Information technology and educational management in the knowledge society

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James J. Alpigini ... [et al.] (eds

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the Third Inter- tional Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2002) held at Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 14–16 October 2002. Rough set theoryand its applications constitute a branch of soft computing that has exhibited a signi?cant growth rate during recent years. RSCTC 2002 provided a forum for exchanging ideas among manyresearchers in the rough set communityand in various areas of soft computing and served as a stimulus for mutual understanding and cooperation. In recent years, there have been a number of advances in rough set theoryand applications. Hence, we have witnessed a growing number of international workshops on rough sets and their applications. In addition, it should be observed that one of the beauties of rough sets and the rough set philosophyis that it tends to complement and reinforce research in manytraditional research areas and applications. This is the main reason that manyinternational conferences are now including rough sets into the list of topics.

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Alain Godard and Vincent Lenhardt

"During the mid 90s Alain Godard helped to bring about a remarkable change of fortunes for the pharmaceuticals giant, Rhone-Poulenc. This is the story of how he and his team used trust, commitment and imagination and what at the time appeared to be risky tactics to turn around the company following its merger with Union Carbide Agrochemicals. With coverage of innovative new business systems including Godard's 'Simplify, Decentralise, Manage' programme, this book will be of great value to all leaders and managers facing challenges in business."--BOOK JACKET.

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Clarice Pennebaker Brantley, Michele Goulet Miller

[This book] promotes the Communication-by-Objectives (CBO) approach.... The text-workbook guides you in preparing successful written and spoken messages. -Pref.

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Robert Meersman ... [et al.], (eds

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three confederated conferences CoopIS 2002, DOA 2002, and ODBASE 2002, held in Irvine, CA, USA, in October/November 2002. The 77 revised full papers and 10 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 291 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on interoperability, workflow, mobility, agents, peer-to-peer and ubiquitous, work process, business and transaction, infrastructure, query processing, quality issues, agents and middleware, cooperative systems, ORB enhancements, Web services, distributed object scalability and heterogeneity, dependability and security, reflection and reconfiguration, real-time scheduling, component-based applications, ontology languages, conceptual modeling, ontology management, ontology development and engineering, XML and data integration, and tools for the intelligent Web.