Authors:Frank Geraets, Leo Kroon, Anita Schoebel, Dorothea
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: dagstuhl, railway, optimization, computer, science, issues, general, june, workshop, methods, international, algorithmic, castle, germany
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2007-12-20
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 354074245X
ISBN-13: 9783540742456

This state-of-the-art survey constitutes papers that were selected after an open call that followed the International Dagstuhl-Seminar on Algorithmic Methods for Railway Optimization, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in June 2004. The second part of the volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2004, held in Bergen, Norway, in September 2004 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2004. The volume covers algorithmic methods for analyzing and solving problems arising in railway opti

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Theodore F. Geraets
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: encyclopaedia, zusatze, sciences, part, logic, philosophical
Number of Pages: 381
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0872200701
ISBN-13: 9780872200708

’The appearance of this translation is a major event in English-language Hegel studies, for it is more than simply a replacement for Wallace’s translation cum paraphrase. Hegel’s Prefaces to each of the three editions of the Enzyklopadie are translated for the first time into English. There is a very detailed Introduction translating Hegel’s German, which serves not only as a guide to the translator’s usage but also to Hegel’s. Also included are a detailed bilingual annotated glossary, very extensive bibliographic and interpretive notes to Hegel’s text

Authors:Ukraine) Lpar 1994 (Kiev, Frank Pfenning, Frank Pfen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: proceedings, july, lecture, notes, science, computer, ukraine, kiev, automated, programming, reasoning, international, lpar, conference, logic
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1994-06
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387582169
ISBN-13: 9780387582160

This volume presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning, held aboard the ship "Marshal Koshevoi" on the Dnieper near Kiev, Ukraine in July 1994. The LPAR conferences are held annually in the former Soviet Union and aimed at bringing together researchers interested in LP and AR. This proceedings contains the full versions of the 24 accepted papers evaluated by at least three referees ensuring a program of highest quality. The papers cover all relevant aspects of LP and AR ranging from theory to implementation and application.

Authors:Robin Forman, Frank Jones, Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Frank
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematical, library, student, variation, themes, six
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2004-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821837206
ISBN-13: 9780821837207

The calculus of variations is a beautiful subject with a rich history and with origins in the minimization problems of calculus. Although it is now at the core of many modern mathematical fields, it does not have a well-defined place in most undergraduate mathematics curricula. This volume should nevertheless give the undergraduate reader a sense of its great character and importance. Interesting functionals, such as area or energy, often give rise to problems whose most natural solution occurs by differentiating a one-parameter family of variations of some function. The c

Authors:Frank Höppner, Rudolf Kruse, Frank Klawonn, Thomas Ru
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: analysis, image, recognition, data, methods, cluster, fuzzy, classification
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1999-07-16
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 0471988642
ISBN-13: 9780471988649

Provides a timely and important introduction to fuzzy cluster analysis, its methods and areas of application, systematically describing different fuzzy clustering techniques so the user may choose methods appropriate for his problem. It provides a very thorough overview of the subject and covers classification, image recognition, data analysis and rule generation. The application examples are highly relevant and illustrative, and the use of the techniques are justified and well thought-out. Features include: * Sections on inducing fuzzy if-then rules by fuzzy clustering and non-a

Authors:Frank Minirth, Frank Wichern, Paul Meier,
Publisher: Baker Academic
Keywords: perspectives, applications, christian, counseling, psychology, introduction
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1991-08-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0801062756
ISBN-13: 9780801062759

This explanation of classic theory features many relevant essays on persons, ideas, and applications. Not only is the text organized according to introductory counseling courses, but it is also a reference tool of enduring value.

Authors:Hermann Simon, Frank F. Bilstein, Frank Luby,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: profits, highly, contested, markets, greater, guide, profit, market, share, manage
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1591395267
ISBN-13: 9781591395263

A Contrarian Approach to Earning Profits in Mature Markets How do companies in mature markets—where savings from cost-cutting have been exhausted and breakthrough innovations are hard to come by—achieve sustainable increases in profits? For decades, managers have been told the answer lies in pursuing high market share. But Hermann Simon, Frank F. Bilstein, and Frank Luby argue that this misguided advice has destroyed, rather than created, an additional profit potential. In Manage for Profit, Not for Share, the authors contend that companies can extract a profit potential of 1%-3 % of revenue