Exploring Services Science

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Rachid Benlamri

This two-volume-set (CCIS 293 and CCIS 294) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, NDT 2012, held in Dubai, UAE, in April 2012. The 96 papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 228 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collaborative systems for e-sciences; context-aware processing and ubiquitous systems; data and network mining; grid and cloud computing; information and data management; intelligent agent-based systems; internet modeling and design; mobile, ad hoc and sensor network management; peer-to-peer social networks; quality of service for networked systems; semantic Web and ontologies; security and access control; signal processing and computer vision for networked systems; social networks; Web services.

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Herbert Fischer, Josef Schneeberger

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2013, held in Deggendorf, Germany, in March 2013. The papers are organized in topical sections on running concepts; running business process management types; running applications; running ideas; running solutions; running projects.

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Daniel Parrochia, Pierre Neuville

This book is an essay on the epistemology of classifications. Its main purpose is not to provide an exposition of an actual mathematical theory of classifications, that is, a general theory which would be available to any kind of them: hierarchical or non-hierarchical, ordinary or fuzzy, overlapping or non-overlapping, finite or infinite, and so on, establishing a basis for all possible divisions of the real world. For the moment, such a theory remains nothing but a dream. Instead, the authors essentially put forward a number of key questions. Their aim is rather to reveal the “state of art” of this dynamic field and the philosophy one may eventually adopt to go further. To this end they present some advances made in the course of the last century, discuss a few tricky problems that remain to be solved, and show the avenues open to those who no longer wish to stay on the wrong track. Researchers and professionals interested in the epistemology and philosophy of science, library science, logic and set theory, order theory or cluster analysis will find this book a comprehensive, original and progressive introduction to the main questions in this field.

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Charles K. Chui, Guanrong Chen

This book offers a self-contained, elementary and yet rigorous treatment of linear system theory and optimal control theory. Fundamental topics within this area are considered, first in the continuous-time and then in the discrete-time setting. Both time-varying and time-invariant cases are investigated. The approach is quite standard but a number of new results are also included, as are some brief applications. It provides a firm basis for further study and should be useful to all those interested in the rapidly developing subjects of systems engineering, optimal control theory and signal processing.