Information technologies are becoming pervasive and powerful to the point
that the privacy of citizens is now at risk. Indeed, more and more of our daily
transactions are conducted electronically and require us to transmit personal
information. Examples include using an electronic identity card to prove one’s
age in a...
This book is intended as a handbook for project management practitioners. The aim is to give an introduction to, and overview of, the essential knowledge required for managing projects. A team of experienced practitioners have been selected to introduce the reader to the knowledge and skills required to manage projects. There are four parts...
Contributions by Surhid Gautam and Lit-Mian Chan. This book presents a state-of-the art review of vehicle emission standards and regulations and provides a synthesis of worldwide experience with vehicle emission control technologies and their applications in both industrial and developing countries. Topics covered include: * The two principal...
This work covers the fundamentals and the developments in the field of software project management. This second edition covers a wide range of international standards, for example: PRINCE, for which a new version (V2) of this standard has recently been produced; BS 6079 which was published by the British Standard in 1996; EuroMethod, which was...
The Customer Management Scorecard is based on a unique global survey conducted by QCi that aimed to reveal the true relationship between effective customer management and business performance. Over 300 global assessments of blue chip companies in 22 countries, across all sectors, were conducted using QCi’s Customer Management...
Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata group is a global enterprise, headquartered in India, comprising thirty companies across ten clusters. The group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents. What does the Tata group do to encourage and enhance innovation in these companies that are well established and also several other...
Alan Turing was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the 20th century. This volume makes his key writings available to a non-specialist readership for the first time. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, and artificial...
Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21st century has turned this...
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference
on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency
(PETRI NETS 2011). The Petri Net conferences serve as annual meeting places
to discuss the progress in the field of Petri nets and related models of concurrency.
They provide a forum for...
This book concentrates on three main challenges of video coding for mobile communications: higher coding efficiency, reduced computational complexity, and improved error resilience. Unlike other high level books and articles that focus on individual aspects in this field, this book has been designed as a quick, easy, and practical introduction to...
Doing Statistics With SPSS is derived from the authors' many years of experience teaching undergraduates data handling using SPSS. It assumes no prior understanding beyond that of basic mathematical operations and is therefore suitable for anyone undertaking an introductory statistics course as part of a science based...
For 2/3 year students in international/global marketing. and post graduate courses in marketing. Critically, it asks the question whether to internationalise at all and looks at deciding which markets to enter and how to enter them. It covers the design, implementation and coordination of a global marketing programme and addresses the...
