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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Temperate forests cover large areas of Europe and perform a number of important functions such as the regulation of energy and matter, production of wood and other resources, and conservation of biodiversity and habitats; they also have special signi?cance in social and cultural contexts. Initiated...
The Design of Material, Organism, and Minds
Different Understandings of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary research on this issue. The same...
Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age
An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations, mediated by the existing technologies and social structures. The city represents the accretion and accumulation of successive...
Cement Replacement Materials
Properties, Durability, Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The aim of this book is to present the latest findings in the properties and application of Supplementary Cementing Materials and blended cements currently used in the world in concrete. Sustainability is an important issue all over the world. Carbon dioxide emission has been a serious problem in...
Stone in Architecture
Properties, Durability
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The weathering of historical buildings and, indeed, of monuments and sculptures of natural stone is a problem that has been encountered for hundreds of years. However, a dramatic increase in deterioration in the structure of our built heritage has been observed during the past century. To understand...
The Technological Singularity
Managing the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring the
central questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity.
In informed yet jargon-free contributions written by active research
scientists, philosophers and sociologists, it goes beyond philosophical
discussion...
Singularity Hypotheses
A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole...
Static Analysis
23rd International Symposium, SAS 2016, Edinburgh, UK, September 8-10, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2016.
The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The contributions cover a variety of multi-disciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Arising from the fourth Dagstuhl conference entitled Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data (2011), this book offers a broad and vivid view of current work in this emerging field. Topics covered range from applications of the analysis of tensor fields...
Mathematics and Modern Art
Proceedings of the First ESMA Conference, held in Paris, July 19-22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The link between mathematics and art remains as strong today as it was in the earliest instances of decorative and ritual art. Arts, architecture, music and painting have for a long time been sources of new developments in mathematics, and vice versa. Many great painters have seen no contradiction...
Delta-Sigma A/D-Converters
Practical Design for Communication Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The emphasis of this book is on practical design aspects for broadband A/D converters for communication systems. The embedded designs are employed for transceivers in the field of ADSL solutions and WLAN applications. An area- and power-efficient realization of a converter is mandatory to remain competitive...
by Stamatis Karnouskos, José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios, Pedro José Marrón
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
This book provides an overview and an insight in cooperative objects and defines the classification of topics into the different areas. A significant number of researchers and industrial partners were contacted in order to prepare the roadmap.
The book presents of the main results provided by the corresponding European project "CONET".
Quantum Information Theory
Mathematical Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This graduate textbook provides a unified view of quantum information theory. Clearly explaining the necessary mathematical basis, it merges key topics from both information-theoretic and quantum- mechanical viewpoints and provides lucid explanations of the basic results. Thanks to this unified...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Faithful communication is a necessary precondition for large-scale quantum information processing and networking, irrespective of the physical platform. Thus, the problems of quantum-state transfer and quantum-network engineering have attracted enormous interest over the last years, and constitute...