Science Policy and Research Management in the Balkan Countries - Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 4 1995 edition

Marc Notes: Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division.; Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Science Policy and Research Management in the Balkan Countries, Athens, Greece, November 23-25, 1994--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface. The Academy of Athens and its role in the cultural and technological development of Greece; P. S. Theocaris. Research activities at the universities in relation to the industrial development of Greece; G. Parissakis. The impact of national research centers and science parks on the science policy of Greece; N. Katsaros. The NATO Science programme: outreach activity with cooperation partner countries; A. J. Hubier. Science policy in the transition period in Albania; V. Mara. Some controversial questions about the research and development in transition from centralized to free market economy (Albanian case); P. D. Skende. Science and technology management in Bulgaria; L. Vitoshka, G. Sotirov. Science in the Balkan countries: key policy issues; J.-E. Aubert. The main reform guidelines of the R&D institutional system; A. Toia, I. Roman. Specific programmes of research and technological development in Romania in the transition period; A. Voicila. Science and technology policy and research management in Turkey; O. Kaymakcalan. Achievements in solid state electronics in the Moldova Republic; S. Radautsan. Achievements and prospects of photobiotechnology in Moldova; V. F. Rudic. Research management in the Netherlands. The research council mechanism; A. P. Plompen. Principles underlying the development of the US science enterprise; J. M. McCullough. Guidelines for science policy and research management in Armenia; Y. L. Sarkissyan. Information technology transfer in Armenian science; Yu. Shoukourian. What does a market economy mean to technology transfer?'; R. E. Armit. Science and technology policy in Hungary; A. Havas. Outlook of the Slovak science and technology policy; F. Macasek. Science and technology policyin the 1990s: the case of the United Kingdom; M. Nedeva."Publisher Marketing: The important geopolitical changes since the mid-1980s in the broad area of Eastern Europe have led to changes in the policy and strategy in many fields; social, economic, commercial and scientific among them. This text draws together scientists from the area in a discussion centred on the exchange of information, broadening co-operation, and the possible development of common policy in areas of mutual interest. Important differences between the participants' countries emerged: differences in the development of general research activities as between free market and centrally planned systems. The situation at the moment is transitional and is evolving rapidly. The reader should thus obtain a snapshot of the various ways of confronting research activities, the ranking of research priorities, and the dissemination and evaluation of results throughout the Balkan region.

Contributor Bio:  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. Clifford Geometric Algebras in Multilinear Algebra and Non-Euclidean Geometries.- Geometric algebra Projective Geometries; Affine and other geometries; Affine Geometry of pseudo-euclidean space; Conformal Geometry and the Horosphere; References. Content-Based Information Retrieval by Group Theoretical Methods.- Introduction; Motivating Examples; General Concept; Fault Tolerance.- Applications, Prototypes, and Test Results; Related Work and Future Research; References.- Four Problems in Radar.-Introduction; Radar Fundamentals; Radar Waveforms; Signal Processing; Space-Time Adaptive Processing; Four Problems in Radar; Conclusions. Introduction to Generalized Classical and Quantum Signal and System Theories on Groups and Hypergroups.-Generalized classical signal/system theory on hypergroups; Generalized quantum signal/system theory on hypergroups; Conclusion; References. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras in Robotics.- Introduction -- Rigid Body Motions; Lie Groups; Finite Screw Motions; Mechanical Joints; Invisible Motion and Gripping; Forward Kinematics; Lie Algebra; The Adjoint Representation; The Exponential Map Derivatives of Exponentials; Jacobians; Concluding Remarks; References. Quantum/Classical Interface: a Geometric Approach from the Classical Side.- Introduction Paravector Space as Spacetime; Eigenspinors; Spin; Dirac Equation; Bell's Theorem; Qubits and Entanglement; Conclusions; References. PONS, Reed-Muller Codes, and Group Algebras.- Introduction; Analytic Theory of One-Dimensional PONS (Welti); Shapiro Sequences, Reed-Muller Codes, and Functional Equations; Group Algebras; Reformulation of Classical PONS; Group Algebra of Classical PONS; GroupAlgebra Convolution; Splitting Sequences; Historical Appendix on PONS; References. Clifford Algebras as a Unified Language.- Introduction; Clifford algebras as models of physical spaces; Clifford Algebras as Models of Perceptual Multicolor Spaces; Hypercomplex-Valued invariants of nD multicolor images; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Recent Progress and Applications in Group FFTs.-Introduction; Finite group FFTs; FFTs for compact groups; Noncompact groups; References. Group Filters and Image Processing.- Introduction: Classical Digital Signal Processing; Abelian Group DSP; Nonabelian Groups; Examples; Group Transforms; Group Filters; Line-like Images; Acknowledgments; References. A Geometric Algebra Approach to Some Problems of Robot Vision.- Introduction; Local Analysis of Multi-dimensional Signals; Knowledge Based Neural Computing; Acknowledgments; References. Group Theory in Radar and Signal Processing.- Introduction; How a Radar Works; Representations; Representations and Radar; Ambiguity Functions; The Wide Band Case; References. Geometry of Paravector Space with Applications to Relativistic Physics.- Clifford Algebras in Physics; Paravector Space as Spacetime; Interpretation; Eigenspinors; Maxwell's Equation; Conclusions; References. A Unified Approach to Fourier-Clifford-Prometheus Transforms- Introduction; New construction of classical and multiparametric Prometheus transforms; PONS associated with Abelian groups; Fast Fourier-Prometheus Transforms; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Fast Color Wavelet Transforms.- Introduction; Color images; Color Wavelet-Haar-Prometheus transforms; Edge detection and compression of color images; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References. Selected Problems; Various Authors.- Transformations of Euclidean Space and Clifford Geometric; Algebra; References; On the Distribution of Kloosterman Sums on Polynomials over Quaternions; References; Harmonic Sliding Analysis Problems; References; Spectral Analysis under Conditions of Uncertainty; A Canonical Basis for Maximal Tori of the Reductive Centrizer of a Nilpotent Element; References; 6 The Quantum Chaos Conjecture References; Four Problems in Radar; Topic Index; Author Index