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Secure Systems Development with UML

Springer, 2004

Attacks against computer systems can cause considerable economic or physical damage. High-quality development of security-critical systems is difficult, mainly because of the conflict between development costs and verifiable correctness.

Jürjens presents the UML extension UMLsec for secure systems development. It uses the standard UML...

Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies

Cambridge University Press, 2004

One might think that the software industry is performing very well because it is armed with object-oriented approaches, Web services, Java and .NET technologies, and so forth. Unfortunately, this is not true.

There may be something wrong with the way we write programs. The process has not changed much during the past twenty years, except...

Digital Economies: SMEs and E-Readiness

Business Science, 2009

Several studies have been made to determine the effectiveness of information and communication technologies within small business enterprises, but the focus on e-readiness assessments have been very limited.

Digital Economies: SMEs and E-Readiness provides valuable insights into the current state of the digital economy and the...

Innovative Tools for Business Coalitions in B2B Applications

Springer, 2011

One of the most debated consequences regarding the increased availability and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially since the early 1990s, have been their impact on economic growth. Generally speaking, ICT can serve to reduce transaction costs at all levels of a commercial transaction. With the emergence...

Myths About Doing Business in China

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

China has always been a land of myth, mystery and exaggeration for the West.

Marco Polo came back to thirteenth-century Venice with tales of cities of a million people (unheard of in those days), unimaginable wealth, exotic food and strange customs. Eighteenth-century adventurers bought tales of rulers enlightened by the wise words of...

Microsoft Application Architecture Guide (Patterns & Practices)

Microsoft Press, 2009

Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform—straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design...

Understanding Digital Libraries, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2004

This fully revised and updated second edition of Understanding Digital Libraries focuses on the challenges faced by both librarians and computer scientists in a field that has been dramatically altered by the growth of the Web.

At every turn, the goal is practical: to show you how things you might need to do are...

Advertising: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Oxford University Press, 2010

Advertising is riddled with myths and misunderstandings. It is simultaneously believed to be both immensely powerful and immensely wasteful, to increase economic prosperity and to be morally questionable. Neither its historic origins nor its modern operations are well understood. Many of these mythsand misunderstandings are almost as...

Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests: From Research to Field Implementation

Springer, 2007

The world population is still growing at an alarming rate, requiring ever increasing productivity and less waste in agriculture to cope with the increasing demands to satisfy food security for all humans. Alleviation of poverty is in many countries hampered by a myriad of insect pests that cause enormous economic...

Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy: An Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

A highly accessible and authoritative account of wind energy’s scientific background, current technology, and international status, with an emphasis on large turbines and wind farms, both onshore and offshore

Topics covered include:

a brief history of wind energy

the...

The Journey from Manager to Leader

American Book Publishing Group, 2002

The Journey from Manager to Leader: A Playbook for Success approaches successful leadership from a unique angle: storytelling and sports metaphors. Author William Jones illustrates insightful new pathways to winning in the business world. This book hits a home run for managers, attacking real world scenarios with practical advice from...

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

Apress, 2017

Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems,...

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