The renormalization-group approach is largely responsible for the considerable success which has been achieved in the last ten years in developing a complete quantitative theory of phase transitions.
This is the Proceedings of the Taniguchi International Symposium on "e;Relaxation of Elementary Excitations"e; which was held October 12-16,1979, at Susono-shi (at the foot of f1t.
Towards the end of the 1960s, a number of quite different circumstances combined to launch a period of intense activity in the digital processing of electron micro- graphs.
Over the last two decades, the search for a compact, high-power semiconductor source has produced many designs and concepts for monolithic diode-laser arrays and optical amplifiers.
The Product Data Technology Advisory Group, short PDTAG, was established on 30 September 1992 under the auspices of the ESPRIT CIME Division of the Directorate General XIII of the European Commission.
Since the publication of the first edition of our book, geometric algorithms and combinatorial optimization have kept growing at the same fast pace as before.
Applying fractal geometry to science is bringing about a breakthrough in our understanding of complex systems in nature that show self-similar or self-affine features.
In 1979, a historical meeting took place at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kiev, USSR, where 48 American Scientists, specialists in nonlinear and turbulent processes, met for two weeks with their soviet counterparts.
Motion and Structure from Image Sequences is invaluablereading for researchers, graduate students, and practicingengineers dealing with computer vision.
This book gives the first detailed coherent treatment of a relatively young branch of statistical physics - nonlinear nonequilibrium and fluctuation-dissipative thermo- dynamics.
Scientific visualization is a new and rapidly growing areain which efforts from computer graphics research and manyscientific and engineering disciplines are integrated.
It is universally recognized that the end of the current and the beginning of the next century will be characterized by a radical change in the existing trends in the economic development of all countries and a transition to new principles of economic management on the basis of a resource and energy conservation policy.
This monograph deals with various classes of deterministic and stochastic continuous time optimal control problems that are defined over unbounded time intervals.
The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Computer algorithms for solving linear algebraic equations: the state of the art"e; was held September 9-21, 1990, at II Ciocco, Barga, Italy.
The primary aim of this monograph is to provide a formal framework for the representation and management of uncertainty and vagueness in the field of artificial intelligence.
Das seit 1975 im ein- bis dreijährigen Turnus ausgerichtete "Aachener Symposium für Signaltheorie" - früher "Aachener Kolloquium" - widmet sich schwerpunktmäßig den theoretischen Grundlagen der Signalverarbeitung.
The fourth Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium, devoted to the topic of dynamics and patterns in complex fluids, was held on October 26 and 27, 1989, in Nishinomiya City, Japan, where ten invited speakers gave their lectures.
This book contains the written record of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors held in the Hotel Villa del Mare, Maratea, Italy, August 28 - September 1, 1989.
The contribution of computer simulation studies to our understanding of the prop- erties of a wide range of condensed matter systems is now weIl established.
This book contains the edited versions of lectures and selected contributed papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Real-Time Integration Methods For Mechanical System Simulation, held in Snowbird, Utah, August 7-11, 1989.
