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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese dritte Auflage wurde zusammen mit dem zweitgenannten Autor kritisch durchgesehen, ergänzt und verbessert. Ein weiteres Kapitel über geometrische Funktionentheorie und schlichte Funktionen enthält einen Beweis der Bieberbachschen Vermutung.'Der . vorliegende zweite Band der Funktionentheorie erfüllt voll die Erwartungen, die der erste Band geweckt hat. Wieder beeindrucken vor allem die hochinteressanten historischen Bemerkungen zu den einzelnen Themenkreisen, als besonderer Leckerbissen wird das Gutachten von Gauß über Riemanns Dissertation vorgestellt. Jedes einzelne Kapitel enthält ausführliche Literaturangaben. Ferner werden oft sehr aufschlussreiche Hinweise auf die Funktionentheorie mehrerer Veränderlicher gegeben. Die vielen Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben bilden eine wertvolle Ergänzung der brillant dargelegten Theorie. Der Rezensent bedauert, dass ihm nicht schon als Student ein derartig umfassendes, qualitativ hochstehendes Lehrbuch zur Verfügung stand.'Monatshefte für Mathematik 383 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese dritte Auflage wurde zusammen mit dem zweitgenannten Autor kritisch durchgesehen, ergänzt und verbessert. Ein weiteres Kapitel über geometrische Funktionentheorie und schlichte Funktionen enthält einen Beweis der Bieberbachschen Vermutung.'Der . vorliegende zweite Band der Funktionentheorie erfüllt voll die Erwartungen, die der erste Band geweckt hat. Wieder beeindrucken vor allem die hochinteressanten historischen Bemerkungen zu den einzelnen Themenkreisen, als besonderer Leckerbissen wird das Gutachten von Gauß über Riemanns Dissertation vorgestellt. Jedes einzelne Kapitel enthält ausführliche Literaturangaben. Ferner werden oft sehr aufschlussreiche Hinweise auf die Funktionentheorie mehrerer Veränderlicher gegeben. Die vielen Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben bilden eine wertvolle Ergänzung der brillant dargelegten Theorie. Der Rezensent bedauert, dass ihm nicht schon als Student ein derartig umfassendes, qualitativ hochstehendes Lehrbuch zur Verfügung stand.'Monatshefte für Mathematik 383 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese dritte Auflage wurde zusammen mit dem zweitgenannten Autor kritisch durchgesehen, ergänzt und verbessert. Ein weiteres Kapitel über geometrische Funktionentheorie und schlichte Funktionen enthält einen Beweis der Bieberbachschen Vermutung.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This text bridges the gap between introductory physics and its application to the life sciences. It is intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. The Fourth Edition is updated to include new findings, discussion of stochastic processes and expanded coverage of anatomy and biology. The text includes many problems to test the student's understanding, and chapters include useful bibliographies for further reading. Its minimal prerequisites and wide coverage make it ideal for self-study. The fourth edition is updated throughout to reflect new developments.

sonst. Bücher. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Jugular vein and carotid artery cannulations are among the most widely used surgeries in research labs around the world. These cannulations are extremely important for confirmed intravenous delivery of test substances and arterial blood collection. Cannulation reduces the stress of multiple sampling as observed in association with tail vein or orbital sinus techniques (Ling, 2003; Flynn, 1988; Cocchetto, 1983). Very few adverse effects, including a possible rise of corticosterones and a decrease in platelets, are associated with indwelling catheters except under chronic conditions (Fagin, 1983; Richman, 1980).Typically, technicians teach these skills to incoming employees and move on to graduate studies or other fields. A resulting 'oral history' of cannulation has been passed down from technician to technician. I have endeavored to capture these techniques on paper. Through the years, I have searched for and collected a number of training materials and guides for teaching purposes. This is my attempt to compile all the necessary information in one source.The contents of this manual include two cannulation procedures detailed in a format of materials, instruction, and pictorial for each step. In addition, the manual is rounded out with information regarding procedures for anesthesia, pre- and post- operatives, anatomy, bleeding techniques using catheters implanted, and rat biodata compiled from numerous sources. The content is thoroughly researched and reported based on over 80 references and 7 reviewers' suggestions.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Thermal drying has been recognized as an important unit operation as it is ener- intensive and has a decisive effect on the quality of most products that are dried commercially. Escalating energy costs, demand for eco-friendly and sustainable te- nologies as well as the rising consumer demand for higher quality products, have given fresh incentives to industry and academia to devote great effort to drying R&D. Fortunately, this area does not demand a massive perfusion of R&D funds to come up with valuable insights and innovations, with only a few exceptions. Indeed, there is already a sustainable level of R&D support-both in terms of human and nancial resources-around the world. Emerging economies of the world, such as China, B- zil, India, etc, have picked up the slack caused by the fully developed economies of the west moving towards nanotechnologies. Overall, the global R&D effort has been rising despite precipitous drops in North America and Europe. With 12-25% of the national industrial energy consumption attributable to industrial drying in developed countries, it is only a matter of time before high energy costs will stimulate further R&D in drying.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV was developed from the fourth workshop at the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Complex Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information related to the rapidly advancing field of Genetic Programming (GP). Contributions from the foremost international researchers and practitioners in the GP arena examine the similarities and differences between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems. The text explores the synergy between theory and practice, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP application.This volume represents a watershed moment in the GP field in that GP has begun to move from hand-crafted software used primarily in academic research, to an engineering methodology applied to commercial applications. It is a unique and indispensable tool for academics, researchers and industry professionals involved in GP, evolutionary computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Over the past twenty-five years, the effects of the spatial distribution and scaling of resources on animal populations have been increasingly studied in wildlife biology, landscape ecology, conservation biology, and related fields. However, spatial patterns change over time. In Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, the authors discuss the effects that temporal changes in resources have on animal populations. Resource availability and quality are not distributed homogeneously over time, depending for example on predictable changes in seasons, mating and birthing cycles, unpredictable resource pulses and weather-related phenomena, ecological disturbances, and historical legacies.Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology brings together chapters that address the idea of current as well as historical temporal influences on resource availability, quality, and distribution. The authors draw attention to the neglected temporal issues so important to understanding species and community responses. This book will be of interest to both wildlife and conservation students and practitioners working with temporal and spatial scale issues.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A comprehensive reference and practical guide on the technology and application of ultrasound to the musculoskeletal system. The first section is devoted to general aspects, while the second provides a systematic overview of the applications of musculoskeletal ultrasound in different areas of the body. Ultrasound scans are correlated with drawings, photographs, images obtained using other modalities, and anatomic specimens. This book will acquaint beginners with the basics of musculoskeletal ultrasound, while more advanced sonologists and sonographers will learn new skills and means to avoid pitfalls. 996 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Ultra-wideband (UWB), short-pulse (SP) electromagnetics are now being used for an increasingly wide variety of applications, including collision avoidance radar, concealed object detection, and communications. Notable progress in UWB and SP technologies has been achieved by investigations of their theoretical bases and improvements in solid-state manufacturing, computers, and digitizers. UWB radar systems are also being used for mine clearing, oil pipeline inspections, archeology, geology, and electronic effects testing. Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 7 presents selected papers of deep technical content and high scientific quality from the UWB-SP7 Conference, including wide-ranging contributions on electromagnetic theory, scattering, UWB antennas, UWB systems, ground penetrating radar (GPR), UWB communications, pulsed-power generation, time-domain computational electromagnetics, UWB compatibility, target detection and discrimination, propagation through dispersive media, and wavelet and multi-resolution techniques. This book serves as an essential for scientists and engineers working in these applications areas.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese dritte Auflage wurde zusammen mit dem zweitgenannten Autor kritisch durchgesehen, ergänzt und verbessert. Aus den Besprechungen: Der nunmehr vorliegende zweite Band der Funktionentheorie erfüllt voll die Erwartungen, die der erste Band geweckt hat. Wieder beeindrucken vor allem die hochinteressanten historischen Bemerkungen zu den einzelnen Themenkreisen, als besonderer Leckerbissen wird das Gutachten von Gauß über Riemanns Dissertation vorgestellt. Jedes einzelne Kapitel enthält ausführliche Literaturangaben. Ferner werden oft sehr aufschlussreiche Hinweise auf die Funktionentheorie mehrerer Veränderlicher gegeben. Die vielen Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben bilden eine wertvolle Ergänzung der brillant dargelegten Theorie. Der Rezensent bedauert, dass ihm nicht schon als Student ein derartig umfassendes, qualitativ hochstehendes Lehrbuch zur Verfügung stand.Monatshefte für MathematikSpringer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 383 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cassini At Saturn - Huygens Resultsbrings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassinientered orbit around SaturnJune2004 so this update includes8 months of scientific data available for review, including the most spectacular images of Saturn, its rings and satellites ever obtained by a space mission. As the Cassini spacecraft approached its destination in spring 2004, the quality of the images already being returned by the spacecraft clearly demonstrated the spectacular nature of the close-range views that will be obtained. The bookcontains a 16-page colour section, comprising a carefully chosen selection of the most stunning images to be released during the spacecraft's initial period of operation.The Huygens craft, released by Cassini, parachuted through the clouds of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in January 2005. David Harlandtells the exciting story of the this craft's journey to the surface of one of the most enigmatic bodies on the Solar System, the only moon to have a dense atmosphere and possibly lakes of liquid gas at -190ºC on its surface. Titan is considered to be an early Earth in deep freeze, possibly with the building blocks of life in its atmosphere. There will undoubtedly be enormous interest in the first results and images of Titan's surface, andthis book isthe firstincisive summary of this groundbreaking material. 452 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume contains a coherent point of view on various sharp pointwise inequalities for analytic functions in a disk in terms of the real part of the function on the boundary circle or in the disk itself. Inequalities of this type are frequently used in the theory of entire functions and in the analytic number theory.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Digital electronic imaging devices, like the CCD, and more recently inexpensive webcams, allow the wonders of the universe to be seen in detail never before possible from an amateur astronomer's backyard. As a result, more amateur astronomers becoming involved in digital imaging. This book clearly examines how to create the best astronomical images possible with a digital camera. It reveals the astonishing images that can be obtained with simple equipment, the right software, and knowledge of how to use it. Completely jargon-free, the book describes how to extract results from the raw-and-dirty original imagery and then transform them into high-quality pictures suitable for framing, posting online, or sharing with friends and colleagues.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Cassini at Saturn - Huygens Results brings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004. Here the author reports 8 months of scientific data available for review, including the most spectacular images of Saturn, its rings and satellites ever obtained by a space mission. The book contains a 16-page colour section, with a selection of the most stunning early images. The Huygens craft will be released by Cassini in December 2004 and should parachute through the clouds of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in January 2005. David Harland tells the exciting story of the this craft's journey to the surface of one of the most enigmatic bodies on the Solar System, the only moon to have a dense atmosphere and possibly lakes of liquid gas at -190ºC on its surface. Titan is considered to be an early Earth in deep freeze, possibly with the building blocks of life in its atmosphere. There is great interest in the first results and images of Titan's surface, and this book will be the first to appear with an incisive summary of this groundbreaking material.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 452 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Architectures [Regular Papers].- Architectural Exploration of the ADRES Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array.- A Configurable Multi-ported Register File Architecture for Soft Processor Cores.- MT-ADRES: Multithreading on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture.- Asynchronous ARM Processor Employing an Adaptive Pipeline Architecture.- Partially Reconfigurable Point-to-Point Interconnects in Virtex-II Pro FPGAs.- Systematic Customization of On-Chip Crossbar Interconnects.- Authentication of FPGA Bitstreams: Why and How.- Architectures [Short Papers].- Design of a Reversible PLD Architecture.- Designing Heterogeneous FPGAs with Multiple SBs.- Mapping Techniques and Tools [Regular Papers].- Partial Data Reuse for Windowing Computations: Performance Modeling for FPGA Implementations.- Optimized Generation of Memory Structure in Compiling Window Operations onto Reconfigurable Hardware.- Adapting and Automating XILINX's Partial Reconfiguration Flow for Multiple Module Implementations.- A Linear Complexity Algorithm for the Automatic Generation of Convex Multiple Input Multiple Output Instructions.- Evaluating Variable-Grain Logic Cells Using Heterogeneous Technology Mapping.- The Implementation of a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture with Loop Self-pipelining.- Hardware/Software Codesign for Embedded Implementation of Neural Networks.- Synthesis of Regular Expressions Targeting FPGAs: Current Status and Open Issues.- Mapping Techniques and Tools [Short Papers].- About the Importance of Operation Grouping Procedures for Multiple Word-Length Architecture Optimizations.- Arithmetic [Regular Papers].- Switching Activity Models for Power Estimation in FPGA Multipliers.- Multiplication over on FPGA: A Survey.- A Parallel Version of the Itoh-Tsujii MultiplicativeInversion Algorithm.- A Fast Finite Field Multiplier.- Applications [Regular Papers].- Combining Flash Memory and FPGAs to Efficiently Implement a Massively Parallel Algorithm for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Image Processing Architecture for Local Features Computation.- A Compact Shader for FPGA-Based Volume Rendering Accelerators.- Ubiquitous Evolvable Hardware System for Heart Disease Diagnosis Applications.- FPGA-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations: An Overview.- Reconfigurable Hardware Acceleration of Canonical Graph Labelling.- Reconfigurable Computing for Accelerating Protein Folding Simulations.- Reconfigurable Parallel Architecture for Genetic Algorithms: Application to the Synthesis of Digital Circuits.- Applications [Short Papers].- A Space Variant Mapping Architecture for Reliable Car Segmentation.- A Hardware SAT Solver Using Non-chronological Backtracking and Clause Recording Without Overheads.- Searching the Web with an FPGA Based Search Engine.- An Acceleration Method for Evolutionary Systems Based on Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.- Real Time Architectures for Moving-Objects Tracking.- Reconfigurable Hardware Evolution Platform for a Spiking Neural Network Robotics Controller.- Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Reconfigurable Computing.- Simulation of the Dynamic Behavior of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata Using Reconfigurable Computing.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -IWAN 2004.- GateScript: A Scripting Language for Generic Active Gateways.- Management and Performance of Virtual and Execution Environments in FAIN.- Secure, Customizable, Many-to-One Communication.- Distributed Instrusion Prevention in Active and Extensible Networks.- Secure Service Signaling and Fast Authorization in Programmable Networks.- Invited Papers.- Tackling the Complexity of Future Networks.- Evaluation of Integration Effect of Content Location and Request Routing in Content Distribution Networks.- Building a Reliable Multicast Service Based on Composite Protocols for Active Networks.- Network Programmability for VPN Overlay Construction and Bandwidth Management.- A Framework for Developing Mobile Network Services.- Using Active Networking's Adaptability in Ad Hoc Routing.- Active Networking for TCP over Wireless.- A Detection and Filter System for Use Against Large-Scale DDoS Attacks in the Internet Backbone.- Dynamic Link Measurements Using Active Components.- Simple Active Mechanisms for Measuring and Monitoring Service Level Topologies.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -As other industries, the global travel and tourism industry has been facing - mense challenges and highly visible upheaval since the beginning of the new m- lennium. The International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin, the world¿s leading travel trade fair, aims at pinpointing the most important challenges, identifying the trends and offering a platform to solve pressing problems. The ITB Convention Market Trends & Innovations has developed into a center of excellence and a driving force for the global travel and tourism industry, generating a much needed information platform. This compilation unites the highlights of the convention in articles prepared by renowned professionals and scientists from the industry. Readers may benefit from this comprehensive vision of the developments which are shaping the str- ture of the global tourism industry today and in the future. This book is indisp- sable for tourism and travel professionals and well as for academics and students analyzing current global tourism and travel trends. The first chapter takes up the issue of mega trends in society and in the ec- omy and analyzes their effects on the tourism industry. In highly developed co- tries, overwhelming demographical change is underway. Schröder and Widmann demonstrate how tourism businesses should adapt to the aging customer base.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 256 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -South Asia is home to a diverse range of prehistoric and contemporary cultures that include foragers, pastoralists, and farmers. In this book, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists are brought together in order to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of human populations residing in the subcontinent. A wide range of topics and issues are addressed in this book, including hominin adaptations, behaviours, and dispersals; the origin and spread of food producing economies; and the cultural, biological and genetic relationship of foragers and settled communities. New theories, methodologies and interpretations presented in this book are bound to have a profound effect on the way in which the cultural record of South Asia is perceived and how this evolutionary history relates to events in the wider world.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is based on two series of lectures given at a summer school on algebraic combinatorics at the Sophus Lie Centre in Nordfjordeid, Norway, in June 2003, one by Peter Orlik on hyperplane arrangements, and the other one by Volkmar Welker on free resolutions. Both topics are essential parts of current research in a variety of mathematical fields, and the present book makes these sophisticated tools available for graduate students.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Victor R. Basili, Dieter Rombach, and Kurt Schneider Introduction In 1992, a Dagstuhl seminar was held on ¿Experimental Software Engineering Issues¿ (seminar no. 9238). Its goal was to discuss the state of the art of empirical software engineering (ESE) by assessing past accomplishments, raising open questions, and proposing a future research agenda. Since 1992, the topic of ESE has been adopted more widely by academia as an interesting and promising research topic, and in industrial practice as a necessary infrastructure technology for goal-oriented, sustained process improvement. At the same time, the spectrum of methods applied in ESE has broadened. For example, in 1992, the empirical methods applied in software engineering were basically restricted to quantitative studies (mostly controlled experiments), whereas since then, a range of qualitative methods have been introduced, from observational to ethnographical studies. Thus, the field can be said to have moved from experimental to empirical software engineering. We believe that it is now time to again bring together practitioners and researchers to identify both the progress made since 1992 and the most important challenges for the next five to ten years.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Grid computing is widely regarded as a technology of immense potential in both industry and academia. Together with a brief introduction into grid computing in general and underlying security technologies, this book offers the first concise and detailed introduction to this important area, targeting professionals in the grid industry. It can also be used for self-teaching as well as courses following the author's tutorials at grid conferences.Based on research and industry experience, the book structures the issues pertaining to grid computing security into three main categories: architecture-related, infrastructure-related, and management-related issues. It discusses all three categories in detail, presents existing solutions, standards, and products, and pinpoints their shortcomings and open questions.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 348 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides students and professionals with an introductory understanding of fluvial geomorphic principles and how these principles can be integrated with geochemical data to cost-effectively characterize, assess and remediate contaminated rivers.There is in-depth discussion of the mechanics involved in the transport, deposition, and remobilization of contaminated sediments by physical processes. The book also comprehensively examines the use of geomorphic principles to identify and map spatial variations in metal concentrations in contaminated river valleys. The book stresses the importance of needing to understand both geomorphic and geochemical processes. Thus, the overall presentation is an analysis of physical and chemical processes and a discussion of how an understanding of these processes can be applied to specific aspects of site assessment and remediation.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 436 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Signatures I.- Full-Domain Subgroup Hiding and Constant-Size Group Signatures.- A Direct Anonymous Attestation Scheme for Embedded Devices.- Anonymous Signatures Made Easy.- On the Generic and Efficient Constructions of Secure Designated Confirmer Signatures.- Invited Talk I.- Cryptanalysis of Group-Based Key Agreement Protocols Using Subgroup Distance Functions.- Cryptanalysis.- Length Based Attack and Braid Groups: Cryptanalysis of Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld Key Exchange Protocol.- New Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks on NTRU.- Cryptanalysis of the Paeng-Jung-Ha Cryptosystem from PKC 2003.- Protocols I.- Optimistic Fair Exchange in a Multi-user Setting.- Multi-party Stand-Alone and Setup-Free Verifiably Committed Signatures.- Knowledge-Binding Commitments with Applications in Time-Stamping.- Signatures II.- Efficient Ring Signatures Without Random Oracles.- Traceable Ring Signature.- Two-Tier Signatures, Strongly Unforgeable Signatures, and Fiat-Shamir Without Random Oracles.- Improved On-Line/Off-Line Threshold Signatures.- Multivariate Cryptosystems.- High Order Linearization Equation (HOLE) Attack on Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems.- Cryptanalysis of HFE with Internal Perturbation.- -Invertible Cycles for ultivariate uadratic ( ) Public Key Cryptography.- Encryption.- Chosen-Ciphertext Secure Key-Encapsulation Based on Gap Hashed Diffie-Hellman.- Parallel Key-Insulated Public Key Encryption Without Random Oracles.- Multi-bit Cryptosystems Based on Lattice Problems.- Protocols II.- Practical and Secure Solutions for Integer Comparison.- Multiparty Computation for Interval, Equality, and Comparison Without Bit-Decomposition Protocol.- Identity-Based Traitor Tracing.- Verifiable Shuffle of Large Size Ciphertexts.- Invited Talk II.- A Survey of Single-DatabasePrivate Information Retrieval: Techniques and Applications.- Number Theoretic Techniques.- Deterministic Polynomial Time Equivalence Between Factoring and Key-Recovery Attack on Takagi's RSA.- Efficient Pseudorandom Generators Based on the DDH Assumption.- Fast Batch Verification of Multiple Signatures.- Public-Key Infrastructure.- A Closer Look at PKI: Security and Efficiency.- Self-Generated-Certificate Public Key Encryption Without Pairing.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 508 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Reinhard Wilhelm's career in Computer Science spans more than a third of a century. During this time, he has made numerous research contributions to the areas of programming languages, compilers and compiler generators, static program analysis, program transformation, algorithm animation, and real-time systems; co-founded a company to transfer some of these ideas to industry; held the Chair for Programming Languages and Compiler Construction at Saarland University; and served since its inception in 1990 as the Scientific Director of the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl.This Festschrift volume, published to honor Reinhard Wilhelm on his 60th Birthday on June 10, 2006, includes 15 refereed papers by leading researchers, his graduate students and research collaborators, as well as current and former colleagues, who all attended a celebratory symposium held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The articles of this volume thus serve also as the proceedings of the aforementioned Dagstuhl symposium.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Interdomain Routing.- Measures of Self-similarity of BGP Updates and Implications for Securing BGP.- BGP Route Propagation Between Neighboring Domains.- Detectability of Traffic Anomalies in Two Adjacent Networks.- P2P.- Leveraging BitTorrent for End Host Measurements.- Trace Driven Analysis of the Long Term Evolution of Gnutella Peer-to-Peer Traffic.- LiTGen, a Lightweight Traffic Generator: Application to P2P and Mail Wireless Traffic.- Wireless 802.11.- Verification of Common 802.11 MAC Model Assumptions.- Routing Stability in Static Wireless Mesh Networks.- Implications of Power Control in Wireless Networks: A Quantitative Study.- Wireless 3G/CDMA/Bluetooth.- TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study.- A Measurement Study of Scheduler-Based Attacks in 3G Wireless Networks.- Understanding Urban Interactions from Bluetooth Phone Contact Traces.- Infrastructure and Services.- Two Days in the Life of the DNS Anycast Root Servers.- The Internet Is Not a Big Truck: Toward Quantifying Network Neutrality.- Performance Limitations of ADSL Users: A Case Study.- Traffic.- Fast Classification and Estimation of Internet Traffic Flows.- Early Recognition of Encrypted Applications.- Measuring the Congestion Responsiveness of Internet Traffic.- Profiling the End Host.- Measurement Principles.- A Method to Estimate the Timestamp Accuracy of Measurement Hardware and Software Tools.- Packet Capture in 10-Gigabit Ethernet Environments Using Contemporary Commodity Hardware.- Posters.- Neuro-fuzzy Processing of Packet Dispersion Traces for Highly Variable Cross-Traffic Estimation.- Measurement Analysis of Mobile Data Networks.- Analysis of ICMP Quotations.- Correlation of Packet Losses with Some Traffic Characteristics.- Investigating the Imprecision of IP Block-Based Geolocation.- A Live System for Wavelet Compression of High Speed Computer Network Measurements.- Accurate Queue Length Estimation in Wireless Networks.- Measurement Informed Route Selection.- Fast, Accurate, and Lightweight Real-Time Traffic Identification Method Based on Flow Statistics.- Impact of Alias Resolution on Traceroute-Based Sample Network Topologies.- Bridging the Gap Between PAMs and Overlay Networks: A Framework-Oriented Approach.- Scanning Traffic at the Edge of a Cellular Network.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book deals with imaging of diseases of heart, chest and breast. These fields have substantially advanced during the last few years, driven by both clinical developments and advances in imaging technology. The authors contributing to the volume are internationally renowned experts in their field; their chapters are disease-oriented and cover all the relevant imaging modalities, including standard radiography, CT, nuclear medicine with PET, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, as well as imaging-guided interventions.As a result, this book presents a comprehensive review of current knowledge in imaging of the heart and chest , as well as thoracic interventions and a selection of 'hot topics' of breast imaging. It will be particularly relevant for residents in radiology, but also very useful for experienced radiologists and clinicians specializing in thoracic disease and wishing to update their knowledge of this rapidly developing field.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The work embodied in this volume was presented across three consecutive e- tions of the International Workshop on Learning Classi er Systems that took place in Chicago (2003), Seattle (2004), and Washington (2005). The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, the main ACM SIGEvo conference, hosted these three editions. The topics presented in this volume summarize the wide spectrum of interests of the Learning Classi er Systems (LCS) community. The topics range from theoretical analysis of mechanisms to practical cons- eration for successful application of such techniques to everyday data-mining tasks. When we started editing this volume, we faced the choice of organizing the contents in a purely chronologicalfashion or as a sequence of related topics that help walk the reader across the di erent areas. In the end we decided to or- nize the contents by area, breaking the time-line a little. This is not a simple endeavor as we can organize the material using multiple criteria. The tax- omy below is our humble e ort to provide a coherent grouping. Needless to say, some works may fall in more than one category. The four areas are as follows: Knowledge representation. These chapters elaborate on the knowledge r- resentations used in LCS. Knowledge representation is a key issue in any learning system and has implications for what it is possible to learn and what mechanisms shouldbe used. Four chapters analyze di erent knowledge representations and the LCS methods used to manipulate them.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -17th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2003) - Award-Winning Papers.- Award-Winning Papers (Overview).- Analysis of Hepatitis Dataset by Decision Tree Based on Graph-Based Induction.- Efficient Algorithms for Finding Frequent Substructures from Semi-structured Data Streams.- Bus Information System Based on User Models and Dynamic Generation of VoiceXML Scripts.- Robotic Communication Terminals as a Ubiquitous System for Improving Human Mobility by Making Environment Virtually Barrier-Free.- International Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling.- Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling.- Mechanism Design for Environmental Issues.- Cooperative Behavior with Common Information Controller in Minority Game.- Analysis of Efficiency and Accuracy of Learning in Minority Games.- A Partitioned Random Network Agent Model for Organizational Sectionalism Studies.- Analyzing and Taming Collective Learning of a Multiagent System with Connected Replicator Dynamics.- International Workshop: From Semantic Web to Semantic World.- Semantic Authoring and Semantic Computing.- Social Summarization for Semantic Society.- Discussion Mining: Knowledge Discovery from Semantically Annotated Discussion Content.- Semantic Computing with Conversations and Stories.- 18th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2004) - Award-Winning Papers.- Award-Winning Papers (Overview).- Effective Dimension in Anomaly Detection: Its Application to Computer Systems.- Document Retrieval Using Feedback of Non-relevant Documents.- Tagging for Intelligent Processing of Design Information.- Application and Analysis of Interpersonal Networks for a Community Support System.- Dynamic Social Simulation with Multi-agents Having Internal Dynamics.- Human-RobotCooperative Sweeping Using Commands Embedded in Actions.- Discovery of Skills from Motion Data.- Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication.- Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication.- The Emergence of Language in Grounded Adaptive Agents and Robots.- Exposure Dependent Creolization in Language Dynamics Equation.- Evolution of Birdsong Grammars.- Homophony and Disambiguation Through Sequential Processes in the Evolution of Language.- Mirroring, Deixis, and Interaction Topology in the Emergence of Shared Vocabularies.- A Role Sharing Model of Language Areas.- The Evolution of Writing Systems: Against the Gelbian Hypothesis.- The Emergence and Evolution of Graphical Productions.- Complex Vocal Behavior and Cortical-Medullar Projection.- Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics.- Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2004.- Dynamic Predicate Logic of Dependent Questions and Answers.- On Dependency and Quantification in Dynamic Semantics.- Dynamic Interpretations and Interpretation Structures.- The Dynamics of a Japanese Reflexive Pronoun.- Dynamic Semantics at Work.- A Demonstrative Analysis of Anaphora in Hob-Nob Sentences.- Temporal Dynamic Semantics of Factual Counterfactuals.- English Present Perfect Revisited:.- Workshop on Active Mining.- Workshop on Active Mining (AM-2004).- Spiral Discovery of a Separate Prediction Model from Chronic Hepatitis Data.- Process to Discovering Iron Decrease as Chance to Use Interferon to Hepatitis B.- A Novel Hybrid Approach for Interestingness Analysis of Classification Rules.- Preliminary Evaluation of Discovered-Rule-Filtering Methods.- Proposal of Relevance Feedback Based on Interactive Keyword Map.- A Correlation-Based Approach to Attribute Selection in Chemical Graph Mining.- Improving Multiclass ILP by Combining Partial Rules with Winnow Algorithm: Results on Classification of Dopamine Antagonist Molecules.- Mining of Three-Dimensional Structural Fragments in Drug Molecules.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 568 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The ARCS series of conferences has over 30 years of tradition reporting hi- quality results in computer architecture and operating systems research. While the conference is proud of its long tradition, it is also proud to represent a - namic, evolving community that closely follows new research trends and topics. Thus, over the last few years, ARCS has evolved towards a strong focus on s- tem aspects of pervasive computing and self-organization techniques (organic and autonomic computing). At the same time it has expanded from its roots as a German Informatics Society (GI/ITG) conference to an international event. This is re ected by the composition of the TPC which included over 30 renown scientist from 10 di erent countries. The conference attracted 83 submission from 16 countries across 4 continents. Of those, 20 have been accepted, which amounts to an acceptance rate below 25%. The 20th ARCS event was a special anniversary conference. It is only tting that it was held at a special place: the ETH Zurich. It combines one of the leading information technology schools in Europe with a beautiful location.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 316 pp. Englisch.