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Along with finite differences and finite elements, spectral methods are one of the three main methodologies for solving partial differential equations on computers. This book provides a detailed presentation of basic spectral algorithms, as well as a systematical presentation of basic convergence theory and error analysis for spectral methods.

Information providers are a very promising application area of recommender systems due to the general problem of assessing the quality of information products prior to the purchase.

The present book analyses the work of Ezio Tarantelli, a remarkable Italian scientist and economist killed by the Red Brigades in 1985 after only a short life (1941-1985). The fifth chapter and the conclusions, finally, show how, from his economic analysis, he derived some economic policy proposals that still hold relevance today.

Standing out from the field due to its comprehensive coverage of German corporate law and governance, this updated and expanded second edition features a new chapter on compliance as well as exploring wider international perspectives on these vital issues.

This book deals with the electronics of Wind-Energy systems and their implementation into the grid. Starting with an overview of energy conversion and concepts for Wind Energy systems, the concept, design and control of the electrical components are treated.

Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon, but variations from culture to culture pose fascinating questions. This book investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general.

This is the only book solely about Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Written by experts in the field, many of whom took part in the Galileo mission, the book reviews the basics about Io and its unique space environment.

The problems and exercises in Strength and Stability that exceed the bounds of the ordinary university course in complexity and their statement are considered.

Reflecting his major contributions to the field, Jean Lemaitre's "Engineering Damage Mechanics" presents simplified and advanced methods organized within a unified framework for designers of any mechanical component.

Amperometric sensors, biosensors included, particularly rely on suitable electrode materials. This includes intrinsically conducting, redox and ion-exchange polymers, metal and carbon nanostructures, silica based materials.

Compared to other books, this work provides a much more compact view of the language, while also placing the language-elements in a more applied setting, by providing examples related to numerical computing and more advanced Input/Output facilities for Earth system sciences.

if the measured value is 1.0, and inaccuracy is bounded by 0.1, then the actual (unknown) value of the quantity can be anywhere between 1.0 - 0.1 = 0.9 and 1.0 + 0.1 = 1.1.

This book examines fundamental issues of risk assessment in grid computing environments. The authors describe the development of a hybrid probabilistic and possibilistic model for assessing the success of a computing task.

Hybrid intelligent systems combine intelligent computing paradigms including fuzzy logic and bio-inspired optimization algorithms to produce powerful automatic control systems. This volume explains several important control applications of Type-2 fuzzy logic.

Interference Calculus develops a mathematical framework for modeling and optimizing interference-coupled multiuser systems. The concept of general interference functions is the core of the framework, which provides a simple means of characterizing interdependencies between users.

This is the first comprehensive exposition of basic lower-bounds arguments, reviewing gems discovered in the past two decades right up to results from the last year. Covers a wide spectrum of models: circuits, formulas, communication protocols, branching programs.

This book explores the use of the Internet in administration and politics, and introduces a process-oriented layer model which defines options of exchange and participation. Case studies show practical applications in industry, administration and research.

This book examines changes to the soil-subsurface matrix and properties caused by chemical pollution. It details the chemistry of contaminants that often disturb the natural soil-subsurface equilibrium as a result of human activity.

This ground-breaking new work in metal-carboryne chemistry shows how transition metals can mediate or catalyze the cycloaddition or coupling reactions of carboryne with alkynes or alkenes to afford benzocarboranes, alkenylcarboranes or dihydrobenzocarboranes.

Unlike the spinons in the Haldane-Shastry model, those proposed here obey non-abelian statistics and integrate classical and fresh concepts. The new model this volume introduces is derived by mapping exact models of quantized Hall states into spin chains.

In this book, the authors present a self-assembly method for size- and position-controlled ultra-long nanodot chains using a novel effect of near-field optical desorption, and also describe a novel deposition and etching scheme under nonresonant conditions.

This book helps companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs, showing them how to create hyrid strategies. A real-life case study demonstrates the applicability of the presented framework.

This book covers hybrid intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy logic and modular neural networks for pattern recognition applications. Includes basic theory, use of type-2 fuzzy models, optimization of type-2 fuzzy systems and modular neural networks and more.

This book highlights the important role of Jewish mathematicians in all areas of mathematical culture during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, explores their working lives and activities, and recalls their emigration, flight and death after 1933.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary study in atomic, molecular, and quantum information (QI) science. Applications of the tools developed in QI provide new physical insights into electron optics and atom properties.

This book focuses on rare category analysis where the majority classes have smooth distributions and the minority classes exhibit the compactness property. It focuses on challenging cases where the support regions of the majority and minority classes overlap.

This exhaustive survey of the state of the art in applying ecoinformatics to the study of sustainable development takes a multilevel approach and models the physical environment using both physical parameters as well as multispectral remote sensing.

This book presents a theory of apartness encompassing both point-set topology and the theory of uniform spaces. The first book on the apartness approach to constructive topology, it is a valuable addition to the literature on topology in computer science.