Authors:Janos J. Bogardi, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: water, resource, systems, robustness, amp, reliability, uncertainty, risk
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2001-12-15
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0521800366
ISBN-13: 9780521800365

In Risk, Reliability, Uncertainty and Robustness of Water Resources Systems, thirty-five leading scientists provide state-of-the-art reviews of topical areas of research on water resources systems, including aspects of extreme hydrological events: floods and droughts, water quantity and quality, dams, reservoirs and hydraulic structures, evaluating sustainability and climate change impacts. As well as discussing essential challenges and research directions, the book will assist in applying theoretical methods to the solution of practical problems in water resources.

Authors:Fred F. Hattermann, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz,
Publisher: Intl Water Assn
Keywords: water, directive, framework, guide, series, manager, supported, model, implementation
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-09
List price: $153.00
ISBN-10: 1843392739
ISBN-13: 9781843392736

Water resources planning and management and the development of appropriate policies requires methodologies and tools that are able to support systematic, integrative and multidisciplinary assessments at various scales. It also requires the quantification of various uncertainties in both data and models, and the incorporation of stakeholders participation and institutional mechanisms into the various tools and risk assessment methodologies, to help decision makers understand and evaluate alternative measures and decisions. This requirement has been explicitly recognised in the context of the Eu

Author: Zbigniew Rau
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: holism, versus, contractarianism
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1995-06-27
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0819199303
ISBN-13: 9780819199300

John Locke’s political thought, as stated in his "Two Treatises of Government" is comprehensively reinterpreted in this concise work. Rau intentionally avoids a conventional analysis of the historical background and the internal disputes of Locke scholarship. Instead, his analysis is deeply rooted in the classical liberal tradition and casts the enterprise in the theoretically significant terms of 20th century political and ideological dilemmas. Attempting to recast contemporary understanding of Locke’s political doctrine, the book examines its conceptual dimension in relation to t

Authors:Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: machines, studies, computational, intelligence, thinking, visual, understanding, system, first, steps, shape
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-02-25
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540757686
ISBN-13: 9783540757689

This book presents the results of the research in one of the most complex and difficult areas of research, such as research in the areas of thinking and understanding. This research that is carried out in the newly founded Queen Jadwiga Research Institute of Understanding is focused on research on the problem of visual understanding and visual thinking. According to our knowledge, this book is the first attempt to investigate the complexity of the visual thinking problems in the context of building the thinking machine. We are aware how complex this problem is, however, we believe that the res

Author: Zbigniew Michalewicz
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: evolution, programs, structures, data, algorithms, genetic
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 1998-11-26
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540606769
ISBN-13: 9783540606765

Zbigniew Michalewicz’s Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs has three sections. The first section is a straightforward introduction to genetic algorithms. In the second section, Michalewicz describes how to apply genetic algorithms to numerical optimization. Michalewicz, who is a pioneer in this field, discusses the rationale for using genetic algorithms for numerical optimization and describes several experiments that show how this new type of genetic algorithm performs. The author devotes the third section of the book to evolution programs.Genetic algorithms are fo

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Keywords: csis, significant, issues, series, russia, europe, triad, living, china, geostrategic
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2000-12-18
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 089206384X
ISBN-13: 9780892063840

Global stability in the early twenty-first century will be conditioned largely by how the United States handles its relations with China, Europe, and Russia--the "geostrategic triad". Thus, the United States needs a well-defined strategy to manage the two "Eurasian power triangles": the United States, Japan, and China, and the United States, Europe, and Russia. With this work, Brzezinski offers a comprehensive geostrategic road map for such U.S. engagement.

Author: Zbigniew Nitecki
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: calculus, association, america, textbooks, mathematical, first, deconstructed, second, course, year
Number of Pages: 491
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $72.50
ISBN-10: 0883857561
ISBN-13: 9780883857564

Calculus Deconstructed is a thorough and mathematically rigorous exposition of single-variable calculus for readers with some previous exposure to calculus techniques but not to methods of proof. This book is appropriate for a beginning Honors Calculus course assuming high school calculus or a "bridge course" using basica analysis to motivate and illustrate mathematical rigor. It can serve as a combination textbook and reference book for individual self-study. Standard topics and techniques in single-variable calculus are presented in context of a coherent logical structure, building on famili