Authors:Marco Bernardo, Pierpaolo Degano, Gianluigi Zavattar
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: formal, methods, software, communication, programming, engineering, computer, school, computational, systems, biology, international, design
Number of Pages: 525
Published: 2008-06-27
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540688927
ISBN-13: 9783540688921

This book presents a set of 14 papers accompanying the lectures of leading researchers given at the 8th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2008, held in Bertinoro, Italy in June 2008. SFM 2008 was devoted to formal techniques for computational systems biology and covered several aspects of the field, including computational models, calculi and logics for biological systems, and verification and simulation methods. The first part of this volume comprises nine papers based on regular lectures, the second part

Author: Gianluigi Guido
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: salience, consumer, awareness, hypothesis, incongruity, marketing, stimuli
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-04-30
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0792373243
ISBN-13: 9780792373247

In consumer and social psychology, salience has been generally treated as an attribute of a stimulus, which allows it to stand out and be noticed. Researchers, however, have only vaguely articulated the theoretical underpinnings of this term, thus impeding a thorough understanding of the perceptual processes behind its use in complex marketing communications. This book presents a theoretical approach for enhancing consumer processing and memory of marketing communication. Using schema theory and an information processing approach, the model introduced here - briefly referred to as th

Authors:Silvano Massaglia, Gianluigi Bodo, P. Rossi,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: jets, astrophysical, virtual
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2004-12-09
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1402000928
ISBN-13: 9781402000928

The peculiar and important characteristic of this book is to present numerical simulations and models of both stellar and extragalactic jets, together with review papers outlining the state-of-the-art of the observations of jets. In fact, other books on jets deal either with stellar jets or extragalactic jets separately but are lacking, until now, a more global view. The authors of these contributions are among the most active scientists in the field of theoretical interpretation of the astrophysical jets phenomenology. The book is intended for readers that are carrying out research in the f

Authors:Gianluigi Ferrari, Prof Giulio Colavolpe, Riccardo R
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: wired, storage, systems, applications, communications, algorithms, wireless, detection
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0470858281
ISBN-13: 9780470858288

Wireless channels are becoming more and more important, with the future development of wireless ad-hoc networks and the integration of mobile and satellite communications.  To this end, algorithmic detection aspects (involved in the physical layer) will become fundamental in the design of a communication system.This book proposes a unified approach to detection for stochastic channels, with particular attention to wireless channels. The core idea is to show that the three main criteria of sequence detection, symbol detection and graph-based detection, can all be described within a general fra

Authors:Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, Ron
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: politics, transparency, economics
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754649334
ISBN-13: 9780754649335

The purpose of this book is to formulate economic models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to assess what level of obfuscation in politics is rational. The chapters are arranged in four parts. Part 1 is concerned with the manifestations of transparency and obfuscation in domestic democratic settings whilst Part 2 deals with the same realities but in an international context. Part 3 looks at corruption and Part 4 considers some of the implications of transparency and obfuscation for the working of governments and the formulation of public