"This book focuses on agile management in enterprises. This includes business process improvement based on technical constraints and business requirements. It presents a set of patterns that contain specific agile practices for software development. This allows agile development and process...

Students in various disciplines-from law and government to business and health policy-need to understand several quantitative aspects of finance (such as the capital asset pricing model or financial options) and policy analysis (e.g., assessing the weight of probabilistic evidence) but often...

"This book is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on trends, techniques, and uses of various technology applications and examines the benefits and challenges of these computational developments. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as utility computing,...

"This book explores the field of Open Source Software and processes. This wide area includes the special development process performed by geographically dispersed programmers, community issues like coordination and communication, motivations of the participants, and economic and legal issues. It...

"This book explores macro and micro studies of FOSS ecology, studies of project tasks, an exploratory analysis of free and open source software ecology, finds of influential nodes in Sourceforge.net using Social Net-work analysis, graph mining approaches to studying volunteer relationships in...

Dieses essential stellt fundiert und praxisorientiert die Grundlagen von CRM in der Public Cloud dar. Das Autoren-Team gibt einen grundlegenden Einblick in das Cloud-Computing basierte Customer Relation Management und zeigt auf, welche Faktoren die Kombination der beiden beeinflussen. Sie...

This report examines changes in the patenting behavior of the software industry since the 1990s. It finds that most software firms still do not patent, most software patents are obtained by a few large firms in the software industry or in other industries, and the risk of litigation from...

The Russian government has been invading offices of media organizations and non-governmental organizations that are critical of state actions. Oftentimes, these raids occur under the guise of cracking down on the use of pirated Microsoft software by these organizations. The authorities, acting...

A software package of realization of mathematical models of pollutants transport in rivers is offered. This package is designed as a up-to-date convenient, reliable tool for specialists of various areas of knowledge such as ecology, hydrology, building, agriculture, biology, ichthyology and so...

An experimental study examined effects of knowledge map-based learning, a form of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI), on assisting novice users in acquiring software knowledge and skills. Fifty five subjects participated in this experimental study. Two classes of students in a webpage...