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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Quilts are 2-complexes used to analyze actions and subgroups of the 3-string braid group and similar groups. This monograph establishes the fundamentals of quilts and discusses connections with central extensions, braid actions, and finite groups. Most results have not previously appeared in a widely available form, and many results appear in print for the first time. This monograph is accessible to graduate students, as a substantial amount of background material is included. The methods and results may be relevant to researchers interested in infinite groups, moonshine, central extensions, triangle groups, dessins d'enfants, and monodromy actions of braid groups.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -framework of the Spatial Cog- tion Priority Program. It augments the results presented in Freksa et al. 1998.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 440 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy, with emphasis on the recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field, by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the Umbria-Marche sequence in Central Italy, with an almost perfect stratigraphic record over the last 200 Million years. A general introduction to impact cratering and a discussion of distal ejecta and impact layers around the world is followed by a detailed description of the record of the impact of extraterrestrial bodies in sediments of the Umbria-Marche Apennines. The volume is of interest to a diverse audience in the geological and planetary sciences, ranging from (upper) undergraduate to research level. This book can also be used by students and researchers as a field guide to some of the most important Italian impact layers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The average-case analysis of numerical problems is the counterpart of the more traditional worst-case approach. The analysis of average error and cost leads to new insight on numerical problems as well as to new algorithms. The book provides a survey of results that were mainly obtained during the last 10 years and also contains new results. The problems under consideration include approximation/optimal recovery and numerical integration of univariate and multivariate functions as well as zero-finding and global optimization. Background material, e.g. on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and random fields, is provided.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Due to the rapidly increasing need for methods of data compression, quantization has become a flourishing field in signal and image processing and information theory. The same techniques are also used in statistics (cluster analysis), pattern recognition, and operations research (optimal location of service centers). The book gives the first mathematically rigorous account of the fundamental theory underlying these applications. The emphasis is on the asymptotics of quantization errors for absolutely continuous and special classes of singular probabilities (surface measures, self-similar measures) presenting some new results for the first time. Written for researchers and graduate students in probability theory the monograph is of potential interest to all people working in the disciplines mentioned above.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 548 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -EUROCRYPT 2000, the nineteenth annual Eurocrypt Conference, was sp- sored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in - operation with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (research group for Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography, COSIC). The r st conference with the name ¿Eurocrypt¿ took place in 1983, but the 1982 Workshop at Burg Feuerstein was the r st open meeting in Europe on cryptology; it has been included in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1440, which containsan electronic proceedings and index ofthe Crypto and Eurocrypt conferences 1981{1997. The program committee considered 150 papers and selected 39 for pres- tation at EUROCRYPT 2000. One paper was withdrawn by the authors. The program also included invited talks by Michael Walker (On the Security of 3GPP Networks') and Tony Sale (Colossus and the German Lorenz Cipher { Code Breaking in WW II'). In addition, Andy Clark kindly agreed to chair the traditional rump session for informal presentations of recent results.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 628 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book covers the development of reciprocity laws, starting from conjectures of Euler and discussing the contributions of Legendre, Gauss, Dirichlet, Jacobi, and Eisenstein. Readers knowledgeable in basic algebraic number theory and Galois theory will find detailed discussions of the reciprocity laws for quadratic, cubic, quartic, sextic and octic residues, rational reciprocity laws, and Eisensteins reciprocity law. An extensive bibliography will be of interest to readers interested in the history of reciprocity laws or in the current research in this area.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 512 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This collection of essays brings together some articles on dynamic optimization models that exhibit chaotic behavior. Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 appeared in a Symposium on Chaotic Dynamical Systems in Economic Theory (Volume 4, Number 5, 1994). Also, Chapters 10,11, and 12 appeared in the Journal of Economic The ory. We would like to thank the authors, and Academic Press for permission to reprint. We are grateful to Professor C.D. Aliprantis for suggesting the idea of a book structured around the Economic Theory Symposium, and without the support and patience of Dr. Mueller this project could not have been completed. We would like to thank Ms. Amy Gowan who cheerfully per formed the arduous task of typing the manuscript. Thanks are also due to Xiao Qing Yu, Tridip Ray and Malabika Majumdar for their help at various stages in the preparation of the manuscript. For a course on dynamic optimization addressed to students with a good background in economic theory and real analysis, one can assign Chapter 2 as a partial introduction to the basic tech niques. Chapters 3 and 4 can be assigned to provide examples of simple optmization models generating complicated behavior.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 468 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A number of chapters present the most novel research on testicular and epididymal functions or on more general fields of hormone action and molecular cell biology as it is now a tradition. However, exceptionally, the book also contains several chapters dealing with the 'Approaches and Tools in the Third Millenium'. The unusual inclusion of technologies as such in the 2000 edition of the workshop was an absolute necessity, as these technologies are revolutionizing the fields of biology and medicine and, in many instances, how to do research. This volume gives the scientific community essential information about the very latest technical developments and their potential for future progress. 288 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Information is stored, transmitted and processed by physical means. Thus, the concept of information and computation can be formulated in the con text of a physical theory and the study of information requires ultimately experimentation. This sentence, innocuous at first glance, leads to non-trivial consequences. Following Moore's law, about every 18 months microprocessors double their speed and, it seems, the only way to make them significantly faster is to make them smaller. In the not too distant future they will reach the point where the logic gates are so small that they consist of only a few atoms each. Then quantum-mechanical effects will become important. Thus, if computers are to continue to become faster (and therefore smaller), new, quantum technology must replace or supplement what we have now. But it turns out that such technology can offer much more than smaller and faster microprocessors. Several recent theoretical results have shown that quantum effects may be harnessed to provide qualitatively new modes of communication and computation, in some cases much more powerful than their classical counterparts. This new quantum technology is being born in many laboratories. The last two decades have witnessed experiments in which single quantum particles of different kinds were controlled and manipulated with an unprecedented preci sion. Many 'gedanken' experiments, so famous in the early days of quantum mechanics, have been carried out.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 336 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book is dedicated to the memory of a distinguished Russian engineer, Rostislav E. Alexeyev, who was the first in the world to develop the largest ground effect machine - Ekranoplan. One of Alexeyev's design concepts with the aerodynamic configuration of a jlying wing can be seen on the front page. The book presents a description of a mathematical model of flow past a lifting system, performing steady and unsteady motions in close proximity to the underlying solid surface (ground). This case is interesting for practical purposes because both the aerodynamic and the economic efficiency of the system near the ground are most pronounced. Use of the method of matched asymptotic expansions enables closed form solutions for the aerodynamic characteristics of the wings-in-ground effect. These can be used for design, identification, and processing of experimental data in the course of developing ground effect vehicles. The term extreme ground effect, widely used through out the book, is associated with very small relative ground clearances of the order of 10% or less. The theory of a lifting surface, moving in immediate proximity to the ground, represents one of the few limiting cases that can be treated analytically. The author would like to acknowledge that this work has been influenced by the ideas of Professor Sheila E. Widnall, who was the first to apply the matched asymptotics techniques to treat lifting flows with the ground effect. Saint Petersburg, Russia February 2000 Kirill V. Rozhdestvensky Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 372 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -SFCA/FPSAC (Series Formelles et Combinatoire Algebrique/Formal Power Se ries and Algebraic Combinatorics) is a series of international conferences that are held annually since 1988, alternating between Europe and North America. They usually take place at the end of the academic year, between June and July depending on the local organizing constraints. SFCA/FPSAC has now become one of the most important annual inter national meetings for the algebraic and bijective combinatorics community. The conference is indeed one of the key international exchange place of ideas between all researchers involved in this emerging exciting area. SFCA/FPSAC'OO is the 12th in the series. It will take place in Moscow (Russia) from June 26 to June 30, 2000. Previous SFCA/FPSAC conferences were organized in Lille (88), Paris (90), Bordeaux (91), Montreal (92), Florence (93), Rutgers (94), Marne-la-Vallee (95), Minneapolis (96), Vienna (97), Toronto (98) and Barcelona (99). SFCA/FPSAC'OO is co-organized by the Center of New Information Tech nologies (CNIT) of Moscow State University, the Laboratoire d'Informatique AI gorithmique : Fondements et Applications (LIAFA) of University Paris 7 and the Maison de l'Informatique et des Mathematiques Discretes (MIMD). The SFCA/FPSAC'OO conference covers all main areas of algebraic combi natorics and bijective combinatorics (including asymptotic analysis, all sorts of enumeration, representation theory of classical groups and classical Lie algebras, symmetric functions, etc). A special stress was also put this year on combinato rial and computer algebra.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 828 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -erkennen lassen. Nicht einfach mit dem Blick auf bloße zweckdienliche Gegeben heiten, sondern umgreifender, nach-denklicher.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Konzentrationstendenzen, Globalisierung und gut informierte Kunden sind Belege für den harten Wettbewerb, in dem sich Handelsunternehmen befinden. Um in diesem Wettbewerb zu bestehen, benötigen Händler flexibel an die jeweilige Unternehmensstruktur anpassbare Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme, die die operativen Abläufe, Beschaffung, Lagerung und Distribution und die betriebswirtschaftlich-administrativen Aufgaben der Buchhaltung, Kostenrechnung und Personalwirtschaft unterstützen und aussagekräftige Auswertungssysteme umfassen. Darüber hinaus sind Informations- und Planungssysteme zur Unterstützung von Marketing und Management heute kritischer Erfolgsfaktor. Das Buch stellt die Architektur von Handelsinformationssystemen am Beispiel des SAP Retail-Systems dar. Es zeigt auf, wie modernes Handelsmanagement durch Einsatz integrierter Standardsoftware realisiert werden kann.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Die Chancen des betrieblichen Umweltmanagements lassen sich erst in vollem Umfang nutzen, wenn möglichst viele Fach- und Führungskräfte sowie Mitarbeiter dieses und die damit verknüpften Ziele mittragen. Ein umweltorientiertes Ideen- und Veränderungsmanagement erfordert daher, betriebliche Umweltziele und deren Umsetzung in allen Abteilungen und in Anlehnung an die Geschäftsprozesse zu verankern. Der Leitfaden leistet hierzu wesentliche Beiträge: Er zeigt zum einen Verfahren und Maßnahmen zur umweltorientierten Sensibilisierung und Aktivierung von Mitarbeitern auf. Zum anderen wird ein Umweltqualifizierungskonzept mit verschiedenen Bausteinen und Arbeitsmaterialien vorgestellt, das die Handlungskompetenzen von Fach- und Führungskräften sowie engagierten Mitarbeitern im betrieblichen Umweltmanagement fördert. Die Seminareinheiten entsprechen modernen Ansätzen der Erwachsenenbildung und knüpfen an das Know-How und den Erfahrungsschatz von Praktikern an.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 432 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Leistungselektronisch gespeiste und mikroelektronisch geregelte elektrische Antriebe sind dynamisch hochwertige und universell einsetzbare elektromechanische Energiewandler, die heute in vielfältigen Ausführungsformen in weiten Bereichen von Drehmoment, Drehzahl und Leistung zur Verfügung stehen. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind kommutatorlose Drehstrom-Regelantriebe, die erst mit vektoriellen Verfahren und einer digital verwirklichten Regelungstechnik möglich wurden. Das Buch enthält eine zusammenfassende theoretische Darstellung elektrischer Regelantriebe einschließlich der leistungselektronischen Umrichter, von klassischen Gleichstromantrieben bis zu digital geregelten Drehstromantrieben. Die beschriebenen Verfahren werden durch experimentelle Ergebnisse belegt; Anwendungen sind anhand von Beispielen diskutiert.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 484 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In der modernen Physiotherapie wird das 'Hilfsmittel' Pferd erfolgreich zur Behandlung funktionell gestörter Haltung und Bewegung eingesetzt. Die Hippotherapie-K wurde von Ursula Künzle entwickelt und basiert auf den Prinzipien der Funktionellen Bewegungslehre von Klein-Vogelbach und des Bobath-Konzepts. Das Buch beschreibt klar und systematisch die theoretischen Voraussetzungen der Hippotherapie-K. Es bietet methodisch genaue Arbeitsanleitungen für die besonders wichtigen Anwendungsbereiche der Multiplen Sklerose und infantilen Zerebralparese und liefert objektiv messbare Kriterien zum Wirksamkeitsnachweis. Dieses Lehrbuch zu einer Anwendung der 'FBL in Reinkultur' ist für aktive Hippotherapeuten und alle, die sich für die Wirkungsmechanismen der Methode interessieren, eine aufschlußreiche, weiterführende Lektüre.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 440 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Quilts are 2-complexes used to analyze actions and subgroups of the 3-string braid group and similar groups. This monograph establishes the fundamentals of quilts and discusses connections with central extensions, braid actions, and finite groups. Most results have not previously appeared in a widely available form, and many results appear in print for the first time. This monograph is accessible to graduate students, as a substantial amount of background material is included. The methods and results may be relevant to researchers interested in infinite groups, moonshine, central extensions, triangle groups, dessins d'enfants, and monodromy actions of braid groups. 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks 2000 (MWCN2000) was the second conference in its series aimed at stimulating technical exchange in the emergingandimportantel dofMobileandWirelessCommunicationsNetworks. Therst conferencetookplaceatSorbonneUniversity,Paris,FranceMay12{15, 1997. Integration of xed and portable wireless access technologies and their mobility featuresintocurrentx edandmobileIPandATMnetworkspresentsacoste- tiveande cientwaytoprovideseamlessend-to-endconnectivityandubiquitous access in a market where demands on wireless networks have grown rapidly and which is predicted to generate billions of dollars in revenue. The deployment of broadband cell-based technologies including demand for internet mobility and their integration with emerging broadband wireless access networks (BWANs) are becoming increasingly important. Mobility and connection management, - cation management, connection establishment, quality of service provisioning, inter-working of wire-lines with wireless networks for voice, video, image, and data were some of the areas of focus in wireless networking of this conference. In the last few years with the development of digital technologies, satellites have emerged in the forefront of multimedia delivery techniques. From using current digital broadcast systems for web access to developing sophisticated platforms for integrated services, satellite networking is now a well-established solution for the broadband needs of the new millennium. This workshop was intended to providea timely forumfor exploratoryresearchandpracticalcontributionsfrom NorthAmerica,Europe,TheMiddleEast,andTheFarEast.Ithelpeddesigners to identify the theoretical and actual problems that face today s complex pr- lems associated with mobile and wireless communications links and networks. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is mainly devoted to the combinatorics of quadratic holomorphic dynamics. The conceptual kernel is a self-contained abstract counterpart of connected quadratic Julia sets which is built on Thurston's concept of a quadratic invariant lamination and on symbolic descriptions of the angle-doubling map. The theory obtained is illustrated in the complex plane. It is used to give rigorous proofs of some well-known and some partially new statements on the structure of the Mandelbrot set. The text is intended for graduate students and researchers. Some elementary knowledge in topology and in functions of one complex variable is assumed. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The biennial European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) series is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in machine learning and is the major European scienti c event in the eld. The eleventh conference (ECML 2000) held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from May 31 to June 2, 2000, has continued this tradition by attracting high quality papers from around the world. Scientists from 21 countries submitted 100 papers to ECML 2000, from which 20 were selected for long oral presentations and 23 for short oral presentations. This selection was based on the recommendations of at least two reviewers for each submitted paper. It is worth noticing that the number of papers reporting applications of machine learning has increased in comparison to past ECML conferences. We believe this fact shows the growing maturity of the eld. This volume contains the 43 accepted papers as well as the invited talks by Katharina Morik from theUniversity of Dortmund and Pedro Domingos from the University of Washington at Seattle. In addition, three workshops were jointly organized by ECML 2000 and the European Network of Excellence - net: 'Dealing with Structured Data in Machine Learning and Statistics W- stites', 'Machine Learning in the New Information Age' , and 'Meta-Learning: Building Automatic Advice Strategies for Model Selection and Method Com- nation'. 484 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -CAiSE 2000 was the 12th in the series of International Conferences on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. In the year 2000 the conference returned to Stockholm where it was organized the very first time. Since that year, 1989, the CAiSE conferences have developed into an important forum for the presentation and exchange of research results and practical experiences within the field of Information Systems Engineering. The objective of the CAiSE conference series is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of information systems engineering to meet annually in order to discuss evolving research issues and applications in this field. The CAiSE conference series also aims to provide an opportunity for young scientists to establish relationships with senior scientists in their areas of interest. Stockholm is an important center of research and development for some of the leading IT and communications companies in Europe and indeed, in the world. In tune with this environment, a major theme of CAiSE 2000 was 'information systems and services in a digitized world'. This theme reflects the vast improvements in communication technology, including the increasing use of Internet and WWW, that has taken place over the last years, and that has led to better communication and easier information access in general. In addition, this development has initiated changes in the way organizations cooperate and trade. 540 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Only 10% of the 150 or so known impact craters on Earth date from the early Precambrian Era, a time period covering some 88% of the Earth's history. Yet this Era encompasses fundamental events in the origin and evolution of our planet from the origin of life itself to the development of continents. The papers in this volume were presented at a workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation Scientific Network on Impact cratering held in Cambridge, UK, in December 1998. The papers outline the present state of scientific understanding of the role impacts may have played in the biological and geological evolution of the Early Earth. 468 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains 19 contributions to various subjects in the theory of (commutative and non-commutative) stochastic processes. It also provides a 145-page graduate course on branching and interacting particle systems, with applications to non-linear filtering, by P. del Moral and L. Miclo. 446 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is on applications of game theory. The title of this book is not 'Game Theory and its Applications' because it does not construct a general theory for considered games. The book contains a lot of examples of applica tion of game theory together with the background of those games considered and a list of unsolved problems. Also we consider only the game where the optimal strategies of the players are found in closed form. This book is an attempt to carryon the approach developed in nice books 'Search Games' by Gal and 'Geometric Games and their Applications' by Ruckle. The first chapter of this book supplies the required definitions and theorems from game theory. The second chapter deals with discrete search games where both players act simultaneously: the games of protection of a channel from infiltration of a submarine, the submarine versus helicopter game, the matrix search games and others. The third chapter considers the game where the players allocate their contin uous efforts. In these games players face up an alternative either not to come into contest if the cost of efforts seems too high, or come into it. In the last case the player have to decide how much resources they can afford to spend. The allocation models of search, antiballistic protection and marketing are investigated. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The world is undergoing a revolution to a digital economy, with pronounced implications for corporate strategy, marketing, operations, information systems, customer services, global supply-chain management, and product distribution. This handbook examines the aspects of electronic commerce, including electronic storefront, on-line business, consumer interface, business-to-business networking, digital payment, legal issues, information product development, and electronic business models.Indispensable for academics, students and professionals who are interested in Electronic Commerce and Internet Business. 736 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy, with emphasis on the recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field, by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the Umbria-Marche sequence in Central Italy, with an almost perfect stratigraphic record over the last 200 Million years. A general introduction to impact cratering and a discussion of distal ejecta and impact layers around the world is followed by a detailed description of the record of the impact of extraterrestrial bodies in sediments of the Umbria-Marche Apennines. The volume is of interest to a diverse audience in the geological and planetary sciences, ranging from (upper) undergraduate to research level. This book can also be used by students and researchers as a field guide to some of the most important Italian impact layers. 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The average-case analysis of numerical problems is the counterpart of the more traditional worst-case approach. The analysis of average error and cost leads to new insight on numerical problems as well as to new algorithms. The book provides a survey of results that were mainly obtained during the last 10 years and also contains new results. The problems under consideration include approximation/optimal recovery and numerical integration of univariate and multivariate functions as well as zero-finding and global optimization. Background material, e.g. on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and random fields, is provided. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a collection of part of the written versions of the Physics Courses given at the Winter School 'Order, Chance and Risk: Aperiodic Phenomena from Solid State to Finance' held at the Les Houches Center for Physics, between February 23 and March 6, 1998. The School gathered lecturers and participants from all over the world. On a thematic level, the content of the school can be viewed both as a continuation (aperiodic phenomena in solid state physics) and an extension (mathematical aspects of fmance and economy) of the previous 'Beyond Quasicrystals', also held at Les Houches, March 7-18 1994 and published in the same series. One of its important goals was to promote in-depth concrete scientific exchanges between theoretical physicists, experimental physicists and mathematicians on the one hand, and on the other hand practitioners of the economico-fmancial sphere and specialists of financial mathematics. Therefore, besides the mathematical tools and concepts at work in theoretical descriptions, relevant experimental data were also presented together with methods allowing their interpretation. As a result of this choice, the School was stimulated by experimentalists and fmancial market operators who joined the theoretical physicists and mathematicians at the conference. The present volume deals with the theoretical and experimental studies on aperiodic solids with long range order, incommensurate phases, quasicrystals, glasses, and more complex systems (fractal, chaotic), while a second volume to appear in the same series is devoted to the finance and economy facet. 396 pp. Englisch.