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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
This, the 29th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, is comprised of seven full papers focusing on the area of secure communication. Topics covered include weak radio signals, efficient circuits, multiple antenna sensing techniques, modes of inter-computer communication and fault types, geometric meshes, and big data processing in distributed environments.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
It has been traditional in phonetic research to characterize monophthongs using a set of static formant frequencies, i.e., formant frequencies taken from a single time-point in the vowel or averaged over the time-course of the vowel. However, over the last twenty years a growing body of research has...
by Mats G. Larson, Fredrik Bengzon
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
This book gives an introduction to the finite element method as a general computational method for solving partial differential equations approximately. Our approach is mathematical in nature with a strong focus on the underlying mathematical principles, such as approximation properties of piecewise...
Retail Category Management
Decision Support Systems for Assortment, Shelf Space, Inventory and Price Planning
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand. As consumers expect high product availability and low prices, and retailers are constantly increasing product variety and striving towards high service levels, the complexity of managing retail business...
Handbook of Data Quality
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The issue of data quality is as old as data itself. However, the proliferation of diverse, large-scale and often publically available data on the Web has increased the risk of poor data quality and misleading data interpretations. On the other hand, data is now exposed at a much more strategic level...
Organizations
Social Systems Conducting Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
to do to ensure survival, and (2) principles for designing organizational structures in such a way that they can realize the required functions adequately. In the course of their elaboration, we will show that these principles are general – i.e., that they hold for all organizations. 1.5 Conceptual...
Traffic Flow Dynamics
Data, Models and Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This textbook provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of vehicular traffic flow dynamics and modeling. It makes this fascinating interdisciplinary topic, which to date was only documented in parts by specialized monographs, accessible to a broad readership. Numerous figures and problems...
Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms
New Approaches for Collaborative Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Integrated supply chain planning is well understood by theory and widely applied in practice – however, only with respect to intra-organisational supply chains. In inter-organisational supply chains, an additional, yet unresolved problem arises: due to confidentiality reasons, decentralized parties...
Understanding Viscoelasticity
Basics of Rheology
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In this book, the necessary background for understanding viscoelasticity is covered; both the continuum and microstructure approaches to modelling viscoelastic materials are discussed, since neither approach alone is sufficient.
Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Auckland, New Zealand, 7th - 12th January 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
In the twenty-first century the sustainability of energy and transportation systems is on the top of the political agenda in many countries around the world.
Environmental impacts of human economic activity necessitate the consideration of conflicting goals in decision making processes to develop...
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management
Focused on Computing and Engineering Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This is the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM) held from July 25 to 27, 2014 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal and organized by International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ISMSEM),...
Periodic Review Inventory Systems
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Inventory Systems within Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
The focus of the work is twofold. First, it provides an introduction into fundamental structural and behavioral aspects of periodic review inventory systems. Second, it includes a comprehensive study on analytical and optimization aspects of a specific class of those systems. For the latter purpose,...
Difference Equations, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications
ICDEA, Barcelona, Spain, July 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
These proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications cover a number of different aspects of difference equations and discrete dynamical systems, as well as the interplay between difference equations and dynamical systems. The conference was organized by the...
Intelligent Techniques in E-Commerce
A Case Based Reasoning Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
E-commerce has passed through a number of stages in the minds of most readers of the daily press. Initially it was the province of the specialist and considered almost irrelevant to the needs and activities of everyday life - companies looking for venture capital in this area had little if any chance...