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Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life. This book provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition.

This book provides the analytical tools for calculating stresses and deformations in a strained elastic body. It gives engineers, in a simple form, a clear indication of the necessary fundamental knowledge of the theory of elasticity.

The second, enlarged edition of this established reference integrates many new insights into wastewater hydraulics. It includes in particular sideweirs with throttling pipes, and drop shafts with an account on the two-phase flow features.

This book gives an introduction to metaheuristics for students and practitioners. The basic concepts are developed step-by-step from the bottom up using the knapsack problem, allowing readers to concentrate on the main ideas of metaheuristics.

This book examines bioremediation, which involves processes that reduce overall treatment cost through the application of agricultural residues.

This book details methods of redundancy patterns in time that need to be issued at the right moment in complex computing systems. It introduces the methods, details their stochastic description, and covers aspects of their application in real-world systems.

This reference tutorial contains modern experimental approaches to analysis of strain-stress distribution based on interference-optical methods of registration of strain or displacement fields. It includes the theory and applications of these techniques.

Service robots often work in indoor environments divided into rooms, corridors and doorways. This book presents several approaches to enable a mobile robot to categorize places indoors. Many approaches come from areas of pattern recognition and classification.

Taking an engineering approach rather than a mathematical one, this book presents the basic ideas and methods of Random Sets in Civil Engineering with the aid of simple worked-out examples and suggested problems. It offers a gentle introduction to the subject.

This book presents contentious rulings by the European Court of Human Rights. It argues that the moral integrity of the Court's rulings supporting and protecting human rights is an essential aspect of promoting the internationalization of the rule of law.

This book offers a unique combination of conceptual, institutional and empirical analyses of the design of healthcare financing systems, and explores the complex interactions of finance and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries.

This book provides a fast and cost effective way to process improvement. It details mass customization features and a very advanced logic for optimizing the interaction of people, technology, information and material.

This book studies optimized models with fuzzy quantities. It can be used by undergraduates in higher education, master graduates and doctor graduates. It also serves as a reference for researchers, particularly for those in the field of soft science.

This book presents theoretical methods of chemical engineering for modeling and simulation of industrial processes. It uses mechanics of continuous media approach for modeling the simple processes as hydrodynamic processes, mass and heat transfer processes.

This is the most complete book on virtual decomposition control. This approach uses subsystem dynamics to conduct control design, while guaranteeing the stability and convergence of the entire robot without compromising the rigorousness of the system analysis.

Researchers of the "Fuzzy Logic" group at the Microelectronics Institute of Seville have been studying fuzzy logic since the early 1990s. This book, borne of their efforts, covers the state-of-the-art of fuzzy logic-based algorithms for video de-interlacing.

This book features practical exercises, using Open-Source software, to introduce advanced methods used in the computer-based modeling of fluid processes. This includes nonhydrostatic processes such as breaking internal waves and density-driven convection.

Complexity understanding and management will be a main source of efficiency and prosperity for the next decades and thus is of highest industrial and scientific interest. This book on the latest in polystochastic models for complexity includes case studies.

This book contains the proceedings of the Kalkowsky Symposium 2008, held in Goettingen, Germany. It highlights new ideas and information on the formation and environmental setting of stromatolites.

This book examines contemporary issues of fossil vertebrates that includes new insights of tetrapod evolution during Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras and the discovery of new vertebrate fossils, including dinosaurs from different continents.

This book examines confidentiality in arbitration in the jurisdictions of England, USA, France and Germany. It offers a tool for attaining centralized access to otherwise fragmentary and dispersed material.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles the views of numerous researchers that help in understanding a host of topics in urban growth and sprawl.

This volume presents the latest on the use of whole-body ultrasound on the critically ill. It covers improvements, revised definitions, and updated algorithms, and it clearly presents findings on individual organs with particular emphasis on the lungs.

Written by brilliant mathematicians, this research monograph presents and analyzes numerical algorithms for atmospheric retrieval, pulling together all the relevant material in a consistent, very powerful manner.

This book details standard concepts in cooperative game theory with applications to the analysis of social networks and hierarchical authority organizations. It covers the multi-linear extension, the Core, the Shapley value, and the cooperative potential.

With an emphasis firmly on telling the story from an experimental viewpoint, this book reviews the impact that the LEP experiments have had on the subject of b-quark physics. Highlights of the final b-physics results from the LEP collaborations are reviewed.

This book examines the most important trends and the potentials of biomimetics as a basis of science and engineering development and innovation. It aims to assess the standing of biomimetic research and development in Germany as compared internationally.

This book covers the solution of stiff differential equations and of differential-algebraic systems. This second edition contains new material including numerical tests, recent progress in numerical differential-algebraic equations, and improved FORTRAN codes.