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This book gives detailed descriptions of the development of two large scale multiagent systems: Agent.Hospital and Agent.Enterprise. These two systems have been developed in close cooperation with more than 20 enterprises and hospitals. They demonstrate clearly that multiagent technology has a great potential for innovative information systems, if a high degree of flexibility of the overall systems is required, e.g. because human actors and technical systems exhibit a great degree of local auton...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA'96, held in Lyngby, Denmark, in August 1996. The volume presents revised full versions of 45 carefully selected contributed papers together with 31 invited presentations. The papers address all current aspects of applied parallel computing relevant for industrial computations. The invited papers review the most important numerical algorithms and scientific applications on severa...

This book shows readers how to create intelligent systems for business using both expert systems and neural networks. Topics are presented from an applied business perspective and are reinforced throughout by managerial applications. Part 1 introduces the field of intelligent systems. Part 2 covers the theoretical foundation of logic-based systems. Part 3 offers students hands-on experience using a deductive tool (LEVEL 5) and an inductive tool (1st-CLASS), and discusses practical issues in deve...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014. The 52 full papers, 16 short and 14 poster papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8786 and 8787 were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining, modeling and classification; Web querying and searching; Web recommendation and personalization; se...

The Complete Systems Administrator is a cross-platform manual aimed at equipping IT professionals with no-nonsense solutions to everyday challenges involved in installing, configuring, and maintaining today's heterogeneous networks. Information on mission-critical tasks, tools, and required skills is drawn directly from the authors' collective 40+ years of experience as IT professionals, consultants, and educators. Extraordinarily complete coverage includes detailed, technical explanations for t...

Wissen ist die wichtigste Ressource zur Gestaltung des 3. Jahrtausends. So klar der Anspruch, so haufig die Bestatigung, so schwer ist die Nutzung des wichtigsten "menschlichen Produktionsfaktors" im alltaglichen Geschaft. Schon bei dem Aufbau eines Managementsystems fur die scheinbar taglich wachsenden Informationsfluten sehen sich Organisationen und Systeme in allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen uberfordert. Dieses Buch bietet Loesungen fur den Umgang mit wertvoller Information und Wissen in Un...

In Collaborative Web Development, author Jessica Burdman shares the successful secrets of managing a web project, including collaboration, communication, and budgeting. The book provides many case studies of both successful and unsuccessful Web sites, and will help web-project managers pick and manage their web teams so they can sell their projects and needs to executive managers. The ultimate goal of this book is to make a "level playing ground," offering a similar vocabulary for developers, ma...

Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades is the perfect book for technology managers who want a rational guide to evaluating the business aspects of various possible technical solutions. Enterprises today are in the middle of the R&D race for technology leadership, with providers who increasingly need to create markets for new technologies while shortening development, implementation, and life cycles. The cost for the current tempo of technology life cycles is endless change-management controls,...

Advancements in the area of networked information systems create endless possibilities and growth for the economic landscape, while consequently exposing enterprise networks and systems to malicious software, compromising security. Security Engineering Techniques and Solutions for Information Systems: Management and Implementation demonstrates security process applications for engineering and management, innovative wireless network techniques, and discusses the implementation of risk assessment...

The increasing costs of creating and maintaining infrastructures for delivering services to consumers have led to the emergence of cloud based third party service providers renting networks, computation power, storage, and even entire software application suites. On the other hand, service customers demand competitive pricing, service level agreements, and increased flexibility and scalability. Service consumers also expect process and data security, 24/7 service availability, and compliance wit...