This book explores the foundation, history, and theory of intelligent adaptive systems, providing scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a fundamental resource on topics such as the emergence of intelligent adaptive systems in social sciences, biologically inspired artificial social...

Section 1. Model-Based Approaches -- 1. UML as Front-End Language for Embedded Systems Design / Lisane Brisolara de Brisolara, Márcio Eduardo Kreutz, Luigi Carro -- 2. Model-Driven Design and ASM-Based Validation of Embedded Systems / Angelo Gargantini, Elvinia Riccobene, Patrizia Scandurra --...

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Business managers are striving to move toward process-centric organizations, but the challenge remains in ensuring adoption of a business process culture. This book aids managers in the transformation of organizations into world-class competitors through business process applications. A useful...

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