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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Fallrepetitorium dient der Examensvorbereitung im Schwerpunkt Völkerrecht. Es behandelt am Beispiel aktueller Themen die examensrelevanten Probleme in Form von Fällen. Diese greifen neue Entwicklungen u.a. im Bereich des Völkerstrafrechts, der Menschenrechte und des Gewaltverbots auf. Zahlreiche Vertiefungshinweise und Übersichten ergänzen die Lösungen. Umfangreiche Anmerkungen zur Struktur der Falllösung unterstützen das gezielte Üben der Fallbearbeitung. In der zweiten Auflage wurden Fälle, Lösungen und Hinweise aktualisiert und überarbeitet. Das Buch eignet sich zur Wiederholung und Vertiefung. Es vermittelt aber auch einen Überblick über die Grundzüge des Völkerrechts.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die großen Automobilmärkte der Welt (Triade) befinden sich in der Sättigung, die neuen Wachstumsmärkte Asien und Osteuropa können auf lange Zeit die fehlende Nachfrage nicht ersetzen. Als Folge befindet sich die gesamte Automobilbranche global in einem mörderischen Verdrängungswettbewerb, vorgetragen mit immer neuen Modelloffensiven und aggressiven Rabattschlachten. Die Folge sind sinkende Erträge bei allen Beteiligten, Arbeitsplatzabbau und Produktionsverlagerung in Niedriglohnländer.Dieses Buch bietet eine beeindruckende Bestandsaufnahme der Weltautomobilindustrie und gibt eine fundierte Prognose über die Zukunftsfähigkeit der elf verbliebenen Volumenhersteller (IWK-Survival-Index). Das Buch zeigt, wie sich der Weltautomobilmarkt in den nächsten 10 Jahren entwickeln wird, wie die Konzentration auf die Zulieferer wirkt und welche Konsequenzen die Entwicklung auf dem Automobilstandort Deutschland hat. Die Neuauflage bietet auf der Grundlage aktueller Daten den globalen Automobilmarkt-Entwicklungstrend und eine Neuberechnung des IWK-Survival-Indexes mit dem neuesten Ranking der einzelnen Automobilhersteller.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Management ist Entscheidung im Ungewissen. Führungskräfte im Einkauf stehen vor der Herausforderung, Entscheidungen unter ständig wechselnden Umweltbedingungen treffen zu müssen. Der globale Wettbewerb bewirkt ein Umdenken weg von der klassischen Beschaffung hin zu mehr strategischen Aufgabenbereichen und einer umfassenden Koordinationsfunktion. Entsprechend haben sich die Funktion und die Rolle des Einkäufers erheblich verändert. Umfassende Fach- und Verhaltenskompetenzen sind heute der Schlüsselfaktor zum Erfolg.Dieses Buch erklärt, auf welche Kompetenzen es in Zukunft ankommt. Die Herausforderungen an den modernen Supply Chain Manager werden verständlich und realitätsnah beschrieben, zentrale theoretische Konzepte erklärt sowie Denkanstöße zur Bewältigung wichtiger Managementaufgaben geliefert. Um die Potenziale dieser Kompetenzen zu erkennen und umzusetzen, verfolgt das Buch eine zweigleisige Herangehensweise, die sowohl Wissenschaft als auch Praxis einschließt. Es wendet sich an Führungskräfte in Einkauf, Beschaffung, Logistik und Materialwirtschaft.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die wachsenden Anforderungen der Kunden an die Qualität von IT-Dienstleistungen und die Wirtschaftlichkeit der Leistungserbringungsprozesse lassen dem Produktionsmanagement eine immer wichtigere Rolle zukommen. Das Buch gibt einen praxisorientierten und systematischen Überblick über die fünf zentralen Aufgabenbereiche des Produktionsmanagements eines IT-Dienstleisters: das Management des Leistungsprogramms, der Anwendungsentwicklung, des Produktionspotentials, der Produktionsprozesse und der Anwenderunterstützung. Eine Grundlage des Buches bildet die Übertragung erfolgreicher Managementkonzepte aus der industriellen Produktion auf das Informationsmanagement. Der Leser erhält einen praxisorientierten Überblick und Vorschläge für eine erfolgreiche Gestaltung des Produktionsmanagements.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der große Chinaboom ist angesagt. Können wir Japan deshalb vergessen Wohl kaum. Japan erholt sich von seiner Stagnationskrise. Sein Markt wird noch lange sieben Mal größer sein als der Chinas. Dieses Buch schildert die historischen und strukturellen Grundlagen der japanischen Wirtschaft, die Organisation der Keiretsu-Konzerngruppen, die Verflechtung mit der Politik und den Ministerien, die Sozialbeziehungen in der Wirtschaft, die Vertriebssysteme und die Grundlagen des japanischen Managements in der Personalführung, der Entscheidungsfindung und in den Kanban-Systemen der Produktion. Firmengeschichten, Branchenberichte und Regionalportraits veranschaulichen diese Einsichten. Schließlich gibt das Buch wertvolle Tipps zum richtigen Sozialverhalten für Ausländer im japanischen Wirtschaftsleben und zum interkulturellen Dialog mit Japanern.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -ReOrganization has been written as a practical guide for anyone faced with organizing a business. Because every organization situation is unique, the reader should be familiar with a number of conceptual models and tools which can be of help when creating a theory for a particular situation. As consultants and businessmen, as well as through the elaboration of certain methods, the authors have developed a sense of what is important in the work of shaping or redesigning an organization. This book will therefore be of interest to anyone on the point of realising a development in their organization and wishing to know how this can best be accomplished most effectively and successfully.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The world we live in is a dynamic one: we explore it by moving through it, and many of the objects which we are interested in are also moving. Tra c, for instance, is an example of a domain where detecting and processing visual motion is of vital interest, both in a metaphoric as well as in a purely literal sense. Visual communication is another important example of an area of science which is dominated by the need to measure, understand, and represent visual motion in an e cient way. Visual motion is a subject of research which forces the investigator to deal withcomplexity;complexityinthesenseoffacinge ectsofmotioninaverylarge diversity of forms, starting from analyzing simple motion in a changing envir- ment (illumination, shadows, . . . ), under adverse observation conditions, such as bad signal-to-noiseratio (low illumination, small-scaleprocesses, low-dosex-ray, etc. ), covering also multiple motions of independent objects, occlusions, and - ing as far as dealing with objects which are complex in themselves (articulated objects such as bodies of living beings). The spectrum of problems includes, but does not end at, objects which are not ¿bodies¿ at all, e. g. , when anal- ing uid motion, cloud motion, and so on. Analyzing the motion of a crowd in a shopping mall or in an airport is a further example that implies the need to struggleagainsttheproblemsinducedbycomplexity.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of two joint RECOMB 2005 satellite events: the First Annual Workshop on Systems Biology, RSB 2005 and the Second Annual Workshop on Regulatory Genomics, RRG 2005, held in San Diego, CA, USA in December 2005. It contains 21 revised full papers that address a broad variety of topics in systems biology and regulatory genomics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2006, held in Bremen, Germany, in June 2006. This was co-located with RoboCup 2006, the innovative robot soccer world championship, and with ACTUATOR 2006, the 10th International Conference on New Actuators. The 29 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 476 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2007, held in Clermont-Ferrand, France in February 2007. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited lecture comprise state of the art research from foundational to applied lattice theory and related fields, all of which involve methods and techniques of formal concept analysis.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2006, held in Zurich, Switzerland in September 2006 as part of the ALGO 2006 conference event. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The progress in information technology including arti cial intelligence (AI) in the last few decades is remarkable, and has attracted many young researchers to this eld. This trend is now accelerated along with the recent rapid growth of computer communicationnetworksandthe worldwideincreaseinresearchers. In this context, we have observed many outstanding AI studies in Japanese dom- tic conferences. They have high technical originality, quality and signi cance. The annual conference of JSAI (Japan Society for Arti cial Intelligence) is one of the key and representative domestic meetings in the eld of intelligent inf- mation technology. Award papers in this conference have an excellent quality of internationalstandards. The annualconferenceofJSAIalsoorganizesco-located international workshops to provide excellent study reports. The objectives of this book are to present the award papers of the 20th annual conference of JSAI 2006 and selected papers from the three co-located international workshops and to promote the study exchange among researchers worldwide. Eight papers were awarded among more than 200 presentations in the conference, and 21 papers were selected from a total of 44 presentations in the workshops of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2006 (LENLS 2006), Learning with Logics and Logics for Learning (LLLL 2006) and Risk Mining (RM 2006). The award papers in the 20th annual conference of JSAI 2006 were selected from presentations covering the wide eld of art- cial intelligence through the processes of candidate recommendations, detailed open discussions and voting by ProgramCommittee members of the conference.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 416 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -It was more than ten years ago that an original version of this monograph was published with the title Quantum Optics in Japanese from Iwanami Shoten in Tokyo. Therefore, making the best use of this chance to translate the book into an English version, we have tried to include the exciting developments of the relevant subjects in these ten years, especially novel nonlinear optical responses of materials. The rst example of these nonlinear optical phen- ena is laser cooling and subsequent observation of Bose¿Einstein and Fermi condensation of neutral atoms. Second, it is now possible to generate f- tosecond laser pulses. Then higher-harmonics in the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions and higher-order Raman scattering can be generated by irradiating these ultrashort laser pulses on atomic and molecular gases and crystals. These multistep signals are applied to the generation of attosecond laser pulses. Third, interference e ects of the second harmonics are used to observe the ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic domain structures of crystals with a strongly correlated electronic system. These novel nonlinear optical phenomena could not be treated without the quantized radiation eld. We already have classical textbooks treating, individually, the quantum theory of the radiation eld and nonlinear optics. Taking account of these situations, we have described these exciting nonlinear optical responses as well as laser oscillation and supperradiance, based upon the quantum theory of the radiation eld. At the same time, we have changed the title of this monograph toQuantum Nonlinear Optics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2007, held in Nice, France in January 2007. This event was co-located with the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2007). The 21 revised full papers presented together with three invited lectures and three invited tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 85 submissions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Dieser Leitfaden richtet sich vor allem an Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler, denen einfach aufbereitet die notwendigen betriebswirtschaftlichen und organisatorischen Aspekte von Beginn der Planung bis zur Gründung des Unternehmens vorgestellt werden.Die Planungshilfe beschreibt die Vorgehensweise und betrachtet besonders die erfolgskritischen Aspekte der Gründungsphase. Die Ausrichtung auf die Bedürfnisse der künftigen Geschäftskunden steht dabei im Vordergrund der Planungen. Wie erkennt und bewertet der Gründer diese Bedarfsituation, wie stellt er seine Geschäftsplanung darauf ein Die Ergebnisse aus Befragungen erfolgreicher Technologiegründer sind Grundlage für diese Planungshilfe, die für alle Unternehmensgründungen hilfreich ist, vor allem im Business-to-Business Geschäft.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Six Sigma ist ein konsequentes Projektmanagement zum Analysieren von Qualitätsproblemen und zu deren nachhaltiger Beseitigung auf der Basis statistischer Methoden und unter Einsatz gängiger fortschrittlicher Qualitätsmanagement-Tools. Die Durchschlagkraft erhält Six Sigma dadurch, dass es immer auf eine Steigerung des Kundennutzens sowie auf eine Verbesserung der Unternehmensergebnisse ausgerichtet ist. Dieses Buch liefert die theoretischen Grundlagen und zeigt die erfolgreiche Anwendung von Six Sigma. Autoren aus renommierten Unternehmen informieren über wichtige Anforderungen und Trainingskonzepte bei der Einführung und berichten in zahlreichen Fallbeispielen über die praktische Umsetzung des Konzepts unter Berücksichtigung der Unternehmensgröße, der Branche oder der nationalen Kultur. Die zahlreichen Fallstudien kommen u.a. von General Electric, Ford, Norgren, Motorola und Siemens. Für die vierte Auflage wurden neuere (Unternehmens-) Entwicklungen in die Beiträge eingearbeitet und außerdem Zahlen, Texte und Abbildungen aktualisiert.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 612 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Vorstände, Entscheider und Entwickler in der chemischen Industrie müssen sich in zunehmendem Maße mit Produktdesign beschäftigen. Produkte, die in Leistung, Handhabung und Gestaltung exakt Kundenvorstellungen entsprechen, bringen die notwendigen Wettbewerbsvorteile. Unternehmen möchten mit Innovationen neue Märkte erobern und/oder die erreichte Marktposition stärken. Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie hierfür geeignete Produktideen entwickeln.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 360 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Manufacturing Execution Systeme (MES) sind das Werkzeug, mit dem die Fertigungsprozesse transparent gemacht werden und mit dem die Abläufe in Realtime unter Berücksichtigung von Zielvorgaben geregelt werden können.Das Buch soll helfen, ein MES zielorientiert im Unternehmen einzuführen. Hierzu werden nicht nur Ratschläge zur Konzeption gegeben, sondern es wird auch bei der 'internen Vermarktung' des MES-Vorhabens in Form von Ratschlägen und Wirtschaftlichkeitsbetrachtungen unterstützt. Im Anschluss daran werden Hinweise zur Erstellung eines Pflichtenhefts sowie zur Ausschreibung und Anbieterauswahl gegeben. Neben Tipps vom Projektstart bis zum Produktivstart des Systems werden Themen wie Mitarbeiterqualifizierung und Support angesprochen. Ferner wird aufgezeigt, wie der Einführungsprozess durch externe MES-Berater unterstützt werden kann.Zwei Fallbeispiele zeigen, wie die Einführung in der Praxis verlief und welcher Nutzen durch das MES erzielt werden konnte.Zur Besserung Nutzung des Systems werden noch organisatorische Maßnahmen beschrieben, wie die Mitarbeitereinbindung mit Zielvereinbarungen und Prämienentlohnung, die auch neue Tarifmodelle, wie z.B. ERA (Entgeltrahmenabkommen) vorsehen.Ein Kapitel mit Checklisten, Literaturtipps und Weblinks schließt dieses Buch ab.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -It is my great pleasure to introduce The Legal Environment and Risks for Foreign Investment in China by Shoushuang Li, a star young lawyer in Beijing. Mr. Li has a wealth of experience in foreign investment law and joint ventures, which he brings to bear in his analysis of this dynamic and critical field. Chinäs investment climate continues to evolve. Less than thirty years after the introduction of market reforms, China has become one of the world¿s most attr- tive investment locations. The legal system has developed a good deal, although there are still plenty of pitfalls that await investors who are not sufficiently careful. Foreign observers of the legal system remain divided as to whether the proverbial glass is half full, or rather half empty¿some believe that Chinäs efforts to - velop the rule of law have already born fruit while others are more skeptical. Li¿s strength is to combine the specific details of the various regimes governing investment in China with a broader perspective on risk management. He begins with an introduction to general issues related to foreign investment, tax law, land use right and labor law. These are likely to be of concern to investors in a wide array of fields. He then goes on to provide a wealth of detail on particular sectors of education, water, and insurance.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields. The results have been nothing short of remarkable: their novel approaches have provided answers to long-standing questions in biology, ecology, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, psychology and sociology.The Third International Conference on Complex Systems attracted over 400 researchers from around the world. The conference aimed to encourage cross-fertilization between the many disciplines represented and to deepen our understanding of the properties common to all complex systems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der 'Gesenius' ist zu einem Begriff geworden. Es handelt sich um die 18. Auflage des zuerst 1810/12 und 1815 von dem Hallenser Alttestamentler und Orientalisten Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) herausgegebenen, seitdem immer wieder bearbeiteten Handwörterbuchs für die hebräische und aramäische Sprache des Alten Testaments: eines Standardwerkes für Generationen von Studenten, Pfarrern und Lehrern. Der Unterschied der 18. gegenüber der 17. Auflage besteht hauptsächlich darin, dass das Wörterbuch auf den gegenwärtigen Stand der hebräistischen und semitistischen Kenntnis gebracht wurde, deren Kunde seit dem 1. Weltkrieg beachtlich gewachsen ist. Gleichzeitig wurde versucht, die Vorzüge des alten 'Gesenius' (z.B. übersichtliche Gliederung der Artikel) zu bewahren. 332 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are harmful to human health and to the environment. Their fate in the marine environment is not yet fully understood. An ocean model (FANTOM) has been developed to investigate the fate of selected POPs in the North Sea. The main focus of the model is on quantifying the distribution of POPs and their aquatic pathways. This is the first time that a spatially-resolved, measurement-based ocean transport model has been used to study POP-like substances, at least on the regional scale. The model was applied for the southern North Sea and tested by studying the behaviour of g-HCH, a-HCH and PCB 153 in sea water. This model study proves that transport models, such as FANTOM, are capable of reproducing realistic multi-year temporal and spatial trends of selected POPs and can be used to address further scientific questions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Over the last years, due to intensive competition in the knowledge economy, legal aspects surrounding intellectual property (IP) rights - including litigation and settlement - have continuously gained in importance. Correspondingly, professional IP management has become an indispensable element of successful value-based management (VBM) in research-intensive firms.With this text, the author proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel numerical methods. Bridging a widening gap between recent advances in the theory of financial analysis and current challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies, the text re-initiates a discussion about the contribution of quantitative frameworks to value-based R and D management.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 290 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This monograph describes a new family of algorithms for the simultaneous localization and mapping problem in robotics (SLAM). SLAM addresses the problem of acquiring an environment map with a roving robot, while simultaneously localizing the robot relative to this map. This problem has received enormous attention in the robotics community in the past few years, reaching a peak of popularity on the occasion of the DARPA Grand Challenge in October 2005, which was won by the team headed by the authors. The FastSLAM family of algorithms applies particle filters to the SLAM Problem, which provides new insights into the data association problem that is paramount in SLAM. The FastSLAM-type algorithms have enabled robots to acquire maps of unprecedented size and accuracy, in a number of robot application domains and have been successfully applied in different dynamic environments, including the solution to the problem of people tracking.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Many applications of acoustic signal processing, such as teleconferencing and surveillance systems, require an estimate of several parameters present in the observed acoustic wavefield. The most important parameters are the number as well as the location of active acoustic sources. This book deals with the problem of detecting and localizing multiple simultaneously active wideband acoustic sources by applying the notion of wavefield decomposition using circular and spherical microphone arrays. The decomposed wavefield representation is used to serve as a basis for so-called modal array signal processing algorithms, which have the significant advantage over classical array signal processing algorithms that they inherently support multiple wideband acoustic sources. A rigorous derivation of modal array signal processing algorithms for unambiguous source detection and localization as well as performance evaluations by means of measurements using an actual real-time capable implementation are discussed.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The rate of development in modern digital computer systems and software has led to an almost insatiable demand for ever increasing storage capacities. In response to this demand the memory manufactures and, in particular the disk drive manufacturers have over the last decade or so come forward with spectacular increases in storage capacities and densities. The eld of magneticmemoryhasbeenonthefrontierofadvancedmaterialsdevelopment for many years. The momentum now gained in the technology is such that storage densities are increasing at something like one hundred percent per annum and this rate may still be rising. Over the past decades dramatic progress has been made in magnetic storage systems. In the past few years 2 areal densities, currently above 50 Gbits/in , have doubled every 10 months 2 and are expected to reach 100 Gbits/in in the near future. The price per megabytehasdecreasedbyafactorof10inthelastdecadeandispredictedto drop to USD 0. 05 ber megabyte within the next 10 years. The reason is that the intensive investigations in the eld of the nanoscale magnetic materials promote to the great progress in various kinds of the magnetic storage media (computer oppy disks, sound/video tapes, etc. ). Among the magnetic storage devices, the hard disk drive (HDD) is the dominant secondary mass storage device for computers, and very likely also for homeelectronicproducts in thenear future. The HDDis an integration of many key technologies, including head, medium, head-disk interface, servo, channelcoding/decoding,andelectromechanicalandelectromagneticdevices.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of exposition in notation, problems and methods; as a model of organisation and theory building; and as a source of mathematical inspiration. Eighteen authors - mathematicians, historians, philosophers - have collaborated in this volume to assess the impact of the Disquisitiones, in the two centuries since its publication.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 592 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Long gone are the days when program veri cation was a task carried out merely by hand with paper and pen. For one, we are increasingly interested in proving actual program artifacts, not just abstractions thereof or core algorithms. The programs we want to verify today are thus longer, including whole classes and modules. As we consider larger programs, the number of cases to be considered in a proof increases. The creative and insightful parts of a proof can easily be lost in scores of mundane cases. Another problem with paper-and-pen proofs is that the features of the programming languages we employ in these programs are plentiful, including object-oriented organizations of data, facilities for specifying di erent c- trol ow for rare situations, constructs for iterating over the elements of a collection, and the grouping together of operations into atomic transactions. These language features were designed to facilitate simpler and more natural encodings of programs, and ideally they are accompanied by simpler proof rules. But the variety and increased number of these features make it harder to remember all that needs to be proved about their uses. As a third problem, we have come to expect a higher degree of rigor from our proofs. A proof carried out or replayed by a machine somehow gets more credibility than one that requires human intellect to understand.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 692 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In this book a number of ideas and results related to the eld of cybern- ical physics ¿ the scienti c area aimed at the study of physical systems by cybernetical means ¿ are presented. Although some publications in physical journals related to control problems appeared long ago, formation of a se- rateself-sustainedareastartedaslateasinthe1990sduetotheexplosion-like developmentofresearchincontrolofchaos,quantumcontrol,andotherareas. The number of publications has reached several thousands by the end of the century and it continues to grow very rapidly. This book is, perhaps, the rst attempt to present a uni ed exposition of the subject and methodology of cybernetical physics as well as solutions to some of its problems. A part of this book presents the limits of system transformation by means of control both for conservative and for dissipative systems based on Hamiltonian description of system dynamics. A survey of various control applications in physics is given: control of chaos, controlled synchronization, control of spatiotemporal systems, control ofmolecularandquantumsystems.Anapproachforbuildingmodelsofsyst em dynamics based on control methods is discussed. The presented methods and results are illustrated by examples of new approaches to classical problems: Stephenson¿Kapitsa pendulum, escape from a potential well, synchronization of coupled oscillators, control of chemical reaction with phase transition, c- trolled dissociation of molecules, controlled oscillations of complex crystalline lattices. Controlled pendulums appear in many parts of the book since p- dulum models can be thought of as the ¿atoms of nonlinear physics¿.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Doing research is a great adventure As any adventure sometimes it is hard You may feel alone and with no idea where to go But if you have courage and press onwards You will eventually stand where no one has stood And see the world as no one has seen it There can be no better feeling than this! Adaptation from ¿Introduction to Research¿, Tom Addis (2004) The idea about this book has been on the author¿s mind for almost a decade but it was only about a couple of years ago when the underlying research process was actually started. The reason for this delay has been the insufficient spare time for research being a lecturer in a ¿new¿ UK university where the emphasis is mainly on teaching. And maybe this book would have never been written if the author had not been presented with the chance of developing new teaching modules in fuzzy logic that have given him food for thought in a research related context and have helped him combine efficiently his teaching and research activities. The title of this book may sound too specialised but it has a much wider meaning. Fuzzy systems are any systems for modelling, simulation, control, prediction, diagnosis, decision making, pattern recognition, image processing, etc. which use fuzzy logic. Although fuzzy logic is an advanced extension of binary logic, the latter is still used predominantly today.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 364 pp. Englisch.