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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
This volume is centered around the issue of market design and resulting market dynamics. The economic crisis of 2007-2009 has once again highlighted the importance of a proper design of market protocols and institutional details for economic dynamics and macroeconomics. Papers in this volume capture...
Variations of the Welfare State
Great Britain, Sweden, France and Germany Between Capitalism and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In the burgeoning literature on welfare regimes and typologies, this comparative study offers a stimulating new perspective. Kaufmann, the doyen of the sociology of social policy in Germany, emphasizes norms, culture and history, in contrast to political economy approaches. Comparing Britain, Sweden,...
Information Systems for eGovernment
A Quality-of-Service Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Written from a data-centric perspective, Information Systems for eGovernment presents a methodology that is grounded in computer science, but leveraged by sociological, organizational, economical, juridical analyses and methods. Examples and case studies are included, which illustrate the relevance of the approach.
A Course in In-Memory Data Management
The Inner Mechanics of In-Memory Databases
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts...
Business Performance Measurement and Management
New Contexts, Themes and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Measuring and managing the performance of a business is one of the most genuine desires of management. Balanced scorecard, the performance prism and activity-based management are the most popular frameworks in this setting. Based on the findings of R.G. Eccles’ acclaimed "Performance Measurement...
Crowdsourcing
Cloud-Based Software Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This book presents the latest research on the software crowdsourcing approach to develop large and complex software in a cloud-based platform. It develops the fundamental principles, management organization and processes, and a cloud-based infrastructure to support this new software development approach....
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...