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
The text of Visual Servoing via Advanced Numerical Methods has its roots in an invited session presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation at Kobe in May 2009. The work p
This volumecomprisesthe proceedingsof the 8th InternationalConferenceon M- tiple Objective and Goal Programming: Theories and Applications (MOPGP08). ThisconferencewasheldinPortsmouth,UnitedKingdomont
Cartography and geographic information (GI) are remarkably appropriate for the requirements of early warning (EW) and crisis management (CM). The use of geospatial technology has increased tremendous
Linear, Time-varying Approximations to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems introduces a new technique for analysing and controlling nonlinear systems. This method is general and requires only very mild condit
Supersymmetry is a symmetry which combines bosons and fermions in the same multiplet of a larger group which unites the transformations of this symmetry with that of spacetime. Thus every bosonic part
This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid su
Within the region of Central and Eastern Europe a long and outstanding history in the field of Cartography and Geoinformation Science exists. In this book the contemporary developments in this region
Support for addressing the on-going global changes needs solutions for new scientific problems which in turn require new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of irreducible uncertai
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, during November 18-19, 2009. The con
"Random matrix theory has a long history, beginning in the first instance in multivariate statistics. It was used by Wigner to supply explanations for the important regularity features of the apparent
This book addresses production and inventory management problems where products can be replaced by specified substitutes. Depending on the considered application, substitutions can potentially improve
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,
This book is primarily targeted to present the most recent trends in the field of control and dynamics of time delay systems. In this rapidly evolving field, the book successfully captures a careful s
These are the proceedings of the 18th international conference on domain decomposition methods in science and engineering, held?in Jerusalem, January 12-17, 2008. Domain decomposition methods are iter
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the twelfth International Conference, on Discovery Science, DS 2009, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2009.The 35 revised full papers presented wer
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2008, held in Auckland, New
This book constitutes the proceedings of the nine workshops that were organized in conjunction with the Business Information Systems Conference, BIS 2009, taking place in Poznan, Poland, on April 27-2
