The purpose of this book is to teach fundamentals of programming concepts and skills needed for basic problem solving, all using MATLABW as the vehicle. MATLAB is a powerful software package that has built-in functions to accomplish a diverse range of tasks, from mathematical operations to three-dimensional imaging. Additionally,...

Cognitive spatial concepts are qualitative in nature, i.e., they are based not so much on exact quantities but on comparisons between perceived magnitudes. We develop a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge (in particular, of positional information about 2-dimensional projections) that is based only on locative...

Polymericmaterials, both “inert” and degradable, constantly interact with the surroundings. Because of this interaction changes take place in the polymer matrix and small molecules are released to the environment. Reliable methods for testing biodegradability and environmental interaction of renewable resources and...

The objectives of this book are twofold: (1) for the student, to show how the fundamental principles underlying the behavior of fluids (with emphasis on one-dimensional macroscopic balances) can be applied in an organized and systematic manner to the solution of practical engineering problems, and (2) for the practicing engineer, to...

With the increasing focus on IT Security comes a higher demand for identity management in the modern business. This requires a flexible, scalable, and secure authentication method. Identity control is made mandatory by many public standards, such as PCI, and PKI is an essential component to set up authentication in many technologies,...

This unique event aims at bringing together researchers from software engineering and security engineering, which might help to unite and further develop the two communities in this and future...

Electron Microscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis describes the unique role electron microscopy plays in the immensely important field of heterogeneous catalysis. It brings together several disciplines, namely surface science, solid state chemistry and physics, materials science, chemical engineering and crystallography. The work described in...

You are holding the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. This workshop brings together the research and practitioner communities active in the area of economics and computer science to address the emerging interest in infrastructure, platform, and software services....

We can understand the multimedia technology as a digital integration of texts, graphics, audio, animation, still images and motion video in a way that provides a high level of personal interaction and control to individual users. The evolution of multimedia is a convergence of the mentioned media types to a unique system. Before the...

In September 1994 the seventh International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems- IROS '94-- was held in Neubiberg, a suburb of Munich, Germany, on the premises of the German Armed Forces University Munich. Of the 300 papers presented during the conference I have selected 48 ones which, in my subjective opinion, are...