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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -On the basis of a semantic analysis of dimension terms, this book develops a theory about knowledge of spatial objects, which is significant for cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence. This new approach to knowledge structure evolves in a three-step process: - adoption of the linguistic theory with its elements, principles and representational levels, - implementation of the latter in a Prolog prototype, and - integration of the prototype into a large natural language understanding system. The study documents interdisciplinary research at work: the model of spatial knowledge is the fruit of the cooperative efforts of linguists, computational linguists, and knowledge engineers, undertaken in that logical and chronological order. The book offers a two-level approach to semantic interpretation and proves that it works by means of a precise computer implementation, which in turn is applied to support a task-independent knowledge representation system. Each of these stages is described in detail, and the links are made explicit, thus retracing the evolution from theory to practice.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book springs from a conference held in Stockholm in May June 1988 on Culture, Language and Artificial Intelligence. It assembled more than 300 researchers and practitioners in the fields of technology, philosophy, history of ideas, literature, linguistics, social science, etc. The conference was an initiative from the Swedish Center for Working Life, based on the project AI-Based Systems mzd the Future of Language, Knowledge and Re sponsibility in Professions within the COST 13 programme of the European Commission. Participants in the conference, or in some cases researchers in areas related to its aims, were chosen to contribute to this book. It was preceded by Knowledge, Skill and Artificial Intelligence (ed. B. Gbranzon and I. Josefson, Springer-Verlag, London, 1988) and Artificial Intelligence, Culture and Language (ed. B. Gbranzon and M. Florin, Springer-Verlag, 1990). The latter book springs, as this one, from the 1988 conference, and one further book will follow: Skill and Education: Reflection and Experience (Springer Verlag, planned autumn 1991). The philosophical and aesthetic interest of the contributions in the present volume is in large part due to the framework of the Dialogue Seminar, held regularly at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, in which several of the contributors have participated.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Teil II des Verhandlungsberichtes enthält die Vorträge und Diskussionen der Jahesversmmlung 1990. Er spiegelt die Ergebnisse in den verschiedenen Gebieten klinischer und theoretischer Forschung in der Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde wider.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch wendet sich an alle, die sich mit dem Einsatz von Datenbanksystemen im Bereich der sogenannten Nicht-Standard-Anwendungen - CAD/CAM, Robotik, Künstliche Intelligenz usw. - beschäftigen. Nach einer Einführung in die Synchronisationsproblematik und die besonderen Anforderungen von Nicht-Standard-Anwendungen an ein Datenbanksystem, wie etwa die Unterstützung komplexer Objekte, langer Transaktionen und benutzerdefinierter Datentypen und Funktionen, wird der Leser mit den Problemen vertraut gemacht, die bei der Anwendung traditioneller Synchronisationsverfahren in Datenbanksystemen für Nicht-Standard-Anwendungen auftreten. Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Buchs steht der Vorschlag eines Synchronisationsverfahrens, das die zuvor aufgezeigten Anforderungen von Nicht-Standard-Anwendungen erfüllt. Das vorgeschlagene Sperrverfahren, eine Weiterentwicklung des traditionellen DAG-Sperrprotokolls, basiert auf der Verwendung angepaßter Sperrgranulate innerhalb der Hierarchie beliebig strukturierter komplexer Objekte. Es wird qualitativ und quantitativ bewertet. Weiterhin wird ausführlich diskutiert, wie ein solches Verfahren effizient implementiert und in die Architektur eines Nicht-Standard-Datenbanksystems integriert werden kann.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In diesem Buch wird die Multisensordatenverarbeitung bei Roboteranwendungen umfassend behandelt. Zunächst werden die wesentlichen Grundlagen der Informationsverarbeitung von Sensordaten dargestellt. In einem speziellen Kapitel werden die Besonderheiten der Montage mit Industrierobotern und die Anforderungen an ein Multisensorensystem betrachtet. Darauf aufbauend wird ein hierarchisches Konzept zur Überwachung und Diagnose von Roboteraktionen erarbeitet. Die Ebenen des Systems werden in bezug auf benötigtes Wissen, die Art der Verarbeitung und die Struktur der Daten untersucht. Je höher die Ebene, desto abstrakter ist die Formulierung der Verarbeitungsschritte korrespondierend mit der Wissensrepräsentation. Ein ausführliches Beispiel rundet die Darstellung ab. Das Multisensorsystem ist dabei in die Struktur eines fortgeschrittenen Handhabungssystems eingebettet. Dem Leser wird mit dem Buch eine übergreifende Sicht der Sensorproblematik in der Robotik vermittelt. Das spezielle Thema der Multisensorik stellt dabei keine Einschränkung dar, sondern läßt erst die zunehmende Bedeutung der Softwareaspekte von Sensoren in den Vordergrund treten.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -erlaubt.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 212 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Inhaltsangabe1 Stichwort 'Beratung': Abgrenzung, Aufgaben, Selbstverständnis.- 1.1 Notwendigkeit der Ernährungsberatung.- 1.2 Was ist und was ist nicht Ernährungsberatung .- 1.3 Die einfachen Ziele und die schwierigen Maßnahmen der Ernährungsberatung.- 1.4 Zum Selbstverständnis des Beraters.- 2 Einführung in die Ernährungspsychologie.- 2.1 Die Motivstruktur im Überfluß.- 2.2 Verhaltensökonomie.- 2.3 Ernährungsverhalten als Lernprozeß.- 2.4 Der ernährungspsychologische Ansatz.- 2.5 Biologische Grundlagen.- 2.6 Zwischenbilanz.- 2.7 Abschied von einer Hypothese.- 3 Subjektive Problemsicht und Problemverarbeitung.- 3.1 Die 'Problemlandschaft' wird sortiert.- 3.2 Verhaltensproblem: Regelfall der Beratung.- 3.3 Der 'beratungsunwillige' Klient.- 4 Handikap in der Beratungspraxis: Die Wissenschaftsorientierung.- 4.1 Die Dolmetscherfunktion des Beraters.- 4.2 Wissenschaftlicher Beweis kontra naive Überzeugung oder: Berater gegen Klient.- 5 Gesprächsmöglichkeiten in der Beratung.- 5.1 Man kann nicht nicht kommunizieren!.- 5.2 Vor der Theorie: 3 Gespräche.- 5.3 Anmerkung: Diskussion, Diagnose, Gespräch.- 5.4 Das klientenbezogene Gespräch.- 5.5 Psychologische Bewertung.- 5.6 Verstehen, billigen, gutheißen.- 6 Konzeption einer Beratung.- 6.1 Ein grundsätzliches Hilfsmittel: Die Verhaltensdiagnose.- 6.2 Fallstudien zur Planung.- 6.3 Rückblick und Zusammenfassung.- 7 Protokollformulare und Tests.- 7.1 Protokollformulare mit Schlüssel.- 7.2 Präferenzliste.- 7.3 Ernährungswissen.- Literatur zum Beratungsgespräch.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Die Notwendigkeit, dem Patienten auf mehreren Ebenen seiner Beschwerden kompetent begegnen und helfen zu können, wird heute zunehmend erkannt. Dennoch wird in der Aus- und Weiterbildung der Ärzte unverändert an einem alten Denkschema festgehalten, das Kranksein und Befindensstörungen auf entweder körperliche oder aber psychische Störungen reduziert. Hochschullehrer für Allgemeinmedizin und Psychotherapie/Psychosomatik formulieren in diesem Lehrbuch erstmals gemeinsam die Grundlagen für ein patientenorientiertes Handeln. In klarer, verständlicher Form wird das für den alltäglichen Umgang mit dem Patienten in der Praxis wie im Krankenhaus notwendige Basiswissen für das Erkennen, Verstehen und Mitbehandeln der seelischen Dimension von Kranksein vermittelt. Hilfe für kompetenten Umgang mit den Lebensqualität bestimmenden 'Alltagsproblemen' wie Generations- und Paarkonflikte, Trauer, Selbstwertstörungen, Sexualität, Alkohol- und Medikamentenabhängigkeit wird angeboten. Die Darstellung diagnostischer und therapeutischer Strategien wird ergänzt durch fundierte Vermittlung der psychotherapeutischen Theorie und Begriffswelt. Angesprochen sind Studenten und Ärzte, Praktiker wie Kliniker, denen das Buch eine Hilfe sein will, gestörte Gesundheit in ihrem bio-psycho-sozialen Gefüge zu begreifen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 376 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Diese erste Veröffentlichung über den Stand der Projekte zur Erforschung des menschlichen Genoms setzt sich kritisch mit den ethischen Aspekten der Genomanalyse und Gentherapie in der Humanmedizin auseinander. Führende Experten stellen die breite Vielfalt der ethischen, medizinischen und politischen Bewertungspositionen für eine der erfolgversprechendsten und umstrittensten Entwicklungen der modernen biomedizinischen Forschung vor. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung steht die Diskussion um die Erweiterung der pränatalen Diagnose und die mögliche Entwicklung einer Prädiktivmedizin mit langfristiger Prognostik; weitere Schwerpunkte bilden die Auseinandersetzungen der Tarifpartner um die Rolle der Genomanalyse in der Arbeitsmedizin sowie die Bedenken um das Wiederaufleben einer eugenischen Ideologie und die Bewertung der Unterschiede zwischen somatischer Gentherapie und Keimbahntherapie in der Humanmedizin. Das Buch wendet sich vor allem an Forscher, Ethiker und Politiker, aber auch an diejenigen Leser, die sich mit den ethischen und kulturellen Aspekten der Anwendung der Gentechnik am Menschen auseinandersetzen wollen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 360 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Knowledge-based systems have been successfully developed in practice for a number of years. However, they are often 'only' stand-alone systems; integrating them into existing information environments, e.g. making available real production data to an expert system, often either fails or is only solved in a dissatisfying way. Possible reasons for this might be on one hand the lack of know-how about the different features of various experimental AI techniques, and on the other the lack of more classical information and database system technology. The special interest groups 'Knowledge Representation' and 'Methods for the Development of Information Sys- tems and their Application' of the German Informatics Society (GI) organized a joint workshop in Ulm in March 1990 to discuss the integration of Artificial Intelligence and database technology. This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop. 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A volume of conference proceedings which describes the most recent advances in the field of machine learning. Focusing on the state of current research in Europe, the text describes multi-strategy learning, inversion of resolution and multi-agents. 556 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -' . . . behavior is not, what an organism does itself, but to what we point. Therefore, whether a type of behavior of an organism is adequate as a certain configuration of movements, will depend on the environment in which we de scribe it. ' (Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela: El arbol del conocimiento, 1984) 'A thorough analysis of behavior must result in a scheme, that shows all regularities that are to be found between the sensorical input and the motorical output of an animal. This scheme is an abstract representation of the brain. ' (Valentin Braitenberg: Gehirngespinste, 1973) During the 70ies, when Biomathematics (beyond Biomedical Statistics and Com puting) became more popular at universities and research institutes, the problems dealt with came mainly from the general fields of 'Population Biology' and 'Complex Systems Analysis' such as epidemics, ecosystems analysis, morphogenesis, genetics, immunology and neurology (see the first series of Springer Lecture Notes in Biomathematics). Since then, the picture has not considerably changed, and it seems that 'a thorough analysis of behavior' of single organisms and, moreover, of their mutual interactions, is far from being understood. On the contrary, mathematical modellers and analysts have been well advised to restrict their investigations to specific aspects of 'biological behavior', one of which is 'biological motion'. Until now, only a few Conference Proceedings or Lecture Notes have paid attention to this important aspect, some of the earlier examples being Vol. 24: 'The measurement of biological shape and shape changes' (1978) or Vol. 620 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Advances and problems in the field of compiler compilers are considered in this volume, which presents the proceedings of the third in a series of biannual workshops on compiler compilers. Selected papers address the topics of requirements, properties, and theoretical aspects of compiler compilers as well as tools and metatools for software engineering. The 23 papers cover a wide spectrum in the field of compiler compilers, ranging from overviews of new compiler compilers for generating quality compilers to special problems of code generation and optimization. Aspects of compilers for parallel systems and knowledge-based development tools are also discussed. 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume is the proceedings of the Second Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence (EAIA '90) held in Guarda, Portugal, October 8-12, 1990. The focus of the contributions is natural language processing. Two types of subject are covered: - Linguistically motivated theories, presented at an introductory level, such as X-bar theory and head- driven phrase structure grammar, - Recent trends in formalisms which will be familiar to readers with a background in AI, such as Montague semantics and situation semantics. The topics were chosen to provide a balanced overview of the most important ideas in natural language processing today. Some of the results presented were worked out very recently, are the subject of ongoing research, and have not previously appeared in book form. This book may serve as a textbook: in fact its contents were intended as lecture notes. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The state of the art on isolation techniques, ion binding theory, biologic activity in the aquatic environment as well as the formation of mutagenic compounds from chlorination is reviewed by worldwide-known experts. Additional papers describe current research on the topics: isolation, fractionation and characterization; biological and chemical transformation and degradation; complex formation and interactions with solids; biologic activity, halogenation of humic substances. 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In August 1988. the Sixth International Coral Reef Symposium was held in Townsville resulting in an influx of most of the world's coral reef sCientists to the city. We seized this opportunity at the Australian Institute of Marine Science to run a small workshop immediately before the symposium on the outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. Aeanthaster planei. We invited that small band of mathematicians who had been modelling the phenomenon, (and who may not have normally attended an international meeting so thoroughly dedicated to natural science) to meet with those SCientists who had been been actively working on the phenomenon in the field. John Casti notes in his delightful new book Alternate Realities (Wiley, 1989): 'If the natural role of the experimenter is to generate new observables by which we know the processes of Nature, and the natural role of the mathematician is to generate new formal structures by which we can represent these processes. then the system SCientist finds his niche by serving as a broker between the two. ' I think our book shows the fruits of that brokerage through the wide range of models explored within its pages. the high level of collaboration and interaction across disciplines evident in the individual papers, and in the emerging synthesis that reflects a far deeper understanding of this complex phenomenon than was possible even a few years ago. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This thesis is a theoretical study of the optimal dynamic policies of a, to some extent, slowly adjusting firm that faces an exogeneously given technological progress and an exogeneously given business cycle. It belongs to the area of mathematical economics. It is intended to appeal to mathematical economists in the first place, economists in the second place and mathematicians in the third place. It entails an attempt to stretch the limits of the application of deterministic dynamic optimisation to economics, in particular to firm behaviour. A well-known Dutch economist (and trained mathematician) recently stated in 1 a local university newspaper that mathematical economists give economics a bad reputation, since they formulate their problems from a mathematical point of view and they are only interested in technical, mathematical problems. At the same time, however, 'profound as economists may be, when it comes to extending or modifying the existing theory to make it applicable to a certain economic problem, an understanding of optimal control theory (which is the mathematical theory used in this thesis, ovh) based solely on heuristic arguments will often turn out to be inadequate' (SydS 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume is based on the Stockholm conference on Culture, Language and Artificial Intelligence, which was organised by the Swedish Arbetslivascentrum in 1988. This conference brought together over three hundred and sixty people interested in the cultural impact of technology, and particularly of AI. The 20 challenging papers contained in this volume were presented, or prepared, at the conference. This book aims to demonstrate the breadth and complexity of the concept of 'dialogue', particularly in relation to new technolgy and what follows in its wake: the effects it has on the development and preservation of occupational knowledge and skills, and its effects on society, culture and language. The philosophical and aesthetic nature of the contributions is due to the influence of the Dialogue Seminar, which was held continuously at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm during the conference, and in which several of the contributors to this book participated. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On the basis of a semantic analysis of dimension terms, this book develops a theory about knowledge of spatial objects, which is significant for cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence. This new approach to knowledge structure evolves in a three-step process: - adoption of the linguistic theory with its elements, principles and representational levels, - implementation of the latter in a Prolog prototype, and - integration of the prototype into a large natural language understanding system. The study documents interdisciplinary research at work: the model of spatial knowledge is the fruit of the cooperative efforts of linguists, computational linguists, and knowledge engineers, undertaken in that logical and chronological order. The book offers a two-level approach to semantic interpretation and proves that it works by means of a precise computer implementation, which in turn is applied to support a task-independent knowledge representation system. Each of these stages is described in detail, and the links are made explicit, thus retracing the evolution from theory to practice. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Preparative Polar Organometallic Chemistry is a collection of laboratory procedures for the synthesis and functionalization of organoalkali and Grignard compounds. The second volume with methods for generation and transformation of compounds bearing the metal at an sp3 carbon complements the first in which the metal was bound to an sp2 carbon atom in the reagent. Synthetically important intermediates such as metallated S,S-acetales, imines, nitriles, isonitriles and ketones are illustrated. All procedures have been worked out in full detail and tested in the author's own laboratory. Both books are intended to be practical bench-top laboratory manuals for working organic chemists, from the student to the advanced scientist. 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Eurocrypt is a conference devoted to all aspects of cryptologic research, both theoretical and practical, sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Eurocrypt 90 took place in Åarhus, Denmark, in May 1990. From the 85 papers submitted, 42 were selected for presentation at the conference and for inclusion in this volume. In addition to the formal contributions, short abstracts of a number of informal talks are included in these proceedings. The proceedings are organized into sessions on protocols, number-theoretic algorithms, boolean functions, binary sequences, implementations, combinatorial schemes, cryptanalysis, new cryptosystems, signatures and authentication, and impromptu talks. 516 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In many fields of application of mathematics, progress is crucially dependent on the good flow of information between (i) theoretical mathematicians looking for applications, (ii) mathematicians working in applications in need of theory, and (iii) scientists and engineers applying mathematical models and methods. The intention of this book is to stimulate this flow of information. In the first three chapters (accessible to third year students of mathematics and physics and to mathematically interested engineers) applications of Abel integral equations are surveyed broadly including determination of potentials, stereology, seismic travel times, spectroscopy, optical fibres. In subsequent chapters (requiring some background in functional analysis) mapping properties of Abel integral operators and their relation to other integral transforms in various function spaces are investi- gated, questions of existence and uniqueness of solutions of linear and nonlinear Abel integral equations are treated, and for equations of the first kind problems of ill-posedness are discussed. Finally, some numerical methods are described. In the theoretical parts, emphasis is put on the aspects relevant to applications. 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Knowledge-based systems have been successfully developed in practice for a number of years. However, they are often 'only' stand-alone systems; integrating them into existing information environments, e.g. making available real production data to an expert system, often either fails or is only solved in a dissatisfying way. Possible reasons for this might be on one hand the lack of know-how about the different features of various experimental AI techniques, and on the other the lack of more classical information and database system technology. The special interest groups 'Knowledge Representation' and 'Methods for the Development of Information Sys- tems and their Application' of the German Informatics Society (GI) organized a joint workshop in Ulm in March 1990 to discuss the integration of Artificial Intelligence and database technology. This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains finalized versions of papers presented at an international workshop on extensions of logic programming, held at the Seminar for Natural Language Systems at the University of Tübingen in December 1989. Several recent extensions of definite Horn clause programming, especially those with a proof-theoretic background, have much in common. One common thread is a new emphasis on hypothetical reasoning, which is typically inspired by Gentzen-style sequent or natural deduction systems. This is not only of theoretical significance, but also bears upon computational issues. It was one purpose of the workshop to bring some of these recent developments together. The volume covers topics such as the languages Lambda-Prolog, N-Prolog, and GCLA, the relationship between logic programming and functional programming, and the relationship between extensions of logic programmingand automated theorem proving. It contains the results of the first conference concentrating on proof-theoretic approaches to logic programming. 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In science, industry, public administration and documentation centers large amounts of data and information are collected which must be analyzed, ordered, visualized, classified and stored efficiently in order to be useful for practical applications. This volume contains 50 selected theoretical and applied papers presenting a wealth of new and innovative ideas, methods, models and systems which can be used for this purpose. It combines papers and strategies from two main streams of research in an interdisciplinary, dynamic and exciting way: On the one hand, mathematical and statistical methods are described which allow a quantitative analysis of data, provide strategies for classifying objects or making exploratory searches for interesting structures, and give ways to make comprehensive graphical displays of large arrays of data. On the other hand, papers related to information sciences, informatics and data bank systems provide powerful tools for representing, modelling, storing and retrieving facts, data and knowledge characterized by qualitative descriptors, semantic relations, or linguistic concepts. The integration of both fields and a special part on applied problems from biology, medicine, archeology, industry and administration assure that this volume will be informative and useful for theory and practice. 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The author presents a topological approach to the problem of robustness of dynamic feedback control. First the gap-topology is introduced as a distance measure between systems. In this topology, stability of the closed loop system is a robust property. Furthermore, it is possible to solve the problem of optimally robust control in this setting. The book can be divided into two parts. The first chapters form an introduction to the topological approach towards robust stabilization. Although of theoretical nature, only general mathematical knowledge is required from the reader. The second part is devoted to compensator design. Several algorithms for computing an optimally robust controller in the gap-topology are presented and worked out. Therefore we hope that the book will not only be of interest to theoreticians, but that also practitioners will benefit from it. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This thesis is a theoretical study of the optimal dynamic policies of a, to some extent, slowly adjusting firm that faces an exogeneously given technological progress and an exogeneously given business cycle. It belongs to the area of mathematical economics. It is intended to appeal to mathematical economists in the first place, economists in the second place and mathematicians in the third place. It entails an attempt to stretch the limits of the application of deterministic dynamic optimisation to economics, in particular to firm behaviour. A well-known Dutch economist (and trained mathematician) recently stated in 1 a local university newspaper that mathematical economists give economics a bad reputation, since they formulate their problems from a mathematical point of view and they are only interested in technical, mathematical problems. At the same time, however, 'profound as economists may be, when it comes to extending or modifying the existing theory to make it applicable to a certain economic problem, an understanding of optimal control theory (which is the mathematical theory used in this thesis, ovh) based solely on heuristic arguments will often turn out to be inadequate' (SydSSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Preparative Polar Organometallic Chemistry is a collection of laboratory procedures for the synthesis and functionalization of organoalkali and Grignard compounds. The second volume with methods for generation and transformation of compounds bearing the metal at an sp3 carbon complements the first in which the metal was bound to an sp2 carbon atom in the reagent. Synthetically important intermediates such as metallated S,S-acetales, imines, nitriles, isonitriles and ketones are illustrated. All procedures have been worked out in full detail and tested in the author's own laboratory. Both books are intended to be practical bench-top laboratory manuals for working organic chemists, from the student to the advanced scientist.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In many fields of application of mathematics, progress is crucially dependent on the good flow of information between (i) theoretical mathematicians looking for applications, (ii) mathematicians working in applications in need of theory, and (iii) scientists and engineers applying mathematical models and methods. The intention of this book is to stimulate this flow of information. In the first three chapters (accessible to third year students of mathematics and physics and to mathematically interested engineers) applications of Abel integral equations are surveyed broadly including determination of potentials, stereology, seismic travel times, spectroscopy, optical fibres. In subsequent chapters (requiring some background in functional analysis) mapping properties of Abel integral operators and their relation to other integral transforms in various function spaces are investi- gated, questions of existence and uniqueness of solutions of linear and nonlinear Abel integral equations are treated, and for equations of the first kind problems of ill-posedness are discussed. Finally, some numerical methods are described. In the theoretical parts, emphasis is put on the aspects relevant to applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In science, industry, public administration and documentation centers large amounts of data and information are collected which must be analyzed, ordered, visualized, classified and stored efficiently in order to be useful for practical applications. This volume contains 50 selected theoretical and applied papers presenting a wealth of new and innovative ideas, methods, models and systems which can be used for this purpose. It combines papers and strategies from two main streams of research in an interdisciplinary, dynamic and exciting way: On the one hand, mathematical and statistical methods are described which allow a quantitative analysis of data, provide strategies for classifying objects or making exploratory searches for interesting structures, and give ways to make comprehensive graphical displays of large arrays of data. On the other hand, papers related to information sciences, informatics and data bank systems provide powerful tools for representing, modelling, storing and retrieving facts, data and knowledge characterized by qualitative descriptors, semantic relations, or linguistic concepts. The integration of both fields and a special part on applied problems from biology, medicine, archeology, industry and administration assure that this volume will be informative and useful for theory and practice.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 412 pp. Englisch.