch ihre Höhepunkte enthält. Die Darstellung führt den Leser in konkreter Weise in das Gebiet ein, läßt sich dabei von modernen Erkenntnissen übergeordneter Natur leiten und ist in vielen Teilen neu. Der grundlegende erste Teil ist mit einigen neuen Aspekten versehen, wie etwa einer ausführlichen Theorie der Ordnungen. Über die Grundlagen hinaus enthält das Buch eine geometrische Neubegründung der Theorie der algebraischen Zahlkörper durch die Entwicklung einer 'Riemann-Roch-Theorie' vom 'Arakelovschen Standpunkt', die bis zu einem 'Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch-Theorem' führt, ferner lokale und globale Klassenkörpertheorie und schließlich eine Darstellung der Theorie der Theta- und L-Reihen, die die klassischen Arbeiten von Hecke in eine faßliche Form setzt. Das Buch wendet sich an Studenten nach dem Vordiplom bzw. Bachelor. Darüber hinaus ist es dem Forscher als weiterweisendes Handbuch unentbehrlich.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Past cycles of sovereign lending and default in emerging markets suggest that debt crises will recur at some point. In addressing debt crises it has proven helpful to distinguish between situations of illiquidity and insolvency. Solutions range from a voluntary debt swap to a soft or hard restructuring. This book shows why investors should reckon with similar credit events in the future.Insights gained from recent restructurings inspire the design of a valuation model for sovereign bonds. Using the distinction between hard and soft restructurings, the model draws parallels to the concepts of face value and market value recovery. An extension into credit default swap markets explains why bond and CDS spreads diverge during distress.This survey of the sovereign bond market provides investors with a useful toolkit for analyzing sovereign bonds and foreseeing trends in the international financial architecture. The result should be a better understanding of debt crises and more deliberate investment decisions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -By summing up the authors¿ lectures on Marketing Communications, this work introduces its users to the fundamental knowledge that is indispensable in this complex and exciting field of Marketing. It has been compiled especially for first-degree students of Business Administration and Marketing who take an interest in the international aspects of these disciplines. At the same time, the sound grounding provided by this work is suitable for students pursuing Post-graduate Diploma or Master programmes in technological, scientific or IT-related areas. The book gives an introduction to the generic issues of Marketing Communications as well as an overview of the information behaviour of targeted customer groups. The foundation laid in the initial chapters is followed up by more specific areas such as situational analysis and the development of communications strategies.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book could not have been written without the extensive work of many diploma and Ph.D. students in our Theoretical Semiconductor Physics Group at the Philipps-Universit¿ at in Marburg. They have contributed to the f- damental understanding and to many applications in the area of coherent semiconductor optics. The one-dimensional tight-binding model, which is exclusively treated in the present book, has been the basis of many of their diploma and Ph.D. theses. The reader will nd references to their results and also their names as authors of the publications listed in the sections ¿S- gested Reading¿. In particular, the authors wish to thank Irina Kuznetsova, who prepared a large number of the gures and recalculated the underlying data on the basis of the equations presented in this book in cases where parameters or presentation had to be changed and/or optimized. Someoftheproblems,inparticular,thoseconnectedtothemoreintrod- tory chapters, were solved by Swantje Horst and Joachim Kalden. They made valuable suggestions for improved formulation of the problems and pointed out a number of hints we should give our readers in order to help them with the solutions. Furthermore, we wish to thank all our numerous collaborators, together with whom we have performed research in the area of coherent semiconductor optics in the past and present, for many valuable discussions. In particular, without the close cooperation between experiment and theory this research eld would not have advanced to the present level.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 336 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book delivers a thorough derivation of nonrelativistic interaction models of electromagnetic field theories with thermoelastic solids and viscous fluids, the intention being to derive unique representations for the observable field quantities. This volume is intended for and will be useful to students and researchers working on all aspects of electromagneto-mechanical interactions in the materials sciences of complex solids and fluids.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Synchronization processes are of great interest and importance in biology, medicine and physics. In particular, for the comprehension of brain function ing it appears inevitable that one should analyze neuronal synchronization processes. This book presents a new understanding of how a stimulus in fluences synchronization patterns of a population of oscillators. On the one hand, a variety of stimulation-induced dynamical phenomena will be pre sented; on the other hand, new data analysis tools will be developed which will serve as a link between theory and experiment. In this way it will be possible to use the theory presented here as a basis for the design and evalu and ation of stimulation experiments and stimulation techniques in medicine biology. We shall focus particularly on applications concerning the analysis of magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) data as well as deep brain stimulation techniques used in Parkinsonian patients. This book addresses graduate students, professors and scientists in vari ous fields including biology, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, physiology and physics. Besides mathematically involved parts, the book also provides the reader with numerous illustrations and explications of the deep dynamical principles governing stimulation-induced desynchronization and synchroniza tion processes. Therefore this book will be of interest to a general readership, and those who are not familiar with mathematics should not be deterred by the formulas.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Automated Technology for Veri cation and Analysis (ATVA) international symposium series was initiated in 2003, responding to a growing interest in formal veri cation spurred by the booming IT industry, particularly hardware design and manufacturing in East Asia. Its purpose is to promote research on automated veri cation and analysis in the region by providing a forum for int- action between the regional and the international research/industrial commu- ties of the eld. ATVA 2006, the fourth of the ATVA series, was held in Beijing, China, October 23-26, 2006. The main topics of the symposium include th- ries useful for providing designers with automated support for obtaining correct software or hardware systems, as well as the implementation of such theories in tools or their application. This year, we received a record number of papers: a total of 137 submissions from 27 countries. Each submission was assigned to three Program Comm- tee members, who could request help from subreviewers, for rigorous and fair evaluation. The nal deliberation by the Program Committee was conducted through Springer¿s Online Conference Service for a duration of about 10 days after nearly all review reports had been collected. In the end, 35 papers were selected for inclusion in the program. ATVA 2006 had three keynote speeches given respectively by Thomas Ball, Jin Yang, and Mihalis Yannakakis. The main symposium was preceded by a tutorial day, consisting of three two-hourlectures given by the keynotespeakers. 560 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is dedicated to the monumental life, work and creative genius of Zdzislaw Pawlak, the originator of rough sets, who passed away in April 2006. It opens with a commemorative article that gives a brief coverage of Pawlak's works in rough set theory, molecular computing, philosophy, painting and poetry. Fifteen papers explore the theory of rough sets in various domains as well as new applications of rough sets.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 524 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Duringthelastfewyearsweseenetworkandinformationsystemsecurityplaying an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. As our computers continue to get infested by all sorts of malware, and as our networks continue to choke with spam and malicious tra c, we see more and more people losing their co- dence in information technologies as they get signi cantly concernedabout their security as well as their privacy and that of their loved ones. In their e ort to cope with the problem, scientists, managers, and politicians all over the world havedesignedandarecurrently implementing systematicapproachesto network and information security, most of which are underlined by the same principle: there is much more room for improvement and research. Along the lines of encouraging and catalyzing research in the area of c- munications and multimedia security, it is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the 10th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 Conference on Communications and MultimediaSecurity(CMS2006),whichwasheldinHeraklion,CreteonOctober 19-21, 2006. Continuing the tradition of previous CMS conferences, we sought a balanced program containing presentations on various aspects of secure c- munication and multimedia systems. Special emphasis was laid on papers with direct practical relevance for the construction of secure communication systems. The selection of the program was a challenging task. In total, we received 76 submissions, from which 22 were selected for presentation as full papers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2006, in Tucson, AZ, USA in November 2006. The 39 revised full papers presented together with the outlines of three tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 484 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -th This volume presents the proceedings of the 6 IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2006), which was held as part of Manweek 2006 rd th in Dublin, Ireland from October 23 to 25 , 2006. In line with its reputation as one ofthe pre-eminent venues for the discussion and debate of advances of management of IP networks and services, the 2006 iteration of IPOM brought together an international audience of researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia. The overall theme of Manweek 2006 was ¿Autonomic Component and System Management¿,with IPOM taking this to be the application of autonomic principles to the IP operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning (OAM&P) domain. IPOM 2006 is more relevant than ever to the emerging communications infrastr- ture that is increasingly focused on ¿convergence¿ of networks and services. Although arguably over-hyped, there is a fundamental truth to this convergence story, and this is based on the fact that the TCP/IP protocol suite (IPv4 and IPv6) has become the common denominator for a plethora of such converged services. One good example in the period between IPOM 2005 and IPOM 2006 has been the large scale deployment of consumer VoIP, linked to the success of Skype and alternatives including SIP-based approaches. In many countries VoIP is driving broadband deployment for SMEs where real costs savings can be accrued, especially for companies with remote staff in the eld. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceeding of the 13th European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI 2006, held in Joensuu, Finland in October 2006. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the papers and posters selected for presentation at the First European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2006) in Enschede, The Netherlands. EuroSSC 2006 was the rst conference of a series aiming at bringing together designers, engineers and researchers to explore two complementary viewpoints: ¿ A device-centric,technology-drivenview: concerning intelligent sensors,s- sor networks and information processing for a new generation of networked devices and environments. ¿ A service-centric, user-driven view: exploring architectures, techniques, and algorithms for context-aware and pro-active applications made possible by thedi usionofambientcommunication,cooperatingobjects,andinteraction technologies. These subjects are active and relevant research areas in themselves, and there are several conferences that address them separately. EuroSSC 2006, however, considered them both, and especially the symbiosis between them, which we expect to result in very inspiring and interesting discussions, as well as new research ideas on how to combine them. The conference was organized in single tracks covering various issues ra- ing from intelligent sensors, sensor networks, context management and context awareness,andprivacy,toapplicationsandtestbeds. Organizingaconferencefor the rst time requires lots of preparations, such as nding a publisher, spons- ing organizations,and TPC members and most importantly attracting potential submitters. Fortunately, the amount and quality of the submissions were such that we were in the luxurious position to be able to accept only high quality and relevant papers. The conference attracted world wide attention and submissions came from ve continents. A total of 15 accepted full papers and 14accepted posters came from Asia, North America and Europe.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume presents eight carefully revised texts of selected lectures given by leading researchers of the field at the first Central European Functional Programming School, CEFP 2005, held in Budapest, Hungary, in July 2005. The eight revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book. The lectures cover a wide range of topics such as new programming language concepts for subtyping.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC VII 2005, held in Utrecht, Netherlands in July 2005, as part of AAMAS 2005, and the third Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, TADA 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK in August 2005, in the course of the IJCAI 2005 conference meetings. The seven revised full AMEC 2005 papers presented were carefully selected.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Although the school system is subject to specific national regulations, didactical issues warrant discussion on an international level. This applies specifically to informatics didactics. In contrast to most other scientific disciplines, informatics undergoes substantial technical and scientific changes and shifts of paradigms even at the basic level taught in secondary school. Moreover, informatics education is under more stringent observation from parents, potential employers, and policy makers than other disciplines. It is considered to be a modern discipline. Hence, being well-educated in informatics seemingly ensures good job perspectives. Further, policy makers pay attention to informatics education, hoping that a young population well-educated in this modern technology will contribute to the future wealth of the nation. But are such high aspirations justified What should school aim at in order to live up to such expectations ISSEP 2005, the 1st International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools ¿ Evolution and Perspectives already showed that informatics teachers have to bridge a wide gap [1, 2]. On one hand, they have to show the inherent properties that informatics (or computer science) can contribute to general education. On the other hand, they are to make pupils computer literate. Under the constraint of limited time available for instruction, these different educational aims come into conflict. Computer-supported teaching or eLearning is to be considered distinct from informatics education. However, in many countries, informatics teachers still have to support the eTeaching activities of their colleagues. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication, and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication. Data hiding and cryptographic techniques are often combined to complement each other, thus triggering the development of a new research field in multimedia security. Two related disciplines, steganalysis and data forensics, are also increasingly attracting researchers and forming another new research field in multimedia security. This journal, LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, aims to be a forum for all researchers in these emerging fields, publishing both original and archival research results.This inaugural issue contains five papers dealing with a wide range of topics related to multimedia security. The first paper deals with evaluation criteria for the performance of audio watermarking algorithms. The second provides a survey of problems related to watermark security. The third discusses practical implementations of zero-knowledge watermark detectors and proposes efficient solutions for correlation-based detectors. The fourth introduces the concept of Personal Entertainment Domains (PED) in Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes. The fifth reports on the use of fusion techniques to improve the detection accuracy of steganalysis.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -TheWebisaliveenvironmentthatmanagesanddrivesawidespectrumofapp- cations in which a user may interact with a company, a governmental authority, a non-governmental organization or other non-pro t institution or other users. User preferences and expectations, together with usage patterns, form the basis for personalized, user-friendly and business-optimal services. Key Web business metrics enabled by proper data capture and processing are essential to run an e ective business or service. Enabling technologies include data mining, sc- able warehousing and preprocessing, sequence discovery, real time processing, document classi cation, user modeling and quality evaluation models for them. Recipient technologies required for user pro ling and usage patterns include recommendation systems, Web analytics applications, and application servers, coupled with content management systems and fraud detectors. Furthermore, the inherent and increasing heterogeneity of the Web has - quired Web-based applications to more e ectively integrate a variety of types of data across multiple channels and from di erent sources. The development and application of Web mining techniques in the context of Web content, Web usage, and Web structure data has already resulted in dramatic improvements in a variety of Web applications, from search engines, Web agents, and content management systems, to Web analytics and personalization services. A focus on techniques and architectures for more e ective integration and mining of c- tent, usage,and structure data from di erent sourcesis likely to leadto the next generation of more useful and more intelligent applications. 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is devoted to the subject commonly called Chaotic Dynamics, namely the study of complicated behavior in time of maps and ows, called dynamical systems. The theory of chaotic dynamics has a deep impact on our understanding of - ture, and we sketch here our view on this question. The strength of this theory comes from its generality, in that it is not limited to a particular equation or scienti c - main. It should be viewed as a conceptual framework with which one can capture properties of systems with complicated behavior. Obviously, such a general fra- work cannot describe a system down to its most intricate details, but it is a useful and important guideline on how a certain kind of complex systems may be understood and analyzed. The theory is based on a description of idealized systems, such as ¿hyperbolic¿ systems. The systems to which the theory applies should be similar to these idealized systems. They should correspond to a xed evolution equation, which, however, need to be neither modeled nor explicitly known in detail. Experimentally, this means that the conditions under which the experiment is performed should be as constant as possible. The same condition applies to analysis of data, which, say, come from the evolution of glaciations: One cannot apply ¿chaos theory¿ to systems under varying external conditions, but only to systems which have some self-generated chaos under xed external conditions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC) held in 2006 in Tunis, Tunisia, was the third of a series of events created by the InternationalInstituteforSoftwareTechnologyoftheUnitedNationsUniversity. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together researchers from academia, - dustry, and governmentto present their results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects of computing. The previous events were held in Guiyang, China (2004), and Hanoi, Vi- nam (2005). Beyond its scholarly goals, another main purpose of ICTAC is to promote cooperation in research and education between participants and their institutions, from developing and industrial countries, as in the mandate of the United Nations University. These proceedings record the contributions from the invited speakers and from the technical sessions. We present four invited papers, 21 technical papers, selected out of 78 submissions from 24 countries, and two extended abstracts of tutorials. The Programme Committee includes researchers from 27 countries. Each of the 78 papers was evaluated by at least three reviewers. After the evaluation, reports were returned to the Programme Committee for discussion and reso- tion of con icts. Based on their recommendations, we concluded the consensus process, and selected the 21 papers that we present here. For the evaluation of the submitted tutorials, this year we had the help of a separate Programme Committee especially invited for that purpose.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 396 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 416 pp. Englisch.