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Fine- and Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Computing

Springer, 2007

Stamatis Vassiliadis was born in the small village of Manolates, on the Mediterranean island of Samos, Greece on July 19th, 1951. He passed away on April 7th, 2007 in Pijnacker, in the Netherlands. In between, he led a very remarkable life. As a child, he walked many kilometers through the mountains to reach his school and would study at night...

Berlusconi ‘The Diplomat’: Populism and Foreign Policy in Italy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. The authors examine the Italian position in the international arena and its foreign policy tradition, as well as Berlusconi’s general political stance, Berlusconi’s...

The Origins of the Roman Economy: From the Iron Age to the Early Republic in a Mediterranean Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2021

In this book, Gabriele Cifani reconstructs the early economic history of Rome, from the Iron Age to the early Republic. Bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, he argues that the early Roman economy was more diversified than has been previously acknowledged, going well beyond agriculture and pastoralism. Cifani bases his argument on...

Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (Mapping Global Racisms)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize

This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular...

Content Computing: Advanced Workshop on Content Computing, AWCC 2004

Springer, 2005

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Advanced Workshop on Content Computing, AWCC 2004, held in Zhen Jiang, Jiang Su, China in November 2004.

The 26 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile...

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 12th International Conference, PROFES 2011

Springer, 2011

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2011), held in Torre Canne, Italy. Since 1999 PROFES has grown in the software engineering community and has become a premium conference that brings together...

European Robotics Symposium 2006 (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Springer, 2006

This unique reference represents a cross-section of forefront robotics research, ranging from robotics and systems to learning, autonomy and failure detection, from vision and navigation to localization and mapping, which are based on the papers presented at the 1st European Robotics Symposium (EUROS-06) held in Palermo, Italy from 16-18 March,...

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy: Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas

Cambridge University Press, 2019

This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand bargain that was negotiated between the landed elites of central and southern Italy, while military conquest played a much smaller role than is...

Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium

Princeton Press, 2021

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium

Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began...

Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact (Weapons and Warfare)

ABC Clio, 2007

This volume traces the history of artillery and its place in society from the ancient world to the present. The term “artillery” is derived from the Latin ars, or artis, terms for “craft” that later evolved through the Old French atillier, meaning “to deck, adorn with care or arrange”; atil,...

Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 9th European Conference, JELIA 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, September 27-30, 2004

Springer, 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA 2004, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2004.

The 52 revised full papers and 15 revised systems presentation papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a...

Theory and Practice of Algorithms in (Computer) Systems: First International ICST Conference, TAPAS 2011, Rome, Italy

Springer, 2011

This volume contains the 25 papers presented at the First International ICST Conference on Theory and Practice of Algorithms in (Computer) Systems (TAPAS 2011), held in Rome during April 18-20 2011, including three papers by the distinguished invited speakers Shay Kutten, Kirk Pruhs and Paolo Santi.

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