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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 -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.

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 -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.

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 -'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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2009, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. Research in Alife covers the main areas of biological behaviour as a metaphor for computational models, computational models that reproduce/duplicate a biological behaviour, and computational models to solve biological problems. Thus, Alife features analyses and understanding of life and nature and helps modeling biological systems or solving biological problems. The papers are organized in topical sections on alife art, game theory, evolution, complex systems, biological systems, social modelling, swarm intelligence, and heuristics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), is the most common form of leukemia in adults. AML is a deadly form of malignancy, the prognosis for which has not improved in the last two decades. More importantly, it is a malignancy that is seen in older adults, therefore the number of cases is likely to rise as the population ages. Over the past 15 years, genetic mechanisms underlying AML have begun to unfold. Additional research in this area has helped identify key components and characteristics. Consequently, targeted therapy of AML is receiving much attention. It is the hope of researchers that as with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and the drug, Gleevec, a targeted therapy for AML will be discovered.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This edition marks the tenth Middleware conference. The rst conference was held in the Lake District of England in 1998, and its genesis re ected a growing realization that middleware systems were a unique breed of distributed system requiring their own rigorous research and evaluation. Distributed systems had been around for decades, and the Middleware conference itself resulted from the combination of three previous conferences. But the attempt to build common platforms for many di erent applications requireda unique combinationofhi- level abstraction and low-level optimization, and presented challenges di erent from building a monolithic distributed system. Since that rst conference, the notion of what constitutes ¿middleware¿ has changed somewhat, and the focus of research papers has changed with it. The rst edition focused heavily on distributed objects as a metaphor for building systems, including six papers with ¿CORBA¿ or ¿ORB¿ in the title. In f- lowing years, the conference broadened to cover publish/subscribe messaging, peer-to-peer systems, distributed databases, Web services, and automated m- agement, among other topics. Innovative techniques and architectures surfaced in workshops, and expanded to become themes of the main conference, while changes in the industry and advances in other research areas helped to shape research agendas. This tenth edition includes papers on next-generation pl- forms (such as stream systems, pervasive systems and cloud systems), managing enterprise data centers, and platforms for building other platforms, among o- ers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 456 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two joint events - the International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2009 and the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, Mensura 2009, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2009. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. This book considers issues such as the applicability of measures and metrics to software, the efficiency of measurement programs in industry and the theoretical foundations of software engineering.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2007, held in Madrid, Spain, in May 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. There were one invited keynote speech and 3 invited talks to the conference. The topics covered are authentication, group cryptography, private and reliable message transmission, secret sharing, and applications of information theory.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the full and short papers of SAMT 2009, the 4th Int- national Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies 2009 held in Graz, Austria. SAMT brings together researchers dealing with a broad range of research topics related to semantic multimedia and a great diversity of application - eas. The current research shows that adding and using semantics of multimedia content is broadening its scope from search and retrieval to the complete media life cycle, from content creation to distribution and consumption, thus lever- ing new possibilities in creating, sharing and reusing multimedia content. While some of the contributions present improvements in automatic analysis and - notation methods, there is increasingly more work dealing with visualization, user interaction and collaboration. We can also observe ongoing standardization activities related to semantic multimedia in both W3C and MPEG, forming a solid basis for a wide adoption. Theconferencereceived41submissionsthisyear,ofwhichtheProgramC- mittee selected 13 full papers for oral presentation and 8 short papers for poster presentation. In addition to the scienti c papers, the conference program - cluded two invited talks by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Stefan Rug ¿ er and a demo session showing results from three European projects. The day before the main conference o ered an industry day with presen- tions and demos that showed the growing importance of semantic technologies in real-world applications as well as the research challenges coming from them.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 212 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Based on eight extensive lectures selected from those given at the renowned Chris Engelbrecht Summer School in Theoretical Physics in South Africa, this text on the theoretical foundations of quantum information processing and communication covers an array of topics, including quantum probabilities, open systems, and non-Markovian dynamics and decoherence. It also addresses quantum information and relativity as well as testing quantum mechanics in high energy physics. Because these self-contained lectures discuss topics not typically covered in advanced undergraduate courses, they are ideal for post-graduate students entering this field of research. Some of the lectures are written at a more introductory level while others are presented as tutorials that survey recent developments and results in various subfields.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As software systems become increasingly ubiquitous, issues of dependability become ever more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability and security are addressed at the architectural level. This book has originated from an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures, dependability and security. This state-of-the-art survey contains expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the carefully selected contributions to two workshops: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2008), organized at the 2008 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, in June 2008, and the Third International Workshop on Views On Designing Complex Architectures (VODCA 2008) held in Bertinoro, Italy, in August 2008. It also contains invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The 13 papers are organized in topical sections on dependable service-oriented architectures, fault-tolerance and system evaluation, and architecting security.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 348 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 16th Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2009) was held at the University of Calgary,in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, during August 13-14, 2009. There were 74 participants from 19 countries. Previous workshops in this series were held at Queens University in Kingston (1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2005), Carleton University in Ottawa (1995, 1997, and 2003), University of - terloo (2000 and 2004), Fields Institute in Toronto (2001), Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. Johns (2002), Concordia University in Montreal (2006), University of Ottawa (2007), and Mount Allison University in Sackville (2008). The themes for SAC 2009 were: 1. Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, incl- ing block and stream ciphers, hash functions, and MAC algorithms 2. E cient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms 3. Mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology 4. Privacy enhancing cryptographic systems This included the traditional themes (the rst three) together with a special theme for 2009 workshop (fourth theme).Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 484 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This handbook is intended for doctors working in this eld. It belongs to the pocket of a student, house of cer, resident, medical of cer or generalist consultant, who will rst see the patient. The clinician needs to suspect at least one disease process as a starting point, because the book is ordered alphabetically according to diagnoses. From this point there are both surgical and imaging differential diagnoses listed. These can also be looked at within the book. For the clinician there is a dedicated page to assist with clinical symptoms and signs, alternative diagnoses and urgency of the radiological investigation, based on important information that is needed from imaging. With regard to imaging, there is a list of primary, follow-on and alternative investi- tions appropriate for the suspected diagnosis. There are lists of imaging features with s- porting images, tips and radiological differential diagnoses. The alphabetic organization makes for a jump to the next suspected diagnosis with ease to nd something more suitable for the current patient¿s needs.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Intelligent Control with LabVIEW¿ is a fresh and pragmatic approach to the understanding of a subject often clouded by too much mathematical theory. It exploits the full suite of tools provided by LabVIEW¿, showing the student how to design, develop, analyze, and visualize intelligent control algorithms quickly and simply. Block diagrams are used to follow the progress of an algorithm through the design process and allow seamless integration with hardware systems for rapid deployment in laboratory experiments.This text delivers a thorough grounding in the main tools of intelligent control: fuzzy logic systems; artificial neural networks; neuro-fuzzy systems; evolutionary methods; and predictive methods.Learning and teaching are facilitated by: extensive use of worked examples; end of chapter problems with separate solutions; and provision of intelligent control tools for LabVIEW¿.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2009, held in Gramado, Brazil, in August 2009 -- co-located with SAST 2009, the Brazilian Workshop on Systematic and Automated Software Testing. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are devoted to the dissemination of the development and use of formal methods for the design and verification of computational systems. The symposium provided an opportunity for researchers with a broad range of interests in formal methods for developing computing systems and software to discuss recent developments in this field.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -First established in August 1988, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has shaped the landscape of modern transaction processing and database benchmarks over two decades. Now, the world is in the midst of an extraordinary information explosion led by rapid growth in the use of the Internet and connected devices. Both user-generated data and enterprise data levels continue to grow ex- nentially. With substantial technological breakthroughs, Moore's law will continue for at least a decade, and the data storage capacities and data transfer speeds will continue to increase exponentially. These have challenged industry experts and researchers to develop innovative techniques to evaluate and benchmark both hardware and software technologies. As a result, the TPC held its First Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2009) on August 24 in Lyon, France in conjunction with the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009). TPCTC 2009 provided industry experts and researchers with a forum to present and debate novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement and characteri- tion for 2010 and beyond. This book contains the proceedings of this conference, including 16 papers and keynote papers from Michael Stonebraker and Karl Huppler. 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Thisbook presentsrecentadvancesinthedomainofthe3Dphysiologicalhuman that werepresentedlastDecember at the Workshopon 3D PhysiologicalHuman 2009 that was held in Zermatt, Switzerland. This workshop was funded by the ¿Third Cycle in Computer Science of Western Switzerland¿ named CUSO, the European project Focus K3D (ICT-2007-214993), the European Marie Curie project 3D Anatomical Human (MRTN-CT-2006-035763) and the European Network of Excellence InterMedia (NoE-IST-2006-038419). 3D physiological human research is a very active eld supported by several scienti c projects. Many of them are funded by the European Union, such as the 3D Anatomical Human project and those present in the seventh framework programme ¿Virtual Physiological Human¿(FP7-ICT-2007-2). One of the main objectivesof the researchon 3D physiologicalhuman is to create patient-speci c computer models for personalized healthcare.These models are used to simulate and hence better understand the human physiology and pathology.There is also a synergy in this research in the way medical information is distributed: to have any model available anytime, anywhere on any mobile equipment. A collection of scienti c articles was proposed to highlight the necessity to exchange and disseminate novel ideas and techniques from a wide range of d- ciplines (computer graphics, biomechanics, knowledge representation, human¿ machine interface, mobile computing, etc.) associated with medical imaging, medical simulation, computer-assisted surgery and 3D semantics. The emphasis wason technicalnoveltyalongwith currentandfuture applications for modeling and simulating the anatomical structures and functions of the human body.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Optimal Linear Controller Design for Periodic Inputs proposes a general design methodology for linear controllers facing periodic inputs which applies to all feedforward control, estimated disturbance feedback control, repetitive control and feedback control. The design methodology proposed is able to reproduce and outperform the major current design approaches, where this superior performance stems from the following properties: uncertainty on the input period is explicitly accounted for, periodic performance being traded-off against conflicting design objectives and controller design being translated into a convex optimization problem, guaranteeing the efficient computation of its global optimum.The potential of the design methodology is illustrated by both numerical and experimental results.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Englisch.