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Database and Expert Systems and Applications

The annual international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) is now well established as a reference ...

Database and XML Technologies (vol. # 4156)

The theme of the XML Database Symposium (XSym) is the convergence of database technology with XML technology. Since the first ...

Databases in Networked Information Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, ...

David Chipperfield Architects = Architektur und Baudetails : Architecture and Construction Details / Sandra Hofmeister

De L’Éthique À La Justice : Langage et politique dans la philosophie de Lévinas = Language and politics in the philosophy of Levinas

Emmanuel Lévinas is the philosopher of non-indifference; he is by no means an indifferent philosopher. His personal concern ...

De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...

Dealing with Uncertainties

Dealing with Uncertainties proposes and explains a new approach for the analysis of uncertainties. Firstly, it is shown that ...

Death Threats and Violence

Threats of violence—and especially of homicide—are a too-familiar part of modern life, paralleling stressful conditions ...

Debating European Citizenship

This book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state ...

Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education

The book examines the overall interplay between privatisation, decentralisation and the role of the state. The authors draw ...

Decentralised Government in an Integrating World

The book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of the determinants of changes in the distribution of expenditure and ...

Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems

The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. ...

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

This book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face ...

Decision Modeling and Behavior in Complex and Uncertain Environments

This text is devoted to examining new research at the interface of operations research, behavioral and cognitive sciences, ...

Decision Procedures : An Algorithmic Point of View

The book concentrates on decision procedures for first-order theories that are commonly used in automated verification and ...

Decision Support for Forest Management

While earlier books concerning forest planning have tended to focus on linear programming, economic aspects, or specific ...

Decision-Making in Engineering Design

We use our brains when we create plans and designs. The resulting plans and designs take physical form, however, what we ...

Decoupling Control

Decoupling or non-interactive control has attracted considerable research attention since the 1960s when control engineers ...

Deduction, Computation, Experiment : Exploring the Effectiveness of Proof

What is a proof for? What is the characteristic use of a proof as a computation, as opposed to its use as an experiment? ...

Deep Brain Stimulation in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Deep Brain Stimulation in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders discusses today’s most current and cutting-edge applications ...