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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Multimediale Client-Server-Anwendungen (insbesondere sog. Rich Internet Applikationen) entwickeln sich rasant. Die Gründe hierfür sind steigende Bandbreiten im Internet, ausgereifte Kompressionstechnologien sowie leistungsstarke Endgeräte. Die Anwendungen sind mittlerweile so attraktiv, dass diese mit dem klassischen Unterhaltungsmedium Fernsehen konkurrieren können. Die Übertragung multimedialer Daten macht inzwischen einen Großteil der Daten aus, welche über das Internet übertragen werden.Ziel dieses Buches ist es, eine Einführung in die Technologien zu geben, welche die Entwicklung attraktiver multimedialer Client-Server-Anwendungen wie z.B. YouTube, ZDFmediathek oder Google Maps ermöglichen.Vorausgesetzt werden elementare Kenntnisse der objektorientierten Programmierung. Von hier aus werden die notwendigen Protokolle und Standards, die wesentlichen Konzepte verteilter und multimedialer Systeme sowie die Anwendungsentwicklung und Programmierung mit Java, AJAX und Flash dargestellt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 368 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Based on the encoding process, arithmetic codes can be viewed as tree codes and current proposals for decoding arithmetic codes with forbidden symbols belong to sequential decoding algorithms and their variants. In this monograph, we propose a new way of looking at arithmetic codes with forbidden symbols. If a limit is imposed on the maximum value of a key parameter in the encoder, this modified arithmetic encoder can also be modeled as a finite state machine and the code generated can be treated as a variable-length trellis code. The number of states used can be reduced and techniques used for decoding convolutional codes, such as the list Viterbi decoding algorithm, can be applied directly on the trellis. The finite state machine interpretation can be easily migrated to Markov source case. We can encode Markov sources without considering the conditional probabilities, while using the list Viterbi decoding algorithm which utilizes the conditional probabilities. We can also use context-based arithmetic coding to exploit the conditional probabilities of the Markov source and apply a finite state machine interpretation to this problem. The finite state machine interpretation also allows us to more systematically understand arithmetic codes with forbidden symbols. It allows us to find the partial distance spectrum of arithmetic codes with forbidden symbols. We also propose arithmetic codes with memories which use high memory but low implementation precision arithmetic codes. The low implementation precision results in a state machine with less complexity. The introduced input memories allow us to switch the probability functions used for arithmetic coding. Combining these two methods give us a huge parameter space of the arithmetic codes with forbidden symbols. Hence we can choose codes with better distance properties while maintaining the encoding efficiency and decoding complexity. A construction and search method is proposed and simulation results show that we can achieve a similar performance as turbo codes when we apply this approach to rate 2/3 arithmetic codes. Table of Contents: Introduction / Arithmetic Codes / Arithmetic Codes with Forbidden Symbols / Distance Property and Code Construction / ConclusionSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The present collection of formulas has been composed for students of economics or management science at universities, colleges and trade schools. It contains basic knowledge in mathematics, financial mathematics and statistics in a compact and clearly arranged form. This volume is meant to be a reference work to be used by students of undergraduate courses together with a textbook, and by researchers in need of exact statements of mathematical results. People dealing with practical or applied problems will also find this collection to be an efficient and easy-to-use work of reference.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Today¿s children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its associated health problems. Heretofore, the strategy to slow obesity¿s galloping pace has been driven by what the philosopher Karl Popper calls ¿¿the bucket theory of the mind. ¿¿ When minds are seen as containers and public understanding is viewed as being a function of how many scientific facts are known, the focus is naturally on how many scientific facts public minds contain. But the strategy has not worked. Despite all the diet books, the wide availability of reduced-calorie and reduced-fat foods, and the broad publicity about the obesity problem, Americäs waistline continues to expand. It will take more than food pyramid images or a new nutritional guideline to stem obesity¿s escalation. Albert Einstein once observed that the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them, and that we would have to shift to a new level, a deeper level of thinking,tosolvethem. Thisbookarguesfor,andpresents,adifferent perspective for thinking about and addressing the obesity problem: a systems thinking perspective. While already commonplace in engineering and in business, the use of systems thinking in personal health is less widely adopted. Yet this is precisely the setting where complexities are most problematicandwherethestakesarehighest.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 488 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ob Betriebs- oder Volkswirtschaftslehre, in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften wird mehr Mathematik verwendet, als viele Studierende erwarten. Schon in den ersten Semestern werden mathematische Methoden genutzt, z. B. um Marktgleichgewichte zu bestimmen. Das Lehrbuch behandelt mathematisches Basiswissen und einige Erweiterungen wie etwa Eigenwerte und Eigenvektoren. Dabei erläutert jedes Kapitel ökonomische Fragestellungen, zu deren Lösung der jeweilige Stoff des Abschnitts Anwendung findet. Mit farbigen Abbildungen und kompakter Formelsammlung.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 328 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This lecture provides a tutorial introduction to the Nyström and locally-corrected Nyström methods when used for the numerical solutions of the common integral equations of two-dimensional electromagnetic fields. These equations exhibit kernel singularities that complicate their numerical solution. Classical and generalized Gaussian quadrature rules are reviewed. The traditional Nyström method is summarized, and applied to the magnetic field equation for illustration. To obtain high order accuracy in the numerical results, the locally-corrected Nyström method is developed and applied to both the electric field and magnetic field equations. In the presence of target edges, where current or charge density singularities occur, the method must be extended through the use of appropriate singular basis functions and special quadrature rules. This extension is also described. Table of Contents: Introduction / Classical Quadrature Rules / The Classical Nyström Method / The Locally-Corrected Nyström Method / Generalized Gaussian Quadrature / LCN Treatment of Edge SingularitiesSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of dialogue systems that support robust and efficient human-machine interaction using spoken language. Spoken dialogue technology allows various interactive applications to be built and used for practical purposes, and research focuses on issues that aim to increase the system's communicative competence by including aspects of error correction, cooperation, multimodality, and adaptation in context.This book gives a comprehensive view of state-of-the-art techniques that are used to build spoken dialogue systems. It provides an overview of the basic issues such as system architectures, various dialogue management methods, system evaluation, and also surveys advanced topics concerning extensions of the basic model to more conversational setups.The goal of the book is to provide an introduction to the methods, problems, and solutions that are used in dialogue system development and evaluation. It presents dialogue modelling and system development issues relevant in both academic and industrial environments and also discusses requirements and challenges for advanced interaction management and future research.Table of Contents: Preface / Introduction to Spoken Dialogue Systems / Dialogue Management / Error Handling / Case Studies: Advanced Approaches to Dialogue Management / Advanced Issues / Methodologies and Practices of Evaluation / Future Directions / References / Author BiographiesSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum (HNF) is the world¿s largest c- puter museum and is dedicated to portraying the past, present and future of information technology. In the ¿Year of Informatics 2006¿ the HNF was particularly keen to examine the history of this still quite young discipline. The short-lived nature of information technologies means that individuals, inventions, devices, institutes and companies¿age¿ more rapidly than in many other specialties. And in the nature of things the group of computer pioneers from the early days is growing smaller all the time. To supplement a planned new exhibit on ¿Software and Inform- ics¿ at the HNF, the idea arose of recording the history of informatics in an accompanying publication. Mysearchforsuitablesourcesandauthorsveryquickly cameupwith the right answer, the very rst name in Germany: Friedrich L. Bauer, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the TU in Munich, one of the - thers of informatics in Germany and for decades the indefatigable author of the¿Historical Notes¿ column of the journal Informatik Spektrum. Friedrich L. Bauer was already the author of two works on the history of informatics, published in different decades and in different books. Both of them are notable for their knowledgeable, extremely comp- hensive and yet compact style. My obvious course was to motivate this author to amalgamate, supplement and illustrate his previous work.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing is the first in-depth account of the Hoodia bioprospecting case and use of San traditional knowledge, placing it in the global context of indigenous peoples¿ rights, consent and benefit-sharing. It is unique as the first interdisciplinary analysis of consent and benefit sharing in which philosophers apply their minds to questions of justice in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), lawyers interrogate the use of intellectual property rights to protect traditional knowledge, environmental scientists analyse implications for national policies, anthropologists grapple with the commodification of knowledge and, uniquely, case experts from Asia, Australia and North America bring their collective expertise and experiences to bear on the San-Hoodia case.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 400 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Transformationsfähigkeit als Wettbewerbsvorteil ¿ besonders in Krisenzeiten Deutschland wird für absehbare Zeit von großen Veränderungen in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik betroffen sein. Instabile Finanzmärkte, steigende Anf- derungen an die Nachhaltigkeit unserer Handlungsweisen und Verschiebungen in der ¿Balance of Power¿ als Folge der fortschreitenden Globalisierung betreffen alle Lebensbereiche. Die Auswirkungen sind für die meisten von uns unmittelbar spürbar. Die Lage für viele Unternehmen ist so ernst wie selten und zwingt zu radikalen Maßn- men. Politik und Gesellschaft müssen Antworten finden auf bisher nicht gekannte Fragestellungen. Wandlungsfähigkeit ist in solchen Zeiten Voraussetzung, um sich den laufend ändernden Gegebenheiten anzupassen. Obwohl nichts vorhersehbar ist, ist konsequentes Handeln erforderlich. Zur ersten Orientierung lohnt ein Blick in die Vergangenheit. Erfahrungen aus der Rezession des Jahres 1990 in den USA zeigen, dass das Verhalten von Unt- nehmen in der wirtschaftlichen Talsohle einen signifikanten Einfluss auf ihre Leistung und Erfolg nach der Krise hat. Eine Studie von Accenture zeigt: Einige Unternehmen erzielten in den sechs Jahren nach der Rezession beträchtliche Wettbewerbsvorteile gegenüber ihren Konkurrenten. Diesen Vorsprung erarbeiteten sie sich in der Phase, in der die US-Wirtschaft insgesamt am Boden lag. Daraus lässt sich schlussfolgern: Um später wieder erfolgreich sein zu können, müssen Unternehmen gerade die wi- schaftlich schwächeren Zeiten nutzen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 312 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ursprung der HeilkunstSeit Beginn der Menschheit waren Gedanken Medizin gegen das Unfassbare. Mythen, Religion und Medizin wurzeln im Gleichen. Die Heilkunst erhob sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Methode aus dem Reich der Symbole und Metaphern und begann über den Beistand hinaus Wirksames zu bieten ¿ der Priester wurde zum Arzt, das Schicksal zur PanneDie Ausweitung der LebensspanneBeeindruckendes wurde erreicht: Seuchen wie die Pest, Tuberkulose, Pocken und Kinderlähmung wurden überwunden, Herzkrankheiten verloren ihren Schrecken, und Krebs wurde behandelbar ¿ wir können vom Alterstod ausgehen und uns behaglich im Diesseits einrichten.Das medikokratische ZeitalterAls Folge des Fortschritts nahm der Wunsch nach Gesundheit, Schönheit und Langlebigkeit über alle Maßen zu. Nach Linderung und Heilung streben wir nach Gestaltung von Körper und Glück. Immer feinere Störungen von Körper, Seeler und Geist werden frühzeitig geortet und behandelt. Entgegen unseren Erwartungen schwand die Gesundheit, das Alter wurde zur Krankheit, der Tod zum Unfall. Im medikokratischen Zeitalter hat die Heilkunst weltanschauliche Bedeutung erlangt; was einst Magier und Priester erledigten, wird heute von ihr erwartet.Sinn und Wert der MedizinHeute stellt sich nicht nur die Frage nach dem Sinn des Fortschritts, der uns der Natur enthob, auch die gerechte Verfügbarkeit einer immer vollkommeneren Gesundheitstechnik steht mit den steigenden Kosten im Raum. Wie gestaltet sich die Zukunft der Medizin Lässt sich die Wertfrage in einer Zeit biotechnischer Gestaltung und zerfallender Werte noch beantworten oder entgleitet uns der Fortschritt DerAutor gibt als Mensch, Forscher und Arzt Gedankenanstöße und beginnt einen Dialog zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften, der Orientierung bietet in einer Zeit überstürzendenWandels.Mit einem Geleitwort von Peter von MattSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 260 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Managed Futures ¿ trotz ihrer fast 50-jährigen Geschichte ist diese Anlageklasse Deutschlands Anlegern nahezu unbekannt ¿ sehr zum Leidwesen der Investoren, denn Managed Futures bieten attraktive Renditen bei akzeptablen Risiken, und können in allen Marktsituationen Gewinne erzielen. Hierfür nutzen sie die Möglichkeiten der systemischen und technischen Analyse.Managed Futures sind in ihrer Organisation eng mit Hedgefonds verwandt, aber unterscheiden sich positiv von diesen aufgrund ihrer Investitionsphilosophie, ihrer hohen Transparenz, ihrer strengen Regulierung und ihres Erfolges in widrigen Zeiten.In diesem Buch erfährt der interessierte Anleger anschaulich erklärt alles Notwendige, um eine informierte Entscheidung über die Investition in Managed Futures treffen zu können ¿ wie Renditen erwirtschaftet werden, welche Kosten entstehen, welche Risiken bestehen und wie sich Managed Futures im Vergleich zu anderen Investitionen entwickelt haben.'However powerful we are, we cannot impose our will on the world: we need to understand the way the world works. (The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, G. Soros, 2008)'Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Code-Reviews sind heute integrale Bestandteile von Softwareentwicklung, jedoch ist die Wirkung von Architekturreviews deutlich effektiver. Ziel des Buches ist es, die Methoden der Bewertung von Architekturen im Bereich von IT-Architekturen darzustellen. Dabei werden neben dem prozeduralen Ansatz auch organisatorische Hintergründe sowie technische Implikationen betrachtet. Ein kurzer Leitfaden für Architekturreviews macht die aufgezeigten Best Practices effektiv anwendbar. Die vorgestellten Methoden sind nicht nur auf die eigentliche Softwarearchitektur, sondern auf alle Bereiche der Enterprise-Architektur übertragbar. Ein Exkurs zeigt die Rolle des Architekturreviews im SOA-Umfeld auf.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Bedeutung der strategischen Planung nimmt in dem Maße zu, wie Unternehmen sich durch Fusionen, Zu- und Verkäufe verändern und das Geschäft komplexer wird. Großunternehmen und Konzerne, zunehmend aber auch Mittelständler, haben heute zwischen 30 und 150 selbstständige, eigenverantwortliche Geschäftseinheiten (in zahlreichen Regionen und Ländern), wobei nicht selten so heterogene Sparten wie Kernkraft und Mobilfunk unter dem Dach eines einzigen Konzerns versammelt sind. Üblicherweise entwickeln alle Geschäftseinheiten jeweils einmal jährlich ihre eigene Strategie. Zur Lösung dieser Problematik wurde eine Strategieplattform zur Erleichterung der Erarbeitung einer Gesamtstrategie entwickelt, die von namhaften Unternehmen wie REWE, DB, Siemens u.a. seit mehreren Jahren eingesetzt wird. Dieses Buch stellt das strategische Informationssystem praxisnah in mehreren Best-Practice-Beispielen des Einsatzes bei namhaften Firmen, anwenderorientiert und unter Einbeziehung der genannten Problemhintergründe vor.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 176 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Jahresreader als Forum für Analyse und Gestaltung der Informationsgesellschaft vereint in einem interdisziplinären und transdisziplinären Dialog herausragende Vertreter aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Die unterschiedlichen Suchwege werden transparent, die Fragen des Erhalts der Werte im dynamischen Wandel der Netzwelt werden an zentralen Begriffen wie Qualität oder Öffentlichkeit deutlich. Aus ökonomischer, regulatorischer, rechtlicher, sozialer, kultureller und medienpolitischer Perspektive gilt das besondere Augenmerk der Gestaltung verträglicher und nachhaltiger Infrastrukturen mit ihren Techniken, Diensten und Anwendungen, der erforderlichen Regulierung in einem demokratischen und marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnungssystem, sowie dem gesellschaftspolitischen Anspruch gerade des deutschen Innovationsstandorts im europäischen und weltweiten Umfeld, eine Schrittmacherfunktion zu erhalten.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 388 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Management von Risiken bei öffentlichen Infrastrukturinvestitionen , insbesondere bei öffentlich-privaten Partnerschaften (Public Private Partnerships/PPPs). Bestehende Verfahren werden auf den Prüfstand gestellt und konkrete praktische Beispiele für Verfahrensinnovationen gegeben. Dem Leser wird die Fähigkeit vermittelt, mittels eines ganzen Bündels alternativer Verfahren die Risikoidentifikation und -bewertung und das Risikomanagement im Investitionsprozess durchzuführen. Neu sind dabei die Betrachtung des gesamten Lebenszyklus der Investition, die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Verfahren der simulativen Risikoanalyse sowie die Auslotung der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Handels mit Projektrisiken am Kapitalmarkt. Die Autoren legen großen Wert auf die hohe Verständlichkeit und den Anwendungsnutzen in konkreten Projektsituationen. Das Buch richtet sich vornehmlich an Entscheidungsträger in Politik und Verwaltung sowie an Projektmanager im PPP-Geschäft.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 180 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Enterprise modeling (EM) has gained substantial popularity both in the academic community and among practitioners. A variety of EM methods, approaches, and tools are being developed and offered on the market. In practice they are used for various purposes such as business strategy development, process restructuring, as well as business and IT architecture alignment and governance. PoEM 2009 ¿ the second IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling took place in November in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference series is a dedicated forum where the use of EM in practice is addressed by bringing together researchers, users, and practitioners in order to develop a better understanding of the practice of EM, to contribute to improved EM practice as well as to share knowledge and experiences. PoEM 2009 attracted 41 submissions from many different parts of the world, out of which the Program Committee selected 17 high-quality papers. Among the authors of these papers we find both researchers and practitioners. The resulting program reflects the fact that the topic of EM encompasses human, organizational issues, as well as more technical aspects related to the development of information systems. The program was organized in six thematic sessions: Experiences in EM The process of modeling EM in information systems development Model quality and reuse EM for Services modeling New ventures in EM The program also featured two keynotes by experienced EM practitioners. Håvard D.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 10th international workshop ¿Engineering Societies in the Agents¿ World¿ (ESAW 2009), was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during November 18¿20, 2009. In the tradition of its predecessors, ESAW 2009 was committed to the idea of multi-agent systems (MAS) as highly interconnected societies of agents, paying particular attention to the social aspects, methodologies and software infrastructures that tackle the emergent complexities of MAS. The idea for the ESAW workshop series was born 10 years ago, in 1999, among the members of the working group on ¿Communication, Coordination and Collaboration¿ of AgentLink, the 1st European Network of Excellence on Agent-Based Computing, out of a critical discussion about the general mi- set of the agents community. Central to this discussion is the need for proper consideration of systematic aspects of MAS, acknowledging the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach, that takes into account the social, environmental and technological perspectives. These issues that are as actual today as they were in 1999, which is con rmed by the steady interest in the ESAW workshop series that previous editions took place in: ¿ Berlin, Germany, 2000 (LNAI 1972) ¿ Prague, Czech Republic, 2001 (LNAI 2203) ¿ Madrid, Spain, 2002 (LNAI 2577) ¿ London, UK, 2003 (LNAI 3071) ¿ Toulouse, France, 2004 (LNAI 3451) ¿ Kusadasi, Turkey, 2005 (LNAI 3963) ¿ Dublin, Ireland, 2006 (LNAI 4457) ¿ Athens, Greece, 2007 (LNAI 4995) ¿ Saint-Etienne, France, 2008 (LNAI 5485) This10thworkshopwasdevotedtothediscussionoftechnologies,methodologies and models for the engineering of complex applications based on MAS, and broughttogetherresearchersandcontributionsfrombothwithinandoutsidetheagents¿ eld¿fromsoftwareengineering,distributedsystems,socialsciences,andSpri nger Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ingo Weber develops new approaches for the rapid development and flexible adaption of business processes, which are often the main requirements in today¿s IT support for enterprises. Key issues covered by his work are the automatic composition of processes out of predefined components and the verification of specific process properties. His research aims at quickly creating executable process models, which orchestrate the usage of Web services. He investigates how process modelers can be supported by semantic technologies, e.g., by semantically enriched process models or annotated Web services, and puts special emphasis on expressiveness and scalability.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -We are proud to present the proceedings of NET-COOP 2009, the inter- tionalconferenceonnetworkcontrolandoptimization,co-organizedbyEURAN- DOM/Eindhoven University of Technology and CWI. This year¿s conference at EURANDOM, held November 23¿25, was the third in line after previous e- tions in Avignon (2007) and Paris (2008). NET-COOP 2009 was organized in conjunction with the Euro-NF workshop on ¿New Trends in Modeling, Quan- tative Methods, and Measurements. ¿ While organized within the framework of Euro-NF, NET-COOP enjoys great interest beyond Euro-NF, as is attested by the geographic origins of the papers in these proceedings. TheNET-COOPconferencefocusesonperformanceanalysis,controland- timization of communication networks, including wired networks, wireless n- works, peer to peer networks and delay tolerant networks. In each of these domains network operators and service providers face the challenging task to e ciently provide service at their customer¿s standards in a highly dynamic - vironment. Internet tra c continues to grow tremendously in terms of volume as well as diversity. This development is fueled by the increasing availability of high-bandwidth access (both wired and wireless) to end users, opening new ground for evolving and newly emerging wide-band applications. The increase in network complexity, as well as the plurality of parties involved in network operation, calls for e cient distributed control. New models and techniques for the control and optimization of networks are needed to address the challenge of allocating communication resources e ciently and fairly, while accounting for non-cooperative behavior.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2009, held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in November 2009. The 32 revised full papers and one invited paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital geometry: curves, straightness, convexity, geometric transformations, metrics, distance transforms and skeletons, segmentation, thinning, skeletonization, image representation, processing, analysis, reconstruction and recognition, digital tomography, image models based on geometry, combinatorics, arithmetics, algebra, mathematical morphology, topology and grammars, as well as digital topology and its applications to image modeling and analysis.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 456 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2009, held in Tokyo, Japan, in December 2009. The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on block ciphers, quantum and post-quantum, hash functions I, encryption schemes, multi party computation, cryptographic protocols, hash funtions II, models and frameworks I, cryptoanalysis: square and quadratic, models and framework II, hash functions III, lattice-based, and side channels.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 740 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -At the School of Information Technology, KMUTT, we believe that information te- nology is the most important driver of economy and social development. IT can - able better productivity, as well as helping us to save resources. IT is giving rise to a new round of industrial and business revolution. We now can have products and s- vices that once were believed to be beyond reach. Without IT, it is impossible for people to realize their full potential. Businesses worldwide are harnessing the power of broadband communication, which will have a profound and constructive impact on the economic, social devel- ment, education, and almost all aspects of our life. This new era of unified commu- cation presents us with new challenges. This is why we should work together more closely to enhance the exchange of knowledge related to effective application of broadband communication and IT. It is my sincere hope that all contributions to the Third International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT 2009) will increase our understanding of how we can have effectively apply this emerging technology for the benefit of all people all around the world. I hope IAIT 2009 will also lead to more research that can contr- ute to a better methodology for IT applications in the era of unified communication. I am very grateful to all our keynotes speakers for coming all the way to Thailand.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to others. Presentation of recent results obtained in different disciplines encourages this interchange for the advancement of FGIT as a whole. Of particular interest are hybrid solutions that c- bine ideas taken from multiple disciplines in order to achieve something more signi- cant than the sum of the individual parts. Through such hybrid philosophy, a new principle can be discovered, which has the propensity to propagate throughout mul- faceted disciplines. FGIT 2009 was the first mega-conference that attempted to follow the above idea of hybridization in FGIT in a form of multiple events related to particular disciplines of IT, conducted by separate scientific committees, but coordinated in order to expose the most important contributions. It included the following international conferences: Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (ASEA), Bio-Science and Bio-Technology (BSBT), Control and Automation (CA), Database Theory and Application (DTA), D- aster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC; published independently), Future G- eration Communication and Networking (FGCN) that was combined with Advanced Communication and Networking (ACN), Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC), M- timedia, Computer Graphics and Broadcasting (MulGraB), Security Technology (SecTech), Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIP), and u- and e-Service, Science and Technology (UNESST).Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -and management is presently undergoing enormous change: away L from managing single resources to managing ecosystems. From f- est to tundra, to desert, to steppe, the world¿s ecosystems vary vastly. To manage them effectively we need to understand their geographic d- tribution better. We need to do this at various levels of detail because ecosystems exist at multiple scales in a hierarchy, from regional to local. Maps are needed to display ecosystem distribution and hierarchy. Until now, information on de ning ecosystem boundaries has been scarce. This book is the rst to clarify and systematize the underlying principles for their mapping. It presents a synthesis of the knowledge in this eld and provides a guide to its use. I recommend this book to all who are involved in the study and m- agement of ecosystems. Chief, USDA Forest Service Jack Ward Thomas v Preface to the Second Edition his book outlines a system that organizes the Earth into a hierarchy T of increasingly ner-scale ecosystems that can serve as a consistent framework for ecological analysis and management. The system consists of a three-level hierarchy of nested ecosystem units and their associated mapping criteria. Delineation of units involves identifying the envir- mental factors controlling the spatial geography of ecosystems at va- ous levels and establishing boundaries where these factors change s- ni cantly. Macroscale units (ecoregions) are climatically controlled and delineated as Köppen¿Trewartha climate zones. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -timer expires before an acknowledgementhasbeen received, the transmitter retransmits packets that havebeen sent but are as yet notacknowledged. It may also be possibleforpacketsto be lost due to routers in networks discarding packets when congested.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2009, held in Mexico City, Mexico in December 2009. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections foundations on geo-semantics; formal representation of geospatial data; semantics-based information retrieval and recommmender systems; integration of sematics into spatial query processing; and geo-ontologies and applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to others. Presentation of recent results obtained in different disciplines encourages this interchange for the advancement of FGIT as a whole. Of particular interest are hybrid solutions that c- bine ideas taken from multiple disciplines in order to achieve something more signi- cant than the sum of the individual parts. Through such hybrid philosophy, a new principle can be discovered, which has the propensity to propagate throughout mul- faceted disciplines. FGIT 2009 was the first mega-conference that attempted to follow the above idea of hybridization in FGIT in a form of multiple events related to particular disciplines of IT, conducted by separate scientific committees, but coordinated in order to expose the most important contributions. It included the following international conferences: Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (ASEA), Bio-Science and Bio-Technology (BSBT), Control and Automation (CA), Database Theory and Application (DTA), D- aster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC; published independently), Future G- eration Communication and Networking (FGCN) that was combined with Advanced Communication and Networking (ACN), Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC), M- timedia, Computer Graphics and Broadcasting (MulGraB), Security Technology (SecTech), Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIP), and- and e-Service, Science and Technology (UNESST). 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -INSTICC organized the third edition of VISIGRAPP that took place in Funchal- Madeira, Portugal in January 2008 after successful previous editions. This book - cludes selected papers from VISIGRAPP 2008, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) and Computer Graphics Theory and - plications (GRAPP). The conference was intended to stimulate the exchange of ideas on the topics of c- puter vision and computer graphics. We received a high number of paper submissions: 374 in total for both conferences. We had contributions from more than 50 countries in all continents. This confirms the success and global dimension of these jointly organized conferences. After a rigorous double-blind evaluation method, 78 submissions were accepted as full papers. From those, 20 were selected for this book. To ensure the sci- tific quality of the contributions, these were selected from the ones that were evaluated with the highest scores by the VISIGRAPP Program Committee Members and then they were extended and revised by the authors. Special thanks go to all contributors and re- rees, without whom this book would not have been possible. VISIGRAPP 2008 also featured the comments of keynote speakers, in alphabetical order, Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey, UK), Geneviève Lucet (Computer S- vices for Research at the UNAM, Mexico), Peter Sturm (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France) and Sharathchandra Pankanti (IBM - Exploratory Computer Vision Group, USA), who are internationally recognized researchers. The presentations represented an - portant contribution to the overall quality of the conference. 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'A Systems Approach to Leadership' (SAL) is a methodology for creating sustained high performance in conditions of high complexity and uncertainty. SAL places the latest developments in Systems Science into an actionable method for use by everyday leaders. It enables leaders to develop themselves and their organisation (or part of it) quickly and effectively to achieve a competitive advantage in a complex and uncertain world. SAL consists of an integrated framework with an overall strategy of whole system development. Central to the framework is a practical method which can be used by any leader at any organisational level. Supporting the framework are a range of systems approaches and a set of foundational assumptions. SAL has been carefully researched and refined in extensive field tests where it typically delivers outcomes well above expectations.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.