Synthetic Characters and Virtual Worlds -- Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Characters Along the Virtuality Continuum -- Visualizing Emotion in Musical Performance Using a Virtual Character -- Knowledge in the Loop: Semantics Representation for Multimodal Simulative Environments -- Virtual Camera Planning: A Survey -- Generating Visual Displays -- Graphical Data Displays and Database Q…
Keynesian and Monetarist Views on the German Unemployment Problem -- The Rational Expectations Revolution -- Monetary Policy in the New Keynesian Model -- Introducing Nonlinearities into the New Keynesian Model -- Revisiting the Natural Rate Hypothesis -- Concluding Remarks.Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past fo…
Behavioral Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Obsessionality -- Dementia -- Psychosis -- Postsurgical Behavioral Changes -- Autonomic Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease -- Dysphagia -- Gastric Dysfunction -- Intestinal Dysfunction -- Impaired Sexual Function -- Urological Dysfunction -- Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysfunction -- Thermoregulatory Dysfunction -- Respi…
Keynote Papers -- Session 1: Classification and Clustering -- Session 2: Topic and Concept Discovery -- Session 3: Text Search and Document Generation -- Session 4: Web Search -- Session 5: Mobile and P2P -- Session 6: XML (1) -- Session 7: XML (2) -- Session 8: Integration and Collaboration -- Session 9: Data Mining and Analysis -- Session 10: Web Browsing and Navigation -- Session 11: Spatial…
Ema Progress -- Challenges for Environmental Management Accounting -- Current Trends in Environmental Cost Accounting — and Its Interaction with Ecoefficiency Performance Measurement and Indicators -- Environmental Accounting Dimensions: Pros and Cons of Trajectory Convergence and Increased Efficiency -- Process and Content: Visualizing the Policy Challenges of Environmental Management Accoun…
Learning in Computational and Laboratory Experiments -- The Implementation of the Turing Tournament: A Report -- Expectations Structure in Asset Pricing Experiments -- Learning in a “Basket of Crabs”: An Agent-Based Computational Model of Repeated Conservation Auctions -- On the Benefit of Additional Information in Markets with Heterogeneously Informed Agents — an Experimental Study -- Ga…
Session 1: Low-Power Processors -- Session 2: Code Optimization for Low-Power -- Session 3: High-Level Design -- Session 4: Telecommunications and Signal Processing -- Session 5: Low-Power Circuits -- Session 6: System-on-Chip Design -- Session 7: Busses and Interconnections -- Session 8: Modeling -- Session 9: Design Automation -- Session 10: Low-Power Techniques -- Session 11: Memory and Regi…
Recent Evidence on Market Quality -- Intra-Day Volatility: Friend or Foe? -- View from the Trading Desks -- View from an ECN -- Perspective of the Market Architects -- Does Best Execution Make Sense? -- Thoughts from a Former Regulator -- Volatility in U.S. and European Equity Markets: An Assessment of Market Quality."Market quality" is a complex, ambiguous term that means different things to d…
Comparing Parallelization of an ACO: Message Passing vs. Shared Memory -- An LP-Based Hybrid Heuristic Procedure for the Generalized Assignment Problem with Special Ordered Sets -- Parametrized Greedy Heuristics in Theory and Practice -- A Taxonomy of Cooperative Search Algorithms -- A Hybrid Genetic and Variable Neighborhood Descent for Probabilistic SAT Problem -- A Hybrid Meta-heuristic Appr…
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…