Bernd Ganter

Norbert Basler, Personalvorstand einer Bank, wird in seiner Kaiserslauterer Villa tot aufgefunden. Ein Schuss in den Lendenbereich kostete ihn das Leben. Kurz darauf werden zwei weitere tote Personaler gefunden, beide auf die gleiche Art ermordet. Bei seinen Ermittlungen trifft Kommissar Tannenberg auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Erst eine Diskussion über die Frauenquote bringt ihn auf eine Idee: Dient die Mordserie an einflussreichen Männern womöglich dem Ziel, auf morbide Weise Frauenförderung zu betreiben?

This book concerns the ubiquitous appearance of power-law distributions that have been unexpectedly observed in numerous biological contexts. This collection of review articles is devoted to the modeling of ecological, epidemiological and evolutionary systems.

In recent years portfolio optimization and construction methodologies have become an increasingly critical ingredient of asset and fund management, while at the same time portfolio risk assessment has become an essential ingredient in risk management. This trend will only accelerate in the coming years. This practical handbook fills the gap between current university instruction and current industry practice. It provides a comprehensive computationally-oriented treatment of modern portfolio optimization and construction methods using the powerful NUOPT for S-PLUS optimizer.

The present collection of formulas has been composed for students of economics or management science at universities, colleges and trade schools. It contains basic knowledge in mathematics, financial mathematics and statistics in a compact and clearly arranged form. This volume is meant to be a reference work to be used by students of undergraduate courses together with a textbook, and by researchers in need of exact statements of mathematical results. People dealing with practical or applied problems will also find this collection to be an efficient and easy-to-use work of reference.

The papers presented here, all thoroughly reviewed, are devoted to foundational and practical issues in fuzzy systems, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and machine learning and thus cover the whole range of computational intelligence.

This is a significant collection of established and novel methods for the successful quantitation of nucleic acids. Each method has been refined and tested by its developer and proven to work in such problems as the analysis of eukaryotic gene expression, the quantitation of viral loads in clinical specimens, reporter gene expression, and quantitative oncogene analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on the underlying principles of the design of competitive or noncompetitive standards, as well as on the optimization of the amplification process.

Image processing is fast becoming a valuable tool for analyzing multidimensional data in all areas of natural science. Since the publication of the best-selling first edition of this handbook, the field of image processing has matured in many of its aspects from ad hoc, empirical approaches to a sound science based on established mathematical and…

Founded in 1931 by Otto Neugebauer as the printed documentation service 'Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete', Zentralblatt MATH (ZBMATH) celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2011. Today it is the most comprehensive and active reference database in pure and applied mathematics worldwide. Many prominent mathematicians have been involved in this service as reviewers or editors and have, like all mathematicians, left their footprints in ZBMATH, in a long list of entries describing all of their research publications in mathematics…