The lack of formal semantics of applications and services to be integrated into business processes makes it difficult for software engineers and developers to interconnect heterogeneous applications. This book provides methods that incorporate and streamline processes that allow employees,...

Multi-objective optimization (MO) is a fast-developing field in computational intelligence research. Giving decision makers more options to choose from using some post-analysis preference information, there are a number of competitive MO techniques with an increasingly large number of MO...

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"This book explores the experiences of the Chief Information Officer in the United States, Taiwan, and New Zealand looking at interaction with other parts of the organization, as well as external relationships with vendors and suppliers.

1. The due diligence process -- 2. Acquisition targets -- 3. Business technology trends analysis -- 4. Venture investing in wireless communications technology : the ThinAirApps Case -- 5. Enterprise investing in remote access technology : the Prudential Fox Roach/Trident Case -- 6. Venture...

"This book combines best practices and the latest approaches in school administration and management by exploring the challenges faced by principals, as well as the impact of new managerial tactics being employed"--Provided by publisher.

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