"This book is a comprehensive collection of work from researchers in related fields such as information systems, distributed AI, intelligent agents, and collaborative work that explores and discusses various aspects of design and development of intelligent technologies"--Provided by publisher.

"This book presents the recent advances in multi-mobile agent systems, the product development process, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks and ambient intelligent environments among many other innovations in this exciting field"--Provided by publisher.

This book enlightens the concepts and challenges of knowledge management for both urban environments and entire regions, enhancing the expertise and knowledge of scholars, researchers, practitioners, managers and urban developers in the development of successful knowledge-based development...

Section 1. Project management and cost estimation -- Chapter 1. Software project and quality modelling using Bayesian networks / Norman Fenton, Peter Hearty, Martin Neil, Lukasz Radlinski -- Chapter 2. Using Bayesian networks for web effort estimation / Emilia Mendes -- Chapter 3. Optimizing...

"This book focuses on the inherent issues to help practitioners in gaining understanding of software development processes aimed at software professionals,students and researchers in the domain of software engineering in order to successfully employ knowledge management procedures"--Provided by...

"This book provides a new view of knowledge management through the lens of systems approach, which looks at each part of the knowledge management system as a section of the full overview"--Provided by publisher.

Pattern-based task management as means of organizational knowledge maturing / Uwe V. Riss -- Supporting knowledge-based decision making in the medical context: the GLARE approach / Luca Anselma ... [et al.] -- Optimal service ordering in decentralized queries over web services / Efthymia...

This book provides in-depth analysis of the need for a holistic approach for the construction and engineering of cities and societies. This defining body of research examines key issues and approaches for energy use and provides future direction of development as well.

While the area of Intelligent Support Systems has experienced significant progress in the recent past, the advent of Internet and World Wide Web has sparked a renewed interest in this area. There is a growing interest in developing intelligent systems that would enable users to accomplish...

In today's competitive and global business environments, knowledge is recognised as one of the most important strategic assets for modern organisations. In the light of this, knowledge management (KM) continues to receive much attention both from the academic and business communities. With...