This introductory text provides undergraduate and graduate students with a concise and practical introduction to the primary concepts and techniques of optimization.
Intelligent Information Technology (iiT) encompasses the theories and ap- plications of artificial intelligence, statistical pattern recognition, learning theory, data warehousing, data mining and knowledge discovery, Grid com- puting, and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in the context of today's as well as future IT, such as Electronic Commerce (EC), Business Intelligence (BI), Social Intelligence (SI), Web Intelligence (WI), Knowledge Grid (KG), and Knowledge Community (KC), among others.
Ideal zum interaktiven Arbeiten und zum Selbststudium - die verständliche Einführung vermittelt lern- und anwendungsgerecht die FE-Methode mit den Bereichen der Elastostatik und Feldprobleme.
Dieses Lehrbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über Methoden der deskriptiven Statistik, die durch einige Verfahren der explorativen Datenanalyse ergänzt wurden.
Diese sehr gut verständliche Einführung in die Biometrie ist für all jene geeignet, die möglichst rasch statistische Verfahren zur Auswertung experimenteller Ergebnisse lernen und handhaben möchten.
Aimed at students, professionals and research workers who need to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of practical problems using SPSS, MATLAB and STATISTICA, this text provides a comprehensive coverage of the main statistical analysis topics important for practical applications such as data description, statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, survival data and directional statistics.
This book grew out of the teaching and lecture notes for a course in "e;Dynamic Economics"e; given at Copenhagen University where it has been part of a combined study program in economics and mathematics since 1986.
Ecological Informatics is defined as the design and application of computational techniques for ecological analysis, synthesis, forecasting and management.
Over the past decades, the Boundary Element Method has emerged as a ver- satile and powerful tool for the solution of engineering problems, presenting in many cases an alternative to the more widely used Finite Element Method.
"e;The art of structure is where to put the holes"e; Robert Le Ricolais, 1894-1977 This is a completely revised, updated and expanded version of the book titled "e;Optimization of Structural Topology, Shape and Material"e; (Bends0e 1995).
Applied Quantitative Finance presents solutions, theoretical developments and method proliferation for many practical problems in quantitative finance.
The growing number of published works dedicated to global environmental change leads to the realization that protection of the natural environment has become an urgent problem.
Nowadays it is becoming clearer and clearer that, in the description of natural phenomena, the triadic scheme - microseopie, mesoscopic, macroscopic - is only a rough approximation and that there are many levels of description, probably an infinite hierarchy, in which the specific properties of a given level express some kind of cumulative or collective behaviour of properties or sys- tems corresponding to the lower levels.
Based on practical problems in mechanical engineering, the author develops in this book the fundamental concepts of non-smooth thermomechanics and introduces the necessary background material needed to deal with mechanics involving discontinuities and non-smooth constraints.
In many areas of finance and stochastics, significant advances have been made since this field of research was opened by Black, Scholes and Merton in 1973.
Cryptology, for millennia a "e;secret science"e;, is rapidly gaining in practical importance for the protection of communication channels, databases, and software.
The Goals of Data Collection and Its Statistical Treatment in the Earth Sciences The earth sciences are characterised by loose and complex relationships between variables, and the necessity to understand the geographical dis- tribution of observations as well as their frequency distribution.
Besides analyzing stock markets, the book considers a wide range of speculative markets for various items such as real estate, commodities , postage-stamps, antiquarian books.
Cryptology, for millennia a "e;secret science"e;, is rapidly gaining in practical importance for the protection of communication channels, databases, and software.
Michael Frenkel, Ulrich Hommel, Markus Rudolf This volume has been written in honor of Gunter Dufey who has dedicated his professional career to the advancement of international business education around the globe and who has done much to improve our understanding of risk management as a challenge as well as an opportunity for shareholder-value-driven enterprises.
