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...

"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.

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This book combines the two important areas of research within computer technology and presents them in comprehensive, easy to understand manner. Ideal for graduates and under-graduates, as well as researchers working in either video data management or information retrieval, it takes an in depth...

This book addresses the emergent research and development issues for the most-advanced enterprise organizational paradigm of today's world: the virtual enterprise paradigm. Virtual enterprise is characterized as a dynamic agile network of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including...

This book presents fundamental and theoretical issues pertaining to data management. Covering a broad range of topics on warehousing and mining sensor networks, this advanced title provides significant industry solutions to those in database, data warehousing, and data mining research communities.

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This title presents the development of DSS for managing agricultural and environmental systems, focusing on the exposition of innovative methodologies, from web-mobile systems to artificial intelligence and knowledge-based DSS, as well as their applications in every aspect from harvest planning...