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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 520 pp. Englisch.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Mechanical stress affects the magnitude of base-emitter voltages of forward biased bipolar transistors. This phenomenon is called the piezojunction effect. The piezojunction effect is the main cause of inaccuracy and drift in integrated temperature sensors and bandgap voltage references. The aim of The Piezojunction Effect in Silicon Integrated Circuits and Sensors is twofold. Firstly, to describe techniques that can reduce the mechanical-stress-induced inaccuracy and long-term instability. Secondly, to show, that the piezojunction effect can be applied for new types of mechanical-sensor structures. During IC fabrication and packaging thermo-mechanical stress is induced, when the packaged chips cool down to the temperature of application. The piezojunction effect is caused by a stress-induced change in the conductivity of the minority-charge carriers, while the piezoresistive effect is caused by a similar effect for the majority-charge carriers. To characterise the anisotropic piezojunction effect, the authors performed systematic investigations over wide ranges of mechanical stress and temperature. The experiments have been performed for various crystal and stress orientations. The experimental results have been used to extract the first- and second-order piezojunction (FOPJ and SOPJ) coefficients for bipolar transistors. It is shown how the knowledge of the piezojunction and piezoresistive coefficients can used to minimize the undesirable mechanical-stress effects on the electrical characteristics of transistors and resistors, respectively. Devices with lower mechanical-stress sensitivity can be found by comparing their piezo-coefficients. The layout of the device can also be optimized to reduce the mechanical-stress sensitivity. As a next step it is shown, how the knowledge of the piezo-effects on device level can be used to predict and to reduce their negative influence on circuit level. This is demonstrated for a number of important basic circuits, including translinear circuits, temperature transducers and bandgap references. Finally, it is shown how the piezojunction effect can be used to fabricate stress-sensing elements. It appears that, in comparison with resistive stress-sensing elements, the piezojunction sensors have the advantage of a smaller size and very low power dissipation.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book deals with digital watermarking, which is defined by the authors of this book as the art of hiding auxiliary information in digital data in a secure, robust and imperceptible fashion. Digital watermarking as a topic has a long history, but before 1995 publications in scientific literature were almost absent. From 1995 onwards however the number of publications on watermarking has been steadily increasing. Today a number of workshops and conferences on this topic exist; also a number of scientific journals on watermarking have been published. This renewed scientific interest in digital watermarking has led very quickly to industrial interest, as well. In 1996 the Copy Protection Technical Working Group, a voluntary consortium consisting of the movie industry, the IT industry and the consumer electronics industry, issued a call for watermarking technologies for the purpose of copy protection of DVD-Video. A few years later the Secure Digital Music Initiative issued a similar call, in this case focusing on copy protection of digital music. These two efforts have been only partially successful: copy protection based on digital watermarking is not (yet) implemented on a large scale in any type of consumer device. This current 'failure' of watermarking, to live up to its expectations, finds its cause in a large number of reasons, ranging from legal considerations and system aspects to the relative immaturity of watermarking as a technology.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State. More specifically, the aim of this book is to describe and analyze language education in the Arab society in Israel from the establishment of the state in 1948 until today. For this purpose, internal processes, which are embedded within the Arab population itself were examined, such as the socio-economic condition of the population, the diglossic situation in the Arabic language, and the wide use of Hebrew among Arabic speakers. Furthermore, the book also deals with external processes such as the policy of control and inspection of the Ministry of Education over the Arab education system in general and on language education in particular, the dominance of Hebrew, and the definition and perception of Israel as a Jewish State. The influence of both internal and external processes on language education and learning achievements will also be extensively discussed.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Internet heterogeneity is driving a new challenge in application development: adaptive software. Together with the increased Internet capacity and new access technologies, network congestion and the use of older technologies, wireless access, and peer-to-peer networking are increasing the heterogeneity of the Internet. Applications should provide gracefully degraded levels of service when network conditions are poor, and enhanced services when network conditions exceed expectations. Existing adaptive technologies, which are primarily end-to-end or proxy-based and often focus on a single deficient link, can perform poorly in heterogeneous networks. Instead, heterogeneous networks frequently require multiple, coordinated, and distributed remedial actions. Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks describes a new approach to graceful degradation in the face of network heterogeneity - distributed adaptation - in which adaptive code is deployed at multiple points within a network. The feasibility of this approach is demonstrated by conductor, a middleware framework that enables distributed adaptation of connection-oriented, application-level protocols. By adapting protocols, conductor provides application-transparent adaptation, supporting both existing applications and applications designed with adaptation in mind. Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks introduces new techniques that enable distributed adaptation, making it automatic, reliable, and secure. In particular, we introduce the notion of semantic segmentation, which maintains exactly-once delivery of the semantic elements of a data stream while allowing the stream to be arbitrarily adapted in transit. We also introduce a secure architecture for automatic adaptor selection, protecting user data from unauthorized adaptation. These techniques are described both in the context of conductor and in the broader context of distributed systems. Finally, this book presents empirical evidence from several case studies indicating that distributed adaptation can allow applications to degrade gracefully in heterogeneous networks, providing a higher quality of service to users than other adaptive techniques. Further, experimental results indicate that the proposed techniques can be employed without excessive cost. Thus, distributed adaptation is both practical and beneficial. Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks is designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry and graduate-level students in computer science.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Current research in Visual Database Systems can be characterized by scalability, multi-modality of interaction, and higher semantic levels of data. Visual interfaces that allow users to interact with large databases must scale to web and distributed applications. Interaction with databases must employ multiple and more diversified interaction modalities, such as speech and gesture, in addition to visual exploitation. Finally, the basic elements managed in modern databases are rapidly evolving, from text, images, sound, and video, to compositions and now annotations of these media, thus incorporating ever-higher levels and different facets of semantics. In addition to visual interfaces and multimedia databases, Visual and Multimedia Information Management includes research in the following areas: Speech and aural interfaces to databases; Visualization of web applications and database structure; Annotation and retrieval of image databases; Visual querying in geographical information systems; Video databases; and Virtual environment and modeling of complex shapes. Visual and Multimedia Information Management comprises the proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Visual Database Systems, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and held in Brisbane, Australia, in May 2002. This volume will be essential for researchers in the field of management of visual and multimedia information, as well as for industrial practitioners concerned with building IT products for managing visual and multimedia information.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Medieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect. Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily. They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on the one hand; to innumerable local shrines on the other. The routes that they followed by land and water made up a complex web which covered the face of Europe, and their travels required a range of support services, including the protection of rulers (who were themselves often pilgrims). Pilgrimage left its mark not only on the landscape but also on the art and literature of Europe.Diana Webb's engaging book offers the reader a fresh introduction to the history of European Christian pilgrimage in the twelve hundred years between the conversion of Emperor Constantine and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. As well as exploring this multi-faceted activity, it considers both the geography of pilgrimage and its significant cultural legacy.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Design of Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma A/D Converters discusses both architecture and circuit design aspects of Delta-Sigma A/D converters, with a special focus on multi-bit implementations. The emphasis is on high-speed high-resolution converters in CMOS for ADSL applications, although the material can also be applied for other specification goals and technologies. Design of Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma A/D Converters starts with a general introduction of the concepts of Delta-Sigma converters. A wide variety of architectures are discussed, ranging from single-loop to cascaded and various multi-bit topologies. These topologies are optimized to obtain stable converters with a high accuracy. A clear overview is provided of the maximum achievable performance of each topology, which allows a designer to select the optimal architecture for a certain specification. Special attention is paid to multi-bit architectures and possible solutions for the linearity problem of the DA converter in the feedback loop of converters. Several circuit design aspects of multi-bit Delta-Sigma converters are discussed. Various models are provided for a wide range of linear and non-linear circuit imperfections, which can degrade the performance of the converter. These models allow the designer to determine the required specifications for the different building blocks and form the basis of a systematic design procedure. The presented material is combined in a concluding chapter, which illustrates the systematic design procedure for two high-performance converters. Design of Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma A/D Converters provides a clear comparison of architectures and yields insight into the influence of the most important circuit non-idealities. It will allow you to design robust and high-performance Delta-Sigma AD converters in a shorter time. It is essential reading for analog design engineers and researchers in the field of AD convertersand it is also suitable as a text for an advanced course on the subject.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - General routes to the development of innovative, multi functional nanosystems are described by experts in the field. The systems described are based on fullerenes, nanotubes, metals (Au, Ag, Pt, etc.) and semiconductors (Si, CdS, CdTe, metal oxides), nanocrystals and polymer / biopolymer assembly systems. The book also discusses the realization and characterization of the fundamental properties of nanosystems, defined by nano-size effects, as well as the application of such systems in electronics, optics, magnetoelectronics, spintronics, biomedicine, pharmaceutical biocomplexes, and biosensors.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Physics of Semiconductor Devices covers both basic classic topics such as energy band theory and the gradual-channel model of the MOSFET as well as advanced concepts and devices such as MOSFET short-channel effects, low-dimensional devices and single-electron transistors. Concepts are introduced to the reader in a simple way, often using comparisons to everyday-life experiences such as simple fluid mechanics. They are then explained in depth and mathematical developments are fully described. Physics of Semiconductor Devices contains a list of problems that can be used as homework assignments or can be solved in class to exemplify the theory. Many of these problems make use of Matlab and are aimed at illustrating theoretical concepts in a graphical manner.

Softcover. Condición: gut. Auflage: 1., Aufl. (28. Mai 2002). Rezeptbuch radiologischer Verfahren Torsten B. Möller Emil Reif Markus Bach Heribert Becker Christoph Buntru Komplikationen Arbeitsablauf Untersuchung Behandlung Nachsorge Patienten Magnetresonanztomographie Computerresonanztomographie Diagnostik Therapie In deutscher Sprache. 235 pages. 23,4 x 15,4 x 1,6 cm.

Hardcover. Condición: gut. Auflage: 1 (3. Mai 2002). Schnell und bequem auffindbare, wissenschaftlich fundierte, somit verlässliche, neutrale und umfassende Information zu modernen Energietechnologien stellt dieses Handbuch bereit. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Aspekte, jedoch auch Ökonomie, Ökologie und Gesellschaft werden angemessen berücksichtigt. Das Werk wendet sich vor allem an Studenten, Wissenschaftler und Fachleute aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik, die sich in bestimmte Themen einlesen oder nur rasch etwas nachschlagen wollen. Es ist jedoch so verständlich geschrieben, dass es sich auch den mit Energiefragestellungen befassten Nicht-Technikern erschließt. Dem Herausgeber ist ein Werk "aus einem Guss" gelungen, wobei es von der detaillierten Fachkenntnis zahlreicher namhafter Beitragsautoren profitiert. Autor: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Rebhan hat von 1977-2003 an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf Theoretische Physik gelehrt. Inhalt: Prinzipielles zur Energie, zu ihren Formen, ihrer Umformung und Nutzung.- Energievorräte, Energiegewinnung und Engergiebedarf.- Energiewandlung - Methoden der Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung.- Speichern und transportieren von Energie.- Effiziente Energieanwendung.- Energie, Umwelt, Gesellschaft.- Energie im 21. Jahrhundert - Zukunftsperspektiven. Das Energiehandbuch ist wirklich ein sehr umfassendes Werk, um sich über alles, was mit Energie zusammenhängt, zu informieren. Für einen Einsteiger wohl zu umfangreich, empfielt sich dieses Buch für Interessierte und für Fachleute. Ich möchte es in meinem Bücherregeal nicht missen und greife immer wieder darauf zurück. Schnell und bequem auffindbare, wissenschaftlich fundierte, somit verlässliche, neutrale und umfassende Information zu modernen Energietechnologien stellt dieses Handbuch bereit. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Aspekte, jedoch auch Ökonomie, Ökologie und Gesellschaft werden angemessen berücksichtigt. Das Werk wendet sich vor allem an Studenten, Wissenschaftler und Fachleute aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik, die sich in bestimmte Themen einlesen oder nur rasch etwas nachschlagen wollen. Es ist jedoch so verständlich geschrieben, dass es sich auch den mit Energiefragestellungen befassten Nicht-Technikern erschließt. Dem Herausgeber ist ein Werk "aus einem Guss" gelungen, wobei es von der detaillierten Fachkenntnis zahlreicher namhafter Beitragsautoren profitiert. Über den AutorProf. Dr. Eckhard Rebhan hat von 1977 bis 2003 an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf Theoretische Physik gelehrt. Schnell und bequem auffindbare, wissenschaftlich fundierte, somit verlässliche, neutrale und umfassende Information zu modernen Energietechnologien stellt dieses Handbuch bereit. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Aspekte, jedoch auch Ökonomie, Ökologie und Gesellschaft werden angemessen berücksichtigt. Das Werk wendet sich vor allem an Studenten, Wissenschaftler und Fachleute aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik, die sich in bestimmte Themen einlesen oder nur rasch etwas nachschlagen wollen. Es ist jedoch so verständlich geschrieben, dass es sich auch den mit Energiefragestellungen befassten Nicht-Technikern erschließt. Dem Herausgeber ist ein Werk "aus einem Guss" gelungen, wobei es von der detaillierten Fachkenntnis zahlreicher namhafter Beitragsautoren profitiert. Über den Autor: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Rebhan hat von 1977 bis 2003 an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf Theoretische Physik gelehrt. Energiehandbuch Gewinnung, Wandlung und Nutzung von Energie VDI-Buch Energiehandbuch: Gewinnung, Wandlung und Nutzung von Energie (VDI-Buch) [Gebundene Ausgabe] von Eckhard Rebhan Reihe/Serie VDI-Buch Zusatzinfo XXXV, 1161 S. Mit 1 Falttafel. Verlagsort Berlin Sprache deutsch Maße 155 x 235 mm Technik Elektrotechnik Energietechnik Brennstoffzelle Energiespeicherung Energiesystem Energietechnik Energietechnik; Handbuch/Lehrbuch Energietransport Energieversorgung Energievorräte Energiewirtschaft Erneuerbare Energien Fossile Energien Kernfusion Kernkraft Kernspaltung Kraftwerk Ökologie Reaktortechnik regenerativ Regenerative Energien Transport Umwelt Wärmetechnik ISBN-10 3-540-41259-X / 354041259X ISBN-13 978-3-540-41259-5 / 9783540412595 In deutscher Sprache. 1161 pages. 15,6 x 23,4 x 6,2 cm.

Softcover. Condición: gut. In präziser, praxisorientierter Form vermitteln die Autoren das Wissen zur Therapie mit Herzschrittmachern und zur Betreuung von Herzschrittmacherpatienten- anatomisch-physiologische und technische Grundlagen - Indikationen und Auswahl des Schrittmachers - Durchführung der Implantation - Schrittmacherprogrammierung - Kleine und große Schrittmacherkontrolle - Komplikationen und ihre Behandlung - Schrittmacher- oder Elektrodenwechsel Zahlreiche Fallbeschreibungen und EKG-Beispiele tragen zur Anschaulichkeit bei. Die häufigsten Fragen der Patienten an den Arzt sind mit Antwortvorschlägen in einem Anhang zusammengefaßt. Ein Schrittmacherlexikon ermöglicht auf einen Blick die Information über alle spezifischen Begriffe. Inhaltsübersicht: Allgemeiner Teil: Allgemeine Vorbemerkung und Einleitung. Grundlagen zur Herzschrittmachertherapie. Technische Grundbegriffe. Betriebsart.- Spezieller Teil: Schrittmacherterminologie und Schrittmacherparameter. Indikationen und Schrittmacherauswahl. Gebräuchlichste Implantationstechnik. Komplikationen und Störeinflüsse bei der Schrittmachertherapie. Antiarrhythmika bei Schrittmacherpatienten. Hinweise für den Hausarzt. Schrittmacherkontrollen. Notfälle. Schlußbemerkung mit Zukunftsperspektiven.- Anhang.- Schrittmacherlexikon.- Sachverzeichnis. Mitarbeit Assistent: M.R. Locher Sprache deutsch Maße 155 x 235 mm Einbandart Paperback Klinik und Praxis Innere Medizin Kardiologie Angiologie Diagnose Herzschrittmacher Indikationsstellung Therapie ISBN-10 3-540-43752-5 / 3540437525 ISBN-13 978-3-540-43752-9 / 9783540437529 Praxis der Herzschrittmachertherapie Wilhelm Fischer Philippe Ritter Martin Locher Herz Herzkrankheit Kardiologie Kardiologe Schrittmacher Implantation Schrittmacherprogrammierung Schrittmacherkontrolle Komplikationen Behandlung Schrittmacher Elektrodenwechsel In deutscher Sprache. 480 pages. 23,6 x 15,7 x 2,2 cm Auflage: 2., vollst. überarb. u. erw. A., Nachdruck (28. Mai 2002).

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this lay reader's introduction to the most spectacular and devastating of all geological events, Rolf Schick describes how earthquakes and volcanoes are related, and how they are an integral part of Earth's structure. Tracing the latest findings and theories in plate tectonics, he helps readers ask and answer the basic questions: What was it during the formation of Earth that led to these phenomena Why do they occur in certain areas and notin others How can we, within reason, protect ourselves from their devastation And how far have we come, and how far can we go, in predicting when they will strike For the reader who wants a concise and accessible guide to what makes the ground shake and explode, this is the perfect introduction. 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This title is designed as a clear and concise introduction to employee development. Many people, in both human resource and general management positions, have little idea of what employee development is or should be. This book addresses this specific issue, and is an essential first read for those who wish either to understand the subject in general, or develop their expertise and understanding further. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This research monograph introduces some new aspects to the theory of harmonic functions and related topics. The authors study the analytic algebraic structures of the space of boundedharmonic functions on locally compact groups and its non-commutative analogue, the space of harmonic functionals on Fourier algebras. Both spaces are shown to be the range of a contractive projection on a von Neumann algebra and therefore admit Jordan algebraic structures. This provides a natural setting to apply recent results from non-associative analysis, semigroups and Fourier algebras. Topics discussed include Poisson representations, Poisson spaces, quotients of Fourier algebras and the Murray-von Neumann classification of harmonic functionals. 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since its birth in 1781, Los Angeles has come to define both the material and spiritual force of American civilization. The American dream is realized, experienced, and lost in the City of Angels. Unmasking L.A.: Third Worlds and the City, an interdisciplinary collection of essays, dialogues, and photographs, seeks to reveal the third world geographies, cultures, and populations of Los Angeles. It examines the social, political, cultural, and literary climate of the city, bringing together diverse responses to the complexities facing Los Angeles from respected intellectuals, writers, and artists such as Mike Davis, Deepak Chopra, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. By uncovering the forces that marginalize Los Angeles's ever-shifting populations into internal third worlds, the collection unmasks the raw contradictions, the grim paradoxes, and the understated ironies of the global city. 266 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this fascinating and well-written text Peter Bond describes the development and evolution of space stations. Particular emphasis is placed on the International Space Station, beginning with the revolution that began in 1970, when Salyut 1, the world's first space station was sent into orbit by the Soviet Union. Defeated in the race to the Moon, the Soviets redirected their efforts towards the conquest of near-Earth space. In the next three decades, their increasingly large and sophisticated structures rewrote the history books as cosmonauts continued to push back all space endurance records. In clear and concise language the book explains how the human exploitation of low-Earth orbit is about to change. 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is meant to provide a window on the rapidly growing body of theoretical studies of condensed phase chemistry. A brief perusal of physical chemistry journals in the early to mid 1980's will find a large number of theor- ical papers devoted to 3-body gas phase chemical reaction dynamics. The recent history of theoretical chemistry has seen an explosion of progress in the devel- ment of methods to study similar properties of systems with Avogadro's number of particles. While the physical properties of condensed phase systems have long been principle targets of statistical mechanics, microscopic dynamic theories that start from detailed interaction potentials and build to first principles predictions of properties are now maturing at an extraordinary rate. The techniques in use range from classical studies of new Generalized Langevin Equations, semicl- sical studies for non-adiabatic chemical reactions in condensed phase, mixed quantum classical studies of biological systems, to fully quantum studies of m- els of condensed phase environments. These techniques have become sufficiently sophisticated, that theoretical prediction of behavior in actual condensed phase environments is now possible. and in some cases, theory is driving development in experiment. The authors and chapters in this book have been chosen to represent a wide variety in the current approaches to the theoretical chemistry of condensed phase systems. I have attempted a number of groupings of the chapters, but the - versity of the work always seems to frustrate entirely consistent grouping. 320 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Shakespeare in mass media - particularly film, video, and television - is arguably the hottest, fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the pop cultural afterlife of The Bard. From marketing to electronic Shakespeare, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett's Quotations , the volume explores the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare in an unprecedently broad array of mass media contexts. With theoretical sophistication and accessible writing, it will be the ideal text for courses on Shakespeare and mass media. 340 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How well suited are the institutions of a region, nation or international regime to the task of coping with the dramatic changes currently underway in the global economy This volume examines this issue. 272 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership. 231 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 520 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The AI conference series is the premier event sponsored by the Canadian - ciety for the Computational Studies of Intelligence / Soci et e canadienne pour l' etude d'intelligence par ordinateur. Attendees enjoy our typically Canadian - mosphere -hospitable and stimulating. The Canadian AI conference showcases the excellent research work done by Canadians, their international colleagues, and others choosing to join us each spring. International participation is always high; this year almost 40% of the submitted papers were from non-Canadian - searchers. We accepted 24 papers and 8 poster papers from 52 full-length papers submitted. We also accepted eight of ten abstracts submitted to the Graduate Student Symposium. All of these accepted papers appear in this volume. The Canadian AI Conference is the oldest continuously-held national AI c- ference in the world. (ECCAI's predecessor, AISB, held meetings in 1974, but these have since become international.) Conferences have been held biennially since 1976, and annually since 2000. AI 2002 again joined its sister Canadian computer science conferences, Vision Interface and Graphics Interface, enri- ing the experience for all participants. The joint meeting allows us to stay - formed about other areas, to make new contacts, and perhaps to investigate cross-disciplinary research. This year the conferences was held on the beautiful campus of the University of Calgary, and many participants took the opportunity to tour nearby Ban and the magni cent Rocky Mountains. 392 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the First International Sem- tic Web Conference (ISWC 2002) held in Sardinia, Italy, 9 12th June, 2002. The conference followed on from the highly successful Semantic Web Working Symposium held at Stanford University, USA in 2001. A total of 133 papers were submitted to ISWC 2002, comprising 95 research papers, 22 position papers, and 16 system description papers. Each submission was evaluated by at least two referees, mainly members of the Program Comm- tee. This resulted in the selection of 40 papers for presentation at the conference and publication in this volume. Of these, 27 are research papers, 6 are position papers, and 7 are system description papers. We would like to thank the many people who made ISWC 2002 possible. In particular, we are grateful to the following groups and individuals: Je Pan for help with the conference management software and proceedings; the p- gram committee for their reviewing e orts and advice on organizational details; Michele Missiko and Nicoletta Dess for conference organization and local co- dination; J er ome Euzenat for nancial organization and the conference web site; Asunci on G omez-P erez for organizing the tutorials; Raphael Malyankar for - ganizing the poster session; Ste en Staab, Siegfried Handschuh, and Marc Ehrig for organizing semantic markup; Deborah McGuinness and Ying Ding for - ranging sponsorship; and the sponsors themselves for their moral and nancial support. 500 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Software professionals and companies live in a new world today. Increasingly complex systems need to be built faster and cheaper. While many of the est- lished approaches in software quality are still valid, the software quality c- munity is going through a paradigm shift that requires a re-assessment of our current method and tool portfolio, as well as creating new and more e ective solutions. We have selected two themes for this conference to highlight this paradigm shift. Our rst theme, 'production of attractive and reliable software at Internet speed' sums up the dilemma many software organisations face. In order to be competitive, software should contain advanced features and run reliably - yet it should be developed quickly and cost e ectively for the right market window. Finding the right balance between these objectives is a critical question that will determine business success in the years to come. Our second theme, 'production of software with a dynamic partnership n- work' highlights the current trend of using partnerships and subcontractors as integral players in the software development process. Partnerships sometimes need to be created quickly to respond to a market opportunity, yet the costs and speed of cooperation must be competitive. Di erent companies have di erent processes, quality tools and cultures, yet they should cooperate seamlessly for the best result. 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The third in a series of international conferences on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2002, was held in Turku, Finland, May 15-17, 2002. Turku, situated in the south western corner of the country, is the former capital of Finland. The conference was organized jointly by Abo Akademi University and Turku Centre for Computer Science. The theme of IFM 1999 was the integration of state and behavioral based formalisms. For IFM 2000 this was widened to include all aspects pertaining to the integration of formal methods and formal notations. One of the goals of IFM 2002 was to further investigate these themes. Moreover, IFM 2002 explored the relations between formal methods and graphical notations, especially the industrialstandardlanguageforsoftwaredesign,theUni edModelingLanguage (UML). The themes of IFM 2002 re ect what we believe is a growing trend in the Formal Methods and Software Engineering research communities. Over the last threedecades,computerscientistshavedevelopedarangeofformalismsfocusing on particular aspects of behavior or analysis, such as sequential program str- tures,concurrentprogramstructures,dataandinformationstructures,temporal reasoning, deductive proof, and model checking. Much e ort is now being - voted to integrating these methods in order to combine their advantages and ensure they scale up to industrial needs. Graphical notations are now widely used in software engineering and there is growing recognition of the importance ofprovidingthesewiththeformalunderpinningsandformalanalysiscapabilities found in formal methods. 416 pp. Englisch.