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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch bietet einen Einstieg in die Informatik anhand von LEGO Mindstorms NXT-Robotern, mit deren Hilfe Informatik-Inhalte anschaulich vermittelt werden. Nach einer allgemein gehaltenen Einführung in die Informatik, informationstechnische Prinzipien und Komponenten wie Computer und Compiler werden im zweiten Teil die NXT-Elemente behandelt. Dazu gehören die verschiedenen Bauteile (Sensoren, Motoren, Rechner) des NXT-Bausatzes und die jeweiligen Funktionsweisen sowie die grafische Programmierumgebung von LEGO. Der dritte Teil enthält eine Einführung in die objektorientierte Programmiersprache JAVA und die Programmierung von LEGO-Robotern mit Hilfe von LeJOS.Ausführliche Beispiele, Aufgaben und ein Glossar vertiefen das Wissen und bieten zahlreiche weitere Ideen und Anwendungen.Alle benötigten Softwareprogramme, alle Aufgabenlösungen und Bauanleitungen sowie weitere Informationen werden auf der Homepage zum Buch bereitgestellt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Neuromuscular monitoring is critical for the judicious use of muscle relaxants. In combination with reversal, it is fundamental to every successful strategy for managing postoperative residual blocks. This reference work is a compendium of all the essential information needed to monitor neuromuscular function. Physiological and pharmacological basics of neuromuscular transmission, principles of neuromuscular monitoring: How to place stimulation electrodes, properly select the stimulation mode and interprete findings, practical techniques for clinical routine, clinical concepts behind qualitative and quantitative nerve stimulators, comprehensive presentation of acceleromyography including a question & answer section, summaries of all key points, current guidelines on the scientific use of acceleromyography.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -As modern society relies on the fault-free operation of complex computing systems, system fault-tolerance has become an indispensable requirement. Therefore, we need mechanisms that guarantee correct service in cases where system components fail, be they software or hardware elements. Redundancy patterns are commonly used, for either redundancy in space or redundancy in time.Wolter¿s book details methods of redundancy in time that need to be issued at the right moment. In particular, she addresses the so-called 'timeout selection problem', i.e., the question of choosing the right time for different fault-tolerance mechanisms like restart, rejuvenation and checkpointing. Restart indicates the pure system restart, rejuvenation denotes the restart of the operating environment of a task, and checkpointing includes saving the system state periodically and reinitializing the system at the most recent checkpoint upon failure of the system. Her presentation includes a brief introduction to the methods, their detailed stochastic description, and also aspects of their efficient implementation in real-world systems.The book is targeted at researchers and graduate students in system dependability, stochastic modeling and software reliability. Readers will find here an up-to-date overview of the key theoretical results, making this the only comprehensive text on stochastic models for restart-related problems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Ordinary differential equations play a central role in science and have been extended to evolution equations in Banach spaces. For many applications, however, it is difficult to specify a suitable normed vector space. Shapes without a priori restrictions, for example, do not have an obvious linear structure.This book generalizes ordinary differential equations beyond the borders of vector spaces with a focus on the well-posed Cauchy problem in finite time intervals.Here are some of the examples: Feedback evolutions of compact subsets of the Euclidean space Birth-and-growth processes of random sets (not necessarily convex) Semilinear evolution equations Nonlocal parabolic differential equations Nonlinear transport equations for Radon measures A structured population model Stochastic differential equations with nonlocal sample dependence and how they can be coupled in systems immediately - due to the joint framework of Mutational Analysis. Finally, the book offers new tools for modelling.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth¿s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves.This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of fronts and vortices and their interaction with waves in geophysical flows. It provides a basic physical background for modeling coherent structures in a geophysical context, and it gives essential information on advanced topics such as spontaneous wave emission and wavemomentum transfer in geophysical flows.Based on a set of lectures by leading specialists, this text is targeted at graduate students, researchers and engineers in geophysics and environmental fluid mechanics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Manufacturing and operations management paradigms are evolving toward more open and resilient spaces where innovation is driven not only by ever-changing customer needs but also by agile and fast-reacting networked structures. Flexibility, adaptability and responsiveness are properties that the next generation of systems must have in order to successfully support such new emerging trends. Customers are being attracted to be involved in Co-innovation Networks, as - proved responsiveness and agility is expected from industry ecosystems. Renewed production systems needs to be modeled, engineered and deployed in order to achieve cost-effective solutions. BASYS conferences have been developed and organized as a forum in which to share visions and research findings for innovative sustainable and knowledge-based products-services and manufacturing models. Thus, the focus of BASYS is to discuss how human actors, emergent technologies and even organizations are integrated in order to redefine the way in which the val- creation process must be conceived and realized. BASYS 2010, which was held in Valencia, Spain, proposed new approaches in automation where synergies between people, systems and organizations need to be fully exploited in order to create high added-value products and services. This book contains the selection of the papers which were accepted for presentation at the BASYS 2010 conference, covering consolidated and emerging topics of the conference scope.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 324 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Agile software development has become an umbrella term for a number of changes in how software developers plan and coordinate their work, how they communicate with customers and external stakeholders, and how software development is organized in small, medium, and large companies, from the telecom and healthcare sectors to games and interactive media. Still, after a decade of research, agile software development is the source of continued debate due to its multifaceted nature and insufficient synthesis of research results.Dingsøyr, Dybå, and Moe now present a comprehensive snapshot of the knowledge gained over many years of research by those working closely with or in the industry. It shows the current state of research on agile software development through an introduction and ten invited contributions on the main research fields, each written by renowned experts. These chapters cover three main issues: foundations and background of agile development, agile methods in practice, and principal challenges and new frontiers. They show the important results in each subfield, and in addition they explain what these results mean to practitioners as well as for future research in the field.The book is aimed at reflective practitioners and researchers alike, and it also can serve as the basis for graduate courses at universities.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at WoLLIC 2010: 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation held during July 6¿9, 2010, on the campus of Universidade de Bras¿ lia (UnB), Brazil. The Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoL- LIC) is an annual event, meeting every year since 1994, which aims at fostering interdisciplinary research in pure and applied logic. The idea is to have a forum which is large enough in the number of possible interactions between logic and the sciences related to information and computation, and yet is small enough to allow for concrete and useful interaction among participants. The present volume contains 13 contributed papers that were selected from among 32 submissions after a rigorous review by the Program Committee. Each submission was reviewed by at least two, and on average three, Program C- mittee members. This volume also containspapersor abstractsthat relateto the seven invited talks presented at the workshop. Between them, these papers give a snapshot of some fascinating work taking place at the frontiers between computation, logic, and linguistics. We are grateful to all the people who made this meeting possible and are responsible for its success: the members of the Program Committee and the external reviewers, the invited speakers, the contributors, and the people who were involved in organizing the workshop.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch gibt neben der Einführung in die Theorie der Einteilchen-Wellengleichungen auch eine auf der Technik der kausalen Greenschen Funktionen (Propagatormethode) basierende Einführung in die Berechnung quantenelektrodynamischer Prozesse. Diese intuitive und direktere Betrachtung wird den Physik-Studenten, die nicht in Theoretischer Physik ihren Abschluß anstreben und keine Vorlesungen zu Quantenfeldtheorie besuchen, helfen, sich die Denkweisen und Vorgehensweisen der Quantenfeldtheorie anzueignen. Die Oszillatorzerlegung des elektromagnetischen Feldes unter Benutzung der Feldstärken anstelle von elektrodynamischen Potentialen macht die Betrachtung anschaulicher und zugänglicher für einen breiteren Kreis von Lesern. Auf der Grundlage der Propagatortheorie werden im Kapitel III einige grundlegende quantenelektrodynamische Prozesse wie die Elektron-Elektron- bzw. die Elektron-Positron-Streuung, Elektron-Positron-Zerstrahlung, die Compton-Streuung an Pionen und Elektronen ausführlich behandelt. Nach der Einführung in den Besetzungszahlen-Formalismus im Kapitel IV werden in den letzten zwei Abschnitten die makroskopischen quantenmechanischen Phänomene - die Suprafluidität und die Supraleitung - auf der Grundlage des Besatzungszahlen-Formalismus und unter Benutzung der Technik der kanonischen Transformationen ausführlich behandelt. Die Aufgaben, die meistens detaillierte Anleitungen enthalten, sind Bestandteil des Vorlesungsstoffes. Viele wichtige Aspekte - solche wie die diskreten Symmetrien der Dirac-Gleichung und die Quantisierung des Klein-Gordon- und des Dirac-Feldes - werden in den Aufgaben behandelt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 368 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -An Ingredient Brand is exactly what the name implies: an ingredient or component of a product that has its own brand identity. This is the first comprehensive book that explains how Ingredient Branding works and how brand managers can successfully improve the performance of component marketing.The authors have examined more than one hundred examples, analyzed four industries and developed nine detailed case studies to demonstrate the viability of this marketing innovation. The new concepts and principles can easily be applied by professionals. In the light of the success stories of Intel, GoreTex, Dolby, TetraPak, Shimano, and Teflon it can be expected that component suppliers will increasingly use Ingredient Branding strategies in the future.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 416 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Anhand einer durchgängigen Fallstudie wird die Geschäftsprozessintegration mit Hilfe von SAP-Technologien erläutert. Konzeptionelle und technische Grundlagen, insbesondere die Einführung in die verwendete Integrationsplattform SAP PI und SAP Business Workflows, werden der Fallstudie vorangestellt. Die Fallstudie des Buches beschäftigt sich mit der Ermittlung der Umweltwirkung von Produkten und thematisiert damit eine Problemstellung, die im Kontext unterschiedlicher Geschäftsprozesse und Branchen auftritt: um das kundenseitige Informationsbedürfnis zur Umweltwirkung eines Produktes erfüllen zu können, werden Produktionsdetails entlang der Wertschöpfungskette von der Rohstoffentnahme bis zum Vertrieb gesammelt. Auf Grundlage der so gewonnenen Daten erhält der Verbraucher Aufschluss über die Herkunft der verarbeiteten Rohstoffe und die angewendeten Produktionsverfahren. Die erforderlichen Prozesse werden am Beispiel des produktbezogenen Carbon Footprint (PCF) konzipiert und implementiert.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -strategy, but we also focus on execution. We talk about organizational design, and also refect on leadership practices. Our assumption is that in a dynamic world, leaders at all levels, have to constantly switch gears, wear different hats, and na- gate at different altitudes. They have to think about the ¿total¿ enterprise, not in terms of compartmentalized silos or felds of functional expertise. Much like a g- eral contractor, they have to draw on specialized expertise, as and when needed, yet keep the big picture in mind. Our hope is that our diagnostic tools can help teams develop a shared frame of reference and generate cross-functional dialogue. The third driving force behind this second edition is the gradual convergence between the worlds of entrepreneurial start-ups and challenges facing established corporations. Innovation, agility, and initiative are no longer the exclusive preserve of start-ups. Established companies are looking for ways to re-invent themselves, to innovate, to think creatively, and to make their enterprises more fexible, agile and entrepreneurial. We have had the good fortune to sit at the intersection of these two worlds. We hope our ideas can beneft both groups. We set out to provide a ¿buffet table¿, a menu of options that can be helpful for the two ends of the spectrum.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Linear elliptic equations arise in several models describing various phenomena in the applied sciences, the most famous being the second order stationary heat eq- tion or,equivalently,the membraneequation. Forthis intensivelywell-studiedlinear problem there are two main lines of results. The rst line consists of existence and regularity results. Usually the solution exists and ¿gains two orders of differen- ation¿ with respect to the source term. The second line contains comparison type results, namely the property that a positive source term implies that the solution is positive under suitable side constraints such as homogeneous Dirichlet bou- ary conditions. This property is often also called positivity preserving or, simply, maximum principle. These kinds of results hold for general second order elliptic problems, see the books by Gilbarg-Trudinger [198] and Protter-Weinberger [347]. For linear higher order elliptic problems the existence and regularitytype results - main, as one may say, in their full generality whereas comparison type results may fail. Here and in the sequel ¿higher order¿ means order at least four. Most interesting models, however, are nonlinear. By now, the theory of second order elliptic problems is quite well developed for semilinear, quasilinear and even for some fully nonlinear problems. If one looks closely at the tools being used in the proofs, then one nds that many results bene t in some way from the positivity preserving property. Techniques based on Harnack¿s inequality, De Giorgi-Nash- Moser¿s iteration, viscosity solutions etc.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 448 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Eingebettete Systeme sind aus unserem täglichen Leben nicht mehr wegzudenken. Aufgrund ihrer Spezialisiertheit werden diese zunehmend aus interagierenden Hardware- und Software-Komponenten realisiert. Dies macht ein ganzheitliches, über Hardware- und Softwaregrenzen hinausgehendes Verständnis der Verifikationsproblematik erforderlich.Das vorliegende Lehrbuch dient als Einführung in die systematische Verifikation eingebetteter Systeme, sowohl bei spezialisierten Verfahren zur Hardware- und Software-Verifikation als auch bei der Verifikation der Schnittstellen. Alle Verfahren werden in einer einheitlichen Notation für Hard- und Software beschrieben. Die wesentlichen Aspekte reichen, angefangen bei der Spezifikation, von der Verifikation der Funktionalität bis hin zur Überprüfung des Zeitverhaltens.Das vorliegende Buch bietet Studierenden der Informatik, Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik und Mechatronik fundiertes Wissen und ist zugleich ein wertvolles Referenz- und Nachschlagewerk für Entwickler eingebetteter Systeme.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 612 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A crucial step during the design and engineering of communication systems is the estimation of their performance and behavior; especially for mathematically complex or highly dynamic systems network simulation is particularly useful.This book focuses on tools, modeling principles and state-of-the art models for discrete-event based network simulations, the standard method applied today in academia and industry for performance evaluation of new network designs and architectures.The focus of the tools part is on two distinct simulations engines: OmNet++ and ns-3, while it also deals with issues like parallelization, software integration and hardware simulations. The parts dealing with modeling and models for network simulations are split into a wireless section and a section dealing with higher layers. The wireless section covers all essential modeling principles for dealing with physical layer, link layer and wireless channel behavior. In addition, detailed models for prominent wireless systems like IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 are presented.In the part on higher layers, classical modeling approaches for the network layer, the transport layer and the application layer are presented in addition to modeling approaches for peer-to-peer networks and topologies of networks. The modeling parts are accompanied with catalogues of model implementations for a large set of different simulation engines.The book is aimed at master students and PhD students of computer science and electrical engineering as well as at researchers and practitioners from academia and industry that are dealing with network simulation at any layer of the protocol stack.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 568 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -inginstimulatingdiscussionsintheclasswetaughtcalled¿Earthquakehydrology¿. In particular, we wish to thank Emily Brodsky, Yeeping Chia, Douglas Dreger, Shemin Ge, Fu-qiong Huang, Tom Holzer, Chris Huber, Joel Rowland, Martin Saar, Yaolin Shi, Chung-Ho Wang, Kelin Wang, Pei-ling Wang and Alex Wong forenlighteningexchanges.HunterPhilsonhelpedwith guresandtheindex.We v vi Preface alsothanktheNationalScienceFoundation,theMillerInstituteforBasicResearch inScience,andNASAforsupportingtheresearchandsynthesisinthisvolume.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU, is organized every two years with the aim of bringing together scientists working on methods for the m- agement of uncertainty and aggregation of information in intelligent systems. Since 1986, this conference has been providing a forum for the exchange of ideas th between theoreticians and practitioners working in these areas. The 13 IPMU conference took place in Dortmund, Germany, June 28-July 2, 2010. This volumecontains77papersselectedthrougharigorousreviewingprocess among 320 submissions from 36 countries. The contributions re ect the richness of research in the eld of computational intelligence and represent several - portant developments, speci cally focused on the following sub elds: (a) machine learning, data mining, and pattern recognition, (b) uncertainty handling, (c) aggregation and fusion of information, (d) logic and knowledge processing. We were delighted that Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University, USA), NihkilR.Pal(IndianStatisticalInstitute),BernhardSch¿ olkopf(MaxPlanckI- titute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubing ¿ en, Germany) and Wolfgang Wahlster (German Research Center for Arti cial Intelligence, Saarbruc ¿ ken) accepted our invitationstopresentkeynotelectures.JimBezdekreceivedtheKamp¿edeF¿ eriet Award,grantedeverytwo yearsonthe occasionofthe IPMUconference,in view ofhiseminentresearchcontributionstothehandlingofuncertaintyinclustering, data analysis and pattern recognition.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 792 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Deeply rooted in fundamental research in Mathematics and Computer Science, Cellular Automata (CA) are recognized as an intuitive modeling paradigm for Complex Systems. Already very basic CA, with extremely simple micro dynamics such as the Game of Life, show an almost endless display of complex emergent behavior. Conversely, CA can also be designed to produce a desired emergent behavior, using either theoretical methodologies or evolutionary techniques. Meanwhile, beyond the original realm of applications - Physics, Computer Science, and Mathematics ¿ CA have also become work horses in very different disciplines such as epidemiology, immunology, sociology, and finance.In this context of fast and impressive progress, spurred further by the enormous attraction these topics have on students, this book emerges as a welcome overview of the field for its practitioners, as well as a good starting point for detailed study on the graduate and post-graduate level.The book contains three parts, two major parts on theory and applications, and a smaller part on software. The theory part contains fundamental chapters on how to design and/or apply CA for many different areas. In the applications part a number of representative examples of really using CA in a broad range of disciplines is provided - this part will give the reader a good idea of the real strength of this kind of modeling as well as the incentive to apply CA in their own field of study. Finally, we included a smaller section on software, to highlight the important work that has been done to create high quality problem solving environments that allow to quickly and relatively easily implement a CA model and run simulations, both on the desktop and if needed, on High Performance Computing infrastructures.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was established on 17th December, 1931 by a great visionary Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis to promote research in the theory and applications of statistics as a new scienti c discipline in India. In 1959, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India introduced the ISI Act in the parliament and designated it as an Institution of National Importance because of its remarkable achievements in statistical work as well as its contribution to economic planning. Today, the Indian Statistical Institute occupies a prestigious position in the a- demic rmament. It has been a haven for bright and talented academics working in a number of disciplines. Its research faculty has done India proud in the arenas of Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, among others. Over s- enty ve years, it has grown into a massive banyan tree, like the institute emblem. The Institute now serves the nation as a uni ed and monolithic organization from different places, namely Kolkata, the Headquarters, Delhi, Bangalore, and Chennai, three centers, a network of ve SQC-OR Units located at Mumbai, Pune, Baroda, Hyderabad and Coimbatore, and a branch ( eld station) at Giridih. The platinum jubilee celebrations of ISI have been launched by Honorable Prime Minister Prof. Manmohan Singh on December 24, 2006, and the Govt. of India has declared 29th June as the ¿Statistics Day¿ to commemorate the birthday of Prof. Mahalanobis nationally.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 148 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this book, a generic model in as far as possible mathematical closed-formis developed that predicts the behavior of large self-organizing robot groups (robot swarms) based on their control algorithm. In addition, an extensive subsumption of the relatively young and distinctive interdisciplinary research field of swarm robotics is emphasized. The connection to many related fields is highlighted and the concepts and methods borrowed from these fields are described shortly.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -presentations (15 mins). The total acceptance rate was thus about 23.5% across both categories.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 544 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Roboticsis undergoingamajortransformationinscopeanddimension.From a largelydominantindustrialfocus,roboticsis rapidly expandinginto human environments and vigorouslyengaged in its new challenges. Interacting with, assisting, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will - creasingly touch people and their lives. Beyond its impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has produced is revealing a much wider range of applications reaching across - verse research areas and scienti c disciplines, such as: biomechanics, haptics, neurosciences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return, the challenges of the new emerging areas are pr- ing an abundant source of stimulation and insights for the eld of robotics. It is indeed at the intersection of disciplines that the most striking advances happen. TheSpringerTractsinAdvancedRobotics(STAR)isdevotedtobringingto the research community the latest advances in the robotics eld on the basis of their signi cance and quality. Through a wide and timely dissemination of critical research developments in robotics, our objective with this series is to promotemoreexchangesandcollaborationsamongtheresearchersinthec- munity and contributeto further advancements inthis rapidlygrowing eld. The monographwritten byAlejandro DizanVasquez Goveafocusesonthe practicalproblem of moving in a cluttered environment with pedestrians and vehicles. A frameworkbased on Hidden Markov models is developed to learn typical motion patterns which can be used to predict motion on the basis of sensor data. All the theoretical results have been implemented and validated with experiments, using both real and simulated data.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 176 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is an introduction to the dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems, with a focus on fronts and stationary spatial patterns. Emphasis is on systems that are non-standard in the sense that either the transport is not simply classical diffusion (Brownian motion) or the system is not homogeneous. A important feature is the derivation of the basic phenomenological equations from the mesoscopic system properties.Topics addressed include transport with inertia, described by persistent random walks and hyperbolic reaction-transport equations and transport by anomalous diffusion, in particular subdiffusion, where the mean square displacement grows sublinearly with time. In particular reaction-diffusion systems are studied where the medium is in turn either spatially inhomogeneous, compositionally heterogeneous or spatially discrete.Applications span a vast range of interdisciplinary fields and the systems considered can be as different as human or animal groups migrating under external influences, population ecology and evolution, complex chemical reactions, or networks of biological cells. Several chapters treat these applications in detail.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 480 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Variable speed is one of the important requirements in most of the electric drives. Earlier dc motors were the only drives that were used in industries requiring - eration over a wide range of speed with step less variation, or requiring fine ac- racy of speed control. Such drives are known as high performance drives. AC - tors because of being highly coupled non-linear devices can not provide fast dynamic response with normal controls. However, recently, because of ready availability of power electronic devices, and digital signal processors ac motors are beginning to be used for high performance drives. Field oriented control or vector control has made a fundamental change with regard to dynamic perfo- ance of ac machines. Vector control makes it possible to control induction or s- chronous motor in a manner similar to control scheme used for the separately - cited dc motor. Recent advances in artificial intelligence techniques have also contributed in the improvement in performance of electric drives. This book presents a comprehensive view of high performance ac drives. It may be considered as both a text book for graduate students and as an up-to-date monograph. It may also be used by R & D professionals involved in the impro- ment of performance of drives in the industries. The book will also be beneficial to the researchers pursuing work on sensorless and direct torque control of electric drives as up-to date references in these topics are provided.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -telecommunications industry. There were 148 valid (out of 163 in total) submissions to RSCTC 2010. Every paper was examined by at least two reviewers. Out of the papers initially selected,somewereapprovedsubjecttorevisionandthenadditionallyevaluated.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 772 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Agent based evolutionary search is an emerging paradigm in computational int- ligence offering the potential to conceptualize and solve a variety of complex problems such as currency trading, production planning, disaster response m- agement, business process management etc. There has been a significant growth in the number of publications related to the development and applications of agent based systems in recent years which has prompted special issues of journals and dedicated sessions in premier conferences. The notion of an agent with its ability to sense, learn and act autonomously - lows the development of a plethora of efficient algorithms to deal with complex problems. This notion of an agent differs significantly from a restrictive definition of a solution in an evolutionary algorithm and opens up the possibility to model and capture emergent behavior of complex systems through a natural age- oriented decomposition of the problem space. While this flexibility of represen- tion offered by agent based systems is widely acknowledged, they need to be - signed for specific purposes capturing the right level of details and description. This edited volume is aimed to provide the readers with a brief background of agent based evolutionary search, recent developments and studies dealing with various levels of information abstraction and applications of agent based evo- tionary systems. There are 12 peer reviewed chapters in this book authored by d- tinguished researchers who have shared their experience and findings spanning across a wide range of applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Intelligent Information Access techniques attempt to overcome the limi- tions of current search devices by providing personalized information items and product/service recommendations. They normally utilize direct or in- rect user input and facilitate the information search and decision processes, according to user needs, preferences and usage patterns. Recent devel- ments at the intersection of Information Retrieval, Information Filtering, MachineLearning,UserModelling,NaturalLanguageProcessingandHuman- Computer Interaction o er novel solutions that empower users to go beyond single-sessionlookuptasksandthataimatservingthemorecomplexrequi- ment: ¿Tell me what I don¿t know that I need to know¿. Information ltering systems,speci callyrecommendersystems,havebeenrevolutionizingtheway information seekers nd what they want, becausethey e ectively prune large informationspacesandhelpusersinselectingitemsthatbestmeettheirneeds and preferences. Recommender systems rely strongly on the use of various machine learning tools and algorithms for learning how to rank, or predict user evaluation, of items. Information Retrieval systems, on the other hand, also attempt to address similar ltering and ranking problems for pieces of information such as links, pages, and documents. But they generally focus on the development of global retrieval techniques, often neglecting individual user needs and preferences. The book aims to investigate current developments and new insights into methods, techniques and technologies for intelligent information access from a multidisciplinary perspective. It comprises six chapters authored by part- ipants in the research event Intelligent Information Access,heldinCagliari (Italy) in December 2008.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Business meets IT ¿ hier treffen häufig zwei sehr unterschiedliche Welten aufeinander. Ablauf und Erfolg von IT-Projekten in Unternehmen werden wesentlich von dieser Konstellation beeinflusst. Jede Seite kann auf einen großen Schatz an rollenspezifischer Literatur zugreifen. An der Grenze zwischen diesen Bereichen werden die relevanten Themen bei der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Fachabteilung und IT aber nur selten aus einem gemeinsamen Blickwinkel betrachtet. Neben einer Hilfestellung für die berufsbegleitende Ausbildung zum 'Aktuar DAV' bei der Deutschen Aktuarvereinigung und für Studenten besteht die generelle Zielsetzung dieses Handbuches darin, für alle Beteiligten die Grundlagen für eine erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit in IT-Projekten zu schaffen, die Basis für die zielgerichtete Kommunikation zu erarbeiten und ein Gesamtkonzept zur Anwendungsentwicklung zu vermitteln.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 476 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Multi-agent systems are claimed to be especially suited to the development of software systems that are decentralized, can deal flexibly with dynamic conditions, and are open to system components that come and go. This is why they are used in domains such as manufacturing control, automated vehicles, and e-commerce markets.Danny Weyns' book is organized according to the postulate that 'developing multi-agent systems is 95% software engineering and 5% multi-agent systems theory.' He presents a software engineering approach for multi-agent systems that is heavily based on software architecture - with, for example, tailored patterns such as 'situated agent', 'virtual environment', and 'selective perception' - and on middleware for distributed coordination ¿ with programming abstractions such as 'views' and 'roles.' Next he shows the feasibility and applicability of this approach with the development of an automated transportation system consisting of a number of automatic guided vehicles transporting loads in an industrial setting.Weyns puts the development of multi-agent systems into a larger perspective with traditional software engineering approaches. With this, he opens up opportunities to exploit the body of knowledge developed in the multi-agent systems community to tackle some of the difficult challenges of modern-day software systems, such as decentralized control, location-awareness, self-adaption, and large-scale. Thus his book is of interest for both researchers and industrial software engineers who develop applications in areas such as distributed control systems and mobile applications where such requirements are of crucial importance.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on motions of incompressible uids of a freely moving surface being in uenced by both the Earth¿s rotation and density strati cation. In contrast to traditional textbooks in the eld of geophysical uid dynamics, such as those by by Cushman-Roisin (1994) and Gill (1982), this book uses the method of proce- oriented hydrodynamic modelling to illustrate a rich variety of uid phenomena. To this end, the reader can adopt the model codes, found on the Springer server accompanying this book, to reproduce most graphs of this book and, even better, to create animation movies. The reader can also employ the codes as templates for own independent studies. This can be done by a lay person as a hobby activity, undergraduate or postgraduate students as part of their education, or professional scientists as part of research. Exercises of this book are run with open-source software that can be freely downloaded from the Internet. This includes the FORTRAN 95 compiler ¿G95¿ used for execution of model simulations, the data visualisation program ¿SciLab¿, and ¿ImageMagick¿ for the creation of graphs and GIF animations, which can be watched with most Internet browsers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Englisch.