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Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue thedevelopment of artificial systems based on the study ofbiological systems.

Advances in microelectronic technology have made massivelyparallel computing a reality and triggered an outburst ofresearch activity in parallel processing architectures andalgorithms.

In the last ten to fifteen years there have been many important developments in the theory of integrable equations.

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Control technology is a new learning environment whichoffers the opportunity to take up the economic andeducational challenge of enabling people to adapt to newtechnologies and use them to solve problems.

Bifurcation theory and catastrophe theory are two well-known areas within the field of dynamical systems.

The Background to the Institute The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) 'People and Computers - Applying an Anthropocentric Approach to Integrated Production Systems and Organisations' came about after the distribution of a NATO fact sheet to BruneI University, which described the funding of ASls.

Techniques of optimization are applied in many problems in economics, automatic control, engineering, etc.

This book presents a complete and accurate study of algebraic circuits, digital circuits whose performance can be associated with any algebraic structure.

This book reviews the basic ideas of the Law of Large Numbers with its consequences to the deterministic world and the issue of ergodicity.

Das Buch beschreibt den Entwurf und die Entwicklung des Expertensystems ICX, das, verbunden mit einem CAD-System, bei der Gestaltung, Dimensionierung, Planung und Ausführung einer Kunststoff-Metall-Klebung dem Konstrukteur hilfreich zur Seite steht.

The fields of integer programming and combinatorial optimization continue to be areas of great vitality, with an ever increasing number of publications and journals appearing.

In recent years there has been a considerable renewal of interest in the clas- sical problems of the calculus of variations, both from the point of view of mathematics and of applications.

Nonlinear dynamics is now recognized as playing a crucialrole in a wide variety of disciplines.

One of the driving forces behind much of modern science andtechnology is the desire to foresee and thereby control thefuture.

Ein System - SP3R - zur graphischen Programmierung und Simulation wird vorgestellt.

Since the human organism is itself an open system, we are naturally curious about the behavior of other open systems with fluxes of matter, energy or information.

This volume contains selected papers presented at the "e;International Workshop on Computationally Intensive Methods in Simulation and Op- th th timization"e; held from 23 to 25 August 1990 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (nASA) in La~enburg, Austria.

This volume is the record of lectures delivered at the Conference on Mathematical System Theory during the summer of 1975.

The first objective of statistical mechanics is to explain the fundamental laws of thermodynamics from first principles based on the atomic structure of matter.

In our daily lives we conceive of our surroundings as an objectively given reality.

The craft of designing mathematical models of dynamic objects offers a large number of methods to solve subproblems in the design, typically parameter estimation, order determination, validation, model reduc- tion, analysis of identifiability, sensi tivi ty and accuracy.

Generalizations of the classical concept of a convexfunction have been proposed in various fields such aseconomics, management science, engineering, statistics andapplied sciences during the second half of this century.

Computergrafik befaßt sich mit den Grundlagen der zwei- und dreidimensionsalen Computergrafik und deren Anwendung in PC-basierten Systemen.

In February 1992, I defended my doctoral thesis: Engineering Optimiza- tion - selected contributions (IMSOR, The Technical University of Den- mark, 1992, p.

Seit vielen Jahren sind Rechner bei der Automatisierung technischer Prozesse unverzichtlich.

Generalizations of convex functions have been used in a variety of fields such as economics.

This volume describes our intellectual path from the physics of complex sys- tems to the science of artificial cognitive systems.

This book treats the subject of global optimization with minimal restrictions on the behavior on the objective functions.

The International Summer School on Mathematical Systems Theory and Economics was held at the Villa Monastero in Varenna, Italy, from June 1 through June 12, 1967.

This book provides a rigorous but elementary introduction to the theory of Markov Processes on a countable state space.

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th European Workshop, EuroPKI 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, SEC 2013, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 11.

Over the past few decades the powerful methods of statistical physics and Euclidean quantum field theory have moved closer together, with common tools based on the use of path integrals.

This is a comprehensive reference text that examines the current state of Legal Medicine, which encompasses Forensic Medicine, in the 21st century.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of two international workshops, the 6th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2011, and the 4th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2011, held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2011.