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Christoph Baumer is one of the very few Westerners to have visited many of the most important Assyrian sites, and has written the only comprehensive history of the "Nestorian" (or Apostolic Assyrian) Church, which now fights for survival in its country of origin, Iraq. He traces its apostolic beginn... More

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This truly interdisciplinary effort includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. The field may be viewed as an attempt to understand... More

Thema des Werkes ist das computerunterstA1/4tzte numerische LAsen mathematisch orientierter Problemstellungen mit besonderer Betonung der Auswahl und gegebenenfalls eigenen Entwicklung effizienter Numerik-Software. Anhand von ca. 500 Beispielen, 250 Abbildungen, 120 Tabellen sowie 150 Algorithmen un... More

In recent years, a new trend in Web application development, namely mashups, has evolved. Initially, mashups laid focus on mixing different data sources together, offering a quick and simple way to create situational business applications. The author's introduction tells what mashups are and what yo... More

Software verification is the study of formally proving the correctness of a program with respect to a given specification. Even after 40 years of research and considerable success stories in industrial applications software verification remains an ongoing research topic. The state of the art is that... More

Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenmuller reveals that the Duke presided over one of the most corrupt viceregal terms in Mexica... More

Thinking Northern offers new approaches to the processes of identity formation which are taking place in the diverse fields of cultural, economic and social activity in contemporary Britain. The essays collected in this volume discuss the changing physiognomy of Northern England and provide a mosaic... More