This book covers various aspects of lasers in materials science, including a comprehensive overview on basic principles of laser-materials interactions and applications enabled by pulsed laser systems. The material is organized in a coherent way, providing the reader with a harmonic architecture.
While systematically covering the...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2004, held in Padova, Italy in October 2004.
The 29 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 3 tutorial summaries were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in...
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the international conference on "Quantum Information 2003" held in Tokyo University of Science/Tokyo (Japan) from 1 to 3 November 2003, in International Institute for Advanced Studies/Kyoto (Japan) from 5 to 7 November 2003, in University of Waseda/Tokyo (Japan) from 29 to 31 October 2003, in...
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork...
Software engineering is widely recognized as one of the most exciting, stimulating, and profitable research areas, with a significant practical impact on the software industry. Thus, training future generations of software engineering researchers and bridging the gap between academia and industry are vital to the field. The International Summer...
This volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science contains revised versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2010. The conference was held at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, on August 12–15, 2010. The previous CIAA conferences were held in London,...
All over the world, democratic reforms have brought power to the people, but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. In this book, James Fishkin combines a new theory of democracy with actual practice and shows how an idea that harks back to ancient Athens can be used to revive...
The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed studies of a variety of developed and developing nations...
This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including...
The OECD Information Technology Outlook 2010 has been prepared by the OECD under the guidance of the OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP), and in particular the Working Party on the Information Economy. This edition is the tenth in a biennial series designed to provide members with a broad overview of...
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