Category: Management Information Systems

By Veselin Rakocevic, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Luigi Telesca

This quantity includes the court cases of the 1st foreign ICST convention on electronic company (DigiBiz 2009), hosted through urban collage London in London, united kingdom. This annual occasion had the most goal to stimulate and disseminate study effects and experimentation on destiny electronic company to a much wider multidisciplinary discussion board that might permit the individuals to move the bounds among examine and enterprise. The medical delivering in e-business, e-commerce, and ICT regularly is kind of wide and spans many various examine topics, regarding a number of groups and me- odologies. the expansion and dynamic nature of those learn topics pose either ch- lenges and possibilities. The demanding situations are in having scientists and practitioners check with one another: although they paintings on related difficulties they generally use very various languages when it comes to study instruments and techniques. The possibilities nonetheless come up whilst scientists and practitioners have interaction in multidisciplinary d- cussions resulting in new principles, tasks and items.

By Hugh Taylor

The enjoyment of SOX examines how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), decried as a painful dampener of commercial agility and innovation, in addition to an incredible waste of cash, can really be a catalyst for badly wanted switch in American undefined. concentrating on the serious nexus among details expertise and company operations and the emergence of the progressive Service-Oriented structure, this publication indicates businesses how you can upward thrust to the problem of SOX and use the laws as for imposing much-needed IT infrastructure alterations.

By Tel G.

The second one variation of this profitable textbook offers an updated creation either to disbursed algorithms and to the idea in the back of them. The transparent presentation makes the publication appropriate for complicated undergraduate or graduate classes, whereas the assurance is satisfactorily deep to make it priceless for training engineers and researchers. the writer concentrates on algorithms for the point-to-point message passing version and contains algorithms for the implementation of machine communique networks. new chapters on experience of course and failure detectors are cutting-edge and should offer an access to analyze in those still-developing themes

By Michael Haug, Eric W. Olsen, Luisa Consolini

This booklet is end result of the the eu adventure alternate (EUREX) undertaking backed through the eu platforms and software program Initiative for software program most sensible perform in Europe. The EUREX venture analyzed the commercial and financial effect and the typical facets and ameliorations among and between greater than three hundred software program method development Experiments subsidized via the EU.
the present quantity bargains a number of views on software program caliber matters due to that evaluation, together with checking out, verification and validation. This region represents one of many "great unknowns" in software program improvement within the experience that many companies, particularly small and medium-sized organizations, don't have any functional technique addressing those concerns. accordingly, this booklet is especially significant for software program practitioners in such corporations, together with either builders and line managers.

By José Cordeiro, Yannis Manolopoulos, Joaquim Filipe, Panos Constantopoulos

This booklet comprises the conscientiously chosen top papers of the eighth overseas convention on company info Sysetms, ICEIS 2006, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in may possibly 2006.

The four invited papers and 27 revised and chosen papers offered during this quantity disguise assorted features on the topic of company computing. They have been chosen from sixty three authorized papers (out of greater than four hundred submissions). The contributions are grouped in sections on databases and data structures integration; synthetic intelligence and determination aid platforms; details platforms research and specification; software program brokers and web computing; and human-computer interplay.

By Waseem Afzal (Auth.)

This ebook is an important step in the direction of constructing a physique of administration wisdom pertinent to the context of Library details technology (LIS) and offers a succinct yet deep account of administration and data firms. administration of data enterprises provides a large view of the data organisations and the character of administration in those firms, and the way details execs are suffering from such administration platforms. The publication equips the reader with the data that may permit them to strengthen a robust highbrow starting place on the subject of administration and its manifestation in a knowledge association and gives an important step in the direction of constructing a physique of administration wisdom pertinent to the context of LIS.

• Provides a origin of the middle suggestions (i.e., administration, details, enterprises, info firms, and the position of data pros in organizations)
• Brings a multi-disciplinary point-of-view to the reader: recommendations may be drawn from administration, organizational thought, details technology, buyer behaviour, and economics. they are going to be used to provide the complete thesis of the book
• A mix of either theoretical and sensible views could be showcased

This sequence of 5 volumes proposes an built-in description of actual methods modeling utilized by clinical disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. quantity 1 describes the actual tactics and identifies the most dimension units used to degree the most parameters which are fundamental to enforce most of these simulation tools. Volume 2 provides the various theories in an built-in method: mathematical versions in addition to conceptual types, utilized by all disciplines to symbolize those tactics. quantity three identifies the most numerical equipment utilized in these kind of clinical fields to translate mathematical types into numerical instruments. quantity four consists of a chain of case reviews, devoted to functional purposes of those instruments in engineering difficulties. to accomplish this presentation, quantity five identifies and describes the modeling software program in each one discipline.Content:
Chapter 1 constructing the Flood Alert Map (pages 1–20): Christophe Calas, Jean?Michel Tanguy and Francois Bressand
Chapter 2 new release of a Flood in a quick Basin (Gard 2002) (pages 21–28): Georges?Marie Saulnier
Chapter three Forecasting a Flood in a Branched community (Aude 1999) (pages 29–36): Jean?Michel Soubeyroux
Chapter four Hydrological Modeling Spatialized on Mediterranean River Basins. program in Flood Forecasting (pages 37–45): Arthur Marchandise and Christophe Bouvier
Chapter five Ensemble Hydrological Forecasting and Alert with the eu Flood Alert procedure (EFAS): Case of the Danube Basin Floods in August 2005 (pages 47–61): Maria?Helena Ramos, Jutta Thielen and advert De Roo
Chapter 6 Propagation of a Flood in a Branched community (Marne 1999) (pages 63–72): Patrick Chasse
Chapter 7 Flood Propagation in a Looped community (Wateringues) (pages 73–81): Jean?Baptiste Faure
Chapter eight new release and Propagation of a Flash Flood on a River Basin (Aude 1999) (pages 83–92): Jacques Chorda and Marie Madeleine Maubourguet
Chapter nine Dynamics of the Flooding of Floodable Flatlands (Aude 1999) (pages 93–99): Jean?Michel Tanguy
Chapter 10 Failure of a Dike in a Flood surroundings (Agly 1999) (pages 101–112): Andre Paquier
Chapter eleven Flooding by means of Groundwater Upwelling at Remiremont (Moselle) (pages 113–122): Philippe Sergent
Chapter 12 NAVMER: send course Simulator (pages 123–139): Yann Hollocou and Son Ha Lam
Chapter thirteen interplay among floor and Subsurface Flows: Somme Basin (pages 141–156): Dominique Thiery
Chapter 14 Hydrogeological Modeling of the Karst method at the Lez River (Montpellier) (pages 157–164): Nathalie Dorfliger, Perrine Fleury, Bernard Ladouche and Herve Jourde
Chapter 15 Hydraulic learn of the Marseille Vieux?Port River Basin (pages 165–181): Frederic Pons
Chapter sixteen Hydraulic learn of the Aude River within the Carcassonne Crossing (pages 183–191): Arielle Masson
Chapter 17 Failure of a Dike in an city surroundings: Amboise (pages 193–198): Jean?Michel Tanguy
Chapter 18 examine for the Prevention of hazards linked to the Dikes of the Rhone and the Saone on Land Belonging to the Lyon city neighborhood (pages 199–207): Olivier Bertrand
Chapter 19 Real?Time Estuary Modeling (Adour Maritime) (pages 209–218): Jerome Schoorens and Etienne Le Pape
Chapter 20 Operational Modeling of the Hydrodynamic Functioning of the Gironde Estuary (pages 219–230): Reginald Sarralde
Chapter 21 3D Modeling of Salinity and Sediment Suspension within the Loire Estuary: Coupling of tactics (pages 231–243): Regis Walther and Eric David
Chapter 22 Numerical Modeling of Sea States (pages 245–258): Bertrand Michard
Chapter 23 Taking Sea States under consideration in Offshore Racing (pages 259–263): Sylvain Mondon and Jean?Michel Lefevre
Chapter 24 Agitation research for Roscoff?Bloscon Marina (pages 265–275): Pascal Lebreton
Chapter 25 Swell Agitation at Dunkirk's Western Port (pages 277–284): Pierre Debaillon
Chapter 26 learn of Water caliber within the Seine (pages 285–299): Patrick Goblet and Stephanie Even
Chapter 27 glide Forecasts for the Erika and status Oil Spills (pages 301–308): Pierre Daniel
Chapter 28 Evolution of River Beds: instance of the Arc River (pages 309–321): Andre Paquier
Chapter 29 Modeling of Seabed Sediments Resuspension within the Dover Strait (pages 323–330): Nicolas Guillou and Georges Chapalain
Chapter 30 Evolution of Beds round a Breakwater (pages 331–339): Jean?Michel Tanguy
Chapter 31 venture to “Restore the Maritime personality of the Mont?Saint?Michel” Hydrosedimentary reports (pages 341–359): Eric Lagroy De Croutte

By Amihai Motro, Igor Rakov (auth.), Troels Andreasen, Henning Christiansen, Henrik Legind Larsen (eds.)

Flexible question Answering Systems is an edited number of contributed chapters. It makes a speciality of constructing computers in a position to remodeling a question into a solution with necessary info. The emphasis is on difficulties linked to high-level clever answering structures.
The assurance is multidisciplinary with chapters via authors from details technology, common sense, fuzzy structures, databases, man made intelligence and data illustration. each one contribution represents a conception related to flexibility in query-answering, and every addresses particular answering difficulties. insurance contains issues similar to fuzzy units in versatile querying, non-standard database interactions, metareasoning and brokers, etc.
Contributions for this quantity have been written by means of best researchers from their respective topic components, together with Patrick Bosc, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Amihai Motro, Henri Prade and Ron Yager, between others.
Flexible question Answering Systems is a well timed contribution for researchers engaged on high-level question mechanism systems.

By Carlo Batini

Poor facts caliber can heavily prevent or harm the potency and effectiveness of corporations and companies. The growing to be information of such repercussions has resulted in significant public tasks just like the "Data caliber Act" within the united states and the "European 2003/98" directive of the ecu Parliament.

Batini and Scannapieco current a accomplished and systematic advent to the extensive set of concerns regarding facts caliber. they begin with an in depth description of other information caliber dimensions, like accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and their significance in numerous different types of info, like federated info, net information, or time-dependent info, and in numerous facts different types categorised in accordance with frequency of switch, like reliable, long term, and regularly altering information. The book's large description of ideas and methodologies from middle info caliber examine in addition to from comparable fields like information mining, likelihood thought, statistical information research, and computer studying provides an exceptional assessment of the present state-of-the-art. The presentation is finished via a quick description and demanding comparability of instruments and functional methodologies, in order to aid readers to solve their very own caliber problems.

This e-book is a perfect mix of the stability of theoretical foundations and the applicability of functional ways. it really is very best for everybody – researchers, scholars, or execs – drawn to a complete evaluate of information caliber concerns. moreover, it is going to function the foundation for an introductory path or for self-study in this topic.

By Mario Piattini