Cultural, Race, and Ethnicity Issues in Health Care -- Family Issues in Health Care -- Genetic Disorders -- Care of the Obese Patient -- Care of the Patient with Fatigue -- Care of the Patient with a Sleep Disorder -- Care of the Alcoholic Patient -- Care of the Patient Who Misuses Drugs -- Care of the Patient with Chronic Pain -- Care of the Dying Patient -- Diseases of the Rectum and Anus -- …
Overload Management -- Temporal Protection -- Multi-Thread Applications -- Synchronization Protocols for Hard and Soft Real-Time Systems -- Resource Reclaiming -- Quality of Service Management -- Feedback Scheduling -- Stochastic Scheduling.Hard real-time systems are very predictable, but not sufficiently flexible to adapt to dynamic situations. They are built under pessimistic assumptions to c…
Why Are (Most) Laws of Nature Mathematical? -- How Nature Makes Sense -- Nancy Cartwright and Leszek Nowak on Scientific Laws and Scientific Explanation -- The Explanatory Virtues of Probabilistic Causal Laws -- The Nature of Natural Laws -- How the Ceteris Paribus Laws of Physics Lie -- Necessary Laws -- Laws of Nature — A Skeptical View -- The Laws’ Properties -- Laws of Nature Versus Sys…
ICEIMT 04 -- A’ standards’ Foundation for Interoperability -- Standards in Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organisational Integration -- Integrating Enterprise Model Views through Alignment of Metamodels -- Semantic Distance and Enterprise Integration -- The Nature of Knowledge and its Sharing through Models -- ATHENA Integrated Project and the Mapping to International Standard ISO 15704 -- Arc…
Regulation and Competition as Complements -- Bringing Competition to Telecommunications by Divesting the RBOCs -- Multi-Lot Auctions -- The Anatomy of Institutional and Organizational Failure -- Coopetition in the Telecommunications Industry -- Forward and Spot Prices in Electricity and Gas Markets -- Combinatorial Interlicense Competition -- Energy Trading Strategies in California -- Economic …
Socio-Technical Interaction Networks in Free/Open Source Software Development Processes -- Open Source Software Development Process Modeling -- Software Dependability Applications in Process Modeling -- Simulation Process Modelling for Managing Software Evolution -- Software Process Modelling -- Motivation and Process Improvement -- Managing Organizational Change for Software Process Improvemen…
Basic Concepts and Related Work -- Requirements of an Integrated Architecture -- Integrated System Architecture for Event-Triggered and Time-Triggered Control Paradigms -- Controller Area Network Emulation in the Time-Triggered Architecture -- Results and Validation -- Conclusion.Event-Triggered and Time-Triggered Control Paradigms presents a valuable survey about existing architectures for saf…
Care and Health at Home -- Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life -- Ubiquitous Computing and the Wireless Home -- Play and Fun in the Home of the Future -- Socializing and the User Experience -- Privacy, Security and Identity -- Teleworking, Education, Edutainment and Learning -- Virtual Influences on Everyday Life.International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes st…
Mathematical Modelling of Instability Phenomena -- Phenomenological Modelling of Instability -- Modelling Buckling Interaction -- Computational asymptotic post-buckling analysis of slender elastic structures -- Mechanical Models for the Subclasses of Catastrophes.The study of structural instability plays a role of primary importance in the field of applied mechanics. Despite the remarkable prog…
Cooperative Games with Crisp Coalitions -- Preliminaries -- Cores and Related Solution Concepts -- The Shapley Value and the ?-Value -- Classes of Cooperative Crisp Games -- Cooperative Games with Fuzzy Coalitions -- Preliminaries -- Solution Concepts for Fuzzy Games -- Convex Fuzzy Games -- Fuzzy Clan Games -- Multichoice Games -- Preliminaries -- Solution Concepts for Multichoice Games -- Cla…