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Business Modelling in the Dynamic Digital Space
An Ecosystem Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This Springer Briefs volume guides the reader in a comprehensive form to design new digital business models. The book provides strategic roadmaps for enterprises in the digital world, and a comprehensive framework to assess new business models. It aligns both, research and a practical perspective...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book consists of chapters based on selected papers presented at the EcoDesign2015 symposium (9th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing). The symposium, taking place in Tokyo in December 2015, has been leading the research and practices of eco-design...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered...
Asset Management for Infrastructure Systems
Energy and Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
The book offers a broad overview of asset management processes for different utilities, with a special emphasis on energy and water. It provides readers with important practical considerations concerning the development of new competitive structures and procedures for guaranteeing a sufficient supply...
by Cheng-Few Lee, John C. Lee, Alice C. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd edition is the definitive Business Statistics book to use Finance, Economics, and Accounting data throughout the entire book. Therefore, this book gives students an understanding of how to apply the methodology of statistics to real world situations....
Voting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate
Proving Their (In)Vulnerability to Various Voting Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid paradoxical outcomes. Together with a companion volume by the same authors, Monotonicity Failures Afflicting...
Voting Procedures Under a Restricted Domain
An Examination of the (In)Vulnerability of 20 Voting Procedures to Five Main Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
This book deals with 20 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid five important paradoxes in a restricted domain, viz., when a Condorcet winner exists and is elected in the...
Big Data
Related Technologies, Challenges and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This Springer Brief provides a comprehensive overview of the background and recent developments of big data. The value chain of big data is divided into four phases: data generation, data acquisition, data storage and data analysis. For each phase, the book introduces the general background, discusses...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This edited volume provides multidisciplinary and international insights into the policy, managerial and educational aspects of diverse students’ transitions from education to employment. As employers require increasing global competence on the part of those leaving education, this research asks...
The Semantic Web
14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 – June 1, 2017, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The two volumes LNCS 10249 and 10250 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2017, held in Portorož, Slovenia.
The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. In addition, 10 PhD papers are...
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, November 6-8, 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2017). Held from 6 to 8 November 2017 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the conference was co-sponsored by Springer, Fujian University of Technology...
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Theory and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book offers readers a thorough and rigorous introduction to nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for discrete-time and sampled-data systems. NMPC schemes with and without stabilizing terminal constraints are detailed, and intuitive examples illustrate the performance of different NMPC variants....
Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2009
In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental...
Information and Communication Technologies for Development
14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, May 22-24, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2017, held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in May 2017.
The 60 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 3 keynotes...