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Learning Maya, the world's leading 3D animation and effects
package, is a challenge, especially for those who want to master
Maya's versatile programming features in addition to its built-in
tools.
Finally, here is a practical, step-by-step guide that shows how to
use Maya to its fullest potential, beginning with the basics.
Readers of Complete Maya Programming will first gain a thorough
understanding of Maya's inner workings, and then learn how to
customize and extend Maya with scripts and plugins that take
control and productivity to new levels.
Users new to programming can apply Maya's easy scripting language
MEL (Maya Embedded Language), while more advanced users can work
with the C++ API (Application Progamming Interface). Both a
fundamental tutorial for Maya beginners and a solid reference for
experienced developers, Complete Maya Programming is every user's
guide to Maya mastery.
* Provides a multitude of real-world examples illustrating
applications of Maya programming.
* Demonstrates how to use MEL to control Maya, customize its
interface, automate procedures, and more
* Details how to use the C++ API to modify Maya functionality and
develop tools and features to meet any need
* Explains when to use MEL, when to use the C++ API, and how to use
them together
* Ideal for technical directors, developers, or anyone wishing to
to master Maya
* Provides a storehouse of MEL scripts and C++ source code,
glossary, and list of resources, available at www.davidgould.com
In this practical guide, experienced embedded engineer Lewin
Edwards demonstrates faster, lower-cost methods for developing
high-end embedded systems. With today's tight schedules and lower
budgets, embedded designers are under greater pressure to deliver
prototypes and system designs faster and cheaper. Edwards
demonstrates how the use of the right tools and operating systems
can make seemingly impossible deadlines possible.
Designer's Guide to Embedded Systems Development shares many
advanced, "in-the-trenches" design secrets to help engineers
achieve better performance on the job. In particular, it covers
many of the newer design tools supported by the GPL (GNU Public
License) system. Code examples are given to provide concrete
illustrations of tasks described in the text. The general
procedures are applicable to many possible projects based on any
16/32-bit microcontroller. The book covers choosing the right
architecture and development hardware to fit the project; choosing
an operating system and developing a toolchain; evaluating software
licenses and how they affect a project; step-by-step building
instructions for gcc, binutils, gdb and newlib for the ARM7 core
used in the case study project; prototyping techniques using a
custom printed circuit board; debugging tips; and portability
considerations. The accompanying companion website contains all the
code used in the design examples as well as useful open-source
tools for embedded design.
.A wealth of practical tips, tricks and techniques
.Design better, faster and more cost-effectively
.Accompanying companion website includes useful open-source tools
for embedded design"
The Handbook of Environmental Economics focuses on the economics of
environmental externalities and environmental public goods. Volume
I examines environmental degradation and policy responses from a
microeconomic, institutional standpoint. Its perspective is
dynamic, including a consideration of the dynamics of natural
systems, and global, with attention paid to issues in both rich and
poor nations. In addition to chapters on well-established topics
such as the theory and practice of pollution regulation, it
includes chapters on new areas of environmental economics research
related to common property management regimes; population and
poverty; mechanism design; political economy of regulation;
experimental evaluations of policy instruments; and technological
change.
First published in 1983, the second edition of this informative
book remains the most comprehensive and current overview of the
behavioral traits and adaptations of horses. The book integrates
findings from hundreds of international researchers to provide the
reader a factual synthesis of the behavior of domestic and feral
horses. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the author
has thoroughly updated coverage of horse ancestry, development,
perception, learning, play, social behavior, behavioral
manipulation, maintenance activities, and sexual behavior. In this
second edition more emphasis has been given to animal husbandry and
management. Additionally, the second edition includes an all-new
section on ecological influences on activity patterns, habitat
utilization, social behavior and reproduction. An expanded section
on applied ethology provides behavioral considerations for
management and insight regarding the behavioral indicators of horse
health and well being. This is followed with an updated appendix
listing behavioral symptoms and possible causes. The text contains
numerous tables and nearly 100 illustrations and photos.
Corporate valuation underlies the interrelationship between
corporate strategy, financial analysis and financial management.
Acquisitions, mergers, ESOPs and private placements are becoming
increasingly common in the middle-market as investment banks and
non-bank entities become players in the field. Managers and
financial professionals need to become conversant in corporate
valuation methods in order to expand their relationships with
customers and to create profitable opportunities for their
organization.;This text provides a catalogue of valuation tools,
together with guidance on analyzing and valuing a business. The
author breaks down the topic to provide advice for any business, no
matter how complex. He presents eight different methods of firm
valuation and discusses the benefits and limitations of each
method, supporting this information with examples from
international markets.
The US Dept. of Education, in conjunction with the US Dept. of
Health and Human Services, recently unveiled a $50 million effort
to expand research on early childhood cognitive development. A key
issue identified requiring more information and research was the
education and professional development of educators. Along these
lines, Doug Greer has prepared a book discussing how best to teach,
how to design functional curricula, and how to support teachers in
using state-of-the-art science instruction materials.
The book provides important information both to trainers of future
teachers, current teachers, and to supervisors and policy makers in
education. To trainers there is information on how to motivate,
mentor, and instruct in-service teachers to use the best
scientifically based teaching strategies and tactics. To in-service
teachers, there is information on how to provide individualized
instruction in classrooms with multiple learning and behavior
problems, school interventions to help prevent vandalism and
truancy, and how curricula and instruction can be designed to teach
functional repetoirs rather than inert ideas. To policy makers and
supervisors, the book discusses how to determine the effectiveness
of curricular innitiatives toward meeting mandated standards in
national assessments.
Doug Greer was recently awarded the Fred S. Keller Award for
Distinguished Contributions to Education by APA for the research
and application of the material covered in this book. School
programs incorporating the material used in this book have produced
4-7 times more learning outcomes for students than control and
baseline educational programs (see www.cabas.com)
The book provides research-based and field-tested procedures for:
* Teaching students of all ability levels ranging from preschool to
secondary school
* How to teach special education students in the context of a
regular classroom
* Best practices for all teachers to teach more effectively
* Means of monitoring and motivating teachers' practices
* A comprehensive and system-wide science of teaching post
modern-postmodern
* Tested procedures that result in four to seven times more
learning for all
students
* Tested procedures for supervisors to use with teachers that
result in
significant student learning
* Tested procedures for providing the highest accountability
* A systems approach for schooling problems that provide solutions
rather
than blame
* Parent approved and parent requested educational practices
* Means for psychologists to work with teachers and students to
solve
behavior and learning problems
* A comprehensive systems science of schooling
* An advanced and sophisticated science of pedagogy and curriculum
design
* Students who are not being served with traditional education can
meet or
exceed the performance of their more fortunate peers,
* Supervisors can mentor teachers and therapists to provide state
of the
science instruction
* Parent education can create a professional setting for parents,
educators,
and therapists to work together in the best interests of the
student,
* Teachers and supervisors who measure as they teach produce
significantly
better outcomes for students,
* Systemic solutions to instructional and behavioral problems
involving
teachers, parents, supervisors provide means to pursue problems to
their
solution,
* A science of teaching, as opposed to an art of teaching, can
provide an
educational system that treats the students and the parents as the
clients."
Human learning is studied in a variety of ways. Motor learning is
often studied separately from verbal learning. Studies may delve
into anatomy vs function, may view behavioral outcomes or look
discretely at the molecular and cellular level of learning. All
have merit but they are dispersed across a wide literature and
rarely are the findings integrated and synthesized in a meaningful
way. Human Learning: Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience synthesizes
findings across these levels and types of learning and memory
investigation.
Divided into three sections, each section includes a discussion by
the editors integrating themes and ideas that emerge across the
chapters within each section. Section 1 discusses general topics in
human learning and cognition research, including inhibition, short
term and long term memory, verbal memory, memory disruption, and
scheduling and learning. Section 2 discusses cognitive neuroscience
aspects of human learning. Coverage here includes models, skill
acquisition, declarative and non declarative memory, age effects on
memory, and memory for emotional events. Section 3 focuses on human
motor learning.
This book is suitable for cognitive neuroscientists, cognitive
psychologists, kinesthesiologists, and graduate courses in
learning.
* Synthesizes research from a variety of disciplines, levels, and
content areas
* Provides section discussions on common findings between
chapters
* Covers motor and verbal learning
Based on familiar circuit theory and basic physics, this book
serves as an invaluable reference for both analog and digital
engineers alike. For those who work with analog RF, this book is a
must-have resource. With computers and networking equipment of the
21st century running at such high frequencies, it is now crucial
for digital designers to understand electromagnetic fields,
radiation and transmission lines. This knowledge is necessary for
maintaining signal integrity and achieving EMC compliance. Since
many digital designers are lacking in analog design skills, let
alone electromagnetics, an easy-to-read but informative book on
electromagnetic topics should be considered a welcome addition to
their professional libraries.
Covers topics using conceptual explanations and over 150 lucid
figures, in place of complex mathematicsDemystifies antennas,
waveguides, and transmission line phenomenaProvides the foundation
necessary to thoroughly understand signal integrity issues
associated with high-speed digital design
This book celebrates two triumphs in modern psychology: the
successful development and application of a solid measure of
general intelligence; and the personal courage and skills of the
man who made this possible - Arthur R. Jensen from Berkeley
University.
The volume traces the history of intelligence from the early 19th
century approaches, to the most recent analyses of the hierarchical
structure of cognitive abilities, and documents the transition from
a hopelessly confused concept of intelligence to the development of
an objective measure of psychometric g. The contributions
illustrate the impressive power g has with respect to predicting
educational achievement, getting an attractive job, or social
stratification.
The book is divided into six parts as follows: Part I presents the
most recent higher-stream analysis of cognitive abilities, Part II
deals with biological aspects of g, such as research on brain
imaging, glucose uptake, working memory, reaction time, inspection
time, and other biological correlates, and concludes with the
latest findings in g-related molecular genetics. Part III addresses
demographic aspects of g, such as geographic-, race-, and
sex-differences, and introduces differential psychological aspects
as well. Part IV concentrates on the g nexus, and relates such
highly diverse topics as sociology, genius, retardation, training,
education, jobs, and crime to g. Part V contains chapters critical
of research on g and its genetic relationship, and also presents a
rejoinder. Part VI looks at one of the greatest contemporary
psychologists, Professor Emeritus Arthur R. Jensen as teacher and
mentor.
As a result of the increased focus on modern compact machinery
in industry, wear in lubricated contacts and the problems of
running in, and scuffing has become the most important form of
wear.Despite this trend, until now information on lubricated wear
has been scattered across a wide number of journals, emphasizing
only one aspect of the wear process. This new book is a unique
resource, consolidating all the available information into one
place. In doing this Sethuramiah, contributes significantly to the
development of knowledge in the field, by highlighting knowledge
gaps for future research. More immediate improvements in practice
have been clearly identified with well-argued methodologies with
which the present level of knowledge can be improved. This book
will therefore prove an essential resource for all engineers and
scientists with an interest in lubricated wear.
Established in 1960, Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry is the
definitive serial in the area-one of great importance to organic
chemists, polymer chemists, and many biological scientists. Written
by established authorities in the field, the comprehensive reviews
combine descriptive chemistry and mechanistic insight and yield an
understanding of how the chemistry drives the properties.
The Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare presents, in two volumes,
essays on past and on-going work in social choice theory and
welfare economics. The first volume consists of four parts. In Part
1 (Arrovian Impossibility Theorems), various aspects of Arrovian
general impossibility theorems, illustrated by the simple majority
cycle first identified by Condorcet, are expounded and evaluated.
It also provides a critical survey of the work on different escape
routes from impossibility results of this kind. In Part 2 (Voting
Schemes and Mechanisms), the operation and performance of voting
schemes and cost-sharing mechanisms are examined axiomatically, and
some aspects of the modern theory of incentives and mechanism
design are expounded and surveyed. In Part 3 (structure of social
choice rules), the positional rules of collective decision-making
(the origin of which can be traced back to a seminal proposal by
Borda), the game-theoretic aspects of voting in committees, and the
implications of making use of interpersonal comparisons of welfare
(with or without cardinal measurability) are expounded, and the
status of utilitarianism as a theory of justice is critically
examined. It also provides an analytical survey of the foundations
of measurement of inequality and poverty. In order to place these
broad issues (as well as further issues to be discussed in the
second volume of the Handbook) in perspective, Kotaro Suzumura has
written an extensive introduction, discussing the historical
background of social choice theory, the vistas opened by Arrow's
"Social Choice and Individual Values," the famous "socialist
planning" controversy, and the theoretical and practical
significance of social choice theory. The primary purpose of this
Handbook is to provide an accessible introduction to the current
state of the art in social choice theory and welfare economics. The
expounded theory has a strong and constructive message for pursuing
human well-being and facilitating collective decision-making.
*Advances economists understanding of recent advances in social
choice and welfare
*Distills and applies research to a wide range of social
issues
*Provides analytical material for evaluating new scholarship
*Offers consolidated reviews and analyses of scholarship in a
framework that encourages synthesis. "
One aspect of common sense reasoning is reasoning about normal
cases, e.g. a physician will first try to interpret symptoms by a
common disease, and will take more exotic possibilities only later
into account. Such "normality" can be encoded, e.g. by
a relation, where case A is considered more normal than case B.
This gives a standard semantics or interpretation to nonmonotonic
reasoning (a branch of common sense reasoning), or, more formally,
to nonmonotonic logics. We consider in this book the repercussions
such normality relations and similar
constructions have on the resulting nonmonotonic logics, i.e. which
types of logic are adequate for which kind of relation, etc.
We show in this book that some semantics correspond nicely to some
logics, but also that other semantics do not correspond to any
logics of the usual form.
Key features:
- provides a coherent picture of several formalisms of nonmonotonic
logics.
- gives completeness and incompleteness results for many variants
of preferential, distance based, and other semantics.
- gives probably the first systematic investigation of definability
preservation and its consequences.
- gives new proof techniques for completeness results.
- is centered on semantics
Accessible to all readers, including students of secondary school
and amateur technology enthusiasts, Robotics, Mechatronics, and
Artificial Intelligence simplifies the process of finding basic
circuits to perform simple tasks, such as how to control a DC or
step motor, and provides instruction on creating moving robotic
parts, such as an "eye" or an "ear." Though many companies offer
kits for project construction, most experimenters want to design
and build their own robots and other creatures specific to their
needs and goals. With this new book by Newton Braga, hobbyists and
experimenters around the world will be able to decide what skills
they want to feature in a project and then choose the right
"building blocks" to create the ideal results.
In the past few years the technology of robotics, mechatronics,
and artificial intelligence has exploded, leaving many people with
the desire but not the means to build their own projects. The
author's fascination with and expertise in the exciting field of
robotics is demonstrated by the range of simple to complex project
blocks he provides, which are designed to benefit both novice and
experienced robotics enthusiasts. The common components and
technology featured in the project blocks are especially beneficial
to readers who need practical solutions that can be implemented
easily by their own hands, without incorporating expensive,
complicated technology.
Accessible to technicians and hobbyists with many levels of
experience, and written to provide inexpensive and creative fun
with robotics
Appeals to all sorts of technology enthusiasts, including those
involved with electronics, computers, home automation, mechanics,
and other areas.
Written to provide information on all price ranges of equipment to
everyone from the beginner to the experienced home theater owner,
Build Your Own Home Theater has been completely updated for today's
audience. This new edition contains valuable consumer information
on the latest digital home theater components and technology,
including digital surround sound receivers, DVD players, digital
television & HDTV, digital satellites (DBS), digital
camcorders, and digital hard-drive video recorders. It also
features easy-to-understand explanations of surround sound
technology and set ups including Dolbya Digital, THX Surround EXTM,
and DTS-ESTM.
If you are interested in audio, video, and home theater
technologies, this book will give you the information you need to
choose the right components, hook the pieces together, and create a
fabulous theater experience right in your own living room. When the
first edition of Build Your Own Home Theater was published, decent
home theater systems were primarily only affordable for wealthier
consumers. Now, several years later, the technology is accessible
to millions of homes as products such as wide-screen televisions,
digital surround sound audio, DVD Video and Audio Players, and
digital satellite systems have become commonplace. Though most
people don't have actual home theater set-ups in their living
rooms, more and more consumers are trying to combine components
they already own with new high-tech components to create an
affordable home theater experience. Complete with important home
theater Web site addresses and resources, Build Your Own Home
Theater, Second Edition is a comprehensive, current, and
well-researched text. Beginners to advanced home theater consumers,
Videophiles, technicians, engineers, and electronics hobbyists from
all walks of life will especially find it invaluable.
*"Dolby" and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks and
"Surround Sound EX" is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories.
THX and Lucasfilm are (c) Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights are
reserved. Used under authorization. DTS and DTS-ES are trademarks
of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
Covers all of the hot digital technologies and how to tie them
together into one amazing home theater experience for budgets from
$1,500 to $15,000.
New edition includes cutting edge technology from Digital Surround
Sound to High Definition and Digital Television, DVD, Video
Hard-Drives, Digital Satellites, and much more."
The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been
since the series began: to serve the increasing number of
scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by
presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues
and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will
continue its "contribution to the development of the field," as its
intended role was phrased in the Preface to the first volume in
1965. Since that time, traditional areas of animal behavior have
achieved new vigor by the links they have formed with related
fields and by the closer relationship that now exists between those
studying animal and human subjects.
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 31 continues to serve
scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Focusing on new
theories and research developments with respect to behavioral
ecology, evolutionary biology, and comparative psychology, these
volumes foster cooperation and communications in these dense
fields.
An accompanying volume (Volume 6) in this series presents
strategies of cellular invasion from the viewpoint of the microbe.
This filed of study is growing rapidly after a somewhat slow start
over recent decades. This collection of invited chapters attempts
to reflect current research, and brings together cell biologists,
microbiologists and immunologists with disparate interests.
However, there is a certain unity, even repetition of key themes,
hopefully like a symphony rather than a boring catalogue. It will
be evident that editorial bias favors intracellular paratism and
medically important organisms. The neutrophil is far more than a
supporting player to the macrophage, and some attempt is made to
remind the reader of some of its unique skills. To retain a
manageable size, the emphasis is on relatively early events such as
mutual recognition, cell entry, and response, rather than on
longterm changes in gene expression by either host cell or
pathogen. Viruses are excluded not because of lack of importance
but because of somewhat different research approaches, although it
is cytogenes, share common strategies in invasion and intercellular
spread.
The book provides the reader with the different types of functional
equations that s/he can find in practice, showing, step by step,
how they can be solved.
A general methodology for solving functional equations is provided
in Chapter 2. The different types of functional equations are
described and solved in Chapters 3 to 8. Many examples, coming from
different fields, as geometry, science, engineering, economics,
probability, statistics, etc, help the reader to change his/her
mind in order to state problems as functional equations as an
alternative to differential equations, and to state new problems in
terms of functional equations or systems.
An interesting feature of the book is that it deals with functional
networks, a powerful generalization of neural networks that allows
solving many practical problems. The second part of the book,
Chapters 9 to 13, is devoted to the applications of this important
paradigm.
The book contains many examples and end of chapter exercises, that
facilitates the understanding of the concepts and applications.
- A general methodology for solving functional equations is
provided in Chapter 2.
- It deals with functional networks, a powerful generalization of
neural networks.
- Many examples, coming from different fields, as geometry,
science, engineering, economics, probability, statistics, etc,
illustrate the concept of functional equation.
- Functional equations are presented as a powerful alternative to
differential equations.
- The book contains end of chapter exercises.
This book discusses research and theory on how motivation changes
as children progress through school, gender differences in
motivation, and motivational differences as an aspect of ethnicity.
Motivation is discussed within the context of school achievement as
well as athletic and musical performance.
Key Features
* Coverage of the major theories and constructs in the motivation
field
* Focus on developmental issues across the elementary and secondary
school period
* Discussion of instructional and theoretical issues regarding
motivation
* Consideration of gender and ethnic differences in motivation
Over the past decade, legal wagering has expanded rapidly in North
America. In 1998 alone, people lost 50 billion dollars in legal
betting and it is estimated that illegal wagering is twice that
amount. A recent government report, based on the broadest
population survey, concludes that the lifetime and pathological
gamblers in the U.S. range between 4 and 10 million persons and is
growing. If we include the families affected by problem gambling
then the potential impact is indeed prodigious. Virtually no
community in the U.S. and Canada is left untouched by entertainment
or problem gambling. Treating problem gambling has evolved from a
small group of practitioners in the 1980's working in specialty
impatient units into an international enterprise that affects the
caseload of many mental health professionals. Owing to its quiet
origins, problem gambling treatment strategies are not well known
throughout the clinical community. Consequently the average
clinician is him/herself "learning as they go." This approach does
not benefit either client or therapist. As the book's first chapter
makes clear, problem gambling differs significantly from substance
abuse, its nearest clinical relative. Not attending to these
differences leads to poor results and clinical failure. This book
is the one essential tool needed by clinicians treating or likely
to treat problem gambling. Written by a clinician with wide
experience, it is intended for the general clinician treating or
likely to treat problem gambling desiring a comprehensive, yet
user-friendly guide.
Key Features
* Assessment and treatment of problem gambling and those affected
by it is discussed
* Includes diagnostic instruments developed by the author
* An integrative approach is taken with a special focus on cultural
concerns and clinical applications for women and minorities
* Integration of spirituality in treatment is covered
Collectively, the chapters in this work will provide the reader
with novel insight into the inter-relationships of the function of
different organelles in the sequences of events that lead to
cellular dysfunction and degeneration in the aging human
population. The chapters are rich in information for cell and
molecular biologists pursuing studies of the different diseases
covered. In addition, the clinician will find value in
understanding mechanisms underlying age-related disease as such an
understanding will lead to novel therapeutic approaches for an
array of age-related diseases.
The book provides both the theoretical and the applied background
needed to predict magnetic fields. The theoretical presentation is
reinforced with over 60 solved examples of practical engineering
applications such as the design of magnetic components like
solenoids, which are electromagnetic coils that are moved by
electric currents and activate other devices such as circuit
breakers. Other design applications would be for permanent magnet
structures such as bearings and couplings, which are hardware
mechanisms used to fashion a temporary connection between two
wires.
This book is written for use as a text or reference by researchers,
engineers, professors, and students engaged in the research,
development, study, and manufacture of permanent magnets and
electromechanical devices. It can serve as a primary or
supplemental text for upper level courses in electrical engineering
on electromagnetic theory, electronic and magnetic materials, and
electromagnetic engineering.
Over the past decade, the author has met with directors of R&D
departments in large industrial firms, who are frustrated by the
lack of coherent and consistent methodologies in R&D projects.
As a direct result the author was asked to design and present a
seminar to provide R&D engineers and scientists a standard
methodology for conducting coherent, rigorous, comprehensible, and
consistent R&D projects. The author also realized that this
training should be included in engineering and science curricula in
universities and colleges. To this end, he designed and presented a
pilot course for his department that was received enthusiastically
by students who participated. This course has now become a required
course for all doctoral students in the author's department.
This book has been designed to provide professional engineers,
scientists, and students with a consistent and practical framework
for the rigorous conduct and communication of complex research and
development projects. Although courses and training in research
methods are common and generally required of social science
professionals, a vast majority of physical scientists and engineers
have had no formal classroom training or on-the-job mentoring on
proper procedures for research methods. Getting It Right emphasizes
the comprehensive analysis of project problems, requirements, and
objectives; the use of standard and consistent terminology and
procedures; the design of rigorous and reproducible experiments;
the appropriate reduction and interpretation of project results;
and the effective communication of project design, methods,
results, and conclusions.
Presents a standard methodology for conducting coherent, rigorous,
comprehensible, and consistent R&D projects
Thoroughly researched to appeal to the needs of R&D engineers
and scientists in industry
Will also appeal to students of engineering and science
The Haifa 2000 Workshop on "Inherently Parallel Algorithms for
Feasibility and Optimization and their Applications" brought
together top scientists in this area. The objective of the Workshop
was to discuss, analyze and compare the latest developments in this
fast growing field of applied mathematics and to identify topics of
research which are of special interest for industrial applications
and for further theoretical study.
Inherently parallel algorithms, that is, computational methods
which are, by their mathematical nature, parallel, have been
studied in various contexts for more than fifty years. However, it
was only during the last decade that they have mostly proved their
practical usefulness because new generations of computers made
their implementation possible in order to solve complex feasibility
and optimization problems involving huge amounts of data via
parallel processing. These led to an accumulation of computational
experience and theoretical information and opened new and
challenging questions concerning the behavior of inherently
parallel algorithms for feasibility and optimization, their
convergence in new environments and in circumstances in which they
were not considered before their stability and reliability. Several
research groups all over the world focused on these questions and
it was the general feeling among scientists involved in this effort
that the time has come to survey the latest progress and convey a
perspective for further development and concerted scientific
investigations. Thus, the editors of this volume, with the support
of the Israeli Academy for Sciences and Humanities, took the
initiative of organizing a Workshop intended to bring together the
leading scientists in the field. The current volume is the
Proceedings of the Workshop representing the discussions, debates
and communications that took place. Having all that information
collected in a single book will provide mathematicians and
engineers interested in the theoretical and practical aspects of
the inherently parallel algorithms for feasibility and optimization
with a tool for determining when, where and which algorithms in
this class are fit for solving specific problems, how reliable they
are, how they behave and how efficient they were in previous
applications. Such a tool will allow software creators to choose
ways of better implementing these methods by learning from existing
experience.
The geometry of power exponents includes the Newton polyhedron,
normal cones of its faces, power and logarithmic transformations.
On the basis of the geometry universal algorithms for
simplifications of systems of nonlinear equations (algebraic,
ordinary differential and partial differential) were developed.
The algorithms form a new calculus which allows to make local and
asymptotical analysis of solutions to those systems.
The efficiency of the calculus is demonstrated with regard to
several complicated problems from Robotics, Celestial Mechanics,
Hydrodynamics and Thermodynamics. The calculus also gives classical
results obtained earlier intuitively and is an alternative to
Algebraic Geometry, Differential Algebra, Lie group Analysis and
Nonstandard Analysis.
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