By Terry Eastwood This book reports the findings of a research project on the means of protecting the integrity of active and semi-active electronic records.
The diverse nature of environmental problems mankind has encountered within the last decade has developed a new understanding of the nature of environmental processes.
Innovative actIvItIes on the development of which Russia puts its hopes for the preservation and successful reconstruction of the former USSR applied science are based on three key factors: funding, infrastructure and management.
An integrated approach to environmental data management is necessitated by the complexity of the environmental problems that need to be addresses, coupled with the interdisciplinary approach that needs to be adopted to solve them.
Computers communicate globally via satellite or fiber optic links, wide area networks share resources thousands of miles away, and the average home can have the capacity of access information at the push of a button - the digital information age has arrived!
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is an interdisicplinary research area devoted to exploring the issues of designing computer-based systems that enhance the abilities of cooperating workers to coordinate and integrate their activities in an efficient, effective, and flexible manner.
In this book Eileen Trauth peers inside the day-to-day work lives of the people who have been bringing about Ireland's transition from a small agricultural country to a healthy information economy.
This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States.
Interoperability has been a requirement in NATO ever since the Alliance came into being - an obvious requirement when 16 independent Nations agree to allocate national resources for the achievement of a common goal: to maintain peace.
The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions.
A comparative perspective on the problems and issues of the transfer of knowledge and technology in and between western and former socialist countries, focusing on three key technologies: laser technology, biotechnology, and information technology.
The activities of the Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei cover a broad spectrum of research topics, ranging from economics to engineering, from environmen- tal management at the industry or regional level to basic mathematical model- ling research.
As a companion to books on project-management theory, this book illustrates, in a down-to-earth, comprehensive style, how to put that theory into practice.
Readers will progress from an understanding of what the Internet is now towards an understanding of the motivations and techniques that will drive its future.
After first analysing the economic development processes of emerging Asian economies in general, this book explores the development implications of India's seventy years (1947-2017) of socio-economic policy regimes.
This book provides empirical insights into the relationship between capital and equity-ownership structure of Indian manufacturing companies and their financial performance.
As the first to focus on the issue of Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering, this book introduces a model-driven requirements process used to identify requirements granules and incrementally develop data warehouse fragments.
Negli ultimi decenni il rapido sviluppo delle tecnologie IT ha influito in maniera determinante nella vita dell’uomo, trasformando, spesso inconsapevolmente il suo lavoro, le sue abitudini, il suo modo di interagire con il mondo che lo circonda.
In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, corporate collapses, accounting scandals, and concerns around competition and auditor choice, the European Commission (EC) promoted the preparation of various reports on audit policy to support a harmonisation process of European auditing regulation.
This book focuses on the challenges of capacity building for flexible work organizations in Asia, and demonstrates how business enterprises practice reactive flexible capacity (in the form of adaptiveness and responsiveness) to cope with changing and uncertain business environments.
This book comes at a time when virtual organizations(VO), are proliferating exponentially due to the twin catalysts ofglobalization and technological enablement.
This edited book provides a conceptual framework of managing flexibility in the areas of people, process, technology and business supported by researches/case applications in various types of flexibilities in business.
This book presents a framework through transformation and explains how business goals can be translated into realistic plans that are tangible and yield real results in terms of the top line and the bottom line.
