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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.

Vor 150 Jahren, im Oktober 1807, veröffentlichten neun Heidelberger Professoren die Ankündigung einer Heidelbergischen Literaturzeitung.

Almost everywhere in the world housing policies play an important role in government programs.

This book has grown out of a desire to explore the possibilities of using optimizing models in transportation planning.

Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen sind eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung.

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.

As food safety concerns become increasingly prevalent, understanding the physiological implications of foodborne pathogens, contaminants, and additives is essential for safeguarding public health.

This book is designed to introduce doctoral and other higher-degree research students to the process of scientific research in the fields of Information Systems as well as fields of Information Technology, Business Process Management and other related disciplines within the social sciences.

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.

This book offers a comprehensive dive into the rapidly evolving world of autonomous vehicles and their pivotal role in modern data collection and mission-critical operations.

Malnutrition and its related symptoms are both frequent and deleterious effects of cancer treatment.

Conformal invariance has been a spectacularly successful tool in advancing our understanding of the two-dimensional phase transitions found in classical systems at equilibrium.

The study of complex systems attracts the attention of many researchers in diverse fields.

The thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter has become a profound and challenging area of modern physics, both in theory and in experiment.

The theory of linear functional observers, which is the subject of this book, is increasingly becoming a popular researched topic because of the many advantages it presents in state observation and control system design.

The emphasis throughout the present volume is on the practical application of theoretical mathematical models helping to unravel the underlying mechanisms involved in processes from mathematical physics and biosciences.

Isoperimetric, measure concentration and random process techniques appear at the basis of the modern understanding of Probability in Banach spaces.

Living beings require constant information processing for survival.

The European People's Party, the largest political party in Europe, has roots that run deep in history.

The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our conscious experiences entering only passively.

Ein Katalog der sämtlichen Veröffentlichungen eines Verlags ist die Leistungsbilanz seiner Arbeit und damit auch ein Ausdruck des Dankes gegenüber dem Gründer und den Verlegergene­ rationen die ihm nachfolgten.

The latest in Springer's "e;Medical English"e; series, aimed at health care professionals who need English for their work but do not speak English on a day-to-day basis.

Cellular automata were introduced in the first half of the last century by John von Neumann who used them as theoretical models for self-reproducing machines.

In recent years there has been a significant increase of interest in continuous-time Principal-Agent models, or contract theory, and their applications.