Product Description: Ausgangspunkt fur die vorliegende Arbeit ist die Erkenntnis, dass die aus einer gewissen Planungs- und ''Modelleuphorie" heraus von einzelnen Fachwissen schaftlern propagierte Bedeutung des Operations Research und der darauf basierenden modellgestutzten Entscheidungsvorbereitung fur eine Erhohung der Effizienz betrieblicher Planung und Entscheidungen bislang geradezu konterkar tiert wurde durch die insgesamt doch -gemessen an den hohen Erwartunge- sehr geringe Akzeptanz der entwickelten Methoden und konkreten quantita tiven Modelle in der betrieblichen Praxis...read more

Product Description: Novel Monte Carlo algorithms for fermionic systems are badly needed in high energy and solid state physics. At this workshop the most recent developments in this direction were presented, focusing on multi-grid techniques, cluster algorithms and massively parallel implementation...read more

Product Description: These interdisciplinary conference proceedings give an account of modern brain research, spanning the whole range from the molecular to the systemic level. The book intends to stimulate the use of supercomputers - for example, for analyzing and comparing images obtained with PET (positron emission tomography), MEG (magnetoencephalography) or fNMR networks...read more

Product Description: Dry granular materials, such as sand, sugar and powders, can be poured into a container like a liquid and can also form a pile, resisting gravity like a solid, which is why they can be regarded as a fourth state of matter, neither solid nor liquid...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"Are there common phenomena and laws in the dynamic behavior of granular materials, traffic, and socio-economic systems?" The answers given at the international workshop "Traffic and Granular Flow '99" are presented in this volume. From a physical standpoint, all these systems can be treated as (self)-driven many-particle systems with strong fluctuations, showing multistability, phase transitions, non-linear waves, etc. The great interest in these systems is due to several unexpected new discoveries and their practical relevance for solving some fundamental problems of today's societies. This includes intelligent measures for traffic flow optimization and methods from "econophysics" for stabilizing (stock) markets.