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Lecture Notes in Computer Science The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the R&D communi...

 Producing Management Knowledge Research as Practice

Producing Management Knowledge: Research as Practice Edited by Jan Löwstedt and Torbjörn Stjernberg At last here is a text for students undertaking research which shows them how different research methods work in practice. It is of vital importance not on...

 Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation

The Bayesian approach involves collecting data from past experience in order to reach conclusions about future events. Bayesian methods have become increasingly popular in recent years, notably in medical research. There are a large number of books on Bay...

 Marketing Research Tools and Techniques

Provides a balance between the theoretical and practical sides of marketing research, showing students how to "do" market research, and encouraging them to be analytical and critical in their thinking. Include real research tools - genuine briefs and p...

 Nanotubes and Nanofibers

With carbon nanotubes at the nexus of nanomaterials research over the last few years, Nanotubes and Nanofibers provides a look at cutting-edge developments in carbon and inorganic nanotubes, nanofibers, and their properties. Edited by the award-winning pr...

 Leadership Research Findings, Practice, and Skills

Ideal for instructors who take a practical, skill-building approach to teaching leadership, this text balances theory with real-world applications. DuBrin, a highly respected author and consultant, incorporates current research on leadership and real-worl...

 Engineering Internet QoS

From the basics to the most advanced quality of service (QoS) concepts, this all encompassing, first-of-its-kind book offers an in-depth understanding of the latest technical issues raised by the emergence of new types, classes and qualities of Internet s...

 Perspectives in Operations Research Papers in Honor of Saul Gass' 80th Birthday

The book is an edited volume from leading research scholars in the field of Operations Research, focusing on future perspectives in OR. Each of the contributors offers their perspective looking forward to the further development of the field. The theme wi...

 Integrated Research in Grid Computing

Integrated Research in Grid Computing presents a selection of the best papers presented at the CoreGRID Integration Workshop (CGIW2005), which took place on November 28-30, 2005 in Pisa, Italy. The aim of CoreGRID is to strengthen and advance scientifi...

 Ontologies A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems

It is now being recognized that ontological principles can be fruitfully applied to and developed further in various fields within the broader information systems area. This development has lead to ontology-driven information systems (ODIS), which is a co...

 Optimization Theory and Methods Nonlinear Programming

This book, a result of the author's teaching and research experience in various universities and institutes over the past ten years, can be used as a textbook for an optimization course for graduates and senior undergraduates. It systematically describes ...

 Multilingual Speech Processing

Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech processing, the editors have included theories, algorithms, and techniques that...

 Semantic Web Technology Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems

The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These ...

 Writing and Digital Media

Digital media has become an increasingly powerful force in modern society. This volume brings together outstanding European, American and Australian research in "writing and digital media" and explores its cognitive, social and cultural implications. ...

 Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce

Recently, the emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the admission of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce, defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or informati...

 Next Generation Wireless Systems and Networks

This exciting new book covers wireless systems and networks in ten thorough chapters. These range from the fundamentals of wireless communications and 2G and 3G mobile cellular systems through to MIMO and multi-user signal processing in Beyond 3G wireless...

 Invitation to Fixed-Parameter Algorithms

This research-level text is an application-oriented introduction to the growing and highly topical area of the development and analysis of efficient fixed-parameter algorithms for optimally solving computationally hard combinatorial problems. The book ...

 Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security Information Sharing and Data Mining

On September 11, 2001 the World became completely cognizant of the security challenges it faces on an international scale. With this awareness a commitment has come from the scientific, engineering, and health communities to help meet the world meet an ar...

 Words, Proof and Diagrams

The last twenty years have witnessed extensive collaborative research between computer scientists, logicians, linguists, philosophers, and psychologists. These interdisciplinary studies stem from the realization that researchers drawn from all fields are ...

 Researching Information Systems and Computing

With everything readers need to know about how to execute their research project, this book is written specifically for information systems (IS) and computing students. It introduces key quantitative and qualitative research methods, makes sense of underl...

 Combinatorial and Computational Geometry

During the past few decades, the gradual merger of Discrete Geometry and the newer discipline of Computational Geometry has provided enormous impetus to mathematicians and computer scientists interested in geometric problems. This volume, which contains 3...

 Understanding Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Taking a psychological perspective, this book examines the role of Human-Computer Interaction in the field of Information Systems research. The introductory section of the book covers the basic tenets of the HCI discipline, including how it developed a...

 eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Product and Process Modelling in the Building and Construction Industry, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2004

Biannually since 1994, the European Conference on Product and Process Modelling in the Building and Construction Industry has provided a review of research, given valuable future work outlooks, and provided a communication platform for future co-operative...

 Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

From physical issues up to applications aspects, Mobile Ad Hoc Networking comprehensively covers all areas of the technology, including protocols and models, with an emphasis on the most current research and development in the rapidly growing area of ad h...

 Operations Research Methods

The science of Operations Research seeks efficiency and economy in organizational setups engaged in many economic activities. This book develops important mathematical models cropping up in different decision making situations in a general manner and then...

 Operations Research

This class tested text develops of fundamental principles of Operations Research, encompassing topics such as graphical and simplex methods, duality, transportation and assignment problems, game theory, dynamic and integer programming problems Key Featur...

 Building Research Tools with Google for Dummies

Use Google APIs to turbo-change your research See how Google works, build more effective queries, and improve your results Sure,you've used Google, but have you really explored all that Google can do? This friendly guide leads you deep into Goog...

 Internet marketing intelligence Research tools, techniques, and resources

To compete successfully, companies need fast access to the very latest information and research-and today that means using the Internet. Whether you need a supplement to a traditional market research course or are teaching a new Internet marketing course,...

 Unlocking Dynamical Diversity Optical Feedback Effects on Semiconductor Lasers

The book presents twenty years of research in significant laser systems and the applications that have resulted from prior research generated knowledge. It communicates and services the current topics of strong research activity. Optical feedback in se...

 Readings in Database Systems

Lessons from database research have been applied in academic fields ranging from bioinformatics to next-generation Internet architecture and in industrial uses including Web-based e-commerce and search engines. The core ideas in the field have become incr...

 The Craft of Information Visualization Readings and Reflections

Information visualization is a rapidly growing field that has emerged from research in human-computer interaction, computer science, graphics, visual design, psychology, and business methods. It is becoming an increasingly critical component in scientific...

 Principles of Optimization Theory

This text is a concise account of the fundamental principles of optimization theory blended in a judicious way with current research. Using the powerful language of convex analysis it helps the reader to probe into such advanced topics like Non-smooth Opt...

 Text to Speech Synthesis New Paradigms and Advances

Recent advances in speech synthesis will enable the development of high-quality natural voice systems with broad application in education, business, entertainment, and medicine. Text to Speech Synthesis is the first book to comprehensively document these ...

 Digraphs Theory,Algorithms and Applications

The study of directed graphs has developed enormously over recent decades, yet no book covers more than a tiny fraction of the results from more than 3000 research articles on the topic. Digraphs is the first book to present a unified and comprehensive su...

 Design research - Methods and perspectives

Are you an entrepreneur responsible for innovation? Is your business customer-focused? Do you design experiences? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, this book is essential to your future! Here's how to employ research to inform design that me...

 Computer Systems Theory, Technology and Applications

Computer systems form the core of computing, as their combinations of hardware and software components function together to help program developers and end-users achieve goals of managing and accessing information in all its forms. Roger Needham, in a dis...

 Doing Research Projects in Marketing, Management and Consumer Research

As interpretive research perspectives become increasingly influential in many fields of social science research, so it becomes more important for experienced researchers to become familiar with the philosophical perspectives, data gathering techniques and...

 Scalable input/output Achieving system balance

As we enter the "decade of data," the disparity between the vast amount of data storage capacity (measurable in terabytes and petabytes) and the bandwidth available for accessing it has created an input/output bottleneck that is a major constraint on the ...

 Possibilitic data analysis for operations research

The series "Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing" contains publications on various areas within the so-called soft computing which include fuzzy sets, rough sets, neural networks, evolutionary computations, probabilistic and evidential reasoning, multi...

 Constraint processing

Features : Builds the reader's understanding with definitions, examples, theory, algorithms and complexity analysis Focuses on fundamental tools and principles Synthesizes three decades of research in diverse fields including AI, databases, operations...