Multiagent Engineering (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
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...
Experiencing MIS Plus Mymislab with Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package
by David M Kroenke and Randall J. Boyle
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Regressionsanalyse Mit SPSS (de Gruyter Studium)
by Christian Fg Schendera
This book assesses the capabilities and benefits of connecting people, processes, data and things into the Internet of Everything (IoE). It begins by surveying the government and industrial sectors for current social and business challenges that are solvable using IoE. Within this section, the business and technology drivers for making the switch to IoE are covered. Examples include: rapid increases in the number and types of IP enabled devices, volume of new data streams emanating from these ne...
Principles of Information Systems
Commercializing Innovation: Turning Technology Breakthroughs into Products shows how to turn ideas from R&D labs, universities, patent offices, and inventors into commercially successful products and services. Commercializing technology has never been easy, and it's getting tougher all the time. All the decisions you need to make are complicated by today's breakneck rates of change in enabling technology and by competitive pressures disseminated globally at the speed of the internet: Where to g...
Future Telco (Management for Professionals)
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...
Social Computing
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...
Applied Parallel Computing. Industrial Computation and Optimization (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #1184)
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...
Polymers in Information Storage Technology
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...
Corporations accumulate a lot of valuable data and knowledge over time, but storing and maintaining this data can be a logistic and financial headache for business leaders and IT specialists. Uncovering Essential Software Artifacts through Business Process Archaeology introduces an emerging method of software modernisation used to effectively manage legacy systems and company operations supported by such systems. This book presents methods, techniques, and new trends on business process archaeo...
A Comprehensive Report on Strategic Trends in Supply Chain Information Techonology
by Vivek Sood
Enhancing the Modern Organization through Information Technology Professionals
As IT professionals are depended upon to stay up-to-date on ever changing technology processes, they are essential in the functionality of an organisation. Enhancing the Modern Organization through Information Technology Professionals: Research, Studies, and Techniques presents research from the perspective of the information technology professional and illustrates the profession's influence on enhancing the modern organisation. This comprehensive collection will play a vital role with practiti...
Neoliberalism 2.0: Regulating and Financing Globalizing Markets
by Luc Nijs
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...
Go! with Office 2013 Volume 1 & Technology in Action, Complete Package
by Shelley Gaskin, Alicia Vargas, and Carolyn McLellan
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...
Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization: The Latin American Experience (Latin American Development Forum)
by Augusto de la Torre and Sergio Schmukler
I.T.Management Handbook (CIMA Professional Handbook)
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...
It is the goal of researchers to seek to explore the issues, challenges and problems inherent in developing an understanding of knowledge management and mapping in the context of the learning organization. The examination of the organizational, human and technological aspects of managing knowledge is key within this discipline. Based on the completion of the latest knowledge, research and practices being defined by leading scholars, practitioners and experts, Knowledge Mapping and Management pre...