Publications
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Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization
(2023)
This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques ...
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or ...
Die rechtlichen Herausforderungen der Echtzeitüberweisung
(2023)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch behandelt umfassend die rechtlichen Grundlagen der im Jahr 2017 eingeführten Echtzeitüberweisung (SEPA Instant Payment). Der Autor stellt wiederholt Inkonsistenzen zwischen dem europarechtlich ...
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System
(2021)
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this ...
Atlas of Fallen Dust in Kuwait
(2021)
This open access book serves as an atlas of deposited dust and dust storms in Kuwait in relation to local and global regions. It features a wealth of maps and images of dust storm trajectories in the region, together with ...
Young Adults and Active Citizenship
(2021)
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means ...
Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration
(2022)
This open access book explores the wicked problem of immigrant work integration, with specific examples from Canada. Bringing together a variety of disciplinary perspectives, it discusses immigrant work integration as a ...
Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0
(2020)
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material ...
Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries
(2025)
This open access book compiles the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal forests, highlighting both the need for additional information and the exciting possibilities that this method presents. Experts in ...
Reading Success in the Primary Years
(2020)
This open access book describes the Reading Success project, in which a 5-step, assessment-to- intervention process, based on the Simple View of Reading, was used within a primary school setting in Australia to better ...
Co-Creation for Academic Enhancement in Higher Education
(2025)
This open access book focuses on ongoing practices around co-creation at universities, exploring their impact on academic and non-academic activities and making suggestions for realistic changes based on the lessons learned. ...
The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum
(2020)
The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, not least the delivery and management of the technical infrastructure underpinning it, the deluge of ...
Trade Union Cooperation in Europe
(2020)
This open access book discusses transnational trade union cooperation in Europe – its forms, focuses, conditions, and obstacles. It provides an overview of existing trade union cooperation and includes detailed analyses ...
Chapter 7 The Long Carry
(2018)
For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely ...
A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK
(2016)
nuclear medicine; history of medicine
Knowledge for Governance
(2020)
This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well ...
Photonic Neural Networks with Spatiotemporal Dynamics
(2024)
This open access book presents an overview of recent advances in photonic neural networks with spatiotemporal dynamics. The computing and implementation paradigms presented in this book are outcomes of interdisciplinary ...
Nonlinear Acoustics
(2024)
This open access book is an introductory text on the theory of nonlinear acoustics authored by experts on their respective topics. It is written at a level appropriate for a graduate course on nonlinear acoustics, and it ...
Politische Bildung für die digitale Öffentlichkeit
(2021)
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband setzen sich Autor*innen aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen mit der Auswirkung einer digitalisierten Öffentlichkeit für die Politische Bildung auseinander. Sie erörtern, wie sich die Formen ...
Zur Soziologie der Software
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen Software und ihre Rolle für das Soziale im Mittelpunkt. Die Arbeit stellt Grundprobleme und Lösungsansätze einer Soziologie der Software vor und skizziert damit eine soziologische Perspektive ...