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Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2015, held in Ustroń, Poland, in May 2015. This book consists of 53 carefully revised selected papers that are assigned to 8 thematic groups: database architectures and performance; data integration, storage and data warehousing; ontologies and se…
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Advances in Time Series Methods and Applications: The A. Ian McLeod Festschrift
This volume reviews and summarizes some of A. I. McLeod's significant contributions to time series analysis. It also contains original contributions to the field and to related areas by participants of the festschrift held in June 2014 and friends of Dr. McLeod. Covering a diverse range of state-of-the-art topics, this volume well balances applied and theoretical research across fourteen contri…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-4939-6568-7
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- VIII, 293
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- Fields Institute Communications
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- 658.8 ADV a
Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 14th International Symposium, SST…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2015, held in Hong Kong, China, in August 2015. The 24 revised full papers together with 8 demos presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The conference program has the scope on following subjects: reachability query and path query, reverse que…
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- 978-3-319-22363-6
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- XIV, 522
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
Low-carbon City and New-type Urbanization: Proceedings of Chinese Low-carbon …
In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges, the world has already accepted low-carbon development as the main way forward for future city construction. Chinese cities have encountered many problems during their development, including land constraints, energy shortages, traffic congestion and air pollution. For this reason, the national meeting of the Central Work …
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- 978-3-662-45969-0
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Dynamic and stochastic multi-project planning
This book deals with dynamic and stochastic methods for multi-project planning. Based on the idea of using queueing networks for the analysis of dynamic-stochastic multi-project environments this book addresses two problems: detailed scheduling of project activities, and integrated order acceptance and capacity planning. In an extensive simulation study, the book thoroughly investigates existin…
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- 9783319045405
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Understanding the Nature of Motivation and Motivating Students through Teachi…
This book is based upon three interrelated open naturalistic studies conducted to better characterise the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Open semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with undergraduates, students at community colleges and students in taught postgraduate courses in Hong Kong. The analysis used an exploratory grounded theory approach and res…
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- 978-981-287-883-0
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Understanding and Managing Urban Water in Transition
This book examines changes and transitions in the way water is managed in urban environments. This book originated from a joint French-Australian initiative on water and land management held in Montpellier, France. The book delivers practical insights into urban water management. It links scientific insights of researchers with the practical experiences of urban water practitioners to understan…
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- 978-94-017-9801-3
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- 37 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
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Advances in Crowdfunding : Research and Practice
This open access book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of knowledge on the state of crowdfunding research and practice. It considers crowdfunding models and their different manifestations across a variety of geographies and sectors, and explores the perspectives of fundraisers, backers, platforms, and regulators. Gathering insights from a wide range of influential researchers …
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- 978-3-030-46309-0
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- 658 ADV
Finishing Global Farm Trade Reform: Implications for developing countries
This study reviews policy developments in recent years and, in the light of that, explores ways in which further consensus might be reached among WTO members to reduce farm trade distortions — and thereby also progress the multilateral trade reform agenda. Particular attention is given to ways that would boost well-being in developing countries, especially for those food-insecure households s…
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- 978-1-925261-35-6
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- 330 AND f
Life Cycle Assessment on Green Building Implementation
Greenhouse-gas emissions have become one of the most impacting environmental issues in today’s society. A rapidly increasing trend in global CO2emissions particularly since the early nineties (23.64% since 1990) has led to the generation of about 50,000 million tons of CO2–equivalent (eqv) worldwide in 2010. According to mainstream climate experts, the increasing concentration of greenhouse…
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