In societies all around the globe, the population is aging. This fact will pose important challenges to healthcare and social systems in industrialized and emerging economies alike. It is therefore critical to devise strategies to extend the healthy years of life and thus limit the exponential increase in healthcare cost associated with growing old and frail. Understanding the aging process …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2015, held in Günzburg, Germany, in June/July 2015. The 19 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers address issues in multiple classifier systems and ensemble methods, including pattern recognition, machine learning, neural n…
Diese Dissertation wurde zwischen 2011 bis 2014 am DFG Graduiertenkolleg „Pfade organisatorischer Prozesse“ der Freien Universität Berlin erarbeitet. Im Laufe des Prozesses, der nicht immer linear oder anspruchslos war, hatte ich Unterstützung zahlreicher Menschen. Ohne diese wäre die Arbeit in der vorliegenden Form nicht möglich gewesen, daher möchte ich ihnen an dieser Stelle dan…
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…
The legal status of armed forces stationed abroad is an important issue to all States and international organisations involved. Today the status of forces is often set out in Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs) defining the rights and obligations of the deployed forces. Key in these agreements is immunity of military personnel from criminal jurisdiction of host State courts, as follows from…
The Global Financial Crisis (2007–2009) and the following European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2009–) have caused tremendous changes in the business, economy and governance. The spillover effect and globalization of the crisis affected millions and stated a genuine challenge for modern societies. Thus it was a task of extreme importance for us to revise our book and present actualized resear…
This volume reviews the latest trends in organic optoelectronic materials. Each comprehensive chapter allows graduate students and newcomers to the field to grasp the basics, whilst also ensuring that they have the most up-to-date overview of the latest research. Topics include: organic conductors and semiconductors; conducting polymers and conjugated polymer semiconductors, as well as their ap…
This SpringerBrief examines the technology of email privacy encryption from its origins to its theoretical and practical details. It explains the challenges in standardization, usability, and trust that interfere with the user experience for software protection. Chapters address the origins of email encryption and why email encryption is rarely used despite the myriad of its benefits -- benefit…
Never have so many organizational decisions been taken based on statistics as today! Everything is supported by numbers. This applies to marketing, economics, social sciences, natural sciences, industry, and administrative work within organizations, businesses, and institutions. It is, therefore, important to have insight into basic statistical concepts, when assessing statistical data mater…
This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries…