This volume contains a collection of the papers presented during the First International ACM-L Workshop, which was held in Tucson, Arizona, on November 8, 2006, during the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2006. The workshop focused on enhancing the fundamental understanding of how to model continual learning from past...
The most authoritative contemporary textbook on the core components of the rapidly developing medical disclipline known as Musculoskeletal Medicine - the "Bible" for clinicians, both medical practitioners and therapists, who wish to advance their knowledge of the evaluation and non-surgical management of back pain and a range of...
This book describes the important ideas in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of colour graphics. It is a valuable resource...
Anyone who has been developing on the Microsoft platform for the last several years knows the drill: every few years, there’s a new database access technology. There was ODBC; then DAO and RDO; OLEDB, ADO, and ADO.NET; LINQ to SQL; and now Entity Framework! In many ways, this progression of technologies has been confusing, but in other...
The twelfth edition of Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social
Sciences is designed for a one- or two-term course in calculus for students who have
had one to two years of high school algebra or the equivalent. The book s overall
approach, refined by the authors experience with large sections of college freshmen,...
Based on a recently completed project of cultural consultation in Montreal, Cultural Consultation presents a model of multicultural and applicable health care. This model used clinicians and consultants to provide in-depth assessment, treatment planning, and limited interventions in consultation with frontline primary care...
Families in America: A Reference Handbook is an in-depth and multifaceted examination of the contemporary American family. The volume is designed for a wide range of readers in college, high school, and public library settings. It supplies a solid conceptual foundation of basic terms, concepts, and policies related...
Not only do modeling and simulation help provide a better understanding of how real-world systems function, they also enable us to predict system behavior before a system is actually built and analyze systems accurately under varying operating conditions. Modeling and Simulation of Systems Using MATLAB® and...
From its beginning in the fifties of the last century, Artificial Intelligence was heavily supported by “defence agencies” in order to make “better warfare”.
But, if an AI researchers assumes that her/his discipline really can deliver results—otherwise s/he would be a dishonest researcher—then why not...
IN recent years there has been a strong revival of interest in the foundations of statistical mechanics, and a great deal of important work has been done both in this country and abroad.
"The Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics" is the title of a celebrated article which the late Paul Ehrenfest prepared in...
This book contains the proceedings of two long-running events held in connection
to the CAiSE conferences relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and
information systems modeling:
• The 12th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development
and Support (BPMDS 2011)
• The 16th...
Fully revised and updated, Relational Database Design, Second Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to relational database design available. Here, you'll find the conceptual and practical information you need to develop a design that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance, regardless of your...
