Algorithms and data structures

The already broad range of applications of ring theory has been enhanced in the eighties by the increasing interest in algebraic structures of considerable complexity, the so-called class of quantum groups.

A statisticallanguage model, or more simply a language model, is a prob- abilistic mechanism for generating text.

Databases and database systems in particular, are considered as kerneIs of any Information System (IS).

Algorithmic Principles of Mathematical Programming investigates the mathematical structures and principles underlying the design of efficient algorithms for optimization problems.

In the last thirty years Computational Geometry has emerged as a new discipline from the field of design and analysis of algorithms.

Images and video play a crucial role in visual information systems and multimedia.

Modern information systems differ in essence from their predecessors.

Time is a fascinating subject and has long since captured mankind's imagination, from the ancients to modern man, both adult and child alike.

This edited volume addresses a subject which has been discussed inten- sively in the computer vision community for several years.

This book includes a set of selected papers from the first "e;International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems,"e; (ICEIS'99) held in SeUtbal, Portugal, from 27 to 30 March 1999.

Automorphisms of Affine Spaces describes the latest results concerning several conjectures related to polynomial automorphisms: the Jacobian, real Jacobian, Markus-Yamabe, Linearization and tame generators conjectures.

Many problems in science, technology and engineering are posed in the form of operator equations of the first kind, with the operator and RHS approximately known.

The 16 contributions to Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards report on GIS investigations into landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and groundwater pollution hazards.

The advent of the World Wide Web has changed the perspectives of groupware systems.

At the beginning we would like to introduce a refinement.

In this volume, designed for computational scientists and engineers working on applications requiring the memories and processing rates of large-scale parallelism, leading algorithmicists survey their own field-defining contributions, together with enough historical and bibliographical perspective to permit working one's way to the frontiers.

In this volume, designed for engineers and scientists working in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), experts offer assessments of the capabilities of CFD, highlight some fundamental issues and barriers, and propose novel approaches to overcome these problems.

One of the main ways by which we can understand complex processes is to create computerised numerical simulation models of them.

This monograph describes an innovative prototyping framework for data and knowledge intensive systems.

Image analysis is one of the most challenging areas in today's computer sci- ence, and image technologies are used in a host of applications.

This volume contains refereed papers and extended abstracts of papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled 'Numerical Integration: Recent Develop- ments, Software and Applications', held at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, June 17-21,1991.

Even three decades ago, the words 'combinatorial algebra' contrasting, for in- stance, the words 'combinatorial topology,' were not a common designation for some branch of mathematics.

This book describes the rapidly developing field of interior point methods (IPMs).

Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of natural language processing (NLP) and vision processing (VP), there has hitherto been little progress in integrating these two subareas of artificial intelligence.

The ability of storing, managing, and giving access to the huge quantity of data collected by astronomical observatories is one of the major challenges of modern astronomy.

Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP) there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Advances in information technology provide opportunities for the development of computer systems that support risk managers in complex tasks.

A significant part of understanding how people use geographic information and technology concerns human cognition.

During the sixteenth century, Cardano wrote a fascinating work called The Book on Games of Chance.

This book presents the proceedings and the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production, which was held in Marmaris, Turkey, between September 10- 14, 200 I.

For some time, all branches of the military have used a wide range of sensors to provide data for many purposes, including surveillance, reconnoitring, target detection and battle damage assessment.

The 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster offered a timely opportunity for an expert assessment of the current situation and suggestions for approaches to managing the information associated with the site and surrounding contaminated territories.

When we first heard in the spring of 2000 that the Seminaire de matMmatiques superieures (SMS) was interested in devoting its session of the summer of 200l-its 40th-to scientific computing the idea of taking on the organizational work seemed to us somewhat remote.

This volume is about "e;Structure"e;.

Interest in statistical methodology is increasing so rapidly in the astronomical community that accessible introductory material in this area is long overdue.

Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP) there has up to now been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP), there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Algorithms for continuous optimiza- tion: the state of the art"e; was held September 5-18, 1993, at II Ciocco, Barga, Italy.

Fuzzy technology has emerged as one of the most exciting new concepts available.

Managing land and water is a complex affair.

The 4th FTRA International Conference on Information Technology Convergence and Services (ITCS-12) will be held in Gwangju, Korea on September 6 - 8, 2012.

Linear algebra is a living, active branch of mathematics which is central to almost all other areas of mathematics, both pure and applied, as well as to computer science, to the physical, biological, and social sciences, and to engineering.

This book is designed both for FPGA users interested in developing new, specific components - generally for reducing execution times -and IP core designers interested in extending their catalog of specific components.

Digital geometry emerged as an independent discipline in the second half of the last century.

Intuitionistic type theory can be described, somewhat boldly, as a partial fulfillment of the dream of a universal language for science.