Books published by IOS Press

Although we can recognize further progress in educating health and a considerable number of educational programs for health informatics / medical informatics specialists have been set up, there is still a need to enhance these educational activities world wide, considering global developments as well as new curricular concepts.

A survey of work on passage times in stable Markov chains with a discrete state space and a continuous time. A unifying framework is provided by probabilistic potential theory and the results presented in the text are interpreted from this point of view.

Provides insight into those elements of acoustics and aeronautics that are connected directly with the problem of aviation noise. This book, intended as a textbook for a university course on aviation acoustics at an undergraduate level, is suitable for use as an instrument of self-study for the practicing engineer.

This book is intended to provide a treatment of the theory and applications of Stochastic Neural Networks, that is networks able to learn random processes from experience, on the basis of recent developments on this subject.