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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Der Boden unter unseren Füßen erscheint uns unwandelbar und fest. Aber der Eindruck täuscht. Denn in Wirklichkeit ist die Erdkruste alles andere als unbeweglich und verlässlich. So sind die Kontinente immer in Bewegung, Gebirge wachsen in den Himmel, Gesteine bilden sich neu und Meeresböden dehnen sich aus. Doch die Plattentektonik ist nur eines von vielen geologischen Phänomenen, die ihren Ursprung tief im Erdinneren haben. Um zu ergründen, wie unser Planet tickt, haben Geowissenschaftler in den letzten Jahren fast schon eine Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde unternommen. Mithilfe von Satelliten, seismischen Wellen und komplexen Simulationen haben sie dabei viele überraschende und faszinierende Erkenntnisse gewonnen.Die Autoren stellen in ihrem Buch einige der wichtigsten Resultate dieser spannenden Detektivarbeit vor. So erklären sie beispielsweise, warum das wahre Gesicht der Erde eine Kartoffel ist oder wieso sich das Erdmagnetfeld viel launischer verhält als gemeinhin angenommen.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Romberg, Oliver Ilustrador. Neuware -Der Begleiter durch das klassische 'Dickbrettbohrerfach' des Ingenieurstudiums. Thema des Buches sind die Grundlagen der Thermodynamik, wie sie im ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Grundstudium behandelt werden. Die Thermodynamik, neben Mechanik und Mathematik eine der wichtigsten Grundlagendisziplinen in den Ingenieurwissenschaften, verkörpert den 'warmen' Maschinenbau, wo es dampft, blubbert und zischt. In diesem Buch wird das gefürchtete 'Durchfallfach Thermo' in unkonventioneller, alternativer und humorvoller Weise mittels Cartoons und Beschreibungen alltäglicher Beobachtungen behandelt. Trotz der lockeren Darstellungsweise bleibt auch in diesem Buch die Korrektheit des Inhalts nicht auf der Strecke. 364 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Romberg, Oliver Ilustrador. Neuware -Der Begleiter durch das klassische 'Dickbrettbohrerfach' des Ingenieurstudiums. Thema des Buches sind die Grundlagen der Thermodynamik, wie sie im ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Grundstudium behandelt werden. Die Thermodynamik, neben Mechanik und Mathematik eine der wichtigsten Grundlagendisziplinen in den Ingenieurwissenschaften, verkörpert den 'warmen' Maschinenbau, wo es dampft, blubbert und zischt. In diesem Buch wird das gefürchtete 'Durchfallfach Thermo' in unkonventioneller, alternativer und humorvoller Weise mittels Cartoons und Beschreibungen alltäglicher Beobachtungen behandelt. Trotz der lockeren Darstellungsweise bleibt auch in diesem Buch die Korrektheit des Inhalts nicht auf der Strecke. 364 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Romberg, Oliver Ilustrador. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Der Begleiter durch das klassische 'Dickbrettbohrerfach' des Ingenieurstudiums. Thema des Buches sind die Grundlagen der Thermodynamik, wie sie im ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Grundstudium behandelt werden. Die Thermodynamik, neben Mechanik und Mathematik eine der wichtigsten Grundlagendisziplinen in den Ingenieurwissenschaften, verkörpert den 'warmen' Maschinenbau, wo es dampft, blubbert und zischt. In diesem Buch wird das gefürchtete 'Durchfallfach Thermo' in unkonventioneller, alternativer und humorvoller Weise mittels Cartoons und Beschreibungen alltäglicher Beobachtungen behandelt. Trotz der lockeren Darstellungsweise bleibt auch in diesem Buch die Korrektheit des Inhalts nicht auf der Strecke.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch ist eine Begleitlektüre zum ersten Jahr des Mathematikstudiums und darüber hinaus. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Motivation und Erläuterung der zentralen Begriffsbildungen anhand von Beispielen und exemplarischen Resultaten.Ausgehend von den elementarsten und historisch frühesten mathematischen Konzepten des Messens und Zählens werden Sie zu modernen Begriffen wie Metriken, Maßen und Vektorräumen geführt, die dann zur Lösung konkreter Probleme einsetzt werden. Die Stoffauswahl ist so angelegt, dass die Querverbindungen zwischen den unterschiedlichen Anfängervorlesungen, die im regulären Studienbetrieb oft eher ausgeblendet werden, deutlich hervortreten.Das Buch richtet sich an Leser, die mit der elementaren Mengenlehre als Sprache zur Beschreibung von mathematischen Inhalten sowie mit den reellen Zahlen als mathematischem Konzept vertraut sind.Das entspricht etwa dem Kenntnisstand, der von Studierenden der Mathematik nach etwa einen Monat Studium erwartet wird.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 340 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This lecture describes a theoretical framework for the behavioural sciences that holds high promise for theory-driven research and design in Human-Computer Interaction. The framework is designed to tackle the adaptive, ecological, and bounded nature of human behaviour. It is designed to help scientists and practitioners reason about why people choose to behave as they do and to explain which strategies people choose in response to utility, ecology, and cognitive information processing mechanisms. A key idea is that people choose strategies so as to maximise utility given constraints. The framework is illustrated with a number of examples including pointing, multitasking, skim-reading, online purchasing, Signal Detection Theory and diagnosis, and the influence of reputation on purchasing decisions. Importantly, these examples span from perceptual/motor coordination, through cognition to social interaction. Finally, the lecture discusses the challenging idea that people seek to find optimal strategies and also discusses the implications for behavioral investigation in HCI.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book discusses the ways in which engineering educators are responding to the challenges that confront their profession. On the one hand, there is an overarching sustainability challenge: the need for engineers to relate to the problems brought to light in the debates about environmental protection, resource depletion, and climate change. There are also a range of societal challenges that are due to the permeation of science and technology into ever more areas of our societies and everyday lives, and finally, there are the intrinsic scientific and technological challenges stemming from the emergence of new fields of 'technosciences' that mix science and technology in new combinations.In the book, the author discusses and exemplifies three contending response strategies on the part of engineers and engineering educators: a commercial strategy that links scientists and engineers into networks or systems of innovation; an academic strategy that reasserts the traditional values of science and engineering; and an integrative strategy that aims to combine scientific knowledge and engineering skills with cultural understanding and social responsibility by fostering what the author terms a 'hybrid imagination.'Professor Jamison combines scholarly analysis with personal reflections drawing on over forty years of experience as a humanist teaching science and engineering students about the broader social, political and cultural contexts of their fields. The book has been written as part of the Program of Research on Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Education in Denmark (PROCEED), funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council, for which Professor Jamison has served as coordinator.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The laser, initially called the 'optical maser,' was proposed in 1958 by Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow; in 1960, Theodore Maiman was the first among several researchers to achieve laser oscillation by using a ruby crystal. In the following quarter of a century, a considerable amount of re search and development has taken place, and the laser is now utilized for many diverse applications, ranging from the commonplace compact disk to intricate surgical applications in medicine. Since I first entered the laboratory of Professor Yasuharu Suematsu in 1962 to complete my thesis, I have been studying the new field of laser optics. In spite of many expectations and a vast investment in research, the first practical use of lasers was difficult to of Univ. Erlangen once jokingly achieve. The late Professor K. H. Zchauer remarked that laser was defined by an English physicist as 'Less Application of Stimulated Expensive Research. ' In a similiar vein, Dr. Herwig Kogelnik reminded me that in the early 1960s, maser was often called 'Money Acqui sition Scheme for Expensive Research. ' Initially I worked with a ruby laser, then with a helium-neon-gas laser, and am presently engaged in semiconductor laser research. There are proba bly not a large number of researchers who have had the opportunity to build these three representative types of lasers. My primary objective of study lies in optical communications however, and therefore, I have been approaching the laser mainly as a lightwave propagator.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems addresses the complexity of choosing which multi-agent control technologies are appropriate for a given problem domain or a given application. Without such knowledge, when faced with a new application domain, agent developers must rely on past experience and intuition to determine whether a multi-agent system is the right approach, and if so, how to structure the agents, how to decompose the problem, and how to coordinate the activities of the agents, and so forth. This unique collection of contributions, written by leading international researchers in the agent community, provides valuable insight into the issues of deciding which technique to apply and when it is appropriate to use them. The contributions also discuss potential trade-offs or caveats involved with each decision.An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems is an excellent reference for anyone involved in developing multi-agent systems.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Prions are an entirely new class of pathogens, and scientists are just beginning to understand them. This book tells the strange story of their discovery, and the medical controversies that swirl around them.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Computer software has been productive in helping individuals with cognitive disabilities. Personalizing the user interface is an important strategy in designing software for these users, because of the barriers created by conventional user interfaces for the cognitively disabled. Cognitive assistive technology (CAT) has typically been used to provide help with everyday activities, outside of cognitive rehabilitation therapy. This book describes a quarter century of computing R&D at the Institute for Cognitive Prosthetics, focusing on the needs of individuals with cognitive disabilities from brain injury. Models and methods from Human Computer Interaction (HCI) have been particularly valuable, initially in illuminating those needs. Subsequently HCI methods have expanded CAT to be powerful rehabilitation therapy tools, restoring some damaged cognitive abilities which have resisted conventional therapy. Patient-Centered Design (PCD) emerged as a design methodology which incorporates both clinical and technical factors. PCD also takes advantage of the patient's ability to redesign and refine the user interface, and to achieve a very good fit between user and system. Cognitive Prosthetics Telerehabilitation is a powerful therapy modality. Essential characteristics are delivering service to patients in their own home, having the patient's priority activities be the focus of therapy, using cognitive prosthetic software which applies Patient Centered Design, and videoconferencing with a workspace shared between therapist and patient. Cognitive Prosthetics Telerehabilitation has a rich set of advantages for the many stakeholders involved with brain injury rehabilitation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This is the second book based on the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) approach to digital libraries (DLs). Leveraging the first volume, on Theoretical Foundations, we focus on the key issues of evaluation and integration. These cross-cutting issues serve as a bridge for those interested in DLs, connecting the introduction and formal discussion in the first book, with the coverage of key technologies in the third book, and of illustrative applications in the fourth book. These two topics have central importance in the DL field, allowing it to be treated scientifically as well as practically. In the scholarly world, we only really understand something if we know how to measure and evaluate it. In the Internet era of distributed information systems, we only can be practical at scale if we integrate across both systems and their associated content. Evaluation of DLs must take place atmultiple levels,so we can address the different entities and their associated measures. Thus, for digital objects, we assess accessibility, pertinence, preservability, relevance, significance, similarity, and timeliness. Other measures are specific to higher-level constructs like metadata, collections, catalogs, repositories, and services.We tie these together through a case study of the 5SQual tool, which we designed and implemented to perform an automatic quantitative evaluation of DLs. Thus, across the Information Life Cycle, we describe metrics and software useful to assess the quality of DLs, and demonstrate utility with regard to representative application areas: archaeology and education. Though integration has been a challenge since the earliest work on DLs, we provide the first comprehensive 5S-based formal description of the DL integration problem, cast in the context of related work. Since archaeology is a fundamentally distributed enterprise, we describe ETANADL, for integrating Near Eastern Archeology sites and information. Thus, we show how 5S-based modeling can lead to integrated services and content. While the first book adopts a minimalist and formal approach to DLs, and provides a systematic and functional method to design and implement DL exploring services, here we broaden to practical DLs with richer metamodels, demonstrating the power of 5S for integration and evaluation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 112 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how ICT has played a pivotal role in the rural community development of various countries. To highlight the continued benefits of ICT in these regions, the book presents an in-depth case study that analyzes the connectedness within the rural internet centers of Malaysia. The book is intended primarily for researchers and practitioners as a reference guide to ICTD in rural environments.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This SpringerBrief proposes a general framework for reasoning about inconsistency in a wide variety of logics, including inconsistency resolution methods that have not yet been studied. The proposed framework allows users to specify preferences on how to resolve inconsistency when there are multiple ways to do so. This empowers users to resolve inconsistency in data leveraging both their detailed knowledge of the data as well as their application needs. The brief shows that the framework is well-suited to handle inconsistency in several logics, and provides algorithms to compute preferred options. Finally, the brief shows that the framework not only captures several existing works, but also supports reasoning about inconsistency in several logics for which no such methods exist today.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Recommender systems are one of the recent inventions to deal with the ever-growing information overload in relation to the selection of goods and services in a global economy. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular techniques in recommender systems. The CF recommends items to a target user based on the preferences of a set of similar users known as the neighbors, generated from a database made up of the preferences of past users. In the absence of these ratings, trust between the users could be used to choose the neighbor for recommendation making. Better recommendations can be achieved using an inferred trust network which mimics the real world ¿friend of a friend¿ recommendations. To extend the boundaries of the neighbor, an effective trust inference technique is required.This book proposes a trust interference technique called Directed Series Parallel Graph (DSPG) that has empirically outperformed other popular trust inference algorithms, such as TidalTrust and MoleTrust. For times when reliable explicit trust data is not available, this book outlines a new method called SimTrust for developing trust networks based on a user¿s interest similarity. To identify the interest similarity, a user¿s personalized tagging information is used. However, particular emphasis is given in what resources the user chooses to tag, rather than the text of the tag applied. The commonalities of the resources being tagged by the users can be used to form the neighbors used in the automated recommender system. Through a series of case studies and empirical results, this book highlights the effectiveness of this tag-similarity based method over the traditional collaborative filtering approach, which typically uses rating data.Trust for Intelligent Recommendation is intended for practitioners as a reference guide for developing improved, trust-based recommender systems. Researchers in a related field will also find this bookvaluable.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Zahlentheorie beschäftigt sich mit den Eigenschaften der natürlichen Zahlen 1, 2, 3, . Viele ihrer Problemstellungen, wie z. B. das Primzahlzwillingsproblem oder die berühmte Fermat'sche Vermutung, lassen sich in allgemeinverständlicher Form angeben, zu ihrer Behandlung benötigt man aber meistens anspruchsvolle Methoden der Algebra und der Analysis. Diese Zweige der Mathematik verdanken ihre Entwicklung nicht zuletzt der Faszination, welche die Zahlentheorie zu allen Zeiten ausgeübt hat. Die 'Königin der Mathematik', wie Gauß die Zahlentheorie genannt hat, sah man lange als zwar schönstes, aber auch nutzlosestes Gebiet der Mathematik an. In jüngster Zeit hat sich diese Einschätzung, bedingt durch die Verfügbarkeit schneller Computer, stark geändert. Insbesondere benötigt man heute zahlentheoretische Methoden in der Kodierungstheorie und in der Kryptographie. Das Buch setzt einige Kenntnisse aus einem Grundstudium der Mathematik voraus. Es bietet zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele sowie eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Aufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen. Die vorliegende stark überarbeitete und erweiterte 4. Auflage enthält ein zusätzliches Kapitel über zahlentheoretische Algorithmen. 520 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In che modo la diagnosi di tumore alla prostata impatta sull¿equilibrio familiare, sulla vita di coppia e sui progetti di vita Come viene gestita da parte dei clinici, medici e psicologi, la complessità della malattia nel caso del tumore alla prostata Sono queste alcune tra le domande a cui gli Autori hanno cercato di rispondere attraverso un testo strutturato come una serie di ¿riflessioni¿, nel duplice significato di ¿pensiero sü e di immagine riflessa. Uno spaccato sulle emozioni del paziente e sulle relazioni con partner, figli, medico curante, psicologi, che chiude conil punto di vistadel paziente che ci racconta la ¿suä verità.Una narrazione che vuole portare alla luce gli aspetti psicosociali e le dinamiche interpersonali, talvolta complicate, tra i vari attori che ruotano intorno al paziente con tumore alla prostata. 92 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Zahlentheorie beschäftigt sich mit den Eigenschaften der natürlichen Zahlen 1, 2, 3, . Viele ihrer Problemstellungen, wie z. B. das Primzahlzwillingsproblem oder die berühmte Fermat'sche Vermutung, lassen sich in allgemeinverständlicher Form angeben, zu ihrer Behandlung benötigt man aber meistens anspruchsvolle Methoden der Algebra und der Analysis. Diese Zweige der Mathematik verdanken ihre Entwicklung nicht zuletzt der Faszination, welche die Zahlentheorie zu allen Zeiten ausgeübt hat. Die 'Königin der Mathematik', wie Gauß die Zahlentheorie genannt hat, sah man lange als zwar schönstes, aber auch nutzlosestes Gebiet der Mathematik an. In jüngster Zeit hat sich diese Einschätzung, bedingt durch die Verfügbarkeit schneller Computer, stark geändert. Insbesondere benötigt man heute zahlentheoretische Methoden in der Kodierungstheorie und in der Kryptographie. Das Buch setzt einige Kenntnisse aus einem Grundstudium der Mathematik voraus. Es bietet zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele sowie eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Aufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen. Die vorliegende stark überarbeitete und erweiterte 4. Auflage enthält ein zusätzliches Kapitel über zahlentheoretische Algorithmen.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA's activities for the following two decades. ¿Moon Bound¿ complements the author¿s recently published work, ¿Selecting the Mercury Seven¿ (2011), extending the story of the men who helped to launch human spaceflight and broaden the American space program. Although the initial 1959 group became known as the legendary pioneering Mercury astronauts, the astronauts of Groups 2 and 3 gave us many household names. Sixteen astronauts from both groups traveled to the Moon in Project Apollo, with several actually walking on the Moon, one of them being Neil Armstrong.This book draws on interviews to tell the astronauts' personal stories and recreate the drama of that time. It describes the process by which they were selected as astronauts and explains how the criteria had changed since the first group. ¿Moon Bound¿ is divided into two parts, recounting the biographies relating to the nine astronauts from NASA¿s Group 2 in the first part, and the fourteen finalists in Group 3 in the second part.The stories of both selection groups are narrated through the experiences of four finalists with interesting backgrounds. One of these men is Al Rupp of the USAF who, as a West Point cadet, cheekily helped to steal the Navy mascot goat prior to the annual Army versus Navy game in 1953, thus achieving legendary status in the game¿s history. Rupp was killed in a plane crash just two years after being named as a finalist for Group 3. The service career of naval aviator John Yamnicky was also very much the equal of other finalists, but he was killed on September 11, 2001, as he was a passenger on hijacked Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon.At the end of the work there are several chapters on how these candidates were prepped for their missions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 400 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise. Security is near the top of government and corporate agendas around the globe. Security-related stories appear on the front page everyday. How well though, do any of us truly understand what achieving real security involves In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional, and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion.With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security. He also believes, for instance, that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea: technically unsound, and even destructive of security. And, contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers, he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe, and that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective. A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering world of security pundits.Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake,and how to best come to one's own conclusions, including the vast infrastructure we already have in place, and the vaster systems--some useful, others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to and pay for.Bruce Schneier is the author of seven books, including Applied Cryptography (which Wired called 'the one book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published') and Secrets and Lies (described in Fortune as 'startlingly lively.¿[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use.'). He is also Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., and publishes Crypto-Gram, one of the most widely read newsletters in the field of online security.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2011, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2011. The 9 revised full papers and the invited contribution presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover topics ranging from theoretical work to practical implementations and its evaluation, most of them dealing with audio or music media. They are organized in topical sections on evaluation and user studies, audio and music, image retrieval, and similarity and music.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013, colocated with the Evo\* 2013 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 9 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of biological data analysis and computational biology. They address important problems in biology, from the molecular and genomic dimension to the individual and population level, often drawing inspiration from biological systems in oder to produce solutions to biological problems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -InhaltsangabeGrounding Linked Open Data in WordNet: The Case of the OSM Semantic Network.- A Strategy for Optimizing a Multi-Site Query in a Distributed Spatial Database.- The Impact of Spatial Resolution and Representation on Human Mobility Predictability.- A Data-driven Approach for Convergence Prediction on Road Network.- Tour Suggestion for Outdoor Activities.- Interpreting Pedestrian Bahaviour by Visualising and Clustering Movement Data.- A Multi-Modal Communication Approach to Describing the Surroundings to Mobile Users.- An Adaptive Context Acquisition Framework to Support Mobile Spatial and Context-Aware Applications.- Comparing Close Destination and Route-based Similarity Metrics for the Analysis of Map User Trajectories A Sensor Data Mediator Bridging the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and the OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData).- Dynamic Objects E_ect on Visibility Analysis in 3D Urban Environments.- Exploring Spatial Business Data: A Resource Oriented Architecture eCampus Application.- ISOGA: a System for Geographical Reachability Analysis Enhanced with Statistics.- A high performance Web-based system for analyzing and visualizing spatiotemporal data for climate studies.- Personalized Accessibility Maps (PAMs) for Communities with Special Needs.- A probabilistic model for road selection in mobile maps.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2012, held in San Sebastian, Spain, in September 2012.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bioinspired and machine learning methods, machine learning applications, semantics and ontology based techniques, and lattice computing and games.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2013, colocated with the Evo\* 2013 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and EvoApplications.The 11 revised full papers and 5 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including: generative approaches to music, graphics, game content, and narrative; robot gait creation; music information retrieval; computational aesthetics; the mechanics of interactive evolutionary computation; and the art theory of evolutionary computation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013 co-located with the Evo\* 2013 events, EvoMUSART, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and EvoApplications.The 18 revised full papers presented together with 5 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field, including different genres of GP (tree-based, linear, grammar-based, Cartesian), theory, novel operators, and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with data protection issues from practical viewpoints. 40% of the content focus on the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2010 progress, whilst 60% of the content focus on leading comparative practical guidance from Europe. Part of the PDPA provisions is mirrored from European approaches and practices. The approach of this book is straightforward, handy and readable and is supplemented by practical applications, illustrations, tables and diagrams. Practical examples highlighted in this book range from cloud computing, radio frequency identification technology, social media networks and information security to basic related aspects of data protection issues covering strategic leadership, management, governance and audit in businesses, organisations and local authorities. Recommended best practices have been outlined for practical guidance accompanied with future challenges and opportunities for Malaysia and ASEAN. The book is equally suitable for academics, practitioners, governmental officials and regulators dealing with data protection within their sector-specific legislation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book is devoted to the theory describing the interaction of ultra-short electromagnetic pulses (USP) with matter, including both classical and quantum cases. This theme is a hot topic in modern physics because of the great achievements in generating USP. Special attention is given to the peculiarities of UPS-matter interaction. One of the important items of this book is the derivation and applications of a new formula which describes the total photo-process probability under the action of USP in the framework of perturbation theory. Strong field-matter interaction is also considered with the use of the Bloch formalism in a two-level approximation for UPS with variable characteristics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The mounting problem of space debris in low earth orbit and its threat to the operation of application satellites has been increasingly recognized as space activities increase. The efforts of the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordinating Committee (IADC) and UN COPUS have now led to international guidelines to mitigate the creation of new debris. This book discusses the technical studies being developed for active removal processes and otherwise mitigating problems of space debris, particularly in low earth orbit. This book also considers threats to space systems and the Earth that comes from natural causes such as asteroids, coronal mass ejections, and radiation. After more than half a century of space applications and explorations, the time has come to consider ways to provide sustainability for long-term space activities.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 92 pp. Englisch.