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Book Toward an International Virtual Observatory

Download or read book Toward an International Virtual Observatory written by Peter J. Quinn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-07-09 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first thorough overview of the first important steps to develop a worldwide virtual observatory so that, in the future, it could be easier to "dial-up" a part of the sky than wait many months to access a telescope. The articles in this book present details on the status of the first efforts to develop a standardized framework for the virtual observatory, including steps towards completion and deployment of technical infrastructure, uptake by data providers worldwide, and utilization by the scientific community.

Book Toward an International Virtual Observatory

Download or read book Toward an International Virtual Observatory written by Peter J. Quinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first thorough overview of the first important steps to develop a worldwide virtual observatory so that, in the future, it could be easier to "dial-up" a part of the sky than wait many months to access a telescope. The articles in this book present details on the status of the first efforts to develop a standardized framework for the virtual observatory, including steps towards completion and deployment of technical infrastructure, uptake by data providers worldwide, and utilization by the scientific community.

Book CAP2007 Conference Proceedings

Download or read book CAP2007 Conference Proceedings written by and published by European Space Agency. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China   s e Science Blue Book 2018

Download or read book China s e Science Blue Book 2018 written by Chinese Academy of Sciences and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is jointly compiled by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cyberspace Administration of China, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Over the past several years, Chinese scholars have contributed numerous research works on the development of Chinese scientific information and technology, and produced a range of outstanding achievements. Focusing on the main topic of e-Science, this book explores the forefront of science and technology around the globe, the major demands in China and the main fields in China’s economic development. Furthermore, it reviews the major achievements and the typical cases in China's e-Science research. It provides a valuable reference source for future technological innovations and will introduce researchers and students in the area of e-Science to the latest results in China.

Book Web Information Systems Engineering     WISE 2007 Workshops

Download or read book Web Information Systems Engineering WISE 2007 Workshops written by Mathias Weske and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of six workshops held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2007 in Nancy, France, in December 2007. The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for presentation in the six workshops. The workshops discuss a broad range of subjects.

Book Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation

Download or read book Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation written by Petr Skoda and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation: Astrogeoinformatics bridges the gap between astronomy and geoscience in the context of applications, techniques and key principles of big data. Machine learning and parallel computing are increasingly becoming cross-disciplinary as the phenomena of Big Data is becoming common place. This book provides insight into the common workflows and data science tools used for big data in astronomy and geoscience. After establishing similarity in data gathering, pre-processing and handling, the data science aspects are illustrated in the context of both fields. Software, hardware and algorithms of big data are addressed. Finally, the book offers insight into the emerging science which combines data and expertise from both fields in studying the effect of cosmos on the earth and its inhabitants. Addresses both astronomy and geosciences in parallel, from a big data perspective Includes introductory information, key principles, applications and the latest techniques Well-supported by computing and information science-oriented chapters to introduce the necessary knowledge in these fields

Book Virtual Observatories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Sandor Szalay
  • Publisher : SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Virtual Observatories written by Alexander Sandor Szalay and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Highlights of Astronomy  Volume 14

Download or read book Highlights of Astronomy Volume 14 written by Karel van der Hucht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording the proceedings of the IAU XXVI General Assembly, this volume of the IAU Highlights of Astronomy covers virtually all aspects of modern astrophysics as discussed by 2400 participants from 73 countries. Notably, the common aspects of astrophysical phenomena known to exist in widely differing interstellar environments is thoroughly examined, providing fertile cross correlation from one specialisation to another. This text highlights the importance of the triennial IAU General Assemblies in bringing together the work of observers and theoreticians in widely different fields, but working towards a common goal: understanding the physics of the Universe. Together with the Proceedings of the IAU Symposia 235-240, this volume examines all of the astrophysics presented at the General Assembly.

Book Inductive Databases and Constraint Based Data Mining

Download or read book Inductive Databases and Constraint Based Data Mining written by Sašo Džeroski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about inductive databases and constraint-based data mining, emerging research topics lying at the intersection of data mining and database research. The aim of the book as to provide an overview of the state-of- the art in this novel and - citing research area. Of special interest are the recent methods for constraint-based mining of global models for prediction and clustering, the uni?cation of pattern mining approaches through constraint programming, the clari?cation of the re- tionship between mining local patterns and global models, and the proposed in- grative frameworks and approaches for inducive databases. On the application side, applications to practically relevant problems from bioinformatics are presented. Inductive databases (IDBs) represent a database view on data mining and kno- edge discovery. IDBs contain not only data, but also generalizations (patterns and models) valid in the data. In an IDB, ordinary queries can be used to access and - nipulate data, while inductive queries can be used to generate (mine), manipulate, and apply patterns and models. In the IDB framework, patterns and models become ”?rst-class citizens” and KDD becomes an extended querying process in which both the data and the patterns/models that hold in the data are queried.

Book Developing Basic Space Science World Wide

Download or read book Developing Basic Space Science World Wide written by Willem Wamsteker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the historical activities, the plans which have been developed over the past decade in the different nations, and the results which have materialized during this time in different developing nations. It aims to achieve for development agencies to be assisted in ways to find more effective tools for the application of development aid. The last section of the book contains a guide for teachers to introduce astrophysics into university physics courses. This will be of use to teachers in many nations.

Book Information Handling in Astronomy   Historical Vistas

Download or read book Information Handling in Astronomy Historical Vistas written by Andre Heck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique review of how astronomical information handling (in the broad sense) evolved in the course of the 20th century, and especially during its second half. It will be very useful for researchers, teachers, editors, publishers, librarians, computer scientists, sociologists of science, research planners and strategists, project managers, public-relations officers, plus those in charge of astronomy-related organizations, as well as by students aiming at a career in astronomy or related space science.

Book The Jewel on the Mountaintop

Download or read book The Jewel on the Mountaintop written by Claus Madsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by ESO senior advisor Claus Madsen, the present book comprises 576 action-packed pages of ESO history and dramatic stories about the people behind the organisation. This is the ultimate historical account about ESO and its telescopes in the southern hemisphere, but also about a truly remarkable European success story in research. Spanning the range from the first telescopes to the future platforms of the next generation, it shows how the improvement of the telescopes leads to a continuously changing view of the Universe. With 150 photos and illustrations. Produced especially for ESO's 50th anniversary.

Book Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes

Download or read book Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes written by Boris Glavic and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th and 9th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2020 and IPAW 2021 which were held as part of ProvenanceWeek in 2020 and 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PropvenanceWeek 2020 was held as a 1-day virtual event with brief teaser talks on June 22, 2020. In 2021, the conference was held virtually during July 19-22, 2021. The 11 full papers and 12 posters and system demonstrations included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 31 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: provenance capture and representation; security; provenance types, inference, queries and summarization; reliability and trustworthiness; joint IPAW/TaPP poster and demonstration session.

Book Astronomers as Diplomats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thierry Montmerle
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2022-07-08
  • ISBN : 303098625X
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book Astronomers as Diplomats written by Thierry Montmerle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates a few highly significant events in history in which astronomers have helped keep contacts between astronomers of different states in moments of international political tensions or even crises. The chapters, written by 20 international authors, focus on four periods where astronomers were particularly active in international relations: 1. The WWI period, the epoch of the creation of the IAU, in the context of the simultaneous creation of other scientific unions. The book also singles out the important role of A.S. Eddington and his network “across forbidden borders”. 2. The Cold war period and its consequences, when several countries were divided between opposite blocs. “The China crisis” is told here from different viewpoints by Chinese astronomers, both from the mainland and from Taiwan, in parallel with the evolution of astronomy in South and North Korea. Germany’s twisted path in its membership of the IAU, from its admission in 1951 to its reunification in 1991 is shown as another example. 3. The book then highlights a third period, when radio astronomers, in particular, were very active in “building bridges” between East and West. It also tells the history of how the apparently innocuous issue of the “lunar nomenclature” became extremely sensitive. The part ends on two chapters on Russian robotic missions and lunar surface features as well on the Russian participation in the “International Virtual Observatory” project. 4. The fourth part reports for the first time on the “hidden story” of the relations between the IAU and the United Nations after the “Moon race” when the United Nations decided to challenge the IAU’s authority on “extraterrestrial names”. The final chapter reviews how twenty years later UNESCO and the IAU had become strong partners in the difficult, but highly successful organization of the International Year of Astronomy (2002-2009), and of the “Astronomy and World Heritage” intitiative (2008).

Book Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003

Download or read book Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV  LISA IV

Download or read book Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV LISA IV written by Brenda G. Corbin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: