Editors: Badawi, Ayman (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

Trends in Commutative Rings Research

Table of Contents:

Preface; Elasticity of Factorizations in Graded Integral Domains (H. Kim); The Homogenous Class Group of A+XB[X] Domains (D. Anderson, S. Baghdadi, and S. Kabbaj); A Note on Finitely Generated Ideals of an Arithmetical Ring (R. Gilmer); Primes that Become Primal in a Pullback (T. Dumitrescu, N. Radu, and M. Zafrullah); Some Remarks on Distinguished Domains (D. Anderson, D. Kwak, and M. Zafrullah); On Divided Rings and ?-Pseudo-Valuation Rings (A. Badawi); Generalizations of Pseudo-Valuation Rings (G. W. Chang); G-Domain Pairs (D. Dobbs); Star-Operations and Trace Properties (A. Mimouni); Automorphisms and Zero Divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings (Frank DeMeyer and Kim Schneider); Sums and Intersections of Submodules of a Free Module Over a Finite Special Principal Ideal Ring (Grady D. Bullington); GD(1) and GD(2) are not Preserved in Integral Closures (Jim Coykendall); Normal Maximal Ideal in One-Dimensional Local Rings (Vincenzo Micale); On Locally Isomorphic Torsion-Free Modules (Pat Goeters and Bruce Olberding); On Chains of Overrings of an Integral Domain (David E. Dobbs); Note on the Number of Semistar-Operations, III (Ryuki Matsuda); Order Bases of Subalgebras of k[[X]] (V. Micale, G. Molica and B.Torrisi); Three Families of Free Numerical Semigroups with Arbitrary Embedding Dimension (J. C. Rosales and M. B. Branco); The Zero-Divisor Graph of a Non-Commutative Ring (Shane P. Redmond); Index.

Binding: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004
ISBN: 1-59033-926-6

Editors: Dvalishvili, B. (Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

Generalized Lattices

Book Description:

If, presumably, the definition of a Boolean algebra employs the notion of a partially ordered set, whereas a general definition of a topological space is based on the notion of a metric, then by considering a more general situation with quasi metrics one may obtain the notion of a bitopological space (i.e., a set endowed with two arbitrary topologies). A further development of the theory of bitopological spaces has made it possible to introduce and study an algebra of a new type that is based on a nonordinary variant of a quasi ordered set and the corresponding representation of which brings one to bitopological spaces. The author calls this a generalized Boolean algebra, which is interesting not only as the subject of independent research, but also can be used as an important tool in establishing its various relationships with other areas of mathematics and, in particular, as in related double Boolean algebras with mathematical studies.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Gosets, Generalized Lattices, Generalized Boolean Algebras, and the Corresponding Operations; Chapter 3. Generalized Ideals and their Variety. Stone Family of Prime Generalized Ideals; Chapter 4. Generalized Filters and their Variety. Generalized Duality between Generalized Ideals and Generalized Filters; Chapter 5. Generalized Homomorphisms and Generalized Isomorphisms; Chapter 6. ( i, j) ? Atoms and ( i, j) ? Atomic Generalized Boolean Algebras; Chapter 7. Generalized Boolean Factor Algebras; Chapter 8. Generalized Fields of Sets and the Generalized Field Representation of a General Boolean Algebra; Chapter 9. Bitopological Representation of a Generalized Boolean Algebra; Chapter 10. Generalized Boolean Rings; List of Special Symbols and Notations; Index; References.

Binding: Hardcover
Pub. Date: July 2005
ISBN: 1-59454-205-8

Editors: Tsitsiashvili, G. Sh.; Osipova, M. A.

Cooperative Effects in Stochastic Models

Book Description:

The monograph is devoted to an investigation of cooperative effects in stochastic models. It includes original results of the authors in the last decade. The main object of the monograph is an analysis of an influence of a stochastic model structure on its characteristics. Problems of a cooperation and a decomposition are actual in a solution of a lot of concrete problems. These problems are: a parallelization of algorithms and programs, a modelling of supercomputers, computer networks, systems of mobile telephones catastrophes in complex systems, a design and an improvement of technological and economical processes etc. The cooperative effects create a source of significant dependencies between complex system characteristics under large random disturbances. To analyze these effects is is necessary to create special methods based on structural analysis of multielement stochastic models together with majoral asymptotic bounds of these models characteristics. At the same time it demands to develop new approaches to a processing of statistical data and a skill in an usage of the probability theory limit theorems and related asymptotic series and bounds. A choice of the monograph material is defined as by initial applied problems so by probability methods of their solution. Conditionally the monograph may be divided into two parts. First of them contains four sections devoted to a finding of the cooperative effects and to a development of new related analytical and numerical methods. This part has presumably methodological character and creates a theoretical base of an investigation of applied stochastic systems. Second part contains three sections devoted to a solution of different applied problems. It has some interesting substantial results.

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1. Cooperative Effects in Discrete Queueing Models; Chapter 2. Cooperative Effects in Risk Models with Discrete Time; Chapter 3. New Approaches of Heavy Tails Asymptotic Analysis; Chapter 4. Cooperative Effects in Reliability; Chapter 5. New Approaches to Data Processing Problems; Chapter 6. Cooperative Effects in Stochastic Models of Mechanics; Chapter 7. Cooperative and Nonlinear Effects in Models of Mathematical Economics; Index.

Binding: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005
ISBN: 1-59454-252-X

Nam P. Suh

Complexity
Theory and Applications

0195178769, hardback,
312 pages Feb 2005,

Description

Nam P. Suh focussed his axiomatic design theories on methods to understand and deal with complexity. Suh is a well-respected designer and researcher in the fields of manufacturing and composite materials. He is best known for his systems that aim to speed up and simplify the process of design for manufacturing. The 'axioms' in axiomatic design refer to a process to help engineers reduce design specifications down to their simplest components, so that the engineers can produce the simplest possible solution to a problem. Complexity, besides being a key area of burgeoning research in disciplines interested in complex systems and chaos theory (like computer science and physics), is a complicating factor in engineering design that many engineers find difficult to overcome. Suh's multidisciplinary exploration of complex systems is meant to eliminate much of the confusion and allow engineers to accommodate complexity within simple, elegant design solutions.

Product Details

312 pages; 9 halftones, 101 line illus.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-517876-9

About the Author(s)

Nam P. Suh, Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Introduction to Axiomatic Design Principles3. Complexity Theory Based on Axiomatic Design4. Reduction of Time-Independent Complexity5. Reduction of Time-Dependent Complexity through the Use of Functional Periodicity6. Reduction of Complexity in Manufacturing Systems7. Reduction of Complexity by Means of Geometric Functional Periodicity8. Reduction of Complexity in Materials through Functional Periodicity9. Complexity of Biological Systems10. Complexity of Socio-Political-Economic Issues

Gregory L. Baker and James A. Blackburn

The Pendulum
A Case Study in Physics

(Hardback)
0-19-856754-5
Publication date: 30 June 2005
350 pages, 213 b/w line figs; 15 b/w halftones, 246mm x 189mm

Description

Unique case study on one physical system.
Interdisciplinary book presenting classical and modern physics.
Draws together a variety of topics in physics.
Written within a technological, cultural and historical context.
Contains many illustrations and chapter-end exercises.
Offers alternative to usual modern physics courses.

The pendulum: a case study in physics is a unique book in several ways. Firstly, it is a comprehensive quantitative study of one physical system, the pendulum, from the viewpoint of elementary and more advanced classical physics, modern chaotic dynamics, and quantum mechanics. In addition, coupled pendulums and pendulum analogs of superconducting devices are also discussed. Secondly, this book treats the physics of the pendulum within a historical and cultural context, showing, for example, that the pendulum has been intimately connected with studies of the earth's density, the earth>'s motion, and timekeeping. While primarily a physics book, the work provides significant added interest through the use of relevant cultural and historical vignettes. This approach offers an alternative to the usual modern physics courses. The text is amply illustrated and augmented by exercises at the end of each chapter.

Readership: Final-year undergraduates, graduate students and professionals (lecturers and researchers) working in physics, mathematics and engineering.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Pendulums somewhat simple
3 Pendulums less simple
4 The Foucault pendulum
5 The torsion pendulum
6 The chaotic pendulum
7 Coupled pendulums
8 The quantum pendulum
9 Superconductivity and the pendulum
10 The pendulum clock
A Pendulum Q
B The inverted pendulum
C The double pendulum
D The cradle pendulum
E The long now clock
F The Blackburn pendulum