During recent years a great deal of progress has been made in performance modelling and evaluation of the Internet, towards the convergence of multi-service networks of diverging technologies, support
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2011, held in Tokyo, Japan, in May 2011. The 51 revised ful
This volume contains 13 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on trading agents, negotiating agents, dynamic pricing, and auctions. They were originally presente
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2011) , held in Stockholm, Sweden, March 23-24, 2011.The special theme cho
This book surveys recent developments in numerical techniques for global atmospheric models. It is based upon a collection of lectures prepared by leading experts in the field. The chapters reveal the
Analysis and Synthesis of Networked Control Systems focuses on essential aspects of this field, including quantization over networks, data fusion over networks, predictive control over networks and fa
The book includes different contributions that cover interdisciplinary research in the areas of · Error controlled numerical methods, efficient algorithms and software development· Ela
All modern industries rely on large and complex software systems. In order toconstruct such large systems in a systematic manner, the focus of the developmentmethodologies has switched in the last two
Jan Recker investigates the notion of quality of business process modeling grammars. His evaluation is based on ontological analysis, qualitative analysis, and quantitative analysis, which are applied
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2010, held in Jeju, South Korea in December 2010.The 77 revised full papers pres
This book considers the one-factor copula model for credit portfolios that are used for pricing synthetic CDO structures as well as for risk management and measurement applications involving the gener
These are the proceedings of the 19th international conference on domain decomposition methods in science and engineering. Domain decomposition methods are iterative methods for solving the often very
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2010, held in Canberra, Australia, in October 2010.The 25 revised full papers presented wer
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2010, held in Beijing, China, in October 2010. The 98 revised full papers
This volume contains the extended version of selected talks given at the international research workshop "Coping with Complexity: Model Reduction and Data Analysis", Ambleside, UK, August 31 – Septemb
This series aims to report new developments in applied and computational mechanics quickly, informally and at a high level. This includes the fields of fluid, solid and structural mechanics, dynamics
This monograph develops a unified methodology for dynamic analysis and minimization of the inertia-induced forces occurring in high speed multiloop planar as well as spatial mechanisms based on the mu
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during November 9-10, 2010. The goal of the
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, LESS 2010, held in Helsinki, Finland, in October 2010. LESS 2010 is the first s
The presented work combines two areas of research: cooperative game theory and lot size optimization. One of the most essential problems in cooperations is to allocate cooperative profits or costs amo
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) in Jyvaskyla, Finland, in June 2010. This inaugural conference brought together a strong
The book contains a selection of high quality papers, chosen among the best presentations during the International Conference on Spectral and High-Order Methods (2009), and provides an overview of the
This book constitutes the proceedings of the second workshop on Business Process Modeling Notation, BPMN 2010, held in Potsdam, Germany, in October 2010. The 6 research papers presented were carefully
This series reports on new developments in mathematical economics, economic theory, econometrics, operations research, and mathematical systems.Manuscripts should be no less than 150 and preferably no
There has been a recent surge in research activities related to networked control of large-scale systems. These "cyber-physical" systems can be found throughout society, from industrial production pla
To ‘everyday consumers’ of information who use contemporary communication devices the ‘not-real’ is experienced almost every time they turn on a television, watch a movie or access some information vi
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR) in Rostock, Germany, in September 2010. The 14 full and 4 sho
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2010), held at the CAiSE 2010 conference in Hamm
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2010, held in Singapore, in September 2010.The 11 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2010, which took place in
This series reports on new developments in mathematical economics, economic theory, econometrics, operations research, and mathematical systems.Manuscripts should be no less than 150 and preferably no
This three volume set LNCS 6352, LNCS 6353, and LNCS 6354 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2010, held in Thessaloniki, Gre
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the nth International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web) held in Bilbao, Spain, in September 2010.The 22 papers accepted
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the First Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS), held in Rebild, Denmark, in August 2010. The conference was held in conjunction with the
This series reports on new developments in mathematical economics, economic theory, econometrics, operations research, and mathematical systems.This book presents a methodological approach for the joi
The European Flight Mechanics Action Group FM-AG(16) on Fault Tolerant Control, established in 2004 and concluded in 2008, represented a collaboration involving thirteen European partners from industr
The book presents new ideas to model and solve the flexible shift planning problem of personnel workers in the service industry. First, a new modeling approach is proposed that requires shifts to be g
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of eight international workshops held in Ulm, Germany, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Business Process
