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HCI International 2015 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts
This is the first volume of the two-volume set (CCIS 528 and CCIS 529) that contains extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in August 2015. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissi…
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- 978-3-319-21379-8
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- XXXVI, 778
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- 004 HCL
Advances in Global Optimization
This proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimization—a multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms. The volume contains selected papers from the third biannual World Congress on Global Optimization in Engineering & Sci…
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- 978-3-319-08377-3
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- XIII, 537
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- Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
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- 515.64 ADV a
The Complexity of Tax Simplification
Simplicity in taxation has considerable potential advantages. However, attempts to simplify tax systems are only likely to be successful and enduring if they take account of the reasons why taxation is complex. There are strong pressures on tax systems to accommodate a range of important factors, as well as complex and changing national and international environments within which modern tax sys…
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- 978-1-137-47869-6
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- XIV, 273
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The Community Manager's Playbook
As Perkins explains, if companies want to create thriving online communities focused on their product or brand, they must do more than simply issue a few tweets a day, create (and then abandon) a Facebook page, and blog every once in a while. Instead, organizations of all sizes must treat community management as a central component of their overall marketing strategy. When they do, they will be…
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- 978-1-4302-4996-2
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- XII, 316
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Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes: Proceedings …
These proceedings summarize the best papers in each research area represented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the German Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft, held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) from February 26-28. The meeting featured more than 160 presentations and 30 posters reflecting the diversity of subject matter in the field of human and industrial engineering.
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- 978-3-662-48661-0
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- IX, 475
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- 658.3 ADV a
Advances in Enterprise Engineering IX: 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Con…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2015, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during May 15–19, 2015. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises face in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific s…
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- 978-3-319-19297-0
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- XV, 161
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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- 650 ADV a
We Are Coming Home Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Co…
We Are Coming Home is the story of the highly complex process of repatriation as described by those intimately involved in the work, notably the Piikani, Siksika, and Kainai elders who provided essential oversight and guidance. We also hear from the Glenbow Museum’s president and CEO at the time and from an archaeologist then employed at the Provincial Museum of Alberta who provides an inside…
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- 9781771990172.01
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- 304 pages
Visiting With the Ancestors Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum’s institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the expe…
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- 9781771990370.01
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- 10.5 x 10, 232 pages
Statistical Physics of Non-Thermal Phase Transitions
This book addresses the application of methods used in statistical physics to complex systems—from simple phenomenological analogies to more complex aspects, such as correlations, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, the concept of free energy, renormalization group approach and scaling. Statistical physics contains a well-developed formalism that describes phase transitions. It is useful to appl…
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- 978-3-319-12469-8
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- XIV, 497, 142 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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Statistical Causal Inferences and Their Applications in Public Health Research
This book compiles and presents new developments in statistical causal inference. The accompanying data and computer programs are publicly available so readers may replicate the model development and data analysis presented in each chapter. In this way, methodology is taught so that readers may implement it directly. The book brings together experts engaged in causal inference research to prese…
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- 978-3-319-41259-7
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- XV, 321,13 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
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