Springer birkhäuser jan 2013 (4 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -While many Web 2.0-inspired approaches to semantic content authoring do acknowledge motivation and incentives as the main drivers of user involvement, the amount of useful human contributions actually available will always remain a scarce resource. Complementarily, there are aspects of semantic content authoring in which automatic techniques have proven to perform reliably, and the added value of human (and collective) intelligence is often a question of cost and timing. The challenge that this book attempts to tackle is how these two approaches (machine- and human-driven computation) could be combined in order to improve the cost-performance ratio of creating, managing, and meaningfully using semantic content. To do so, we need to first understand how theories and practices from social sciences and economics about user behavior and incentives could be applied to semantic content authoring. We will introduce a methodology to help software designers to embed incentives-minded functionalities into semantic applications, as well as best practices and guidelines. We will present several examples of such applications, addressing tasks such as ontology management, media annotation, and information extraction, which have been built with these considerations in mind. These examples illustrate key design issues of incentivized Semantic Web applications that might have a significant effect on the success and sustainable development of the applications: the suitability of the task and knowledge domain to the intended audience, and the mechanisms set up to ensure high-quality contributions, and extensive user involvement.Table of Contents: Semantic Data Management: A Human-driven Process / Fundamentals of Motivation and Incentives / Case Study: Motivating Employees to Annotate Content / Case Study: Building a Community of Practice Around Web Service Management and Annotation / Case Study: Games with a Purpose for Semantic Content Creation / ConclusionsSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 120 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book demonstrates the development of integral geometry on domains of homogeneous spaces since 1990. It covers a wide range of topics, including analysis on multidimensional Euclidean domains and Riemannian symmetric spaces of arbitrary ranks as well as recent work on phase space and the Heisenberg group. The book includes many significant recent results, some of them hitherto unpublished, among which can be pointed out uniqueness theorems for various classes of functions, far-reaching generalizations of the two-radii problem, the modern versions of the Pompeiu problem, and explicit reconstruction formulae in problems of integral geometry. These results are intriguing and useful in various fields of contemporary mathematics. The proofs given are 'minimal' in the sense that they involve only those concepts and facts which are indispensable for the essence of the subject. Each chapter provides a historical perspective on the results presented and includes many interesting open problems. Readers will find this book relevant to harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces, invariant spaces theory, integral transforms on symmetric spaces and the Heisenberg group, integral equations, special functions, and transmutation operators theory. 604 pp. Englisch.…

Sonstige Video. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Inhaltsangabe1 Propaedeutic.- 1.1 Gobbets.- 1.2 Micropaedia.- 1.3 On the philosophy of mathematics.- 1.4 On the historiography of mathematics.- 1.5 On the organisation of the text.- 2 Institutions and individuals around the 1800s.- 2.1 Plan of the chapter.- 2.2 Research at the Institut and elsewhere.- 2.3 Education at the Ecole Polytechnique.- 2.4 Other schools, mostly in Paris.- 2.5 Major and minor figures.- 2.6 New men and a new profession.- 3 The 18th-century heritage: the calculus around 1800.- 3.1 Plan of the chapter.- 3.2 The foundations of the calculus in the late 18th century.- 3.3 On differential equations.- 3.4 On series, functions and integrals.- 3.5 On differences, interpolation and tables.- 3.6 Concluding comments: the aspirations of Lacroix 183.- 4 The Lagrangian tradition in the calculus, 1800-1815.- 4.1 Plan of the chapter.- 4.2 New figures, and a new journal.- 4.3 Consequences of Lagrange: functions and the new algebras.- 4.4 Differential and difference equations.- 4.5 On the calculus of variations.- 4.6 Equations and their roots.- 4.7 Case studies in the relationship between geometry and algebra.- 4.8 Concluding comments.- Interlude 480.1 The calculus outside France.- 5 The 18th-century heritage: mechanics around 1800.- 5.1 Prefaces.- 5.2 Principles and scope of mechanics in the late 18th century.- 5.3 Two main results, and their various proofs.- 5.4 On celestial mechanics.- 5.5 On planetary mechanics.- 5.6 Concluding comment: the aspirations of Laplace.- Interlude 525.1 Notes on handling differential models in mathematical physics.- 6 Progress in mechanics, 1800-1815.- 6.1 Prefaces.- 6.2 Research and education in terrestrial mechanics.- 6.3 Variational mechanics: the Poisson and Lagrange brackets, 1808-1810.- 6.4 Celestial and planetary mechanics-with statistics.- 6.5 Potential theory and the pendulum.- 6.6 Concluding comments.- Interlude 641.1 Notes on German theoretical astronomy.- Interlude 660.1 Mechanics outside France.- 7 Laplace's mathematicised molecular physics, 1804-1816.- 7.1 Prefaces.- 7.2 The first steps.- 7.3 Poisson versus Germain on elastic surfaces, 1811-1815.- 7.4 On Laplacian optics.- 7.5 On Newtonian electricity and magnetism.- 7.6 Poisson's inauguration of mathematical electrostatics, 1812-1813.- 7.7 Concluding comment: the aspirations of the Laplacians.- 8 Aspects of engineering mathematics, 1800-1816.- 8.1 Prefaces.- 8.2 Some principal figures and organisations.- 8.3 Perspectives on descriptive geometry.- 8.4 On the engineering science of materials.- 8.5 On the engineering studies of fluids.- 8.6 Concluding comment: the spectrum of engineering mathematics.- Interlude 860.1 On engineering outside France.- 9 The entry of Fourier: heat theory and Fourier analysis, 1800-1816.- 9.1 Prefaces.- 9.2 The diffusion equation and its series solutions.- 9.3 Reactions and further results, 1808-1815.- 9.4 Fourier's prospects.- 9.5 Concluding comment: the aspirations of Fourier.- Interlude 934.1 Notes on the history of the Laplace transform.- 10 The entry of Cauchy: complex variables and differential equations, 1810-1822.- 10.1 Prefaces.- 10.2 Complex variables and the evaluation of integrals, 1810-1815.- 10.3 Poisson and Cauchy on the propagation of waves, 1815-1817.- 10.4 Competing solutions to linear partial differential equations, 1818-1822.- 10.5 Concluding comment: the aspirations of Cauchy.- 11 Cauchy's inauguration of mathematical analysis, 1820-1827.- 11.1 Prefaces.- 11.2 On the general theory of partial differential equations to 1820.- 11.3 Cauchy on the primacy of limits: the Cours d'analyse, 1821.- 11.4 Integrals, real and complex, 1820-1823.- 11.5 Cauchy's calculus, real and complex, 1823-1827.- 11.6 Miscellaneous studies of the mid 1820s.- 11.7 Concluding comments: the position of Cauchy.- Interlude 1170.1 Notes on mathematical analysis outside France.- 12 The consolidation of heat theory, 1816-1825.- 12.1 Plan of the c.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Technological advances, together with a better understanding of the molecular biology of infectious microorganisms, are creating exciting possibilities for a new generation of replicating vaccines. Historically, live vaccines have been either directly derived from a natural source or attenuated by empirical approaches using serial passages and host cell adaptation. Currently, we are witnessing a quantum leap in our technological capabilities to specifically modify the genetic make-up of viruses and bacteria, making it possible to generate improved live vaccines and to develop completely new types of replicating vaccines, such as vectored vaccines, single-round infectious vaccines and replicon vaccines.This book highlights some of the most exciting recent developments towards a new generation of replicating vaccines.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 464 pp. Englisch. …