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Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition

By: Thomas H. Cormen,Charles E. Leiserson,Ronald L. Rivest,Clifford Stein

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Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition

By: Thomas H. Cormen,Charles E. Leiserson,Ronald L. Rivest,Clifford Stein

A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics. Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers, with self-contained chapters and algorithms in pseudocode. Since the publication of the first edition, Introduction to Algorithms has become the leading algorithms text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals. This fourth edition has been updated throughout. New for the fourth edition New chapters on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, and machine learning New material on topics including solving recurrence equations, hash tables, potential functions, and suffix arrays 140 new exercises and 22 new problems Reader feedback–informed improvements to old problems Clearer, more personal, and gender-neutral writing style Color added to improve visual presentation Notes, bibliography, and index updated to reflect developments in the field Website with new supplementary material Warning: Avoid counterfeit copies of Introduction to Algorithms by buying only from reputable retailers. Counterfeit and pirated copies are incomplete and contain errors.

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Introduction to Algorithms

By: Thomas H. Cormen,Charles E. Leiserson,Ronald L. Rivest,Clifford Stein

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Introduction to Algorithms

By: Thomas H. Cormen,Charles E. Leiserson,Ronald L. Rivest,Clifford Stein

This edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes some new chapters. It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms as well as a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks.--[book cover].

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0262533057

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Labor Divided

Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960

By: Robert Asher,Charles Stephenson

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Labor Divided

Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960

By: Robert Asher,Charles Stephenson

Labor Divided is the first anthology on race, ethnicity and the history of American working-class struggles to give substantial attention to the experiences of African-American, Asian, and Hispanic workers as well as to the experiences of workers from European backgrounds. The essays in Labor Divided cover a time period of more than a century. They focus on the experiences of service workers as well as factory workers, women as well as men. Because the American labor force presently is absorbing significant numbers of workers from abroad, and especially Asian and Hispanic workers, this volume will be of great interest to readers seeking historical perspectives on contemporary economic developments.

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SUNY Press

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088706972X

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Rights Delayed

The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950

By: Charles W. Romney

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Rights Delayed

The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950

By: Charles W. Romney

Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress as the forces that diminished the New Deal state, eliminated progressive unions, and destroyed the radical potential of American liberalism. Rights Delayed: The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions argues that anti-communism and Congressional conservatism merely intensified the main reason for the decline of progressive unions: the New Deal state's focus on legal procedure. Initially, progressive unions thrived by embracing the procedural culture of New Deal agencies and the wartime American state. Between 1935 and 1945, unions mastered the complex rules of the NLRB and other federal entities by working with government officials. In 1946 and 1947, however, the emphasis on legal procedure made the federal state too slow to combat potentially illegal cooperation between employers and the Teamsters. Workers who supported progressive unions rallied around procedural language to stop what they considered Teamster collusion, but found themselves dependent on an ineffective federal state. The state became even less able to protect employees belonging to left-led unions after the Taft-Hartley Act's anti-communist provisions-and decisions by union leaders-limited access to the NLRB's procedures. From 1946 until 1950, progressive unions withered and eventually disappeared from the Pacific canneries as the unions failed to pay the cost of legal representation before the NLRB. Workers supporting progressive unions had embraced procedural language to claim their rights, but by 1950, those workers discovered that their rights had vanished in an endless legal discourse.

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Oxford University Press

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0190250305

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The Transformation of American Industrial Relations

By: Thomas A. Kochan,Harry Charles Katz,Robert B. McKersie

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The Transformation of American Industrial Relations

By: Thomas A. Kochan,Harry Charles Katz,Robert B. McKersie

Ch. 1. A Strategic Choice Perspective on Industrial Relations -- Ch. 2. Historical Evolution of the U.S. Collective Bargaining System -- Ch. 3. The Emergence of the Nonunion Industrial Relations System -- Ch. 4. Industrial Relations Systems at the Workplace -- Ch. 5. The Process and Results of Negotiations -- Ch. 6. Changing Workplace Industrial Relations in Unionized Settings -- Ch. 7. Union Engagement of Strategic Business Decisions -- Ch. 8. American Workers and Industrial Relations Institutions -- Ch. 9. Strategic Choices Shaping the Future.

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Cornell University Press

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0875463207

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The Improbable Era

The South since World War II

By: Charles P. Roland

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The Improbable Era

The South since World War II

By: Charles P. Roland

In this concise yet comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and crisply written study, The Improbable Era places developments over the last three decades in Southern economics, politics, education, religion, the arts, and racial revolution into a disciplined framework that brings a measure of order to the perplexing chaos of this era of fundamental change in Southern life.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813146208

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A Resurrection of the Republican Ideal

By: Charles Stewart Goodwin

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A Resurrection of the Republican Ideal

By: Charles Stewart Goodwin

A Resurrection of the Republican Ideal offers a unique perspective on governmental reform. Employing traditional philosophies and principles that have largely been forgotten, Goodwin proposes methodologies that are designed to increase citizen participation in this country by redirecting power and funding away from a governmental center and toward localities. Contents: PRECEDENT AND POSSIBILITY; Republican Questions Set the Stage; Historical Perspectives; Government and the Individual; The Alternate Contract Spectre; Extreme Dangers; PHILOSOPHIES FOR IMPROVEMENT; Montesquieu's Theory of Small Republics; Vaclav Havel's Politics of Conscience; Inspiration from the Iroquois Confederacy; AN AMBIANCE FOR GOVERNING; Defining the Solution; Where the Grass Roots Begin; Localism in Action; A Small Republic Example; Grappling with the Issues; Selecting Representatives; WIDENING THE SCOPE; Hemispheric Implications; Pipe Dream or Possibility.

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University Press of America

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0819198994

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The Blue Eagle at Work

Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace

By: Charles J. Morris

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The Blue Eagle at Work

Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace

By: Charles J. Morris

In The Blue Eagle at Work, Charles J. Morris, a renowned labor law scholar and preeminent authority on the National Labor Relations Act, uncovers a long-forgotten feature of that act that offers an exciting new approach to the revitalization of the American labor movement and the institution of collective bargaining. He convincingly demonstrates that in private-sector nonunion workplaces, the Act guarantees that employees have a viable right to engage in collective bargaining through a minority union on a members-only basis. As a result of this startling breakthrough, American labor relations may never again be the same. Morris's underlying thesis is based on a meticulous analysis of statutory and decisional law and exhaustive historical research.Morris recounts the little-known history of union organizing and bargaining through members-only minority unions that prevailed widely both before and after passage of the 1935 Wagner Act. He explains how vintage language in the statute continues to protect minority-union bargaining today and how those rights are also guaranteed under the First Amendment and by international law to which the United States is a committed party. In addition, the book supplies detailed guidelines illustrating how this rediscovered workers' right could stimulate the development of new procedures for union organizing and bargaining and how management will likely respond to such efforts.The Blue Eagle at Work, which is clear and accessible to general readers as well as specialists, is an essential tool for labor-union officials and organizers, human-resource professionals in management, attorneys practicing in the field of labor and employment law, teachers and students of labor law and industrial relations, and concerned workers and managers who desire to understand the law that governs their relationship.

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Cornell University Press

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0801443172

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Matrix Computations

By: Gene H. Golub,Charles F. Van Loan

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Matrix Computations

By: Gene H. Golub,Charles F. Van Loan

A comprehensive treatment of numerical linear algebra from the standpoint of both theory and practice. The fourth edition of Gene H. Golub and Charles F. Van Loan's classic is an essential reference for computational scientists and engineers in addition to researchers in the numerical linear algebra community. Anyone whose work requires the solution to a matrix problem and an appreciation of its mathematical properties will find this book to be an indispensible tool. This revision is a cover-to-cover expansion and renovation of the third edition. It now includes an introduction to tensor computations and brand new sections on • fast transforms • parallel LU • discrete Poisson solvers • pseudospectra • structured linear equation problems • structured eigenvalue problems • large-scale SVD methods • polynomial eigenvalue problems Matrix Computations is packed with challenging problems, insightful derivations, and pointers to the literature—everything needed to become a matrix-savvy developer of numerical methods and software. The second most cited math book of 2012 according to MathSciNet, the book has placed in the top 10 for since 2005.

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JHU Press

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1421408597

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Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge

A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy

By: Charles Arthur Willard

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Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge

A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy

By: Charles Arthur Willard

In this witty and provocative study of democracy and its critics, Charles Willard debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity, and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts." He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common interests rather than narrow disputes. The problem of "unity" and the public sphere has driven a wedge between libertarians and communitarians. To mediate this conflict, Willard advocates a shift from the discourse of liberalism to that of epistemics. As a means of organizing the ebb and flow of consensus, epistemics regards democracy as a family of knowledge problems—as ways of managing discourse across differences and protecting multiple views. Building a bridge between warring peoples and warring paradigms, this book also reminds those who presume to instruct government that they are obliged to enlighten it, and that to do so requires an enlightened public discourse.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226898458

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Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications

By: Charles B. Owen,Fillia Makedon

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Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications

By: Charles B. Owen,Fillia Makedon

Multimedia is changing the design of database and information retrieval systems. The accumulation of audio, image, and video content is of little use in these systems if the content cannot be retrieved on demand, a critical requirement that has led to the development of new technologies for the analysis and indexing of media data. In turn, these technologies seek to derive information or features from a data type that can facilitate rapid retrieval, efficient compression, and logical presentation of the data. Significant work that has not been addressed, however, is the benefits of analyzing more than one data type simultaneously. Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications presents a new framework for the simultaneous analysis of multiple media data objects. The primary benefit of this analysis is computed synchronization, a temporal and spatial alignment of multiple media objects. Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications also presents several specific applications and a general structure for the solution of computed synchronization problems. The applications demonstrate the use of this structure. Two applications in particular are described in detail: the alignment of text to speech audio, and the alignment of simultaneous English language translations of ancient texts. Many additional applications are discussed as future uses of the technology. Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications is useful to researchers, students, and developers seeking to apply computed synchronization in many fields. It is also suitable as a reference for a graduate-level course in multimedia data retrieval.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475748302

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Austria from Habsburg to Hitler, Volume 1

Labor's Workshop of Democracy

By: Charles A. Gulick

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Austria from Habsburg to Hitler, Volume 1

Labor's Workshop of Democracy

By: Charles A. Gulick

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1948.

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0520327632

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Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs

By: Martin Charles Golumbic

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Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs

By: Martin Charles Golumbic

Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs, first published in 1980, has become the classic introduction to the field. This new Annals edition continues to convey the message that intersection graph models are a necessary and important tool for solving real-world problems. It remains a stepping stone from which the reader may embark on one of many fascinating research trails. The past twenty years have been an amazingly fruitful period of research in algorithmic graph theory and structured families of graphs. Especially important have been the theory and applications of new intersection graph models such as generalizations of permutation graphs and interval graphs. These have lead to new families of perfect graphs and many algorithmic results. These are surveyed in the new Epilogue chapter in this second edition. - New edition of the "Classic" book on the topic - Wonderful introduction to a rich research area - Leading author in the field of algorithmic graph theory - Beautifully written for the new mathematician or computer scientist - Comprehensive treatment

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0080526969

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Fighting Terror Online

The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law

By: Martin Charles Golumbic

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Fighting Terror Online

The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law

By: Martin Charles Golumbic

This book presents the position that the online environment is a significant and relevant theater of activity in the fight against terror. It identifies the threats, the security needs, and the issues unique to this environment. The book examines whether the characteristics of this environment require new legal solutions, or whether existing solutions are sufficient. Three areas of online activity are identified that require reexamination: security, monitoring, and propaganda.

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038773578X

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The Red-green Coalition in Germany

Politics, Personalities and Power

By: Charles Lees

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The Red-green Coalition in Germany

Politics, Personalities and Power

By: Charles Lees

This text provides a perspective on the politics and personalities of post-war Germany's most unstable - and apparently unpredictable - national government to date. The author uses previously unpublished research into Red-Green coalitions in the German Lander in order to understand more clearly the nature of the pressures acting upon Germany's first national coalition between the Social Democrats and the Greens. Charles Lees argues that the Red-Green coalition is best understood as part of an ongoing process of political co-operation between two distinct and often antagonistic parties. Grounded and introduced in the context of recent work on coalition theory and public policy analysis, the book examines the trail of political trial and error that has led the two parties from the mutual suspicion of the early 1980s to being partners in national government today. Drawing on the political history of Red-Green coalitions in Germany, the author explains why Chancellor Schroeder's 1998 election triumph provoked such excitement and why his government's subsequent political travails could have been predicted.

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Manchester University Press

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0719058392

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Multiagent Scheduling

Models and Algorithms

By: Alessandro Agnetis,Jean-Charles Billaut,Stanisław Gawiejnowicz,Dario Pacciarelli,Ameur Soukhal

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Multiagent Scheduling

Models and Algorithms

By: Alessandro Agnetis,Jean-Charles Billaut,Stanisław Gawiejnowicz,Dario Pacciarelli,Ameur Soukhal

Scheduling theory has received a growing interest since its origins in the second half of the 20th century. Developed initially for the study of scheduling problems with a single objective, the theory has been recently extended to problems involving multiple criteria. However, this extension has still left a gap between the classical multi-criteria approaches and some real-life problems in which not all jobs contribute to the evaluation of each criterion. In this book, we close this gap by presenting and developing multi-agent scheduling models in which subsets of jobs sharing the same resources are evaluated by different criteria. Several scenarios are introduced, depending on the definition and the intersection structure of the job subsets. Complexity results, approximation schemes, heuristics and exact algorithms are discussed for single-machine and parallel-machine scheduling environments. Definitions and algorithms are illustrated with the help of examples and figures.

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3642418805

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Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition

Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition

Introduction to Algorithms

Introduction to Algorithms

Labor Divided

Labor Divided

Rights Delayed

Rights Delayed

The Transformation of American Industrial Relations

The Transformation of American Industrial Relations

The Improbable Era

The Improbable Era

A Resurrection of the Republican Ideal

A Resurrection of the Republican Ideal

The Blue Eagle at Work

The Blue Eagle at Work

Matrix Computations

Matrix Computations

Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge

Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge

Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications

Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications

Austria from Habsburg to Hitler, Volume 1

Austria from Habsburg to Hitler, Volume 1

Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs

Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs

Fighting Terror Online

Fighting Terror Online

The Red-green Coalition in Germany

The Red-green Coalition in Germany

Multiagent Scheduling

Multiagent Scheduling

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