"This book provides original research on all aspects of service science, service management, service engineering, and its supporting technology in order to administer cutting-edge knowledge to encourage the improvement of services"--Provided by publisher.

"This book presents insights into marketing strategies and tactical perspectives in both large and small enterprises, exploring case studies, contemporary research, and theoretical frameworks in effective business management"--Provided by publisher.

"This book attempts to bring together a selection of the latest results of state-of-the art research in image and video segmentation, one of the most critical tasks of image and video analysis that has the objective of extracting information (represented by data) from an image or a sequence of...

High-performance image reconstruction (HPIR) in three dimensions / Olivier Bockenbach ... [et al.] -- Compression of surface meshes / Frédéric Payan, Marc Antonini -- The role of self-similarity for computer aided detection based on mammogram analysis / Filipe Soares ... [et al.] -- Volumetric...

This book examines the development and role of small business clusters from a variety of disciplines--economics, marketing, management, and information systems. Unlike many issues that are hampered by ideological problems between disciplines, the book proves that there is an approach suggesting...

"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.

Internet marketing has become an important issue for many businesses around the world which have any form of commercial presence on the net. It is often perceived that doing business on the Internet mostly requires competency in the technology area. However as many dot com companies are failing...

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This book presents a comprehensive collection of quality of service mechanisms for various access technologies and introduces existing and traditional approaches to traffic management for wireless technologies. With expert international contributions, this critical mass of knowledge covers both...

1. Hybrid approach to integrated QoS capable protocols for wireless LANs / Thomas Lagkas -- 2. Cross-layer scheduling with QoS support over a near-optimum distributed queueing protocol for wireless LANS / E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis -- 3. Delay constrained admission...