Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of resources. The management and scheduling of projects represents a challenging task, and project performance may have a considerable impact on an organization's competitiveness.
This handbook presents state-of-the-art approaches to project management and scheduling. More than sixty contributions...
Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the ...
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities. This Handbook presents in two volumes the contemporary body of knowledge as articulated by the world' s leading BPM thought leaders. This first volume focuses on arriving at a sound definition of BPM approaches and examines BPM...
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. T...
This book showcases a large variety of multiple criteria decision applications (MCDAs), presenting them in a coherent framework provided by the methodology chapters and the comments accompanying each case study. The chapters describing MCDAs invite the reader to experiment with MCDA methods and perhaps develop new variants using data from these case studies or other cases they encounter, equipping them with a broader perception of real-world problems and how to overcome them with the help of MCDAs.
This book showcases a large variety of multiple criteria decision applications (MCDAs), presenting them in a coherent framework provided by the met...
An ontology is a formal description of concepts and relationships that can exist for a community of human and/or machine agents. The notion of ontologies is crucial for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies considering ontology languages, ontology engineering methods, example ontologies, infrastructures and technologies for ontologies, and how to bring this all into ontology-based infrastructures and applications that are among the best of...
An ontology is a formal description of concepts and relationships that can exist for a community of human and/or machine agents. The notion of onto...
The most comprehensive reference work dealing with decision support systems, this book is essential to everyone working in the field. Written by an international array of luminaries, it contains more than 70 chapters that approach decision support systems from a wide variety of perspectives.
The most comprehensive reference work dealing with decision support systems, this book is essential to everyone working in the field. Written by an in...
The aim of this book is to survey the decision support system (DSS) field - covering both developed territory and emergent frontiers. It will give the reader a clear understanding of fundamental DSS concepts, methods, technologies, trends, and issues.
The aim of this book is to survey the decision support system (DSS) field - covering both developed territory and emergent frontiers. It will give the...
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. Essentially, all aspects of IT in finance are covered.
This handbook contains surveys of state-of-the-art concepts, systems, applications, best practices as well as contemporary research in the intersectio...
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities. This Handbook presents in two volumes the contemporary body of knowledge as articulated by the world's leading BPM thought leaders. This second volume focuses on the managerial and organizational challenges of BPM such as...
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems...
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of corporate activities. This Handbook presents in two volumes the contemporary body of knowledge as articulated by the world' s leading BPM thought leaders. This first volume focuses on arriving at a sound definition of BPM approaches and examines BPM...
Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. T...
