Bücher der Reihe IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Testing of Communicating Systems XIV presents the latest international results in both the theory and industrial practice of the testing of communicating systems, ranging from tools and techniques for testing to test standards, frameworks, notations, algorithms, fundamentals of testing, and industrial experiences and issues.

Human Choice and Computers: Issues of Choice and Quality of Life in the Information Society presents different views about how terrorist actions are influencing political and social discussions and decisions, and it covers questions related to legitimacy and power in the Information Society.

In the foreword to this volume of conference proceedings for IFIP Working Group 8.4, it is appropriate to review the wider organization to which the Working Group belongs.

Service and network providers must be able to satisfy the demands for new services, improve the quality of service, reduce the cost of network service operations and maintenance, control performance and adapt to user demands.

Themes related to the conceptualisation of diffusion and adoption of networked information systems are discussed along with studies of the diffusion of networked information systems in public sector institutions and private businesses.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in Lifelong Learning supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This title discusses the following issues: Changing environments; What is Lifelong Learning; Who are the learners; Characteristics of learning environments; Sustainability of learning environments; and, more.

Globalization of business, internationalization of trade, and increasing prevalence of multi-cultural interdisciplinary teams are beginning to redefine the nature of office work. In addition, a number of specific topics will be discussed including: multi-cultural team productivity, IT platform requirements, and global telecommunications.

For many years production management has no longer been confined to individual production facilities. Strategic and legal issues had to be considered and production management had to include sophisticated logistic chain management.

The practical applications of system modeling and optimization can be seen in a number of fields. This work collects selected articles from the 21st and IFIP TC 7 conference in Sophia Antipolis, France. It is a useful reference for those interested in advances in the fields of System Modeling and Optimization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2009, held in West Lafayette, IN, USA, in June 2009.

This book contains the collection of papers presented at the conference of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 "Information and Organizations."

Many organisations are using an increased range of information technologies to support a variety of new organisational practices and organisational forms. The book also considers the social process of shifting from present organisational structures and practices to new ones.

A virtual prototype is a major interim step towards the creation of a virtual environment. This book explores the simulation, interaction, concepts and tools of virtual prototypes and environments. It provides a mixture of state-of-the-art, advanced research and industrial papers.

Compared to the early years of comp- ing before 1960, where the number of computer projects and applications was small, capturing a holistic view of the history between the 1960s and the 1980s is conside- bly more difficult.

Identifying Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation Doctoral programs in science and engineering are important sources of innovative ideas and techniques that might lead to new products and technological innovation.

The International PROLAMAT Conference is an internationally well known event for demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of discrete manufacturing.

This book is a collection of selected proceedings from the EUNICE Summer School which took place in Colmenarejo in July of 2005. It covers topics of advanced engineering such as ubiquitous computing, full mobility and real-time multimedia, into real services, applications, protocols and networks.

This book contains selected papers presented at the seventh Conference on Working Group 3.7 of the International Federation for Information Processing. The focus of Working Group 3.7 is on ITEM: Information Technology in Educational Management.

Constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2010, held in Kasane, Botswana, in July 2010.

The papers have been organized into topical sections on privacy and identity management, anonymous credentials, authentication and access control, risk management of identity management, identity management with smart cards, and federated identity management.

This book is a collection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at the 25th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Dresden, Germany, in September 2011. They are organized in the following topical sections: control of distributed parameter systems; and applications and control of lumped parameter systems.

The 31 selected papers cover a wide and important variety of issues in e-Business,e-servicesande-society,including security,trust,andprivacy,ethical and societal issues, business organization, provision of services as software and software as services, and others.

The IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC) is one of the most important conferences in the area of computer science at the worldwide level and it has a federated structure, which takes into account the rapidly growing and expanding interests in this area.

st This volume contains the proceedings of two conferences held as part of the 21 IFIP World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia, 20-23 September 2010.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 11.6 Working Conference on Policies and Research in Identity Management, IDMAN 2010, held in Oslo, Norway, in November 2010. This title features the papers that focus on identity management in general and surveillance and monitoring in particular.

They are organized in topical sections on terminology, privacy metrics, ethical, social, and legal aspects, data protection and identity management, eID cards and eID interoperability, emerging technologies, privacy for eGovernment and AAL applications, social networks and privacy, privacy policies, and usable privacy.

The papers are organized in the following topical sections: OSS quality and reliability, OSS products, review of technologies of and for OSS, knowledge and research building in OSS, OSS reuse, integration, and compliance, OSS value and economics, OSS adoption in industry, and mining OSS repositories.

Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 / WG5.3, WG5.7, WG5.12. Fifth International Working Conference of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing 2002 (DIIDM 2002), November 18-20, 2002 in Osaka, Japan