This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications, ARC 2011, held in Belfast, UK, in March 2011. The 40 revised papers presented, consisting of 24 full papers, 14 poster papers, and the abstracts of 2 plenary talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The topics covered are reconfigurable accelerators, design tools, reconfigurable processors, applications, device architecture, methodology and simulation, and system architecture.

We live in a world of constant and dynamic change. Change manifests in various guises ranging from small to big, local to global, individual to societal, or from subtle to sudden. It often comes out of the unexpected, yet people can also actively bring about change. Change can be for the better, but often reality means change for the worse. Preconditions for a contented and happy life, both material and intangible, are constantly challenged. Living conditions of individuals as well as communities are affected by inequality, exclusion, or poverty. Different kinds of challenge and change...

Human behavior and action is closely related to a corresponding social and spatial environment. The nature of relations in their structures, functions, and temporal domains is characterized by a duality of contexts, an interrelatedness of the individual and local with the social and global. Causes, influences, and effects are mutual - and this at different scales. This book presents approaches that deal with interactions within and between the social and spatial realm, focusing on human behavior, land use change, and energy and infrastructure issues from an agent-based perspective. (Series:...

The term 'infrastructure' commonly refers to the partly naturally given, partly manmade constitutive conditions that affect, enable, and ensure our everyday lives. This concept is generally used in an economic sense and highlights the material and institutional facilities of our environment that can be summed up as the tangible means which our societies are based upon. Consequently, talking about 'intangible infrastructures' may appear to be a somewhat unusual concept. The term 'intangible' includes areas of our lives that are not (or are not primarily) represented physically; it points to...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1994 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Energietechnik, Fachhochschule Giessen-Friedberg; Standort Giessen (Unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Im Betriebsbereich des Frankfurter Flughafens wird der Energiebedarf fur die Gebaudebeheizung und Klimatisierung fast ausschliesslich uber Fernwarmeversorgung bereitgestellt. Diese Bereitstellung wird von den Stadtwerken Frankfurt ubernommen. Im sudlichen Bereich des Flughafengelandes unterhalt die FAG jedoch auch ein eigenes Heizhaus. An das Heizhaus-Sud sind Teile der US-AIR-BASE, zwei...