Product Description: Two significant factors combine to drive the phenomenon of e-Business.  Competition constantly motivates companies in their marketplaces, while rapidly developing information technologies offer new opportunities and challenges. For Mike Papazoglou and Piet Ribbers, both business and technology are integral to e-Business...read more

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Product Description: These proceedings contain the latest reports on research, development and novel applications of database systems. Topics covered include: database design; parallel and distributed databases; storage structures; integrity constraints; deductive databases and theoretical aspects of databases...read more

Product Description: The purpose of the ICICIS, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, May 1993, is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of research, development, and practice in the various forms of intelligent and cooperative processing. The proceedings are presented in 12 sessions: constructing intelligent information systems, managing distributed information, supporting heterogeneous agents, supporting human collaborators, facets of intelligent agents, assisting users, negotiation mechanisms, cooperating in design and development, agent interactions, information semantics, distributed transaction management, and rule management and reasoning...read more