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Numerical Techniques for Chemical and Biological Engineers Using MATLAB

This book addresses the bifurcation characteristics of chemical and biological processes as the general case and treats systems ...

Object-Oriented Information Systems

Object-Oriented Technology

For the ?fth time in its history, in cooperation with Springer-Verlag, the European C- ference on Object-Oriented Programming ...

Objects, Components, Models and Patterns : 46th International Conference, TOOLS EUROPE 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, June 30 - July 4, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Objects, Components, Models ...

Ocean Wave Energy : Current Status and Future Prespectives

The authors of this reference provide an updated and global view on ocean wave energy conversion for wave energy developers ...

Offshore Risk Assessment

This updated and expanded second edition has been informed by a major R&D programme on offshore risk assessment in Norway ...

Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE (vol. # 4276)

A two-volume set, which constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four confederated conferences CoopIS 2006, DOA 2006, ...

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops (vol. # 4277)

This two-volume set LNCS 4277/4278 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14 international workshops held as part of OTM ...

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops

This two-volume set LNCS 4805/4806 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 10 international workshops and papers of the OTM ...

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops

it is clear that there is an acute and increasing need to address and discuss in an integrated forum the implied software ...

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops : OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, ADI, AWeSoMe, COMBEK, EI2N, IWSSA, MONET, OnToContent + QSI, ORM, PerSys, RDDS, SEMELS, and SWWS 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, November 9-14, 2008. Proceedings

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of 13 international workshops held as part of OTM 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico, ...

Online Business Security Systems

On-Line Business Security Systems, a professional book, applies the concept of synchronization to security of global heterogeneous ...

Online Communities and Social Computing

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.R. China, ...

Ontologies

The primary objective of ONTOLOGIES: A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems is to mobilize ...

Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences

On the other hand, ontologies have established themselves as a powerful tool to enable kno- edge sharing, and a growing number ...

Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the First and Second VLDB Workshop Ontologies-based techniques for ...

Open IT-Based Innovation: Moving Towards Cooperative IT Transfer and Knowledge Diffusion : IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference October 22–24, 2008, Madrid, Spain

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The ...

Open Source Development, Communities and Quality : IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The ...

Open Source GIS : A GRASS GIS Approach

With this third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, we enter the new era of GRASS6, the first release that ...