"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...

This book addresses flexibility of both business and information systems through component technology at the nexus of three seemingly unrelated disciplines: service-oriented architecture, knowledge management, and business process management. It presents research on agile, adaptive processes and...

"This book outlines a new way of approaching the development and implementation of information systems. Not only does the book explore a different approach to determining an organization's opportunities and solving its problems, but it also highlights methods for optimal decision...

"This book offers the most relevant theories about culture and European market segmentation as well as providing updated data for the evaluation and analyses of the European consumption patterns in the beverage market"--Provided by publisher.

"This book summarizes the state of the art in the emergent field of Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems, showing researchers, managers, engineers and information technology specialists how to develop and implement effective CEMIS"--Provided by publisher.

1. Exemplary works on information systems research / Michael Whitman, Amy Woszczynski -- 2. Validating IS positivist instrumentation / Marie-Claude Boudreau ... [et al.] -- 3. A multitrait-multi-method analysis of the end user computing satisfaction and computer self-efficacy instruments /...