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Agile Service Development
Combining Adaptive Methods and Flexible Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Economies around the globe have evolved into being largely service-oriented economies*.* Consumers no longer just want a printer or a car, they rather ask for a printing service or a mobility service. In addition, service-oriented organizations increasingly exploit new devices, technologies and infrastructures....
Performance Measurement
Linking Balanced Scorecard to Business Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) – the development and delivery of business insight for users and the management of execution based on that insight – are two solution-types that promise to bring great value to enterprises. Yet most organizations haven’t yet realized...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Requirements engineering is one of the most complex and at the same time most crucial aspects of software engineering. It typically involves different stakeholders with different backgrounds. Constant changes in both the problem and the solution domain make the work of the stakeholders extremely...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
In the late 1990s, researchers began to grasp that the roots of many information security failures can be better explained with the language of economics than by pointing to instances of technical flaws. This led to a thriving new interdisciplinary research field combining economic and engineering...
Handbook of Computational Statistics
Concepts and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
The Handbook of Computational Statistics - Concepts and Methods (second edition) is a revision of the first edition published in 2004, and contains additional comments and updated information on the existing chapters, as well as three new chapters addressing recent work in the field of computational...
Quantum Interaction
7th International Conference, QI 2013, Leicester, UK, July 25-27, 2013. Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2013, held in Leicester, UK, in July 2013. The 31 papers presented in this book were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover various topics on quantum interaction and...
Quantitative Sociodynamics
Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
When I wrote the book Quantitative Sociodynamics, it was an early attempt to make methods from statistical physics and complex systems theory fruitful for the modeling and understanding of social phenomena. Unfortunately, the ?rst edition appeared at a quite prohibitive price. This was one reason...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This book arises as the natural continuation of the International Spring School "Advances and Challenges in Space-Time modelling of Natural Events," which took place in Toledo (Spain) in March 2010. This Spring School above all focused on young researchers (Master students, PhD students...
by Mehmet Onur Fen, Marat Akhmet
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This book presents detailed descriptions of chaos for continuous-time systems. It is the first-ever book to consider chaos as an input for differential and hybrid equations. Chaotic sets and chaotic functions are used as inputs for systems with attractors: equilibrium points, cycles and tori. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics. The highly generic, interdisciplinary quality of the insights gained in the last few decades has spawned myriad applications in almost all branches of science and technology—and...
Natural Fabrications
Science, Emergence and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities. The almost infinite variety and...
How Can Physics Underlie the Mind?
Top-Down Causation in the Human Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as living beings, and in particular...
Complex Systems and Networks
Dynamics, Controls and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This elementary book provides some state-of-the-art research results on broad disciplinary sciences on complex networks. It presents an in-depth study with detailed description of dynamics, controls and applications of complex networks. The contents of this book can be summarized as follows. First,...
Statistical Physics
An Advanced Approach with Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The application of statistical methods to physics is essential. This unique book on statistical physics offers an advanced approach with numerous applications to the modern problems students are confronted with. Therefore the text contains more concepts and methods in statistics than the student would...