in the fields of database systems and software development. It provides academicians, researchers, and database … elicitation technique selection / Miguel Aguiree-Urreta, George Marakas -- 6. IT value of software development / VenuGopal … transformation from IT implementations / T. Ariyachandra, L. Dong -- 18. Social networks structures in open source software …

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. Conceptual model driven software development (CMDSD) as a catalyst methodology for building sound semantic Web frameworks …

the various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed learning, including the methodological and technical …

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