This book is the first comprehensive textbook at the graduate level encompassing all aspects associated with the emerging field of astrobiology. Volume I gathers a fist set of extensive lectures that cover a broad range of topics, from the formation of solar system to the quest for the most primitive life forms that emerged on the early Earth.
Situational Dimension -- Strategic Dimension -- Integrated Board Management Dimension -- Controlling Dimension -- Conclusions.Martin Hilb presents an innovative and integrated approach to the theory and practice of corporate governance. Central to this approach is a set of instruments - developed and tested by the author - that can be used by boards to offer effective strategic direction and co…
Process integration in the printmedia industry -- Job Definition Format -- Networking architectures -- Benefits -- Procedure when implementing process integration -- Closing remarks.The arrival of PDF has successfully optimized certain elements of the production workflow – the next challenge facing the print media industry is to resolve the problem of non-networked software packages that exis…
Is There a Right Research Design for Your Supply Chain Study? -- Substantive Justification for Theory Building -- A Balanced Approach to Research in Supply Chain Management -- A Critical Discussion on the Theoretical and Methodological Advancements in Supply Chain Integration Research -- Measuring Supply Chain Integration — Using the Q-Sort Technique -- Supply Chain Management and the Challen…
Invited Talk -- Pattern Matching over a Dynamic Network of Tuple Spaces -- Models and Calculi -- A Dynamic Class Construct for Asynchronous Concurrent Objects -- An Abstract Machine for the Kell Calculus -- XPi: A Typed Process Calculus for XML Messaging -- UML -- Checking the Validity of Scenarios in UML Models -- An Extended Type System for OCL Supporting Templates and Transformations -- A Se…
Mud Volcanic Geology -- New Seismic Neogene Clay Diapirs and Hydrocarbon Implications in the North-Eastern African Margin of Tunisia -- Seismic Signature of Gas Hydrate and Mud Volcanoes of the South African Continental Margin -- Global Distribution of Mud Volcanoes and Their Significance in Petroleum Exploration as a Source of Methane in the Atmosphere and Hydrosphere and as a Geohazard -- Sty…
Keynotes -- Web Engineering Milieu -- Evaluation and Verification -- Non-functional Requirements / Testing -- Miscellaneous 1 -- Query / Retrieval -- Applications 1 -- Applications 2 -- Applications 3 -- Ontologies / XML -- Semantics / Web Services -- Security -- Miscellaneous 2 -- Design 1 (Adaptation / User-Awareness) -- Design 2 (Model-Based Approaches) -- Design 3 (End-Users / Requirements)…
Mathematical Methods -- Passive Scalar Diffusion as a Damped Wave -- Extremalizing Vector Fields as Guides Toward Understanding Properties of Turbulence -- Low-Wavenumber Forcing and Turbulent Energy Dissipation -- New Potential Symmetries for a Generalised Inhomogeneus Nonlinear Diffusion Equation -- DNS and New Scaling Laws of ZPG Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow -- Linear Instability of a Slowl…
Invited Speakers -- A Rewriting Logic Sampler -- Codes and Length-Increasing Transitive Binary Relations -- Languages and Process Calculi for Network Aware Programming – Short Summary - -- Stochastic Analysis of Graph Transformation Systems: A Case Study in P2P Networks -- Component-Based Software Engineering -- Formal Languages -- Outfix-Free Regular Languages and Prime Outfix-Free Decomposi…
Preliminaries -- Concepts of the CORBA Standard -- to the Interface Definition Language -- IDL to Java Mapping -- Important Elements of the ORB Runtime -- A First Example -- Generating Remote Objects -- Alternatives for Designing IDL Interfaces -- Inheritance and Polymorphism -- Implementing Distributed Callbacks -- Utilizing Value Types -- Utilizing Interfaces of the DynamicAny Module -- Dynam…