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Within the last three decades, information modelling and knowledge bases have become essential subjects, not only for academic communities related to information systems and computer science, but also for businesses where information technology is applied.This book presents the proceedings of EJC 2014, the 24th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, held in Kiel, Germany, in June 2014. The main themes of the conference were conceptual modelling, including modelling and specification languages, domain specific conceptual modelling, and validating and communicating conceptual models knowledge

Therapeutic architecture can be described as the people-centered, evidence-based discipline of the built environment, which aims to identify and support ways of incorporating those spatial elements that interact with people physiologically and psychologically into design. Architecture is an important factor in people's lives when they are well; when they experience ill-health and are less able to cope it becomes even more important.This book explores the design of specialized residential architecture for people with mental health problems. It sets out to show how building design can support medical and health related procedures and practices, leading to better therapeutic outcomes and an enhanced quality of life. Based on almost two decades of research, it aims to understand how architectural design interacts with the therapeutic milieu, the care programs, and actually living in the spaces.The book is divided into two main parts covering theory and research. Part one consists of three chapters: a brief introduction to old practices, current medical psychosocial and architectural thinking, and alternative thinking. Part two explores the research and conclusions derived from fieldwork.This book provides a fascinating insight into the effect that architectural design can have on all of us, but particularly on those with mental health problems.

Water fascinating in all its phases, forms and states of aggregation. Without it, life as we know it would not exist on Earth, for as Paracelsus stated in the 16th century water is the matrix of the world and of all its creatures. While it may appear to be a simple molecule, there is still much about it which is not fully understood. What is notably lacking is a microscopically-based understanding of the reasons for the many anomalous properties of water.This book presents lectures from the Enrico Fermi summer school Water fundamentals as the basis for understanding the environment and promoting technology held in Varenna,

This book is a collection of six articles arising from the meeting of the NATO Advanced Study Institute ASI Combinatorial Optimization Methods and Applications, which was held at the University of Montreal in June 2006. This ASI consisted of seven se

Provides an overview of the effects of home ownership. This book refers to processes in the development of the homeownership stock including problems of access, which in turn implies issues of affordability, the viability of financial institutions and subsidies. It also provides an overview of the research results in this field.

BRBRDuring the last decade parallel technologies have completely transformed main stream computing. The majority of standard PC s today incorporate multi-processor chips, with up to four processors. This number will reach eight and more processors so

Design and Evaluation of a Vulnerability Mode. iModelling Coastal Vulnerability/i focuses on the vulnerability of societies in low lying coastal and deltaic environments to tropical cyclonic storms and floods. Models that explore vulnerability under various planned and unplanned conditions hardly

After the demise of Fokker in 1996 one feared that interest in aeronautical engineering would strongly diminish. Two years later the situation was re-appraised, and the interest in aeronautical engineering remained, so the course was reinstated. This title includes the author's lecture notes from these courses.

Describes a cooperative spatiotemporal planning system that allows for sharing a computationally and cognitively complex spatial planning task between a human and an artificial assistance system.

ParCo2007 marks a quarter of a century of the international conferences on parallel computing that started in Berlin in 1983. The aim of the conference is to give an overview of the developments, applications and future trends in high-performance computing for various platforms.

System science and engineering is a field that covers a wide spectrum of modern technology. A system can be seen as a collection of entities and their interrelationships, which forms a whole greater than the sum of the entities and interacts with people, organizations, cultures and activities and the interrelationships among them. Systems composed of autonomous subsystems are not new, but the increased complexity of modern technology demands ever more reliable, intelligent, robust and adaptable systems to meet evolving needs. This book presents papers delivered at the International Conference on System Science and Engineering ICSSE2015,

Contributes to the subject of mining time-changing data streams and addresses the design of learning algorithms for this purpose. This book introduces contributions on several different aspects of the problem, identifying research opportunities and increasing the scope for applications.

Covers the multifaceted aspects of global shipping and its everlasting innovation dynamics. This book includes contributions on the mission-based design process of a Panamax containership and a roro vessel; sustainable shipping and innovation; and an innovation case-study on the revolutionary design of a ballast-free ship.

Part of a series of "Instructional Course Lectures" ("ICL") books of the International Society On Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT). this first book helps reader find the SOSORT statutes and become familiar with the aims of the creation of this society.

The Department of Building Technology at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft studies and develops cardboard as a potential building material on a comprehensive basis. An exploratory phase from 2003 to 2005 was concluded by an international symposium. This title comprises the report on that symposium.

Presents the innovations and achievements of academic communities on Decision Support Systems (DSS). This book intends to improve ways of synthesizing and applying relevant work from resource disciplines to practical implementation of systems that enhance decision support capability.

Focuses on the methodology and processes of designing, developments and research of standard building products, building product systems and special building components, as well as to their applications in buildings. This book is suitable for designers and product developers, who are mainly concerned with developing products.