Over the last decade, software product line engineering (SPLE) has emerged as one of the most promising software development paradigms for increasing productivity in IT-related industries. Detailing the various aspects of SPLE implementation in different domains, Applied Software Product Line Engineering documents best practices with regard to system development.

Expert contributors from academia and industry come together and focus on core asset development, product development, and management, addressing the process, technical, and organizational issues...

Intelligent agent technology is emerging as one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas. Researchers are developing a number of agent-based applications and multi-agent systems in a variety of fields, such as: electronic commerce, supply chain management, resource allocation, intelligent manufacturing, mass customization, industrial control, information retrieval and filtering, collaborative work, mobile commerce, decision support, and computer games. Application of Agents and Intelligent Information Technologies presents an outstanding collection of the latest research associated...

With the inundation of emergent online- and Web-centered technologies, there has been an increased focus on intelligent information technologies that are designed to enable users to accomplish complex tasks with relative ease.

Cutting-edge developments in artificial intelligence are now driving applications that are only hinting at the level of value they will soon contribute to organizations, consumers, and societies across all domains.

Recent advancements in technology have influenced major change within many industries. Because of such advancements, businesses and organizations are adapting to a more technology based work environment in order achieve a higher rate of production, output, and accuracy. Methodological Advancements in Intelligent Information Technologies: Evolutionary Trends brings together research from international authors detailing developments in intelligent information technologies and their impact on organizational environments. This esteemed reference publication covers topics on agent-based approaches...

Intelligent, Adaptive and Reasoning Technologies: New Developments and Applications is a comprehensive collection of work from researchers in related fields such as information systems, distributed AI, intelligent agents, and collaborative work that explores and discusses various aspects of design and development of intelligent technologies. This book provides a forum for academics and practitioners to explore research issues related to not only the design, implementation and deployment of intelligent systems and technologies, but also economic issues and organizational impact.

Intelligent Information Technologies are vital to businesses, hospitals, research facilities, and any number of institutions that rely on the infrastructure provided therein to remain current within their respective fields, and keep their access to data secure and efficient. Insights into Advancements in Intelligent Information Technologies: Discoveries offers the latest the field has to offer in research, methodologies, frameworks, and advances in the field. Within the various business enterprises that share resources and compete for a market share, information, and its uses are crucial to...

Organizational Efficiency through Intelligent Information Technologies explores various aspects of design and development of intelligent technologies by bringing together the latest in research in the fields of information systems, intelligent agents, collaborative works, and much more. This reference source also highlights insights on agent-based problem solving as well as economic issues and organizational impact.

"This book brings together current practices and innovations in the management and processing of diverse big data sets through technological integration, focusing on concepts such as semantic technologies, open source tools, and soft computing"--

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshop on E-Business (WeB 2015), held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, on December 12, 2015. The theme of WeB 2015 was Leveraging Service Computing and Big Data Analytics for E-Commerce, and thus the workshop provided an interactive forum by bringing together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to explore the latest challenges of next-generation e-Business systems and the potential of service computing and big data analytics.
The 11 full and 17 short papers, which were selected from 45 submissions to the workshop,...