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Survival of the Fittest
The Shifting Contours of Higher Education in China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book will examine how universities in China and the US are responding to markets and increasing global competition. For both countries, a university education is seen as key to economic development. While China and the US have two very different political systems, they represent the two largest...
High Performance Through Process Excellence
From Strategy to Execution with Business Process Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Continuously changing customer and market requirements as well as new developments in information technology have become a dominating factor in today's business environment. To be successful enterprises have to adapt quickly to new opportunities and threats. They have to take smart decision and execute...
Business Process Automation
ARIS in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Enterprises have to adapt their business processes quickly and efficiently to new business environments to ensure business success and long term survival. It is not sufficient to apply best business practices but new practices have to be developed and executed. These requirements are met by new...
by Kurt Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Nowadays, there is software everywhere in our life. It controls cars, airplanes, factories, medical implants. Without software, banking, logistics and transportation, media, and even scientific research would not function in the accustomed way. Building and maintaining software is a knowledge-intensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
As we approach the beginning of the 21 st century, we are beginning to see the emer gence of knowledge management as a natural evolution of the focus and importance of quality in the 1980s and reengineering in the I 990s. Quality placed a huge em phasis on getting all employees to use their brainpower...
Database Systems for Advanced Applications
19th International Conference, DASFAA 2014, International Workshops: BDMA, DaMEN, SIM³, UnCrowd; Bali, Indonesia, April 21--24, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014. The volume contains papers from 4 workshops, each focusing on hot topics related to database systems and applications:...
Trustworthy Computing and Services
International Conference, ISCTCS 2014, Beijing, China, November 28-29, 2014, Revised Selected papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Standard Conference on Trustworthy Computing and Services, ISCTCS 2014, held in Beijing, China, in November 2014. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 279 submissions. The topics covered are...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book covers the latest advances in the rapid growing field of inter-cooperative collective intelligence aiming the integration and cooperation of various computational resources, networks and intelligent processing paradigms to collectively build intelligence and advanced decision support and...
by Otto Sandrock, Claus Luttermann, Matthias Casper
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
The book provides readers with an overview of the unique features of German business and enterprise law and an in-depth analysis of the organs of governance of German public limited companies (general meeting, management board, supervisory board). In addition, approaches for reforms required at the...
Internet, Economic Growth and Globalization
Perspectives on the New Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The dynamics of the digital economy in the US, Europe and Japan are rather different. Some EU countries come close to the USA as the leading OECD country in the new economy, but Japan faces particular problems in catching-up digitally. Information and communication technology will affect productivity...
Financial Aspects in Energy
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Energy production and supply, as well as sourcing and consumption, are becoming evermore important in a volatile world. In this book, attention is paid to prevalent energy issues from a finance perspective. The topics discussed cover markets, prices, regulations and firms. An international group of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book examines the relationship between regulation and market integration, with a special focus on China. It pursues a Law and Economics and Comparative Law approach (China and EU) to analyze the current obstacles to market integration and domestic economic growth in China. Topics covered at the...
Remuneration of Copyright Owners
Regulatory Challenges of New Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book evaluates existing and explores new mechanisms for the adequate payment of copyright owners for the use of their works. The underlying assumption is that adequate rewards to creators and subsequent right holders will continue to be a goal of copyright law (particularly to incentivize further...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Tourism and hospitality industry is facing a substantial amount of opportunities and challenges due to the globalization. The Third International Conference on Tourism and Hospitality between China and Spain (ICTCHS) provides a unique global forum for academics, thought leaders and key industry practitioners...