Author: Maurizio Gasperini
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: universe, astronomers, theory, cosmology, bang, string
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-09-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 3540744193
ISBN-13: 9783540744191

Terms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. The idea that the Universe we observe today originated from an enormous explosion (big bang) is now well known and widely accepted, at all levels, in modern popular culture. But what happens to the Universe before the big bang? And would it make any sense at all to ask such a question? In fact, recent progress in theoretical physics, and in particular in String Theory, suggests answers to the above questions, providing us with mathematical tools able in principle to reconstruct

Author: Maurizio Muraca
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: research, biliary, methods
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1994-11-28
List price: $404.95
ISBN-10: 0849387019
ISBN-13: 9780849387012

This exciting new book brings together the most significant information on the procedures that have generated most of the recent progress in hepatobiliary pathophysiology. The authors describe their unique experiences, including specific technical and analytical problems. Since workers in the field often specialize within a limited area, the methodology covering each of the main aspects in hepatobiliary research is particularly useful. The book also includes an exhaustive reference list.

Author: Maurizio Viroli
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: social, thought, political, modern, founders, machiavelli
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-02-04
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0198780885
ISBN-13: 9780198780885

This book presents a critical examination of Machiavelli’s thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with a reassessment of his central ideas and arguments. Viroli challenges the accepted interpretations of Machiavelli’s work, insisting that his republicanism was based not on a commitment to virtue, greatness, and expansion, but to the ideal of civic life protected by the shield of fair laws. His detailed study of how Machiavelli composed The Prince offers a number of new interpretations and he further contends that the most challenging--and undere

Author: Maurizio Valle
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: silicon, systems, adaptive, smart
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-10-18
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 1402027435
ISBN-13: 9781402027437

Intelligent/smart systems have become common practice in many engineering applications. On the other hand, current low cost standard CMOS technology (and future foreseeable developments) makes available enormous potentialities. The next breakthrough will be the design and development of

Author: Maurizio Lenzerini
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: artificial, intelligence, italy, september, lecture, rome, notes, italian, advances, congress, ai*ia, association
Number of Pages: 459
Published: 1997-10-16
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 3540635769
ISBN-13: 9783540635765

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 97, held in Rome, Italy, in September 1997.The 37 revised full papers and 8 system descriptions presented in the volume were selected from 88 papers submitted. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning; natural language processing; perception, vision and robotics; distributed artificial intelligence; and planning.

Author: Maurizio Proietti
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: proceedings, september, lecture, notes, science, computer, netherlands, utrecht, synthesis, program, transformation, international, lopstr, workshop, logic
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1996-03-06
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540609393
ISBN-13: 9783540609391

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR’95, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in September 1995.The 19 papers included were selected from 40 workshop submissions; they offer a unique up-to-date account of the use of formal synthesis and transformation techniques for computer-aided development of logic programs. Among the topics addressed are deductive and inductive program synthesis, synthesis models based on constructive type theory, program specification, program analysis, theorem proving, and

Author: Maurizio Rafanelli
Publisher: IGI Global
Keywords: solutions, problems, databases, multidimensional
Number of Pages: 473
Published: 2003-03-04
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 1591400538
ISBN-13: 9781591400530

Strives to be the point of reference for the most important issues in the field of multidimensional databases. This book provides a brief history of the field and distinguishes between what is new in recent research and what is merely a renaming of old concepts. The book reviews past papers and discusses current research projects in the hope to encourage the search for new solutions to the many problems that are still unsolved. In addition this outlines the incredible advances in technology and ever increasing demands from users in the most diverse applicative areas such as finance, medicine,