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This volume studies the dynamics of monetary and fiscal interactions in Europe. The text focuses on sequential policy decisions, simultaneous and independent policy decisions, and policy cooperation.

Swarming species exhibit fascinating collective behaviors. Similarly, engineered multi-agent dynamic systems exhibit sophisticated collective behaviors while. In this book we show how to model and control a wide range of such multi-agent dynamic systems.

This book examines applications of computational intelligence, emphasizing fuzzy techniques, to issues in measurement, analysis and control of Internet traffic. Covers data mining and control problems and practical hardware implementation of systems proposed.

Easily readable and exact, this book is concerned with the kinetic boundary condition for both the plane and curved vapor-liquid interfaces. It also devotes attention to the fluid dynamics boundary condition for Navier-Stokes (fluid dynamics) equations.

This book offers broad coverage of a challenging new domain for engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs who are negotiating the transition from learning and adaptability to evolvability and autonomy for technologies, devices and problem-solving methods.

Nanostructured coatings are stronger and more resistant as well as possessing unique magnetic properties. This book reviews the latest research into fabricating and classifying nanostructured coatings, focusing on the size effects of the nanometric scale.

From its presentation of the major components and modeling of MCDA problems, to a discussion of solutions to the obstacles caused by uncertain environmental and economical conditions, this volume offers comprehensive coverage of multivariate analysis.

Written for students, architects and researchers, this volume reviews the current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in countries across the globe. The text explores various approaches for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort.

This detailed survey of the ontology modelling application Knowledge Seeker demonstrates how it can improve the efficiency of traditional information systems, increase the accuracy of text classification, and enhance the capabilities of search engines.

Aimed at students majoring in other subjects but requiring a grounding in calculus, this foundation text on the subject covers the historical background of the theory before covering classic calculus and practical applications such as the Fourier series.

This thesis presents a compact and coherent introduction of basic theoretical features, which provides a foundation for the development of approaches for calculation of condensed phase entropies on the basis of well-established quantum chemical methods.

Chemical Identification and its Quality Assurance shows how to apply the principles of quality assurance for qualitative chemical analysis. The principles of identification and metrological basics are presented, in addition to the reliability and errors involved with chemical identification.

This book introduces an approach in designing E-Librarian Services, which combines advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces. Such a system can efficiently retrieve multimedia resources from a digital library.

Piezoceramic Sensors provides an up-to-date overview of various types of piezosensors. Readers will gain an understanding of the fundamentals, technical design and practical applications of piezoceramic sensors, in addition to new measuring techniques.

Coulombic Fluids explores bulk and interfacial physico-chemical characteristics of various fluid systems dominated by Coulomb interactions. Topics include molten salts, ionic liquids as well as metal-molten salt mixtures and expanded fluid metals.

Technological advances have vastly increased the potential applications of robots, which now feature much more interaction with humans. This book is an overview of robotic exoskeletons and includes details of an upper-limb exoskeleton for tremor suppression.

Adhering to the concept of the common heritage of mankind, this book plugs a major gap in the literature by examining the role of African states in developing and implementing a legal framework for the deep sea bed beyond the boundaries of their jurisdiction.

Addressing an energy technology issue of huge relevance and complexity, this thesis explores catalytic and gas-phase combustion characteristics in channel-flow, platinum-coated microreactors, focusing on methane and propane microreactor/microturbine concepts.

Written from experience, Essence of a Manager provides a guide for practising managers at all levels. It formulates a sound thesis to describe the qualities needed in a "good" manager, developing a holistic perspective.

This book covers geographic-and-ecological aspects of mathematical modelling of marine ecosystems, for diagnosing ecosystems, estimating consequences of economic activity, and modelling of changes. Shows various tools in real-world use in the Black Sea basin.

In this book, the author makes the subject of spectrum analysis understandable to a wide audience, including those with and without a solid background in general signal processing. The focus throughout the book is on applications to speech analysis.

This book presents a simple, yet complete, approach to the design and performance analysis of distributed processing algorithms and techniques suitable for IEEE 802.15.4 networks. In particular, the book focuses on the bottom two layers of the ISO/OSI stack.

This self-contained account of the fundamental theory of field-matter interaction on a sub-wavelength scale deals with a range of material, including the quantum physical behavior of matter and the role of local-field effects and non-local electrodynamics.

This book covers the modular invariant theory of finite groups. It details techniques for the computation of invariants for many modular representations of finite groups, especially the cyclic group of prime order, and includes many examples.

Including a wealth of information on the bionomics, systematics, ecology, research techniques and control of both nuisance and disease vector this readable volume provides practical guidelines and key information for professionals and laymen alike.

This book establishes, for the first time, the potential application of NCO implementations to cryptographic primitives such as one-way functions, pseudorandom generators, encryption schemes and digital signatures. The author explores numerous key issues.

This book examines approaches to fault-tolerance in the context of algorithmic search theory. It details the application of fault-tolerant search procedures to specific problems in distributed computing, bioinformatics and computational learning.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction into the classical topic of projective geometry. It explains how metric concepts may be best understood in projective terms and explores the beauty of the interplay of geometry, algebra and combinatorics.

Free jazz, as performed by such artists as John Coltrone and Archie Shepp, is a creative, collaborative art form. This book examines free jazz and develops geometric theories of gestures and distributed identities, also known as swarm intelligence.