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The Dynamics of Regional Innovation
Policy Challenges in Europe and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
All over the world, open innovation is emerging and requires much more interactions between different actors with different organizational cultures: large firms and SMEs (i.e. industry), universities and research institutions (i.e. academia), as well as national and regional authorities for building...
by Nicola Secomandi
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The field of real options is concerned with the management and financial valuation of operational flexibility in business endeavors. From the very outset, energy and commodity markets — which play fundamental roles in the worldwide economy — have provided a relevant context for real option analysis,...
Energy Security and Geopolitics in the Arctic
Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting. This development, if left unabated, will have a major negative environmental impact, not only on the Arctic itself, but on the entire planet, including the worsening of global...
Basic Probability
What Every Math Student Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Written by international award-winning probability expert Henk Tijms, Basic Probability: What Every Math Student Should Know presents the essentials of elementary probability. The book is primarily written for high school and college students learning about probability for the first time. In a highly...
Simple Adaptive Strategies
From Regret-Matching to Uncoupled Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
This volume collects almost two decades of joint work of Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell on game dynamics and equilibria. The starting point was the introduction of the adaptive strategy called regret-matching, which on the one hand is simple and natural, and on the other is shown to lead to correlated...
Recent Advances in Applied Nonlinear Dynamics with Numerical Analysis
Fractional Dynamics, Network Dynamics, Classical Dynamics and Fractal Dynamics with Their Numerical Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Nonlinear dynamics is still a hot and challenging topic. In this edited book, we focus on fractional dynamics, infinite dimensional dynamics defined by the partial differential equation, network dynamics, fractal dynamics, and their numerical analysis and simulation.
Fractional dynamics is...
by Chengming Bai, Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Mo-Lin Ge
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
This volume focuses on developments in the field of group theory in its broadest sense and is of interest to theoretical and experimental physicists, mathematicians, and scientists in related disciplines who are interested in the latest methods and applications. In an increasingly ultra-specialized...
Functional Equations and Inequalities
Solutions and Stability Results
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This volume covers the topic in functional equations in a broad sense and is written by authors who are in this field for the past 50 years. It contains the basic notions of functional equations, the methods of solving functional equations, the growth of functional equations in the last four decades...
by Todd A Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Microfinance has grown from the obscure efforts of a few philanthropic institutions into a global industry that reaches 150–200 million clients through the branches of thousands of institutions. Microfinance has matured from exclusively funding loans to providing savings, insurance, healthcare,...
Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts
Innovation and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This book provides a review of worldwide developments in ammonia synthesis catalysts over the last 30 years. It focuses on the new generation of Fe1-xO based catalysts and ruthenium catalysts — both are major breakthroughs for fused iron catalysts. The basic theory for ammonia synthesis is systematically...
by Kun Yue, Weiyi Liu, Hao Wu;Dapeng Tao;Ming Gao
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Data analysis is of upmost importance in the mining of big data, where knowledge discovery and inference are the basis for intelligent systems to support the real world applications. However, the process involves knowledge acquisition, representation, inference and data, Bayesian network (BN) is the...
by Jeffrey J P Tsai, Ka-Lok Ng
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
This compendium contains 10 chapters written by world renowned researchers with expertise in semantic computing, genome sequence analysis, biomolecular interaction, time-series microarray analysis, and machine learning algorithms.
The salient feature of this book is that it highlights eight...
Biomolecular Forms and Functions
A Celebration of 50 Years of the Ramachandran Map
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Understanding the functions and properties of molecules in living systems requires a detailed knowledge of their three-dimensional structures and the conformational variability that allows them to adopt multiple functional forms. Interpreting biological systems in the language of three-dimensional...
by Shinji Sato, Masahiko Isobe
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of Coastal Engineering from basic theory to engineering practice. The authors of this book are worldwide authorities in the field. Each chapter deals with an important topic in the field of coastal engineering. The topics are of recent deep...