The term “stem cell” appeared in the scientifi c literature as early as 1868 in the work of the eminent German biologist Ernst Haeckel. In this work, Haeckel used the term Stammzelle (“stem cell”) to describe the ancestor unicellular organism from which he presumed all multicellular organisms evolved. Particularly, he also suggested fertilized oocytes as the source giving rise to al…
EACM is a comprehensive reference work covering the vast field of applied and computational mathematics. Applied mathematics itself accounts for at least 60 per cent of mathematics, and the emphasis on computation reflects the current and constantly growing importance of computational methods in all areas of applications. EACM emphasizes the strong links of applied mathematics with major areas …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2015, held in Helsinki, Finland, in September 2015. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They describe the latest advancements in the field of multiple access communications with an emphasis on wireless sensor networks; ph…
This text presents the classical theory of conics in a modern form. It includes many novel results that are not easily accessible elsewhere. The approach combines synthetic and analytic methods to derive projective, affine and metrical properties, covering both Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. With more than two thousand years of history, conic sections play a fundamental role in nume…
This brief provides an overview of recent developments in multi-hop routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It introduces the various classifications of routing protocols and lists the pros and cons of each category, going beyond the conceptual overview of routing classifications offered in other books. Recently many researchers have proposed numerous multi-hop routing protocols …
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2015, held in Fuzhou, China, in November 2015. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers feature a wide range of topics covering knowledge repres…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human Interaction, MA3HMI 2014, held in Conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2014, in Singapore, Singapore, on September 14th, 2014. The 9 revised papers presented together with a keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submission…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2015, held in Cottbus, Germany, in September 2015. The 11 full papers papers presented together with 2 short papers, 1 invited paper and 4 extended abstracts of doctoral papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in topical…
The two-volume set LNCS 8935 and 8936 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2015, held in Sydney, Australia, in January 2015. The 49 revised regular papers, 24 poster presentations, were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. For the three special session, a total of 18 papers were accepted for MMM 2015. T…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking, MSPN 2015, held in Paris, France, in June 2015. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They discuss new trends in networking infrastructures, security, services and applications …