Applied computing

This book establishes and explores existing and emerging theories on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and the adoption of IT/IS.

This book outlines the most important characteristics of IEEE 802.

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Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services.

New Zope 3 is a web applications server written in Python that allows developing complex web applications rapidly and collaboratively.

Speed as a factor for success Our modern industrial society lives life in the fast lane.

The large-scale and almost ubiquitous availability of information has become as much of a curse as it is a blessing.

Form-based applications range from simple web shops to complex enterprise resource planning systems.

 What makes information useful?

The Advanced Planner and Optimiser (APO) is the software from SAP dedicated to supply chain management.

Process Management is a comprehensive compendium for the contemporary design of process-oriented organizations.

A decade ago Tim Berners-Lee proposed an extraordinary vision: despite the p- nomenal success of the Web, it would not, and could not, reach its full potential unless it became a place where automated processes could participate as well as people.

Augmented and virtual reality are media innovations with specific characteristics.

This book addresses the emergence of Interactive Natural Language Processing (iNLP) and its novel paradigm within the field of NLP and discusses the limitations in existing frameworks while aligning with the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence.

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This book provides an introduction to the various facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies.

Creating scientific workflow applications is a very challenging task due to the complexity of the distributed computing environments involved, the complex control and data flow requirements of scientific applications, and the lack of high-level languages and tools support.

Here we use the term "e;field"e; to refer to a sphere of practical operation, and correspondingly the term "e;field informatics"e; describes informatics tools and methodologies that arise in the field.

Information extraction (IE) and text summarization (TS) are powerful technologies for finding relevant pieces of information in text and presenting them to the user in condensed form.

The "e;EPCglobal Architecture Framework"e; is currently the most accepted technical approach to the Internet of Things and provides a solid foundation for building Business-to-Business information networks based on unique identifications of 'things'.

This book contains revised versions of papers presented on scientific workshop "e;Modeling Multi-commodity Trade: Information exchange methods"e;, which took place in November 2010 atWarsaw University of Technology.

Knowledge Representation plays an essential role in Semantic Web, in particular in automated information processing and communications among software agents.

This book analyzes extensive data on the world's rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies.

This book focusses on the after sales business and presents the Service Parts Planning (SPP) solution which was developed by SAP in a joint effort with Caterpillar and Ford in order to address the specific planning problems of service parts.

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic introduction to transforming process-oriented data into information about the underlying business process, which is essential for all kinds of decision-making.

This book represents a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with the semiotics, mathematical principles, and software for creativity processes.

This book presents an agile and model-driven approach to manage scientific workflows.

This book is the first of its kind in presenting comprehensive technical issues and solutions for rapidly growing Green IT.

Born after World War II, large-scale experimental high-energy physics (HEP) has found itself limited ever since by available accelerator, detector and computing technologies.

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Online social media have transformed the face of human interaction in the 21st century.

This second volume of the "e;Handbook of Digital Homecare"e; reviews the attempts to develop new ICT services for digital homecare, i.

Swamy Laxminarayan was an outstanding researcher active in many diverse fields of science and technology.

Spatial reasoning and planning is a core constituent in robotics, graphics, computer-aided design, and geographic information systems.

With the background of the 10 years' existence of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) the present book deals with the developments and results of European Public Health in Science and Practice.

Mass Customization excites both Researchers and Practitioners because of the possibility to produce customized products with mass production efficiency.

Like many other incipient technologies, Web services are still surrounded by a tremendous level of noise.

The requirements for production systems are constantly changing as a result of changing competitive conditions.

Content protection and digital rights management (DRM) are fields that receive a lot of attention: content owners require systems that protect and maximize their revenues; consumers want backwards compatibility, while they fear that content owners will spy on their viewing habits; and academics are afraid that DRM may be a barrier to knowledge sharing.

Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) is a highly effective and increasingly popular form of genetic programming.

The interaction of the solar and heat radiation with the atmosphere and surface is the subject of the book.

Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical, artistic, or architectural styles, and entire industries maintain themselves by continuously creating and marketing new styles.

Supervision, condition-monitoring, fault detection, fault diagnosis and fault management play an increasing role for technical processes and vehicles in order to improve reliability, availability, maintenance and lifetime.

The Internet's rapid diffusion and digitization of economic activities have led to the emergence of a new breed of criminals.

This book captures and communicates the wealth of architecture experience Capgemini has gathered as a member of The Open Group - a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium formed by major industry players - in developing, deploying, and using its "e;Integrated Architecture Framework"e; (IAF) since its origination in 1993.