This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2016 on Information Systems: Development, Applications, and Education. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefull
This practical and accessible text enables readers from operations research, business, engineering, public policy and computer science to analyze stochastic systems. It presents the major cases of sto
Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software engineering techniques for designing and implementing better agricultural software systems based on the o
The Science of Evolution considers evolution in the context of systems biology, a contemporary approach for handling biological complexity. Evolution needs this systems perspective for three reasons.
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From best-selling author Kelly Rainer, and coauthors, Brad Prince and Hugh Watson, the Second Edition ofManagement Information Systems promotes active learning like no other text on the market. Each c
From best-selling author Kelly Rainer, and coauthors, Brad Prince and Hugh Watson, the Second Edition ofManagement Information Systems promotes active learning like no other text on the market. Each c
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American Law and Legal Systems examines the philosophy of law within a political, social, and economic framework with great clarity and insight. Readers are introduced to operative legal concepts, eve
Highlights the human components of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, their interactions with the technology and each other, and the implications of human capabilities and limitations for the larger s
This book explains the world of database systems to bioinformatics and cheminformatics database users. It begins with a survey of popular databases, including primary genetic and protein sequence, phy
In what was originally called Introduction to EMS Systems, Walz and Zigmont provide an overview of emergency medical services (EMS) for students, administrators, government officials, and others. The
Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political, economic, cultural and racial ones. One
Dynamic Risk Analysis in the Chemical and Petroleum Industry focuses on bridging the gap between research and industry by responding to the following questions: What are the most relevant development
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental security of Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and touching on cyber-p
Andrew Linklater's The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge, 2011) created a new agenda for the sociology of states-systems. Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems builds on the author's attempts to combine the process-sociological investigation of civilizing processes and the English School analysis of international society in a higher synthesis. Adopting Martin Wight's comparative approach to states-systems and drawing on the sociological work of Norbert Elias, Linklater asks how modern Europeans came to believe themselves to be more 'civilized' than their medieval forebears. He investigates novel combinations of violence and civilization through a broad historical scope from classical antiquity, Latin Christendom and Renaissance Italy to the post-Second World War era. This book will interest all students with an interdisciplinary commitment to investigating long-term patterns of change in world politics.
Andrew Linklater's The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge, 2011) created a new agenda for the sociology of states-systems. Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems builds on the author's attempts to combine the process-sociological investigation of civilizing processes and the English School analysis of international society in a higher synthesis. Adopting Martin Wight's comparative approach to states-systems and drawing on the sociological work of Norbert Elias, Linklater asks how modern Europeans came to believe themselves to be more 'civilized' than their medieval forebears. He investigates novel combinations of violence and civilization through a broad historical scope from classical antiquity, Latin Christendom and Renaissance Italy to the post-Second World War era. This book will interest all students with an interdisciplinary commitment to investigating long-term patterns of change in world politics.
"The classical Athenian 'state' had almost no formal coercive apparatus to ensure order or compliance with law: there was no professional police force or public prosecutor, and nearly every step in th
Everyone wants to transform schools. The question is: How? This book provides answers. Comprehensively describing systems that support teachers and students in a holistic and humanistic way, the book
Water is one of the most important and abundant resources available on earth. Although water covers almost seventy one percent of earth but the portable water is scarce and unevenly distributed. Hydro
Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny introduces 160 specific research projects that are currently being investigated in laboratories distributed throughout the world. Through interviews and descriptions
Everyone wants to transform schools. The question is: How? This book provides answers. Comprehensively describing systems that support teachers and students in a holistic and humanistic way, the book
This book develops and assesses a decision-making model for resource management in complex work systems in line with the “Systems Engineering” method. It applies the Balanced Scorecard to the developm
This SpringerBrief presents the fundamental concepts of a specialized class of data stream, spatio-temporal data streams, and demonstrates their distributed processing using Big Data frameworks and pl
This book addresses the question of how toachieve social coordination in Socio-Cognitive Technical Systems (SCTS). SCTSare a class of Socio-Technical Systems that are complex, open, systems wheresever
Liturgical Press is proud to offer the only Spanish-English bilingual edition of the Catholic marriage rite available in the United States. The Order of Celebrating Matrimony/Ritual del Matrimonio is
Database Systems: A Pragmatic Approach is a classroom textbook for use by students who are learning about relational databases, and the professors who teach them. New in this second edition is updated
This book describes the various tradeoffs systems designers face when designing embedded memory. Readers designing multi-core systems and systems on chip will benefit from the discussion of different
A cellular network or mobile network is a wireless network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver, known as a cell site or base station. In a
The International Society for Systems Biology (ISSB) is a society aimed at advancing world-wide systems biology research by providing a forum for scientific discussions and various academic services.
The aim of this book is to give practitioners and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the area of trustworthy cyber-physical systems engineering. The book covers various topics related to engi
This book deals with the management and valuation of energy storage in electric power grids, highlighting the interest of storage systems in grid applications and developing management methodologies b
Our world is composed of systems within systems—the machines we build, the information we share, the organizations we form, and elements of nature that surround us. Therefore, nearly every field of st
Strategy for Managing Complex Systems demonstrates that management and management theory have strong foundations in systems science, and most specifically in the cybernetics of truly complex—organismi
In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovati
Examines the economy of the Aztec civilization, looking at the goods they produced, how they were traded, how wealth was distributed, and the work that people did.
Describes how irrigation systems have worked throughout history, exploring the technology involved with such types as drip irrigation and subsurface irrigation.
The publication of the second edition of the Order of Celebrating Matrimony provides new liturgical and pastoral opportunities for presiders and parishes. In One Love, Fr. Paul Turner—one of the most
This book presents a unified algebraic approach to stabilization problems of linear boundary control systems with no assumption on finite-dimensional approximations to the original systems, such as th
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