Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 421.
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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:03:27 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
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Geography and Technology
edited by
Stanley D. Brunn
Dept. of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Susan L. Cutter
Dept. of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
J.W. Harrington Jr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Washington, USA
This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Association of American
Geographers. It recognizes the importance of technologies in the production
of geographical knowledge.
The original chapters presented here examine technologies that have
affected geography as a discipline. Among the technologies discussed are
cartography, the camera, aerial photography, computers, and other
computer-related tools. The contributors address the impact of such
technologies on geography and society, disciplinary inquiries into the
social/technological interfaces, high-tech as well low-tech societies, and
applications of technologies to the public and private sectors.
Geography and Technology can be used as a textbook in geography courses and
seminars investigating specific technologies and the impacts of
technologies on society and policy. It will also be useful for those in the
humanities, social, policy and engineering sciences, planning and
development fields where technology questions are becoming of increased
importance. Geography clearly has much to learn from other disciplines and
fields about geography/technology linkages; others can likewise learn much
from us.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1857-6 Date: March 2004 Pages: 649 pp.
EURO 185.00 / USD 204.00 / GBP 128.00
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WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems
edited by
Donald G. Janelle
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Barney Warf
Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Kathy Hansen
Montana State University, Bozeman, USA
This volume, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Association of
American Geographers, is dedicated to the idea that geographers can make
substantive differences to the lives of people and to the well being of the
planet that gives the discipline its name.
WorldMinds provides broad exposure to a geography that is engaged with
discovery, interpretation, and problem solving. Its 100 succinct chapters
demonstrate the theories, methods, and data used by geographers, and
exemplify the conceptual and topical richness of contemporary geography.
The 150 contributing authors and co-authors address the challenges posed by
issues such as globalization, regional and ethnic conflict, environmental
hazards, terrorism, poverty, and sustainable development. This volume
demonstrates the utility of geography as a conceptual discipline that
contributes theoretically; as an applied practice that informs
policy-making; and as a coherent set of methodologies to gather and analyze
data about Earth and its occupants.
WorldMinds is the ideal general reader to supplement textbooks in the full
range of academic geography courses. In addition to geography students and
instructors, it is relevant to researchers, applied geographers and policy
makers.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1612-3 Date: March 2004 Pages: 660 pp.
EURO 185.00 / USD 204.00 / GBP 128.00
(3)
Statistical Image Processing Techniques for Noisy Images
An Application-Oriented Approach
by
Phillipe Réfrégier
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, France
François Goudail
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, France
Statistical Processing Techniques for Noisy Images presents a statistical
framework to design algorithms for target detection, tracking, segmentation
and classification (identification). Its main goal is to provide the reader
with efficient tools for developing algorithms that solve his/her own image
processing applications. In particular, such topics as hypothesis
test-based detection, fast active contour segmentation and algorithm design
for non-conventional imaging systems are comprehensively treated, from
theoretical foundations to practical implementations. With a large number
of illustrations and practical examples, this book serves as an excellent
textbook or reference book for senior or graduate level courses on
statistical signal/image processing, as well as a reference for researchers
in related fields.
Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47865-X Date: December 2003 Pages: 266 pp.
EURO 115.00 / USD 127.00 / GBP 79.00
(4)
Domain Theory, Logic and Computation
edited by
Guo-Qiang Zhang
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
J. Lawson
Dept. of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Ying Ming Liu
Sichuan University, PR of China
M.K. Luo
Dept. of Mathematics, Sichuan University, China
SEMANTICS
STRUCTURES IN COMPUTATION -- 3
Domains are mathematical structures for information and approximation; they
combine order-theoretic, logical, and topological ideas and provide a
natural framework for modelling and reasoning about computation. The theory
of domains has proved to be a useful tool for programming languages and
other areas of computer science, and for applications in mathematics.
Included in this proceedings volume are selected papers of original
research presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Domain Theory in
Chengdu, China. With authors from France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland,
Mexico, and China, the papers cover the latest research in these sub-areas:
domains and computation, topology and convergence, domains, lattices, and
continuity, and representations of domains as event and logical structures.
Researchers and students in theoretical computer science should find this a
valuable source of reference. The survey papers at the beginning should be
of particular interest to those who wish to gain an understanding of some
general ideas and techniques in this area.
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
* Preface. Contributing authors.
* 1: Playful, streamlike computation; P.-L. Curien. 1. Prologue:
playing with Böhm trees. 2. Introduction. 3. Symmetric algorithms,
sequential algorithms. 4. Related works. 5. Control. 6. A few more remarks.
* 2: Universal types and what they are good for; J.R. Longley. 1.
Universal objects. 2. ?-algebras. 3. Denotational semantics. 4. Universal
types. 5. Syntax and semantics of PCF. 6. Examples of universal types. 7.
Conclusions and further directions.
* 3: Relational representations of hyper-continuous lattices; Xiao-Quan
Xu, Ying-Ming Liu. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Regular representations of
completely distributive lattices. 3. Finitely regular representations of
hyper-continuous lattices.
* 4: Convergence classes and spaces of partial functions; A.K. Seda, R.
Heinze, P. Hitzler. 1. Introduction. 2. Convergence spaces and convergence
classes. 3. Convergence classes and VDM. 4. Compactness of (X ? Y). 5.
Conclusions and further work.
* 5: On meet-continuous dcpos; Hui Kou, Ying-Ming Liu, Mao-Kang Luo. 1.
Introduction. 2. Basic properties of meet-continuous dcpos. 3. Dcpos with
the Hausdorff Lawson topology. 4. Adjunctions between quasicontinuous
domains and continuous domains. 5. Scott-open filters. 6. Concluding remarks.
* 6: External characterizations of continuous sL-domains; Luoshan Xu.
1. Introduction. 2. Preliminaries. 3. Continuous sL-domains and their
characterizations by function spaces. 4. External characterizations by
posets of ideals.
* 7: Projectives and injectives in the category of quantales; Yong-Ming
Li, Meng Zhou. 1. Introduction. 2. Regular projectives in the category of
quantales. 3. Injective objects in the category of quantales.
* 8: On minimal event and concrete data structures; F. Bracho, M.
Droste, I. Meinecke. 1. Introduction. 2. Event structures, concrete data
structures and their domains. 3. Congruences on prime intervals and
associated structures. 4. Maximal and minimal structures. 5. Conclusion.
* 9: A note on strongly finite sequent structures; D. Spreen, R. Greb.
1. Introduction. 2. Basic definitions and results. 3. Domain constructions.
4. Strongly finite sequent structures. 5. Sequent structures and preorders.
6. Constructions on preorders. 7. Conclusion.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1832-0 Date: December 2003 Pages: 208 pp.
EURO 90.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 62.00
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