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Project Management and Engineering Research, 2014
Selected Papers from the 18th International AEIPRO Congress held in Alcañiz, Spain, in 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This volume features papers from the 18th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, held by the University of Zaragoza in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Project Management and Engineering (AEIPRO). It illustrates the state of the art in this emerging area. Readers...
Quantitative Monitoring of the Underwater Environment
Results of the International Marine Science and Technology Event MOQESM´14 in Brest, France
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This volume constitutes the results of the International Conference on Underwater Environment, MOQESM’14, held at “Le Quartz” Conference Center in Brest, France, on October 14-15, 2014, within the framework of the 9th Sea Tech Week, International Marine Science and Technology Event. The objective...
Lourdes Arizpe
A Mexican Pioneer in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
This book presents major texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a pioneering Mexican anthropologist, on the occasion of her 70th birthday. She is a leading researcher into indigenous peoples, an innovator in women’s studies and a global scientific leader who has inspired the international...
Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries
Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa’s least developed countries from a law and economics perspective. Focusing on the effects of foreign land investments on host countries’ local populations and the apparent failure of international law to create...
Advances in Sustainable and Competitive Manufacturing Systems
23rd International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The proceedings includes the set of revised papers from the 23rd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2013). This conference aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of leading edge scientific knowledge and industrial experience regarding...
High Performance Computing
30th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, July 12-16, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2015, [formerly known as the International Supercomputing Conference] held in Frankfurt, Germany, in July 2015.
The 27 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers were carefully...
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
18th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2018, Held as Part of the 13th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2018, Madrid, Spain, June 18-21, 2018, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2018.
The 10 papers presented together with 2 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from...
Euro-Par 2017: Parallel Processing Workshops
Euro-Par 2017 International Workshops, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28-29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops of the 23rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2017, held in Santiago de Compostela. Spain in August 2017.
The 59 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions.
Euro-Par...
Computer Security
ESORICS 2017 International Workshops, CyberICPS 2017 and SECPRE 2017, Oslo, Norway, September 14-15, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems and of Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2017, and the First International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2017,...
Interoperability, Safety and Security in IoT
Second International Conference, InterIoT 2016 and Third International Conference, SaSeIoT 2016, Paris, France, October 26-27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Safety and Security in Internet of Things , SaSeIoT 2016, which was collocated with InterIoT and took place in Paris, France, in October 2016.
The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected...
by Otto Hüther, Georg Krücken
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Otto Hüther and Georg Krücken analyze the developments of the last 20 years in their new book on German higher education.
The foreign observer of German higher education, even the informed foreign observer, struggles to find denominators, not to mention common denominators of a bewildering...
8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017)
Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017), highlighting the importance of engineering, project and product management in a region of the world that is in need of transformation and rebuilding. The aim of the conference...
Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
4th International Workshop, GKR 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2015, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015, associated with IJCAI 2015, the 24th International Joint Conference on...
Advancing Women in Science
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent...