Business mathematics and systems

This book is a result of the ISD'99, Eight International Conference on Infonnation Systems Development-Methods and Tools, Theory, and Practice held August 11-13, 1999 in Boise, Idaho, USA.

It can be said that the concept of performance of social systems is one of the most relevant, since all social systems - from the family, through the enterprise, to the Nation state - are only interesting in obtaining as high a performance as possible.

Biometrics-based authentication and identification are emerging as the most reliable method to authenticate and identify individuals.

Information security is receiving a great deal of attention as computers increasingly process more and more sensitive information.

Marketing management support systems are designed to make marketing managers more effective decision makers in this electronic era.

Throughout the development of mathematical programming researchers have paid great attention to problems that are described by a single objective that can only be achieved subject to satisfying a set of restrictions or constraints.

This collection of papers is the result of a workshop sponsored by NATO's Defense Research Group Panel 8 in the Fall of 1991.

Published in honour of the 70th birthday of Yoh-Han Pao, George S.

TQM AND TAYLORISM; HOW THEY COMPARE H.

The emergence of high-performance computers and sophisticated software tech- nology has led to significant advances in the development and application of operations research.

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Scheduling is a resource allocation problem which exists in virtually every type of organization.

Modern computing management systems and application programs are often de- signed as open systems.

Organisational semiotics is a discipline that is concerned with the interrelationships between individuals and groups, and between humans and technology, functioning in organisations and society.

Because of their mutually influencing interactions, information systems and modern manufacturing systems are intertwined.

Welcome to the second volume of the Kluwer International Series on ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SECURITY.

This work is a revision of the doctoral dissertation of Eduardo Mena pre- sented to the Department of Computer Science and System Engineering at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in November 1998 [Mena 98].

Recent Advances in RSA Cryptography surveys the most important achievements of the last 22 years of research in RSA cryptography.

Practical Performance Modeling: Application of the MOSEL Language introduces the new and powerful performance and reliability modeling language MOSEL (MOdeling, Specification and Evaluation Language), developed at the University of Erlangen, Germany.

The principle aim of this book, entitled "e;Operations ResearchlManagement Science at Work"e;, is to provide a summary snapshot of recent research in and applications of Operations Research (OR)/ Management Science (MS) in the Asia-pacific region.

Coordination And Communication Using Signs: Studies in Organisational Semiotics is a cutting-edge volume that bridges the gap between the technical and social aspects of information systems and information technology.

Biometric Solutions for Authentication in an E-World provides a collection of sixteen chapters containing tutorial articles and new material in a unified manner.

Disseminating Security Updates at Internet Scale describes a new system, "e;Revere"e;, that addresses these problems.

Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories presents models, methods, and techniques for building, managing and using corporate memories.

Data mining is becoming a pervasive technology in activities as diverse as using historical data to predict the success of a marketing campaign, looking for patterns in financial transactions to discover illegal activities or analyzing genome sequences.

Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business.

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This book is a result of ISD2000-The Ninth International Conference on Infor- mation Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held August 14-16, in Kristiansand, Norway.

Welcome to the proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of the UK Systems Society being held at York University, United Kingdom from July 7th to 10th, 2002.

This book is a result of the Tenth International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2001) held at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, during September 5-7, 2001.

Grid Resource Management: State of the Art and Future Trends presents an overview of the state of the field and describes both the real experiences and the current research available today.

In Decision Modelling And Information Systems: The Information Value Chain the authors explain the interrelationships between the decision support, decision modelling, and information systems.

Multifractal Based Network Traffic Modeling provides an overview of existing broadband traffic modeling based on the Poisson process and its variants like the MM1 models.

Synchronizing E-Security is a critical investigation and empirical analysis of studies conducted among companies that support electronic commerce transactions in both advanced and developing economies.

Advances in social science research methodologies and data analytic methods are changing the way research in information systems is conducted.

This edited book collects state-of-the-art research related to large-scale data analytics that has been accomplished over the last few years.

As a foreword, here we publish an email letter of Late Professor Herb Simon, Nobel Laureate, that he wrote on the occasion ofthe death of the fatherofa friend.

Over the past years, business schools have been experimenting with distance learning and online education.

Computer-Supported Collaboration with Applications to Software Development reviews the theory of collaborative groups and the factors that affect collaboration, particularly collaborative software development.

Dynamic Routing in Broadband Networks focuses on routing in broadband networks based on MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode).

Secure Electronic Voting is an edited volume, which includes chapters authored by leading experts in the field of security and voting systems.

This book is the result of the 11 th International Conference on Information Systems Development -Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held in Riga, Latvia, September 12-14,2002.

E-Business covers a broad spectrum of businesses based on the Internet, including e-commerce, e-healthcare, e-government and e tailing.

A compact guide to knowledge management, this book makes the subject accessible without oversimplifying it.

The literature on equilibrium behavior of customers and servers in queuing systems is rich.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the leading sponsor of basic academic research in engineering, and its influence far exceeds its budget.

Strategic Decision Making in Modern Manufacturing introduces and explains the AMBIT (Advanced Manufacturing Business ImplemenTation) approach, which has been developed to bridge the gap between strategic management considerations and the operational effects of technology investment decisions on the manufacturing organisation, so that the likely impact of new manufacturing technology and/or programme implementations can be evaluated, anticipated and accurately predicted.

Engineering tasks are supposed to achieve defined goals under certain project constraints.