Both pattern recognition and computer vision have experienced progress over the years. This book describes various advances on pattern recognition and computer vision along with their many applications.

Deals with the scientific impact of the work of Nobel Laureate, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. This book covers the important fields for which de Gennes was renowned: solid state, macroscopic random media and percolation, supersolids, liquid crystals, polymers, adhesion and friction, and biophysics.

Provides a comprehensive approach to management strategy that is based on economics. Integrating economic analysis with management strategy, this work takes into account global competition and high-tech (Internet) developments, and recognizes that companies can no longer expect to sustain competitive advantage but must rely on innovation.

Taking a practical approach this book deals with paediatric symptoms as they are presented to the doctor. It covers: obtaining a history; physical examination; planning investigations in order to elucidate the diagnosis; and general, rather than detailed, principles of management.

This work on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its variations, covers the theoretical background, numerical techniques, code implementation issues and many novel and interesting applications.

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields.

These lecture notes provide a course on modern, co-ordinate-free differential geometry. They introduce general topology and co-ordinate-free differential geometry, examine geometrical aspects of the theory of Lie groups and Lie group actions on manifolds, and cover the theory of fibre bundles.

Suitable for researchers, technicians and graduate students, this book includes scientific papers that show a broad spectrum of actual research topics and techniques used to solve challenging problems in the areas of computer vision and image analysis.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of concepts, models and infrastructures of e-business. This book presents observations of e-business practices for different organizations in different economies and provides insights on the future of leading businesses on the net and the trends of e-business.

Written by the authors involved in the area of the universal paradigm and Islamic world-systems, this book offers a post-modernist outlook on epistemological investigations in the universal paradigm. It addresses the problems of the unity of knowledge in learning systems, thereby invoking the foundations of Islamic epistemology.

Given the emergence of regional economic arrangements in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, it is useful to understand what regionalism implies for the region. Focusing on the regionalism trend with an application to ASEAN, this book aims to give the reader a better understanding of the international policies of the Southeast Asian economies.

Brings together various results and planning activities that are related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena. This book highlights the scientific issues essential to the study of earthquakes, tsunamis, atmospheric dust storms, climate change, drought, flood, typhoons, monsoons, space weather, and planetary exploration.

Discusses the workings of financial markets and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, focusing on standard and complex derivatives. This book covers subjects, which range from the fundamental products in OTC markets, standard and exotic options, the concepts of value at risk, to credit derivatives and risk management.

Aims to establish for open manifolds, structures and differential operators an applicable theory of number-valued relative invariants. This book is useful in the theory of moduli spaces for nonlinear partial differential equations and mathematical physics. It contains an outline of the necessary tools from nonlinear Sobolev analysis.

This book introduces an approach to protein folding from the point of view of kinetic theory. There is an abundance of data on protein folding, but few proposals are available on the mechanism driving the process. Here, presented for the first time, are suggestions on possible research directions, as developed by the author in collaboration with C C Lin. The first half of this invaluable book ...

Offers an overview of the physiological foundation for flight, covering the body's reactions to altitude, pressure changes, acceleration, and extreme temperatures; the physiology of the sensory organs; jet lag and exposure to cosmic radiation.

An interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural evolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. It includes a chapter discussing the discipline of bio-information technology.

Addresses the task of processing online handwritten notes acquired from an electronic whiteboard, a modality in handwriting recognition research. This book's motivation is smart meeting rooms that aim to automate standard tasks usually performed by humans in a meeting.

'An Introduction to Optoelectronic Sensors'.

Presents a comprehensive treatment of discrete phase-space quantum mechanics and the lattice Weyl-Wigner formulation of energy band dynamics, by the originator of these theoretical techniques. This book includes the author's quantum superfield theoretical technique for nonequilibrium quantum physics.