Bücher der Reihe International Handbooks on Information Systems

This handbook contains surveys of state-of-the-art concepts, systems, applications, best practices as well as contemporary research in the intersection between IT and finance.

This handbook is about methods, tools and examples of how to architect an enterprise through considering all life cycle aspects of Enterprise Entities.

This handbook provides new empirical and analytical results with precious insights, which will not only help supply chain agents to understand more about the latest measures for supply chain coordination under uncertainty, but also help practitioners and researchers to know how to improve supply chain performance based on innovative methods.

Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. This second volume focuses on the managerial and organizational challenges of BPM such as strategic and cultural alignment, governance and the education of BPM stakeholders.

Offers a comprehensive overview of architectures, languages, methods, and techniques for modeling and analyzing information systems in organizations. This work includes more than 30 contributions by authoritative figures in this area which provide a reference source for problem-solvers, including papers on XML and UML.

This book gives detailed descriptions of the development of two large scale multiagent systems: Agent.Hospital and Agent.Enterprise. They demonstrate clearly that multiagent technology has a great potential for innovative information systems, if a high degree of flexibility of the overall systems is required, e.g.

Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. This second volume focuses on the managerial and organizational challenges of BPM such as strategic and cultural alignment, governance and the education of BPM stakeholders.

Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. Selected case studies complement their views and lead to a summary of BPM expertise that is unique in its coverage of the most critical success factors of BPM.

This second volume consists of the sections: technologies for knowledge management, outcomes of KM, knowledge management in action, and the KM horizon.

Covers aspects of parallel and distributed processing as efficient parallel algorithms, languages for parallel processing, parallel operating systems, parallel database systems and multimedia object servers, and networking aspects of distributed and parallel computing.