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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...

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This book examines the extensive changes in markets, technologies and value chains that telecommunication companies are currently confronted with. It analyzes the crossroads they have reached and the choices that now need to be made - to be a bit pipe or a trendsetter of digitalization. Based on an analysis of the key challenges for telcos, the book derives future market scenarios and puts forward recommendations for how they can successfully position themselves. It proposes a framework based on...

Many individuals and enterprises will soon be computing in the clouds. Cloud computing offers on-demand, utility-like availability of computing resources at a low cost. A critical understanding of cloud computing is essential to leverage the opportunities and benefits that this new computing paradigm offers. This book provides a comprehensive overview of cloud computing concepts, technologies, businesses models, strategies, and applications. It also examines potential risks and challenges of clo...

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 volume documents the proceedings of the Symposium on Polymers in Information Storage Technology held as a part of the American Chemical Society meeting in Los Angeles, September 25-30, 1988. It should be recorded here that this symposium was cosponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, and the Division of Polymer Chemistry. Polymers are used for a variety of purposes in both optical and magnetic information storage technologies. For example, polymers find app...

In today's increasingly globalized environment, many economic fundamentals need to be reconsidered in order to regain stability in the global marketplace. One such consideration is the failing dynamics of the international tax infrastructure. Neoliberalism 2.0 brings a 21st century assessment of the Pigovian taxes, considering a completely new calibration of the international tax systems, inspired by the historically developed Pigovian tax model. The book considers the impact neoliberalism had a...

A practical approach to implementing IG in an organization Information Governance (IG) is a set of policies, procedures, and controls put together to manage information in an organization in a way that meets all legal, regulatory, operational, environmental, and risk requirements. Setting up an IG system helps a company's IT administrators, CIOs, compliance officers, corporate attorneys, and auditors stay on the same page and avoid legal or financial mistakes. This straightforward guide cuts th...

The knowledge and innovation meant for knowledge-based economies (KBEs) are branded as green knowledge and innovation/ethical human capital, blended with the natural system as modeled by the Quintuple Helix Model of Innovation. However, due to bureaucratic challenges and myths, conventional universities produce knowledge and innovation in the sense of traditional disciplinary knowledge, which are not adequate to meet the goals of sustainable development. This book provides a model for greening...

Developments in information technology (IT), particularly during the 1980s, have had a fundamental impact on anyone working in the financial field at whatever level. Indeed, many of today's newer accountants will never have known a working environment in which computerization has not played a major part in their day-to-day activities. Those with longer experience have had to adjust rapidly at the risk of being cast adrift in the wake of the changes which have swept through the profession. All of...

In today's high-pressured world, digital transformation is everywhere on the agendas of corporate boards and has risen to the top of CEOs' strategic plans. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and drones are some of the emerging technologies that are already transforming our world. In this fast changing domain- predicted by few and now reality for all how can companies transform today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities? This book is targeted to help...

This book presents the essential concepts of operations research and engineering management in a structured manner. Starting with the basic functions of management – planning, organizing, leading and controlling – it introduces the reader to the process of strategic decision-making, covering the essentials of technological invention management, innovation and entrepreneurship, with ample examples of decision-making under certainty, uncertainty and risk conditions. It also exposes the reader to t...