This book will help you determine your current level of readiness with respect to the characteristics and skills necessary for building morale, pride and spirit.
To build morale, pride, and spirit, a leader needs certain characteristics and skills. This book will help you determine your current level of readiness. It describes two key...
This handbook gives an overview on engineering of business information systems with agent technology. It introduces into this challenge, describes how to identify and to address the relevant technical problems, and explains how to engineer, integrated and test multiagent systems for real world applications. The book gives detailed descriptions of...
This volume is a documenlation of I he main results in Ihe research area "Inte
gration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering".
On one hand it is based on the Priority Program "Integration von Techniken der
Soflwarespezifikation fur ingenieurwissensehaftliehe Anwendungen", short Soft...
The vision of a world in which privacy persists and security is ensured but the full potential of the technology is nevertheless tapped guides this work. It is argued that security and privacy can be ensured using technical safeguards if the whole RFID system is designed properly. The challenge is immense since many constraints exist for...
Automated and semi-automated manipulation of so-called labelled transition systems has become an important means in discovering flaws in software and hardware systems. Process algebra has been developed to express such labelled transition systems algebraically, which enhances the ways of manipulation by means of equational logic and term...
Failure analysis is the preferred method to investigate product or process reliability and to ensure optimum performance of electrical components and systems. The physics-of-failure approach is the only internationally accepted solution for continuously improving the reliability of materials, devices and processes. The models have been...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2004, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2004.
The 78 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers present a wealth of...
Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation between scholars, activists and...
The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, enterprise
resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly
changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on
open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new
components and meet new...
Arbitration and jurisdiction agreements are frequently used in transnational commercial contracts to reduce risk, gain efficacy and acquire certainty and predictability. Because of the similarities between these two types of procedural autonomy agreements, they are often treated in a similar way by courts and practitioners.
This second handbook represents the efforts of many individuals at XYPRO, who collectively have over 250 years of experience with the HP NonStop platform. In addition, we’ve been privileged to work with a group of contributors and expert reviewers from the HP NonStop Server user community. Their cooperation and experience added dimension to...
This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations.
The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union into new cooperation with Africa and Asia. These...
