Author: Maurizio Lenzerini
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: artificial, intelligence, italy, september, lecture, rome, notes, italian, advances, congress, ai*ia, association
Number of Pages: 459
Published: 1997-10-16
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 3540635769
ISBN-13: 9783540635765

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 97, held in Rome, Italy, in September 1997.The 37 revised full papers and 8 system descriptions presented in the volume were selected from 88 papers submitted. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning; natural language processing; perception, vision and robotics; distributed artificial intelligence; and planning.

Authors:Matthias Jarke, Maurizio Lenzerini, Yannis Vassiliou
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: warehouses, data, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540420894
ISBN-13: 9783540420897

The design and optimization of data warehouses remains an art rather than a science. This book presents a comparative review of the state of the art and best current practice of data warehouses. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional aggregation, query optimization, update propagation, metadata management, quality assessment, and design optimization. Also, based on results of the European Data Warehouse Quality project, it offers a conceptual framework by which the architecture and quality of data warehouse efforts can be assessed and improved using enriched metadata managemen

Authors:Diego Calvanese, Maurizio Lenzerini, Rajeev Motwani,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, proceedings, notes, computer, science, january, italy, icdt, theory, international, conference, siena, database
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 2003-02-12
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 3540003231
ISBN-13: 9783540003236

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2002, held in Siena, Italy in January 2002. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited articles were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on reasoning about XML schemas and queries, aggregate queries, query evaluation, query rewriting and reformulation, semistructured versus structured data, query containment, consistency and incompleteness, and data structures.

Author: Maurizio Gasperini
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: universe, astronomers, theory, cosmology, bang, string
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-09-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 3540744193
ISBN-13: 9783540744191

Terms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. The idea that the Universe we observe today originated from an enormous explosion (big bang) is now well known and widely accepted, at all levels, in modern popular culture. But what happens to the Universe before the big bang? And would it make any sense at all to ask such a question? In fact, recent progress in theoretical physics, and in particular in String Theory, suggests answers to the above questions, providing us with mathematical tools able in principle to reconstruct

Author: Maurizio Muraca
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: research, biliary, methods
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1994-11-28
List price: $404.95
ISBN-10: 0849387019
ISBN-13: 9780849387012

This exciting new book brings together the most significant information on the procedures that have generated most of the recent progress in hepatobiliary pathophysiology. The authors describe their unique experiences, including specific technical and analytical problems. Since workers in the field often specialize within a limited area, the methodology covering each of the main aspects in hepatobiliary research is particularly useful. The book also includes an exhaustive reference list.

Author: Maurizio Viroli
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: social, thought, political, modern, founders, machiavelli
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-02-04
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0198780885
ISBN-13: 9780198780885

This book presents a critical examination of Machiavelli’s thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with a reassessment of his central ideas and arguments. Viroli challenges the accepted interpretations of Machiavelli’s work, insisting that his republicanism was based not on a commitment to virtue, greatness, and expansion, but to the ideal of civic life protected by the shield of fair laws. His detailed study of how Machiavelli composed The Prince offers a number of new interpretations and he further contends that the most challenging--and undere

Author: Maurizio Valle
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: silicon, systems, adaptive, smart
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-10-18
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 1402027435
ISBN-13: 9781402027437

Intelligent/smart systems have become common practice in many engineering applications. On the other hand, current low cost standard CMOS technology (and future foreseeable developments) makes available enormous potentialities. The next breakthrough will be the design and development of