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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ein schneller und verständlicher Einstieg in das Bankrecht liegt als Konzeption diesem neuen Band zugrunde. Im Vordergrund stehen nicht komplizierte kreditwirtschaftliche Einzelfragen, sondern bankrechtliche Grundstrukturen. Aufgezeigt wird der allgemeine Handlungsrahmen der Kreditinstitute, vor allem aber die vertraglichen Beziehungen der Kreditinstitute zu deren Kunden - und umgekehrt. Aber auch die Rechtsprechung prägt das Beziehungsgeflecht und wird, jedenfalls punktuell, bei den Kernbereichen vorgestellt und erläutert.Großen Wert legt der Autor auf die Vermittlung der systematischen Grundlagen in einer leicht verständlichen Sprache. So wird die spätere Weiterverfolgung und Vertiefung von Spezialfragen erleichtert. Viele Übersichten, kleine Beispielsfälle und memotechnische Elemente erleichtern das Behalten des Gelesenen. 226 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Arbeitsbuch Wirtschaftsinformatik bildet eine Lernhilfe zu dem bewährten Lehrbuch 'Einführung in die Wirtschaftsinformatik' derselben Autoren. Es hat das Ziel, den Lehrstoff stärker zu veranschaulichen und zu vertiefen, um so die Prüfungsvorbereitung im Fach Wirtschaftsinformatik wirksam zu unterstützen. Darüber hinaus kann es als Nachschlagewerk und zur Auffrischung des Wissens genutzt werden. Der Inhalt besteht aus 441 Fragen und 294 Aufgaben mit zugehörigen Antworten und Musterlösungen, wobei besonderer Wert auf Verständlichkeit und ¿ vor allem bei den Aufgaben ¿ auf Praxisbezogenheit gelegt wird. Die Einteilung in Kapitel stimmt mit der des Lehrbuchs überein. Die vorliegende vierte Auflage des Arbeitsbuchs ist vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 356 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Eines der zentralen Anliegen des 'Wiener Kreises' ist heute aktueller denn je. Es bestand darin sichtbar zu machen, wie ganz unterschiedliche, weit auseinanderliegende Bereiche wissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung miteinander in Zusammenhang gebracht werden können. Genannt sei hier Otto Neurath, als Motor der ganzen Sache.Die 'Encyclopedia of United Science' sollte eine Vorstellung davon vermitteln, wie moderne Wissenschaften ihre Erkenntnisansprüche formulieren und überprüfen. Sie knüpfte ausdrücklich an die Enzyklopädisten der französischen Aufklärung an.Die in diesem Band zusammengefassten Beiträge durchleuchten das Aufklärungskonzept, das der Enzyklopädie der Logischen Empiristen zugrunde liegt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch gibt einen zusammenfassenden Überblick über die modernen Möglichkeiten des Daten- und Wissensmanagements. Es stellt die wichtigsten Konzepte zur Organisation von Daten und Wissen in Unternehmen dar und skizziert die relevanten technischen Ansätze zur wissensorientierten Informationsverarbeitung. Dabei werden relationale Datenmodelle, Data-Warehouse-Konzepte und Dokumenten- und Content Management ebenso behandelt wie alle wichtigen Aspekte des Knowledge Managements. Schließlich wird ein Überblick gegeben über die einschlägigen wissensorientierten Systeme, von Expertensystemen über Fuzzy-Logic-Systeme bis hin zu künstlichen neuronalen Netzen und genetischen Algorithmen. Der Leser bekommt so schnell einen qualifizierten Einblick sowohl in die methodischen und technischen Ansätze als auch in praxisrelevante Erscheinungsformen des Daten- und Wissensmanagements. Die zweite Auflage wurde überarbeitet und um aktuelle Themen ergänzt. Der Bezug zur Anwendung der jeweiligen Methoden in der Praxis wurde weiter ausgebaut.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Deutsch.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the years since The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy was rst published, digital imaging has been transformed from what was, in reality, a minority int- est to mainstream. Not even the most committed of CCD devotees could have predicted the few years it would take for digital imaging to supplant lm. We all probably guessed that a new age was dawning, but the speed at which silicon sensors came to dominate the photography market was simply staggering. New areas also appeared. No one predicted webcams would become the instrument of choice for imaging the planets. Afocal photography re-emerged in digital format. For mainstream imaging, color has become almost the norm. It was therefore time for a new book ¿ and one in color! If you read the astronomical magazines, you are, no doubt, familiar with the names and images of our contributors. Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, Night Sky, Astronomy Now and other leading magazines from around the world have all included their work, in terms of both images for their gallery sections and feature articles.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The development of the di erential calculus was one of the major achievements of seventeenth century European mathematics, originating in the work of N- ton, Leibniz and others. Integral calculus can be traced back to the work of Archimedes in the third century B. C. Since its inception, calculus has dev- oped in two main directions. One is the growth of applications and associated techniques,indiverse eldssuchasphysics,engineering,economics,probability and biology. The other direction is that of analytical foundations, where the intuitive and largely geometrical approach is replaced by an emphasis on logic and the development of an axiomatic basis for the real number system whose properties underpin many of the results of calculus. This approach occupied many mathematicians through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, c- minating in the work of Dedekind and Cantor, leading into twentieth century developments in Analysis and Topology. We can learn much about calculus by studying its history, and a good starting point is the St Andrews¿ History of Mathematics website www-history. mcs. st-and. ac. uk/history/ Thisbookisdesignedforbeginninguniversitystudents,boththosestud ying mathematics as a major subject, and those whose main specialism requires the use and understanding of calculus. In the latter case we would expect that lecturers would customise the treatment with applications from the relevant subject area. Thepre-universityschoolmathematicscurriculaofmostEuropeancountries all include some calculus, and this book is intended to provide, among other things, a transition between school and university calculus. In some countries suchastheU. K.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This revolutionary new book is written for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at. The Moon is the most commonly observed of all astronomical objects. This is the first book to deal equally with the Moon itself - its formation, geology, and history - as well as the practical aspects of observation.The concept of the book - and of the series - is to present an up-to-date detailed description of the Moon, including its origins, history, and geology (part one); and then (part two) to consider how best to observe and record it successfully using commercially-available equipment.The Moon and How to Observe It is a mine of information for all levels of amateur observers, from the beginner to the experiencedSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das vorliegende Lehrbuch ist als Leitfaden für eine zwei- oder dreisemestrige Analysis-Vorlesung gedacht und richtete sich an Studierende der Mathematik und Physik sowie an mathematisch interessierte Studierende der Informatik und der exakten Wissenschaften. Ausführliche Beweise und Erläuterungen sowie zahlreiche Beispiele und interessante Übungsaufgaben eignen es sehr gut für das mathematische Selbststudium. Ein klarer und übersichtlicher Aufbau und eine geschickte Gliederung des Stoffes ermöglichen, das erste Studium auf Kernbereiche zu beschränken. Dem Dozenten werden vielfältige Möglichkeiten geboten, je nach Art der Vorlesung verschiedene Schwerpunkte zu setzen und geeignete Wege zur Darstellung des Stoffes zu wählen. Geometrische Intuition und historische Motivation in Verbindung mit einer maßvollen Abstraktion kennzeichnen diese moderne Einführung in die Analysis. 486 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Il volume si rivolge agi studenti dei corsi di laurea delle Facoltà di Matematica, Ingegneria e Informatica. Introduce concetti fondamentali circa la teoria della probabilità e statistica matematica. L'approccio mira a semplificare il formalismo per accedere rapidamente ai concetti di base, prendendo anche in considerazione il metodo Bayesiano. La parte teorica è supportata da parecchi esercizi risolti. 260 pp. Italienisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Software heutiger Unternehmen besteht zum größten Teil aus Altsystemen, die zwischen fünf und dreißig Jahren alt sein können. In der heutigen Softwareliteratur wird vorwiegend die Schaffung und Konzeption von neuen Systemen behandelt. Ziel dieses Buches ist es dagegen, eine Darstellung der Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten und Strategien für die Altsysteme aufzuzeigen. Dabei beschäftigt sich der Autor auch mit folgenden Fragen: Wie kann die Wartung besser werden Muss man wirklich ablösen Wie funktioniert der Ersatz durch Standardsoftware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 448 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern. The patent examiner was the twenty-six year old Albert Einstein and the three papers would set the agenda for twentieth century physics. A fourth short paper was received by the journal on the 27th of September. It contained Einstein's derivation of the formula E=mc2. These papers with their many technological ramifications changed our lives in the twentieth century and beyond. While to a professional physicist the mathematics in these papers is quite straight forward, the ideas behind the mathematics are not. In fact, none of Einstein's contemporaries fully understood what he had done. The goal of this book is to make these ideas accessible to a general reader with no more mathematics than one learns in high school.PRAISE FOR BOOK:'With wonderfully chosen digressions and some sophisticated physics plus the minimum amount of math to support it, Jeremy Bernstein has produced a charming account of Einstein's epoch-making papers of 1905. Here is surely the thinking person's guide to Einstein's 'Miracle Year.'-Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Author, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus'Why are physicists celebrating the centenary of Einstein's miracle year In this gem of a book-and in simple words-Bernstein explains how young Albert, in that one year, set the foundation to a century of progress in physics.'-Sheldon L. Glashow, Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize inPhysics, Professor, Boston University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Geschäftsprozesse (GP) beschreiben wie Produkte und Dienstleistungen über die Ausführung von Aktivitäten oder Vorgängen hergestellt werden. Die Struktur der GP stellt heute wichtiges firmenspezifisches Know-how dar: ihre Effizienz und Effektivität definiert die Wettbewerbs-position der Unternehmen im Informationszeitalter. Das Buch zeigt konkret und systematische wie Prozesse konzipiert, erfasst, geändert oder optimiert werden können. Dabei reicht das Spektrum der Modellierung von neuen Prozessen, für die es keine Daten gibt, zu Ist-Prozessen, die über eine sorgfältige Daten- und Strukturerfassung quantifiziert und dann optimiert oder restrukturiert werden. Die Ausführungen zum Thema werden immer durch einfache Beispiele und Übungen veranschaulicht. In der zweiten Auflage wurden einige neuere Abbildungen und Beispiele eingefügt, ein über eine Markov-Kette beschriebener Kaufprozess wurde weiter ausgebaut, Übungsaufgaben wurden verbessert.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 372 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Nicht immer ist eine 'verrückte Bandscheibe' oder eine untrainierte Rückenmuskulatur Grund für Rückenschmerzen. Auch Fehlbeanspruchungen der Zwischenwirbelgelenke (Facettengelenke) können der Auslöser starker Schmerzen sein.Informieren Sie sich - in allen Facetten - über das lumbale Facettensyndrom: Ursachen und Entstehung Diagnostische und therapeutische Möglichkeiten Begutachtungsrichtlinien.Topaktuelles Expertenwissen für jeden Orthopäden und Unfallchirurgen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Welcome to the proceedings of APPT 2005: the 6th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies. APPT is a biennial workshop on parallel and distributed processing. Its scope covers all aspects of parallel and distributed computing technologies, including architectures, software systems and tools, algorithms, and applications. APPT originated from collaborations by researchers from China and Germany and has evolved to be an international workshop. APPT 2005 was the sixth in the series. The past ve workshops were held in Beijing, Koblenz, Changsha, Ilmenau, and Xiamen, respectively. The Program Committee is pleased to present the proceedings for APPT 2005. This year, APPT 2005 received over 220 submissions from researchers all over the world. All the papers were peer reviewed by two to three Program Committee members on their relevance, originality, signi cance, technical qu- ity, and presentation. Based on the review result, 55 high-quality papers were selected to be included in the proceedings. The papers in this volume represent the forefront of research on parallel processing and related elds by researchers from China, Germany, USA, Korea, India, and other countries. The papers - cepted cover a wide range of exciting topics, including architectures, software, networking, and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 544 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -During the last 30 years, face recognition and related problems such as face detection/tracking and facial expression recognition have attracted researchers from both the engineering and psychology communities. In addition, extensive research has been carried out to study hand and body gestures. The understanding of how humans perceive these important cues has significant scientific value and extensive applications. For example, human-computer interaction, visual surveillance, and smart video indexing are active application areas. Aiming towards putting such amazing perception capability onto computer systems, researchers have made substantial progress. However, technological challenges still exist in many aspects. Following a format similar to the IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) 2003, this one-day workshop (AMFG 2005) provided a focused international forum to bring together well-known researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of faces and gestures, to discuss the challenges that we are facing, and to explore future directions. Overall, 30 papers were selected from 90 submitted manuscripts. The topics of these papers range from feature representation, robust recognition, learning, and 3D modeling to psychology. In addition, two invited talks were given, by Prof. Kanade and Dr. Phillips. The technical program was organized into four oral sessions and two poster sessions. This workshop would not have been possible without the timely reviews provided by the members of the Technical Program Committee under a tight schedule. October 2005 Wenyi Zhao Shaogang Gong Xiaoou TangSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 444 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing,LADC,isthemain Latin-American event dedicated to the discussion of the many issues related to dependability in computer systems and networks. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners (from all over the world) to present and discuss their latest results and experiences in this eld. LADC2005,thesecondeditionofthisevent,followedonthesuccessofLADC 2003,which took place at the Polytechnic School of the University of S¿ ao Paulo. It was organized by LaSiD, the Distributed Systems Laboratoryassociated with the Department of Computer Science of the Federal University of Bahia. LADC 2005wassponsoredbySBC,theBrazilianComputerSociety,incooperationwith IEEETConFault-TolerantComputing, IFIPWorking Group10.4¿Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance¿,SADIO, the Argentine Society for Informatics and Operations Research, SCCC, the Chilean Computer Science Society, and SMCC, the Mexican Society for Computer Science. LADC2005wasstructuredaroundtechnicalsessions,keynotespeechesanda panel.Twoworkshopswereco-locatedwithLADC2005:WDAS(Latin-American Workshop on Dependable Automation Systems) and WTD (3rd Workshop on Theses and Dissertations on Dependable Computing). WDAS is a forum where members of academia and industry can meet to discuss speci c dependability issues related to automation systems. WTD is a student forum dedicated to the discussion of ongoing and recent work in the eld of dependability carried out at graduate level.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In every software development project there is a need to ensure that the requirements of the user are met without compromising the ultimate goal of the project - these needs frequently change, and are often erratic. Agile software is a means of putting the software first while at the same time reacting to these user requirements in a flexible and agile way.This book covers the emerging methods and approaches (including extreme programming, feature-driven development and adaptive software development), that are loosely described as 'Agile' and shows how to apply them effectively to software development projects. It shows how to plan, organise and develop systems using agile techniques, and highlights some of the problems that may be encountered.This down-to-earth approach looking at how the different methods can work together, will be welcomed by software developers, architects and engineers, business analysts, development managers and software professionals needingan accessible source of Agile techniques and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -We are delighted to present the proceedings of the 8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS 2005). The MMNS 2005 conference was held in Barcelona, Spain on October 24¿26, 2005. As in previous years, the conference brought together an international audience of researchers and scientists from industry and academia who are researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. This year marked a challenging chapter in the advancement of management systems for the wider management research community, with the growing complexities of the ¿so-called¿ multimedia over Internet, the proliferation of alternative wireless networks (WLL, WiFi and WiMAX) and 3G mobile services, intelligent and high-speed networks scalable multimedia services and the convergence of computing and communications for data, voice and video delivery. Contributions from the research community met this challenge with 65 paper submissions; 33 high-quality papers were subsequently selected to form the MMNS 2005 technical program. The diverse topics in this year¿s program included wireless networking technologies, wireless network applications, quality of services, multimedia, Web applications, overlay network management, and bandwidth management.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 404 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -analysisand recognition,shape - derstanding. Arti cial Intelligence: hybrid intelligent systems, agents, cognitive models.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 580 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by global markets, and the mobility of people is becoming an important fact of life. Consequently, the mobile user is demanding appropriate technical solutions to make use of customized information and communication services. In this context the notion of next-generation networks (NGNs), which are driven by the convergence of the entertainment sector, the mobile Internet, and fixed/mobile telecommunications, is emerging. Such NGNs are aggregating a variety of different access networks and supporting the seamless connection of an open set of end-user devices, and due to the adoption of an all-IP network paradigm they enable a much better integration of voice and data services. Coincidently the buzzword ¿fixed mobile convergence¿ (FMC) describes the current trend towards providing common services across fixed and mobile networks resulting in the medium term in the full integration of fixed and mobile telecommunication networks. The adoption of appropriate middleware technologies and the provision of - called service delivery platforms driven by the ongoing innovation in the field of information technologies provides today the technical foundation for supporting terminal, personal and service mobility and thus the implementation of real seamless information and communication services. Furthermore, users are nowadays looking, in light of an omnipresent service environment, for a much higher degree of customization and context awareness in the services they use. The papers in this volume look at these enabling mobility-aware technologies and their use for implementing mobility-aware and context-aware applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 436 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -APLAS 2005 was the Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and S- tems, held in Tsukuba, Japan in November 2¿5, 2005. It was the latest event in the series of annual meetings started in 2000 by Asian researchers in the eld of programming languages and systems. The rst three were organized as wo- shops, and were held in Singapore(2000), Daejeon (2001),and Shanghai (2002). Theenthusiasmthere,encouragedbytherichproductionoforiginalresearch- pers, and the support of the internationalresearchcommunities in programming languagesandsystems,ledtothe rstAPLASasasymposiuminBeijing(2003), followed by the one in Taipei (2004). APLAS 2005 was the third symposium in the series. In the past ve yearswe havewitnessed the growing role of APLAS as one of thekeyresearchcommunitiesoftheworld.ThisisnotonlybecauseAsia andthe Paci c Rim is a fast-growing region of IT industries, but because it is a region of highly cultivated human resources. We are con dent that forums like APLAS will further engender interaction among Asian researchers and with the rest of the world. As for the scope of APLAS, from the very beginning we have been striving to achieve the cross-fertilization of theories and system developments of p- gramming and programming languages. The papers selected for the publication of this volume of the proceedings are the evidence of our e orts. We are very grateful to the contributors of the submitted papers; they came not only from Asia and Australia but from Europe and North America.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 452 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2005), 1¿4 November 2005, Manchester, UK. Formal engineering methods are changing the way that systems are dev- oped. With language and tool support, these methods are being used for se- automatic code generation, and for the automatic abstraction and checking of implementations. In the future, they will be used at every stage of development: requirements,speci cation,design,implementation,testing,anddocumentation. The aim of ICFEM 2005 was to bring together those interested in the - plication of formal engineering methods to computer systems. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, were encouraged to - tend, and to help advance the state of the art. The conference was supported by sponsorships from Microsoft Research, USA, the Software Engineers Association of Japan, the University of Man- ester, Manchester City Council, FormalMethods Europe (FME) and the British Computer Society FormalAspects ofComputing Specialist Group(BCS-FACS). We wish to thank these sponsors for their generosity. The nal programme consisted of 3 invited talks and 30 technical papers selected from a total of 74 submissions. The invited speakers were: Anthony Hall, independent consultant, UK; Egon B¿ orger, University of Pisa, Italy; John Rushby, SRI, USA. Their talks were sponsored by BCS-FACS, Microsoft - search and FME respectively. We wish to thank the invited speakers for their inspiring talks.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 516 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -SystemC provides a robust set of extensions to C++ that enables rapid development of complex hardware/software systems. This book focuses on the practical uses of the language for modeling real systems. The wealth of examples and downloadable code methodically guide the reader through the finer points of the SystemC language.This work provides: A step-by-step build-up of syntax NEW features of SystemC 2.1 Code examples for each concept Many resource references Coding styles and guidelines Over 52 downloadable code examples (over 8,000 lines) Exercises throughout the book How SystemC fits into the system design methodology Why features are as they areWell known consultants in the EDA industry, both David Black and Jack Donovan have been involved in the adoption and teaching of new technologies and methodologies for a combined total of 42+ years. Recently, they jointly founded a consultancy, Eklectic Ally, focused on helping companies adopt SystemC methodologies.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scienti c areas including arti cial intelligence, computer vision, face recognition, motion tracking, etc. In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people, they need to understand their environment through vision and auditory input. Mo- over, HCI systems should learn how to adaptively respond depending on the situation. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the eld of computer vision whose work is related to human-computer interaction. The selected articles for this workshop address a wide range of theoretical and - plication issues in human-computer interaction ranging from human-robot - teraction, gesture recognition, and body tracking, to facial features analysis and human-computer interaction systems. This year 74 papers from 18 countries were submitted and 22 were accepted for presentation at the workshop after being reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. We had therefore a very competitive acceptance rate of less than 30% and as a consequence we had a very-high-quality workshop. Wewouldliketo thankallmembersofthe ProgramCommitteefor their help in ensuring the quality of the papers accepted for publication. We are grateful to Dr. Jian Wang for giving the keynote address. In addition, we wish to thank the organizers of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and our sponsors, University of Amsterdam, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for support in setting up our workshop.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -have been possible. We are also indebted to many individuals and organizations that made the conference possible (IEEE, IARIA, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, JEMS¿s drivers, and the Universitat Polit` ecnica de Catalunya).Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book covers recent results in linear algebra with indefinite inner product. It includes applications to differential and difference equations with symmetries, matrix polynomials and Riccati equations. These applications are based on linear algebra in spaces with indefinite inner product. The latter forms an independent branch of linear algebra called indefinite linear algebra. This new subject is presented following the principles of a standard linear algebra course.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 372 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Avian Influenza has become one of the biggest threats for human and animal health. The old paradigm was that the disease in waterfowl, poultry, pigs and man was caused by separate viruses that each stayed reasonably well within their own niche. The only danger to man was considered being infected by pigs, being the mixing vessel, where avian and human influenza viruses could come together and exchange genetic material to form new viruses that are potentially dangerous to man.This has dramatically proven wrong during the last decade, with huge outbreaks in the USA, Europe, and Asia. The H5N1 strain that caused human deaths in Hong Kong appeared to be transmitted directly from poultry to man. This initiated sudden awareness that pigs were not a necessary intermediate in the transmission chain. During the AI outbreaks in Italy, mutation of low-pathogenicity viruses into high-pathogenicity viruses in poultry appeared another new threat, and further evidence that the poultry sector had a wolf in sheep¿s clothing. It put pressure on development of diagnostic methods that could be used in large monitoring programmes.In The Netherlands a human fatality, after increased reports of conjunctivitis during a H7N7 outbreak, signalled that different AI strains could be fatal to man. Also, the huge economic losses and difficulties in controlling the spread of the infection in densely populated poultry areas, problems with vaccination and lack of marker vaccines demonstrated that the current control policy must be improved. These events led to an international AI conference with experts from Asia, USA and Europe.In this book you will find new views on the issues, expert opinions and the results of in-depth discussions among avian experts of around the world that do not want to give up against this dangerous virus.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Conceptual modeling is fundamental to any domain where one must cope with complex real-world situations and systems because it fosters communication - tween technology experts and those who would bene t from the application of those technologies. Conceptual modeling is the key mechanism for und- standing and representing the domains of information system and database - gineering but also increasingly for other domains including the new ¿virtual¿ e-environmentsandtheinformationsystemsthatsupportthem.Theimportance of conceptual modeling in software engineering is evidenced by recent interest in ¿model-drivenarchitecture¿and¿extremenon-programming¿.Conceptualm- eling also plays a prominent rolein various technical disciplines and in the social sciences. The Annual International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (referred to as the ER Conference) provides a central forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which conceptual modeling is the major emphasis. In keeping with this tradition, ER 2005, the 24th ER Conference, spanned the spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual m- eling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into e ective (information) system implementations. Moreover, new areas of conceptual modeling incl- ing Semantic Web services and the interdependencies of conceptual modeling with knowledge-based, logical and linguistic theories and approaches were also addressed.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 520 pp. Englisch.