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Overview: This book updates the thesis I produced for my PhD at the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the University of Edinburgh, correcting errors, and improving some of the formatting and readability. Since the original work was completed (early 1996), research has progressed. Most notably, the public profile of AI and game-playing has reached new heights with the feats of the chess computer DEEPER BLUE (which surely uses AI, no matter what IBM would have us believe). Although less heralded, the ability of computers to play Bridge (the main example domain in this book) has also incre

Overview: .Durch aktuelle Herausforderungen wie hohe Studierendenzahlen wird es insbesondere in den großen Studiendomänen der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften zunehmend schwerer, die Lernbedarfe einzelner Studierender frühzeitig zu identifizieren und diese in der Lehre zu berücksichtigen. Die gleichzeitig starke Heterogenität der Studierendenschaft macht es erforderlich, Wege zu suchen, vulnerablen Gruppen über das generelle Lehrangebot hinaus spezifische Angebote zu machen, um die Studierenden adäquat zu unterstützen und somit ein erfolgreiches Studium zu ermöglichen. Das Erreichen indiv

Overview: 978-3-642-80524-0978-3-642-80523-3Series ISSN 0083-5846

Overview: Provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary look at West African fortresses as representations of colonization in the region.Features some of the leading scholars in multiple fields of African Studies.PreThese essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present  a nuanced image of fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of the buil

Overview: Experts from academia, clinical settings, and the businessworld pool their knowledge about work injury prevention and managementin the new .Sourcebook of Occupational Rehabilitation.. The 22contributions in this wide-ranging reference address aspects of thethree primary areas of service delivery: prevention, assessment, andrehabilitation. The text takes a multidisciplinary viewpoint towardits subject in order to shed light on the mechanisms and management ofwork-related disorders. It boasts a wealth of current and in-depthinformation, and takes a practical `applications approach‘ tor

Overview: 978-3-540-03429-2978-3-642-88241-8Series ISSN 0083-8055

Overview: Offers a comprehensive analysis of security requirements for user modeling systems proceeding from requirements of general information systems and taking into account particular issues of user modelinUser-adaptive (or "personalized") systems take individual character­ istics of their current users into account and adapt their behavior ac­ cordingly. Several empirical studies demonstrate their benefits in areas like education and training, online help for complex software, dynamic information delivery, provision of computer access to people with dis­ abilities, and to some extent info

Overview: Fully revised 3rd Edition investigates and compares different approaches and presents many examples for investment decision-making under uncertainty.Establishes a new investment decision rule prospect.This fully updated third edition is devoted to the analysis of various Stochastic Dominance (SD) decision rules. It discusses the pros and cons of each of the alternate SD rules, the application of these rules to various research areas like statistics, agriculture, medicine, measuring income inequality and the poverty level in various countries, and of course, to investment decision-mak

Overview: Provides a broad overview of methodologies used in statistical investigations of forestry and environmental issues.Discusses important case studies related to forestry and environmental sciences.Inclu.This book presents recent developments in statistical methodologies with particular relevance to applications in forestry and environmental sciences. It discusses important methodologies like ranked set sampling, adaptive cluster sampling, small area estimation, calibration approach-based estimators, design of experiments, multivariate techniques, Internet of Things, and ridge regressio

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security and Cryptology for Networks, SCN 2008, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2008. The book contains one invited talk and 26 revised full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Implementations, Protocols, Encryption, Primitives, Signatures, Hardware and Cryptanalysis, and Key Exchange.978-3-540-85854-6978-3-540-85855-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political activism were as important as his economics.978-1-349-36339-1978-1-137-36643-6Series ISSN 2662-6276 Series E-ISSN 2662-6284

Overview: Presents innovative and environmentally friendly earth-based building materials.Offers a reference guide for researchers and professionals in building construction with Shot-Earth technology.Enables tThis book presents an innovative and environmentally friendly type of excavated earth-based building material, called Shot-Earth. The use of a common excavated earth as a construction material (both for structural and non-structural applications) has many important advantages, the main one being that the soil can be used as a zero kilo and zero cost material, being used in the same place

Overview: .In this landmark set of papers, experts from around the world present the latest and most promising approaches to both the theory and practice of effective environmental management. To achieve sustainable development, organizations and individual citizens must comply with environmental laws and regulations. Accordingly, a major contribution of this book is the presentation of original techniques for designing effective environmental policies, regulations, inspection precedures and monitoring systems. Interesting methods for modelling risk and decision making problems are discussed f

Overview: .Springers Handbuch der VWL. stellt in insgesamt 20 Beiträgen die wichtigsten Gebiete der Volkswirtschaftslehre vor. Die Beiträge enthalten umfassendes, prüfungs- und praxisrelevantes Wissen für Studenten, Praktiker und Wissenschaftler. Es ist ihr Ziel, dem Leser volkswirtschaftliche Fragen, Methoden und Ergebnisse und die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ökonomischer Analyse zu erläutern und zugleich einen Eindruck davon nahezubringen, warum Volkswirtschaftslehre als Fach interessant ist. .Band 2. behandelt die Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, die Geldpolitik, die Sozialpolitik sowie die We

Overview: A major portion of this book discusses work which has appeared since the publication of the book .Similarity . .Methods for Differential Equations., Springer-Verlag, 1974, by the first author and J.D. Cole. The present book also includes a thorough and comprehensive treatment of Lie groups of tranformations and their various uses for solving ordinary and partial differential equations. No knowledge of group theory is assumed. Emphasis is placed on explicit computational algorithms to discover symmetries admitted by differential equations and to construct solutions resulting from symm

Overview: Für Betroffene und Angehörige: Verbindet Wissen mit Veränderungskompetenz.Hilft: Gut lesbare, leicht verständliche Darstellung zur sozialen Angst.Umfassend: Hintergründe und Selbsthilfe.Includes suppl.Dieses Buch informiert über soziale Ängste, Schüchternheit und Angst vor Peinlichkeit, Blamage, Erröten, Zittern oder Schwitzen und über den Umgang damit – denn jeder Mensch hat solche Ängste schon erlebt. Für Betroffene ist es unerlässlich, mehr über soziale Angst zu wissen, um Schwellenängste zu reduzieren und sich zur Veränderung zu motivieren. Angehörige, Freunde, Lehrer und Kollege

Overview: .This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2014. The theme of the event was "Shortening the Time to Market: From Short Cycle Times to Continuous Value Delivery.".The 18 full papers, two short papers, two industrial papers, and two doctoral consortium abstracts accepted for ICSOB were selected from 45 submissions and are organized in sections on: strategic aspects, start-ups and software business, products and service business, software development, ecosystems, and platforms and enterpri

Overview: 978-94-009-7999-4978-94-009-7997-0Series ISSN 0303-6405

Overview: Das erste Basiswerk über die Kombination von Markenmanagement und Sport-Sponsoring978-3-8349-0662-5

Overview: Includes cutting-edge techniques.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key implementation advice from the expertsThis updated collection addresses the intense efforts that have been underway to characterize the cellular-molecular-biochemical elements of not only the hematopoietic stem cell niche but the niches for other stem cells. These specialized microenvironments that regulate stem cell function have continued to inspire tremendous interest as a subject of study in the years since the publication of the first edition. Written for the highly succ