Business mathematics and systems

This textbook describes the approaches used by software engineers to build quality into their software.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed scientific proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2014, held in Eichstatt, Germany, in April 2014.

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be "e;productive"e;, but it is far less clear what this exactly means.

Due to the increased global political importance of the nonprofit sector, its technological support and organizational characteristics have become important fields of research.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.

To enhance marketing analytics, approximate and inductive reasoning can be applied to handle uncertainty in individual marketing models.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2014, held in Essen, Germany, in April 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of nine international workshops held in Beijing, China, in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2013, in August 2013.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2014, held in Fuzhou, China, in May 2014.

How do firms jointly develop open information infrastructures?

Customer focus is the most important challenge of the future.

Aligning an organization's goals and strategies requires specifying their rationales and connections so that the links are explicit and allow for analytic reasoning about what is successful and where improvement is necessary.

This work is the definitive guide for IT managers and agile practitioners.

In 2007 INTEROP-VLab defined Enterprise Interoperability as "e;the ability of an enterprise system or application to interact with others at a low cost with a flexible approach"e;.

Service science constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to systematic innovation in service systems, integrating managerial, social, legal and engineering aspects to address the theoretical and practical challenges of the service industry and its economy.

This work deals with the applications of Semantic Publishing technologies in the legal domain, i.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2012, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2012.

Are you attracted by the promises of agile methods but put off by the fanaticism of many agile texts?

This book describes the trends in digital innovation that are of most importance for businesses and explores the key challenges.

This book presents latest research on the evolution of consumer services, as these services continue to become a larger part of the economy in the world.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2013, held in Singapore in November 2013.

The numeric values retrieved from a data warehouse may be difficult for business users to interpret, and may even be interpreted incorrectly.

This book presents and discusses the state of the art and future trends in software engineering education.

This book shows how companies like Google have reinvented the common practice in management in order to continuously innovate in fast changing industries.

Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better, and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes.

Natural language is one of the most important means of human communication.

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This book presents a novel approach to database concepts, describing a categorical logic for database schema mapping based on views, within a framework for database integration/exchange and peer-to-peer.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2012 held in Leixlip, Ireland, in December 2012 which was held in conjunction with the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, ERIC 2012.

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.

This book presents a series of twelve short interviews with inspiring practitioners and academics sharing insights in the world of process and transformation.

Since the peak of the world financial crisis in 2008, compliance management has gained more and more interest from practice and research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2013, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in December 2013.

Futurists and scientists alike profess the coming of a new era in the history - the knowledge era.

Software effort estimation is one of the oldest and most important problems in software project management, and thus today there are a large number of models, each with its own unique strengths and weaknesses in general, and even more importantly, in relation to the environment and context in which it is to be applied.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Software Quality Days Conference (SWQD) held in Vienna, Austria, in January 2014.

This textbook first introduces the reader to return measurement and then goes on to compare the time-weighted rate of return (TWR) with the money-weighted rate of return (MWR).

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The use of social media tools in the enterprise is expanding rapidly and yet, firms are still unclear about the overall value of this activity and how best to facilitate useful outcomes.

Recent achievements in hardware and software developments have enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management held in Beijing, China, in August 2013.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the workshops of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information, MobiWIS 2013, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in August 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2013, held in Fort Worth, TX, USA, in November 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2013, held in Indianapolis, IN, USA, in October 2013.

Companies have long sought to integrate existing Information Systems (IS) in order to support existing and potentially new business processes spread throughout their "e;territories"e; and possibly to collaborating organizations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2013, held in Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2013.

This book deals with the development of so-called fourth generation mobile communications or 4G.

This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet.

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

This book shows the patterns of the fuzzy front end of innovation and how it can be managed successfully.