This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, ...
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The main emphasis of the book is on modelling business-related scenarios and the generation of decision alternatives. Fully ...
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Since the advent of optical communications, a greattechnological effort has been devoted to the exploitation of the huge ...
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This text on contemporary optical systems is intended for optical researchers and engineers, graduate students and optical ...
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This book explains why microresonators came to be important components in the photonic toolbox. While functionally similar ...
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This book reviews techniques used to characterize non-linear optical constants of chalcogenide glasses in bulk or thin films, ...
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This is the first comprehensive textbook on the optical properties of photonic crystals. It deals not only with the properties ...
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the The International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, OSC 2008, held ...
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Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, ...
Continue readingOne of the most important and challenging problems in control is the derivation of systematic tools for the computation of ...
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"This textbook on optimal control of nonlinear processes introduces several innovations compared to standard textbooks on ...
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The present book criticizes the fact that profitability measures derived from capital market models such as the Sharpe ratio ...
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It systematically describes optimization theory and several powerful methods, including recent results. For most methods, ...
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It systematically describes optimization theory and several powerful methods, including recent results. For most methods, ...
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The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader with the developments in bilinear systems theory and its applications. ...
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This book contains refereed papers which were presented at the 34th Workshop of the International School of Mathematics "G. ...
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In this book, the major ideas behind Organic Computing are delineated, together with a sparse sample of computational projects ...
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Special functions and orthogonal polynomials in particular have been around for centuries. Can you imagine mathematics without ...
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Special functions and orthogonal polynomials in particular have been around for centuries. Can you imagine mathematics without ...
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, ...
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