The fields of control and robotics are now at an advanced level of maturity both in theory and practice. Numerous systems are used effectively in industrial production and other sectors of modern life. This volume contains a well-balanced collection of over fifty papers focusing on analysis and design problems. The current trends and advances in the fields are reflected. Topics covered include: system analysis, identification and stability optimal, adaptive, robust and QFT controller design design and application of driving simulators industrial robots and telemanipulators mobile, service,...

This volume contains contributions to the 17th International workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG '91) held in Southern Bavaria in June 1991. These annual workshops are designed to bring together researchers using graph-theoretic methods to discuss new developments relating to or emerging from a diversity of application fields. The topics covered in this volume include: tree-related problems, graph grammarsand rewriting, complexity, computational geometry, parallel algorithms, vertex orderings, path-oriented algorithms, applications to VLSI, and disjoint cycle...

Relational structures abound in our daily environment: relational databases, data mining, scaling procedures, preference relations, etc. As the documentation of scientific results achieved within the European COST Action 274, TARSKI, this book advances the understanding of relational structures and the use of relational methods in various application fields.

The 12 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for presentations. The papers are devoted to mechanization of relational reasoning, relational scaling and preferences, and algebraic and logical foundations of...

Intended for researchers interested in approximation theory and numerical methods for partial differential and integral equations, this book develops a different approach to approximation procedures. This new approach is characterized by the common feature

Graph-theoretic concepts are developed by computer scientists in order to model algorithms, nets, rewriting systems, distributed systems, parallelism, geometric and layout concepts. Their complexity is studied under various randomness assumptions. This volume contains contributions to the twelfth of a series of annual workshops designed to bring together researchers using graph-theoretic methods. Its purpose is to broadcast emerging new developments from and to a diversity of application fields. The topics covered include: Graph Grammars, Graph Manipulation, Nets, Complexity Issues,...

Gunther Schmidt stellt in dieser Einführung kompakt, übersichtlich und dabei detailliert die Grundlagen, Besonderheiten und Anwendungsbereiche der hypnosystemischen Therapie und Beratung dar. Nicht zuletzt durch die Besispiele aus der Praxis eröffnet das Buch Psychotherapeuten und Organisationsberatern, aber auch anderen Berufsgruppen neue, effektivere und ökonomischere Handlungsmöglichkeiten.

Dieses Buch gibt eine neuartige systematische Darstellung der Diskreten Mathematik; sie orientiert sich an Methoden der Relationenalgebra. Ahnlich wie man es sonst nur fur die weit entwickelte Analysis im kontinuierlichen Fall und die Matrizenrechnung gewohnt ist, stellt dieses Buch auch fur die Behandlung diskreter Probleme geeignete Techniken und Hilfsmittel sowie eine einheitliche Theorie bereit. Die einzelnen Kapitel beginnen jeweils mit anschaulichen und motivierenden Beispielen und behandeln anschliessend den Stoff in mathematischer Strenge. Es folgen jeweils praktische Anwendungen....

Long ago~ the welfare of a sooiety used to depend heavily on the skill and dedioation of its oraftsmen - the miller~ the blaok- smith~ the oobbler and the tailor. These oraftsmen aoquired their skill by a long and poorly paid apprentioeship to some master of their oraft. They learned by imitation and experienoe~ and by tri- al and error. They did not read books or study soienoe~ they knew nothing of the theory of their subjeot~ the geometry of their ru- dimentary drawings~ nor the mathematios underlying their primitive oaloulations. They oould not explain how or why they used their methods;...

Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in systemische Verknupfungen, denen der Anbau von gentechnisch veranderten Pflanzen in Deutschland unterliegen wurde. Es thematisiert Verknupfungen, die sich zwischen okologischen und sozialen Systemzusammenhangen herstellen lassen. Bisherige Betrachtungen widmeten sich dem Thema entweder aus okologischer Perspektive oder thematisieren (agrar-)politische Zusammenhange. Das Buch resultiert aus einem Forschungsprojekt, in welchem das BMBF die Erforschung sozialokologischer Wechselwirkungen gefordert hat.