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This title is not merely a new edition, but a complete rewrite. It
provides the reader with a thorough understanding of international
income tax aspects from a South African perspective. Topics
generally regarded as highly complex are dealt with in a practical
way, and illustrated by relevant examples. These topics include:
controlled foreign companies; foreign dividends; exchange controls;
tax havens; intermediate holding companies; double-taxation
agreements. Some features of this title include: a discussion of
the 2010 Update to OECD Model Tax Convention and Commentaries as
well as the 2010 SA Legislative amendments; a rewritten chapter on
Trusts; a substantially expanded bibliography. Five new chapters
added on: Taxation of individuals; Taxation of Companies and
Dividends; Taxation of Partnerships; Cross-border VAT; and
Interpretation of Statutes.
Generally, spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and
repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product
of human design. Yet, biological organisms and collective insect
constructions are exceptional examples of complex systems that are
both self-organized and architectural. This book is the first
initiative of its kind toward establishing a new field of research,
Morphogenetic Engineering, to explore the modeling and
implementation of "self-architecturing" systems. Particular
emphasis is placed on the programmability and computational
abilities of self-organization, properties that are often
underappreciated in complex systems science-while, conversely, the
benefits of self-organization are often underappreciated in
engineering methodologies. Altogether, the aim of this work is to
provide a framework for and examples of a larger class of
"self-architecturing" systems, while addressing fundamental
questions such as > How do biological organisms carry out
morphogenetic tasks so reliably? > Can we extrapolate their
self-formation capabilities to engineered systems? > Can
physical systems be endowed with information (or informational
systems be embedded in physics) so as to create autonomous
morphologies and functions? > What are the core principles and
best practices for the design and engineering of such morphogenetic
systems? The intended audience consists of researchers and graduate
students who are working on, starting to work on, or interested in
programmable self-organizing systems in a wide range of scientific
fields, including computer science, robotics, bioengineering,
control engineering, physics, theoretical biology, mathematics, and
many others.
Generally, spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random
and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic
product of human design.
Yet, biological organisms and collective insect constructions are
exceptional examples of complex systems that are both
self-organized and architectural.
This book is the first initiative of its kind toward establishing a
new field of research, Morphogenetic Engineering, to explore the
modeling and implementation of self-architecturing systems.
Particular emphasis is placed on the programmability and
computational abilities of self-organization, properties that are
often underappreciated in complex systems science while,
conversely, the benefits of self-organization are often
underappreciated in engineering methodologies.
Altogether, the aim of this work is to provide a framework for and
examples of a larger class of self-architecturing systems, while
addressing fundamental questions such as
> How do biological organisms carry out morphogenetic tasks so
reliably?
> Can we extrapolate their self-formation capabilities to
engineered systems?
> Can physical systems be endowed with information (or
informational systems be embedded in physics) so as to create
autonomous morphologies and functions?
> What are the core principles and best practices for the design
and engineering of such morphogenetic systems?
The intended audience consists of researchers and graduate students
who are working on, starting to work on, or interested in
programmable self-organizing systems in a wide range of scientific
fields, including computer science, robotics, bioengineering,
control engineering, physics, theoretical biology, mathematics, and
many others.
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Unconventional Programming Paradigms - International Workshop UPP 2004, Le Mont Saint Michel, France, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Jean-Pierre Ban atre, Pascal Fradet, Jean-Louis Giavitto, Olivier Michel
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Nowadays, developers have to face the proliferation of hardware and
software environments, the increasing demands of the users, the
growing number of p- grams and the sharing of information,
competences and services thanks to the generalization
ofdatabasesandcommunication networks. Aprogramisnomore a monolithic
entity conceived, produced and ?nalized before being used. A p-
gram is now seen as an open and adaptive frame, which, for example,
can - namically incorporate services not foreseen by the initial
designer. These new needs call for new control structures and
program interactions.
Unconventionalapproachestoprogramminghavelongbeendevelopedinv-
iousnichesandconstituteareservoirofalternativewaystofacetheprogramming
languages crisis. New models of programming (e. g., bio-inspired
computing, - ti?cialchemistry, amorphouscomputing, . . .
)arealsocurrentlyexperiencinga renewed period of growth as they
face speci?c needs and new application - mains. These approaches
provide new abstractions and notations or develop new ways of
interacting with programs. They are implemented by embedding new
sophisticated data structures in a classical programming model
(API), by extending an existing language with new constructs (to
handle concurrency, - ceptions, open environments, . . . ), by
conceiving new software life cycles and program executions (aspect
weaving, run-time compilation) or by relying on an entire new
paradigm to specify a computation. They are inspired by theoretical
considerations (e. g., topological, algebraic or logical
foundations), driven by the domain at hand (domain-speci?c
languages like PostScript, musical notation, animation, signal
processing, etc. ) or by metaphors taken from various areas
(quantum computing, computing with molecules, information
processing in - ological tissues, problem solving from nature,
ethological and social modeling).
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CBD Hemp Oil - Cbd For Treating Pain, Depression, Anxiety, Alzhemimers Disease, Parkinson Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Als, Acne, Cancer, Diabetes, Insomnia, Lupus, Crohn's Disease, Glaucoma etc (Paperback)
Olivier Michael
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Discovery Miles 2 600
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