Scheduled transportation networks give rise to very complex and large-scale network optimization problems requiring innovative solution techniques and ideas from mathematical optimization and theoretical computer science. Examples of scheduled transportation include bus, ferry, airline, and railway [...]

Supervision, condition-monitoring, fault detection, fault diagnosis and fault management play an increasing role for technical processes and vehicles in order to improve reliability, availability, maintenance and lifetime. For safety-related processes fault-tolerant systems with redundancy are requi[...]

This well-known book is an introduction to the field of digital, sampled-data control. It treats the field in depth and can be used for courses and for self study. The second edition has been completely revised and expanded with new results. The work now appears in two volumes, with Volume 2 to be p[...]

This series of black-and-white photographs by Norwegian photographer Rolf M. Aagaard (born 1945) captures ever-changing formations of snow in the Hardangervidda Mountains in South Norway. Snow: Shadows of the Wind documents these ephemeral landscapes.[...]

Madeira zeichnet sich durch ein ganzjährig mildes Klima und eine verschwenderische Blütenpracht aus: Strelitzien und Fackellilien, Liebesblumen und Hortensien führten zum Beinamen >>schwimmende Blumeninsel im Atlantik<<. Klammheimlich hat sich die atlantische Schönheit zu einem Wanderpar[...]

48 walks mostly in the Muntana mountains above the northwest coast, but also coastal walks in other areas of Mallorca.[...]

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered the first significant American painter in 20th-century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of big-city people. Many of Hopper's[...]