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Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce

Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, ...

GeoSpatial Semantics

This paper reports a simple case study of extracting the two types of such hierarchies from formal texts of traffic code. ...

Grid Computing : Achievements and Prospects : Achievements and Prospects

Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects, the 9th edited volume of the CoreGRID series, includes selected papers from the ...

Grid Economics and Business Models : 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008. Proceedings

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models, ...

Grid Middleware and Services : Challenges and Solutions

This book aims to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid Computing. The main ...

Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use (vol. # 3706)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Groupware, CRIWG 2005, held in Porto ...

Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems

This book is the first volume of a running series under the title Inter- tional Handbooks on Information Systems. The series ...

Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

A Combined System for Update Logic and Belief Revision.- Using Messaging Structure to Evolve Agents Roles in Electronic Markets.- ...

JDF

The arrival of PDF has successfully optimized certain elements of the production workflow – the next challenge facing the ...

Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (vol. # 3684)

Dear delegates,friendsand membersofthe growingKES professionalcommunity,w- come to the proceedings of the 9th International ...

Lean Brain Management : More Success and Efficiency by Saving Intelligence

Intelligence is wasted on problems that themselves have been caused by an excess of intelligence. Lean Brain Management strives ...

Metagraphs and Their Applications

The graph is a critical and useful concept in designing many information processing systems. Systems such as transaction ...

Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Distributed Computing Environments

This volume presents meta-heuristics approaches for Grid scheduling problems. Due to the complex nature of the problem, meta-heuristics ...

Metalearning : Applications to Automated Machine Learning and Data Mining

This book as one of the fastest-growing areas of research in machine learning, metalearning studies principled methods to ...

Microsoft Content Management Server Field Guide

Microsoft Content Management Server Field Guide provides simple crisis-management instructions for intermediate- to advanced-level ...

Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

This book takes exactly this step: it shows you how to apply the pattern ideas in business applications and presents more ...

Object-Oriented Information Systems

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE (vol. # 4275)

This two-volume set LNCS 4275/4276 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four confederated conferences CoopIS 2006, ...

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE (vol. # 4276)

A two-volume set, which constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four confederated conferences CoopIS 2006, DOA 2006, ...

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS

This two-volume set LNCS 4803/4804 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five confederated international conferences ...