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Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Across Cultures
Theory and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The aim of this volume is to further develop the relationship between culture and manifold phenomena of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in order to promote further and better understanding how, why, and when these phenomena are manifested themselves across different cultures.
Currently,...
Innovation Systems in Small Catching-Up Economies
New Perspectives on Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
In several parts of the world, countries are undergoing economic, social, and political transitions, enhanced and accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation process. This volume features original theoretical and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This volume contains a collection of papers based on lectures and presentations delivered at the International Conference on Constructive Nonsmooth Analysis (CNSA) held in St. Petersburg (Russia) from June 18-23, 2012. This conference was organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of nonsmooth...
by Changsheng Xu, Min Xu, Jesse S. Jin
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Interactive Media is a new research field and a landmark in multimedia development. *The Era of Interactive Media * is an edited volume contributed from world experts working in academia, research institutions and industry.
The Era of Interactive Media focuses mainly on Interactive Media...
by Richard Durrett
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
This book is for a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduates or master’s students who have had a course in probability theory. It covers Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal processes, martingales, and mathematical finance. One can only learn...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This volume addresses the emerging area of human computation, The chapters, written by leading international researchers, explore existing and future opportunities to combine the respective strengths of both humans and machines in order to create powerful problem-solving capabilities. The book bridges...
National Strategies to Harness Information Technology
Seeking Transformation in Singapore, Finland, the Philippines, and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of competitiveness and sustainable growth. As countries engage in an increasingly competitive global economy, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way enterprises...
by Dennis D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Aimed at improving a programmers ability for altering code to fit changing requirements and for detecting and correcting errors, this book argues for a new way of thinking about maintaining software. It proposes the use of a set of human factors principles that govern the programmer-software-event...
The R Software
Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The contents of The R Software are presented so as to be both comprehensive and easy for the reader to use. Besides its application as a self-learning text, this book can support lectures on R at any level from beginner to advanced. This book can serve as a textbook on R for beginners as well as more...
System Specification and Design Languages
Selected Contributions from FDL 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the thirteenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which was held in Southampton, UK in September 2010. FDL is a well established international forum devoted to dissemination of research results,...
Transportation and Information
Trends in Technology and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Transformations in wireless connectivity and location-aware technologies hold the promise of bringing a sea-change in the way transportation information is generated and used in the future. Sensors in the transportation system, when integrated with those in other sectors (for example, energy, utility...
by Kjell Aleklett
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
The term “Peak Oil” was born in January 2001 when Colin Campbell formed the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO). Now, Peak Oil is used thousands of times a day by journalists, politicians, industry leaders, economists, scientists and countless others around the globe. Peak...
International Consumer Behavior in the 21st Century
Impact on Marketing Strategy Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Over the past two decades, the face of the world consumer has truly changed. Goods are more available, information about these goods is more open and accessible, and the ability to buy these goods from any corner of the earth has become possible. As a result, international marketing is more important...
Ceramic Materials
Science and Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering is an up-to-date treatment of ceramic science, engineering, and applications in a single, comprehensive text. Building on a foundation of crystal structures, phase equilibria, defects, and the mechanical properties of ceramic materials, students are shown...