Books published by IOS Press

This text reviews past successes and failures within the field of drug metabolism and attempts to predict new directions that may be taken in the 21st century.

Poverty has long been recognized as a socio-economic problem. Objective analyses of a quantitative nature are a prerequisite to understanding the nature of poverty, and one of the first efforts of this kind came from Sir Frederick Morton Eden in 1779. This book evaluates his contribution.

Addresses several functional areas such as: planning, scheduling, monitoring, control, fault classification and diagnosis, training, and help desks. This book is of interest to researchers and professionals in telecommunication, AI experts, and graduate students.

This is the proceedings of the IPA Fourth International Copyright Symposium, 1998. It aimed to reconfirm the creative role of the publisher as a conduit for culture built upon the knowledge and experience of the past, as well as to explore the publishers' new role.

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of knowledge modelling technology, illustrating the main tenets of this paradigm, surveying the state of the art and then presenting in detail the application of this technology to parametric design problems.

Provides a detailed overview of Inductive Logic Programming, as well as a collection of technical contributions to it. This overview is based on the ESPRIT basic research project no 6020 on Inductive Logic Programming. It is useful for students, researchers and practitioners of artificial intelligence and computer science.

After the demise of Fokker in 1996 one feared that interest in aeronautical engineering would strongly diminish. Two years later the situation was re-appraised, and the interest in aeronautical engineering remained, so the course was reinstated. This title includes the author's lecture notes from these courses.