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.

This work describes virtual reality (VR) as a communication tool. The shifting structures of communication systems present opportunities for communication researchers and this book attempts to scan the future of communications within the virtual reality field.

This text provides an innovative international forum for the researchers, developers and practitioners who are actively expanding the role of electronic technologies in healthcare.

This text, the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, brings together interdisciplinary contributions such as mathematics and molecular biology to address the different facets of the problem to connect the many scales of the computer simulation of many systems of interest in chemistry.

This work aims to give a comprehensive overview of classical electromagnetic theory, together with a detailed insight into modern numerical methods for the analysis of the problems in electromagnetics. Special attention is given to the utilization of computers.

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.

Focusing on data mining, this work is a joint effort from researchers in Japan, and includes a report on the forefront of data collection, user-centred mining and user interaction/reaction. It offers an overview of modern solutions with real-world applications, sharing hard-learned experiences.

This international comparative study of the ombudsman institution began in 1994 when the authors formed the idea of producing a successor to Caiden's "International Handbook of Ombudsman". It includes methodology and strategy, findings, and thematic chapters on such issues as human rights.

Aiming to improve quality in health care and diagnoses, this work discusses information processing in medicine and presents a new approach. By object-oriented analysis, modelling and design, it enables an evolutionary development according to the needs of the medical environment.

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, in my view, should prove to be a landmark publication. Farreras and her colleagues have thrown available light onto what will prove to be a rich field of historical research and historically informed science policy."- Wade E. Pickren, Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesThis volume breaks new ground in assessing the intramural research conducted at the United States National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (today the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) in the 1950s. The research conducted in these institutes was pioneering and laid the foundation for current neuroscience and behavioural research. Dr. Ingrid Farreras uses the records of the time and also oral histories conducted with retired institute scientists to present the institutional context in which the research was conducted. Topics in her discussion include the history of the United States Public Health Service, the creation of the two institutes at the National Institutes of Health, the organization of their extramural and intramural research programs, and brief summaries of the research that the fifteen laboratories and branches of both institutes conducted during the 1950s. Twelve noted scientists involved in neurological and mental health research then provide their unique, first-hand accounts of their experiences at the NIH. The volume also contains four appendices providing information about the organizational structure of the two institutes, the scientists who worked there, citations of illustrative landmark papers that were published based on their research, and selected primary and secondary resources related to the history of these institutes. The aim of the volume is to foster continuing additional descriptive and analytical research on the history of biomedical sciences in the areas of neurology and mental health in the mid twentieth century.

Drawing on research in the social sciences, communications and other fields, this book analyzes how the online environment is influencing the experience of psychology.

An introduction to the methodology and practice of analysis, design and implementation of distributed health information systems. It includes a special section dedicated to security and interoperability of such systems as well as to advanced electronic health record approaches.

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.

This text examines the current situation and trends in the use of health informatics and telematics in Africa and Latin America. It is intended to provide an understanding of the opportunities in health informatics for the advancement of technical co-operation between Europe and developing regions.

This text provides rationales for virtual reality's applicability in clinical psychology. It reviews the relevant literature regarding theoretical and pragmatic issues for these applications, and provides descriptions of ongoing work developed world-wide.

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.