Software design is a fledgling discipline. When the “software crisis” came to be acknowledged during the late 1960s, software development projects have been marred by budget overflows and catastrophic failures. This situation has largely remained unchanged. Programmers still create poorly-understood systems of monstrous complexity which...
This volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains the contributions presented at the International Symposium on Knowledge Exploration in Life Science Informatics (KELSI 2004) held in Milan, Italy, 25–26 November 2004.
This is a manifesto and practical guide for all business people, those involved in marketing and even those who think they're not. These are the folks who have witnessed that the shift in power from business to consumer has dulled the traditional tools of marketing. Our book introduces a radical new approach, and new lexicon, to a...
The Encyclopedia of Management, 5th Edition is an alphabetical reference book covering a comprehensive slate of management concepts. Last published in 2000, this fully revised work represents the latest management theories and practices. Each essay has been revised and new essays have been added to reflect the current state of management. The...
Software engineering is a pessimistic discipline. The glass is always half empty
rather than half full. Not surprising really, we are hardened to the grind of improving
quality, painstakingly testing and, never quite, eliminating bugs. Critical review is
of the essence. We know there is “no silver bullet”.
The only nonprofit orientation to coaching skills available, Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders will provide nonprofit managers with an understanding of why and how to coach, how to initiate coaching in specific situations, how to make coaching really work, and how to refine coaching for long-term success.
This book has three objectives. The first is to present a new methodology for management information system (MIS) development as an application of mathematical general systems theory; the second is to establish a theoretical foundation for MIS development; and the third is to demonstrate the utility of set theory combined with extended Prolog...
In 1983 I left the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) and went to Wageningen Agricultural University, where I took the chair of “Land Surveying and Teledetection”. Up to that time I had been active mainly in geodesy and photogrammetry, but at Wageningen it soon became...
This long-awaited revision provides a concise introduction to topics in abstract algebra, taking full account of the major advances and developments that have occurred over the last half-century in the theoretical and conceptual aspects of the discipline, particularly in the areas of groups and fields.
Neural networks usually work adequately on small problems but can run into trouble when they are scaled up to problems involving large amounts of input data. Circuit Complexity and Neural Networks addresses the important question of how well neural networks scale - that is, how fast the computation time and number of neurons grow as the...
Robotics is a relatively young field of modern technology that crosses traditional engineering boundaries. Understanding the complexity of robots and their applications requires knowledge of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, systems and industrial engineering, computer science, economics, and mathematics. New disciplines of...
This book covers combinatorial data structures and algorithms, algebraic issues in geometric computing, approximation of curves and surfaces, and computational topology. Each chapter fully details and provides a tutorial introduction to important concepts and results. The focus is on methods which are both well founded mathematically and...
