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Modeling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Language

Springer, 2008

Semantic Web services promise to automate tasks such as discovery, mediation, selection, composition, and invocation of services, enabling fully flexible automated e-business. Their usage, however, still requires a significant amount of human intervention due to the lack of support for a machine-processable description.

In this book, Jos de...

Markov Chains: Models, Algorithms and Applications (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2005

Markov chains are a particularly powerful and widely used tool for analyzing a variety of stochastic (probabilistic) systems over time. This monograph will present a series of Markov models, starting from the basic models and then building up to higher-order models. Included in the higher-order discussions are multivariate models, higher-order...

Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems VI

Springer, 2004

The development and integration of integrity and internal control mechanisms into information system infrastructures is a challenge for researchers, IT personnel and auditors. Since its beginning in 1997, the IICIS international working conference has focused on the following questions:

what precisely do business managers need...

Dental Computing and Applications: Advanced Techniques for Clinical Dentistry (Premier Reference Source)

Medical Information Science Reference, 2009

Over the last 40 years, dental informatics has implemented numerous technological advancements and discoveries to become a medical research discipline of significant scale and scope.

Dental Computing and Applications: Advanced Techniques for Clinical Dentistry presents the latest technological applications and advanced...

A Cell Biologist's Guide to Modeling and Bioinformatics

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A step-by-step guide to using computational tools to solve problems in cell biology

Combining expert discussion with examples that can be reproduced by the reader, this text introduces an array of informatics tools that are available for analyzing biological data and modeling cellular processes. You learn to fully leverage public databases and...

Project Management for Environmental, Construction and Manufacturing Engineers: A Manual for Putting Theory into Practice

Springer, 2012

As a companion to books on project-management theory, this book illustrates, in a down-to-earth, comprehensive style, how to put that theory into practice. In addition to the many examples that illustrate procedures, the book includes over 25 case studies, each one addressing a specific theme. Key topics, such as project selection,...

Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management

MIT Press, 2002

The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, providing, and filtering of explicit knowledge. The information in a repository has the advantage of being easily transferable...

Virtual Realities: Dagstuhl Seminar 2008

Springer, 2011

The articles by well-known international experts intend to facilitate more elaborate expositions of the research presented at the seminar, and to collect and document the results of the various discussions, including ideas and open problems that were identified. Correspondingly the book will consist of two parts. Part I will consist of...

Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective (Health Informatics)

Springer, 2008

The third edition of this book will reach across disciplines and address the needs of not only those who study, evaluate, and purchase health information, but also computer and library/information scientists, information technology developers building databases, search engines, Web sites, and other systems for universities and hospitals who...

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

New Riders Publishing, 2006

From the RFID tags now embedded in everything from soda cans to the family pet, to smart buildings that subtly adapt to the changing flow of visitors, to gestural interfaces like the ones seen in Minority Report, computing no longer looks much like it used to. Increasingly invisible but present everywhere in our lives, it has moved off the desktop...

Encyclopedia Of Human Computer Interaction

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Human computer interaction (HCI) evolved as a recognized discipline that attracts innovation and creativity. For the last 25 years, it inspired new solutions, especially for the benefit of the user as a human being, making the user the focal point that technology should serve rather than the other way around. The advent of the Internet, combined...

PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

The definitive guide to PACS—now with more clinically applicable material

In recent years, the field of picture archiving and communications systems—PACS—andimage informatics has advanced due to both conceptual and technological advancements. This edition of PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles...

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