The papers collected in this volume congeal around a debate about the ways and extent of the dominance of linear time and progressive history and the concomitant delineation of the nation in Chinese and Japanese historiography. As China and Japan entered the global capitalist system of nation states, the Chinese and Japanese regimes implemented a number of reforms, which resulted in transformations that affected everyday experience. In the face of imperialism and the perceived threat of being split up, the Meiji and late Qing governments radically reoriented policies in order to become wealthy and powerful in the global arena. People not only began to experience time and space in new ways, but elites also were increasingly exposed to Western theories of history and concepts of nationhood, which became dominant. These changes contributed to the production of new types of historical consciousness and collective identity. The essays in this volume each provide a perspective on the complex ways in which imagining national and regional identity in East Asia were and continue to be enmeshed with visions of time and history. This book should be of interest to all those who are interested in nationalism, modernity in China and Japan, global capitalism and the politics of time.

An introduction to linear time playing. The first section contains basic exercises for linear playing skills: voice coordination, dynamic balance, accenting, and more. The second section deals with the development of time feels in the linear style, including 4/4, half-time, shuffle, and odd meter feels.

This thesis aims for the development of efficient algorithms to exactly solve four selected NP-hard graph and hypergraph problems arising in the fields of scheduling, steel manufactoring, software engineering, radio frequency allocation, computer-aided circuit design, and social network analysis. NP-hard problems presumably cannot be solved exactly in a running time growing only polynomially with the input size. In order to still solve the considered problems efficiently, this thesis develops linear-time data reduction and fixed-parameter linear-time algorithms—algorithms that can be proven to run in linear time if certain parameters of the problem instances are constant. Besides proving linear worst-case running times, the efficiency of most of the developed algorithms is evaluated experimentally. Moreover, the limits of fixed-parameter linear-time algorithms and provably efficient and effective data reduction are shown. Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung effizienter Algorithmen zur exakten Lösung vier ausgewählter NP-schwerer Probleme aus der Ablaufplanung, Stahlverarbeitung, Softwaretechnik, Frequenzzuteilung, aus der computergestützten Hardwareentwicklung und der Analyse sozialer Netzwerke. NP-schwere Probleme können vermutlich nicht optimal in einer polynomiell mit der Eingabegröße wachsenden Zeit gelöst werden. Um sie dennoch effizient zu lösen, entwickelt diese Arbeit Linearzeitdatenreduktionsalgorithmen und Festparameter-Linearzeitalgorithmen – Algorithmen, die beweisbar in Linearzeit laufen, wenn bestimmte Parameter der Probleminstanzen konstant sind. Hierbei wird nicht nur bewiesen, dass die entwickelten Algorithmen in Linearzeit laufen, es findet zusätzlich eine experimentelle Evaluation der meisten der entwickelten Algorithmen statt. Ferner werden die Grenzen von Festparameter-Linearzeitalgorithmen und beweisbar effizienter und effektiver Datenreduktion aufgezeigt.

A new and practical approach to understanding system theory The modern development of engineering and science requires a deep understanding of the basic concepts of system theory. Approaching the subject from a system, rather than an application-oriented perspective, world-renowned system expert Martin Schetzen provides practicing engineers and scientists, as well as students, with a solid, clearly explained foundation in the fundamentals of linear time-invariant (continuous) system theory. Developing linear systems from a functional viewpoint, the book is noteworthy for its presentation of: The time-domain theory of continuous time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems System transfer function, gain, and phase-shift An original development of the Fourier transform, the unilateral and bilateral Laplace transforms, and their inverses from a system theory viewpoint Basic filter analysis and design techniques from the s-plane viewpoint Feedback systems and their stability, interconnected systems, and block diagram reduction The state-variable approach to system analysis and its advantages for certain problems Taking an original, highly useful approach to system theory, Linear Time-Invariant Systems lays a solid foundation for further study of system modeling, control theory, filter theory, discrete system theory, state-variable theory, and other subjects requiring a system viewpoint. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available upon request from the Wiley Makerting Department.

This book is based on columns and tutorials published in the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) during the period 2000-2003. It presents many of the most active current research lines in theoretical computer science. The material appears in two volumes, “Algorithms and Complexity” and “Formal Models and Semantics”, reflecting the traditional division of the field.The list of contributors includes many of the well-known researchers in theoretical computer science. Most of the articles are reader-friendly and do not presuppose much knowledge of the area in question. Therefore, the book constitutes very suitable supplementary reading material for various courses and seminars in computer science.

This will be the most up-to-date book in the area (the closest competition was published in 1990) This book takes a new slant and is in discrete rather than continuous time

The present volume contains the proceedings of Logic at Botik '89, a symposium on logical foundations of computer science organized by the Program Systems Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences and held at Pereslavl-Zalessky, USSR, July 3-8, 1989. The scope of the symposium was very broad; the topics of interest were: complexity of formal systems, constructive mathematics in computer science, denotational and operational semantics of programs, descriptive complexity, dynamic and algorithmic logics and schematology, formal tools to describe concurrent computations, lambda calculus and related topics, foundations of logic programming, logical foundations of database theory, logics for knowledge representation, modal and temporal logics, type theory in programming, and verification of programs. Thus, the papers in this volume represent many interesting trends in logical foundations of Computer Science, ranging from purely theoretical research to practical applications of theory.