Business and Management

The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students.

This book coherently documents the results and experiences of a major digital library pilot effort, the MeDoc project (Multimedia Electronic Documents).

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This volume continues the tradition established in 2001 of publishing the c- tributions presented at the Cryptographers' Track (CT-RSA) of the yearly RSA Security Conference in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS) held in Izmir, Turkey, 23-25 October 2002.

In the short space of about a decade, Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software has evolved through being a relatively minor aspect of software development; a t- management-endorsedsilverbulletsolutionforsoftwaredevelopment;adisruptivete- nology requiring people and organizations to extensively rethink their approaches to software development; to an increasingly well-understood software phenomenon for which effective solutions are being developed.

During recent years, huge efforts have been made to establish digital libraries, in a variety of media, offered from a variety of sources, and intended for a variety of professional and private user communities.

Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication, and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication.

New paradigms can popularize old technologies.

EDBT 2000 is the seventh conference in a series dedicated to the advancement of database technology.

The origins of the Asiacrypt series of conferences can be traced back to 1990, when the ?

This volume of the LNCS series contains the papers accepted for presentation at the Third IFIP international working conference on active networks (IWAN 2001).

In this book we present a collection of papers around the topic of Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce.

Once again we bring you the proceedings of the International Workshop on Security Protocols.

In recent years the management of business processes has emerged as one of the major developments to ease the understanding of, communication about, and evolution of process-oriented information systems in a variety of appli- tion domains.

Die digitale Transformation fordert Unternehmen heraus, neue Denkweisen zu entwickeln und schnell zu handeln.

The transition from writer to independent author-publisher is a significant step, one that comes with a daunting sea of information.

When a major corporation releases its financial statements, investors trust the numbers because they bear the seal of approval from one of the "e;Big Four"e; accounting firms.

For millennia, access to clean drinking water was a basic public utility.

Scroll through any social media feed and you will be bombarded with teenagers posing next to supercars, promising to teach you how to build a six-figure business from your laptop.

Dieses Buch präsentiert Entwicklungen und Zukunftstrends im E-Commerce, der durch die neuen digitalen Kommunikations- und Konsummuster der Kunden geprägt ist.

Dieses Buch präsentiert Entwicklungen und Zukunftstrends im E-Commerce, der durch die neuen digitalen Kommunikations- und Konsummuster der Kunden geprägt ist.

Verhandlungen pragen das tagliche Miteinander sowie Politik und Wirtschaft.

Preferences are useful in many real-life problems, guiding human decision making from early childhood up to complex professional and organizational decisions.

The LNCS Journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techniques in the context of all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution.

Paving the Way for an Open Service Market We live in an age when powerful communications technology is becoming available to everyone.

This workshop series is now over ten years old, which is a pretty long time for a very focussed topic: Configuration Management.

Nowadays, societies crucially depend on high-quality software for a large part of their functionalities and activities.

 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks, QoS-IP 2003, held in Milano, Italy in February 2003.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techniques in the context of all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution.

The book provides a short review of the classical approach to planning and decision making under uncertainty.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Discovery Science, DS'98, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in December 1998.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2001, held in Hong Kong, China in April 2001.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Commerce 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2003.

After some time of early experience Web Services are moving themselves from a new highly fragmented technology to a piece of nowadays infrastructures which promise to address various current challenges.