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The purpose of this volume is to present some new learning paradigms that have been triggered, or at least strongly influenced by soft computing tools and techniques, mainly related to neural networks, fuzzy logic, rough sets, and evolutionary computations.

Decision and Game Theory in Management With Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets

All relevant toxin producing fungi, their natural occurence, the possible mycotoxicosis, further the biochemical and physiological effects of mycotoxins, their chemical data and toxicity are treated here comprehensively.

Rent, resources, and technologies are crucial to understanding history and economics. Scarcity of resources, its interplay with technology, and the role of rent in explaining economic growth and income distribution are investigated by adopting a multi-sectoral and non-proportional model.

Our working model is set up in a way that there is a close relationship between our presented dynamic models and modern macro econometric models with disequilibrium both in the labor and the goods markets.

This is due to the fact that major developments in the area of semiconductors, such as hetero structures based on III-V compounds or mesoscopic structures at the nanometer scale such as quantum weHs, quantum wires and quantum dots, have found robust applications in the generation, modulation, detection and processing of light.

This, the second volume on quantum mechanics by Franz Schwabl, discusses nonrelativistic multi-particle systems, relativistic wave equations and relativistic quantum fields. Numerous exercises help the reader gain a thorough working knowledge of the subject.

This comprehensive book reports on recent investigations of lattice imperfections in semiconductors by means of positron annihilation. It reviews positron techniques, and describes the application of these techniques to various kinds of defects, such as vacancies, impurity vacancy complexes and dislocations.

Taking the Bundesbank's instruments as a starting point, this book discusses monetary policy instruments of a future European Central Bank. The book offers a systematic analysis of the issue, considering general theoretical arguments as well as the institutional situation in European countries.

Analyzes the reasons why a perfectly competitive economy can grow in an inefficient manner and discusses the conditions for efficient economic growth. The text also considers the hypothesis which says that a nonproducible productive asset like land, prevents dynamic inefficiency.

This monograph is a systematic exposition of the authors' research on general equi librium models with an infinite number of commodities.

Studying the causes and cures of inflation in a monetary union, this text discusses the effects of money growth and output growth on inflation, focusing on producer inflation, currency depreciation and consumer inflation. It also covers real depreciation and nominal and real interest rates.

Future wireless networks will be integrated into every aspect of daily life. Therefore, the main objective of this book is to provide tools for better understanding the fundamental tradeoffs and interdependencies in wireless networks.

Focusing on the links connecting statistical and continuum mechanics, this book introduces both theories before leading on to actual research themes. Mathematical techniques and methods from probability, calculus of variations and PDE are discussed at length.

This book explores the phenomena of corporate social responsibility (CSR), restructuring, and relationships with firms' performance in China. It gives an insight into how Chinese firms respond to expectations of stakeholders.

This book provides a European reading of current trends in maritime safety law and policies, on the basis of a comparison between a selective number of instruments adopted by the EU and the US.

Verwaltungsrecht soll dem Einzelnen Schutz gew hren und der Verwaltung zur effizienten Erf llung ihrer Aufgaben rechtlich den Weg ordnen. Vielf ltige Ver nderungen sorgen f r neue Herausforderungen: Was kann die Gesetzesgebundenheit der Verwaltung leisten?

The book presents all major subjects in international monetary theory, foreign exchange markets, international financial management and investment analysis. It is relevant to real world problems. Various exercises and internet links provide extra help.

This text covers traditional topics in the field of solid state physics theory as well as all the latest developments. This new edition offers a chapter on the interaction of light and matter plus problems and solutions at the end of each chapter.

Based on the authors' accumulated experience of more than 50 years and 860 cases operated for congenital glaucoma, this well-structured and lavishly illustrated volume covers all aspects of congenital and infantile glaucoma.

This book provides an introduction to Bohmian mechanics and to the mathematical abstractions of quantum mechanics, which range from the self-adjointness of the Schroedinger operator to scattering theory. It is an ideal starting point for those new to the field.

Meiobenthology is the science of tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic sediments. This new edition emphasizes recent developments in the field wherein major progress has been made in systematics, ecology and environmental aspects.

This book shows how to model heterogeneity in medical research with covariate adjusted finite mixture models. The areas of application include epidemiology, gene expression data, disease mapping, meta-analysis, neurophysiology and pharmacology.