This book is published as part of the broad area of research on the changing global climate and its impact on the environment. After an introduction into the complexities of the subject, the history and present state of timberline research are outlined. Chapters on the tree species at timberline and on the relationship of timberline elevation to...
Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data. Current DBMSs provide essentially no temporal features at all, but this situation is likely to change soon for a variety of reasons; in fact, temporal databases are virtually certain to become important sooner rather...
"Molecular imaging" has been previously defined as "the in vivo
characterization and measurement of biologic processes at the cellu
lar and molecular level." This broad definition emerged during the
last few years as a consequence of the convergence of molecular and
cell biology with imaging science, including...
"The book is an exhilarating, eye-opening read that restores the body to the virtual and pulls the virtual out of the digital and back into lived and produced social relations." - Patricia R. Zimmermann, Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College"
Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet....
This book will have a broad appeal in the area of Wireless Networking-Based Control. Various engineering disciplines, control and communication science organizations will be interested in purchasing the book with a new, emerging, and important theme. Also, industry such as Honeywell and those (e.g. power industry, automotive industry,...
Get in-depth technical guidance for deploying a security-enhanced wireless network for your corporate, public, or small business network—direct form the Microsoft Windows Networking and Communications team. This essential reference details the latest IEEE 802.11 and related technologies for public and private wireless LANs, including the...
Fluorescence sensing is a rapidly developing field of research and technology. Its target is nearly the whole world of natural and synthetic compounds being detected in different media including living bodies. The application area range from control of industrial processes to environment monitoring and clinical diagnostics. Among different...
A constraint is a restriction on a space of possibilities; it is a piece of knowledge that
narrows the scope of this space. Because constraints arise naturally in most areas of
human endeavor, they are the most general means for formulating regularities that
govern our computational, physical, biological, and social worlds. Some...
A wide spectrum of research areas have contributed to the development of objectoriented
analysis and design methods. Within computing sciences objectorientation
has been developed in the fields of databases, programming languages, and system
engineering. Some indications of this development include the proliferation of objectoriented...
The Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase. The other volumes, to appear over the next few years, will deal with mood and modality, aspect and voice.
The book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for...
"The present volume is the second one of a trilogy on formal development of large scale systems. Each topic is presented by means of many examples . The end of each chapter includes several exercises that demonstrate the topics in a more realistic setting. The quite large spectrum of modelling and specification...
The term problem solving is used in many disciplines, sometimes with different perspectives.
As one of the important topics in artiï¬cial intelligence (AI) research, it is a computerized
process of human problem-solving behaviors. So the aim of problem solving is to develop
techniques that program computers to ï¬nd solutions...