Authors:Sacha Baginsky, Alisdair R. Fernie,
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Basel
Keywords: supplementum, experientia, biology, systems, plant
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 2007-03-28
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3764372613
ISBN-13: 9783764372613

Systems biology represents the integration and application of various technologies that share a common goal of measuring globally the properties of a specific biological sample. These combined data describe and monitor the complex networks that exist within each cell, tissue and organism, and can be used to generate predictive models of the behavior of the system. This volume aims to provide a timely view of the "state of the art" in systems biology. The editors take the opportunity to define systems biology as they and the contributing authors see it, and this will lay the groundwork for futu

Author: Roland Zimmermann
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Basel
Keywords: agent, software, technologies, autonomic, computing, series, management, based, supply, network, event, whitestein
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3764374861
ISBN-13: 9783764374860

"Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM)" is one of the major topics in application-oriented Supply Chain Management. However, many solutions lack conceptual precision and currently available client-server SCEM-systems are ill-suited for complex supply networks in today’s business environment. Agent-based proactive information logistics promises to overcome existing deficits by providing event-related information to all participants in the distributed environment. Hence, follow-up costs of disruptive events are significantly reduced for all network participants and performance of a supply n

Author: Bernhard E. Burdek
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Basel
Keywords: design, product, practice, theory, history
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2005-04-08
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 3764370297
ISBN-13: 9783764370299

Design today is a global instrument. Bernhard Burdek traces the progress of design from its beginnings in the late 19th century, through the most significant movements of the 20th century up to those recent developments in biological engineering which will shape the 21st century. Design is now a discipline in its own right and its expertise can be incorporated within interdisciplinary processes. The most important fundamental principles of design theory and methodology are presented, looking in particular at the communicative function of products and highlighting aspects such as corporate and

Authors:Aaron Betsky, Ole Bouman, David Deutsch, Elizabeth Di
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Basel
Keywords: quantum, virtual, real, architecture, disappearing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-09-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 3764372753
ISBN-13: 9783764372750

Architecture has always been a multi-layered discipline playing a catalytic role within society: architecture as representation. Recent developments in nextgeneration computing of the beyond-the-desktop-era (autonomic, grid, ubiquitous and quantum computing) are, however, set to challenge this role. In order to stay in synch with these developments, architecture must significantly change: architecture as an enabling platform that does not prescribe any particular kinds of spatial experiences, but enables them all. In this volume, based on the principle of shared research interests with inte

Authors:Jan Janas, Pavel Kurasov, Ari Laptev, Sergei Naboko, G
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Basel
Keywords: physics, theory, mathematical, operator, analysis, sweden, advances, applications, lund, otamp, conference, methods, spectral
Number of Pages: 443
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 3764387548
ISBN-13: 9783764387549

The volume contains the proceedings of the OTAMP 2006 (Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics) conference held at Lund University in June 2006. The conference was devoted to the methods of analysis and operator theory in modern mathematical physics. The following special sessions were organized during the conference: Spectral analysis of Schroedinger operators; Jacobi and CMV matrices and orthogonal polynomials; Quasi-periodic and random Schroedinger operators; Quantum graphs.

Authors:Georg Dresen, Ove Stephansson, Arno Zang,
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Basel
Keywords: pageoph, topical, volumes, part, transport, damage, fluid, rock
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $96.00
ISBN-10: 3764377119
ISBN-13: 9783764377113

Mechanical properties and fluid transport in rocks are intimately linked as deformation of a solid rock matrix immediately affects the pore space and permeability. This may result in transient or permanent changes of pore pressures and effective pressures causing rock strength to vary in space and time. Fluid circulation and deformation processes in crustal rocks are coupled, producing significant complexity of mechanical and fluid transport behavior. This often poses severe technical and economic problems for reservoir and geotechnical engineering projects involved in oil and gas production,

Author: Andreas Juhl
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: holography, progress, mathematics, curvature, operators, conformally, covariant, differential, families
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2009-06-26
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 376439899X
ISBN-13: 9783764398996

The central object of the book is Q-curvature. This important and subtle scalar Riemannian curvature quantity was introduced by Tom Branson about 15 year ago in connection with variational formulas for determinants of conformally covariant differential operators. The book studies structural properties of Q-curvature from an extrinsic point of view by regarding it as a derived quantity of certain conformally covariant families of differential operators which are associated to hypersurfaces. The new approach is at the cutting edge of central developments in conformal differential geometry in the