The book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, engineers and physicists involved in fluid computations. An up-to-date account is given of the present state of the art of numerical methods employed in computational fluid dynamics. The underlying... [More...]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2002, held in Rome, Italy in September 2002.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully... [More...]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM 2002, held in Cambridge, MA, USA in September 2002.The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully... [More...]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2002, held in Bratislava, Slovakia in September 2002.
The 25 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented... [More...]

This book constitues the refereed proceedings of the Second XP Universe and First Agile Universe Conference, XP/Agile Universe 2002, held in Chicago, IL, USA in August 2002.The 27 revised full papers presented together with tutorial abstracts, workshop... [More...]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2002, held in Singapore in August 2002.The 60 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were... [More...]

Semiconductor quantum dots represent one of the fields of solid state physics that have experienced the greatest progress in the last decade. Recent years have witnessed the discovery of many striking new aspects of the optical response and electronic... [More...]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2001, held in Xi'an, China, in July 2001.
The 21 revised full papers and 12 short papers presented together with 4 research... [More...]

Economic, marketing, and legislative considerations are increasingly leading companies to take back and recover their products after use. From a logistics perspective, these initiatives give rise to new goods flows from the user back to the producer. The... [More...]

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 7th CMDA International Conference, CIC 2002, held in Seoul, Korea, in October/November 2002.
The 52 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and... [More...]