Authors:Marek Capinski, Tomasz Zastawniak,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mathematics, undergraduate, series, springer, financial, finance, introduction, engineering
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2003-07-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1852333308
ISBN-13: 9781852333300

Designed to form the basis of an undergraduate course in mathematical finance, this book builds on mathematical models of bond and stock prices and covers three major areas of mathematical finance that all have an enormous impact on the way modern financial markets operate, namely: Black-Scholes’ arbitrage pricing of options and other derivative securities; Markowitz portfolio optimization theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model; and interest rates and their term structure. Assuming only a basic knowledge of probability and calculus, it covers the material in a mathematically rigorous

Authors:Alan H.S. Chan,  Sio-Iong Ao,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: engineering, notes, electrical, lecture, operations, industrial, advances, research
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2008-02-25
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0387749039
ISBN-13: 9780387749037

This volume contains contributions from prominent researchers who participated in the 2007 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research. Topics covered include quality management systems, reliability and quality control, engineering experimental design, computer supported collaborative engineering, human factors and ergonomics, computer aided manufacturing, manufacturing processes and methods, engineering management and leadership, optimization, transportation network design, stochastics modelling, queueing theory, and industrial applications. The book offers the states of arts of tre

Authors:Patricia A. Champ, K.J. Boyle, Thomas C. Brow,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: market, goods, resources, non, economics, nonmarket, valuation, primer
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1402014457
ISBN-13: 9781402014451

A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation is unique in its clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket valuation techniques and their implementation. Individuals working for government agencies, attorneys involved with natural resource damage assessments, graduate students, and others will appreciate the non-technical and practical tone of this book. The first section of the book provides the context and theoretical foundation of nonmarket valuation, along with practical data issues. The middle two sections of the Primer describe the major stated and revealed nonmarket valuation techniques. F

Author: Fridtjov Irge
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mechanics, continuum
Number of Pages: 661
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540742972
ISBN-13: 9783540742975

This book presents an introduction into the entire science of Continuum Mechanics in three parts. Part I: Continuum Mechanics introduces into the Foundations using tensors in Cartesian coordinate systems, classical theory of elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Part II: Mechanics of Materials has chapters on viscoelasticity, plasticity, principles of constitutive modelling, and thermodynamics. Part III presents Tensor Analysis and fundamental equations of Continuum Mechanics in curvilinear coordinates.

Author: Michael Goitei
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: medical, physics, biomedical, engineering, biological, view, oncology, physicist, eye, radiation
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2007-12-05
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0387726446
ISBN-13: 9780387726441

Radiation Oncology: A Physicist’s-Eye View was written for both physicists and medical oncologists with the aim of helping them approach the use of radiation in the treatment of cancer with understanding, confidence, and imagination. The book will let practitioners in one field understand the problems of, and find solutions for, practitioners in the other. It will help them to know "why" certain approaches are fruitful while, at the same time, encouraging them to ask the question "Why not?" in the face of assertions that some proposal of theirs is impractical, unreasonable, or impossible

Authors:E.C. Barrett, D.E. Curti,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sensing, remote, environmental, introduction
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1992-10-31
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0412371707
ISBN-13: 9780412371707

This book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the volumes of the same name published in 1974 and 1981. It provides its readers with a single, self-contained, fully-integrated and modern treatment of environmental remote sensing, progressing logically from the physical principles on which it is based, and the technologies and techniques which make it possible, to its ever-broadening range of past, present and future applications.

Author: Thorsten A. Ker
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: guide, engineers, beginner, devices, haptic, engineering
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540882472
ISBN-13: 9783540882473

Tactile perception and haptics are essential for us, as we gain information about structures and surface properties of physical objects by using the sense of touch. Haptics also enables us to manipulate the physical world. The emphasis of this book is put on technologies for artificially deceiving our haptic perception. First, examples and a definition of haptics from a physiological point of view are given. Thereby, one focus is on cases of loss of haptics in everyday professional routine, in order to emphasize the impact of haptics. Then, an overview of products with extraordinary haptic pro