Business mathematics and systems

The two-volume set LNCS 9722 and LNCS 9723 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2016, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in July 2016.

This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level.

The two-volume set LNCS 9722 and LNCS 9723 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2016, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in July 2016.

This book reports on the results of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary workshop on provenance that brought together researchers and practitioners from different areas such as archival science, law, information science, computing, forensics and visual analytics that work at the frontiers of new knowledge on provenance.

This edited book presents scientific results of the 15th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2016) which was held on June 26- 29 in Okayama, Japan.

This book provides theoretical and practical backgrounds for the digital creativity management and related Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) results on the basis of a set of realistic assumptions in which several topics such as knowledge network, diversity, individual creativity, team creativity, exploration and exploitation, and organizational creativity are discussed.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, SBP-BRiMS 2016, held in Washington, DC, USA, in June/July 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 6.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC), held in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, on May 30 - June 3, 2016.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of five international workshops held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2016, in June 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2016, held in Guildford, UK.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2016, and the 21st International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2016, held together with the 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2016) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2016, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016.

This book draws new attention to domain-specific conceptual modeling by presenting the work of thought leaders who have designed and deployed specific modeling methods.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, HAS 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016 and received a total of 4354 submissions, of which 1287 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2016, held in St.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International IFIP WG 2.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.

The book presents a conceptually novel oscillations based paradigm, the Oscillation-Based Multi-Agent System (OSIMAS), aimed at the modelling of agents and their systems as coherent, stylized, neurodynamic processes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2016.

This book examines the impact of digital innovation on organizations.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching business statistics effectively.

There are two different, interdependent components of IT that are important to a CIO: strategy, which is long-term; and tactical and operational concerns, which are short-term.

This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany.

Thorough and continuous architecting is the key to overall success in software engineering, and architecture evaluation is a crucial part of it.

This volume discusses digital diplomacy and artificial intelligence within the context of global governance and international security.

This book presents a variant of UML that is especially suitable for agile development of high-quality software.

This book provides a practical approach to designing and implementing a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy.

This book presents the latest on the theoretical approach of the contemporary issues evolved in strategic marketing and the integration of theory and practice.

This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background.

This volume contains the refereed joint proceedings of two initiatives that have been devoted to the formal foundations of complex systems: the workshops WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 and WS-FM/BEAT 2015.

This book examines the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play in growth and economic development promotion, specifically for developing countries.

This book constitutesrevised selected papers from the 10th International Conference on CriticalInformation Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, inOctober 2015.

This volume contains the technical papers presented in the seven high-quality workshops associated with the European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2015, held in Taormina, Italy, in September 2015: Third International Workshop on Cloud for IoT (CLloT 2015), 5th International Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2015), Second Workshop on Seamless Adaptive Multi-cloud Management of Service-Based Applications (SeaClouds 2015), First International Workshop on Cloud Adoption and Migration (CloudWay 2015), First International Workshop on Digital Enterprise Architecture and Engineering (IDEA 2015), First Workshop on Federated Cloud Networking (FedCloudNet 2015).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 5.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second InternationalConference on Decision Support Systems Technology, ICDSST 2016, held inPlymouth, UK, May 23-25.

This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the 'ERP Future 2015' conference held in Munich, Germany on November 16-17, 2015.

Thistextbook approaches optimization from a multi-aspect, multi-criteria perspective.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held in Bucharest, Romania, in May 2016.

This book examines the changing business andeconomic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcomingchallenges for this industry.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on InformationSecurity Applications, WISA 2015, held on Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2015.

This illuminating text/reference surveys the state of the art in data science, and provides practical guidance on big data analytics.

Inthis book, leading CEOs, CIOs and experts from international corporationsexplore the role of digitalization and cloud-based processes as the mainbusiness drivers of the 21st century.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Risks andSecurity of Internet Systems, CRiSIS 2015, held in Mytilene, Lesbos Island,Greece, in July 2015.

This book identifies, analyzes and discusses the current trends of digitalized, decentralized, and networked physical value creation by focusing on the particular example of 3D printing.

This book focuses on the design, development, management, governance and application of evolving software processes that are aligned with changing business objectives, such as expansion to new domains or shifting to global production.

This bookconstitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on theTheory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2016,held in Fes, Morooco, in April 2016.

This book presents state-of-the-art results and methodologies in modern global optimization, and has been a staple reference for researchers, engineers, advanced students (also in applied mathematics), and practitioners in various fields of engineering.

This book attempts to address, explore, and conceptualize the epistemological paradigms of SMS as an alternative marketing channel or in combination with other existing traditional channels.