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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2011, held in Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011. The 52 revised full papers and 40 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on query processing; database semantics; skyline queries; security and privacy; spatial and temporal data; semantic web search; storage and sear...

Due to such factors as poor economic conditions, climate change, and conflict, food security remains an issue around the world and especially in developing nations. Rapid changes in technology over the last decade has brought a renewed focus on how information and communication technologies (ICTs) and application systems are deployed to improve rural competitiveness. Unfortunately, agricultural stakeholders in developing countries, particularly in Africa, have not been able to reap comparable be...

After the dramatic failures of the dot coms in 2000 and 2001, many observers were quick to report on the death of electronic commerce. Investor confidence sagged, stock prices of technology firms in nearly all of the related sectors suffered. In reality, the picture is not nearly as dismal as the press would have us believe. E-commerce is not dead, but it has moved beyond its overhyped beginning stage. This book is an effort to sort through the hype, providing a realistic assessment of the state...

This book covers recent advances in electronic commerce research activities. It aims to encourage activities in this field, and to serve researchers with an interest in electronic commerce. This book is edited from some aspects of e-commerce researches including theoretical mechanism design of trading based on auctions, allocation mechanism based on negotiation among multi-agent, case-study and analysis of e-trading, data engineering issues in e-commerce, and so on.

Theseproceedingscontainthe?nalversionsofpapersacceptedfortheworkshops that were held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Bu- ness Process Management (BPM 2008) that took place in Milan, Italy. Thirteen workshop proposals were submitted for this conference, nine of which were - lected, and ultimately they ran concurrentlyon September 1,2008.This wasthe fourth year running for BPM workshops, a testament to the continued success of the workshop program. This year the workshops i...

Packed with practical applications and step-by-step instructions, INTEGRATED ACCOUNTING + GL CD, 8e thoroughly illustrates computerized accounting and operating procedures for Windows-based programs. The new edition takes full advantage of the Windows environment. Preparing you for real-world practice, the general ledger software emulates commercial software packages. Detailed instruction and clear examples fully explain the software while all-new problem data sets give you plenty of hands-on ex...

This is a Distributed Applications trouble shooting book. The methodology will be outlined in the introduction and then the author will go into detail how each application operates, detailing its dependences and then the author will go into detail how each application operates, detailing its dependences and then identify the result of various parts of this process, how they manifest themselves and the outcome of such a failure.

Collaboration with Cloud Computing discusses the risks associated with implementing these technologies across the enterprise and provides you with expert guidance on how to manage risk through policy changes and technical solutions. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and case studies, author Ric Messier discusses: The evolving nature of information security The risks, rewards, and security considerations when implementing SaaS, cloud computing and VoIP...

In Information Rules, authors Shapiro and Varian reveal that many classic economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. They argue that if managers seriously want to develop effective strategies for competing in the new economy, they must understand the fundamental economics of information technology. Whether information takes the form of software code or recorded music, is published in a book or magazine, or even posted on a website, ma...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Deploy and Maintain an Integrated MDS ArchitectureHarness your master data and grow revenue while reducing administrative costs. Thoroughly revised to cover the latest MDS features, Microsoft SQL Server 2012Master Data Services, Second Edition shows how to implement and manage a centralized, customer-focused MD...

This pure Object-Oriented approach gives students a cutting edge approach to the future of the design and analysis market.

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the key management trend of the day. Ivar Jacobson's book The Object Advantage presents a blueprint for re-designing a business according to BPR principles. It uses one method to integrate his work of reengineering a business, its processes and its vital infrastructure the information system. It describes all of the details about a business and its processes by viewing customers as users and business processes as cases of how they use the business "use cas...

"Business @ the Speed of Thought" was written to inspire you to demand and get more from technology, enabling you and your company to respond faster to your customers, adapt to changing business demands, and prosper in the digital economy.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) hat sich binnen kurzer Zeit zu einem der meistdiskutierten Phanomene in der jungeren Geschichte der Informationstechnologie herausgebildet. Die millionenfach frequentierten Musiktauschboersen wie etwa Napster haben dabei zu kontroversen Bewertungen von P2P gefuhrt. Neben File-Sharing a la Napster zahlen Instant Messaging, Collaboration/P2P Groupware, Grid bzw. Distributed Computing und Web Services zu den weiteren Facetten von P2P. Damit verbunden ist die Vorstellung leistungs...