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United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
This volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and increasing demands from non-state actors for greater emphasis on human security. It identifies emerging conflict and peace trends (robustness of responses, rise of non-state threats, cross-state conflicts) and puts them in the context of tectonic shifts in the global order (rise of emerging powers, North–South rebalancing, emergence of regional organisations as providers of peace). The volume stimulates a discussion between practitioners and academics, offering an analysis of how the international community collectively makes sense of the changing global order and its implications for UN peace operations.
Unifying the Software Process Spectrum ; International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers
This volume contains papers presented at SPW 2005, the Software Process Workshop held in Beijing, P. R. China, on May 25-27, 2005, and prepared for final publication. The theme of SPW2005 was “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum. ” Software process encompasses all the activities that aim at developing or evolving software products. The expanding role of software and information systems in the world has focused increasing attention on the need for assurances that software systems can be developed at acceptable speed and cost, on a predictable schedule, and in such a way that resulting systems are of acceptably high quality and can be evolved surely and rapidly as usage contexts change.
Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture : DESERTEC and Beyond
This book gives an overview of today’s energy problem in the context of a rising world population, climate change and the shortage of resources. It figures out systemic connections between energy, water and the carbon cycle of today’s economy and sketches a “natural”future energy scenario that is sustainable. Due to the complexity of the matter, this short book cannot be a complete compendium. The proposed solutions and no-goes are meant as a stimulus for further discussion.
Understanding Programming Languages
This book is about describing the meaning of programming languages. While a compiler or an interpreter offers a form of formal description of a language, it is not something that can be used as a basis for reasoning about that language nor can it serve as a definition of a programming language itself since this must allow a range of implementations. By writing a formal semantics of a language a designer can yield a far shorter description and tease out, analyse and record design choices.Early in the book the author introduces a simple notation, a meta-language, used to record descriptions of the semantics of languages. In a practical approach, he considers dozens of issues that arise in current programming languages and the key techniques that must be mastered in order to write the required formal semantic descriptions. The book concludes with a discussion of the eight key challenges: delimiting a language (concrete representation), delimiting the abstract content of a language, recording semantics (deterministic languages), operational semantics (non-determinism), context dependency, modelling sharing, modelling concurrency, and modelling exits.
Understanding Multimedia Documents
Understanding Multimedia Documents deals with issues of great interest to an expanding community of multimedia designers and professional users, such as teachers and information workers. Multimedia documents are increasingly used to communicate knowledge in the mass media and educational contexts. In order to improve their practice, designers, teachers, and other professionals interested in the use of multimedia documents must be aware of how multimedia documents impact students' perception, comprehension and use of information.
Understanding China’s School Leadership : Interpreting the Terminology
Outlines key terms of China’s school leadership in Chinese political and legal, financial, administrative, and cultural contexts. It reveals and interprets the real meaning of these practical terms based on existing laws, government documents, school policy texts as well as the latest empirical findings from school leaders and teachers’ surveys and interviews in China. Providing a holistic picture of China’s school leadership through the unique meanings of these terms, the book offers researchers and graduate students insights into school leadership practice and its context in China
Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I ; ISWC International Workshops, URSW 2005-2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers
Represents the first comprehensive compilation of state-of-the-art research approaches to uncertainty reasoning in the context of the semantic Web, capturing different models of uncertainty and approaches to deductive as well as inductive reasoning with uncertain formal knowledge.
Ultradian Rhythms from Molecules to Mind : A New Vision of Life
Timing exerted by oscillatory mechanisms are found throughout the biological world and their periods span a wide range from milliseconds, as in the action potential of n- rons and the myocytes, to the slow evolutionary changes that require thousands of generations. In this context, to understand the synchronization of a population of coupled oscillators is an important problem for the dynamics of physiology in living systems (Aon et al. , 2007a, b; Kuramoto, 1984; Strogatz, 2003; Winfree, 1967). Circadian rhythms, the most intensively studied, are devoted to measuring daily 24 h cycles. A variety of physiological processes in a wide range of eukaryotic organisms display circadian rhythmicity which is characterized by the following major properties (Anderson et al. , 1985; Edmunds, 1988): (i) stable, autonomous (self-sustaining) oscillations having a free-running period under constant envir- mental conditions of ca.
UK child migration to Australia, 1945-1970 : A study in policy failure
This book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children.
Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems ; 2nd CAiSE Workshop, UMICS 2004, Riga, Latvia, June 7-8, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems, UMICS 2004, held in Riga, Latvia in June 2004 as a CAiSE satellite workshop.The 13 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers presented are related to fields such as workflow systems, groupware and CSCW, event-based systems, software architecture, distributed database systems, mobile computing, ubiquitous information systems, peer-to-peer systems, etc. The papers are organized in topical sections on data and context management, coordination and control process modeling, and application frameworks.
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing ; 5th International Conference, UIC 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008 Proceedings
The book includes ubiquitous computing, smart spaces/environments/services, context-aware services and applications, intelligent computing: middleware, models and services, wireless sensor networks, smart objects and embedded computing, wireless networks: routing, mobility and security, ubiquitous computing, smart spaces/environments/services, intelligent computing: middleware, models and services, context-aware services and applications, as well as object identification: techniques and applications.
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing ; 4th International Conference, UIC 2007, Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing held in Hong Kong, China in 2007, co-located with ATC 2007, the 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing.
Ubiquitous Computing Systems ; Vol. 4239 ; Third International Symposium, UCS 2006, Seoul, Korea, October 11-13, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS) held in Seoul, Korea. UCS has been a symposium for dissemination of state-of-the-art research and engineering practices in ubiquitous computing with particular emphasis on systems and software. 2006 UCS was the third of this series of international symposia.
Ubiquitous Computing Systems ; Vol. 3598 ; 2nd International Symposium, UCS, Tokyo, Japan, November 8-9, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
This book is a collection of papers presented at UCS 2004, held on November 8-9 in Tokyo. The submitted papers presented at UCS 2004 suggest such a direction to future technologies, including mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks and conte- aware technologies.
Ubiquitous Computing Systems ; 4th International Symposium, UCS 2007, Tokyo, Japan, November 25-28, 2007, Proceedings
UCS has become a symposium for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and engineering practices in ubiquitous computing with particular - phasis on systems and software. UCS 2007 was the fourth of this series of int- nationalsymposia.ThiswastheyearfortheNextGenerationNetwork(NGN)to be commercially launched so that the Internet could become the infrastructure forcommunicationsandcomputingsubstitutingtheNGNintelephonenetworks. The maturity of the Internet encourages the research and development of the nextcomputing systems,where ubiquitous computing is recognizedasone ofthe most promising computing paradigms.
UbiComp 2007 : Ubiquitous Computing ; 9th International Conference, UbiComp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, September 16-19, 2007, Proceedings
Provides the premier forum in which to present original research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, app- cation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies. It is a well-established platform to introduce and discuss research that enables new capabilities, appropriate security and privacy, improved user experiences and simplified and powerful devel- ment and deployment practices. These proceedings contain the papers presented at the Ninth International Conf- ence on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007) in Innsbruck, Austria, in September 2007.
UbiComp 2006 : Ubiquitous Computing ; 8th International Conference, UbiComp 2006, Orange County, CA, USA, September 17-21, 2006, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2006. Topics include improving natural interaction, constructing ubicomp systems, embedding computation, understanding ubicomp and its consequences, and deploying ubicomp technologies.
UbiComp 2005 : Ubiquitous Computing ; 7th International Conference, UbiComp 2005, Tokyo, Japan, September 11-14, 2005, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2005, held in Japan in September 2005. These papers address topics related to human-computer interface (HCI), systems, context recognition and use, communications, and social implications and applications of computing.
Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications ; 7th International Conference, TLCA 2005, Nara, Japan, April 21-23, 2005, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, TLCA 2005, held in Nara, Japan in April 2005.The 27 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The volume reports research results on all current aspects of typed lambda calculi, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various contexts.
Two Algebraic Byways from Differential Equations : Gröbner Bases and Quivers
Presents a fascinating collection of lecture notes focusing on differential equations from two viewpoints: formal calculus (through the theory of Gröbner bases) and geometry (via quiver theory). Gröbner bases serve as effective models for computation in algebras of various types.Divided into two parts, the book first discusses the theory of Gröbner bases in their commutative and noncommutative contexts, with a focus on algorithmic aspects and applications of Gröbner bases to analysis on systems of partial differential equations, effective analysis on rings of differential operators, and homological algebra. It then introduces representations of quivers, quiver varieties and their applications to the moduli spaces of meromorphic connections on the complex projective line.
