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This is one of four books resulting from the 13th international (35 countries represented) conference on engineering design (ICED 01). ICED covers engineering design from product development and innov
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Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in th
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Intended for a one-semester course in Accounting Information Systems taught at the sophomore, junior, or senior level at most two- and four-year schools. This revision is completely streamlined, incl
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Reprises the beginning of the Berserker Series in one volume, in which gigantic intelligent machines are set loose to destroy all life, with only one branch of humanity, descended from a world called
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This authoritative book takes a comprehensive look at Executive Information Systems (EIS), covering what EIS is, how it differs from other applications, and how EIS will be used in the future.
This collection explores the opportunities for and possible implications of coordination between two of the major pieces of emerging infrastructure in the United States: Intelligent Transportation Sys
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In an era of increased global competition, of takeovers, downsizing, restructuring, and even outright failure, managing intelligent organizational change is the most difficult challenge facing busines
Genetic algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in studies of complexadaptive systems, ranging from adaptive agents in economic theory to the use of machine learningtechniques in the des
