Authors:Jan Cornelis, Marleen Wynants,
Publisher: ASP-VUB Press
Keywords: interfaces, impact, generation, economic, crosstalks, social, new, individual, brave
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 9054874163
ISBN-13: 9789054874164

Compiled by the CROSSTALKS program for policy-probing scientific issues, this volume reflects on the meaning and impact of existing and future interfaces—and what the added value could be. Offering a broad analysis of the individual, social, and economic impacts that the next generation of interfaces will have, its unique interdisciplinary approach combines the perspectives of artists, academics, and businesspeople.

Authors:Ahmed Seffah, Homa Javahery,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: interfaces, context, aware, applications, cross, user, multiple, platform
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2004-01-16
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0470854448
ISBN-13: 9780470854440

Multiple User Interfaces allow people using mobile phones, lap tops, desk tops, palm tops or PDAs to access and read information from their central server or the internet in a coherent and consistent way and to communicate effectively with other users who may be using different devices. MUIs provide multiple views of the information according to the device used and co-ordinate communication between the users. Multiple User Interfaces: Engineering and Applications Frameworks is the first work to describe user interface design for mobile and hand-held devices such as mobile phones. Given

Author: Alain Ricard; Flora Veit-Wild
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Keywords: interfaces, subversions, african, literatures, matatu, versions, l’oral, oral, written, entre, l’ã©crit
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 9042019379
ISBN-13: 9789042019379

In the African context, there exists the ‘myth’ that orality means tradition. Written and oral verbal art are often regarded as dichotomies, one excluding the other. While orature is confused with ‘tradition’, literature is ascribed to modernity. Furthermore, local languages are ignored and literature is equated with writing in foreign languages. The contributions in this volume take issue with such preconceptions and explore the multiple ways in which literary and oral forms interrelate and subvert each other, giving birth to new forms of artistic expression. They emphasize the local

Authors:W. R. Salaneck, S. Stafstrom, J. L. Brédas,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: interfaces, polymer, emitting, light, devices, structure, electronic, surfaces, conjugated, chemical
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2003-10-30
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521544106
ISBN-13: 9780521544108

In this book the authors illustrate the basic physics and materials science of conjugated polymers and their interfaces, particularly, but not exclusively, as applied to polymer-based light emitting diodes. The approach is to describe the basic physical and associated chemical principles that apply to these materials, which in many instances are different from those that apply to their inorganic counterparts. The main aim of the authors is to highlight specific issues and properties of polymer surfaces and interfaces that are relevant in the context of the emerging field of polymer-based elec

Authors:P. Kralchevsky, K. Nagayama,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: particles, interfaces, dimensional, arrays, interface, science, formation, studies, colloid, fluid, membranes, volume, attachment, proteins
Number of Pages: 668
Published: 2001-02-05
List price: $298.00
ISBN-10: 0444502343
ISBN-13: 9780444502346

In the small world of micrometer to nanometer scale many natural and industrial processes include attachment of colloid particles (solid spheres, liquid droplets, gas bubbles or protein macromolecules) to fluid interfaces and their confinement in liquid films. This may lead to the appearance of lateral interactions between particles at interfaces, or between inclusions in phospholipid membranes, followed eventually by the formation of two-dimensional ordered arrays. The book is devoted to the description of such processes, their consecutive stages, and to the investigation of the underlying ph

Author: David L. Woodruff
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computer, research, interfaces, science, operations, series, search, heuristic, stochastic, computational, optimization, logic, programming, advances
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-12-31
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 0792380789
ISBN-13: 9780792380788

Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic relationship and this book - as a part of the Operations Research and Computer Science Interface Series - sits squarely in the center of the confluence of these two technical research communities. The research presented in the volume is evidence of the expanding frontiers of these two intersecting disciplines and provides researchers and practitioners with new work in the areas of logic programming, stochastic optimization, heuristic search and post-solution analysis for integer programs. The chapter topics span

Authors:R. S. Barr, R.V. Helgason, Jeffrey L. Kennington,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: interfaces, research, operations, science, computer, technologies, series, modeling, advances, metaheuristics, optimization, stochastic
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1996-12-31
List price: $212.00
ISBN-10: 0792398440
ISBN-13: 9780792398448

The disciplines of Computer Science and Operations Research have been linked since their origins and each have contributed to the dramatic advances of the other. This volume examines some of the recent advances resulting from the confluence between these two technical communities. In the process the book brings together the original work of academic researchers and practitioners in Computer Science, Operations Research, Management Science, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and related fields. More specifically, it explores the connections between these two areas with an array o