Manufacturing in a high cost environment: basis for future success on the national level / Göran Roos -- Competing from a high cost economy: what is the challenge to Australian public policy? / Ian Marsh -- Foundations for industrial rejuvenation: lessons from international and national...

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1. Intelligent manufacturing and manufacturing intelligence -- 2. Knowledge-based system -- 3. Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems -- 4. Data mining and knowledge discovery -- 5. Computational intelligence -- 6. Business process modeling and information systems modeling -- 7. Sensor...

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"This book explores the concept of the organizational structure through the lens of the viable systems approach, focusing particularly on human interaction and collaboration within a business setting"--Provided by publisher.

Regional economic imbalances: business and foreign direct investment in India / Jitender Bhandari, Manmohan Rahul, Shalini Rahul Tiwari -- Role of knowledge workers in business process and innovation / Appasaheb Naikal, Mayank Bapna -- Technological innovations in management education / Shalini...

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This book considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. It not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures)...