Business applications Books

This book introduces the quantum mechanical framework to information retrieval scientists seeking a new perspective on foundational problems. As such, it concentrates on the main notions of the quantum mechanical framework and describes an innovative...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2014, held in Rome, Italy in September 2014. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and...

SebastianGörg introduces social workflows as a new application domain for Process-AwareInformation Systems and draws the design of a social workflow platform thatenables private individuals to make use of workflow technology in theireveryday lives...

The ARIS architecture developed here is described in concrete terms as an information model within the entity-relationship approach. This information model, in turn, serves as the basis for the systematic and rational ...

Modern information technology has opened up new possibilities of flexibilization and cost reduction in production. The author defines CIM - Computer Integrated Manufacturing - as a concept for the structuring of industrial...

Der Einsatz von Software-Entwicklungsumgebungen in Unternehmen ist heute eine zentrale Aufgabe des Informationsmanagements. Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine umfassende Beschreibung der Vorgehensweise bei der Auswahl und...

In vielen Organisationen steht die Ablösung bestehender EDV-Netzwerke durch Windows 2000 bevor. Dieser praxisorientierte Leitfaden unterstützt Sie bei der Durchführung eines solchen Projektes.- Neben den Grundregeln für...

Kundennähe und Kundenorientierung gelten als Schlüsselfaktoren zum Geschäftserfolg. Dies impliziert eine konsequente Ausrichtung von unternehmensinternen und -übergreifenden Geschäftsprozessen auf den "König Kunde". Mit diesem...

This book collects together several of the tutorials held at EUROGRAPHICS'89 in Hamburg. The conference was held under the motto "Integration, Visualisation, Interaction" and the tutorials reflect the conference theme. The...

Originally entitled the "PostScript and Acrobat Bible" in German, this handbook achieves the seemingly impossible: it covers this tricky and technical field in an entertaining manner without getting bogged down in PostScript...

Geschäftsvorgänge werden zunehmend elektronisch abgewickelt. Electronic Commerce, Internet Banking und Global Supply Chain Management sind nur Beispiele dafür, in welcher atemberaubenden Geschwindigkeit sich Wirtschaft und...

​This Festschrift in honour of Ursula Gather's 60th birthday deals with modern topics in the field of robust statistical methods, especially for time series and regression analysis, and with statistical methods for complex data structures. The individual...

This book Algebraic Modeling Systems - Modeling and Solving Real World Optimization Problems - deals with the aspects of modeling and solving real-world optimization problems in a unique combination. It treats systematically the major algebraic modeling...

The theme of the meeting was "Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-Sets". In recent years there has been increasing interest in this subject; in fact a huge quantity of information is often available but standard statistical techniques are...

The interaction of the solar and heat radiation with the atmosphere and surface is the subject of the book. It is useful also for wide circle scientists involved in environmental studies. The book contains the description of 17 computer studying programs...

The dependence on quality software in all areas of life is what makes software engineering a key discipline for today's society. Thus, over the last few decades it has been increasingly recognized that it is particularly important to demonstrate the...

With the proliferation of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data on the Web, the importance of information retrieval (IR) has grown considerably over the last few years. Big players in the computer industry, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are the...

Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2012) and the 17th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems...

Soft computing, as an engineering science, and statistics, as a classical branch of mathematics, emphasize different aspects of data analysis.Soft computing focuses on obtaining working solutions quickly, accepting approximations and unconventional...

The resilience of computing systems includes their dependability as well as their fault tolerance and security. It defines the ability of a computing system to perform properly in the presence of various kinds of disturbances and to recover from any...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Intelligence, ICMMSC 2012, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India, in March 2012.The 62 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed...

This book starts with the basic concepts of fuzzy sets and progresses through a normative view on possibility distributions and OWA operators in multiple criteria decisions. Five applications (that all build on experience from solving complex real...

Commercial Web search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing are used every day by millions of people across the globe. With their ever-growing refinement and usage, it has become increasingly difficult for academic researchers to keep up with the...

This proposed text appears to be a good introduction to evolutionary computation for use in applied statistics research. The authors draw from a vast base of knowledge about the current literature in both the design of evolutionary algorithms and...

Due to the fast growth of the Web and the difficulties in finding desired information, efficient and effective information retrieval systems have become more important than ever, and the search engine has become an essential tool for many people.The...

Permutation and bootstrap statistics under infinite variance.- Max-Stable Processes: Representations, Ergodic Properties and Statistical Applications.- Best attainable rates of convergence for the estimation of the memory parameter.- Harmonic analysis...

Decision making arises when we wish to select the best possible course of action from a set of alternatives. With advancements of the digital technologies, it is easy, and almost instantaneous, to gather a large volume of...

Grain boundaries are important structural components of polycrystalline materials used in the vast majority of technical applications. Because grain boundaries form a continuous network throughout such materials, their...

Digitising personal information is changing our ways of identifying persons and managing relations. What used to be a "natural" identity, is now as virtual as a user account at a web portal, an email address, or a mobile phone...

Modern economies depend on innovation in services for their future growth. Service innovation increasingly depends on information technology and digitization of information processes. Designing new services is a complex matter,...

Modeling.- A Unified Description for Stochastic Discrete Event Systems.- Stochastic Timed Automata.- Queuing Models.- Simple Petri Nets.- Colored Petri Nets.- Evaluation.- Standard Quantitative Evaluation Methods for SDES.- An Iterative Approximation...

The industrial society is fast becoming an information society. As a result, many companies are experiencing serious difficulties in developing the new internal structures required. The increasing use of information technology...

The ATOP (Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability) workshop series focuses on technologies that support interoperability in networked organizations, on successful applications of these...

In the era of continuous changes in internal organizationalsettings and external business environments - such as new regulations and business opportunities - modern enterprises are subject to extensive research and study. For...

the virtually unlimited possibilities of modern information and communication technology. Future enterprises will therefore have to operate in an ever more dynamic and global environment. They need to be more agile, more...

2008wasa disastrousyear for the ?nancial servicesindustry. Likean earthquake that measured 10+ on the Richter scale, the industry and the markets were globallyseverelyshaken-many?nancialinstitutions wentbankrupt, weretaken...

This volume presents the proceedings of the Third International Sanskrit C- putational Linguistics Symposium hosted by the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad,IndiaduringJanuary15-17,2009.TheseriesofsymposiaonSanskrit ...

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment in order to improve productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to...

This insightful book presents new and innovative business models that are increasingly becoming a key to business success in a rapidly changing world. It details new and appropriate analytics, frameworks, insights, and...

Knowledge management promises concepts and instruments that help organizations support knowledge creation, sharing and application. This book offers a comprehensive account of the many facets, concepts and theories that have...

later versions. In addition, the CD-ROM contains a complete solutions manual that includes detailed solutions to all the problems in the book. If the reader does not wish to consult these solutions, then a brief list of answers...

The expectation for the future of the 21st century enterprise is complexity and agility. In this digital age, business processes are scattered not only throu- out the labyrinth of their own enterprises, but also across di?erent...