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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 318 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Operation Primer provides excellent photographic step-by-step guidance to the surgical procedure. It has been produced to describe the operation in the simplest manner possible without over-simplifying. The core of the Operation Primer is the section on Nodal Points, where the surgical key steps are described in detail. This surgical guide book provides essential reference material to surgeons wishing to update their knowledge in this specific area. 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Internet als Eckpfeiler der modernen Informationsgesellschaft hat sowohl neue, digitale Märkte geschaffen als auch bestehende Märkte grundlegend verändert. Der Autor stellt die besonderen Merkmale der Internet-Ökonomie systematisch dar. Dazu wendet er klassische ökonomische Modelle auf das Internet an, stellt aber auch neue Modelle vor. Die Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Internet-Ökonomie werden anhand vieler Beispiele aufgedeckt, daraus der Erfolg etablierter Anbieter erklärt und Handlungsempfehlungen für Akteure der Internet-Ökonomie abgeleitet. 200 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Autoren stellen verschiedene Teilgebiete der Mathematik aus algorithmischer Perspektive vor und diskutieren dabei auch Implementierungs- und Laufzeitaspekte. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung stehen Analyse- und Lösungsstrategien für konkrete Probleme. Angesichts einer verkürzten Grundausbildung in Mathematik bei naturwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen wollen die Autoren einerseits möglichst viele Teilaspekte der Mathematik vorstellen und andererseits zu einer vertiefenden Beschäftigung mit dem einen oder anderen Aspekt anregen. 320 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book grew out of a series of lectures given at the Mathematics Department of Kyushu University in the Fall 2006, within the support of the 21st Century COE Program (2003-2007) 'Development of Dynamical Mathematics with High Fu- tionality' (Program Leader: prof. Mitsuhiro Nakao). It was initially published as the Kyushu University COE Lecture Note n- ber 8 (COE Lecture Note, 8. Kyushu University, The 21st Century COE Program 'DMHF', Fukuoka, 2008. vi+234 pp.), and in the present form is an extended v- sion of it (in particular, I have added a section dedicated to the Maslov index). The book is intended as a rapid (though not so straightforward) pseudodiff- ential introduction to the spectral theory of certain systems, mainly of the form a +a where the entries of a are homogeneous polynomials of degree 2 in the 2 0 2 n n (x, )-variables, (x, ) R×R,and a is a constant matrix, the so-called non- 0 commutative harmonic oscillators, with particular emphasis on a class of systems introduced by M. Wakayama and myself about ten years ago. The class of n- commutative harmonic oscillators is very rich, and many problems are still open, and worth of being pursued. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der besonders für Studenten geeignet ist, die Freude an präziser Modellierung haben. Neben den Grundlagen der Normalform- und Extensivformspiele werden Themen aus der Verhandlungstheorie, der Theorie der Wiederholten Spiele und der Evolutionären Spieltheorie behandelt. NEU: entsprechend der wachsenden Bedeutung von Auktionenein Kapitel zur Auktionstheorie; Aufnahme weiterer Konzepte der nicht-kooperativen Spieltheorie wie z. B. 'Mechanism Design' und 'Stabiles Gleichgewicht'. 500 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Vertrieb gestaltet die Schnittstelle zwischen Kunden und Unternehmen. Er beeinflusst vor allem durch die Akquisition von Aufträgen ganz wesentlich den Unternehmenserfolg. Um den Kundenanforderungen gerecht werden zu können, ist der Vertrieb auf informationstechnologische Unterstützung angewiesen. Die Gestaltung von Vertriebsinformationssystemen wird derzeit durch eine Vielzahl von Trends herausgefordert. Zu den wesentlichen Trends zählen die Standardisierung der IT-Infrastruktur und deren Umsetzung im Internet, die Individualisierung des Leistungsangebots, um individuelle Bedürfnisse der Kunden befriedigen zu können, sowie die Hybridisierung in Form von hybriden Leistungsbündel aus Sach- und Dienstleistungen. Praktikern und Wissenschaftlern werden neue Ansätze zur Gestaltung von Vertriebsinformationssystemen aus diesen Perspektiven aufgezeigt. 268 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the 4th Wo- shop on Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP 2010), held during April 12 14, 2010 in Passau, Germany. In response to the call for papers, 69 papers were submitted to the wo- shop. These papers were evaluated on the basis of their signi cance, novelty, and technicalquality. Eachpaper was reviewedby four members of the Program Committee. Reviewing was double-blind meaning that the Program Committee was not able to see the names and a liations of the authors, and the authors were not told which committee members reviewed which papers. The Program Committee meeting was held electronically, holding intensive discussions over a periodoftwo weeks.Of the papers submitted, 20 full papersand 10shortpapers were selected for presentation at the workshop. This workshop was sponsored by Vodaphone, who also provided a best - per award. We would like to thank this organization for their support, which helped make this workshop possible. Their continued support helps to reduce registration fees and make WISTP a continuing success. WISTP 2010 was also organized in cooperation with the International - sociation for Cryptologic Research (IACR), the IFIP WG 11.2 Pervasive S- tems Security, and ACM SIGSAC. Their support has signi cantly contributed to raising the pro le of WISTP, which is re ected in the number of high-quality submissions that we received. 400 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Second International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA 2010) was an initiative of the COST Action IC0703 'Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Theory, Techniques, Tools and Applications for the Future Networks' . The COST program is an intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in science and technology, promoting the coordination of nationally funded research on a European level. Each COST Action aims at reducing the fragmentation in - search and opening the European research area to cooperation worldwide. Traffic monitoring and analysis (TMA) is nowadays an important research topic within the field of computer networks. It involves many research groups worldwide that are collectively advancing our understanding of the Internet. The importance of TMA research is motivated by the fact that modern packet n- works are highly complex and ever-evolving objects. Understanding, developing and managing such environments is difficult and expensive in practice. Traffic monitoring is a key methodology for understanding telecommunication technology and improving its operation, and the recent advances in this field suggest that evolved TMA-based techniques can play a key role in the operation of real networks. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For many years Esko Ukkonen has played a major role in the advancement of computer science in Finland. He was the key person in the development of the school of algorithmic research and has contributed considerably to post-graduate education in his country.Esko Ukkonen has over the years worked within many areas of computer science, including numerical methods, complexity theory, theoretical aspects of compiler construction, and logic programming. However, the main focus of his research has been on algorithms and their applications.This Festschrift volume, published to honor Esko Ukkonen on his 60th birthday, includes 18 refereed contributions by his former PhD students and colleagues, with whom he has cooperated closely during the course of his career.The Festschrift was presented to Esko during a festive symposium organized at the University of Helsinki to celebrate his birthday. The essays primarily present research on computational pattern matching and string algorithms, two areas that have benefited significantly from the work of Esko Ukonen. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is indeed a great pleasure to welcome you to the proceedings of the Inter- tional Symposium Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images. Fundamentals,MethodsandApplications (CompIMAGE2010)heldinBu alo, NY, May 5-7, 2010. This was the second issue of CompIMAGE symposia, the rst one being held in Coimbra, Portugal. The purpose of CompIMAGE 2010 was to provide a common forum for - searchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners around the world to present their latest research ndings, ideas, developments, and applications in the area of computational modeling of objects represented in images. In particular, the symposium aimed to attract scientists who use various approaches such as nite element method, optimization methods, modal analysis, stochastic me- ods, principal components analysis, independent components analysis, distri- tion models, geometrical modeling, digital geometry, grammars,fuzzy logic, and others to solve problems that appear in a wide range of areas as diverse as medicine, robotics, defense, security, astronomy,materialscience, and manuf- turing. CompIMAGE 2010 was highly international. Its Program Committee m- bersarerenownedexpertscomingfrom25di erentcountries.Submissionstothe symposium came from 22 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America. Overall, representatives of 32 countries contributed to the symposium in di erent capacities. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofthepaperspresentedatthe18thInternational Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2009), held on June 28, 2009 in Bras lia, Brazil. Previous WFLP meetings were held in Siena (2008), Paris (2007), Madrid (2006), Tallinn (2005), Aachen (2004), Valencia (2003),Grado(2002),Kiel(2001),Benicassim(2000),Grenoble(1999), Bad Honnef (1998), Schwarzenberg (1997, 1995, and 1994), Marburg (1996), Rattenberg (1993), and Karlsruhe (1992). The aim of the WFLP series is to bring together researchers interested in functional programming, (constraint) logic programming, as well as the integ- tion of the two paradigms. It promotes the cross-fertilizing exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and students from the di erent commu- ties interested in the foundations, applications, and combinations of high-level, declarative programming languages and related areas. WFLP 2009 solicited papers in all areas of functional and (constraint) logic programming, including but not limited to: Foundations:formalsemantics,rewritingandnarrowing,non-monotonicr- soning, dynamics, and type theory. Language Design: modules and type systems, multi-paradigm languages, concurrency and distribution, and objects. Implementation: abstract machines, parallelism, compile-time and run-time optimizations, and interfacing with external languages. Transformation and Analysis: abstract interpretation, specialization, partial evaluation, program transformation, and meta-programming. Software Engineering: design patterns, speci cation, veri cation and vali- tion, debugging, and test generation. IntegrationofParadigms:integrationofdeclarativeprogrammingwithother paradigms such as imperative, object-oriented, concurrent, and real-time programming. Applications: declarative programming in education and industry, doma- speci c languages, visual/graphical user interfaces, embedded systems, WWW applications, knowledge representation and machine learning, - ductive databases, advanced programming environments and tools. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Africacrypt 2010, the Third International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, took place May 3 6, 2010 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The General Chairs, Riaal Domingues from the South African Communications and Security Agency and Christine Swart from the University of Cape Town, were always a pleasure to work with and did an outstanding job with the local arrangements. We are deeplythankfulthat theyagreedto hostAfricacrypt2010with onlyfour months notice after unanticipated events forced a change of location. The Africacrypt 2010 submission deadline was split into two. Authors s- mitting paperswererequiredto registertitles andabstractsby the rstdeadline, January 5. A total of 121 submissions had been received by this deadline, - though some were withdrawn before review. Authors were allowed to continue working on their papers until the second deadline, January 10. Submissions were evaluated in three phases over a period of nearly two months. The selection phase started on January 5: Program Committee m- bers began evaluating abstracts and volunteering to handle various papers. We assigned a team of people to each paper. The review phase started on January 11: Program Committee members were given access to the full papers and - gan in-depth reviews of 82 submissions. Most of the reviews were completed by February7,thebeginningofthediscussionphase.ProgramCommitteemembers were given access to other reviews and built consensus in their evaluations of the submissions. In the end the discussions included 285 full reports and 203 - ditional comments. The submissions, reviews, and subsequent discussions were handled smoothly by iChair. 456 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The International Gesture Workshops (GW) are interdisciplinary events for those researching gesture-based communication across the disciplines. The focus of these events is a shared interest in understanding gestures and sign language in their many facets, and using them for advancing human-machine interaction. Since 1996, International Gesture Workshops have been held roughly every second year, with fully reviewed proceedings published by Springer. The International Gesture Workshop GW 2009 was hosted by Bielefeld University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF - Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung) during February 25-27, 2009. Like its predecessors, GW 2009 aimed to provide a platform for participants to share, discuss, and criticize recent and novel research with a multidisciplinary audience. More than 70 computer scientists, linguistics, psychologists, neuroscientists as well as dance and music scientists from 16 countries met to present and exchange their newest results under the umbrella theme 'Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. ' Consistent with the steady growth of research activity in this area, a large number of high-quality submissions were received, which made GW 2009 an exciting and important event for anyone interested in gesture-related technological research relevant to human-computer interaction. In line with the practice of previous gesture workshops, presenters were invited to submit theirs papers for publication in a subsequent peer-reviewed publication of high quality. The present book is the outcome of this effort. Representing the research work from eight countries, it contains a selection of 28 thoroughly reviewed articles. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at NLDB 2009, the 14th Inter- tional Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems held June 24-26, 2009, at the University of the Saarland and the German - search Center for Arti cial Intelligence in Saarbruc ken, Germany. In addition to reviewed submissions, the program also included contributions to the doctoral symposiumheldduring NLDB2009aswellastwoinvitedtalks.Thesetalksc- ered some of the currently hot topics in the use of natural languagefor accessing information systems. Wereceived51submissionsasregularpapersforthemainconference,2extra submissions as posters, and 3 short papers for the doctoral symposium. Each paper for the main conference was assigned four reviewers, taking into account preferences expressed by the ProgramCommittee members as much as possible. Within the review deadline, we received at least three reviews for almost all submissions. After the review deadline, the Conference Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee Chair acted as meta-reviewers. This task included studying the reviews and the papers, speci cally those whose assessment made them borderline cases, and discussing con icting opinions and their impact on theassessmentofindividualpapers.Finally,themeta-reviewerswroteadditiona l reviews for the few papers which received less than three reviews, as well as for papers which received reviews with considerably con icting assessments. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Networking 2010. Papers were solicited in three broad topic areas: applications and services, network technologies, and internet design. All papers were considered on their merits by a uni ed Technical ProgramCommittee (TPC); there was no attempt to enforce a quota among topic areas. We believe the resulting program is an excellentrepresentationofthebreadthofrecentadvancesinnetworkingresearch. This year, the conference received 101 full paper submissions from 23 co- trieson vecontinents,re ectingastrongdiversityinthenetworkingcommunity. Similarly, the 92 members of the TPC are from 21 countries and include a mix of academic, industry, and governmental a liations. The TPC members, aided by some 50 external reviewers, provided a total of 470 reviews and follow-up discussions totaling more than 200 messages. The nal selections were made at a TPC meeting hosted by Columbia University in New York City, with both in-person and remote participation. In total, authors of accepted papers have academic and industry a liations in 15 countries. We nally selected 24papers for presentationduring the conference technical sessions. A small number of papers were assigned a shepherd from the TPC to assist in paper revision. These statistics represent an acceptance rate of just under 24%, comparable to that of previous years. The TPC also identi ed several papers that re ect particularly promising early results; these papers were selected for presentation as work-in-progress papers and are identi ed as such in the proceedings. 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The present book includes a set of selected papers from the First International Conf- ence on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2009), held in Porto, Portugal, during January 19-21, 2009. The conference was organized in two simultaneous tracks: 'Artificial Intelligence and Agents.' The book is based on the same structure. ICAART 2009 received 161 paper submissions, from more than 37 different co- tries in all continents. After a blind review process, only 26 where accepted as full papers, of which 21 were selected for inclusion in this book, based on the classifi- tions provided by the Program Committee. The selected papers reflect the interdis- plinary nature of the conference. The diversity of topics is an important feature of this conference, enabling an overall perception of several important scientific and tech- logical trends. These high-quality standards will be maintained and reinforced at ICAART 2010, to be held in Valencia, Spain, and in future editions of this conf- ence. Furthermore, ICAART 2009 included five plenary keynote lectures given by Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster), Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, Free University of Brussels), Timo Honkela (Helsinki University of Technology), Edward H. Shortliffe (Arizona State University) and Paulo Urbano (University of Lisbon). We would like to express our appreciation to all of them and in particular to those who took the time to contribute with a paper to this book. 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 2010 edition of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference was the 11th of a series of successful events. Since 2000, the Passive and Active M- surement (PAM) conference has provided a forum for presenting and discussing innovative and early work in the area of Internet measurements. PAM has a tradition of being a workshop-like conference with lively discussion and active participation from all attendees. This event focuses on research and practical applications of network measurement and analysis techniques. This year's c- ference was held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. PAM 2010 attracted 79 submissions. Each paper was carefully reviewed by at leastthreemembersoftheTechnicalProgramCommittee.Thereviewingprocess ledtotheacceptanceof23papers.Thepaperswerearrangedinninesessionsc- ering the following areas: routing, transport protocols, mobile devices, topology, measurement infrastructure, characterizing network usage, analysis techniques, tra c analysis, and the Web. We are very grateful to Endace Ltd. (New Zealand), Cisco Systems Inc. (USA), armasuisse (Switzerland) and the COST Action TMA whose sponsoring allowedustokeepregistrationcostslowandto o erseveraltravelgrantsto PhD students. We are also grateful to ETH Zurich for sponsoring PAM as a host. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the demand for biometrics and data security technologies in applications ranging from law enforcement and immigration control to online security. The benefits of biometrics technologies are apparent as they become important technologies for information security of governments, business enterprises, and individuals. At the same time, however, the use of biometrics has raised concerns as to issues of ethics, privacy, and the policy implications of its wi- spread use. The large-scale deployment of biometrics technologies in e-governance, e-security, and e-commerce has required that we launch an international dialogue on these issues, a dialogue that must involve key stakeholders and that must consider the legal, poli- cal, philosophical and cultural aspects of the deployment of biometrics technologies. The Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and Inter- tional Data Sharing was highly successful in facilitating such interaction among - searchers, policymakers, consumers, and privacy groups. This conference was supported and funded as part of the RISE project in its ongoing effort to develop wide consensus and policy recommendations on ethical, medical, legal, social, cultural, and political concerns in the usage of biometrics and data security technologies. The - tential concerns over the deployment of biometrics systems can be jointly addressed by developing smart biometrics technologies and by developing policies for the - ployment of biometrics technologies that clearly demarcate conflicts of interest - tween stakeholders. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Functional and LogicProgramming(FLOPS 2010),held in Sendai, Japan, April 19 21, 2010 at Aoba Memorial Hall, Tohoku University. FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning declarative progr- ming, including functional programming and logic programming, and aims to promotecross-fertilizationand integrationbetween the two paradigms.The p- vious FLOPS meetings were held in Fuji Susono (1995), Shonan Village (1996), Kyoto (1998), Tsukuba (1999), Tokyo (2001), Aizu (2002), Nara (2004), Fuji Susono (2006), and Ise (2008). Since its 1999 edition, FLOPS proceedings have been published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as volumes 1722, 2024, 2441, 2998, 3945, and 4989, respectively. In response to the call for papers, 49 papers were submitted. Each paper was reviewed by at least three Program Committee members, with the help of expert external reviewers. The Program Committee meeting was conducted electronically, for a period of two weeks, in December 2009. After careful and thoroughdiscussion,theProgramCommitteeselected21papersforpresentation at the conference. In addition to the 21 contributed papers, the symposium included talks by three invited speakers: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada), Kostis Sagonas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), and Naoyuki Tamura (Kobe University, Japan). 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The portable device and mobile phone market has witnessed rapid growth in the last few years with the emergence of several revolutionary products such as mobile TV, converging iPhone and digital cameras that combine music, phone and video functionalities into one device. The proliferation of this market has further bene ted from the competition in software and applications for smart phones such as Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPhone App- Store, stimulating tens of thousands of mobile applications that are made ava- able by individual and enterprise developers. Whereas the mobile device has become ubiquitous in people's daily life not only as a cellular phone but also as a media player, a mobile computing device, and a personal assistant, it is p- ticularly important to address challenges timely in applying advanced pattern recognition, signal, information and multimedia processing techniques, and new emerging networking technologies to such mobile systems. The primary objective of this book is to foster interdisciplinary discussions and research in mobile multimedia processing techniques, applications and s- tems, as well as to provide stimulus to researchers on pushing the frontier of emerging new technologies and applications. One attempt on such discussions was the organization of the First Int- national Workshop of Mobile Multimedia Processing (WMMP 2008), held in Tampa, Florida, USA, on December 7, 2008. About 30 papers were submitted from10countriesacrosstheUSA,Asia andEurope. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers that were p- sented during the 16th edition of the IFIP/IEEE WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, a global System-on-a-Chip Design & CAD conference. The 16th conference was held at the Grand Hotel of Rhodes Island, Greece (October 13-15, 2008). Previous conferences have taken place in Edinburgh, Trondheim, V- couver, Munich, Grenoble, Tokyo, Gramado, Lisbon, Montpellier, Darmstadt, Perth, Nice and Atlanta. VLSI-SoC 2008 was the 16th in a series of international conferences sponsored by IFIP TC 10 Working Group 10.5 and IEEE CEDA that explores the state of the art and the new developments in the field of VLSI systems and their designs. The purpose of the conference was to provide a forum to exchange ideas and to present industrial and research results in the fields of VLSI/ULSI systems, embedded systems and - croelectronic design and test. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Product management is challenging, complex, and often misunderstood. Across the high-tech industry, drastically different duties and responsibilities are attributed to product management professionals. Diverse interpretations regarding the role ofproduct management have only further confused practitioners and stifled the ability to develop clear and consistent product management methodologies. 'The Product Manager's Toolkit' book provides a consistent and holistic managerial approach to product management and presents a practical and comprehensive methodology (tasks, processes, deliverables, and roles) that covers nearly all aspects of product management. 378 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Search computing, which has evolved from service computing, focuses on building the answers to complex search queries by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, using ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for service composition. The field is multi-disciplinary in nature, and takes advantage of contributions from other research areas such as knowledge representation, human-computer interfaces, psychology, sociology, economics and legal sciences.The book is divided into three parts. The first part includes some visionary contributions on the latest trends in search, which is becoming increasingly task-oriented and is starting to use ontological knowledge in order to manage complex queries. The second part explores background and related technologies, which can be considered as parallel fields of research, useful both for setting the theoretical premises for search computing and for providing a technological framework for building search computing systems and applications. The third part delves into the conceptual and technological problems and issues arising when dealing with search computing as a new search paradigm. It provides a unified view of the results of the Search Computing project as achieved exactly one year after its starting date. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The present volume contains the proceedings of the 6th International workshop on Formal Aspects of Security and Trust (fast 2009), held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 5 6 November 2009, as part of Formal Methods Week 2009. fast is sponsored by IFIP WG 1.7 on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design. The previous ve fast workshop editions have fostered cooperation among researchers in the areas of security and trust, and we aimed to continue this tradition. As computing and networkinfrastructures become increasingly per- sive, and as they carry increasing economic activity, society needs well-matched security and trust mechanisms. These interactions increasingly span several - terprises and involve loosely structured communities of individuals. Participants in these activities must control interactions with their partners based on trust policies and business logic. Trust-based decisions e ectively determine the se- ritygoalsforsharedinformationandfor accessto sensitiveorvaluableresources. fast sought original papers focusing of formal aspects of: security and trust policy models; security protocol design and analysis; formal models of trust and reputation; logics for security and trust; distributed trust management s- tems; trust-based reasoning; digital assets protection; data protection; privacy and id issues; information ow analysis; language-based security; security and trust aspects in ubiquitous computing; validation/analysis tools; Web service security/trust/privacy; grid security; security risk assessment; and case studies. The fast proceedings contain in addition to an abstract of the invited talk by Anindya Banerjee revisionsoffull papersacceptedforpresentationat fast. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains extended papers from Sensor-KDD 2008, the Second - ternational Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data. The second Sensor-KDDworkshopwasheldinLasVegasonAugust24,2008,inconjunction with the 14th ACM SIGKDD InternationalConference on KnowledgeDiscovery and Data Mining. Wide-area sensor infrastructures, remote sensors, and wireless sensor n- works, RFIDs, yield massive volumes of disparate, dynamic, and geographically distributeddata.Assuchsensorsarebecomingubiquitous,asetofbroadrequi- ments is beginning to emerge across high-priority applications including dis- ter preparedness and management, adaptability to climate change, national or homelandsecurity,andthe managementofcriticalinfrastructures.Therawdata from sensors need to be e ciently managed and transformed to usable infor- tion through data fusion, which in turn must be converted to predictive insights via knowledge discovery, ultimately facilitating automated or human-induced tactical decisions or strategic policy based on decision sciences and decision s- port systems. The expected ubiquity of sensors in the near future, combined with the cr- ical roles they are expected to play in high-priority application solutions, points to an era of unprecedented growth and opportunities. The main motivation for the Sensor-KDD series of workshops stems from the increasing need for a forum to exchange ideas and recent research results, and to facilitate coll- oration and dialog between academia, government, and industrial stakeho- ers. This is clearly re ected in the successful organization of the rst workshop alongwiththe ACMKDD-2007conference,whichwasattendedbymorethanseventyregistered participants, and resulted in an edited book (CRC Press, ISBN-9781420082326, 2008), and a special issue in the Intelligent Data Analysis journal (Volume 13, Number 3, 2009). 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Arti cial intelligence (AI) is a dynamic eld that is constantly expanding into new application areas, discovering new research challenges, and facilitating the development of innovative products. Today s AI tools might not pass the Turing test, but they are invaluable aids in organizing and sorting the ever-increasing volume,complexity,andheterogeneityofknowledgeavailabletousinourrapidly changing technological, economic, cultural, and social environment. This volumeaimsatbringing to the readerallthe latest developmentsin this exciting and challenging eld, and contains papers selected for presentation at the 6th Hellenic Conference on Arti cial Intelligence (SETN 2010), the o cial meeting of the Hellenic Society for Arti cial Intelligence (EETN). SETN 2010 was organized by the Hellenic Society of Arti cial Intelligence and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos and took place in Athens during May 4 7.Previousconferences were held at the University of Piraeus (1996), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002), attheUniversityoftheAegean(Samos,2004,andSyros,2008),andjointlyatthe Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) and the University of Crete (2006). SETN conferences play an important role in disseminating innovative and high-qualityscienti c results by AI researchers,attractingnot only EETNm- bers but also scientists advancing and applying AI in many and diverse domains and from various Greek and international institutes. However, the most imp- tant aspect of SETN conferences is that they provide the context in which AI researchers meet and discuss their work, as well as an excellect opportunity for students to attend high-quality tutorials and get closer to AI results. 448 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Inductive programming is concerned with the automated construction of decl- ative often functional recursiveprogramsfromincompletespeci cationssuch as input/output examples. The inferred program must be correct with respect to the provided examples in a generalizing sense: it should be neither equivalent to it, nor inconsistent. Inductive programming algorithms are guided explicitly or implicitly by a language bias (the class of programs that can be induced) and a search bias (determining which generalized program is constructed rst). Induction strategiesare either generate-and-testor example-driven.In genera- and-test approaches, hypotheses about candidate programs are generated in- pendently from the given speci cations. Program candidates are tested against the given speci cation and one or more of the best evaluated candidates are - veloped further. In analytical approaches, candidate programs are constructed in an example-driven way. While generate-and-test approaches can in prin- ple construct any kind of program, analytical approaches have a more limited scope. On the other hand, e ciency of induction is much higher in analytical approaches. Inductive programming is still mainly a topic of basic research, exploring how the intellectual ability of humans to infer generalized recursive procedures from incomplete evidence can be captured in the form of synthesis methods. Intended applications are mainly in the domain of programming assistance either to relieve professional programmers from routine tasks or to enable n- programmers to some limited form of end-user programming. Furthermore, in future,inductiveprogrammingtechniquesmightbe appliedtofurtherareassuch as support inference of lemmata in theorem proving or learning grammar rules. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We read in order to know we are not alone, I once heard, and perhaps it could also be suggested that we write in order not to be alone, to endorse, to promote continuity. The idea for this book took about 10 years to materialize, and it is the author's hope that its content will constitute the beginning of further explorations beyond current horizons. More speci cally, this book appeals to the reader to engage upon and persevere with a journey, moving through the less well explored territories in the evolution of the very early universe, and pushing towards new landscapes. P- haps, during or after consulting this book, this attitude and this willingness will be embraced by someone, somewhere, and this person will go on to enrich our quantum cosmological description of the early universe, by means of a clearer supersymm- ric perspective. It is to these creative and inquisitive 'young minds' that the book is addressed. The reader will not therefore nd in this book all the answers to all the problems regarding a supersymmetric and quantum description of the early universe, and this remark is substantiated in the book by a list of unresolved and challenging problems, itself incomplete. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The MODELS series of conferences is the premier venue for the exchange of innovative technical ideas and experiences relating to model-driven approaches inthedevelopmentofsoftware-basedsystems.Followingthetraditionofprevious conferences,MODELS2009hostedseveralsatelliteeventsinDenver.Therewe re ten workshops and two symposia. The selection of the workshops was performed by a Workshop Committee, which consisted of the following experts: James M. Bieman, Colorado State University, USA (Chair) Peter Clarke, Florida International University, USA Holger Giese, University of Paderborn, Germany Frank Weil, Hengsoft, USA The workshops and symposia were held during the rst three days of the conference. They provided a collaborative forum for groups of participants to exchange recent and preliminary results, conduct intensive discussions on a p- ticular topic, and to coordinate e orts between representatives of a technical community. They discussions were lively and the attendance was high. The focus of the Educators Symposium was on sharing experience related to teaching modeling techniques and on developing resources to support e ective training of future practitioners of model-driven development. The DoctoralSymposiumprovideda forumin whichPhDstudents presented their work in progress. The symposium fostered the role of MODELS as a p- mier venue for research in model-driven engineering. The symposium provided the students with independent and constructive feedback about their already completed work, and more importantly, their planned research work. 376 pp. Englisch.