Software quality

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Thomas M. Cappels

One of the greatest challenges that companies face today and in the future is how to focus their business on producing high-quality products while achieving the bottom-line performance that shareholders and the investment community demand. This book tackles the challenge head on with the introduction of a new management science called Financially Focused Quality (FFQ), which was developed to enable the effective application of the quality concepts of today and tomorrow to any business for substantial improvements in both productivity and the bottom line. Companies using FFQ have already documented millions of dollars in savings.

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Marc van Kreveld ... [et al.] (eds

This tutorial survey brings together two lines of research and development whose interaction promises to have significant practical impact on the area of spatial information processing in the near future: geographic information systems (GIS) and geometric computation or, more particularly, geometric algorithms and spatial data structures. In nine uniformly structured and coherent chapters, the authors present a unique survey ranging from the history and basic characteristics to current issues of precision and robustness of geometric computing. This textbook is ideally suited for advanced courses on GIS and applied geometric algorithms. Research and design professionals active in the area will find it valuable as a state-of-the-art survey.

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Jack Uldrich with Deb Newberry

Offers an informative prediction concerning how the emerging field of nanotechnology will transform business, exploring a range of nanotech innovations and how they will strategically influence every industry.

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Joseph DiVanna & Antoine Sreih

A New Financial Dawn examines the global economic crisis in the context of how western markets influence Islamic financial innovation. Joseph DiVanna, author and Managing Director of Maris Strategies, and Antoine Sreih, CEO of Europe Arab Bank, discuss how market conditions are creating a fertile seedbed for the next generation of innovation in Shariah-compliant financial services. The authors also consider the rising discourse that Islamic finance could be a replacement for capitalism. The book explores how Islamic finance differs from conventional finance by reviewing the early results from banks at the vanguard of product development. DiVanna and Sreih argue that financial institutions provide a nation with social financial cohesion, the economic glue that holds a society together by facilitating the commercial needs of business and making possible the wide variety of lifestyles enjoyed within a nation. Posing the question Does Islamic finance provide new ethically based economic cohesion to the vast underserved Muslim communities?, this book examines how Islamic banking has capitalized on innovation over the past two decades to fulfil its promise of equality and fairness by rebuilding trust in banking and financial services. Setting the stage for future research, DiVanna and Sreih explore rising issues such as Islamic monetary union, alternative forms of currency and a host of factors that are shaping this new industry.