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Model-Driven Risk Analysis
The CORAS Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
The term “risk” is known from many fields, and we are used to references to contractual risk, economic risk, operational risk, legal risk, security risk, and so forth. We conduct risk analysis, using either offensive or defensive approaches to identify and assess risk. Offensive approaches are...
Desert Regions
Population, Migration and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Despite the common understanding of the importance of desert development in the contemporary world, there are relatively few books published to date on this sub ject. The books and collective volumes published in this field deal primarily with environmental and physical aspects of desert development...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Metropolitan commercial real estate markets are highly influenced by global forces, the regional economy, and institutional behaviour. While descriptions of regional commercial real estate markets are well known and widespread in academic literature, this monograph goes beyond that in explaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
This book examines emerging hypotheses, new methods and theoretic developments in regional economic development. It offers a diverse set of case studies, ranging from a focus on Europe, Central and East Asia and North America.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This book addresses the topic of urban models with reference to large western cities and particularly to global cities. In the current transitional phase, the use of language and the systematization of phenomena has become important. The book’s matrix examines two important and strongly connected...
by Jérôme Euzenat, Pavel Shvaiko
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services, or social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in...
Supply Chain Transformation
Evolving with Emerging Business Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Today, supply chain transformation for creating customer value continues to be a priority for many companies, as it enables them to gain a competitive advantage. While value creation is shaped by external drivers such as market volatility, technology, product and service offering and disruption, it...
Digital-Forensics and Watermarking
12th International Workshop, IWDW 2013, Auckland, New Zealand, October 1-4, 2013. Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2013, held in Auckland, New Zealand, during October 2013. The 24 full and 13 poster papers, presented together with 2 abstracts, were carefully reviewed and...
Sales Excellence
Systematic Sales Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This book presents a very novel and strategic approach to Sales Management, an area that has suffered from a lack of sophistication in practice. This content-rich and thought-provoking book has a very unique positioning: It considers the sales performance of an organization at a very high, strategic...
Process Innovation: Enabling Change by Technology
Basic Principles and Methodology: A Management Manual and Textbook with Exercises and Review Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This management manual and textbook introduces the theoretical basics of process management and provides a procedural model for process innovation. The procedural model makes it possible to develop customer-oriented processes in a structured manner and to design them in order to meet changing requirements....
by Meng Liang
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book primarily discusses what could make the economy remain stable and increase the level of coordination, both on the demand and supply side, a fascinating question for economists. In this context, it systematically analyzes the theory of consumption and production growth. Most of the existing...
Advances in Spatial Data Handling
10th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book, entitled Advances in Spatial Data Handling, is a compendium of papers resulting from the International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), held in Ottawa, Canada, July 9-12, 2002. The SDH conference series has been organised as one of the main activities of the International Geographical...
The Reality of M&A Governance
Transforming Board Practice for Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Empirical research shows that two thirds – some claim even four fifths – of all acquisitions fail. Bad acquisitions can spell disaster for a company, but if successful, they can lead to healthy growth, enhanced competitiveness and a world market position. Despite the vast amount of academic...
Simulating Social Complexity
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language approaches inadequate for relating intricate cause and effect. However, individual- and agent-based...