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Trends in Tourist Behavior
New Products and Experiences from Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
This book examines both how tourist behavior is being shaped by the new tourism products and segments that are appearing on the European market and how the tourist experience influences post-trip evaluation of destinations and of tourism and hospitality businesses. On this basis, practical implications...
Information Security Education Across the Curriculum
9th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference, WISE 9, Hamburg, Germany, May 26-28, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Security Education, WISE 9, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2015. The 11 revised papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They are organized...
by J Raja, P Ajay-D-Vimal Raj, S Rajasekar
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book presents the state-of-the-art methods and procedures necessary for operating a power system. It takes into account the theoretical investigations and practical considerations of the modern electrical power system. It highlights in a systematic way the following sections: Power Sector Scenario...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems. The need for generation to occur at the time of use occasioned by the impracticality of large-scale electricity storage coupled with...
Practical Decision Making
An Introduction to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Using Super Decisions V2
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background. It provides a quick and intuitive understanding of the methodology using spreadsheet examples and explains in a step-by-step...
by Annoula Paschalidou, Michael Tsatiris, Kyriaki Kitikidou
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This book performs a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current food crisis and how it relates to the use of crops for energy. It analyses how energy crops may help solve humankind’s environmental changes and summarises the economic and practical changes...
Complexity Management with the K-Method
Price Structures, IT and Controlling for Procurement of Packaging Materials
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The book describes the K-Method which has been developed by the authors. The purpose of the K-Method is to negotiate and administrate a complex portfolio of customised materials, all belonging to the same purchasing group (e.g. labels). The underlying idea is to agree prices for specification features,...
by Kapil Narula
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2018
The maritime domain and sustainable energy are two critical aspects of the twenty first century which will shape the future of humanity. Although the maritime domain is inextricably interlinked with Sustainable Energy Security (SES), many aspects are discussed in isolated silos. This book aims to...
In-Memory Data Management
Technology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in-memory data management is changing the way businesses are run. Today, enterprise data is split into separate databases...
The Indian Textile and Clothing Industry
An Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book examines the textile and clothing Industry of India and its trade scenario from a global perspective. New developments in international policies related to trade and investment and falling barriers to trade worldwide as well as within individual regional communities have transformed the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Research into grid computing has been driven by the need to solve large-scale, increasingly complex problems for scientific applications. Yet the applications of grid computing for business and casual users did not begin to emerge until the development of the concept of cloud computing, fueled by...
by Jürgen Münch, Ove Armbrust, Martin Kowalczyk
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
The concept of processes is at the heart of software and systems engineering. Software process models integrate software engineering methods and techniques and are the basis for managing large-scale software and IT projects. High product quality routinely results from high process quality.
Software...
Search for the Ultimate Energy Source
A History of the U.S. Fusion Energy Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Why has the clean, limitless energy promised by fusion always seemed just out of reach?
Search for the Ultimate Energy Source: A History of the U.S. Fusion Energy Program, explains the fundamentals and concepts behind fusion power, and traces the development of fusion historically by decade—covering...
Strategic IT Management
A Toolkit for Enterprise Architecture Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2009
For you as an IT manager, changes in business models and fast-paced innovation and product lifecycles pose a big challenge: you are required to anticipate the impact of future changes, and to make rapid decisions backed up by solid facts. To be successful you need an overall perspective of how business...