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Industrial Strength Formal Methods in Practice provides hands-on experience and guidance for anyone who needs to apply formal methods successfully in an industrial context. Each chapter is written by an expert in software engineering or formal methods, and contains background information, introductions to the techniques being used, actual fragments of formalised components, details of results and an analysis of the overall approach. It provide...

This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications which was held at the River View Ho­ tel in Singapore during December 14-17, 1998. The program of this conference was arranged by a committee consisting of Claude Carlet (University of Caen) , Agnes Chan (Northeastern University), Cunsheng Ding (National University of Singapore, co-chair), Dieter Gollmann (Microsoft Research), Tor ...

Like any other social activity, negotiation exhibits both universal patterns determined by the finite possibilities of its nature and local variations determined by cultural practices. Universalities predominate if one digs deep enough, and peculiarities abound in surface manifestations. This book investigates how deep is deep enough, and how shallow the surface, and attempts to find the meeting line. As more and more individuals meet around t...

Unfolding evocative tones of voice, these poems propel a narrative which is far-ranging yet focussed.

In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of the first generation of democratically elected political elites in the former GDR’s transition to democracy.Although the quick transplant of a ready...

Carl Schmitt's thought serves as a warning against the dangers of complacency entailed by triumphant liberalism. His conception of politics is a sharp challenge to those who believe that there is a third way between the left and right and that the increasing moralization of political discourse constitutes a great advance for democracy. Schmitt reminds us forcefully that the essence of politics is struggle and that the distinction between frien...

The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Novels include: Austen's Northanger Abbey , Beckett's Company , Brontë's Wuthering Heights , Cervantes' Don Quixote , Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Hamsun's Hunger , Hardy's Te...

Vom Punk zum anspruchsvollen Pop. Für Hamburgs Deutsch-Punx ... But Alive ist "Hallo Endorphin" eine definitive Weiterentwicklung, stilistisch wie auch musikalisch. Die Platte sprüht vor Energie, der Gesang ist erstklassig. Man ist sehr viel offener geworden, es werden (Streicher)-Samples und elektronische Elemente verwendet. Produziert wurde die CD/LP diesmal von Swen Meyer, der auch schon bei Fishmob für den Sound verantwortlich war.

History did not come to an end with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. This book tells the story of what followed during the 1990s. Political and national conflict, social and cultural change and the economic challenge of the transition to the market are all given their due weight. The comparative approach is combined with a detailed treatment of individual countries in alternating chapters. The distinction is made here between East ...

An authoritative guide to Africa's economic development and prospects. This is volume 4 in a major international research project coordinated by the African Economic Research Consortium and bringing together the top academics in development economics, trade policy and international economics from Africa, Europe and North America. This fourth volume draws upon the theoretical framework and detailed studies of both individual countries and regio...

Moderne Unternehmen verlangen nicht nur nach modernen Managementmethoden, sondern nach einer ganz neuen Definition von Management. "The Biology of Business" führt Sie ein in das komplexe adaptive System des Managements (Complex Adaptive System of Management - CAS). Hierbei handelt es sich um ein System, das alle Variablen berücksichtigt, die ein modernes Unternehmen beeinflussen können. In Zusammenarbeit mit neun herausragenden Experten zeigt ...

The introduction of the thesis consists of four parts: first, we motivate our chosen macroeconomic setting by looking at some real world phenomena. For a better understanding of these phenomena, we argue that the mutual dynamic interactions between flScal policy and financial markets need to be closely examined in a macroeconomic framework. Second, we review different strands of the economic literature in order to show that most of the literat...

ransformation Phenomenon? Hans-JOrgen Wagener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Transformation of Social Security in Central and Eastern Europe Krzysztof Hagemejer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The present volume collects a selection of revised papers which were presented at the 21st Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling Meeting, held in Venice (Italy), on October 29-31, 1997. The Working Group was founded in September 1986 in Lisbon with the objective of providing an international forum for the exchange of information and experience, encouraging research and interaction be­ tween financial economic theory and practice of financi...

Explores whether American free speech doctrine systematically discriminates against women and minorities.

As he did with "The Civil War, " Ward presents the complete text of the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS television series for this examination of the American West.

Just-in-Time-Konzepte, Cross-Docking, Efficient Consumer Response, Category Management, Internetnutzung im Handel - das sind nur einige der zusätzlichen Anforderungen und neuen Ziele der Warenwirtschaft. Die Neuauflage zeigt die aktuellen Entwicklungen und neuen Aspekte auf dem Gebiet. Sie führt in die Grundlagen von mehrstufigen Warenwirtschaftssystemen ein und stellt Realisierungskonzepte für alle Funktionen und Prozesse in komplexen Handels...

In seinem neuen Buch stellt der bekannte Biologe und Erkenntnistheoretiker Prof. Dr. Hans Mohr die Bedeutung des Wissens für die moderne Welt in den Brennpunkt seiner Betrachtungen. Von den Formen des Wissens - das handlungsrelevante und das Verfügungs-Wissen - geht er über auf den Sonderstatus des wissenschaftlichen Wissens und dessen Eigenschaft als Kulturgut und Produktionsfaktor, die Verwandlung von Information in Wissen und Innovation bis...

Mumford's famous "Red Book" gives a simple, readable account of the basic objects of algebraic geometry, preserving as much as possible their geometric flavor and integrating this with the tools of commutative algebra. It is aimed at graduates or mathematicians in other fields wishing to quickly learn aboutalgebraic geometry. This new edition includes an appendix that gives an overview of the theory of curves, their moduli spaces and their Jac...

Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Typically they suggest that something is wrong with the way in­ dividual opinions are being expressed or processed in voting. The outcomes are bizarre, unfair or otherwise implausible, given the expressed opinions of voters. Voting paradoxes have an important role in the history of social choice theory. The founding fathers of the theory, Marquis de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de ...