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Die morphologischen Operatoren werden durch einfache mathematische Begriffe definiert und durch didaktische An- sätze und Illustrationen erklärt.

This multidisciplinary volume is the second in the STEAM-H series to feature invited contributions on mathematical applications in naval engineering.

About half a century ago Landau formulated the central principles of the phe- nomenological second-order phase transition theory which is based on the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking at phase transition.

The present book is devoted to problems of adaptation of artificial neural networks to robust fault diagnosis schemes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of international and domestic tourism and sharply focused attention on the importance of tourist health, safety and wellbeing like never before.

This book evolved from a one-year sequence of courses offered by the authors at Iowa State University.

Recent developments in model-predictive control promise remarkable opportunities for designing multi-input, multi-output control systems and improving the control of single-input, single-output systems.

The first edition of Interpretive Description established itself as the key resource for novice and intermediate level researchers in applied settings for conducting a qualitative research project with practical outcomes.

This handbook offers everything students and scholars need to master the craft of developing insightful and delightful data visualisations.

Content-Based Image And Video Retrieval addresses the basic concepts and techniques for designing content-based image and video retrieval systems.

The Second Annual Workshop on Privacy and Security, organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security of the School of C- munication and Information at Rutgers University, was held on May 12, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies provides the first authoritative overview of methodology in this growing field.

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video is a state-of-the-art book which encompasses the breadth and depth of the field of ethnographic film and video-based research.

The fast-growing number of patients suffering from various ailments has overstretched the carrying capacity of traditional healthcare systems.

The four-volume set LNCS 14369 until 14372 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2023, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November/December 2023.

This book investigates the issue of local mobilization against asylum seekers in urban areas, which are often disproportionally affected by complex issues related to immigration and integration, as well as socio-economic development and growing inequalities.

This is the first workbook that introduces the multilevel approach to modeling with categorical outcomes using IBM SPSS Version 20.

Written as a textbook for LIS students taking reference courses, this fully updated and revised seventh edition of Reference and Information Services: An Introduction also serves as a helpful handbook for practitioners to refamiliarize themselves with particular types and formats of sources and to refresh their knowledge on specific service topics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2021, which took place in Tianjin, China, during December 17-19, 2021.

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography by fostering new links among sensory, affective, more-than-human, non-representational, and multimodal sensory research traditions and composition styles.

The recent technological advances have made it possible to deploy small, l- power, low-bandwidth, and multi-functional wireless sensor nodes to monitor and report the conditions and events in their local environments.

This book is a relevant reference for any readers interested in the security aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems and particularly useful for those looking to keep informed on the latest advances in this dynamic area.

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60thbirthday.

This companion takes the student through the different approaches to working with cases in the classroom, virtually and for research purposes.

A new class of provably capacity achieving error-correction codes, polar codes are suitable for many problems, such as lossless and lossy source coding, problems with side information, multiple access channel, etc.

This book offers a thorough introduction to the highly promising complex agent-based approach to economics, in which agent-based models (ABMs) are used to represent economic systems as complex and evolving systems composed of heterogeneous agents of limited rationality who interact with each other, generating the system's emergent properties in the process.

This monograph presents a systematic top-down approach to distributed control synthesis of discrete-event systems (DES).

The eight-volume set LNCS 14438 until 14445 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2023, held in Guangzhou, China, during December 4-8, 2023.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

A comprehensive introduction to social network analysis that hones in on basic centrality measures, social links, subgroup analysis, data sources, and more Written by military, industry, and business professionals, this book introduces readers to social network analysis, the new and emerging topic that has recently become of significant use for industry, management, law enforcement, and military practitioners for identifying both vulnerabilities and opportunities in collaborative networked organizations.

The proposed book presents recent breakthroughs for the control of distributed parameter systems and follows on from a workshop devoted to this topic.

As the title of the book suggests, the topics of this book are organized into two parts.

The book presents the proceedings of two conferences: The 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'20) and The 4th International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing (ACC'20).

This accessible and highly practical book provides an introductory guide to the world of research support in the academic library.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2017, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy, LightSec 2016, held in Aksaray, Turkey, in September 2016.

This book includes extended and revised versions of selected papers from the 7th and 8th edition of the International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2021 and ICISSP 2022).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference onMachine Translation, CCMT 2022, held in Lhasa, China, during August 6-10, 2022.

Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it illustrates.

With recent technological developments, touted also as Industry 4.

Focusing on HRM developments in thirteen developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the contextual functions of HR in these countries.

Fairness and ethicality have been at the center of the debates on the appropriate use of educational tests since the 1960s.

Can Schools Survive?

The purpose of this book is to introduce two recent topics in mathematical physics and probability theory: the Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) and interacting particle systems related to random matrix theory.

Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in December 2017.

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