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Logical Data Modeling

LOGICAL DATA MODELING: What It Is and How To Do IT is directed toward three groups of people: (1) Business subject matter ...

Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure A Self-Optimising Approach

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing architectures ...

Managing Information Systems Security and Privacy

The book deals with the management of information systems security and privacy, based on a model that covers technological, ...

Market Engineering Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Information

This book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, ...

Measuring the Business Value of Cloud Computing

The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and ...

Modeling Semantic Web Services : The Web Service Modeling Language

In this book, Jos de Bruijn and his coauthors lay the foundations for understanding the requirements that shape the description ...

Negotiation, Auctions, and Market Engineering : International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 12-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the International Seminar "Negotiation and Market Engineering", held ...

Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprise

Network-Centric Service-Oriented Enterprise (NSCOE) is seen as heralding the next generation of mainstream Enterprise-business ...

Object-Oriented Information Systems

Ontologies-Based Business Integration

E-business integration is a vision we have developed over a long period of time. As we have worked in business practice for ...

Ontology Management : Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, and Business Applications

This volume describes relevant tasks, practical and theoretical challenges, limitations and methodologies, plus available ...

Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the workshops held in conjunction with ER 2005, the 24th International Conference ...

Product Lifecycle Management

This first book on Product Lifecycle Management in English language is designed to introduce the reader to the basic terms ...

Project E-Society: Building Bricks

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The ...

Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II : IFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2007) October 14–16, 2007, Beijing, China

This book includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; ...

Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II : Volume 2 IFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2007) October 14–16, 2007, Beijing, China

This book includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; ...

Semantic Service Provisioning

This book introduces advanced concepts in service provisioning and service engineering, including semantic concepts, dynamic ...

Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition

The workshop presented what can be achieved by the symbiotic s- thesis of two of the hottest R&D and technology application ...

Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 : 6th International Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 1-5, 2008. Proceedings

The book present original research in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results ...

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2005

The 2005 edition had the important and ambitious goal of bringing together the different communities working in Web services ...