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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Während die meisten Architekten die dramatische Transformation von Stadt und urbanem Leben weithin unkommentiert lassen, werden ihre international agierenden Stars in der grellen Konjunktur medial aufbereiteter architektonischer Events als geniale Schöpfer gehandelt. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmet sich Die Stadt der Architekten der Beziehung von Architekt und Stadt in den Theorie- und Fachdebatten der zurückliegenden Jahrzehnte. Mit Blick auf die aktuellen Herausforderungen, denen sich der Berufsstand eigentlich stellen müsste, plädiert der Essay für eine radikal neue Lesart dieses Verhältnisses.Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Im Westfeld 8, 4055 Basel 184 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Eine neue Lektüre der Veröffentlichungen des einflussreichen Urbanisten und Publizisten Camillo Sitte, befreit von ideologischen Vereinnahmungen.Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Im Westfeld 8, 4055 Basel 356 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Studierende der Informatik haben ha ¿u g Schwierigkeiten, die in der V- lesung geh¿ orten und mitgeschriebenen oder in einem Buch gefundenen - thematischen Sachverhalte so zu verstehen, dass sie damit kreativ umgehen ¿ k¿ onnen. Dazu ist ¿ wie bei jedem Handwerk ¿ praktische Ubung erforderlich, die man sich durch L¿ osen konkreter Probleme erwirbt. Deshalb lege ich hier in Erg¿ anzung zu dem Buch ¿Mathematik fur ¿ Inf- matik und Bioinformatik von M. Wol , P. Hauck, W. Kuc ¿ hlin (Springer 2004)[WHK] eine Sammlung von Aufgaben mit meist kompletten und a- f¿ uhrlichen Lo ¿sungen vor. Bei der Gliederung richte ich mich im großen und ganzen nach dem zugrunde liegenden Buch (allerdings musste ich einige kleinere Abweichungen vornehmen). Der Leser kann so gleichzeitig dessen Abschnitte durcharbeiten und die zugeh¿ origen Aufgaben l¿ osen. Meist wird schon bei der Aufgabe ein Tipp gegeben, welcher Abschnitt des Buches beziehungsweise welcher Sachverhalt hier besonders geeignet fur ¿ die Lo ¿sung ¿ ist. Durch das gemeinsame Erarbeiten des Sto s im Buch und der Ubung durchdieentsprechendenAufgabenwirdeinOptimumannachhaltigemW- senserwerb erreicht ¿ dies ist das Hauptziel dieser Aufgabensammlung. - neben sollte es sich auch ideal zur Vorbereitung von Klausuren eignen. ¿ Die meisten Aufgaben stammen aus den wo ¿chentlichenUbungen, die begle- endzurVorlesung,aufderdasBuchberuht,zulosen ¿ waren. Klausuraufgaben wurden ebenfalls herangezogen. In der Regel werden zun¿ achst sehr einfache Aufgaben mit ganz konkreten Zahlen oder Funktionen etc. gestellt, durch die man bereits beispielhaft zu den abstrakteren Problemen herangefuhr ¿ t wird.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Multimedikation und Polypharmazie sind nicht nur Begriffe, die im Alltag eines behandelnden Arztes insbesondere bei der Behandlung älterer Patienten eine Rolle spielen, sie können auch die Behandlung erschweren. Viele Medikamente haben Nebenwirkungen und manchmal ist nicht klar, ob es wirklich noch um ein durch die Krankheit ausgelöstes Symptom geht oder ob das Symptom als Nebenwirkung eines bereits eingesetzten Medikamentes auftritt.Systematisch haben die Autoren alle wichtigen neurologischen und psychiatrischen Symptome aufgegriffen, die auch durch Medikamente ausgelöst werden können und die in der Literatur dargestellt werden. Dieses Buch soll dem Kliniker und praktisch tätigen Arzt dabei helfen, klarer zuzuordnen, wodurch ein Symptom ausgelöst wurde, besonders wenn es nicht auf eine Krankheit zurückgeführt werden kann oder eine bestehende Krankheitssymptomatik nicht in den Griff zu bekommen ist. Aber auch zum Aufbessern des pharmakologischen Wissens ist das Werk hervorragend geeignet, da es symptomorientiert in alphabetischer Reihenfolge den Nutzer gut strukturiert durch den Dschungel der medikamentös induzierten neurologischen und psychiatrischen Nebenwirkungen lotst. Ein 'Muss' für jeden Neurologen und Psychiater, eine Orientierungshilfe für Internisten und Geriater.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 468 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mars has long been believed to have been cold, dead and dry for aeons, but there is now striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but that even today there are vast reserves of water frozen beneath the planet¿s surface. As well as casting fascinating new insights into Mars¿ past, this discovery is also forcing a complete rethink about the mechanisms of global planetary change and the possibility that there is microbial life on Mars.David Harland considers the issue of life on Mars in parallel with the origin of life on Earth. At the time the Viking instruments were designed, it was thought that all terrestrial life ultimately derived its energy from sunlight, and that the earliest form of life was the cyanobacteria with chlorophyll for photosynthesis. It was assumed the same would be the case on Mars and that microbial life would be on or near the surface that the Vikings had sampled.In parallel with these NASA projects, the European Space Agency developed the Mars Express remote-sensing orbiter, which has detected traces of methane that may have been released by microbes. If microbial life is found on Mars, will it be based on DNA Will this indicate that life developed independently Or that it has characteristics in common with the most ancient forms of terrestrial life If life is found on two planets in the same planetary system, this would favour the panspermia hypothesis. And if martian life is radically different, then in light of the discovery of planetary systems around other stars, this would, as remarked by Philip Morrison of MIT, 'transform life from the status of a miracle to that of a statistic'. These are all questions that the exploration of Mars for life are aimed to answer.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ausgehend von den chemischen Grundlagen werden in diesem Buch die Anwendung und der Einsatz von Kunststoffen im Bauwesen beschrieben. Neben dem allgemeinen Schutz von Oberflächen gehen die Autoren auf die Verfahren im Rahmen von Sanierungsmaßnahmen ein und analysieren kunststoffmodifizierte Baustoffe.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 500 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Karriere-Ratgeber bietet das Rüstzeug, um Studium, Referendariat und Berufseinstieg erfolgreich zu meistern. Angefangen von der Finanzierung des Studiums über effizientes Studieren und Auslandsstudium bis hin zum Ersten Staatsexamen und den anschließenden Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten wird im Detail gezeigt, welche Punkte im Studium zu beachten sind. Es folgen Einzelheiten zum Referendardienst, den -stationen, das Zweite Staatsexamen und anzustrebende Zusatzqualifikationen. Ausführliche Ratschläge zu Bewerbung, Vorstellungsgespräch und Assessment-Centern weisen den Weg zu einem gelungenen Berufseinstieg. Die Darstellung juristischer Berufe sowie Unternehmensprofile bieten Klarheit über die Berufsperspektiven.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 364 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -With the aid of unique photographs, first-hand interviews and historical resources, Rex Hall, Dave Shayler and Bert Vis explain, for the very first time, how Russian citizens have been selected and trained to fly in space, and how these procedures have changed during the past 40 years. The authors also describe the evolution of the often overlooked ground support infrastructure and how the role of cosmonauts has changed from the very earliest days of the Gagarin era, through the demise of the Soviet Union, to the era of international co-operation and collaboration on programmes such as the International Space Station.The book will provide much important background information and insight to the operational Soviet/Russian manned space programme, already covered in other Springer-Praxis titles, but revealing information and facts not covered elsewhere, and providing a unique reference source for all those who wish to understand the changing role of Russian cosmonauts in today¿s global space programme.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -I testi di base di Ingegneria delle Strutture, presenti in letteratura, danno per lo più esempi introduttivi. Questo testo, invece, dopo aver dato i fondamenti disciplinari, va oltre per guidare il lettore nella costruzione di modelli matematici avanzati. E' un inedito 'compromesso' tra testo di teoria di base e testo avanzato per advanced-professionals e ricercatori. Inoltre la presenza nel volume di 'quadri sinottici' e schede software dà la possibilità al lettore di avere sempre a portata di mano i fondamenti di una disciplina complessa. 444 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch ist eine unkonventionelle, auf intuitives Verständnis ausgerichtete Einführung in die theoretischen Grundlagen der praktischen Aspekte der Informatik. Dabei geht es nicht ausschließlich um die Entwicklung von Software. Beim Leser werden keine besonderen Vorkenntnisse vorausgesetzt. Es werden etwa Informationstheorie, Codierungstheorie, Zahlendarstellung und Numerik, Boolesche Algebra, Fuzzy-Logik sowie Quanten-Computer behandelt, wobei gewährleistet bleibt, dass leicht verständlich wird, wie auf diesem theoretischen Unterbau die praktische Realisierung eines Computers sowohl in Hardware als auch in Software erfolgen kann. Für die fünfte Auflage wurde das Buch komplett überarbeitet und auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On February 1 st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia the world s first truly reusable manned spacecraft was lost during her return to Earth, along with a crew of seven. It was an event that, after the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger during a launch 17 years before, the world had hoped it would never see again. This book details each of Columbia s 28 missions in turn, as told by scientists and researchers who developed and supported her many payloads, by the engineers who worked on her and by the astronauts who flew her. In doing so, it is intended to provide a fitting tribute to this most remarkable flying machine and those who perished on her last mission.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Im Wettbewerb müssen Unternehmen ihre Organisation und Prozesse kontinuierlich verändern. Die Führung produzierender Unternehmen kann die Dynamik der Unternehmensorganisation gezielt beeinflussen, um eine nachhaltig erfolgreiche Entwicklung des Unternehmens gewährleisten zu können. So wie die Randbedingungen für ein Unternehmen sich stetig ändern, müssen auch die Unternehmen ihre Organisation und Prozesse verändern, um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben.Hier wird erklärt, wie die Aufgabe des ganzheitlichen Veränderungsmanagement reibungslos funktioniert, orientiert auf die Einzelprozesse, das Verhalten der Organisation und seiner Mitglieder. Die frei werdenden Kräfte können zu einer umfassenden Veränderung kanalisiert werden. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele erläutern die praktische Umsetzung. Die Beispiele aus der Praxis der Unternehmen erläutern Schritt für Schritt den Weg von einer strategischen Positionierung bis zu einer konsequenten Prozessgestaltung, vom Strategieaudit bis zur Identifikation von Kernprozessen.Professor Dr. Günther Schuh (Aachen, St. Gallen) berät selber führende Unternehmen zu Fragen der Unternehmensorganisation und leitet eines der größten Forschungsinstitute zur Produktionsorganisation in Europa. Die von Professor Schuh entwickelte und in der Praxis längst bewährte Methode für das Change Management, MOTION, unterstützt die Interaktionen zwischen den einzelnen Elementen innerhalb und außerhalb der Organisation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 132 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No book is born in a vacuum. There must always be somebody who needs the book, somebody who will read and use it, and somebody who will write it. I walked with the idea of this book for a long time. However, its final concept came into reality during my lectures, in February 2005, at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah in Borneo. I realized that my students needed a bit more than just my lectures. They needed a text that they could follow during lab sessions or after classes so they could learn at any time, at their own pace. Therefore, I decided to write a small book with just a few chapters covering the different areas of applying the Computer Algebra System called MuPAD in different areas of mathematics. I intended each chapter to be short enough to be covered in a reasonably short time, about 2 to 4 hours. Another important objective was to have each chapter completely independent of the others, so that the readers could easily select and read the chapters that they needed the most, without being forced to read the whole book. There was one obstacle for such a concept¿the large number of graphics I used to visualize mathematics. Therefore, I finally decided to write a separate chapter covering the major concepts of MuPAD graphics. The graphics chapter, together with the introductory chapter, forms the base for all the remaining chapters.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mit ihrer Jahrestagung 2005 bietet die GI-Fachgruppe Echtzeitsysteme und PEARL Nutzern und Herstellern ein Forum an, auf dem neue Trends und Entwicklungen zu folgenden Themengebieten aus dem Bereich der 'Echtzeitaspekte bei der Koordinierung Autonomer Systeme' vorgestellt werden: Kommunikationsaspekte (Ad-Hoc-Netze, Sensornetzwerke, drahtlose Netze), Networked Control (Net-in-the-Loop, Fahrzeugsysteme), Zuverlässigkeit, Anforderungen und Beispiele, Echtzeitsysteme und PEARL. 164 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries, has enormous economic, social and cultural implications in both origin and destination countries. It is estimated that some one hundred and eighty million people (three per cent of the world's population) are living in countries in which they were not born. Among these are millions of highly-educated people who moved to developed countries from developing countries that already suffer from low levels of human capital and skilled workers. Moreover, the flow of formal remittances from migrants to their relatives in their countries of birth has exhibited a very rapid and accelerating rate of growth. Estimated to exceed one hundred billion dollars annually, remittances surpass foreign aid and account for the largest source of foreign capital for dozens of countries. This timely volume provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between - and the impacts on - migration, remittances and development. Using new household surveys and census data, the determinants of migration and the impact of migration and remittances on various measures of welfare are analyzed. Other issues discussed include the migration of skilled workers, the impact of international students and skilled migration in the United States, the determinants of internal and international migration from rural areas whilst providing a critical examination of the new 'brain drain' literature.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Le idee e le tecniche della Fisica Teorica del XX secolo (meccanica analitica, meccanica statistica, relatività e meccanica quantistica non relativistica) non sono più appannaggio esclusivo dei fisici. Ormai, specialmente con la recente introduzione di nuovi corsi di laurea, le conoscenze di base rientrano nel bagaglio culturale comune ai laureati in materie scientifiche e tecnologiche affini alla Fisica e alle sue applicazioni.La trattazione in questo libro, è meno formale rispetto ai tradizionali corsi di Istituzioni di Fisica Teorica. Lo scopo è comunque quello di raggiungere una reale comprensione dei concetti fisici e una capacità di risolvere autonomamente problemi. Lo stile è discorsivo, con abbondanza di esempi, l¿esposizione di tutti i passaggi importanti è dettagliata, rispondendo in anticipo a tutte le domande che solitamente pongono gli allievi. L¿autore ha dato spazio a sviluppi recenti e interessanti, come il microscopio a tunnel e la criptografia quantistica. Ha cercato di spiegare sempre le motivazioni delle manipolazioni matematiche, e il significato fisico di tutte le grandezze misurabili. Soprattutto, ha sottolineato gli aspetti che fanno della Fisica Teorica una scienza piena di risvolti pratici e insieme una avventura intellettuale particolarmente affascinante. 276 pp. Italienisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Malliavin calculus provides an infinite-dimensional differential calculus in the context of continuous paths stochastic processes. The calculus includes formulae of integration by parts and Sobolev spaces of differentiable functions defined on a probability space. This new book, demonstrating the relevance of Malliavin calculus for Mathematical Finance, starts with an exposition from scratch of this theory. Greeks (price sensitivities) are reinterpreted in terms of Malliavin calculus. Integration by parts formulae provide stable Monte Carlo schemes for numerical valuation of digital options. Finite-dimensional projections of infinite-dimensional Sobolev spaces lead to Monte Carlo computations of conditional expectations useful for computing American options. The discretization error of the Euler scheme for a stochastic differential equation is expressed as a generalized Watanabe distribution on the Wiener space. Insider information is expressed as an infinite-dimensional drift. The last chapter gives an introduction to the same objects in the context of jump processes where incomplete markets appear.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement was founded by Alex C. Michalos and published its first issue in March 1974. It has been the leading journal for scholarly research in its field for over thirty years. This volume is published in celebration of that record of accomplishment. The 19 articles assembled here are a selection drawn from the 34 (2.4%) most frequently cited articles in the journal¿s history. An introductory essay written by Michalos explains the historical and scientific importance of each article in the development of social indicators or quality-of-life research. It provides a rare overview of the perceived scientific problems that researchers around the world addressed in the first three decades of exploration, as well as a view of some of the problems to be addressed in the future. A short essay describing the origins of the journal by its founder is also included. Anyone interested in having a single volume that contains some of the best research produced in this field will find this volume irresistible.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 636 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Asiacrypt, the annual conference of cryptology sponsored by IACR is now 11 years old. Asiacrypt 2005 was held during December 4¿8, 2005, at Hotel Taj Coromandel,Chennai,India.This conferencewasorganizedby theInternational Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in cooperation with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai. Thisyearatotalof237papersweresubmittedtoAsiacrypt2005.Thesubm- sionscoveredallareasofcryptographicresearchrepresentingthecurrentstateo f work in the crypto community worldwide. Each paper was blind reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee and papers co-authored by the PC members were reviewed by at least six members. This rst phase of review by the PC members was followed by a detailed discussion on the papers. At the end of the reviewing process 37 papers were accepted and were presented at the conference. The proceedings contain the revised versionsof the accepted papers. In addition we were fortunate to have Prof. Andrew Yao and Prof. Bart Preneel as invited speakers. Based on a discussion and subsequent voting among the PC members, the Best Paper Award for this year¿s Asiacrypt was conferred to Pascal Paillier and Damien Vergnaud for the paper entitled ¿Discrete-Log-Based Signatures May Not Be Equivalent to Discrete Log.¿ I would like to thank the following people. First, the General Chair, Prof.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 724 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Digital Signal Processing for Measurement Systems: Theory and Applications covers the theoretical as well as the practical issues which form the basis of the modern DSP-based instruments and measurement methods. It covers the basics of DSP theory before discussing the critical aspects of DSP unique to measurement science.Key Features:Approaches signal processing through a unique measurement science perspectiveCovers both theory and state-of-the-art applications, from the sampling theorem to the design of FIR/IIR filtersIncludes important topics, for example, problems that arise when sampling periodic signals and the relationship between the sampling rate and the SNRSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The present textbook contains the recordsof a twösemester course on que- ing theory, including an introduction to matrix¿analytic methods. This course comprises four hours oflectures and two hours of exercises per week andhas been taughtattheUniversity of Trier, Germany, for about ten years in - quence. The course is directed to last year undergraduate and rst year gr- uate students of applied probability and computer science, who have already completed an introduction to probability theory. Its purpose is to present - terial that is close enough to concrete queueing models and their applications, while providing a sound mathematical foundation for the analysis of these. Thus the goal of the present book is twöfold. On the one hand, students who are mainly interested in applications easily feel bored by elaborate mathematical questions in the theory of stochastic processes. The presentation of the mathematical foundations in our courses is chosen to cover only the necessary results,which are needed for a solid foundation of the methods of queueing analysis. Further, students oriented - wards applications expect to have a justi cation for their mathematical efforts in terms of immediate use in queueing analysis. This is the main reason why we have decided to introduce new mathematical concepts only when they will be used in the immediate sequel. On the other hand, students of applied probability do not want any heur- tic derivations just for the sake of yielding fast results for the model at hand.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was ini- ated in 1995 by AIT, INRIA and UNU/IIST to provide a forum for researchers in computer science from the Asian region and to promote interaction with - searchers from other regions. The rst nine conferences were held respectively in Bangkok, Singapore, Katmandu, Manila, Phuket, Penang, Hanoi, Mumbai and Chiang Mai. The 10th ASIAN conference was held in Kunming, China, December 7-9, 2005. Each year, the conference focuses on a di erent theme at the cutting edge of computer science research. The theme of ASIAN 2005 was data management on the Web. Four distinguished speakers were invited to the conference: M- iano Consens (University of Toronto), Richard Hull (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies),TovaMilo(TelAvivUniversity)andPrabhakarRaghavan(Yaho o Research and Stanford University). This year, 91 papers were submitted from 11 countries. The Program C- mittee selected 17 regular papers and 21 short papers. This volume contains the papers based on the invited talks, the regular papers, and the short papers. We wish to thank the Program Committee and the external referees for their work in selecting the contributed papers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As Chairmen of HiPEAC 2005, we have the pleasure of welcoming you to the proceedings of the rst international conference promoted by the HiPEAC N- work of Excellence. During the last year, HiPEAC has been building its clusters of researchers in computer architecture and advanced compiler techniques for embedded and high-performance computers. Recently, the Summer School has been the seed for a fruitful collaboration of renowned international faculty and young researchers from 23 countries with fresh new ideas. Now, the conference promises to be among the premier forums for discussion and debate on these research topics. Theprestigeofasymposiumismainlydeterminedbythequalityofitstech- cal program. This rst programlived up to our high expectations, thanks to the largenumber of strong submissions. The ProgramCommittee received a total of 84 submissions; only 17 were selected for presentation as full-length papers and another one as an invited paper. Each paper was rigorously reviewed by three ProgramCommittee members and at least one external referee. Many reviewers spent a great amount of e ort to provide detailed feedback. In many cases, such feedback along with constructive shepherding resulted in dramatic improvement in the quality of accepted papers. The names of the Program Committee m- bers and the referees are listed in the proceedings. The net result of this team e ort is that the symposium proceedings include outstanding contributions by authors from nine countries in three continents. In addition to paper presentations, this rst HiPEAC conference featured two keynotes delivered by prominent researchers from industry and academia.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 332 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization comprises of three parts. The first part is devoted to the detailed presentation of the four most widely known metaheuristics:¿ the simulated annealing method¿ tabu search¿ the evolutionary algorithms¿ ant colony algorithms.Each one of these metaheuristics is actually a family of methods, of which the essential elements are discussed. In the second part, the book presents some other less widespread metaheuristics, then, extensions of metaheuristics and some ways of research are described . The problem of the choice of a metaheuristic is posed and solution methods are discussed. The last part concentrates on three case studies from telecommunications, air traffic control, and vehicle routing.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -RuleML 2005 was the rst international conference on rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web, held in conjunction with the International Semantic Web C- ference (ISWC) at Galway, Ireland. With the success of the RuleML workshop series came the need for extended research and applications topics organized in a conference format. RuleML 2005 also accommodated the rst Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions. Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of the frontier of the Semantic Web, and critical to the early adoption and applications of knowledge-based techniques in- business, especially enterprise integration and B2B e-commerce. This includes kno- edge representation (KR) theory and algorithms; markup languages based on such KR; engines, translators, and other tools; relationships to standardization efforts; and, not least, applications. Interest and activity in the area of rules for the Semantic Web has grown rapidly over the last ve years. The RuleML 2005 Conference was aimed to be this year¿s premiere scienti c conference on the topic. It continued in topic, leadership, and collaboration with the previous series of three highly successful annual inter- tional workshops (RuleML 2004, RuleML 2003 and RuleML 2002). The theme for RuleML 2005 was rule languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex event p- cessing, and event-driven rules, to support the emergence of Semantic Web applications. Special highlights of the RuleML 2005 conference included the keynote address by Sir Tim Berners- Lee, Director of W3C. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Web personalizationcan be de ned as any set of actions that can tailor the Web experience to a particular user or set of users. The experience can be something as casualas browsinga Web site oras (economically)signi cantas tradingstock or purchasing a car. The actions can range from simply making the presentation more pleasing to anticipating the needs of a user and providing customized and relevant information. To achieve e ective personalization, organizations must rely on all available data, including the usage and click-stream data (re e- ing user behavior), the site content, the site structure, domain knowledge, user demographics and pro les. In addition, e cient and intelligent techniques are needed to mine these data for actionable knowledge, and to e ectively use the discovered knowledge to enhance the users¿ Web experience. These techniques must address important challenges emanating from the size and the heteroge- ity of the data, and the dynamic nature of user interactions with the Web. E-commerce and Web information systems are rich sources of di cult pr- lems and challenges for AI researchers. These challenges include the scalability of the personalization solutions, data integration, and successful integration of techniques from machine learning, information retrievaland ltering, databases, agent architectures, knowledge representation, data mining, text mining, stat- tics, user modelling and human¿computer interaction. Throughout the history of the Web, AI has continued to play an essential role in the development of Web-based information systems, and now it is believed that personalization will prove to be the ¿killer-app¿ for AI.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is attracting enormous media attention, spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. The peers are autonomous, or as some call them, first-class citizens. P2P networks are emerging as a new distributed computing paradigm for their potential to harness the computing power of the hosts composing the network and make their under-utilized resources available to others. Although researchers working on distributed computing, multiagent systems, databases and networks have been using similar concepts for a long time, it is only recently that papers motivated by the current P2P paradigm have started appearing in high-quality conferences and workshops. Research in agent systems in particular appears to be most relevant because, since their inception, multiagent systems have always been thought of as networks of peers. The multiagent paradigm can thus be superimposed on the P2P architecture, where agents embody the description of the task environments, the decision-support capabilities, the collective behavior, and the interaction protocols of each peer. The emphasis in this context on decentralization, user autonomy, ease and speed of growth that gives P2P its advantages also leads to significant potential problems. Most prominent among these problems are coordination, the ability of an agent to make decisions on its own actions in the context of activities of other agents, and scalability, the value of the P2P systems lies in how well they scale along several dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness, traffic redistribution, and so on.This volume presents the fully revised papers presented at the Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2004, held in New York City on July 19, 2004 in the context of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004). The volume is organized in topicalsections on P2P networks and search performance, emergent communities and social behaviours, semantic integration, mobile P2P systems, adaptive systems, agent-based resource discovery, as well as trust and reputation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Sexual risk behaviors have inspired profound ideas and effective teamwork. But as the early history of AIDS demonstrates, when sexual practice is part of the equation, the same bold thinkers may be stymied, or just silent. Safe sex and monogamy have been proposed as answers to a gamut of social problems, but there is frequently little consensus on what these terms mean.Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and Health replaces myth and stereotype with meticulously documented findings on real people and their behaviors in their social, environmental, and individual contexts. Author Sana Loue examines the range of partnerships not only in the U.S. but also Europe and the developing world, focusing on both consenting relationships and exploitative sexual interactions: Varieties of monogamy between consenting adults Relationships involving multiple adult partners Incest, pedophilia, and child marriage Sex work, trafficking, and pornography Fetishes and related behaviorsAll chapters cogently address the health issues that arise from these arrangements, concluding with implications for research, prevention, and intervention.Throughout, Loue argues for a common language across disciplines and challenges her readers¿therapists, health care providers, and policymakers alike¿to rethink their assumptions about clients, their health needs, and the communities they represent.'Dr. Loue's work is a truly significant scholarly contribution to a topic too often characterized by pseudo-science and ideological distortions. 'Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and Health' should prove an invaluable resource for researchers and community practitioners alike in helping understand dimensions of sexual practice, and designing more effective approaches to sexual health and violence prevention.'Earl Pike, Executive Director, AIDS Taskforce of Greater ClevelandSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book contains the proceedings of the 2nd EuroPKI Workshop ¿ EuroPKI 2005, held at the University of Kent in the city of Canterbury, UK, 30 June¿1 July 2005. The workshop was informal and lively, and the university setting encouragedactive exchangesbetween the speakersand the audience. TheworkshopprogramcomprisedakeynotespeechfromDr.CarlisleAdam s, followedby18refereedpapers,withaworkshopdinnerinandguidedtouraround the historic Dover Castle. Dr. Adams is well known for his contributions to the CAST family of s- metric encryption algorithms, to international standards from the IETF, ISO, and OASIS, authorship of over 30 refereed journals and conference papers, and co-authorship of Understanding PKI: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations (Addison-Wesley). Dr. Adams keynote speech was entitled ¿PKI: Views from the Dispassionate ¿I¿,¿ in which he presented his thoughts on why PKIhas been availableas an authentication technology for many years now,but has only enjoyed large-scale success in fairly limited contexts to date. He also presented his thoughts on the possible future(s) of this technology, with emp- sis on the major factors hindering adoption and some potential directions for future research in these areas. In response to the Call for Papers, 43 workshop papers were submitted in total. All papers were blind reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee, the majority having 3 reviewers, with a few borderline papers h- ing 4 or more reviewers; 18 papers were accepted for presentation in 8 sessions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This is the 5th edition of the International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods (IFM). Previous IFM conferences were held in York (June 1999), D- stuhl (November 2000), Turku (May 2002) and Canterbury (April 2004). This year¿s IFM was held in December 2005 on the campus of the Technische Univ- siteit Eindhoven in The Netherlands. This year IFM received 40 submissions, from which 19 high-quality papers wereselectedbytheProgramCommittee.Besidesthese,theproceedings contain invited contributions by Patrice Godefroid, David Parnas and Doron Peled. It was 10 years ago that Jonathan P. Bowen and Michael G. Hinchey p- lished their famous Ten Commandments of Formal Methods in IEEE Computer 28(4). Their very rst commandment ¿ Thou shalt choose an appropriate - tation ¿ touches the heart of the IFM theme: Complex systems have di erent aspects, and each aspect requires its own appropriate notation. Classical examples of models for various aspects are: state based notations andalgebraicdatatypesfordata,processalgebrasandtemporallogicsforbeh- ior, duration calculus and timed automata for timing aspects, etc. The central question is how the models of di erent notations relate. Recently, Bowen and Hinchey presented their Ten Commandments Revisited (in: ACM proceedings of the 10th InternationalWorkshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical S- tems). Theydistinghuishvariationsin combiningnotations,rangingfromloosely coupled viewpoints to integrated methods. Thelooselycoupledviewpointsarequitepopular(cf.thesuccessofUML)and are easy to adopt in a leightweight process. They could be useful for specifying and analyzing isolated system aspects. However, the main advantage of formal methods ¿ being able to specify and verify the correctness of complete systems ¿islost.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 424 pp. Englisch.