Author: Nikos Nikolinakos
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: competition, law, international, series, media, converging, regulation, telecommunications
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2006-08-25
List price: $258.00
ISBN-10: 9041124691
ISBN-13: 9789041124692

This book presents the most thoroughgoing model yet offered to ensure the emergence of a genuinely competitive electronic communications industry in Europe. In the course of its in-depth analysis the discussion focuses on such factors as the following: EU telecommunications policy as revealed in liberalization and harmonization legislative measures; the EU electronic communications framework; case law covering issues of refusal to supply and the essential facilities doctrine; application of Article 82 EC to bottlenecks; specific types of an undertak

Author: Nikos Papastergiadis
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: hybridity, deterritorialization, globalization, migration, turbulence
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-02-28
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0745614310
ISBN-13: 9780745614311

This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe.

Author: Nikos Vlassis
Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
Keywords: intelligence, artificial, lectures, machine, learning, synthesis, introduction, systems, distributed, concise, multiagent
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2007-07-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1598295268
ISBN-13: 9781598295269

Multiagent systems is an expanding field that blends classical fields like game theory and decentralized control with modern fields like computer science and machine learning. This monograph provides a concise introduction to the subject, covering the theoretical foundations as well as more recent developments in a coherent and readable manner. The text is centered on the concept of an agent as decision maker. Chapter 1 is a short introduction to the field of multiagent systems. Chapter 2 covers the basic theory of singleagent decision making under uncertainty. Chapter 3 is a brief introductio

Author: Nikos Komninos
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: greece, athens, september, revised, engineering, telecommunications, sensappeal, conference, experimentation, applications, logistics, first, international, sensor
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 2010-03-02
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 3642118690
ISBN-13: 9783642118692

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference, SENSAPPEAL 2009, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2009. The 12 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as WSN for fire hazard detection and monitoring, WSN for precision horticulture, a nephelometric turbidity system for monitoring residential drinking water quality, deployment of a wireless ultrasonic sensor array for psychological monitoring, WISEBED: an open large-scale wireless sensor network testb

Author: Nikos Kotsopoulos
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Keywords: legacy, rock, cosmic, krautrock
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1906155666
ISBN-13: 9781906155667

Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy charts the history of this influential music genre, from its roots in free jazz, psychedelia and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the groundbreaking experiments of Faust, Kraftwerk and Can. The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarchic, at others mystical, magickal, or utopian, it pushed rock beyond any known limits. Illustrated with concert photos, posters, record cover art and other rare

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: greek, zorba
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1996-12-20
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0684825546
ISBN-13: 9780684825540

A fiftieth anniversary edition of the famous novel that inspired the film tells the story of Zorba, a philosophizing, larger-than-life mine owner who confronts life with exuberance and wit. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: christ, temptation, last
Number of Pages: 506
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 068485256X
ISBN-13: 9780684852560

Now a major motion picture, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental fictional reinterpretation of the Gospels by one of the giants of modern literature.