William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world.
A Perspective on Two Decades of Rapid Modeling It is an honor for me to be asked to write a foreword to the Proceedings of the 1st Rapid Modeling Conference.
Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and Ecology addresses the general theme of the Concurrent Engineering (CE) 2009 Conference - the need for global advancements in the areas of competitive enterprise, economy and ecology.
"e;Dynamic Modelling for Supply Chain Management"e; discusses how to streamline complex supply chain management by making the most of the growing number of tools available.
Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability, a book that both practitioners and students can use to better understand and manage supply chain risk, presents topics on decision making related to supply chain risk.
New, global and extended markets are forcing companies to process and manage increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced customer delivery times.
Innovating in Product/Process Development demonstrates how to achieve true innovation in product development, and how to launch a new product in the quickest and cheapest way.
Recent Advances in Maintenance and Infrastructure Management is a collection of papers highlighting the state of the art in maintenance of large structures and management of infrastructures.
To be able to compete successfully both at national and international levels, production systems and equipment must perform at levels not even thinkable a decade ago.
As I write, the financial systems of the world are collapsing with still no clear indication of what the consequences will be and which measures should be taken to avoid such a crisis in the future.
Around the turn of the millennium, a young woman with outstanding academic achievements in science and mathematics applied to study engineering at a Eu- pean university.
"e;Simulation-based Case Studies in Logistics"e; presents an intensive learning course on the application of simulation as a decision support tool to tackle complex logistic problems.
"e;Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World"e; gathers together papers from the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008), to stimulate the new thinking that is so crucial to our sustained productivity enhancement and quality of life.
Recent European Commission studies recall the urgency of promoting new and more robust Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), due to the rise of enormous global markets and the emergence of a new industrial system originating from the distinctly different business culture of the Far East.
A big amount of important, 'economically relevant' information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form of 'narrative' description.
Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on.
Distributed production networks are organizational structures considered able to meet the agility and efficiency necessary to compete in the global market.
Modern societies depend on the smooth operation of many complex systems (designed and built by humans) that provide a variety of outputs (products and services).
"e;Hydrogen-based Autonomous Power Systems"e; analyses the introduction of hydrogen energy technologies in autonomous power systems based on renewable energy sources (RES).
Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.
This book Innovations and the Environment aims to review the state of knowledge and to provide an empirical basis for the development and use of new technologies, products and services to reduce the impact of human activities on environmental quality.
The "e;Handbook of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety in Engineering Design"e; studies the combination of various methods of designing for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, as well as the latest techniques in probability and possibility modeling, mathematical algorithmic modeling, evolutionary algorithmic modeling, symbolic logic modeling, artificial intelligence modeling, and object-oriented computer modeling.
"e;ERP Systems and Organisational Change"e; considers both the social and technical perspectives on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, which are now the backbone of the information systems in public and private sector organisations.
"e;Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design"e; presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modelling.
Following on from Rob Davis' successful introductory book, ARIS Design Platform: Getting Started with BPM, Rob now covers in detail some of the more advanced concepts of using ARIS Business Architect.
