IT is no longer an enabler of corporate strategy, it is now the key element of corporate strategy. Governance of the Extended Enterprise explores how some of the world's most successful enterprises have integrated information...

The 5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML-2011@IJCAI), collocated in Barcelona, Spain, with the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, was the premier place to meet and to exchange ideas from all fields of rule technology. The aim of RuleML-2011 was to build a bridge between...

Cloud computing became a hot topic in mid-2008 and, by mid-2009, had achieved top buzzword status. As proof of its popularity, a mid-August 2009 search on Bing.com for ‘‘cloud computing’’ returned 92 million hits. Hardly a week goes by that doesn’t include at least one cloud computing conference somewhere around the...

What if you could listen to millions of people--customers, employees, competitors, partners, even the media--as they candidly discuss your company, your products, and your advertising? And what if you were able to use this real, up-to-the-minute feedback to determine exactly what your customers want and how to improve your business...

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The database may be the twenty-first century filing cabinet, but building one is a little more complex than sliding drawers into a metal...

Maybe it's a revolutionary thought, but could it be you just want to use your word-processing program to create great-looking, readable documents? Perfect! This friendly guide will get you going with...

Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family,...