Adenauer's foreign office : West German diplomacy in the shadow of the Third Reich / / Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr. ; Shaun Allshouse, design

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787136603321
• Autore: Maulucci Thomas W.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: DeKalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2012; ©2012
• ISBN: 1-5017-5669-9; 1-60909-077-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.43009/045
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Europe / Germany; Germany (West) Foreign relations; Germany History 1945-1955
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Auswärtiges Amt of the German Reich, 1871-1945 -- The foreign affairs question in occupied Germany, 1945-49 -- The return of the German diplomats -- Foreign policy without a foreign office, 1949-51 -- The foreign office's childhood illnesses, 1949-55 -- Personnel policy, 1949-55 -- The leadership structure in the Auswärtiges Amt, 1951-55 -- The career diplomats and Adenauer's foreign policy.
• Sommario/riassunto: The creation of the Foreign Office under Adenauer tells us much about the possibilities and limits of professional diplomacy in the mid-twentieth century. It also demonstrates three themes central to the early history of the Federal Republic: the integration of the new state into the international community, the cooptation of German elites and traditions by the new political system, and the creation of government in a state under foreign occupation.In this important study, Thomas Maulucci argues that, despite an improvised start and a considerable continuity of practice and personnel with pre-1945 Germany, the changed international anddomestic situation proved decisive in creating a ministry that could help to implement new directions in German foreign policy. In addition, Maulucci explores the interactions between international, political, and social history, contributing to a ; literature that bridges the gap between the pre- and post-World War Two eras that characterized previous writing on German history.Based on extensive research in German, American, British, and French archives, Adenauer's Foreign Office is the only English-language book of its kind. The troubling question of personnel continuity in the German diplomatic service is of considerable importance today, especially because of the Foreign Office's previous attempts to portray its past in the best possible light. Of interest to scholars and students of German history and politics as well as non-specialists, this book provides new insights into post-war diplomacy, the sociology of German elites, and the problems involved in creating a new government after losing a major war.

NEO 2016 : Results of the Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization Workshop NEO 2016 and the NEO Cities 2016 Workshop held on September 20-24, 2016 in Tlalnepantla, Mexico / / edited by Yazmin Maldonado, Leonardo Trujillo, Oliver Schütze, Annalisa Riccardi, Massimiliano Vasile

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299896903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018
• ISBN: 3-319-64063-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2018.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 282 p. 146 illus., 124 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Studies in Computational Intelligence, , 1860-949X ; ; 731
• Disciplina: 519.3
• Soggetti: Computational intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Optical data processing; Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Smart Cities -- Defensive Driving Strategy and Control for Autonomous Ground Vehicle in Mixed Traffic -- Augmenting the LSA Technique to Evaluate Ubicomp Environments -- Mixed Integer Programming Formulation for the Energy-Efficient Train Timetables Problem -- Distributing Computing in the Internet of Things: Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing Overview -- Part II: Search, Optimization and Hybrid Algorithms -- Integer Programming Models and Heuristics for Non-Crossing Euclidean 3-Matchings -- A Multi-Objective Robust Ellipse Fitting Algorithm -- Gradient-Based Multiobjective Optimization with Uncertainties -- A New Local Search Heuristic for the Multidimensional Assignment Problem -- Part III: Electronics and Embedded Systems -- A Multi-Objective and Multidisciplinary Optimisation Algorithm for Microelectromechanical Systems -- Coefficients Estimation of MPM through LSE, ORLS and SLS for RF-PA Modeling and DPD -- Optimal Sizing of Amplifiers by Evolutionary Algorithms with Integer Encoding and gm/ID Design Method -- Index. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume comprises a selection of works presented at the Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization (NEO 2016) workshop held in September 2016 in Tlalnepantla, Mexico. The development of powerful search and optimization techniques is of great importance in today’s world and requires researchers and practitioners to tackle a growing number of challenging real-world problems. In particular, there are two well-established and widely known fields that are commonly applied in this area: (i) traditional numerical optimization techniques and (ii) comparatively recent bio-inspired heuristics. Both paradigms have their unique strengths and weaknesses, allowing them to solve some challenging problems while still failing in others. The goal of the NEO workshop series is to bring together experts from these and related fields to discuss, compare and merge their complementary perspectives in order to develop fast and reliable hybrid methods that maximize the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of the underlying paradigms. In doing so, NEO promotes the development of new techniques that are applicable to a broader class of problems. Moreover, NEO fosters the understanding and adequate treatment of real-world problems particularly in emerging fields that affect all of us, such as healthcare, smart cities, big data, among many others. The extended papers presented in the book contribute to achieving this goal. .