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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Praxis zeigt, dass bei der Entwicklung großer, komplexer Softwaresysteme Sicherheitsaspekte oft gar nicht oder erst sehr spät berücksichtigt werden. IT-Security-Spezialisten werden in die Entwicklung neuer Systeme oft nicht eingebunden, und Softwareentwicklern fehlt häufig das Bewusstsein für Sicherheitsprobleme und die nötigen Detailkenntnisse, vorhandene Lösungen richtig einzusetzen. Hier setzt das Buch an und schlägt eine Brücke von der Softwaresicht zu mehr netzwerkorientierten Aspekten der Internet-Security. Ziel der Autoren ist es, bei Entwicklern und Projektleitern ein grundlegendes Sicherheitsbewusstsein zu schaffen und ihnen einen Leitfaden für den Bau sicherer verteilter Systeme an die Hand zu geben. Sicherheitsprobleme werden anhand konkreter Beispiele diskutiert und passende Lösungen aufgezeigt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 328 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Im Zusammenhang mit IT-Governance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act und Basel II ist Information Lifecycle Management, kurz ILM, ein Thema, das jeder CIO beherrschen muss. Die Autoren fassen Information als ein Produkt auf, das einem Lebenszyklus unterliegt. Jede Phase dieses Produktlebenszyklus erfordert andere IT-Methoden, um Information kostenbewusst zu speichern sowie zu be- und verarbeiten. Das Buch beschreibt, wie ein Projekt zur Implementierung eines ILM aufgesetzt und durchgeführt wird. Ein Überblick über die technischen Realisierungsansätze der gängigen Hersteller bildet den letzten Teil des Buches. Der Leser erhält durchgängig Entscheidungshilfen zur Implementierung und Technikauswahl eines erfolgreichen Information Lifecycle Managements.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 444 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The theory of nonlinear hyperbolic equations in several space dimensions has recently obtained remarkable achievements thanks to ideas and techniques related to the structure and fine properties of functions of bounded variation. This volume provides an up-to-date overview of the status and perspectives of two areas of research in PDEs, related to hyperbolic conservation laws. Geometric and measure theoretic tools play a key role to obtain some fundamental advances: the well-posedness theory of linear transport equations with irregular coefficients, and the study of the BV-like structure of bounded entropy solutions to multi-dimensional scalar conservation laws.The volume contains surveys of recent deep results, provides an overview of further developments and related open problems, and will capture the interest of members both of the hyperbolic and the elliptic community willing to explore the intriguing interplays that link their worlds. Readers should have basic knowledge of PDE and measure theory.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 148 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ajax hat das Web zu einer Plattform für Anwendungssoftware gemacht. Beispiele wie Google Maps, GMail oder Flickr demonstrieren eindrucksvoll, welches Potenzial in dieser Technologie steckt. Dieses Buch bietet allen, die bereits Web-Anwendungen entwickeln und sich noch nicht mit Ajax befasst haben, aber auch traditionellen Software-Entwicklern, die den Sprung ins Web machen möchten, einen gründlichen und verständlichen Einstieg in die Technologie. Anhand vieler praxisnaher Beispiele werden alle nötigen Konzepte vermittelt, häufige Probleme angesprochen und bewährte Lösungen vorgestellt. Das Buch eignet sich durch seinen Aufbau gleichermaßen als Fachbuch und Nachschlagewerk und erleichtert somit nicht nur den Einstieg, sondern auch die tägliche Arbeit mit Ajax. Die technischen Grundlagen und Konzepte werden ergänzt durch eine umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Sicherheit, Usability und Barrierefreiheit.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 368 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Wie funktioniert die Immunantwort Was sind Effektorreaktionen Verständlich und kompakt führt Jürgen Neumann Studenten der Biologie, Medizin, Biomedizin und Biochemie in die Immunbiologie ein. Darüber hinaus geht er auf aktuelle Themen ein, wie z.B. Autoimmunität, Allergie und AIDS sowie wesentliche Prinzipien der Immunität von Invertebraten und prinzipielle Fragen nach der Steuerung von Immunantworten. Für alle wissenschaftlich Interessierten, die über elementare Kenntnisse in Biologie und Biochemie verfügen, ist dieses Buch eine ideale Einführung. Einprägsame Tafelbilder veranschaulichen den Lehrstoff und vermitteln die Zusammenhänge.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 300 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The theory on the evolution of preferences deals with the endogenous formation of preference relations in strategic situations. It is related to the field of evolutionary game theory. In this book we analyze the role and the influence of general, possibly non-expected utility preferences in such an evolutionary setup. In particular, we demonstrate that preferences which diverge from von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility may potentially prove to be successful under evolutionary pressures.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 144 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'Change before you have to' - the advice by Jack Welch, former CEO of industry giant General Electric, still holds true today. Even more so: organisations permanently have to face change, if they want to succeed economically. No small feat, given the high expectations that employees have in times of transformation towards their management. Staff cannot be entirely left out of the process, anymore. This hard-learned lesson is fairly well understood by now. But how should engagement be designed and carried out This collection explores the different approaches to employee participation - from a practitoners' perspective. Consultants from Pleon, Europe's leading communications agency, as well as managers and academics share their experience with change communication and offer valuable insights on what engagement - if tackled correctly - can do for organisations: it adds to the internal trust and external reputation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is made up of selected papers from the Asia Simulation Conference 2007, held in Seoul, Korea, in October of 2007. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. After the conference, the papers went through another round of revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on a host of subjects. These include, among others, sections on numerical simulation, general application, and agent-based simulation. 420 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This set of lectures collects surveys of open problems in celestial dynamics and dynamical astronomy applied to solar, extra-solar and galactic systems. The discovery and thus the possibility to study many new extra-solar planetary systems have spurred new developments in the field and enabled the testing and enlargement of the domains of validity of theoretical predictions through the Nekhoroshev theorem.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Attentionhasbeenrepresentingacorescienti ctopicinthedesignofAI-enabled systems within the last decades. Today, in the ongoing debate, design, and c- putationalmodelingofarti cialcognitivesystems,attentionhasgainedacentral position as a focus of research. For instance, attentional methods are considered in investigating the interfacing of sensory and cognitive information processing, for the organization of behaviors, and for the understanding of individual and social cognition in re ection of infant development. Whilevisualcognitionplaysacentralroleinhumanperception, ndingsfrom neuroscience and experimental psychology have provided strong evidence about theperception-actionnatureofcognition.Theembodiednatureofsensory-motor intelligence requires a continuous and focused interplay between the control of motor activities and the interpretation of feedback from perceptual modalities. Decision making about the selection of information from the incoming sensory stream ¿ in tune with contextual processing on a current task and an agent¿s global objectives ¿ becomes a further challenging issue in attentional control. Attention must operate at interfaces between bottom-up driven world int- pretation and top-down driven information selection, thus acting at the core of arti cial cognitive systems. These insights have already induced changes in AI-related disciplines, such as the design of behavior-based robot control and the computational modeling of animats. Today, the development of enabling technologiessuch as autonomous robotic systems,miniaturizedmobile¿evenwearable¿sensors,andambientintel ligence systems involves the real-time analysis of enormous quantities of data. These data have to be processed in an intelligent way to provide ¿on time delivery¿of the required relevant information. Knowledge has to be applied about what needs to be attended to, and when, and what to do in a meaningful sequence, in correspondence with visual feedback. 512 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This highly relevant and up-to-the-minute book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, HiPEAC 2008, held in Göteborg, Sweden, January 27-29, 2008. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized into topical sections on a number of key subjects in the field. 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 8th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2007) was held on Jeju Island, Korea during August 27¿29, 2007. The workshop was sponsored by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC), the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC). WISAaimsatprovidingaforumforprofessionalsfromacademiaandindustry to present their work and to exchange ideas. The workshop covers all technical aspects of security applications, including cryptographic and non-cryptographic techniques. We were very pleased and honored to serve as the Program Committee Co-chairs of WISA 2007. The Program Committee received 95 papers from 20 countries, and accepted 27 papers for the full presentation track. The papers were selected after an extensive and careful refereeing process in which each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. In addition to the contributed papers, the workshop had three special talks. Moti Yung gave a tutorial talk, entitled ¿Somebody You Know: The Fourth Factor of Authentication.¿ Kihong Park and Nasir Memon gave invited talks, entitled ¿Reactive Zero-Day Attack Protection¿ and ¿Securing Biometric T- plates,¿ respectively. Many people deserve our gratitude for their generous contributions to the success of the workshop. We would like to thank all the people involved in the technical program and in organizing the workshop. We are very grateful to the ProgramCommitteemembersandtheexternalrefereesfortheir timeande orts in reviewing the submissions and selecting the accepted papers. We also express our special thanks to the Organizing Committee members for their hard work in organizing the workshop. 404 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar ¿Negotiation and Market Engineering¿ held for one week in November 2006, in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The papers were submitted for publication in this book and reviewed after the seminar. The seminar was a meeting point for participants from academia and industry who arrived from four continents to discuss research on negotiations, auctions, and markets as well as their application. Analyzing, designing, and introducing such complex systems as negotiations, auctions, and markets inevitably requires an interdisciplinary approach because of their psychological, social, and cultural character; economic, legal, and political aspects; quantitative and qualitative considerations; and strategic, tactical, and managerial perspectives. Thus the organizers of the seminar paid special attention to having a mix of researchers with diverse backgrounds from various disciplines ¿ the most common disciplines represented at the seminar were computer science, information systems, economics, business administration, and mathematics. Despite the foundation in different disciplines, during the seminar it became apparent that the different perspectives, approaches, and methodologies used to assess negotiations, auctions, and markets were highly interrelated and an excellent tool box to achieve a holistic view on the object of research. Although this was not unexpected, the success of the seminar and its interdisciplinary exchange of ideas gave further encouragement for the persual of research without confinement by traditional boundaries of disciplines.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsofEWSN2008,the fthEuropeanConf- ence on Wireless Sensor Networks, held in Bologna, Italy, during January 30¿31 and February 1, 2008. Its scope was the creation of a forum where researchers with di erent ex- rience and background could discuss cross-layer approaches, novel solutions for speci c problems and envisage the future development of wireless sensor n- works (WSNs). Out of the 110 papers that were submitted, 23 were selected after a doub- blind peer-review process, leading to an acceptance rate of 21%. Six among the accepted papers included authors from North America, three from Asia, all others from Europe with the exception of one from Australia, and one from Brazil: the conference brought together researchers from almost all corners of the world! Demonstration and poster papers were also presented at the conference, of which separate proceedings were produced, under the supervision of the other TPC Co-chair, Zach Shelby from Sensinode ltd, who managed the reviews of these papers. The rangeoftopicscoveredby this conference,including communicationp- tocols, information processing, middleware, operating systems, hardware and eld tests, is very wide. This made the vision of a coherent nal technical p- gramme more di cult, as few papers cover each of the various topics. But what made such a process even more challenging, is the intrinsic nature of WSNs, which is cross-layer and requires the joint consideration of many aspects when measuring or predicting the performance of a given algorithm, protocol, or te- nical solution.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to the theory of large-scale ocean circulation and is accessible for readers with an elementary knowledge of mathematics and physics, including continuum mechanics and solution methods for ordinary differential equations. The book consists of four parts. Part I (chapters 1 - 4) is a very brief introduction to ocean circulation and the mathematical formulation of the governing equations of ocean flows. In addition, concepts are introduced that are necessary to describe and understand large-scale ocean currents. In part II (chapters 5 - 10), the theory of mid-latitude wind-driven ocean circulation is presented. The consideration of model development includes a top-down approach and reduced equations are derived using asymptotics and scaling. Part III (chapters 11 - 12) focuses on the understanding of equatorial currents and El Nino. In the last part IV, chapters 13 - 16, the theory of planetary scale flows is presented, covering topics such as the thermocline problem, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the stability of the thermohaline circulation and the Arctic Ocean circulation. At the end of each chapter several exercises are formulated. Many of these are aimed to further develop methodological skills and to get familiar with the physical concepts. New material is introduced in only a few of these exercises. Fully worked out answers to all exercises can be downloaded from the book web site.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 424 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Brain Dynamics serves to introduce graduate students and nonspecialists from various backgrounds to the field of mathematical and computational neurosciences. Some of the advanced chapters will also be of interest to the specialists. The book approaches the subject through pulse-coupled neural networks, with at their core the lighthouse and integrate-and-fire models, which allow for the highly flexible modelling of realistic synaptic activity, synchronization and spatio-temporal pattern formation. Topics also include pulse-averaged equations and their application to movement coordination. The book closes with a short analysis of models versus the real neurophysiological system.The second edition has been thoroughly updated and augmented by two extensive chapters that discuss the interplay between pattern recognition and synchronization. Further, to enhance the usefulness as textbook and for self-study, the detailed solutions for all 34 exercises throughout the text have been added.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 348 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -We are glad to present in this volume the proceedings of the ninth edition of Information Hiding (IH 2007). The conference was held in Saint Malo, the C- sairs town, France, during June 11¿13, 2007. It was organized by a team of four Frenchpiratessupported by the valuablehelp of the conferenceorganizationcell of INRIA Rennes. Continuing the tradition of the previous editions, we tried to provide a b- anced program covering the di erent aspects of information hiding. This being said, the selection of the program was a very challenging task. This year, 105 papers from 25 countries were submitted. This was the highest number of s- missions in IH history. We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the authors who submitted a paper to IH 2007 and thus contributed to consolidate the reputation of this conference. Each paper was refereed by at least three reviewers. Since this event was run with a single track, it implied that only 25 papers were accepted for presentation. This unusually low acceptance rate will further promote Information Hiding as the top forum of our community. Although watermarking and steganography still receive most of the interest, new topics emerged during the conference such as the use of Tardos codes for ngerprinting and digital forensics. We would like to thank all the members of the Program Committee and all the external reviewers for the enormous e ort that they put into the reviewing process.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This successful textbook emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics as they emerge from the general principles of continuum mechanics. The different branches of Fluid Mechanics, always originating from simplifying assumptions, are developed according to the basic rule: from the general to the specific.The first part of the book contains a concise but readable introduction into kinematics and the formulation of the laws of mechanics and thermodynamics. The second part consists of the methodical application of these principles to technology. This book is offered to engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians; it can be used for self study, as well as in conjunction with a lecture course.This second English version is the translation of the very successful seventh German book, significantly expanded by a new chapter about creeping flows. In addition, sections about thin-film flow and flow through porous media are added and thus the book gives a complex introduction to the wide area of fluid mechanics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 544 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -¿ Web semantics and semi-structured data ¿ Semantic caching ¿ Data warehousing and semantic data mining ¿ Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics ¿ Semantics in data visualization ¿ Semantic services for mobile users ¿ Supporting tools ¿ Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues. Contributions submitted to the journal and dealing with semantics of data will be considered even if they are not from the topics in the list. While the physical appearance of the journal issues is like the books from the we- known Springer LNCS series, the mode of operation is that of a journal. Contributions can be freely submitted by authors and are reviewed by the Editorial Board. Contributions may also be invited, and nevertheless carefully reviewed, as in the case for issues that contain extended versions of best papers from major conferences addressing data semantics issues. Special issues, focusing on a specific topic, are coordinated by guest editors once the proposal for a special issue is accepted by the Editorial Board. Finally, it is also possible that a journal issue be devoted to a single text. The Editorial Board comprises an Editor-in-Chief (with overall responsibility), a Co-editor-in-Chief, and several members. The Editor-in-Chief has a four-year mandate. Members of the board have a three-year mandate. Mandates are renewable and new members may be elected anytime.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An ideal text for researchers and professionals alike, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2008 held in Pisa, Italy, in February 2008. The 13 revised full papers are presented together with nine revised short papers and three invited lectures. All of these were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from a total of 79 submissions. 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Action planning has always played a central role in Artificial Intelligence. Given a description of the current situation, a description of possible actions and a description of the goals to be achieved, the task is to identify a sequence of actions, i.e., a plan that transforms the current situation into one that satisfies the goal description.This monograph is a revised version of Malte Helmert's doctoral thesis, Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice, written under the supervision of Professor Bernhard Nebel as thesis advisor at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, in 2006. The book contains an exhaustive analysis of the computational complexity of the benchmark problems that have been used in the past decade, namely the standard benchmark domains of the International Planning Competitions (IPC). At the same time, it contributes to the practice of solving planning tasks by presenting a powerful new approach to heuristic planning. The author also provides an in-depth analysis of so-called routing and transportation problems.All in all, this book will contribute significantly to advancing the state of the art in automatic planning.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When Herb Keller suggested, more than two years ago, that we update our lectures held at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1977, and then have it published in the collection Springer Series in Computational Physics, we thought, at first, that it would be an easy task. Actually, we realized very quickly that it would be more complicated than what it seemed at first glance, for several reasons: 1. The first version of Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems was, in fact, part of a set of monographs on numerical mat- matics published, in a short span of time, by the Tata Institute of Fun- mental Research in its well-known series Lectures on Mathematics and Physics; as might be expected, the first version systematically used the material of the above monographs, this being particularly true for Lectures on the Finite Element Method by P. G. Ciarlet and Lectures on Optimization¿Theory and Algorithms by J. Cea. This second version had to be more self-contained. This necessity led to some minor additions in Chapters I-IV of the original version, and to the introduction of a chapter (namely, Chapter Y of this book) on relaxation methods, since these methods play an important role in various parts of this book.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 516 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume is a collection of papers presented during the first International ACM-L Workshop, which was held in Tucson, Arizona, during the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2006. Included in this state-of-the-art survey are 11 revised full papers, carefully reviewed and selected from the workshop presentations. These are rounded off with four invited lectures and an introductory overview, and represent the current thinking in conceptual modeling research.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This is the joint post-proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-VI) and the First International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems 2006 (ALPS2006). The post-proceedings also contain the papers presented at the Second HPF International Workshop: - periences and Progress (HiWEP2005) and the Workshop on Applications for PetaFLOPS Computing (APC2005), which are workshops of ISHPC-VI. ISHPC-VI, HiWEP2005 and APC2005 were held in Nara, Japan during September 7¿9, 2005. Fifty-eight papers from 11 countries were submitted to ISHPC-VI. After the reviews of the submitted papers, the ISHPC-VI Program Committee selected 15 regular (12-page) papers for oral presentation. In ad- tion, several other papers with favorable reviews were recommended for poster presentation, and 14 short (8-page) papers were also selected. Twenty-eight papers out of 29 ISHPC-VI papers are contained in the post-proceedings. Hi- WEP2005 and APC2005 received eight and ten submissions, with six and eight papers being accepted for oral presentation after reviews, respectively. All the HiWEP2005 and APC2005 papers are included in the post-proceedings. ALPS2006 was held in Cairns, Australia on July 1, 2006 in conjunction with the ACM 20th International Conference on Supercomputing. The number of submitted papers was 15, and eight papers were accepted for oral presentation. The post-proceedings contain six of the eight papers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 544 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Where Zope leads, Python follows. So it has been for a decade, and the trend doesn¿t show any signs of st- ping. Whatever the latest buzzword¿be it RESTful web programming,st- dardized interfaces, pluggable components, or practical restricted-execution environments, Zope has quietly led the way, delivering the goods years ahead of anyone else. Not just as technology concepts, but shipped and working in paying clients¿ o ces. And yet, strangely, Zope¿s role in the ongoing development of Python is little-known and little-appreciated among Python developers. It is f- quently the case that some new and much-touted development in the Python community¿especiallyin the web application and object security arenas¿is something that Zope has already been doing for many years. I¿m somewhat ba ed by this peculiar blind spot in the Python com- nity.Even when I tell people that Zope¿s already done something that they¿re working on, the response is usually a blank look, or no response at all. It¿s almost as if the innovations of Zope don¿t really exist until somebody else reinvents them. In fact, the pattern has led me coin this little saying: Those who do not study Zope, are condemned to reinvent it. It doesn¿t matter if you don¿t plan to actually use Zope. Frankly, I haven¿t used Zope in years. But the lessons I learned from Zope, I use constantly. Studying Zope¿Zope 3 in particular¿will make you a better programmer, without question.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 584 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2007, held in Honolulu, USA, in 2007. It was an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 11 full papers, together with 1 keynote lecture and 2 invited papers from the AAMAS main conference were carefully selected and substantially enhanced after the workshop.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2008, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in February 2008.The 19 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers feature original research in the areas of algorithms and data structures, combinatorial algorithms, graph drawings and graph algorithms, parallel and distributed algorithms, string algorithms, computational geometry, graphs in bioinformatics and computational biology. The papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics algorithms, computational geometry and graph drawing, graph algorithms, and algorithm engineering.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Researchers and professionals will find in this text the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2007, held in Medford, MA, USA, in 2007. It was mounted in conjunction with the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented together with one keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Cooperation is beneficial but may be hard to achieve in situations where the selfish interests of individuals conflict with their common goal, such as in sharing of goods, help, knowledge or information, in trade and pollution negotiations, and in exploitation of common resources. The standard models of such 'social dilemmas' assume that the individuals are obliged to participate in the dilemma. These models fail to capture an important element of human interaction: that people are in general free to select their interaction partners. In this book a social dilemma with partner selection is introduced and studied with the methods of formal game theory, experimental economics and computer simulations. It allows exploration of simultaneous dynamics of the network structure and cooperative behavior on this structure. The results of this study show that partner choice strongly facilitates cooperation and leads to networks where free-riders are likely to be excluded.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mit dem Erscheinen dieses Bandes können die Heidelberger Jahrbücher auf eine Geschichte von zweihundert Jahren zurückblicken. Kaum eine andere wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift hat dieses Alter erreicht. Zwar konnte sich das Rezensionsorgan, das Beiträge aller Fakultäten und Wissenschaftszweige v- öffentlichte, in den Wirrnissen der Zeit nicht durchgängig behaupten; aber es entwickelte immer wieder die Kraft, sich aus sich selbst zu erneuern. Begründet wurden die Heidelberger Jahrbücher, die im Herbst 1807 kon- piert und von Januar 1808 an unter dem Titel Heidelbergische Jahrbücher der Literatur publiziert wurden, mit dem Anspruch, der reformierten Universität ein kritisches Organ für den gesamten Bereich der Wissenschaften zu geben. Karl Friedrich, der badische Landesherr und ,Rector Magni centissimus¿ der Universität, hatte den Ehrgeiz, seiner Akademie ein Sprachrohr zu schenken, das mit den wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften der bedeutendsten Universitäten konkurrieren konnte. Die Jenaer und die Hallesche Literaturzeitung sowie die Göttingischen Gelehrten Anzeigen sollten nicht nur als Vorbild dienen, s- dern übertroffen werden. ¿Um dem Zweck [der Jahrbücher]vollkommenzu entsprechen¿, so hieß es in dem ¿Plan¿ für die Mitarbeiter, ¿muss jeder Rez- sent den Standpunkt vor Augen haben, auf welchem die Wissenschaft steht, in welche die vorliegende Schrift eingreift. Der Leser unserer Blätter soll die Fo- schritte der Wissenschaften leichter und bestimmter als aus irgendeinem - deren Blatte kennen lernen. ¿ Mit dieser Anweisung ist nicht nur die Forderung verknüpft, den bis dato führenden Zeitschriften Paroli zu bieten, sondern mit kritischen Stellungnahmen auch den fortgeschrittensten Stand der Wiss- schaften zu repräsentieren.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 640 pp. Deutsch.