This handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning. It highlights the role of models as mediators between theory and experimentation, and as educational devices, as well as their relevance in testing hypotheses and explanatory functions. The Springer Handbook merges philosophical, cognitive and epistemological perspectives on mod…
Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history. From the vast world of games, the book’s focus is on board and card games, with reference to physical games, sports and digital games as well. Considering culture, society, politics and…
The book addresses the entrepreneurial origin of the capitalist firm and its asymmetric contractual relationships between capitalists, workers, managers and entrepreneurs, and explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship. A hidden action model shows how assigning residual claim to entrepreneurs can provide a better overall incentive; a hidden information model demonstrates th…
This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 installment of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF), which is held annually in Singapore. With a great number of submissions, it presents the latest research findings in economics and finance and discusses relevant issues in today's world. The book is a useful resource for readers who want access to econom…
Many in the mathematics community in the U.S. are involved in mathematics education in various capacities. This book highlights the breadth of the work in K-16 mathematics education done by members of US departments of mathematical sciences. It contains contributions by mathematicians and mathematics educators who do work in areas such as teacher education, quantitative literacy, informal educ…
Merangkum berbagai aspek kontrol dan dukungan teknologi proses yang muncul yang diwakili oleh peleburan dan penumpukan laser. Berbagi banyak tip dan wawasan tentang pengoptimalan dan simulasi robotika. Mencakup topik hangat di industri yang sedang berkembang: kehidupan yang berkelanjutan dan cerdas. -> Konferensi Internasional tentang Teknik Elektro dan Kontrol Otomatis adalah acara penting yan…
Konferensi yang diselenggarakan dan didukung oleh institusi China pertama dan terbesar di bidang teknik industri. Memberikan gambaran yang sangat baik tentang penelitian yang sedang berlangsung, terutama dari Asia, di bidang teknik inovasi industri dan manajemen. Koleksi unik penelitian Asia Timur mutakhir di berbagai bidang dan aplikasi pemodelan, pemantauan, desain, dan kontrol di bidang tekn…
Penelitian terbaru dalam Komputasi Cerdas. Hasil Konferensi Internasional tentang Perbatasan dalam Komputasi Cerdas: Teori dan Aplikasi (FICTA 2015). Menyajikan teori dan aplikasi dalam Komputasi Cerdas. -> Konferensi Internasional Keempat tentang Perbatasan dalam Komputasi Cerdas: Teori dan Aplikasi (FICTA 2015) yang diadakan di Durgapur, India, merupakan peristiwa penting di bidang komputasi …
Evidence suggests that economies with technology transfer initiatives provide a better supply of high-quality jobs and tend to be characterized by entrepreneurs with higher innovation contributions. This book explores the effectiveness of technology transfer policies and legislation on entrepreneurial innovation in a non-US context. It analyses the theoretical, empirical and managerial implicat…
This book analyses the importance of the entrepreneurial university, specifically in relation to the creation of entrepreneurial ideas and attitudes in students and entrepreneurial initiatives in academic institutions. The aim of the editors and contributing authors is to provide the reader with a set of experiences illustrating the advantages of communicating and encouraging entrepreneurship a…