B2B Integration: A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-Commerce

B2B Integration: A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-Commerce

...this guide reveals the key elements of successful B2B integration and collaborative e-commercie by highlighting business needs, technologies and development strategies

Building the E-Service Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)

Building the E-Service Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)

Building the E-Service Society is a state-of-the-art book which deals with innovative trends in communication systems, information processing, and security and trust in electronic commerce, electronic business, and electronic government. It comprises the proceedings of I3E2004, the Fourth International Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government, which was held in August 2004 as a co-located conference of the 18^th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

The book contains recent results and developments in the following areas:

E-Government:
E-Government Models and Processes,
E-Governance,
Service Provisioning.

E-Business:
Infrastructures and Marketplaces,
M-Commerce,
Purchase and Payment.

E-Commerce:
Value Chain Management,
E-Business Architectures and Processes,
E-Business Models.

Business to Business Electronic Commerce: Challenges and Solutions

Business to Business Electronic Commerce: Challenges and Solutions

In the mid 1990s, the widespread adoption of the web browser led to a rapid commercialization of the Internet. In addition, initial success stories were reported from companies that learned how to create an effective direct marketing channel - selling tangible products to consumers directly with the World Wide Web. By the end of the 1990s, the next revolution began - called business-to-business electronic commerce. Business to Business Electronic Commerce will provide researchers and practitioners alike with a source of knowledge related to this emerging area of business.

e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations (Computer Weekly Professional)

e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations (Computer Weekly Professional)


'e-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations' enables IT managers and directors to develop and implement IT strategies and infrastructures for new models of doing business based on the Internet.

The authors provide a brief introduction to the concepts and strategic issues surrounding information warfare, managing organizational knowledge, and the information economy. The virtual organization is now an important business model for contemporary business organizations and the flexibility and adaptability of the virtual organization make it ideal for survival in today's highly competitive and dynamically changing markets. Modern corporations may utilize some of the features of the virtual organization to develop the ideal organization to a greater or lesser extent depending on individual business circumstances. This book covers the issues involved in planning, realizing and managing such a virtual organization, and the role of information and communication technologies in supporting virtual organizations and virtual organizing is addressed throughout.

Provides a comprehensive set of business models for an e-business
Includes global cases and assignments and full web references
Focus on business issues rather than technology issues

HP-UX 11i Systems Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

HP-UX 11i Systems Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

This guide for HP-UX administrators covers the basics of HP-UX system administration and partitions, as well as supplying background information on UNIX. Chapters focus on topics such as booting, installation, volume management, building a kernel, startup and shutdown scripts, users and groups, networking and configuration, virtual partitions, nPartitions, UNIX file systems, viewing files, UNIX tools, shell programming, and a range of specific programs and applications. A companion CD-ROM contains trial versions of various tools and summery information for key tasks. Poniatowski is a computer scientist and software architect.

Essential System Administration, Third Edition

Essential System Administration, Third Edition

Essential System Administration,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. Essential System Administration provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the real-world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily. The new edition of this indispensable reference has been fully updated for all the latest operating systems. Even more importantly, it has been extensively revised and expanded to consider the current system administrative topics that administrators need most. Essential System Administration,3rd Edition covers: DHCP, USB devices, the latest automation tools, SNMP and network management, LDAP, PAM, and recent security tools and techniques. Essential System Administration is comprehensive. But what has made this book the guide system administrators turn to over and over again is not just the sheer volume of valuable information it provides, but the clear, useful way the information is presented. It discusses the underlying higher-level concepts, but it also provides the details of the procedures needed to carry them out. It is not organized around the features of the Unix operating system, but around the various facets of a system administrator's job. It describes all the usual administrative tools that Unix provides, but it also shows how to use them intelligently and efficiently. Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, Essential System Administration is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible.

Handbook of Granular Computing

Handbook of Granular Computing

Although the notion is a relatively recent one, the notions and principles of Granular Computing (GrC) have appeared in a different guise in many related fields including granularity in Artificial Intelligence, interval computing, cluster analysis, quotient space theory and many others. Recent years have witnessed a renewed and expanding interest in the topic as it begins to play a key role in bioinformatics, e-commerce, machine learning, security, data mining and wireless mobile computing when it comes to the issues of effectiveness, robustness and uncertainty.

The Handbook of Granular Computing offers a comprehensive reference source for the granular computing community, edited by and with contributions from leading experts in the field. Â

• Includes chapters covering the foundations of granular computing, interval analysis and fuzzy set theory; hybrid methods and models of granular computing; and applications and case studies.
• Divided into 5 sections: Preliminaries, Fundamentals, Methodology and Algorithms, Development of Hybrid Models and Applications and Case Studies.
• Presents the flow of ideas in a systematic, well-organized manner, starting with the concepts and motivation and proceeding to detailed design that materializes in specific algorithms, applications and case studies.
• Provides the reader with a self-contained reference that includes all pre-requisite knowledge, augmented with step-by-step explanations of more advanced concepts.

The Handbook of Granular Computing represents a significant and valuable contribution to the literature and will appeal to a broad audience including researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computational Intelligence, pattern recognition, fuzzy sets and neural networks, system modelling, operations research and bioinformatics.Â