Data fusion, the ability to combine data derived fromseveral sources to provide a coherent, informative, anduseful characterization of a situation,is a challengingtask.
This book reports research conducted in the ESPRIT project PECOS, which investigated the requirements for effective CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) with special reference to cooperation among organisations in large projects.
These proceedings contain the texts of 37 contributions presented at the International Conference on Engineering Optimization in an Industrial Environment, which took place on 3 - 4 September 1990 at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Hesearch Center, I~H Germany.
the outcome of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) This book is held in Neuss (near Dusseldorf), Federal Republic of Germany from 28 September to 2 October, 1987.
In the past, applied artificial intelligence systems were built with particular emphasis on general reasoning methods intended to function efficiently, even when only relatively little domain-specific knowledge was available.
Although system analysis is a well established methodology, the specific application of such analysis to information systems is a relatively new endeavor.
The goal of this book is to present a framework within which the myriad of office technologies and office systems design techniques can be better understood.
Relational methods can be found at various places incomputer science, notably in data base theory, relationalsemantics of concurrency, relationaltype theory, analysisof rewriting systems, and modern programming languagedesign.
Multimedia environments suggest to us a new perception of the state of changes in and the integration of new technologies that can increase our ability to process information.
The mathematical theory of computation has given rise to two important ap- proaches to the informal notion of "e;complexity"e;: Kolmogorov complexity, usu- ally a complexity measure for a single object such as a string, a sequence etc.
The Summer School in Marktoberdorf 1990 had as its overall theme the development of programs as an activity that can be carried out based on and supported by a mathematical method.
With the rapid growth of integration scale of VLSI chips and the present need for reliable computers in space exploration, fault diagnosis and fault toleran- ce have become more important than before, and hence reveal a lot of interest- ing topics which attract many researchers to make a great number of contribu- tions to this field.
