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Automated Nanohandling by Microrobots (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing)

This book provides an introduction to robot-based nanohandling. It presents work on the development of a versatile microrobot-based nanohandling robot station inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Those unfamiliar with the subject will find the text, which is complemented throughout by the extensive use of illustrations, clear and simple to understand. The author has published two books and numerous papers in the field, and holds more than 50 patents.

Automated Organizations: Development and Structure of the Modern Business Firm (Contributions to Management Science)

This book attempts to characterize a new organizational form that is now visible in many companies as a substitute of previous forms related to mechanized or mechanistic standards. The book is based on the approach of organizational structure and on Henry Mintzberg’s work on organizational configurations. As a matter of fact, it attempts to supplement and update Mintzberg's organizational taxonomy, taking into account changes in the structure and work organization of business firms. The book is written for all people whose work is related to organizations and who are interested in the subjects it deals with.

Automated Pattern Analysis in Petroleum Exploration

Here is a state-of-the-art survey of artificial intelligence in modern exploration programs. Focussing on standard exploration procedures, the contributions examine the advantages and pitfalls of using these new techniques, and, in the process, provide new, more accurate and consistent methods for solving old problems. They show how expert systems can provide the integration of information that is essential in the petroleum industry when solving the complicated questions facing the modern petroleum geoscientist.

Automated Pattern Recognition of Communication Behaviour in Electronic Business Negotiations (Gabler Theses)

The world of digitalisation is changing the way how people and business companies communicate with each other. Electronic negotiations represent one of the most important forms of business communication and can influence the successes and failures of companies in a significant way, whether in interorganisational or intraorganisational processes. Analysing negotiation interactions to determine pattern-based peculiarities in the communication offers new value-adding information concerning the management of optimised communication processes, even though the machine-based processing of communication data bears a series of challenges. The present book develops a new approach to analyse the automated pattern recognition potential of Machine Learning methods in unstructured negotiation communication. It presents holistic research frameworks for the effective detection of structural patterns and reveals the pattern labelling potential in high-dimensional communication data by analytically implementing a series of Machine Learning methods.

Automated Performer Flying: The State of the Art

Automated Performer Flying: The State of the Art shares the secrets of performer flying in entertainment history and provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a performer flying effect from scratch. This book sheds light on all aspects of performer flying, covering its history, explaining concepts like mechanical compensation versus electrical compensation, providing guidance on how to calculate stopping distances and forces, and sharing tips on how to build successful relationships with performers. Case studies of prominent productions featuring performer flying, including Cirque du Soleil and Beyoncé, are included throughout. Written for technical directors, theatrical riggers, and students of rigging, technical direction, and stagecraft courses, Automated Performer Flying takes readers through the process of creating a performer flying effect from the first spark of the idea to opening night.

Automated Performer Flying: The State of the Art

Automated Performer Flying: The State of the Art shares the secrets of performer flying in entertainment history and provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a performer flying effect from scratch. This book sheds light on all aspects of performer flying, covering its history, explaining concepts like mechanical compensation versus electrical compensation, providing guidance on how to calculate stopping distances and forces, and sharing tips on how to build successful relationships with performers. Case studies of prominent productions featuring performer flying, including Cirque du Soleil and Beyoncé, are included throughout. Written for technical directors, theatrical riggers, and students of rigging, technical direction, and stagecraft courses, Automated Performer Flying takes readers through the process of creating a performer flying effect from the first spark of the idea to opening night.

Automated Physical Database Design and Tuning

Due to the increasing complexity in application workloads and query engines, database administrators are turning to automated tuning tools that systematically explore the space of physical design alternatives. A critical element of such tuning is physical database design since the choice of physical structures has a significant impact on the perfor

Automated Planning: Theory and Practice (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)

Automated planning technology now plays a significant role in a variety of demanding applications, ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the game of bridge. These real-world applications create new opportunities for synergy between theory and practice: observing what works well in practice leads to better theories of planning, and better theories lead to better performance of practical applications. Automated Planning mirrors this dialogue by offering a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on both the theory and practice of automated planning. The book goes well beyond classical planning, to include temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning under uncertainty, and modern techniques for plan generation, such as task decomposition, propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and model checking. The authors combine over 30 years experience in planning research and development to offer an invaluable text to researchers, professionals, and graduate students.Provides a thorough understanding of AI planning theory and practice, and how they relate to each otherCovers all the contemporary topics of planning, as well as important practical applications of planning, such as model checking and game playingPresents case studies and applications in planning engineering, space, robotics, CAD/CAM, process control, emergency operations, and gamesProvides lecture notes, examples of programming assignments, pointers to downloadable planning systems and related information online

Automated Practical Reasoning: Algebraic Approaches (Texts & Monographs in Symbolic Computation)

This book is a collection of selected papers written by researchers qf our "RISC" institute (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation) along with the ESPRIT MEDLAR Project (Mechanizing Deduction in the Logics of Practical Reason­ ing). Naturally, the MEDLAR Project was and is the focal point for our institute whose main objective is the combination of foundational research in the area of symbolic computation and possible applications thereof for high-tech industrial projects. I am grateful to the director of the MEDLAR project, Jim Cunningham, for his enthusiasm, profound expertise, and continuous effort to manage a fruitful cooperation between various European working groups in the area of the project and for giving us the opportunity to be part of this challenging endeavor. I also acknowledge and feel indebted to Jochen Pfalzgraf for managing the RISC part of the MEDLAR project and to both him and Dongming Wang for editing this volume and organizing the refereeing process.

Automated Reasoning: 4th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2008, Sydney, NSW, Australia, August 12-15, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #5195)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2008, held in Sydney, Australia, in August 2008. The 26 revised full research papers and 13 revised system descriptions presented together with 4 invited papers and a summary of the CASC-J4 systems competition were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 full paper and 17 system description submissions. The papers address the entire spectrum of research in automated reasoning and are organized in topical sections on specific theories, automated verification, protocol verification, system descriptions, modal logics, description logics, equational theories, theorem proving, CASC, the 4th IJCAR ATP system competition, logical frameworks, and tree automata.

Automated Reasoning: Second International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2004, Cork, Ireland, July 4-8, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #3097)

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd International Joint C- ference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2004) held July 4–8, 2004 in Cork, Ireland. IJCAR 2004 continued the tradition established at the ?rst IJCAR in Siena,Italyin2001,whichbroughttogetherdi?erentresearchcommunitieswo- ing in automated reasoning. The current IJCAR is the fusion of the following conferences: CADE: The International Conference on Automated Deduction, CALCULEMUS: Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, FroCoS: Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FTP: The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving, and TABLEAUX: The International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. There were 74 research papers submitted to IJCAR as well as 12 system descriptions. After extensive reviewing, 26 research papers and 6 system - scriptions were accepted for presentation at the conference and publication in this volume. In addition, this volume also contains papers from the three invited speakers and a description of the CADE ATP system competition. We would like to acknowledge the enormous amount of work put in by the members of the program committee, the various organizing and steering c- mittees, the IJCAR o?cials, the invited speakers, and the additional referees named on the following pages. We would also like to thank Achim Brucker and Barbara Geiser for their help in producing this volume.

Automated Reasoning: 11th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2022, Haifa, Israel, August 8–10, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13385)

This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving,Arithmetic; Calculi and Orderings; Knowledge Representation and Jutsification; Choices, Invariance, Substitutions and Formalization; Modal Logics; Proofs System and Proofs Search; Evolution, Termination and Decision Prolems.This is an open access book.

Automated Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Woody Bledsoe (Automated Reasoning Series #1)

These essays have been written to honor W. W. Bledsoe, a scientist who has contributed to such diverse fields as mathematics, systems analysis, pattern recognition, biology, artificial intelligence, and automated reasoning. The first essay provides a sketch of his life, emphasizing his scientific contributions. The diversity of the fields to which Bledsoe has contributed is reflected in the range of the other essays, which are original scientific contributions by some of his many friends and colleagues. Bledsoe is a founding father of the field of automated reasoning, and a majority of the essays are on that topic. These essays are collected together here not only to acknowledge Bledsoe's manifold and substantial scientific contributions but also to express our appreciation for the great care and energy that he has devoted to nurturing many of the scientists working in those scientific fields he has helped found. Robert S. Boyer Austin February, 1991 ix Acknow ledgements Thanks to Larry Wos, editor of the Journal of Automated Reasoning, and Derek Middleton and Martin Scrivener, Kluwer Academic editors, for sup­ porting the idea of initiating this collection of essays. Thanks to A. Michael Ballantyne and Michael Spivak, for help with lffi.TWC, especially in identifying many formatting problems and providing fixes.

Automated Reasoning: 7th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2014, Held as Part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, Vienna, Austria, July 19-22, 2014, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #8562)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2014. IJCAR 2014 was a merger of three leading events in automated reasoning, namely CADE (International Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods). The 26 revised full research papers and 11 system descriptions presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers have been organized in topical sections on HOL, SAT and QBF, SMT, equational reasoning, verification, proof theory, modal and temporal reasoning, SMT and SAT, modal logic, complexity, description logics and knowledge representation and reasoning.

Automated Reasoning: Third International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 17-20, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #4130)

Here are the proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2006, held in Seattle, Washington, USA, August 2006. The book presents 41 revised full research papers and 8 revised system descriptions, with 3 invited papers and a summary of a systems competition. The papers are organized in topical sections on proofs, search, higher-order logic, proof theory, proof checking, combination, decision procedures, CASC-J3, rewriting, and description logic.

Automated Reasoning: 9th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2018, Held as Part of the Federated Logic Conference, FloC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 14-17, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10900)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2018, held in Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2018, as part of the Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018. In 2018, IJCAR unites CADE, TABLEAUX, and FroCoS, the International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, and, for the fourth time, is part of the Federated Logic Conference.The 38 revised full research papers and 8 system descriptions presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as logics, deductive systems, proof-search methods, theorem proving, model checking, verification, formal methods, and program analysis.

Automated Reasoning: First International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2001 Siena, Italy, June 18-23, 2001 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2083)

Automated Reasoning: 6th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2012, Manchester, UK, June 26-29, 2012, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7364)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2012, held in Manchester, UK, in June 2012. IJCAR 2012 is a merger of leading events in automated reasoning, namely CADE (International Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems), FTP (International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving), and TABLEAUX (International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods). The 32 revised full research papers and 9 system descriptions presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers address all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications.

Automated Reasoning: 5th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2010, Edinburgh, UK, July 16-19, 2010, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6173)

This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2010). IJCAR 2010 was held during July 16-19 as part of the 2010 Federated Logic Conference, hosted by the School of Informatics at the University ofEdinburgh,Scotland. Support by the conference sponsors – EPSRC, NSF, Microsoft Research, Association for Symbolic Logic, CADE Inc. , Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel – is gratefully acknowledged. IJCARisthepremierinternationaljointconferenceonalltopicsinautomated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Previous IJCAR conferences were held at Siena (Italy) in 2001, Cork (Ireland) in 2004, Seattle (USA) in 2006, and Sydney (Australia) in 2008. IJCAR comprises s- eral leading conferences and workshops. In 2010, IJCAR was the fusion of the following events: –CADE: International Conference on Automated Deduction –FroCoS: International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems –FTP: International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving – TABLEAUX: InternationalConferenceonAutomatedReasoningwith- alytic Tableaux and Related Methods There were 89 submissions (63 regular papers and 26 system descriptions) of which 40 were accepted (28 regular papers and 12 system descriptions). Each submission was assigned to at least three Program Committee members, who carefully reviewed the papers, with the help of 92 external referees. Afterwards, the submissions were discussed by the ProgramCommittee during two weeks by means of Andrei Voronkov’s EasyChair system. We want to thank Andrei very much for providing his system, which was very helpful for the management of the submissions and reviews and for the discussion of the Program Committee.

Automated Reasoning: 8th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2016, Coimbra, Portugal, June 27 – July 2, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9706)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2016, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in June/July 2016. IJCAR 2014 was a merger of three leading events in automated reasoning, namely CADE (International Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods). The 26 revised full research papers and 9 system descriptions presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers have been organized in topical sections on satisfiability of Boolean formulas, satisfiability modulo theory, rewriting, arithmetic reasoning and mechanizing mathematics, first-order logic and proof theory, first-order theorem proving, higher-order theorem proving, modal and temporal logics, non-classical logics, and verification.

Automated Reasoning: 10th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2020, Paris, France, July 1–4, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12167)

This two-volume set LNAI 12166 and 12167 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2020, held in Paris, France, in July 2020.* In 2020, IJCAR was a merger of the following leading events, namely CADE (International Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems), ITP (International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving), and TABLEAUX (International Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods).The 46 full research papers, 5 short papers, and 11 system descriptions presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics:Part I: SAT; SMT and QBF; decision procedures and combination of theories; superposition; proof procedures; non classical logicsPart II: interactive theorem proving/ HOL; formalizations; verification; reasoning systems and tools*The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter ‘A Fast Verified Liveness Analysis in SSA Form’ is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Automated Reasoning: 10th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2020, Paris, France, July 1–4, 2020, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12166)

This two-volume set LNAI 12166 and 12167 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2020, held in Paris, France, in July 2020.* In 2020, IJCAR was a merger of the following leading events, namely CADE (International Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems), ITP (International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving), and TABLEAUX (International Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods).The 46 full research papers, 5 short papers, and 11 system descriptions presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Part I: SAT; SMT and QBF; decision procedures and combination of theories; superposition; proof procedures; non classical logics Part II: interactive theorem proving/ HOL; formalizations; verification; reasoning systems and tools*The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter ‘Constructive Hybrid Games’ is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Automated Reasoning: 12th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2024, Nancy, France, July 3–6, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14740)

Infotext (nur auf Basis des Vorgängers): This two-volume set of LNAI 14739-14740 constitute the proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2024, held in Nancy, France, during July 3-6, 2024. The 39 full research papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: theorem proving and tools; SAT, SMT and Quantifier Elimination; Intuitionistic Logics and Modal Logics; Calculi, Proof Theory and Decision Procedures; and Unification, Rewriting and Computational Models. This book is open access.

Automated Reasoning: 12th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2024, Nancy, France, July 3–6, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14739)

This two-volume set of LNAI 14739-14740 constitute the proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2024, held in Nancy, France, during July 3-6, 2024. The 39 full research papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: theorem proving and tools; SAT, SMT and Quantifier Elimination; Intuitionistic Logics and Modal Logics; Calculi, Proof Theory and Decision Procedures; and Unification, Rewriting and Computational Models. This book is open access.

Automated Reasoning and Mathematics: Essays in Memory of William W. McCune (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7788)

This Festschrift volume is published in memory of William W. McCune who passed away in 2011. William W. McCune was an accomplished computer scientist all around but especially a fantastic system builder and software engineer. The volume includes 13 full papers, which are presenting research in all aspects of automated reasoning and its applications to mathematics. These papers have been thoroughly reviewed and selected out of 15 submissions received in response to the call for paper issued in September 2011. The topics covered are: strategies, indexing, superposition-based theorem proving, model building, application of automated reasoning to mathematics, as well as to program verification, data mining, and computer formalized mathematics.