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Regional Economic Development : Analysis and Planning Strategy
The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for local and regional economic development policy and planning. First, the book provides the reader with an overview of key theoretical and conceptual contexts within which the economic development process takes place. However, the deliberate emphasis is to provide the reader with an account of quantitative and qualitative approaches to regional economic analysis and of old and new strategic frameworks for formulating regional economic development planning.
Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective
This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry and intervention with respect to the built environment, based on principles of sustainability and circular economy strategies.
Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education : A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries
This book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within universities; strategic and performance management ; the rise of accountability regimes; incentive and evaluative systems; and perceived changes/effects by the key actors involved, at various levels. The volume provides critical insights to the larger phenomenon of change and adaptation within the public sector. Its findings and implications are of relevance to social science researchers, policy makers, managers/administrators, and external stakeholders.
Recycled Ceramics in Sustainable Concrete: Properties and Performance
Explores the use of novel waste materials in the construction industry as sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional cement production technologies. It specifically focuses on using waste ceramics as a binder and aggregate replacement for concrete. Includes a lifecycle assessment ; Describes recycling of ceramic tile waste as fine and coarse aggregate replacement ; Discusses microstructure performance of sustainable concrete ; Evaluates performance of sustainable concrete exposed to elevated temperatures and corrosives
Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage
includes contributions on the protection, and restoration of architectural monuments and the reconstruction of major historical urban development sites, as well as various complex issues and aspects of engineering reconstruction of monuments and preservation of historical heritage. topics: Historical, architectural and urban planning research and restoration of monuments / Urban and regional planning / Engineering reconstruction, performance of repair and reconstruction works on monuments / Training of architects and restorers
Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures and Applications ; 2nd International Workshop, ARC 2006, Delft, The Netherlands, March 1-3, 2006 Revised Selected Papers
gurable computing has become a we- known and established research area producing interesting as well as important results in both general and embedded computing systems. It is also getting more and more interest from industry which is attracted by the (design and development) ?exibility as well as the performance improvements that can be expected from this technology. As recon?gurablecomputing has blurred the gap between software and hardware, some even speak of a radical new programming paradigm opening a new realm of unseen applications and opportunities. The logo of the ARC workshop is the Nonius, a measurement instrument used in the Portuguese period of discoveries that was invented by Pedro Nunes, a Portuguesemathematician.
Reconfigurable Computing : Architectures, Tools and Applications ; 4th International Workshop, ARC 2008, London, UK, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings
The idea of reconfigurable hardware systems has represented the Holy Grail for computer system designers.It has been recognized for a long time that the microprocessor provides high fiexibility but at a very low performance merit in terms of MIPS/W or other such measures. Reconfigurable systems are thus attractive as they can be configured to provide the best match for the computational requirements at that specific time, giving much better area – speed – power performance. However, the practicalities of achieving such a reconfigurable system are - merous andrequire the development of: suitable reconfigurable hardware to s- portthe dynamic behavior; programming tools to allowthe dynamic behavior of the reconfigurability to be modelled; programming languages to support recfiguration
Reconfigurable computing : Accelerating computation with field-programmable gate arrays
By mapping algorithms directly into programmable logic, FPGA accelerators offer and deliver 10X-100X performance increases over microprocessors for a large range of application domains. Reconfigurable computing is found in virtually every computing milieu, from satellites to supercomputers. This work survey various aspects of the field.
Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface ; Vol. 4192 ; 13th European PVM/MPI User's Group Meeting, Bonn, Germany, September 17-20, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Bonn, Germany in September 2006. The 38 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 6 invited contributions, 4 tutorial papers and 6 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collective communication, communication protocols, debugging and verification, fault tolerance, metacomputing and grid, parallel I/O, implementation issues, object-oriented message passing, limitations and extensions, performance, and are completed with 6 contributions to the special ParSim session on current trends in numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments.
Recent advances in parallel virtual machine and message passing interface ; Vol. 3666 ; 12th European PVM/MPI User's Group Meeting, Sorrento, Italy, September 18-21, 2005, Proceedings
Constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Sorrento, Italy in September 2005. This book includes 61 papers, which are organized in topical sections on algorithms, extensions and improvements, cluster and grid, tools and environments, performance, applications and ParSim
Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface ; 14th European PVM/MPI User's Group Meeting, Paris France, September 30 - October 3, 2007, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Paris, France, September 30 - October 3, 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on collective communication, communication protocols, debugging and verification, fault tolerance, metacomputing and grid, parallel I/O, implementation issues, object-oriented message passing, limitations and extensions, performance.
Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communication Networks and Services
This book contains a selection of papers presented at a Symposium organized under the aegis of COST Telecommunications Action 285. The main objective of the Action is to enhance existing modeling and simulation tools and to develop new tools for research in emerging multi-service telecommuncation networks in the areas of model performance improvement, multilayer traffic modeling, and the important issue of evaluation and validation of the new modeling tools.
Recent advances in machine learning and computational intelligence
Machine learning and computational intelligence have been applied to various areas and witnessed many successes. The research in this publication explorse many intelligent algorithms which are characterized by computational adaptability, robustness, and high performance. These algorithms facilitate intelligent behavior in complex and dynamic environments and the development of technology that enables machines to think, behave, or act in a more humanesque fashion. This reprint aims to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, challenges, solutions, and application fields in the areas of machine learning and computational intelligence.
Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection ; Vol. 4219 ; 9th International Symposium, RAID 2006, Hamburg, Germany, September 20-22, 2006, Proceedings
This book presents the proceed-ings of the 9th Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID2006), which took place in Hamburg, Germany, on September 20-22, 2006.As every year since 1998, the symposium brought together leading researchersand practitioners from academia, government and industry to discuss intrusiondetection research and practice. We had sessions on anomaly and specification-based detection, network-based intrusion detection, attacks against intrusiondetection systems, IDS evaluation and malware analysis.The RAID 2005 Program Committee received 93 paper submissions fromall over the world, including 15 papers submitted as “Big Challenge, Big Idea”papers.
Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection ; Vol. 3858 ; 8th International Symposium, RAID 2005, Seattle, WA, USA, September 7-9, 2005, Revised Papers
This book presents the proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2005), which took place in Seattle, Washington, USA, September 7-9, 2005. The symposium brought together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government and industry to discuss intrusion detection from research as well as commercial prospectives. We also encouraged discussions that addressed issues that arise when studying intrusion detection, including monitoring, performance and validation, from a wider perspective. We had sessions on the detection and containment of Internet worm attacks, anomaly detection, automated response to intrusions, host-based intrusion detection using system calls, network intrusion detection, and intrusion detection, in mobile wireless networks.
Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection ; 11th International Symposium, RAID 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 15-17, 2008. Proceedings
This book is organized in topical sections on rootkit prevention, malware detection and prevention, high performance intrusion and evasion, Web application testing and evasion, alert correlation and worm detection, as well as anomaly detection and network traffic analysis.
Reasons for Frequent Failure in Mergers and Acquisitions : A Comprehensive Analysis
Despite the goal of performance improvement, results from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are often disappointing. Numerous empirical studies show high failure rates of M&A deals. Studies are mostly focused on individual determinants. The literature therefore lacks a more comprehensive framework that includes different perspectives.
Reasoning Web : 4th International Summer School 2008, Venice, Italy, September 7-11, 2008, Tutorial Lectures
This book is presented provide competent coverage of methods and major application areas such as social networks, semantic multimedia indexing and retrieval, bioinformatics, and semantic web services. They highlight which techniques are already being successfully applied for purposes such as improving the performance of information retrieval algorithms, enabling the interoperation of heterogeneous agents, modelling users profiles and social relations, and standardizing and improving the accuracy of very large and dynamic scientific databases.
Real-Time Management of Resource Allocation Systems : A Discrete Event Systems Approach
Proposes a control paradigm that offers a comprehensive and integrated solution to, both, the behavioral / logical and the performance-oriented control problems underlying the management of the resource allocation taking place highly automated technological applications.
Real-Time Applications with Stochastic Task Execution Times : Analysis and Optimisation
Real-Time Applications with Stochastic Task Execution Times presents three approaches to the analysis of the deadline miss ratio of applications with stochastic task execution times. Each of the three approaches fits best to a different context. The first approach is an exact one and is efficiently applicable to monoprocessor systems. The second approach is an approximate one, which allows for designer-controlled trade-off between analysis accuracy and analysis speed. It is efficiently applicable to multiprocessor systems. The third approach is less accurate but sufficiently fast in order to be placed inside optimisation loops. Based on the last approach, we propose a heuristic for task mapping and priority assignment for deadline miss ratio minimisation.
