With Skype, mobile telephony and other innovations in communication transforming the way families keep in touch with each other, this study analyzes how connections between families and couples are evolving in today's evolving technological context.
however, classical belief revision is not well suited for logics such as Description Logics.Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics presents a framework which can... Læs mere
Industrial energy efficiency is a key element of our efforts to mitigate global warming, and this combination of engineering and social science approaches does much to enhance our understanding in both technical-industrial and policy-making contexts.
Presents novel ways for helping HCI designers communicate why they want to promote users' contact with cultural diversity, presenting five cultural viewpoint metaphors supporting reasoning and decision-making in dimensions of intercultural experience.
examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition... Læs mere
This book is the second of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view. describes simulations of... Læs mere
Here is a practical reference on recent research in supply chain integration focusing on distributed decision-making problems. It examines recent applications of various decision-making tools for integrating supply chains.
This rigorous yet accessible introduction to complex analysis and differential equations covers complex numbers, holomorphic functions, analytic functions, ordinary differential equations, Fourier series and applications to partial differential equations.
Advanced Control of Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Systems is an orderly presentation of recent ideas for overcoming the complications inherent in the... Læs mere
The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's.
This revised and extended second edition covers problems concerning the design and realization of digital control algorithms for power electronics circuits using digital signal processing (DSP) methods.