Authors:Philip Sugai, Marco Koeder, Ludovico Ciferri,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: business, mobile, laws, immutable, six
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 2010-01-07
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0471741469
ISBN-13: 9780471741466

Valuable lessons from Japan’s mobile industry yield 6 Immutable Laws for Mobile Business globally Japan’s mobile customers enjoyed better mobile devices, more content, and the most advanced functionality and services for the last 10+ years. This book helps cut through the many myths and all of the hype surrounding Japan’s mobile dominance to identify the most important laws that will guide the success of mobile businesses around the world. Based on detailed market analysis and unprecedented access to the major players and pioneers of the Japanese mobile industry, this publication

Authors:Marco Taisch, Klaus-Dieter Thoben, Marco Montorio,
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: engineering, monographs, water, earth, sciences, proceedings, balkema, manufacturing, ict, systems, perspective, advanced
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0415429129
ISBN-13: 9780415429122

Manufacturing plays a vital role in European economy and society, and is expected to continue as a major generator of wealth in the foreseeable future. A competitive manufacturing industry is essential for the prosperity of Europe, especially in the face of accelerating deindustrialisation. This book provides a broad vision of the future of manufacturing, analysed from a system-management viewpoint and with a special focus on ICT-related matters. Each contribution presents a complex and multidisciplinary research domain from a specific perspective. The first part of the book gives an overview

Authors:Marco Ajmone Marsan, Giorgio Corazza, Marco Listan
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: proceedings, february, italy, lecture, notes, science, computer, milano, qos, multiservice, service, networks, second, workshop, international, quality
Number of Pages: 759
Published: 2003-04-10
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3540006044
ISBN-13: 9783540006046

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks, QoS-IP 2003, held in Milano, Italy in February 2003. The 53 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analytical models, QoS routing, measurements and experimental results, QoS below IP, end-to-end QoS in IP networks, QoS multicast, optical networks, reconfigurable protocols and networks, provision of multimedia services, QoS in multido

Authors:Marco Apollonio, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Danilo Mainar
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: culture, ethology, science, systems, mating, vertebrate
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 9810242603
ISBN-13: 9789810242602

A review of the relationship of mating systems with other aspects of vertebrate biology. It seeks to present many stimulating perspectives and ideas on mating systems studies. While many of the contributors present their own research, in all cases they underline the general relevance of their work and speculate on future directions of scientific enquiry.

Authors:Marco Danelutto, Marco Vanneschi, Domenico Laforen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: euro, par, proceedings, lecture, computer, science, september, notes, italy, processing, parallel, international, conference, pisa, august
Number of Pages: 1081
Published: 2004-10-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3540229248
ISBN-13: 9783540229247

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2004 , held in Pisa, Italy in August/September 2004. The 122 revised papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 352 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and environments, performance evaluation, scheduling and load balancing, compilers and high performance, parallel and distributed databases, grid and cluster computing, applications on high performance clusters, parallel computer architecture and

Authors:Marco Festa-Bianchet, Marco Apollonio,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: conservation, wildlife, behavior
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2003-05-12
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 155963958X
ISBN-13: 9781559639583

Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior. How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters? Do individual differences?in age, sex, size, past experience?affect how an animal reacts to a given situation? Differences in individual behavior may determine the success or failure of a conservation initiative, yet they are rarely considered when strategies and policies are developed. Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation explores how knowledge of animal behavior may help incre

Authors:Marco Dorigo, Marco Colombetti,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: robotics, autonomous, agents, intelligent, engineering, shaping, experiment, behavior, robot
Number of Pages: 203
Published: 1997-11-06
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0262041642
ISBN-13: 9780262041645

foreword by Lashon Booker "[This] book gives a clear and comprehensive exposition of [the authors] extensive experience in integrating reinforcement learning and autonomous robotics. Their continuing contribution is to the development of a distinct engineering discipline (`Behavior engineering’) through which such robots can be created. I am excited because their efforts combine some of the best theoretical ideas with a strong eye for the practical - for what will actually work." -- Stewart W. Wilson, The Rowland Institute for Science To program an autonomous robot to act re