Bücher der Reihe IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Containing case studies and research findings, this book deals with methods and tools suitable for designing, managing, and controlling processes within the supply chain. The authors are leading experts within the international community in the field of production management.

This book considers how the fundamental issues relating to the use of information technology in education, are being tackled across the world.

This volume covers many aspects of multimedia and communications security, from national security policies to file server architectures, from hypertext documents to specialized cryptographic algorithms. It provides the interested reader with a spectrum of up-to-the-minute knowledge on the topics covered.

Over the last few years, games of different types have been successfully used in the teaching of production management and in the introduction of new planning methods and systems in industrial enterprises. Games have been used to explain the dynamic nature of production management and for testing new planning principles.

Many institutions of higher education are trying to integrate new information and communications technologies into current curricula or to develop new learning paradigms for learning.

This volume includes 41 revised papers selected from 125 papers presented at the th 6 IFIP Technical Committee 5/Working Group 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems - APMS'96 -held at Kyoto, Japan, 4-6 November 1996.

Open Distributed Processing contains the selected proceedings of the Third International Conference on Open Distributed Systems, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Brisbane, Australia, in February 1995.

To reach this objective it is necessary for companies to evaluate their performances and to combine modelling, business process re-engineering and benchmarking techniques. This book demonstrates the successful combination and implementation of these various techniques.

Towards Intelligent Manufacturing Systems This book contains the selected articles from the third International Conference on lriformation Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing.

This book describes several methods and systems solving one of the highlighted problems within computer aided design, namely architectural and logic synthesis. The book emphasises the most recent technologies in high level synthesis, concentrating on applicative studies and practical constraints or criteria during synthesis.

This volume examines the many aspects of the integration of ICT into the school of the future. It includes perspectives from both developed and developing countries as they prepare for future educational systems of the Information Age.

Proceedings volume contains carefully selected papers presented during the 17th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization.

Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems presents the latest research in several related fields, and the exchange of ideas and experiences in a number of topics including: formal models for object-based distributed computing;

The articles in this book constitute the proceedings papers from the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference, "IS2000: The Social and Organizational Perspective on Research and Practice in Information Technology," held June 1 0-12, 2000, in Aalborg, Denmark.

At that time, information systems handled repetitive and remote back-office functions and the main concern was work task design for repetitive input tasks and the potential impact of improved information support on organizational decision-making and structure.

Intended for both academic and professional researchers in the field of computational science and engineering, the papers presented in this volume are selected to address the ideas, results, work-in-progress and research experience in the area of high performance computational techniques for science and engineering applications.

The practice of engineering enterprises needs a number of models. This volume attacks the problem on three fronts: presents the developments in semantic integration; gives an account of the strategic directions in architecture frameworks and methodologies; and presents best practice and future trends of this aspect of enterprise integration.

A reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of security and trust. The papers presented in this volume address the challenges posed by "ambient intelligence space" as a future paradigm and the need for a set of concepts, tools and methodologies to enable the user's trust in the underlying computing infrastructure.

Environmental Informatics (or Enviromatics) is a maturing subject with interdisciplinary roots in computer science, environmental planning, ecology, economics and other related areas.

Database and Application Security XV provides a forum for original research results, practical experiences, and innovative ideas in database and application security.

International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.

Software architecture is a primary factor in the creation and evolution of virtually all products involving software.

The main purpose of the tutorial was to present and discuss an Architecture for Informa tion Security Management and was specifically of value for people involved in, or who wanted to find out more about the management of information secu rity in a company.

The development and integration of integrity and internal control mechanisms into information system infrastructures is a challenge for researchers, IT personnel and auditors.

Optical network design and modeling is an essential issue for planning and operating networks for the next century. This book contributes to further progress in optical network architectures, design, operation and management and covers the following topics in detail: Optical switching and Teabit networking;

Contains the proceedings of the IFIP TC8 Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems, held in September 2004 in Oslo. This book aims to: clarify differences and similarities between the development of mobile versus more traditional information system; and investigate the organizational impact of mobile information systems.

2.1 E-Government: e-Governance and e-Democracy The term Electronic Government (e-Government), as an expression, was coined after the example of Electronic Commerce.

This book presents a state-of-the art review of current perspectives on Communications and Multimedia Security. The book aims to cover the subject of Communications and Multimedia Systems Security, as fully as possible.

The Second IFIP Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing aims to bridge this separation of the scientific community and bring together researchers in the fields of Organic Computing, Autonomic Computing, Self-Organizing Systems, Pervasive Computing and related areas.

Second, one of the several myths about FM's - the fact that their adoption would eventually eliminate the need for testing - is still quite far from becoming a reality, and, again, this book indicates that testing theory and applications are still remarkably healthy.