Mathematics

This book comes out of need and urgency (expressed especially in areas of Information Retrieval with respect to Image, Audio, Internet and Biology) to have a working tool to compare data.

The monograph is written with a view to provide basic tools for researchers working in Mathematical Analysis and Applications, concentrating on differential, integral and finite difference equations.

This Handbook is a collection of chapters on key issues in the design and analysis of computer simulation experiments on models of stochastic systems.

The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is used in many applications by the scientific, engineering and research communities and in data compression in particular.

This book is a result of many years of author's research and teaching on random vibration and control.

This handbook is volume III in a series devoted to stationary partial differential quations.

This handbook is the third volume in a series of volumes devoted to self contained and up-to-date surveys in the tehory of ordinary differential equations, written by leading researchers in the area.

Mixing up various disciplines frequently produces something that are profound and far-reaching.

Geometrical tolerancing is used to specify and control the form, location and orientation of the features of components and manufactured parts.

Mental Chronometry (MC) comprises a variety of techniques for measuring the speed with which the brain processes information.

Data Mining and Data Visualization focuses on dealing with large-scale data, a field commonly referred to as data mining.

Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century is an indispensable research tool for anyone interested in the development of logic, including researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic, history of logic, mathematics, history of mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, argumentation theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

The aim of this book is to report on the progress realized in probability theory in the field of dynamic random walks and to present applications in computer science, mathematical physics and finance.

This book gives the reader a survey of hundreds results in the field of the cell and cell associated objects modeling.

The book presents the recent achievements on bifurcation studies of nonlinear dynamical systems.

Algebra, as we know it today, consists of many different ideas, concepts and results.

Many large mathematical models, not only models arising and used in environmental studies, are described by systems of partial differential equations.

This book introduces the method of lower and upper solutions for ordinary differential equations.

This book is a unique blend of difference equations theory and its exciting applications to economics.

This book is devoted to an important branch of the dynamical systems theory : the study of the fine (fractal) structure of Poincare recurrences -instants of time when the system almost repeats its initial state.

Six Sigma is a management program that provides tools that help manufacturers obtain efficient, stream-lined production to coincide with ultimate high quality products.

This volume introduces a unified, self-contained study of linear discrete parabolic problems through reducing the starting discrete problem to the Cauchy problem for an evolution equation in discrete time.

This book explores a new, economically viable approach to pressure vessel design, included in the (harmonized) standard EN 13445 (for unfired pressure vessels) and based on linear as well as non-linear Finite Element analyses.

The book contains a systematic treatment of the qualitative theory of elliptic boundary value problems for linear and quasilinear second order equations in non-smooth domains.

After a brief description of the evolution of thinking on Finslerian geometry starting from Riemann, Finsler, Berwald and Elie Cartan, the book gives a clear and precise treatment of this geometry.

It has widely been recognized that submodular functions play essential roles in efficiently solvable combinatorial optimization problems.

The aim of this Handbook is to acquaint the reader with the current status of the theory of evolutionary partial differential equations, and with some of its applications.

The book presents a systematic and compact treatment of the qualitative theory of half-lineardifferential equations.

This book familiarizes both popular and fundamental notions and techniques from the theory of non-normed topological algebras with involution, demonstrating with examples and basic results the necessity of this perspective.

In the series of volumes which together will constitute the "e;Handbook of Differential Geometry"e; we try to give a rather complete survey of the field of differential geometry.

The book introduces a hot topic of novel and emerging computing paradigms and architectures -computation by travelling waves in reaction-diffusion media.

This volume describes how to develop Bayesian thinking, modelling and computation both from philosophical, methodological and application point of view.

This handbook is the second volume in a series devoted to self contained and up-to-date surveys in the theory of ordinary differential equations, writtenby leading researchers in the area.

A collection of self contained, state-of-the-art surveys.

Geometrical tolerancing is the standard technique that designers and engineers use to specify and control the form, location and orientation of the features of components and manufactured parts.

Handbook of Statistics_29B contains the most comprehensive account of sample surveys theory and practice to date.

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over themCharles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery ';if you wish to save me from a miserable death.

A Concrete Approach to Abstract Algebra presents a solid and highly accessible introduction to abstract algebra by providing details on the building blocks of abstract algebra.

The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: De consolatione philosophiae) is a philosophical work by the Roman statesman Boethius, written in 523 AD.

Mathematics and the Divine seem to correspond to diametrically opposed tendencies of the human mind.

Provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the theory and practice of real-time human disease outbreak detection, explicitly recognizing the revolution in practices of infection control and public health surveillance.

This dictionary contains 13,000 terms with more than 4,000 cross-references used in the following fields: automation, technology of management and regulation, computing machine and data processing, computer control, automation of industry, laser technology, theory of information and theory of signals, theory of algorithms and programming, philosophical bases of cybernetics, cybernetics and mathematical methods.

This book is a survey of current topics in the mathematical theory of knots.

This volume gives a state of the art of triangular norms which can be used for the generalization of several mathematical concepts, such as conjunction, metric, measure, etc.

Break down biostatistics, make sense of complex concepts, and pass your class If you're taking biostatistics, you may need or want a little extra assistance as you make your way through.

Data Mining and Data Visualization focuses on dealing with large-scale data, a field commonly referred to as data mining.

The book addresses many important new developments in the field.

This volume brings together former students, colleagues, and others influenced by the sociological scholarship of Archibald O.

The chapters of this Handbook volume cover nine main topics that are representative of recenttheoretical and algorithmic developments in the field.

This book collects 10 mathematical essays on approximation in Analysis and Topology by some of the most influent mathematicians of the last third of the 20th Century.