Authors:Mary Bouquet, Nuno Porto,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: magic, new, directions, anthropology, museum, ritual, amp, religion, science, processes
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-07-31
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 157181521X
ISBN-13: 9781571815217

For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such sites. It turns out that not only museum specialists, but visitors themselves are engaged in complex performances and experiences that m

Authors:José Cordeiro, Boris Shishkov, Alpesh Kumar Ran
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: july, portugal, communications, computer, science, information, porto, icsoft, technolgoies, data, third, international, conference, software
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 3642052002
ISBN-13: 9783642052002

This book contains the best papers of the third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2008, held in Porto, Portugal in July 2008. The purpose of ICSOFT 2008 was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in information technology and software development. The conference tracks were: software engineering, information systems and data management, programming languages, distributed and parallel systems, and knowledge engineering.

Authors:Tiziana Margaria, Bernhard Steffen,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: greece, sani, porto, october, computer, science, information, isola, symposium, methods, formal, applications, verification, validation, international, third, leveraging
Number of Pages: 869
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 3540884785
ISBN-13: 9783540884781

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, held in Porto Sani, Greece, in October 2008 The 68 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 1 keynote speech were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are tools and applications in industrial software quality control; an introduction of multi-core systems in automotive applications; model-driven SOA; applications of formal approaches to service-oriented computing; trustworthy

Authors:Christopher Jekeli, Luisa M.C. Bastos, Joana Fernand
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: international, august, portugal, september, association, symposia, geodesy, porto, symposium, space, geoid, missions, ggsm, iag, gravity
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-08-22
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540269304
ISBN-13: 9783540269304

This volume represents the proceedings of the International Symposium on Gravity, Geoid, and Space Missions (GGSM2004), held in Porto, Portugal, 30 August - 3 September 2004. The symposium encompassed the themes of Commission 2 (Gravity Field) of IAG, as well as interdisciplinary topics related to geoid and gravity field, including integration of heterogeneous data and contributions from satellite and airborne techniques. Special focus was on gravity-dedicated satellite missions like CHAMP, GRACE, and GOCE. Projects addressing topographic and ice field mapping using SAR, LIDAR, and laser altim

Authors:J. M. L. M. Palma, J. M. L. M. Palma, A. Silva Lopes
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: turbulence, proceedings, portugal, springer, physics, porto, conference, euromech, european, advances, june
Number of Pages: 791
Published: 2007-08-17
List price: $359.00
ISBN-10: 3540726039
ISBN-13: 9783540726036

This volume comprises the communications presented at the ETC 11, the EUROMECH European Turbulence conference held in 2007 in Porto. The scientific committee has chosen the contributions out of the following topics: Acoustics of turbulent flows; Atmospheric turbulence; Control of turbulent flows; Geophysical and astrophysical turbulence; Instability and transition; Intermittency and scaling; Large eddy simulation and related techniques; MHD turbulence; Reacting and compressible turbulence; Transport and mixing; Turbulence in multiphase and non-Newtonian flows; Vortex dynamics and structure

Authors:Joaquim Marques de Sá, Luis A. Alexandre, Wlodzisl
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computer, notes, part, lecture, science, issues, general, proceedings, september, icann, networks, neural, international, conference, portugal, porto, artificial
Number of Pages: 978
Published: 2007-10-12
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540746897
ISBN-13: 9783540746898

This two volume set LNCS 4668 and LNCS 4669 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2007. The 197 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 376 submissions. The 98 papers of the first volume are organized in topical sections on learning theory, advances in neural network learning methods, ensemble learning, spiking neural networks, advances in neural network architectures neural network technologies, neural dynamics and complex systems, data analysis,

Authors:Jose M.L.M. Palma, Jack Dongarra,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: vector, processing, parallel, papers, lecture, computer, science, portugal, notes, systems, second, vecpar, international, conference, applications, porto
Number of Pages: 469
Published: 1997-01-15
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 3540628282
ISBN-13: 9783540628286

This book constitutes a carefully arranged selection of revised full papers chosen from the presentations given at the Second International Conference on Vector and Parallel Processing - Systems and Applications, VECPAR’96, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 1996. Besides 10 invited papers by internationally leading experts, 17 papers were accepted from the submitted conference papers for inclusion in this documentation following a second round of refereeing. A broad spectrum of topics and applications for which parallelism contributes to progress is covered, among them parallel linea