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Enabling Semantic Web Services

Service-oriented computing has become one of the predominant factors in current IT research and development. Web services ...

Endogenous Public Policy and Contests

This book studies endogenous policy determination focusing on the role of interest groups and their lobbying efforts in the ...

Energy and American Society – Thirteen Myths

This book takes on a central quandary in the study of energy and environmental policy: What myths continue to exist in American ...

Engineering Interactive Systems : EIS 2007 Joint Working Conferences, EHCI 2007, DSV-IS 2007, HCSE 2007, Salamanca, Spain, March 22-24, 2007. Selected Papers

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the WG2.7/13.4 10th Conference on Engineering Human Computer Interaction ...

Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

This book reflects philosophically about the socio-political dimension of economics. Part I provides normative reflections ...

Farewell to the Party Model? : Independent Local Lists in East and West European Countries

Local independent lists are a general phenomenon on the local level in many European countries – in established Western ...

Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector / Gary Bandy

Public sector managers are confronted daily with targets and demands that are often set in confusing accounting and financial ...

Foundations for Local Governance

Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not ...

Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities

This book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in ...

Informing Digital Futures

In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired, some ...

Innovation and Technology in Korea

Only inadequately perceived by the Western public, Korea has transformed into an economic heavy weight during recent decades. ...

Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies

Chapters of this book offer a careful selection of the best contributions to the Italian Association for Information Systems ...

International Organizations in Global Social Governance

This book enhances and systematizes our understanding of IOs in global social governance. It provides studies on a variety ...

Liberal Democracy Prosperity through Freedom

This book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people ...

Linked Open Data -- Creating Knowledge Out of Interlinked Data : Results of the LOD2 Project

Linked Open Data (LOD) is a pragmatic approach for realizing the Semantic Web vision of making the Web a global, distributed, ...

Managing Information Quality

It still holds true: information is not always the answer. Information is often part of the problem. While the main goal ...

Mobile Information Systems II

This book contains the proceedings of the second IFIP TC8 Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems which was held ...

Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child : An Analysis of Attributes

This book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of ...

Narrating China's Governance Stories in Xi Jinping's Speeches

This book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, ...

New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research

Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations ...

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