Springer London: 1778 books
Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams
How to ‘Build the Beginning’
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Development projects that span different disciplines and groups often face problems in establishing a shared understanding of the project’s purpose, deliverables, and direction. Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams: How to ‘Build the Beginning’ uses research-based cases...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book presents the latest research on Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm, drawn from an international selection of researchers and practitioners. The book offers both a discussion of relevant software engineering approaches and practical guidance on enterprise-wide...
Modern Solid Waste Management in Practice
The City of Malmö Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy. The book describes challenges which the city is facing and presents a case on how...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This volume reviews cutting-edge technologies and insights related to XML-based and multimedia information access and data retrieval. And by applying new techniques to real-world scenarios, it details how organizations can gain competitive advantages.
Interactive 3D Multimedia Content
Models for Creation, Management, Search and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The book describes recent research results in the areas of modelling, creation, management and presentation of interactive 3D multimedia content. The book describes the current state of the art in the field and identifies the most important research and design issues. Consecutive chapters address...
Supply Chain Collaboration
Roles of Interorganizational Systems, Trust, and Collaborative Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
To survive and thrive in the competition, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain collaboration to leverage the resources and knowledge of suppliers and customers. Internet based technologies, particularly interorganizational systems, further extend the firms’ opportunities to strengthen...
Product Lifecycle Management
21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Product Lifecycle Management (2nd edition) explains what Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is, and why it's needed. It describes the environment in which products are developed, realised and supported, before looking at the basic components of PLM, such as the product, processes, applications, and...
Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques
With Applications to Agro-Engineering Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques introduces the reader to the basic principles of multicriteria analysis (MCA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques. The use of these tools is rapidly becoming essential in any feasibility study for comparing different solutions, selecting the most suitable...
Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development
Principles, Processes and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development: Principles, Processes and Techniques presents an overall analysis of meta-programming, focusing on insights of meta-programming techniques, heterogeneous meta-program development processes in the context of model-driven, feature-based and...
Compression Schemes for Mining Large Datasets
A Machine Learning Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book addresses the challenges of data abstraction generation using a least number of database scans, compressing data through novel lossy and non-lossy schemes, and carrying out clustering and classification directly in the compressed domain. Schemes are presented which are shown to be efficient...
Continued Rise of the Cloud
Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book captures the state of the art in cloud technologies, infrastructures, and service delivery and deployment models. The work provides guidance and case studies on the development of cloud-based services and infrastructures from an international selection of expert researchers and practitioners....
Cloud Computing
Principles, Systems and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Cloud computing continues to emerge as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest. Although the meaning and scope of “cloud computing” continues to be debated, the current notion of clouds blurs the distinctions between grid services, web services, and data centers, among other...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This important text provides a single point of reference for state-of-the-art cloud computing design and implementation techniques. The book examines cloud computing from the perspective of enterprise architecture, asking the question; how do we realize new business potential with our existing enterprises?...
Glances at Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Principles, approaches and methodologies for an ambiguous benchmark
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Differing interpretations, perspectives and expectations on the term sustainability exist. To take sustainability as an action guiding mandate for implementation it needs to be concrete and measurable as well it should weigh pros and cons. But how can such an integrated measurement in the field of...