Session 1A: Relevance/Retrieval Models -- Session 1B: Multimedia IR -- Session 2A: Natural Language Processing in IR -- Session 3A: Web IR -- Session 3B: Question Answering -- Session 4A: Document/Query Models -- Session 4B: Special Session: Digital PhotoAlbum -- Session 5A: TDT/Clustering -- Session 5B: Multimedia/Classification -- Poster and Demo Session 1 -- Poster and Demo Session 2.Asia In…
Modeling the Direct Transition to Turbulence -- Dynamical Systems and the Transition to Turbulence -- Nonlinear Solutions of Simple Plane Shear Layers with and without a System Rotation -- Co-Supporting Cycle: Sustaining Mechanism of Large-Scale Structures and Near-Wall Structures in Channel Flow Turbulence -- Transition Threshold and the Self-Sustaining Process -- Turbulent-Laminar Patterns in…
Part I: Modeling of mechanical systems; Introductory examples and problems; Linear and multilinear algebra; Differential geometry; Simple mechanical control systems; Lie groups, systems on groups, and symmetries -- Part II: Analysis of mechanical control systems; Stability; Controllability; Low-order controllability and kinematic reduction ; Perturbation analysis -- Part III: A sampling of desi…
Basic Models in Lot-Sizing -- Extensions to the Basic Models: Time Continuity -- Literature Review -- Planning Framework and Solution Techniques -- Modeling and Solution Approach -- Analysis of Solutions and Computational Performance -- Summary and Outlook.Production planning problems containing special characteristics from process industries are addressed in this book. The main subject is the …
Real Options in Theory and Practice -- Stochastic Models for the Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Real Options Valuation Tools in Corporate Finance -- Analysis of Various Real Options in Simulations and Backtesting -- Summary and Outlook.Managerial decision-making during the lifetime of a project can have im portant implications on project handling and its contribution to shareholder value…
1: Networks -- An Exact Column Generation Approach to the Capacitated Facility Location Problem -- Modelling Warehouses in Logistical Networks -- Supply Chain Optimisation in Animal Husbandry -- Online-Shopping and Changes in Mobility -- 2: Vehicle Routing -- A Real-time Vehicle Routing Model for a Courier Service Problem -- Collection of Waste with Single Load Trucks: A Real Case -- Planning a…
Invited Key-Note Talks -- Using the Semantic Web in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing -- Semantic Web applications: Fields and Business cases. The Industry challenges the research. -- Enterprise Applications of Semantic Web: The Sweet Spot of Risk and Compliance -- Contributions -- Practical Design of Business Enterprise Ontologies -- RgbDF: Resource Goal and Behaviour Description Framework -- Th…
System Co-Development Through Requirements Specification -- Information Systems as a Design Science -- Information Systems Development (ISD): Past, Present, Future Trends -- Cars of the Future: Computers at the Wheel -- Integrating Enterprise and is Development Using a Model Driven Approach -- Issues in Information Systems Education: Capitalizing on Recent Advances in Learning Theory -- XML in …
The Hermite-Biehler Theorem and its Generalization -- PI Stabilization of Delay-Free Linear Time-Invariant Systems -- PID Stabilization of Delay-Free Linear Time-Invariant Systems -- Preliminary Results for Analyzing Systems with Time Delay -- Stabilization of Time-Delay Systems using a Constant Gain Feedback Controller -- PI Stabilization of First-Order Systems with Time Delay -- PID Stabiliza…
Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter Abstracts -- Part 1: Emergent Issues in Learning Environments -- The Translational Design of Learning Environments -- Addressing the Spatial to Catalyse Socio-Pedagogical Reform in Middle Years Education -- Re-Placing Flexibility: Flexibility in Learning Spaces and Learning -- Part 2: The Socio-Cultural Implications of Learning Environments -- Adolescent Iden…