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Time Policies for a Sustainable Society
This book explores time use, time policy, well-being and sustainable development using concepts and findings from time policy research, socio-ecological sustainability research, behavioral economics, consumer research, and research into prosperity and "the good life". Because any change in time structures, whether opening or working hours, school or travel times, has large scale impacts on…
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- 978-3-319-15198-4
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Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application
This book is about time and its powerful influence on our personal and collective daily life. It presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of contemporary knowledge on temporal psychology inspired by Zimbardo's work on Time Perspective (TP). With contributions from renowned and promising researchers from all over the globe, and at the interface of social, personality, cognitive an…
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- 978-3-319-07368-2
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- 26 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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Enhanced Building Information Models Using IoT Services and Integration Patt…
This book explains how to combine and exploit sensor networks and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and Web-service design patterns to enrich and integrate Building Information Models (BIMs). It provides approaches and software architectures for facilitating the interaction with (and between) BIMs through Web services, and for enabling and facilitating the fusion of the information residing…
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- 978-3-319-21825-0
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Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era 15th International Conference, ICWE …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2015, held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in June 2015. The 26 full research papers, 11 short papers, 7 industry papers, 11 demonstrations, 6 posters and 4 contributions to the PhD symposium presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. Moreover 2 tutorials are …
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- 978-3-319-19890-3
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Engineering and Enterprise Inspiring Innovation
This book presents contributions from researchers, practitioners and professional institutions that published papers in the Proceedings of the Educating Enterprising Engineers and Scientists conference, held in London, UK on 17th June 2015. The topics considered range from educating engineers to giving a business edge and embedding entrepreneurship to achieve integrated education and curriculum…
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- 978-3-319-27825-4
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- 3 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
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Engineering Secure Software and Systems 7th International Symposium, ESSoS 2…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems, ESSoS 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in March 2015. The 11 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The symposium features the following topics: formal methods; cloud passwords; machine learning; measuremen…
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- 978-3-319-15618-7
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- 63 b/w illustrations
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A Basic Course in Probability Theory
This text develops the necessary background in probability theory underlying diverse treatments of stochastic processes and their wide-ranging applications. In this second edition, the text has been reorganized for didactic purposes, new exercises have been added and basic theory has been expanded. General Markov dependent sequences and their convergence to equilibrium is the subject of an ent…
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- 978-3-319-47974-3
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- Universitext
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General Galois Geometries
Both authors have been active in the field for about a half century. They have authored several books and several hundreds of papers in international journals; they have also been keynote speakers at numerous international conferences, as well as having organised such conferences. The standard works on Galois geometries and finite generalised quadrangles are due to them as authors or co-authors…
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- 978-1-4471-6788-4
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Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan
ntriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within family and non-family contexts, and examine how these relationships, in turn, continue to shape the individual. Transitional periods, in which in…
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- 978-1-4939-2922-1
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Out-of-order Parallel Discrete Event Simulation for Electronic System-level D…
This book offers readers a set of new approaches and tools a set of tools and techniques for facing challenges in parallelization with design of embedded systems. It provides an advanced parallel simulation infrastructure for efficient and effective system-level model validation and development so as to build better products in less time. Since parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) has th…
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