Management and management techniques

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in June 2012.

"e;An Industrial Product-Service System is characterized by the integrated and mutually determined planning, development, provision and use of product and service shares including its immanent software components in Business-to-Business applications and represents a knowledge-intensive socio-technical system.

This book Advances in Technology and Management contains 116 full length papers presented at the International Conference on Technology and Management, held on June 12-13, 2012, Jeju-Island, Korea.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2012, held in Nantes, France, in May/June 2012.

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the "e;International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2011)"e; which took place at the University of Zurich from August 30 to September 2, 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed and revised proceedings of the workshops and the doctoral consortium co-located with the 10th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR), held in Riga, Latvia, in October 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Impact of Virtual, Remote and Real Logistic Labs, ImViReLL 2012, held in Bremen, Germany, in Februar/March 2012.

LNBIP 99 and LNBIP 100 together constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of 12 international workshops held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2011, in August 2011.

The book presents several highly selected cases in emerging countries where the production-logistics systems have been optimized or improved with the support of mathematical models.

This contributed volume collects research papers, presented at the CIRP Sponsored Conference Robust Manufacturing Control: Innovative and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Global Networks (RoMaC 2012, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, June 18th-20th 2012).

This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenges occurring at the interface of research fields such as data analysis, computer science, operations research, and statistics.

To meet and adapt to the current and future trends and issues in technology and society, the science committee of The German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP) continues to define future topics for production technology.

The book on Sustainable Automotive Technologies aims to draw special attention to the research and practice focused on new technologies and approaches capable of meeting the challenges to sustainable mobility.

This book originated from several recent workshops and related activities conducted by the IFIP Working Group 7.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2011, held in Toulouse, France, August 29-31, 2011.

This is the proceedings of the selected papers presented at 2011 International Conference on Engineering Education and Management (ICEEM2011) held in Guangzhou, China, during November 18-20, 2011.

This is the proceedings of the selected papers presented at 2011 International Conference on Engineering Education and Management (ICEEM2011) held in Guangzhou, China, during November 18-20, 2011.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in June 2011.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) held in Brussels, Belgium, in June 2011.

This book contains selected papers from the symposium "e;Operations Research 2010"e; which was held from September 1-3, 2010 at the "e;Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen"e;, Germany.

The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds.

The bulk of this volume deals with the four main aspects of risk management: market risk, credit risk, risk management - in macro-economy as well as within companies.

This book provides cutting-edge research results and application experiences from researchers and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas.

After the IPS2 conferences in Cranfield and Linkoping in 2009 and 2010 the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems (IPS2) 2011 takes place in Braunschweig, Germany.

This edited volume expands the scope of risk management beyond finance to include resources and environment issues in China.

The LESS 2010 conference was the first scientific conference dedicated to advancing the "e;lean enterprise software and systems"e; body of knowledge.

The complexity of distribution systems is augmented by various trends: globalization of the manufacturing industry, rising customer demands, and the reverse flows within closed-loop systems.

This edited book is intended for use by students, academics and practitioners who take interest in outsourcing and offshoring of information technology and business pr- esses.

In this edited volume, we present the state-of-the-art views of the perspective of enterprise risk management, to include frameworks and controls in the ERM process with respect to supply chains, constructions, and project, energy, environmental and sustainable development risk management.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium, IHNS 2010, held in Paderborn, Germany, April 21-22, 2010, under the title "e;Changing Paradigms: Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Logistics"e;.

The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing very rapidly.

In a globalized economy logistics has become a crucial area for the success of companies.

In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields.

The symposium Operations Research 2007 was held from September 5-7, 2007 at the Saarland University in Saarbru *cken.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar "e;Negotiation and Market Engineering"e; held for one week in November 2006, in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing rapidly, as is the community around this R&D topic.

The service sector has dominated advanced economies for years.

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth Int- national Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT) which was organized in Brno, Czech Republic, from August 30 to September 1 of 2006.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007.

In June of 2002, over 500 professors, students and researchers met in Boston, Massachusetts for the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems.

This proceedings volume consists of selected papers presented at the Ninth Int- national Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport (CASPT 2004), which was held at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Conference Center in San Diego, California, USA, from August 9-11, 2004.

The biennial PAKM Conference Series o?

The 5th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR 2008) was held in Paris, France May 20-23, 2008.