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Psychopathologie heute hie die Festschrift, die dem Klassiker dieses Faches K. Schneider 1962 zum 75. Geburtstag gewidmet wurde. Die Idee des Herausge- bers Kranz war, Aufsatze von Schulern und Freunden des Jubilars unter ein bestimmtes Leitthema zu stellen und damit Dank und Gluckwunsch zu verbin- den. Auf diese Weise ist ein Buch entstanden, das uber den aktuellen Anla hinaus bis heute Gultigkeit und Bedeutung behalten hat. Wir als Herausgeber der Festschrift zu Ulrich Venzlaffs 65. Geburtstag hatten dieselbe Idee, Arbeiten von Freunden und Kollegen des Jubilars unter ein Leitthema zu stellen, um ebenfalls dem Buch uber den aktuellen Anla hinaus, eine Bedeutung fur die Zukunft zu sichern. In bewuter Anlehnung an eine klassische Vorlage haben wir den Titel Forensische Psychiatrie heute gewahlt und denken, da wir damit der Bedeutung des Jubilars fur das Fach und der Bedeutung des Faches selbst ange- messen Rechnung getragen haben. Die Bedeutung des Faches innerhalb der Psychiatrie und innerhalb der Medizin und fur die Rechtsprechung liegt in einer zunehmenden Spezialisierung, die mehr und mehr von Fachleuten fur forensi- sche Psychiatrie wahrgenommen wird. Es ist heute kaum noch moglich, da ein Psychiater ohne besondere Kenntnis und Erfahrung im Umgang mit forensisch- psychiatrischen Problemen zu allen zu begutachtenden Rechtsfragen Stellung nehmen kann. So haben sich folgerichtig in den letzten Jahrzehnten Psychiater und Psychologen hervorragend in diesem Gebiet spezialisiert und qualifiziert.

Dienst am Menschen Der Arzt greift mit seinen Entscheidungen oft sehr wesentlich in das Leben eines Menschen ein. Was berechtigt ihn dazu? Woher nimmt er die Mastabe, um die Gesundheitsgefahrdung und das Krank- heitsverhalten eines Menschen richtig beurteilen zu konnen? Woher wei er, womit dem Kranken in einer bestimmten Situation am be- sten gedient ist? Dazu sind Kenntnisse in Anatomie und Physiologie keinesfalls ausreichend, auch wenn sie durch Sachwissen in Psychologie und Soziologie erganzt werden. Handlungsfahig wird ein Arzt erst dann, wenn er sein Detailwissen aufgrund einer umfassenden Gesamtvor- stellung vom Menschen einordnen und aktivieren kann. Erst wenn er ein zutreffendes Bild vom Menschen besitzt, kann er den Kran- ken richtig verstehen und ihm wirksam helfen. Wie aber kann sich ein Arzt ein allgemeines Bild vom Menschen verschaffen? Dies ist besonders schwierig in einer Zeit, in der nach zwei infernalischen Weltkriegen das bis dahin gultige einheitliche christlich-humanistische Menschenbild sehr weitgehend demontiert worden ist. Wie soll ein Medizinstudent zu einem klaren Bild vom Menschen gelangen? Allzuviel Spezialwissen verstellt ihm den Blick auf das Wesentliche. Er wird zwar in viele Einzelwissenschaften eingefuhrt, aber das Schwierigste uberlat man ihm allein: ohne Anleitung soll er die Fulle der Details zu einem sinnvollen Mosaikbild zusammen- setzen. Ist es somit verwunderlich, wenn er sich notgedrungen auf das Anschauliche, auf ein reines Korperbild beschrankt? Zwar ver- sucht er psychologische und soziologische Aspekte einzubringen.

Unter Mitarbeit von zahlreichen Fachwissenschaftlern

The papers in this volume reflect the richness and diversity of the subject of dynamics. Some are lectures given at the three conferences (Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, Symbolic Dynamics and Coding Theory and Smooth Dynamics, Dynamics and Applied Dynamics) held in Maryland between October 1986 and March 1987; some are work which was in progress during the Special Year, and some are work which was done because of questions and problems raised at the conferences. In addition, a paper of John Milnor and William Thurston, versions of which had been available as notes but not yet published, is included.

The Taniguchi Symposium on global analysis on manifolds focused mainly on the relationships between some geometric structures of manifolds and analysis, especially spectral analysis on noncompact manifolds. Included in the present volume are expanded versions of most of the invited lectures. In these original research articles, the reader will find up-to date accounts of the subject.

The Latin American School of Mathematics (ELAM) is one of the most important mathematical events in Latin America. It has been held every other year since 1968 in a different country of the region, and its theme varies according to the areas of interest of local research groups. The subject of the 1986 school was Partial Differential Equations with emphasis on Microlocal Analysis, Scattering Theory and the applications of Nonlinear Analysis to Elliptic Equations and Hamiltonian Systems.

The autonomic communication paradigm has been defined mainly through the Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF) and particularly as follows: Autonomic communication is centered on selfware - an innovative approach to perform known and emerging tasks of a network control plane, both end-to-end and middle box communication-based. Selfware assures the capacity to evolve; however, it requires generic network instrumentation. Selfware principles and technologies borrow largely from well-established research on distributed systems, fault tolerance among others, from emerging research on non-conventional networking (multihop ad hoc, sensor, peer-to-peer, group communication, etc. ), and from similar initiatives, such as Autonomic Computing of IBM, Cognitive Network of DARPA, Harmonious Computing of Hitachi, Resonant Networking of NTT, etc. A visionary network would be able to (a) configure and re-configure itself, (b) identify its operational state and take actions to drive itself to a desired stable state and finally (c) organize the allocation and distribution of its resources. To build such a network, it is necessary to go beyond the improvement of techniques and algorithms by using a new concept, the knowledge plane. The knowledge plane is able to collect information available in the network to provide other elements of the network with services and advice and make the network perform what it is supposed to. There are many objectives to the configuration and reconfiguration of the network, from the optimization of resources to the use of best available techniques in order to offer the most appropriate service, best adapted to the t- minal capabilities.

This volume contains original research papers on topics central to Dynamical Systems, such as fractional dimensions (Hausdorff dimension, limity capacity) and limit cycles of polynomial vector fields concerning the well-known Dulac and Hilbert's 16th problems. Stability and bifurcations, intermittency, normal forms, Anosov flows and foliations are also themes treated in the papers. Many of the authors are renowned for their important contributions to the field. This volume should be of much interest to people working in dynamical systems, including, physicists, biologists and engineers.

The main theme of the meeting was to illustrate the use of stochastic processes in the study of topological problems in quantum physics and statistical mechanics. Much discussion of current problems was generated and there was a considerable amount of interaction between mathematicians and physicists. The papers presented in the proceedings are essentially of a research nature but some (Lewis, Hudson) are introductions or surveys.

Ruthenate materials have come into focus recently because of their very interesting magnetic and superconducting properties. From the first international conference on this topic, the present volume has emerged as a first coherent account of the considerable body of work, both theoretical and experimental, gathered in this field within a short time span. The book has been written in the form of a set of lectures and tutorial reviews with the aim of providing the research community with both a comprehensive and modern source of reference and a tutorial introduction for postgraduate students and nonspecialists working in related areas.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), held October 11-13, 2006, in Glasgow, Scotland. The SPIRE annual symposium provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present original contributions to areas such as string processing (dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text c- pression, text mining, natural language processing, and automata-based string processing); information retrieval languages, applications, and evaluation (IR modelling, indexing, ranking and ?ltering, interface design, visualization, cro- lingual IR systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, W- related applications, XML, information retrieval from semi-structured data, text mining, and generation of structured data from text); and interaction of biology and computation (sequencing and applications in molecular biology, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and sequen- driven protein structure prediction). The papers in this volume were selected from 102 papers submitted from over 20 di?erent countries in response to the Call for Papers. A total of 26 submissions were accepted as full papers, yielding an acceptance rate of about 25%. In view of the large number of good-quality submissions the Program Committee decided to accept 5 short papers, that have also been included in the proceedings. SPIRE 2006 also featured two talks by invited speakers: Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Martin Farach-Colton (Rutgers University, USA).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, EELC 2006. The book presents 12 revised full papers together with 5 invited papers. These focus on the evolution and emergence of language - a fast growing interdisciplinary research area touching such different disciplines as anthropology, linguistics, psychology, primatology, neuroscience, cognitive science and computer science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computational Life Sciences, CompLife 2006. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on genomics, data mining, molecular simulation, molecular informatics, systems biology, biological networks/metabolism, and computational neuroscience.

The concept of CAST as Computer Aided Systems Theory, was introduced by F. Pichler in the late 1980s to include those computer theoretical and practical developments as tools to solve problems in System Science. It was considered as the third component (the other two being CAD and CAM) necessary to build the path from Computer and Systems Sciences to practical developments in Science and Engineering. The University of Linz organized the first CAST workshop in April 1988, which demonstrated the acceptance of the concepts by the scientific and technical community. Next, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria joined the University of Linz to organize the first international meeting on CAST, (Las Palmas, February 1989), under the name EUROCAST'89. This was a very successful gathering of systems theorists, computer scientists, and engineers from most European countries, North America, and Japan. It was agreed that EUROCAST international conferences would be organized every two years, alternating between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a continental European location. Thus, successive EUROCAST meetings have taken place in Krems (1991), Las Palmas (1993), Innsbruck (1995), Las Palmas (1997), and Vienna (1999), in addition to an extra-European CAST Conference in Ottawa in 1994.

This book presents revised full versions of papers contributed to UK Workshops on Multi-Agent Systems, UKMAS, during 1996 and 2000.From the early days of MAS research, the UK community has been a particularly productive one with numerous key contributions. The 15 papers by internationally reputed researchers deal with various aspects of agent technology, with a certain emphasis on foundational issues in multi-agent systems.

Initially a subfield of solid state physics, the study of mesoscopic systems has evolved over the years into a vast field of research in its own right. Keeping track its rapid progress, this book provides a broad survey of the latest developments in the field. The focus is on statistics and dynamics of mesoscopic systems with special emphasis on topics like quantum chaos, localization, noise and fluctuations, mesoscopic optics and quantum transport in nanostructures. Written with nonspecialists in mind, this book will also be useful to graduate students wishing to familiarize themselves with this field of research.

Since its establishment in Hong Kong in 1998,the international Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) conference has become a r- erence for researchers in both theoretical and practical aspects of learning and information processing, data mining, retrieval and management, bioinformatics and bio-inspired models, agents and hybrid systems and ?nancial engineering. The purpose of IDEAL conferences has been to provide a broad and interd- ciplinary forum for scientists, researchers, and practitioners in these areas from around the world. A special feature of IDEAL conferences is cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas in emerging topics and application in these areas. Data ana- sis and engineering and associated learning paradigms are playing increasingly important roles in an increasing number of applications and ?elds. The mul- disciplinary nature of contemporary research is pushing the boundaries and one of the principal aims of the IDEAL conferences is to promote interactions and collaborations across disciplines. This volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science contains accepted - pers presented at IDEAL 2006 held at the University of Burgos, Spain, during, September 20-23, 2006. The conference received 557 submissions from over 40 countriesaroundtheworld,whichweresubsequentlyrefereedbytheProgramme Committeeandmanyadditionalreviewers.Afterrigorousreview,170top-quality papers were accepted and included in the proceedings. The acceptance rate was only 30%, which ensured an extremely high-quality standard of the conference. The buoyant number of submitted papers is a clear proof of the vitality and increased importance of the ?elds related to IDEAL, and is also an indication of the rising popularity of the IDEAL conferences.