The Białowieża Workshops on Geometric Methods in Physics, which are hosted in the unique setting of the Białowieża natural forest in Poland, are among the most important meetings in the field. Every year some 80 to 100 participants from both the mathematics and physics world joi…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, WADS 2015, held in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2015. The 54 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. The Algorithm…
"This up-to-date, comprehensive book covers the practicalities of working with and studying soil and plant nematodes. Written by an international team of experts, it includes traditional and new methodologies, as well as sections on behavioural and physiological assays, and cyto…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2014, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in August 2014. The 14 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They are organized in t…
This book reviews past and present work on discriminative and hierarchical models for both acoustic and language modeling. It also analyzes the research direction and trends towards establishing future-generation speech recognition.
This book is a cooperative attempt to ignite the human sparks of imagination and creativity, so that they can burn themselves into useful computer systems. The Scandinavian approach to system design has as its focal idea the involvement of workers, as users of technology, in the…
"First collection of A.K. Dewdney's popular "Computer recreations" columns, drawn from Scientific american magazine between 1984 and 1987"--Back cover
"Meshfree methods for the solution of partial differential equations gained much attention in recent years, not only in the engineering but also in the mathematics community. One of the reasons for this development is the fact that meshfree discretizations and particle models ar…
This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self-organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies title by the same guest-editors, it advances on the previous p…
This bookoffers an introduction toten key topics in quantum information science and quantum coherent phenomena, aimed at graduate-student level. The chapters cover some of the most recent developments in this dynamic research field where theoretical and experimental physics, com…
This book presents the most recent mathematical approaches to the growing research area of networks, oscillations, and collective motions in the context of biological systems. Bringing together the results of multiple studies of different biological systems, this book sheds ligh…
This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict. Traditional human sciences approaches are enriched with the latest developments in Social Signal Processing aimed at an automatic understanding of co…
This book gives an introduction to R to build up graphing, simulating and computing skills to enable one to see theoretical and statistical models in economics in a unified way. The great advantage of R is that it is free, extremely flexible and extensible. The book addresses th…
This book covers the area of product and process modelling via a case study approach. It addresses a wide range of modelling applications with emphasis on modelling methodology and the subsequent in-depth analysis of mathematical models to gain insight via structural aspects of …
This book summarizes research carried out in workshops of the SAGA project, an Initial Training Network exploring the interplay of Shapes, Algebra, Geometry and Algorithms. Written by a combination of young and experienced researchers, the book introduces new ideas in an establi…
Molecular Modeling of Proteins, Second Edition provides a theoretical background of various methods available and enables non-specialists to apply methods to their problems by including updated chapters and new material not covered in the first edition. This detailed volume open…
