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Hardcover. Condición: gut. Auflage: 2008 (20. Mai 2008). "A new, authoritative and utterly comprehensive reference work on robotics that incorporates new developments, surpassing the narrow scope of other robotics handbooks that focus on industrial applications. Edited by internationally renowned experts. With the science of robotics undergoing a major transformation just now, Springer's new, authoritative handbook on the subject couldn't have come at a better time. Having broken free from its origins in industry, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenging terrain of unstructured environments. Unlike other handbooks that focus on industrial applications, the Springer Handbook of Robotics incorporates these new developments. Just like all Springer Handbooks, it is utterly comprehensive, edited by internationally renowned experts, and replete with contributions from leading researchers from around the world. The handbook is an ideal resource for robotics experts but also for people new to this expanding field. With the science of robotics undergoing a major transformation just now, Springer's new, authoritative handbook on the subject couldn't have come at a better time. Having broken free from its origins in industry, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenging terrain of unstructured environments. Unlike other handbooks that focus on industrial applications, the Springer Handbook of Robotics incorporates these new developments. Just like all Springer Handbooks, it is utterly comprehensive, edited by internationally renowned experts, and replete with contributions from leading researchers from around the world. The handbook is an ideal resource for robotics experts but also for people new to this expanding field. Bruno Siciliano is Professor of Control and Robotics at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and a Fellow of both IEEE and ASME. Oussama Khatib is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University in the USA, President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research, an IEEE Fellow, and a recipient of the Japan Robot Association Award in Research and Development. Introduction (Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib) Part A: Robotics Foundations (David Orin) Part A presents the fundamental principles and methods that are used to model, design, and control a robotic system. All of the foundational topics are included in this part: kinematics, dynamics, mechanical design and actuation, sensing and estimation, motion planning, motion control, force control, robotic systems architectures and programming, and AI reasoning methods for task planning and learning. A chapter is devoted to each of these topics. The topics are expanded and applied to specific robotic structures and systems in subsequent parts. Chap. 1. Kinematics (Ken Waldron, James Schmiedeler) Chap. 2. Dynamics (Roy Featherstone, David Orin) Chap. 3. Mechanisms and Actuation (Victor Scheinman, Michael McCarthy) Chap. 4. Sensing and Estimation (Henrik Christensen, Gregory Hager) Chap. 5. Motion Planning (Lydia Kavraki, Steve LaValle) Chap. 6. Motion Control (Wankyun Chung, Li-Chen Fu, Su-Hau Hsu) Chap. 7. Force Control (Luigi Villani, Joris De Schutter) Chap. 8. Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming (David Kortenkamp, Reid Simmons) Chap. 9. AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics (Joachim Hertzberg, Raja Chatila) Part B: Robot Structures (Frank Park) Part B is concerned with the design, modeling, motion planning, and control of the actual physical realizations of a robot. Some of the more obvious mechanical structures that come to mind are arms, legs, and hands; to this list can be added wheeled vehicles and platforms, and robot structures at the micro and nano scales. With separate chapters devoted to performance criteria and model identification, the chapters in this part successively examine serial redundant mechanisms, parallel mechanisms, flexible robots, robot hands, robot legs, wheeled robots, and micro- and nanoscale robots. Chap. 10. Performance Evaluation and Design Criteria (Jorge Angeles, Frank Park) Chap. 11. Redundant Manipulators (Stefano Chiaverini, Giuseppe Oriolo, Ian Walker) Chap. 12. Parallel Mechanisms and Robots (Jean-Pierre Merlet, Clément Gosselin) Chap. 13. Robots with Flexible Elements (Alessandro De Luca, Wayne Book) Chap. 14. Model Identification (John Hollerbach, Wisama Khalil, Maxime Gautier, ) Chap. 15. Robot Hands (Claudio Melchiorri, Makoto Kaneko) Chap. 16. Legged Robots (Shuuji Kajita, Bernard Espiau) Chap. 17. Wheeled Robots (Guy Campion, Woojin Chung) Chap. 18. Micro/Nano Robots (Brad Nelson, Lixin Dong, Fumihito Arai) Part C: Sensing and Perception (Henrik Christensen) Part C covers different sensory modalities and integration of sensor data across space and time to generate models of robots and the external environment. The main sensor types such as tactile, odometry, GPS, ranging and visual perception are presented. Both basic sensor models, sensor data processing and associated representations are covered. Finally, a chapter on sensor fusion itroduces the mathematical tools needed for integration of sensor information across space and time. Chap. 19. Force and Tactile Sensors (Mark Cutkosky, Robert Howe, William Provancher) Chap. 20. Inertial Sensors, GPS and Odometry (Gregory Dudek, Michael Jenkin) Chap. 21. Sonar Sensing (Lindsay Kleeman, Roman Kuc) Chap. 22. Range Sensors (Robert Fisher, Kurt Konolige) Chap. 23. 3D Vision and Recognition (Kostas Daniliidis, Jan-Olof Eklundh) Chap. 24. Visual Servoing and Visual Tracking (François Chaumette, Seth Hutchinson) Chap. 25. Sensor Fusion (Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Tom Henderson) Part D: Manipulation and Interfaces (Makoto Kaneko) Part D is separated into two subparts. The first half is concerned with manipulation where frameworks of modeling, motion planning, and control of grasp and manipulation of an object are addressed, and the second half is concerned with interfaces where physical human-robot interac.

Hardcover. Condición: gut. Das Buch stellt die umfangreichen Möglichkeiten nachträglicher Abdichtungen im erdberührten Bereich vor. Ziel ist die Darstellung der wichtigsten Technologien und verwendbaren Materialien. Das Autorenteam beschreibt die Wirkprinzipien einzelner Verfahren ebenso wie die Höhe und Art von Risiken gewählter Abdichtungsweisen. MIt diesem Werk finden auch die in Fachkreisen erheblich kontrovers diskutierten "elektrophysikalischen Verfahren" nach dem theoretischen Wirkungsprinzip Beachtung. Die Autoren beraten den Leser zu allen rechtlichen "Fallstricken", die vom Bauleistungsangebot bis zur Bauabnahme auftreten können und setzen dabei keine juristische Vorbildung voraus. Die 2. Auflage wurde um die Themen Bauteiltrocknung, Messverfahren, Ermittlung des pH-Wertes, vorzeitig beendeter (insbesondere gekündigter) Bauvertrag, Abschlagszahlungen und Schlusszahlung erweitert. Herausgeber: Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Jürgen Weber, öffentlich bestellter und vereidigter Sachverständiger der HWK zu Leipzig Volker Hafkesbrink, Rechtsanwalt mit Schwerpunkt Privates Baurecht und Architektenrecht, Leipzig Mitarbeiter: Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Hemmann, öffentlich bestellter und vereidigter Sachverständiger der IHK zu Leipzig Uwe Wild, öffentlich bestellter und vereidigter Sachverständiger der HWK zu Leipzig Ulrich Kühne, Rechtsanwalt, Schwerpunkt Privates Baurecht, gewerbliches Mietrecht und WEG-Recht sowie Architektenrecht, Leipzig Geschichtliche Entwicklung der Abdichtungstechnik in der Bausanierung - Physikalische und chemische Eigenschaften von Wasser - Mauerwerksdiagnostik - Horizontalsperren - Injektionsverfahren - Elektrophysikalische Verfahren - Vertikalsperren - Rechtsgrundlagen - Vergabe, Qualitätssicherung, Abnahme - Regelwerke, Normen und Vorschriften Privates Baurecht, gewerbliches Mietrecht und WEG-Recht sowie Architektenrecht Abdichtungsart Abdichtungstechnik Altbau Altbaumodernisierung Bauabnahme Bausanierung Bauwerksabdichtung Technik Bautechnik Umwelttechnik Sanierung Bau Abdichtungsart Abdichtungstechnik Altbau Altbaumodernisierung Bauabnahme Bauleistungsangebot Bausanierung Bauvergabe Bauwerksabdichtung Elektrophysikalisch Verfahren Horizontalsperre Injektionsverfahren Mauerwerksdiagnostik Sanierung Bau Vertikalsperre ISBN-10 3-8351-0198-6 / 3835101986 ISBN-13 978-3-8351-0198-2 / 9783835101982 Abdichtungsart Abdichtungstechnik Altbau Altbaumodernisierung Bauabnahme Bausanierung Bauwerksabdichtung Technik Bautechnik Umwelttechnik Sanierung Bau In deutscher Sprache. 447 pages. 23,6 x 17,4 x 2,6 cm Auflage: 2., überarb. u. erw. Aufl. 2008 (15. Mai 2008).

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Biochemie kompakt PLUS Pathobiochemie PLUS KlinikfälleWar der 'kleine Löffler' früher ein 'Plus' ist er heute ein 'Muss'. In der Lehre und insbesondere den Prüfungen sind die Zusammenhänge zwischen biochemischen Grundlagen, Pathobiochemie und klinischen Krankheitsbildern mehr denn je gefragt. Eintauchen in die Biochemie bedeutet, das Zusammenwirken von Molekülen, Stoffwechselwegen, Organen und Zellen zu verstehen. Sind diegrundlegenden Mechanismen erst mal verinnerlicht, ist der Schritt zur Pathobiochemie und den relevanten klinischen Krankheitsbildern ein Kinderspiel. Und das liefert das neue 'Basiswissen Biochemie' gleich mit: Pathobiochemie-Boxen unterstreichen die biochemischen Zusammenhänge beim Menschen. Die extra herausgegriffenen und ausführlich erläuterten klinikrelevanten Krankheitsbilder illustrieren, was passiert, wenn irgendwo ein Enzym fehlt oder das Zusammenspiel zwischen Stoffwechselwegen nicht so funktioniert wie es soll.Der 'kleine Löffler' im neuen Format überzeugt durch seine bewährte inhaltliche Qualität und die Verknüpfung von biochemischem, pathobiochemischem und klinischem Wissen - alles was Sie für Kurs, schriftliche und mündliche Prüfung benötigen. 509 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Biochemie kompakt PLUS Pathobiochemie PLUS Klinikfälle.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Nach einer kompakten Darstellung der Grundlagen der Chemie und Wasserchemie führt das Buch in die einzelnen Verfahren der Wasseraufbereitung ein. Zu jeder vorgestellten Aufbereitungstechnik werden praxisnahe Beispiele angeführt. Die nunmehr 7. Auflage erfuhr wesentliche Veränderungen in der Beschreibung der physikalischen und chemischen Aufbereitungsverfahren. Bei den physikalischen Verfahren wurden die Neuerungen der DVGW-Regelwerke zu Filtrationsverfahren bei der Partikelentfernung eingearbeitet. Die chemischen Verfahren wurden an die aktuelle betriebliche Praxis angepasst, in dem einerseits neue Erkenntnisse aus Veröffentlichungen und Regelwerken und andererseits Empfehlungen der Anbieter chemischer Aufbereitungsstoffe integriert wurden. Ebenfalls neu ist die Einbindung eines Berechnungsprogramms zum Kalk-Kohlensäure-Gleichgewicht am Beispiel einer vollständigen Trinkwasseranalyse.Das Buch bietet Studierenden der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Technikern und Berufspraktikern einen leichten Einstieg in das Thema Wasseraufbereitung. 354 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Biochemie kompakt PLUS Pathobiochemie PLUS KlinikfälleSpringer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 509 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Biochemie kompakt PLUS Pathobiochemie PLUS KlinikfälleWar der 'kleine Löffler' früher ein 'Plus' ist er heute ein 'Muss'. In der Lehre und insbesondere den Prüfungen sind die Zusammenhänge zwischen biochemischen Grundlagen, Pathobiochemie und klinischen Krankheitsbildern mehr denn je gefragt. Eintauchen in die Biochemie bedeutet, das Zusammenwirken von Molekülen, Stoffwechselwegen, Organen und Zellen zu verstehen. Sind diegrundlegenden Mechanismen erst mal verinnerlicht, ist der Schritt zur Pathobiochemie und den relevanten klinischen Krankheitsbildern ein Kinderspiel. Und das liefert das neue 'Basiswissen Biochemie' gleich mit: Pathobiochemie-Boxen unterstreichen die biochemischen Zusammenhänge beim Menschen. Die extra herausgegriffenen und ausführlich erläuterten klinikrelevanten Krankheitsbilder illustrieren, was passiert, wenn irgendwo ein Enzym fehlt oder das Zusammenspiel zwischen Stoffwechselwegen nicht so funktioniert wie es soll.Der 'kleine Löffler' im neuen Format überzeugt durch seine bewährte inhaltliche Qualität und die Verknüpfung von biochemischem, pathobiochemischem und klinischem Wissen - alles was Sie für Kurs, schriftliche und mündliche Prüfung benötigen.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Nach einer kompakten Darstellung der Grundlagen der Chemie und Wasserchemie führt das Buch in die einzelnen Verfahren der Wasseraufbereitung ein. Zu jeder vorgestellten Aufbereitungstechnik werden praxisnahe Beispiele angeführt. Die nunmehr 7. Auflage erfuhr wesentliche Veränderungen in der Beschreibung der physikalischen und chemischen Aufbereitungsverfahren. Bei den physikalischen Verfahren wurden die Neuerungen der DVGW-Regelwerke zu Filtrationsverfahren bei der Partikelentfernung eingearbeitet. Die chemischen Verfahren wurden an die aktuelle betriebliche Praxis angepasst, in dem einerseits neue Erkenntnisse aus Veröffentlichungen und Regelwerken und andererseits Empfehlungen der Anbieter chemischer Aufbereitungsstoffe integriert wurden. Ebenfalls neu ist die Einbindung eines Berechnungsprogramms zum Kalk-Kohlensäure-Gleichgewicht am Beispiel einer vollständigen Trinkwasseranalyse.Das Buch bietet Studierenden der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Technikern und Berufspraktikern einen leichten Einstieg in das Thema Wasseraufbereitung.

Hardcover. Condición: gut. Handbuch KundenmanagementAnforderungen, Prozesse, Zufriedenheit, Bindung und Wert von Kunden Armin Töpfer Kundenmanagement Kundenzufriedenheit Management In deutscher Sprache. 1013 pages. 24,2 x 16,4 x 4 cm Auflage: 3., vollst. überarb. u. erw. Aufl. (23. Mai 2008).

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -hinaus liest sich das Werk überaus spannend und wird mit einprägsamen kurzen Fallbeispielen aus einem bewegten klinischen Leben mit entsprechenden EKG-Beispielen zusätzlich didaktisch aufgewertet.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Advances in electronic location technology and the coming of age of mobile computing have opened the door for location-aware applications to permeate all aspects of everyday life. Location is at the core of a large number of high-value applications ranging from the life-and-death context of emergency response to serendipitous social meet-ups. For example, the market for GPS products and services alone is expected to grow to US$200 billion by 2015. Unfortunately, there is no single location technology that is good for every situation and exhibits high accuracy, low cost, and universal coverage. In fact, high accuracy and good coverage seldom coexist, and when they do, it comes at an extreme cost. Instead, the modern localization landscape is a kaleidoscope of location systems based on a multitude of different technologies including satellite, mobile telephony, 802.11, ultrasound, and infrared among others. This lecture introduces researchers and developers to the most popular technologies and systems for location estimation and the challenges and opportunities that accompany their use. For each technology, we discuss the history of its development, the various systems that are based on it, and their trade-offs and their effects on cost and performance. We also describe technology-independent algorithms that are commonly used to smooth streams of location estimates and improve the accuracy of object tracking. Finally, we provide an overview of the wide variety of application domains where location plays a key role, and discuss opportunities and new technologies on the horizon. Table of Contents: Introduction / The Global Positioning System / Infrared and Ultrasonic Systems / Location Esimation with 802.11 / Cellular-Based Systems / Other Approaches / Improving Localization Accuracy / Location-Based Applications and Services / Challenges and Opportunities / References 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This work aims to provide new introduction to the particle swarm optimization methods using a formal analogy with physical systems. By postulating that the swarm motion behaves similar to both classical and quantum particles, we establish a direct connection between what are usually assumed to be separate fields of study, optimization and physics. Within this framework, it becomes quite natural to derive the recently introduced quantum PSO algorithm from the Hamiltonian or the Lagrangian of the dynamical system. The physical theory of the PSO is used to suggest some improvements in the algorithm itself, like temperature acceleration techniques and the periodic boundary condition. At the end, we provide a panorama of applications demonstrating the power of the PSO, classical and quantum, in handling difficult engineering problems. The goal of this work is to provide a general multi-disciplinary view on various topics in physics, mathematics, and engineering by illustrating their interdependence within the unified framework of the swarm dynamics. Table of Contents: Introduction / The Classical Particle Swarm Optimization Method / Boundary Conditions for the PSO Method / The Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization / Bibliography /Index 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Managing data in a mobile computing environment invariably involves caching or replication. In many cases, a mobile device has access only to data that is stored locally, and much of that data arrives via replication from other devices, PCs, and services. Given portable devices with limited resources, weak or intermittent connectivity, and security vulnerabilities, data replication serves to increase availability, reduce communication costs, foster sharing, and enhance survivability of critical information. Mobile systems have employed a variety of distributed architectures from client-server caching to peer-to-peer replication. Such systems generally provide weak consistency models in which read and update operations can be performed at any replica without coordination with other devices. The design of a replication protocol then centers on issues of how to record, propagate, order, and filter updates. Some protocols utilize operation logs, whereas others replicate state. Systems might provide best-effort delivery, using gossip protocols or multicast, or guarantee eventual consistency for arbitrary communication patterns, using recently developed pairwise, knowledge-driven protocols. Additionally, systems must detect and resolve the conflicts that arise from concurrent updates using techniques ranging from version vectors to read-write dependency checks. This lecture explores the choices faced in designing a replication protocol, with particular emphasis on meeting the needs of mobile applications. It presents the inherent trade-offs and implicit assumptions in alternative designs. The discussion is grounded by including case studies of research and commercial systems including Coda, Ficus, Bayou, Sybase's iAnywhere, and Microsoft's Sync Framework. Table of Contents: Introduction / System Models / Data Consistency / Replicated Data Protocols / Partial Replication / Conflict Management / Case Studies / Conclusions / Bibliography 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This set of lectures, which had its origin in a mini course delivered at the Summer Program of IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), is an introduction to intrinsic scaling, a powerful method in the analysis of degenerate and singular PDEs.In the first part, the theory is presented from scratch for the model case of the degenerate p-Laplace equation. The second part deals with three applications of the theory to relevant models arising from flows in porous media and phase transitions. 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this volume the author further develops his philosophy of quantum interpolation between the real numbers and the p-adic numbers. The p-adic numbers contain the p-adic integers Zp which are the inverse limit of the finite rings Z/pn. This gives rise to a tree, and probability measures w on Zp correspond to Markov chains on this tree. From the tree structure one obtains special basis for the Hilbert space L2(Zp,w). The real analogue of the p-adic integers is the interval [-1,1], and a probability measure w on it gives rise to a special basis for L2([-1,1],w) - the orthogonal polynomials, and to a Markov chain on 'finite approximations' of [-1,1]. For special (gamma and beta) measures there is a 'quantum' or 'q-analogue' Markov chain, and a special basis, that within certain limits yield the real and the p-adic theories. This idea can be generalized variously. In representation theory, it is the quantum general linear group GLn(q)that interpolates between the p-adic group GLn(Zp), and between its real (and complex) analogue -the orthogonal On (and unitary Un )groups. There is a similar quantum interpolation between the real and p-adic Fourier transform and between the real and p-adic (local unramified part of) Tate thesis, and Weil explicit sums. 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -- How Prices Matter rices are ubiquitous, so much so that their importance to the smooth operation of a market economy (even one constrained by extensive polit- P ical controls as is the case in China) can go unnoticed and unheralded. Prices are what all trades, whether at the local mall or across the globe, are built around. Tey facilitate trades among buyers and sellers who don't know each other, meaning they make less costly, or more socially benefcial, the allocation and redistribution of the planet's scarce resources. Indeed, as the late Friedrich Hayek is renowned for having observed, prices summarize a vast amount of - formation on the relative scarcity and, hence, the relative cost of resources (with much of the information subjective in nature) that can be known only by ind-i viduals scattered across markets and cannot be collected in centralized loc- tions, except through market-determined prices. 1 Because they summarize, and largely hide from view of buyers, so much i- formation spread among people throughout the world, prices can be puzzling. Why prices are what they are, and change for reasons that are obscured by a multitude of economic events that can extend backward in time and forward into the future, can be mysterious. Explaining many puzzling prices can be - tective work that the modern-day Sherlock Holmes would surely fnd challenging. 326 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Feynman path integrals, suggested heuristically by Feynman in the 40s, have become the basis of much of contemporary physics, from non-relativistic quantum mechanics to quantum fields, including gauge fields, gravitation, cosmology. Recently ideas based on Feynman path integrals have also played an important role in areas of mathematics like low-dimensional topology and differential geometry, algebraic geometry, infinite-dimensional analysis and geometry, and number theory. The 2nd edition of LNM 523 is based on the two first authors' mathematical approach of this theory presented in its 1st edition in 1976. To take care of the many developments since then, an entire new chapter on the current forefront of research has been added. Except for this new chapter and the correction of a few misprints, the basic material and presentation of the first edition has been maintained. At the end of each chapter the reader will also find notes with further bibliographical information. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With the growing ubiquity of computing systems, it is essential that we can rely on the services they deliver. Justifying reliance in computer systems requires scientific techniques to derive evidence from given systems or predict such evidence. This tutorial book gives an overview of the current state of the art in measuring the different aspects of dependability of systems: reliability, security and performance.The main impulse for this dependability metrics project resulted from a research seminar, held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in October/November 2005. The 25 chapters, based on the outcome of the research seminar, are organized in five parts on foundations, reliability metrics, security metrics, performance metrics, and overlapping metrics. The final part shows that only a combined consideration of important dependability attributes will lead to the design objective: the development of systems we can really trust. 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Planning theory and practice has become more conscious in recent times of the need to cater for a diverse range of needs and preferences. But there has been less clarity about what goals and objectives should inform planning for such diversity. In this important new book Ruth Fincher and Kurt Iveson identify three distinct working principles of planning for diversity: redistribution, recognition and encounter. Each principle is the subject of a pair of chapters. The first explaining the principle and the second showcasing and comparing efforts to shape cities according to it, drawing on relevant examples from around the world.Planning for Diversity is the ideal introduction to the issues that surround diversity and planning and provides a stimulating new line of advance for reducing inequality and working towards 'just diversity' in cities.RUTH FINCHER is Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne, AustraliaKURT IVESON is Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Neuromuskulärem Monitoring kommt entscheidende Bedeutung für den kontrollierten Einsatz von Muskelrelaxanzien zu. Zusammen mit der Reversierung ist es Grundlage jedes erfolgreichen Konzepts zum Vermeiden von postoperativen Restblockaden. Dieses komprimierte Nachschlagewerk liefert alle wichtigen Informationen, die zur Anwendung des neuromuskulären Monitorings benötigt werden: Physiologische und pharmakologische Grundlagen der neuromuskulären Erregungsübertragung; Grundlagen des neuromuskulären Monitorings: von der Stimulationselektrode über die richtige Wahl des Stimulationsmusters bis zur Interpretation der Ergebnisse; Praktisches Vorgehen im klinischen Alltag; Klinische Konzepte für qualitative und quantitative Nervenstimulatoren; Ausführliche Beschreibung der Akzeleromyographie inklusive eines Frage-Antwort-Abschnitts; Wichtige Informationen in Merksätzen zusammengefasst; Aktuelle Richtlinien zum wissenschaftlichen Einsatz der Akzeleromyographie. 217 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher's union leaders from around the world fuses insights with background and analysis to make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children. 281 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2008, held in New York, NY, USA, in June 2008. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. The papers address all aspects of applied cryptography and network security with special focus on novel paradigms, original directions, and non-traditional perspectives. 528 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, DAGM 2008, held in Munich, Germany, in June 2008. The 53 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and classification, tracking, medical image processing and segmentation, audio, speech and handwriting recognition, multiview geometry and 3D-reconstruction, motion and matching, and image analysis. 556 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Welcome to the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2008). ICA3PP 2008 consist of two keynote addresses, seven technical sessions, and one tutorial. Included in these proceedings are papers whose authors are from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cyprus, France, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, UAE, UK, and USA. Each paper was rigorously reviewed by at least three Program Committee members and/or external revi- ers, and the acceptance ratio is 35%. These papers were presented over seven technical sessions. Based on the paper review results, three papers were selected as the best papers. We would like to thank the many people who helped make this conference a successful event. We thank all authors who submitted their work to ICA3PP 2008, and all Program Committee members and additional reviewers for their diligent work in the paper review process ensuring a collection of high-quality papers. We are grateful to Hong Shen University of Adelaide, Australia and Kleanthis Psarris University of Texas at San Antonio, United States, for their willingness to be the keynote speakers. Our thanks go to Hai Jin and George Papapodoulos, the conference General Co-chairs, and Andrzej Goscinski, W- lei Zhou and Yi Pan, the conference Steering Committee Co-chairs for help in many aspects of organizing this conference. Finally, we thank all the conference participants for traveling to Cyprus. 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, d- tributed, real-time, recon gurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages, and veri cation techniques are necessary to cope with thecomplexityinducedbythedemandsoftoday'ssoftwaredevelopment. COOR- DINATIONaimstoexplorethespectrumoflanguages,middleware,services,and algorithms that separate behavior from interaction, therefore increasing mo- larity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. This volume contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2008, held in Oslo, Norway in June 2008, as part of the federated DisCoTec conference. COORDI- NATIONitselfispartofaserieswhoseproceedingshavebeenpublishedinLNCS volumes 1061, 1282, 1594, 1906, 2315, 2949, 3454, 4038, and 4467. From the 61 submissions received from around the world, the Program Committee selected 21 papers for presentation and publication in this volume on the basis of or- inality, quality, and relevance to the topics of the conference. Each submission received at least three reviews. As with previous editions, the paper submission and selection processes were managed entirely electronically. This was acc- plished using EasyChair, a free Web-based conference management system. In addition to the technical paper presentations, COORDINATION 2008 hosted an invited presentation by Matt Welsh from Harvard University. We are grateful to all the Program Committee members who devoted much e ort and time to read and discuss the papers. Moreover, we acknowledge the help of additional external reviewers who evaluated submissions in their area of expertise. Finally,wewouldliketothanktheauthorsofallthesubmittedpapersandthe conferenceattendees, for keeping this researchcommunity lively and interactive, and ultimately ensuring the success of this conference series. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2008, held in Tampere, Finland, in May 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sessions on performance analysis of wireless systems, resource and QoS management, implementation techniques, mobility, cross-layer design, and wireless sensor networks. 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three international workshops PAISI 2008, PACCF 2008, and SOCO 2008, held as satellite events of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan, in June 2008.The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the presentations at the workshops. The 21 papers of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2008) cover topics such as information retrieval and event detection, internet security and cybercrime, currency and data protection, cryptography, image and video analysis, privacy issues, social networks, modeling and visualization, and network intrusion detection. The Pacific Asia Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (PACCF 2008) furnishes 10 papers about forensic information management, forensic technologies, and forensic principles and tools. The 24 papers of the Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2008) are organized in topical sections on social web and social information management, social networks and agent-based modeling, as well as social opinions, e-commerce, security and privacy considerations. 548 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Itisourgreatpleasuretopresenttheproceedingsofthe15thInternationalConf- ence on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA2008)thattookplaceonthebeautifulislandofCyprusforthe rsttime. The conference has become an important annual event in the elds of - alytical modelling and performance evaluation in Europe and internationally. Nevertheless, e orts have been made year after year to raise the standard and the quality of the programme.This yearthe proceedings are published as partof Springer s prestigiousLecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. This is another sign of the growing con dence in the quality standards and procedures followed in the reviewing process and the programme compilation. The conference was honored to have a distinguished keynote speaker in the personofRaymondMariefromIRISA/INRIA,France,whoisaprominent gure ofthe analyticalmodellingcommunity inEuropeandworldwide.The conference had a high-qualityprogrammewith anacceptanceratio of 40%.The programme comprised 22 high-quality papers organized into 7 sessions. Almost every paper was peer reviewed by three reviewers from the International Programme C- mittee. The reviewers were truly wonderful this year, as well, and in most cases the reviewsprovidedvaluable comments thatcontributedto increasingthe qu- ity of the nal versions of the papers. In many cases, discussion panels were also organized when the reviews were not decisive. We would therefore like to give a special thanks to all the members of the International Programme Committee for the excellent work in the reviewing process and the subsequent discussion panels during the selection process. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Heterogeneous object modelling is a new and quickly developing research area. This book isone of the first attempts to systematically cover the most relevant themes and problems of this new and challenging subject area. It is a collection of invited papers and papers co-authored by the editors. Each chapter presents either new research results or a survey on the following topics:Formal models and abstractions of heterogeneous objects including geometric, topological, discrete and continuous models, operations forming special algebras and conversions between different model types. Data structures and algorithms for representing, modifying and computing with heterogeneous objects. Computational techniques for the design, reconstruction, optimization, analysis and simulation of heterogeneous objects that incorporate information on shape, material and physical behavior using a common framework. Applications of heterogeneous object modelling in engineering and scientific areas, including geophysical, biomedical, artistic and multi-material fabrication applications. 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Software testing is traditionally seen as a difficult and time consuming activity that is hard to embed in the software development process. This book provides a different view. It explains to stakeholders how testing can add value to software development and doing business, and provides the tester with practical information. TestGoal is not just another methodology. Several good testing methodologies exist. But, like any other profession, also testing encompasses more than the simple application of a methodology. After all, strict adherence to a specific methodology is no guarantee for success. Success stems from the mindset, enthusiasm, knowledge and skill of the tester. These factors determine whether a methodology is applied successfully and whether testing takes on a result-driven character. And that's what TestGoal is about: a result-driven attitude, testing principles and expertise as fundament, and a hands-on six step plan to enable result driven testing. Derk-Jan de Grood and his colleagues from Collis, an international software testing company, know about the main pitfalls in test projects from their extensive professional experience. TestGoal has emerged from the office floor and captures over a decade of best practice. TestGoal is made by professionals for professionals, and it combines the mindset, knowledge, and skills required to add value with testing and make software development more successful. This book explains in a clear language how you can make testing result-driven. It explains why testing is important and describes all of the activities involved in testing. It is enriched with recognizable examples, practical tips and useful checklists. This makes it a 'GO kit' that enables testers to immediately get started and add value to their organization. 424 pp. Englisch.