This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 19th International
Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems—ISMIS 2011, held
in Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2011. The symposium was organized by the
Institute of Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology. ISMIS is a
conference series that...
The specifications in this book are the result of a number of case studies performed by
researchers from the Programming Research Group at the University of Amsterdam.
The primary goal was to study the use of the techniques developed by the
Programming Research Group for the specification of real-life protocols. From the
pool of...
Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics and Optimization Advisory Editors Ronald L. Graham Jan Karel Lenstra Robert E. Tarjan Discrete Mathematics and Optimization involves the study of finite structures. It is one of the fastest growing areas in mathematics today. The level and depth of recent advances in the area and the wide...
Jan Narveson is one of the most significant contemporary defenders of the libertarian political position. Unlike other libertarians who typically defend their view with reference to natural rights or an appeal to utilitarianism, Narveson's main contribution has been to offer a philosophical defence of libertarianism based on a Hobbesian...
The strengths of the AIX operating system are well known among in the UNIX software community. Its reliability and great degree of scaling make AIX the perfect choice for hosting mission-critical applications. It is a robust and flexible operating system that meets all the requirements for the various demands of e-business environments. At the same...
"This book does something important: it takes abstract information and puts it in language and worksheets that make sense. This gives everyone---- including top managers---- a complete description of how a company’s performing. And there’s no better tool for improving performance than understanding." ---- Jack Stack,...
Corporations, government offices, and academic institutions have long used video to educate and inform. The only thing that's changed is the people who are producing them: With low-priced equipment and easy-to-use software flooding the market, now you're the person behind the camera, not some high-priced video specialist! This is the guide for...
Programming in the .NET Environment is the software developer's guide to the .NET Framework. The authors describe Microsoft's vision for distributed component-based systems development and then show programmers how to develop software that takes full advantage of the features of the .NET...
This book demonstrates bene?ts of abstract and qualitative reasoning that have not received much attention in the context of autonomous robotics before. Bremen, Christian Freksa December 2007 Director of the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition Preface This book addresses spatial representations and reasoning techniques for - bile robot mapping,...
Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common
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Although the condition is usually
responsive to conservative and nonoperative
care, recalcitrant plantar fasciitis occurs in
10–20 % of the patients treated.
When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning
at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow
year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting
submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on
Principles of Data Mining...
