This handbook presents the state of the art of quantitative methods and models to understand and assess the science and technology system.

The present edited volume is of special importance, and for various reasons. First of all, it is one of the most comprehensive and multifaceted coverage of broadly per ceived fuzzy control in the literature.

This book presents a practical introduction to ASP, aiming at using ASP languages and systems for solving application problems.

It gives readers a one-stop place in which to find Date’s latest thinking on relational technology. Many papers are not easily found outside this book.

The book is suitable for use in graduate courses and should be of interest to graduate students and researchers in computer science, databases and artificial intelligence, as well as practitioners of data mining and machine learning.

This book is suitable for first-year graduate students in electrical, mechanical, chemical, and aerospace engineering specializing in systems and control.

This book contains leading survey papers on the various aspects of Abduction, both logical and numerical approaches.

Relations to other economic, social and science indicators are discussed.This book is intended both as a data source and an analytic tool for specialists engaged in science policy, science management, science indicators research, ...

This book presents thoroughly arranged tutorial papers corresponding to lectures given by leading researchers at the Second International Summer School on Reasoning Web in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2006.