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This issue has become a hot topic, as many leading information system researchers and practitioners come to realise the importance of better communication among the members of the information systems community, and of a better scientific foundation of this rapidly evolving field.

Lecturers and researchers in the areas of industrial engineering, quality management and business development, and middle and higher management in business or technology- oriented positions, will find this book invaluable.

Offers coverage of probabilistic structural mechanics. This title demonstrates the entire spectrum of structure reliability techniques, from simulation and first-order/second-order reliability methods to probabilistic finite-element/boundary element methods, enabling the reader to select an appropriate method for various types of projects.

This book aims to discuss in depth the current state of research and practice in database security. It documents progress and provides researchers and students with a broad perspective of recent developments in what is recognised as a key topic in business and in the public sector.

In fact, the manufacturing process is no more carried out by a single enterprise, rather each enterprise is just a node that adds some value (a step in the manufacturing chain) to the cooperation network of enterprises.

A virtual prototype is a major interim step towards the creation of a virtual environment. This book explores the simulation, interaction, concepts and tools of virtual prototypes and environments. It provides a mixture of state-of-the-art, advanced research and industrial papers.

Many organisations are using an increased range of information technologies to support a variety of new organisational practices and organisational forms. The book also considers the social process of shifting from present organisational structures and practices to new ones.

Aquaculture is a growing industry. This book provides a thorough review of the scientific basis and applied aspects of fish nutrition in a user-friendly format. It will be of great use to individuals working or training in the industry, and to fish feed manufacturing personnel.

This state-of-the-art book aims to address problems and solutions in implementing complex and high quality systems past the year 2000. It will be particularly relevant to researchers in the field of software engineering and to software developers working in larger companies.

Open Distributed Processing (ODP) systems are those that support heterogenous distributed applications both within and between autonomous organizations. For anybody working in industry or research in this field, Open Distributed Processing and Distributed Platforms will prove an invaluable text.

CHARM '97 is the ninth in a series of working conferences devoted to the development and use of formal techniques in digital hardware design and verification. This series is held in collaboration with IFIP WG 10.5. Previous meetings were held in Europe every other year.

The aim of this book is to present readers with state-of-the-art options which allow pupils as well as teachers to cope with the social impacts and implications of information technology and the rapid technological developments of the past 25 years.

Teleservices represent a diversity of applications related to various user and vendor cultures such as traditional telecommunications services, E-mail services, cooperative work, applications, multimedia applications, mobile services and intelligent network services.

A wide range of modern computer applications require the performance and flexibility of parallel and distributed systems. This book will reflect current advances in this area, and will address issues of theory and practice with contributions from academia and industry.

This year, forty papers were received of which sixteen were presented as full papers and four were presented as poster papers. Although we received many excellent papers the program committee decided to keep the number of full presentations low in order to accommodate more discussion in keeping with the format of a workshop.

From the Chapman & Hall Microbiology Series this unique resource offers specific experimental and practical applications of mathematical modeling in microbial ecology. The text presents a variety of systems, ranging from subcellular systems to ecosystems, and shows how to test whether the models provide a good representation of the system.

Begins by describing the key principles of telecommunications, going on to demonstrate their practical applications through case studies.

Presents the latest worldwide results in both the theory and practice of the testing of communicating systems.

This book presents the latest research in formal techniques for distributed systems, including material on theory, applications, tools and industrial usage of formal techniques.

Presents the research results in protocol testing. This book contains the proceedings of the seventh IFIP WG6.1 International Workshop on Protocol Test Systems (IWPTS '94), organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Tokyo, Japan in November 1994.

Living Marine Resources provides a thorough, up-to-date introduction to all aspects of fisheries science. Part two examines fisheries biology, including age, growth, fecundity, and mortality, enabling readers to appreciate yield models designed to give estimates of maximum sustainable yield and maximum economic yield.

Much existing design research is either totally geometry based or totally non-geometric, and the interface between the two areas is of intense interest to industry, as well as being crucial for the successful development of integrated systems for design and manufacture.

Our two organizations, Northern Telecom Europe Limited and Oracle Corporation UK Limited, share a number of things in common. Their book provides a wealth of guidance for any organization that has set its sights on delighting its customers and becoming customer-driven.

This book covers the hot topics of angiosperm structure and evolution in several chapters discussing vegetative and reproductive characters. It also looks at the implications of ancestral angiosperm characters for an herbaceous origin and the phylogeny of angiosperms from a structure and molecular perspective.

Specifically for the pump user, this book concentrates on the identification and solution of problems associated with existing centrifugal pumps. It gives specific examples on how to modify pump performance for increased efficiency and better quality control, which turn into long-term cost savings.

For many years production management has no longer been confined to individual production facilities. Strategic and legal issues had to be considered and production management had to include sophisticated logistic chain management.

This book presents a state-of-the art review of current perspectives on Communications and Multimedia Security. The book aims to cover the subject of Communications and Multimedia Systems Security, as fully as possible.

Following the original initiative of the International Organisation for Biological Control some years ago, research groups and agrochemical companies have been investigating the effects of pesticides on beneficial organisms. This work reviews the origins and progress of the research - what has been accomplished, and what still needs to be done.

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the world.

The power of modern information systems and information technology (lSIIT) offers new opportunities to rethink, at the broadest levels, existing business strategies, approaches and practices.