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The scope of this second edition of the introduction to fundamental distributed programming abstractions has been extended to cover 'Byzantine fault tolerance'. It includes algorithms to implement these abstractions in vulnerable distributed systems.

Supervision, condition-monitoring, fault detection, fault diagnosis and fault management play an increasing role for technical processes and vehicles in order to improve reliability, availability, maintenance and lifetime. This book is a sequel to "Fault-Diagnosis Systems" published in 2006, where the basic methods were described.

In this, its second corrected printing, Zohdi and Wriggers' illuminating text presents a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This volume is ideal for researchers and engineers, and can be used in a first-year course for graduate students with an interest in the computational micromechanical analysis of new materials.

In particular, the author carefully scrutinizes Einstein's FBI file from 1950-55 against mostly unpublished material from European including Soviet sources and presents hitherto unknown documentation on Einstein's alleged contacts with the German Communist Party and the Comintern.

This book serves as an excellent introduction to the emerging discipline of Medical Geology, which examines diseases of geologic in origin, such as dental and skeletal fluorosis, iodine deficiency disorders, trace element imbalances.

In this book, Yoshimura provides a review of the UHV related development during the last decades. After a general description how to design UHV systems, he covers all important issue in detail, like pumps, outgasing, Gauges, and Electrodes for high voltages.

This book systematically presents the main solutions of cooperative games: the core, bargaining set, kernel, nucleolus, and the Shapley value of TU games as well as the core, the Shapley value, and the ordinal bargaining set of NTU games. The authors devote a separate chapter to each solution, wherein they study its properties in full detail.

The importance of international maritime labour law - both as a component of - ternational maritime law, and in socio-political and economic terms - has been recognised by the IMO International Maritime Law Institute for a number of years.

This book covers the whole range of today's technology for pneumatic drives. In addition, the book examines several control strategies like binary mode cylinder drives or position controlled drives and computer aided analysis of complex systems.

Luminescent molecule sensors, called pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) and temperature-sensitive paint (TSP), measure factors essential for understanding the aerodynamic performance and heat transfer characteristics of flight vehicles.

This book focuses on the interfaces of Requirements Management to the other disciplines of Systems Engineering. An introduction into Requirements Management and Requirements Development is given, along with a short sketch of Systems Engineering, and especially the necessary inputs and resulting outputs of Requirements Management are explained.

The intent of this book is to report on the electrical, optical, and structural properties of silver and gold films in dependence on substrate material, annealing treatment, and gas adsorption. All results are substantiated by extended experimental data, as well as numerous illustrations and tables.

The utility maximization paradigm forms the basis of many economic, psychological, cognitive and behavioral models. The second edition has been updated to include the most recent developments and a new chapter on classic and new results for infinite sets.

Customers expect increased efficiency and dependability of technical product of - also growing - complexity. The book may serve as a reference book as well, enhancing the knowledge of the specialists and giving a lot of theoretical background and information, especially on the dependability analysis of whole systems.

Absolute values and their completions - such as the p-adic number fields - play an important role in number theory. In valuation theory, the notion of completion must be replaced by that of "Henselization". This book develops the theory of valuations as well as of Henselizations, based on the skills of a standard graduate course in algebra.

This book offers a fundamental scientific approach to tennis. It reveals the secret weapon of Roger Federer as well as presents the blueprint of a future tennis champion.

This wonderfully illustrated book provides in depth information about rough diamonds. It contains photographs that show the unique physical characteristics of the diamonds, and the accompanying text describes the processes that led to their formation.

This book offers practical code recipes from the latest available Web application and Web services tools and techniques that the Spring Framework has to offer, including Spring MVC, Web Flow, Groovy/Grails, REST, Web Services, Cloud computing and more.

Using state-of-the-art models and case studies, this book provides decision tools for siting facilities such as transportation terminals, warehouses, housing, landfills, parks and industrial plants.

This volume examines all aspects of carbon and oxide based nanostructured materials, covering synthesis, modeling and characterization of carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, metal oxides, ferrites, garnets, and magnetic materials, and their practical applications.

This book deals with medical and biological physics. A survey is given on properties and applications of biocompatible materials. The are used to substitute malfunctional human organs.

Focusing on quantitative analytics, Quantitative Thin-Layer Chromatography presents the analytical procedure step-by-step. Topics include sample pretreatment and sample application, development and staining, data presentation and validation.

This book begins by reviewing quasars, microquasars, and gamma-ray bursts and shows why black holes are responsible for them. It describes simple, isolated black holes, adding rotation, accretion, radiation and magnetic fields, to show how these objects work.

This superbly illustrated book examines current use of imaging in dementia. Coverage reviews clinical background, and spans clinical techniques including structural MRI and CT, feature extraction, SPECT and PET, diagnostic algorithms and disease monitoring.

This book integrates Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Geographic Information Science, offering a comprehensive account of theories, methods, technologies and tools for tackling spatial decision problems and showing how GIS-MCDA aids planning and management.

Der Autor stellt eine Methode vor, die auf neuen Ansatzen der Management- und Organisationslehre basiert und die einfacher, schneller und flexibler zu handhaben ist als das klassische Projektmanagement. Mit Checklisten, Diagrammen und Handlungsempfehlungen.