Mathematische Modellierung erhalt als Gegenstand des Unterrichts an Schulen und Hochschulen ein immer starkeres Gewicht. Hierfur gibt es gute Grunde: Fragestellungen der Natur-, Technik- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften ebenso wie Aufgaben in Industrie, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung werden zunehmend - und in vielen Bereichen bereits uberwiegend - unter Verwendung mathematischer Modelle unterschiedlichster Komplexitatsstufen bearbeitet. Modellierung, also die Herstellung eines formalen Abbilds eines Teilaspekts der Wirklichkeit, und die anschliessende Simulation des realen Prozesses zumeist auf dem Computer gehoeren heute zu den Standardwerkzeugen einer hochtechnisierten Gesellschaft. Das Buch bietet eine Einfuhrung in dieses komplexe Gebiet. In zwoelf Fallstudien werden mathematische Modelle unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgrades entwickelt, mathematisch analysiert und hinsichtlich der Relevanz fur den jeweiligen realen Gegenstandsbereich untersucht.

This quarterly publication acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge research covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Fully illustrated throughout, Architectural Research Quarterly includes sections on design, history, theory, environmental design, construction, information technology, and practice. Other features include occasional reports, letters pages and an end feature, Insight. There is also the Architectural Research Quarterly Directory - a listing of specialist research and consultancy with an online, cumulative version which aims to provide a lasting and invaluable resource for all. The text aims to present information in a way that is accessible to all and should be interesting reading for practitioners in industry and consultancy as well as for academic researchers. It provides an outlet for all those who wish to disseminate their work to an international audience.

This ground-breaking quarterly publication acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge research covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Fully illustrated throughout, it includes sections on design, history, theory, environmental design, construction, information technology, and practice. Other features include occasional reports, letters pages and an "end feature", Insight. There is also the Architectural Research Quarterly Directory--a listing of specialist research and consultancy with an online, cumulative version.

This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, Architectural Research Quarterly is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are published at a length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Articles in arq 6:3 include: Letters: Research and the RIBA; Lea's Pottery; The 2001 RAE dissected: some facts and figures; No hope, no fear; Clearwater Garden: a study in design research and collaboration; Digital canopy: high-end computation/low-tech construction; Archigram's invisible university; Richard Neutra's Venetian lecture; (Re)examining the Citicorp case: ethical paragon or chimera?; Sligo Air; Book reviews.