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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Lehrbuch führt Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und der Rechtswissenschaften in die Grundlagen der Finanzwirtschaft ein.Das besondere Anliegen des Buches besteht darin, dem Leser Grundlinien und Zusammenhänge des auf den Kapitalmarkt bezogenen finanzwirtschaftenden Handelns aufzuzeigen, das zu den ökonomischen Funktionen des Finanzierens und des Handelns mit Wertpapieren gehört.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 392 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das vorliegende Buch liefert eine Einführung in das Gebiet des Operations Research und ist primär für Studenten nicht-mathematischer Fachrichtungen, insbesondere für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler gedacht. Es werden jedoch auch Mathematiker angesprochen, die sich einen einführenden methodischen Überblick über das Gesamtgebiet verschaffen wollen. Dem Praktiker werden die Ausführungen helfen, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des praktischen Einsatzes von OR-Verfahren zu beurteilen. Durch die anschauliche, leicht verständliche und durch viele Grafiken unterstützte Darstellung soll der mathematisch weniger geübte Leser angesprochen werden. Dabei wird nicht nur die Lineare Optimierung (einschließlich der Sensitivitätsanalyse und der Ganzzahligen Optimierung) behandelt. Es wird ebenfalls eine Einführung in die Nichtlineare Optimierung und in die Dynamische Optimierung gegeben. Die dargestellten Verfahren werden ausführlich in jedem Schritt erläutert.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Das vorliegende Buch liefert eine Einführung in das Gebiet des Operations Research und ist primär für Studenten nicht-mathematischer Fachrichtungen, insbesondere für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler gedacht. Es werden jedoch auch Mathematiker angesprochen, die sich einen einführenden methodischen Überblick über das Gesamtgebiet verschaffen wollen. Dem Praktiker werden die Ausführungen helfen, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des praktischen Einsatzes von OR-Verfahren zu beurteilen. Durch die anschauliche, leicht verständliche und durch viele Grafiken unterstützte Darstellung soll der mathematisch weniger geübte Leser angesprochen werden. Dabei wird nicht nur die Lineare Optimierung (einschließlich der Sensitivitätsanalyse und der GanzzahligenOptimierung) behandelt. Es wird ebenfalls eine Einführung in die Nichtlineare Optimierung und in die Dynamische Optimierung gegeben. Die dargestellten Verfahren werden ausführlich in jedem Schritt erläutert.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 588 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Jenseits gängiger Managementkonzepte zeigt dieses Buch Möglichkeiten auf, wie Unternehmen auf Basis ihrer spezifisch gewachsenen Potenziale ihren Weg zur Einzigartigkeit finden können. Im Mittelpunkt des Ansatzes steht der 'Potenzialscanner': diese Toolbox hilft, die bereits vorhandenen, aber nicht bekannten oder nicht systematisch genutzten Stärken des Unternehmens zu identifizieren, die als verborgene Schätze in Fähigkeiten, Wissensbeständen, spezifischen Abläufen o.ä. liegen können. Sechs Fallbeispiele schildern konkrete Anwendungsfälle aus Unternehmen und zeigen, mit welchem Ergebnis der Potenzialscanner dort eingesetzt wurde. 'Lessons learned' runden die Darstellung ab.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Im Jahre 1999 konnte ich in der Schriftenreiheder Heidelberger Akademie der Wis senschaften eine Studie über'Krankheit und Kranksein im Spiegel der Geschichte' veröffentlichen. In Analogie zum Themenkreis'Krankheit' konzentriert sich die vorliegende Ar beit auf das Begriffsfeld 'Gesundheit' und seine Rahmenbedingungen, wobei mit den historischen Materialien der soziale Aspekt in den Vordergrund tritt. Der Verfasser dankt Friedrich Vogel herzlich für die kritische Durchsicht dieser Studie sowie der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften für deren freundliche Aufnahme in ihre Schriftenreihe. Heidelberg, im Herbst 2002 Heinrich Schipperges Inhaltsverzeichnis Einführung . 1 Methodologisches Präludium 3 Kapitell Die alte Welt 1. Gesundheitsbilder in Archaischen Hochkulturen 7 2. Das Gesundheitskonzeptder Antike . 10 3. Bilder der Gesundheit bei Hippokrates . 13 4. Gesundheitsbilder in den Sokratischen Dialogen 17 5. Das Gesundheits-Programm bei Galen . 21 Kapitel 2 Das Mittelalter I. Gesundheit in der arabischen Hochkultur 25 2. Leben in Gesundheit bei Maimonides . . . 29 3. Die Rolle der Gesundheit im christlichen Abendland 32 4. 'Gesundheitsschutz' bei Petrus Hispanus 36 5. Das Bild der Gesundheit bei Paracelsus . 39 Exkurs Die klassischen Gesundheits-Bücher (Regimina Sanitatis) 1. DerVorläufer (Tacuinum Sanitatis) 43 2. Regeln der Gesundheit im 'Regimen' 45 49 3. Im 'Garten der Gesundheit' .Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 140 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Content-Management in der Praxis beschreibt anhand von illustrativen Fallbeispielen Lösungskonzepte für den erfolgreichen Aufbau und Betrieb unternehmensweiter Portale. Mit klarem Blick für die betriebliche Realität entwickelt der Autor ein integriertes Modell für das Content-Management, auf dessen Basis die einzelnen Fragestellungen der Arbeit analysiert und strukturiert werden. Neben strategischen Elementen beschreibt das Buch eine integrierte Architektur für das Content-Management multikanalfähiger Portale, die Prozessmodelle und darauf ausgerichtete Software-Funktionen des Content-Management enthält. Das Buch zeigt Unternehmen Wege auf, um aus unterschiedlichen Ausgangssituationen heraus ein effizientes und am betrieblichen Nutzen ausgerichtetes Content-Management zu erzielen. Die Darstellung auch komplexer Themenstellungen in klarer und allgemeinverständlicher Sprache erleichtert dem Leser den Einstieg in die teilweise unübersichtliche Materie.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In einer dynamischen Zivilisation erhöht sich in Wissenschaft und Technik, in Wirtschaft und Kunst die Neuerungsrate. Die Zeitdauer konstanter Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse nimmt ab, der Aufenthalt in der Gegenwart verkürzt sich. Zeit wird knapp und organisationsbedürftig. Hermann Lübbe beschreibt und analysiert die kulturellen, wirtschaftlichen und zeitumgangstechnischen Folgen dieser 'Gegenwartsschrumpfung' und zeichnet ein umfassendes Panorama der Zeit-Verfassung unserer modernen Kultur. 'Der Autor stellt dem Leser den mehr als fraglichen Beschleunigungscharakter unserer modernen Kultur facettenreich und anschaulich vor. Spricht aus, was wir in unserer Angst, uns auf der schnellen Reise selbst zu verlieren, schon fast gar nicht mehr wahrnehmen wollen.' 'Das Buch versucht eine Phänomenologie unserer Kultur, deren Äußerungen sich ständig und mit wachsender Geschwindigkeit verändern. Seine Belege sind uns in ihrer Alltäglichkeit überraschend, aber in ihren Einzelheiten plausibel.' (VDI nachrichten magazin bzw. Physikalische Blätter)Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 468 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -150 sorgfältig ausgewählte Arbeiten zeigen das breite Spektrum der deutschsprachigen chirurgischen Forschung auf. Sowohl klinische als auch Grundlagenforschung sind berücksichtigt. Der hochaktuelle Band erscheint noch vor der Präsentation der Ergebnisse bei der 120. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 616 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Praxisleitfaden der Knorpelreparatur richtet sich in erster Linie an operativ tätige Orthopäden, Chirurgen und Unfallchirurgen, die sich speziell über die modernen Verfahren zur biologischen Gelenkknorpelrekonstruktion informieren möchten. Praktische Hinweise zu den Operationstechniken der Knorpel-Knochen-Transplantation und der Autologen Chondrozytentransplantation werden ebenso vermittelt wie pathophysiologische Grundlagen zur Arthrose. Hinweise zur Diagnostik von Gelenkknorpelschäden mittels MR-Tomographie und praktische Anleitungen zur Begleit- und Nachbehandlung runden dieses Werk ab.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 176 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Entwicklungen in Biomedizin, Genetik und Informatik führen zu einem Wissenszuwachs im Verständnis der Ursachen und Entstehungsmechanismen von Krankheiten. Damit verbunden ist die Hoffnung, zukünftig Krankheitsrisiken frühzeitiger zu erkennen und durch Maßnahmen der Entwicklung von Krankheiten vorzubeugen. Mehr als andere Untersuchungsergebnisse erlauben genetische Informationen Aussagen über den Gesundheitszustand auch von Familienangehörigen. Sie bergen damit das Risiko konfligierender Interessen im Hinblick auf deren autonome Lebensführung und informationelle Selbstbestimmung in sich.Das Buch enthält die auf dem 10. Einbecker Workshop gehaltenen Vorträge, die sich aus medizinisch-naturwissenschaftlicher und juristischer Sicht mit dem Thema befassen. Im Anhang werden wichtige Materialien zum Thema Gentest ergänzt. So ist das österreichische Gentechnikgesetz, der Schweizer Entwurf eines Gentestgesetzes und der Entwurf der Fraktion der GRÜNEN im Bundestag für ein Deutsches Gentestgesetz enthalten.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Leisten Sie sich Hilfe!Haben Sie keine Energie mehr Klagen Sie über Hoffnungslosigkeit Leiden Sie unter Panikattacken Haben Sie unerklärliche Schmerzen im Brustkorb ¿ ohne medizinischen Befund Alltägliche Probleme, die man selbst in den Griff bekommen kann, oder psychische Störungen, die professionell behandelt werden sollten SelbsthilfeDietmar Hansch, erfahrener Arzt und Psychotherapeut, zeigt einfache Maßnahmen der gesunden Lebensgestaltung und Stressbewältigung, die der Selbsthilfe dienen. Er erklärt, wie die Psyche aufgebaut ist und wie sie funktioniert. oder Psychotherapie Aber der Ratgeber kann keine Psychotherapie ersetzen: Menschen mit psychischen Störungen, z.B. Ängsten oder Depressionen, benötigen professionelle Hilfe. Bei der Entscheidung für eine Psychotherapie helfen folgende Fragen: Welche Therapieformen gibt es überhaupt Und welche ist für mich geeignet Was sind die Vor- und Nachteile ambulanter und stationärer Psychotherapie Mit Kontaktadressenkonkreten Tippshilfreichen Beispielen!Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The characteristics of software systems are undergoing dramatic changes. We are moving rapidly into the age of ubiquitous information services. Persistent computing systems are being embedded in everyday objects. They interact in an autonomouswaywith eachother to provideus with increasinglycomplexservices and functionalities that we can access at any time from anywhere. As a con- quence, not only do the numbers of components of software systems increase; there is also a strong qualitative impact. Software systems are increasingly made up of autonomous, proactive, networked components. These interact with each other in patterns and via mechanisms that can hardly be modeled in terms of classical models of interaction or service-oriented coordination. To some extent, future software systems will exhibit characteristics making them more res- blant of natural systems and societies than of mechanical systems and software architectures. This situation poses exciting challenges to computer scientists and software engineers. Already, software agents and multi-agent systems are recognized as both useful abstractions and e ective technologies for the modeling and building of complex distributed applications. However, little is done with regard to e - tive and methodic development of complex software systems in terms of mul- agent societies. An urgent need exists for novel approaches to software modeling and software engineering that enable the successful deployment of software s- tems made up ofa massive number ofautonomous components, and that allowus to control and predict their behaviour. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in April 2002.The 27 revised full papers presented went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and assess the state of the art in geometry, morphology, and computational imaging. The papers are organized in sections on geometry - models and algorithms; property measurement in the grid and on finite samples; features, shape, and morphology; and computer vision and scene analysis.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 456 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is an emerging and exciting interdisciplinary area of research and development involving artificial intelligence, computer science, software engineering, and developmental biology, as well as cognitive and social science.This book surveys the state of the art in this emerging field by drawing together thoroughly selected reviewed papers from two related workshops; as well as papers by leading researchers specifically solicited for this book. The articles are organized into topical sections on learning, cooperation, and communication emergence and evolution in multi-agent systems theoretical foundations of adaptive agentsSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering and Middleware {SEM 2002) was held May 20-21, 2002, in Orlando, Florida, as a co-located event of the 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering. The workshop attracted 30 participants from academic and industrial institutions in many countries. Twenty-seven papers were submitted, of which 15 were accepted to create a broad program covering the topics of architectures, specification, components and adaptations, technologies, and services. The focus of the workshop was on short presentations, with substantial dis cussions afterwards. Thus, we decided to include in this proceedings also a short summary of every technical session, which was written by some of the partici pants at the workshop. The workshop invited one keynote speaker, Bobby Jadhav of CalKey, who presented a talk on the design and use of model-driven architecture and middle ware in industry. We would like to thank all the people who helped organize and run the workshop. In particular, we would like to thank the program committee for their careful reviews of the submitted papers, Wolfgang Emmerich for being an excellent General Chair, and the participants for a lively and interesting workshop. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As the complexity of financial markets keeps growing, so does the need to understand the decision-making and the coordination of the exsuing actions in the marketplace. In particular, the disclosure of information to market participants and its impact on the market outcome mertis attention. This study analyses the role of private and public information in currency crises. Calls for increased dissemination of economic and policy-related information by central banks notwithstanding, the study shows that transparency is not generally conductive to preventing speculative attacks in fixed exchange-rate regimes. Rather, the role of private and public information in the market-place depencs critically on the prevailing market sentiment. The study also highlights the import of market transparency design in an environment that allows for herding and market leadership of individual speculators.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -To put the ARTS & ECONOMICS next to each other, as in the title to this book, may be shocking to some readers. Must not creative art be free of economic constraints, must it not lead a life of its own And is economics not the realm of mean commercial dealings This book argues that it is not so: the ARTS & ECONOMICS go well together, indeed need each other. Without a sound economic base, art cannot exist, and without creativity the economy cannot flourish. There is a second way in which the Arts and Economics go together, namely in the sense of applying economic thinking to the arts. Over the last decades, this scholarly endeavor has been established under the name of 'The Economics of Art' or 'Cultural Economics'. But this may also sound revolting to some readers as it suggests an imperialistic extension of a lowly benefit-cost calculus to the world of art. This fear is unwarranted. On the contrary, cultural economists stress the social value of art and defend it against a crude business view of art. Rather than dismissing art without direct commercial profit, art economists seek ways and means of supporting it. This book is not a textbook summarizing the achievements attained by the economics of art. Such books already exist, among them the author's own, Muses and Markets, Explorations in the Economics of Art, written jointly with Werner Pommerehne. VI Preface ARTS & ECONOMICS charters little known territories.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 260 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The success of the first edition of this broad appeal book prompted the prepa ration of an updated and expanded second edition. The field of surface anal ysis is constantly changing as it answers the need to provide more specific and more detailed information about surface composition and structure in advanced materials science applications. The content of the second edition meets that need by including new techniques and expanded applications. Newcastle John O'Connor Clayton Brett Sexton Adelaide Roger Smart January 2003 Preface to the First Edition The idea for this book stemmed from a remark by Philip Jennings of Mur doch University in a discussion session following a regular meeting of the Australian Surface Science group. He observed that a text on surface anal ysis and applications to materials suitable for final year undergraduate and postgraduate science students was not currently available. Furthermore, the members of the Australian Surface Science group had the research experi ence and range of coverage of surface analytical techniques and applications to provide a text for this purpose. A list of techniques and applications to be included was agreed at that meeting. The intended readership of the book has been broadened since the early discussions, particularly to encompass industrial users, but there has been no significant alteration in content.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 616 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 1st International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW), the con- rence covering all aspects of digital watermarking, was held at the Hotel Riviera situated along the beautiful Han River in Seoul, Korea from November 21 to 22, 2002. These proceedings contain 21 papers that were accepted for presentation at the conference. These papers were selected from 67 submissions including 3 invited papers. They went through a thorough review process by the Program Committee and were selected on the basis of excellence and novelty. The following is a brief description of the history of this conference and - viewing process: In August 2001 some members of the Special Interest Group on Multimedia Protection (SIGMP) of the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC) agreed to create the IWDW. In November 2001 we set up a Program Committee and solicited papers while asking Springer-Verlag to publish the proceedings of the workshop in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. In July 2002 we received 64 submissions from 14 countries using Microsoft¿s conference management site (cmt. research. microsoft. com/ iwdw2002/). Each submission was assigned a number automatically by the c- ference management tool and the paper was sent to the Program Committee members for their review. We also encouraged di erent sets of experts to join for fair reviews.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Every year we witness acceleration in the availability, deployment, and use of distributed applications. However building increasingly sophisticated applications for extant and emerging networked systems continues to be challenging for several reasons: ¿ Abstract models of computation used in distributed systems research often do not fully capture the limitations and the unpredictable nature of realistic distributed computing platforms; ¿ Fault-tolerance and ef ciency of computation are dif cult to combine when the c- puting medium is subject to changes, asynchrony, and failures; ¿ Middleware used for constructing distributed software does not provide services most suitable for sophisticated distributed applications; ¿ Middleware services are speci ed informally and without precise guarantees of e- ciency, fault-tolerance, scalability, and compositionality; ¿ Speci cation of distributed deployment of software systems is often left out of the development process; ¿ Finally, there persists an organizational and cultural gap between engineering groups developing systems in a commercial enterprise, and research groups advancing the scienti c state-of-the-art in academic and industrial settings. The objectives of this book are: (1) to serve as a motivation for de ning future research programs in distributed computing, (2) to help identify areas where practitioners and engineers on the one hand and scientists and researchers on the other can improve the state of distributed computing through synergistic efforts, and (3) to motivate graduate students interested in entering the exciting research eld of distributed computing.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -WhiletheSCM-10experimentprovedverysuccessful,theSCMcommunity feltthatitshouldgoforaformalworkshoponceagain. Infact,thiswouldopen uptheopportunitytodocumentcurrentresearchandfertilizethedevelopment ofthisdiscipline. Asaconsequence,thefollow-upworkshopSCM-11washeld as a co-located event with ICSE at Portland, Oregon in May 2003. The Call forPapersreceivedalivelyresponsewith36submissions,outofwhich15were acceptedforpublication(12longand3shortpapers). Thesepapersappearinthe secondpartofthisvolume,orderedbytopic. Inadditiontopaperpresentations, theworkshopprovidedsu cienttimeforinspiringdiscussions. Thechairsofbothworkshopswouldliketoacknowledgetheinvaluablec- tributionsofallauthorsandspeakers,theprogramcommittees,theorganizers oftheICSEconferences,andSpringer-Verlag. May2003 BernhardWestfechtel Andr¿evanderHoek VI Preface ProgramCommitteeofSCM2003 Geo Clemm,Rational,USA ReidarConradi,NTNUTrondheim,Norway IvicaCrnkovic,MalardalenUniversity,Sweden WolfgangEmmerich,UniversityCollegeLondon,UK Andr¿evanderHoek,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,USA AnnitaPersson,EricssonAB,M¿olndal,Sweden BernhardWestfechtel(Chair),RWTHAachen,Germany JimWhitehead,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,USA AndreasZeller,UniversityofSaarbruc ¿ ken,Germany ProgramCommitteeofSCM2001 Geo Clemm,Rational,USA IvicaCrnkovic,MalardalenUniversity,Sweden WolfgangEmmerich,UniversityCollegeLondon,UK JackyEstublier,LSR-IMAG,France Andr¿evanderHoek(Chair),UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,USA Je Magee,ImperialCollege,London,UK BernhardWestfechtel,RWTHAachen,Germany JimWhitehead,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz,USA AndreasZeller,UniversityofSaarbruc ¿ ken,Germany SCMWorkshops SCM-1,Grassau,Germany(1988) SCM-2,Princeton,USA(1990) SCM-3,Trondheim,Norway(1991) SCM-4,Baltimore,USA(1993) SCM-5,Seattle,USA(1995) SCM-6,Berlin,Germany(1996) SCM-7,Boston,USA(1997) SCM-8,Brussels,Belgium(1998) SCM-9,Toulouse,France(1999) SCM-10,Toronto,Canada(2001) SCM-11,Portland,Oregon(2003) TableofContents BestPapersofSCM2001 De ningandSup 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to nondeterministic and open environments, like the Internet, in order to achieve systems design goals through the coordination of autonomously distributed services. The agent metaphor, in particular software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS), constitutes a promising approach for covering most of the software development life cycle, from conceptual modeling and requirements specification to architectural definition, design, and implementation.This book presents 17 carefully reviewed papers arranged in order to provide a coherent survey of how to exploit agent properties and MAS issues in today's software systems. The book offers the following topical sections: software engineering foundations requirements engineering and software architecture coordination and mobility reusedependabilityempirical studies and applicationsSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Error-correcting codes have been incorporated in numerous working communication and memory systems. This book covers the mathematical aspects of the theory of block error-correcting codes together, in mutual reinforcement, with computational discussions, implementations and examples of all relevant concepts, functions and algorithms. This combined approach facilitates the reading and understanding of the subject.The digital companion of the book is a non-printable .pdf document with hyperlinks. The examples included in the book can be run with just a mouse click and modified and savedby users for their own purpose.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 2003 Atlantic Web Intelligence C- ference, AWIC 2003. The conference was located in Madrid, Spain during May 5¿6, 2003, organized locally by the Technical University of Madrid. AWIC 2003 aimed to be the rst of a series of conferences on Web Intelligence, to be celebrated annually, alternatively in Europe and America, starting in Madrid. It was born as an activity of the recently created WIC-Poland Research Centre and the WIC-Spain Research Centre, bothbelongingtotheWebIntelligenceConsortium(WIC) (wi-consortium.org).AWIC 2003 was supported with grants from the S- nish Ministry for Science and Technology and the European Network of Excellence in Knowledge Discovery, KDNet. AWIC 2003 brought together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory,applications,andtools)ofarti cialintelligencetechniquesappliedtoWeb-based systems, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Almost 70 contributions were submitted. After a preliminary evaluation, 60 of these papers were accepted to the conference and were assigned at least two reviewers from the international program committee. Out of this 60, 33 were conditionally accepted, and 32 of them were nally accepted after the conditions set by the reviewers had been met, which resulted in an acceptance ratio of 45%. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This special issue is the result of the workshop Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, held in Bologna on July 15, 2002 as part of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2002 Conference (AAMAS2002), organized by Rino Falcone, Suzanne Barber, Larry Korba, and Munindar Singh. The workshop included a special track on ¿Privacy and Protection with Multi-Agent Systems. ¿ The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers from different elds (Arti cial Intelligence, Mul- agent Systems, Cognitive Science, Game Theory, and Social and Organizational S- ences) that could contribute to a better understanding of trust, privacy and protection in agent societies. The workshop scope included theoretical results and their applications inhuman¿computerinteractionandelectroniccommerce. Thisissueincludesaselection oftherevisedandextendedversionsoftheworkspresentedattheworksho p,incorpor- ing many points that emerged in our discussions, as well as invited papers from expert peopleinthe eld,whichinourviewgivesacompletecoverageofallrelevantissues. We gratefully acknowledge the nacial support from the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology and theALFEBIITE European Project, contract number IST-1999-10298. We want to express our gratitude to Cristiano Castelfranchi for his stimulating and valuable comments and suggestions both for the organization of the workshop and for the preparation of this special issue.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains a selection of papers from the Joint ERCIM/CologNet Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, held at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre from the 19th to the 21st of June 2002. The workshop co-located two events: the seventh meeting of the ERCIM Working Group on Constraints, co-ordinated by Krzysztof Apt, and the rst annual workshop of the CologNet Area for Constraint and Logic Programming, co-ordinated by Francesca Rossi. The aim of this workshop was to provide a forum where researchers in c- straint processing could meet in an informal setting and discuss their most recent work. The Cork Constraint Computation Centre was chosen as the venue for the workshop because it is a new research centre, supported by Science Foundation Ireland and led by Eugene Freuder, which is entirely devoted to studying c- straint processing. Thus, the workshop participants had an opportunity to see the centre, meet its members and investigate the potential for future collabo- tion. Amongst the topics addressed by the papers in this volume are: veri cation and debugging of constraint logic programs; modelling and solving CSPs; exp- nation generation; inference and consistency processing; SAT and 0/1 encodings of CSPs; soft constraints and constraint relaxation; real-world applications; and distributed constraint solving.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -TheAAECCsymposiumwasstartedinJune1983byAlainPoli(Toulouse),who, together with Roger Desq, Daniel Lazard, and Paul Camion, organized the rst conference. The meaning of the acronym AAECC changed from ¿Applied - gebra and Error Correcting Codes¿ to ¿Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms, and Error Correcting Codes.¿ One reason for this was the increasing importance of complexity, particularly for decoding algorithms. During the AAECC-12 s- posium the conference committee decided to enforce the theory and practice of the coding side as well as the cryptographic aspects. Algebra was conserved, as in the past, but was slightly more oriented to algebraic geometry codes, nite elds, complexity, polynomials, and graphs. For AAECC-15 the main subjects covered were: ¿ Block codes. ¿ Algebra and codes: rings, elds, AG codes. ¿ Cryptography. ¿ Sequences. ¿ Algorithms, decoding algorithms. ¿ Algebra: constructions in algebra, Galois groups, di erential algebra, po- nomials. The talks of the six invited speakers characterized the aims of AAECC-15: ¿ P. Sole (¿Public Key Cryptosystems Based on Rings¿). ¿ S. Lin (¿Combinatorics Low Density Parity Check Codes¿). ¿ J. Stern (¿Cryptography and the Methodology of Provable Security¿). ¿ D. Costello (¿Graph-Based Convolutional LDPC Codes¿). ¿ I. Shparlinsky (¿Dynamical Systems Generated by Rational Functions¿). ¿ A. Lauder (¿Algorithms for Multivariate Polynomials over Finite Fields¿). 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The objective of program analysis is to automatically determine the p- perties of a program. Tools of software development, such as compilers, p- formance estimators, debuggers, reverse-engineering tools, program veri - tion/testing/proving systems, program comprehension systems, and program specializationtoolsarelargelydependentonprogramanalysis. Advancedp- gram analysis can: help to nd program errors; detect and tune performan- critical code regions; ensure assumed constraints on data are not violated; tailor a generic program to suit a speci c application; reverse-engineer so- ware modules, etc. A prominent program analysis technique is symbolic a- lysis, which has attracted substantial attention for many years as it is not dependent on executing a program to examine the semantics of a program, and it can yield very elegant formulations of many analyses. Moreover, the complexity of symbolic analysis can be largely independent of the input data size of a program and of the size of the machine on which the program is being executed. In this book we present novel symbolic control and data ow repres- tation techniques as well as symbolic techniques and algorithms to analyze and optimize programs. Program contexts which de ne a new symbolic - scription of program semantics for control and data ow analysis are at the center of our approach. We have solved a number of problems encountered in program analysis by using program contexts. Our solution methods are e cient, versatile, uni ed, and more general (they cope with regular and irregular codes) than most existing methods.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2001, held in Nicosia, Cyprus in November 2001.The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two months of reviewing from 104 conference papers. The papers cover the areas of databases, data mining and intelligent systems, e-learning, human computer interaction, image processing, networks and systems, software and languages, and theoretical computer science. 516 pp. Englisch.