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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...

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With the increasing popularity of the Internet, electronic commerce, and enterprise applications, this book has been developed to focus on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Unified Process (UP) and other information modeling methods and methodologies, and involves conceptual, theoretical,...

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