Product Description: Digital technologies such as self-driving cars and independently acting robots are taking over more of our work and are already making many decisions without our participation. This book examines the technological complexities and covers the legal issues in the use of autonomously functioning, cooperative, intelligent software agents...read more

Product Description: This book explores the emerging area of pervasive health, introducing the principle of knowledge management, its tools, techniques and technologies. Using case examples, the book focuses on the vital triumvirate of people, process and technology.

Product Description: Andreas J. Dietrich analysiert unter Verwendung der Neuen Institutionenökonomik die Anforderungen der Mass Customization an betriebliche Informationssysteme und entwickelt darauf aufbauend eine generische Anwendungsarchitektur.

This book gives detailed descriptions of the development of two large scale multiagent systems: Agent.Hospital and Agent.Enterprise. These two systems have been developed in close cooperation with more than 20 enterprises and hospitals. They demonstrate clearly that multiagent technology has a great potential for innovative information systems, if a high degree of flexibility of the overall systems is required, e.g. because human actors and technical systems exhibit a great degree of local autonomy, or if the work environment is highly dynamic.

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