In practical management, a policy maker often has to make a choice from among various alternatives. Quite often, there are several conflicting criteria to take into account. In addition, some criteria are non-numeric: they can only be expressed as `more' or `less'. The QUALIFLEX method for multicriteria analysis has been developed by the Netherlands Economic Institute to handle such problems. It is designed for use at all levels of decision making, both in the public and private sector. QUALIFLEX has the following features: simultaneous use of qualitative and quantitative data; full flexibility with regard to alternatives and criteria; scores in their own, natural measures; different weighting options for the criteria; sensitivity analysis of the relative weights of the criteria; the result is an optimal ranking of the alternatives. GBP/LISTGBP The Decision Support System QUALIFLEX 2.3 is a fully revised version of the program Micro-Qualiflex. The main improvements are: now user friendly and menu driven; graphical presentation; reversibility and data editing; optional input from (dBase) files.

Lead Agile Transformations that Scale and Succeed across the Entire Organization Most organizational leaders know agility is paramount to survival in a world of unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). This is why so many keep attempting Agile transformations even after previous initiatives have failed. But the truth is, both organizations and leaders need new ways of thinking--they need to upgrade their organizational "operating system." Built on the proven Integral Agile Transformation Framework (TM) (IATF), Agile Transformation offers a fresh perspective and systemic approach that can operate on all levels, from individual to enterprise. Learn how to use IATF to combine what you know subjectively ("heart") with what you can measure objectively ("data"). Even if you are already using leadership or culture models, scaled frameworks, or other techniques, IATF helps you place them in context, overcome their limitations, and gain more value from them. As it has in many other organizations, IATF can help you become an authentic Transformational Leader and finally build an organization that is truly Agile. Gain crucial new perspective for leading your Agile transformation: insight into your world, organization, work, and yourself Understand what your current Agile methods do and don't do, how they interact or conflict, and where you need something more Structure existing models and frameworks into an understandable meta-framework Master a unified and practical system for mapping what's going on and what needs to change Discover practical ways to successfully lead both human and organizational aspects of change Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, held at Tohoku University, Japan in April 1994. This top-level international symposium on theoretical computer science is devoted to theoretical aspects of programming, programming languages and system, and parallel and distributed computation. The papers in the volume are grouped into sessions on: lambda calculus and programming; automated deduction; functional programming; objects and assignments; concurrency; term rewriting and process equivalence; type theory and programming; algebra, categories and linear logic; and subtyping, intersection and union types. The volume also includes seven invited talks and two open lectures.

Modern software tools like Maple have the potential to alter radically the way mathematics is taught, learned, and done. Bringing such tools into the classroom during lectures, assignments, and examinations means that new ways oflooking at mathematics can becomepermanent fixtures ofthe curriculum. It is universal access that will make a software-based approach to mathematics become the norm. In 1988, with NSF funding under an III grant, I had the opportunity to bring Maple into the calculus classroom at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Since then a new curriculum based on the availability ofcomputer algebra systems has evolved at RHIT and in my own courses. This volume contains a record of some of the insights gained into pedagogy using Maple in calculus. The activities and ideas captured in these Maple worksheets reflect concepts in calculus imple mented in Maple. There is an overt message to the reader that carries with it a side effect. However, it is possible that for one reader the side effect is the message and the message is the side effect I had intended to put before my audience examples extracted from my Maple based curriculum to entice a wider acceptance ofthe benefits of making a computer algebra system become the basis of a revised calculus syllabus. By examples I had hoped to demonstrate the "rightness" of using software tools for teaching and learning calculus."

Risikomanagement in IT-Projekten ist ein detaillierter Leitfaden f r jeden Projektmanager. Gerade in den immer komplexer werdenden Projekten der Informationstechnologie sind die potenziellen Projektrisiken besonders hoch. Ohne eine geeignete Strategie drohen die meisten Projekte beim Eintreten eines Problems zu scheitern. Das Buch gibt nicht nur Ratschl ge, wie Risiken vermieden werden k nnen, sondern geht im Detail auf die Planung, Minimierung und Eliminierung von Risiken ein. Ebenso werden Situationen betrachtet, in denen Risiken zu Problemen werden, und darauf eingegangen, wie das Projekt trotzdem zum Erfolg gef hrt werden kann.

This book shows how blockchain technology can transform the Internet, connecting global businesses in disruptive ways. It offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted examination of the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) from a new perspective: as an enabler of the Internet of Value (IoV). The authors discuss applications of blockchain technology to the financial services domain, e.g. in real estate, insurance and the emerging Decentralised Finance (DeFi) movement. They also cover applications to the media and e-commerce domains. DLT's impacts on the circular economy, marketplace, Internet of Things (IoT) and oracle business models are also investigated. In closing, the book provides outlooks on the evolution of DLT, as well as the systemic governance and privacy risks of the IoV. The book is intended for a broad readership, including students, researchers and industry practitioners.

Modern business relies heavily on information technology. This book presents a new "always-on" business model for the digital age, one based on three interrelated components: a business model, an IT capability model, and an always-on information system model. In addition, it develops an implementation framework for the new model by identifying business-critical continuous computing information technologies as implementation drivers. The model proposed in this book reveals the critical role of business continuity management in ensuring business continuity even when operations are unaffected by any disasters. Using empirical survey data, PLS-SEM (Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling) combined with mediation analysis are used to test the model and hypotheses. The book is chiefly intended for students in Business Administration/Management degree programs and business leaders whose work involves addressing issues such as organizational performance, IT capability, enterprise information systems, IT management, business continuity management, disaster recovery management, risk management, IT auditing, and compliance.

Software architecture is critical to the success of software development projects. Unfortunately, many projects are unsuccessful in their attempts to leverage architecture-based development, especially large-scale projects. Lost in a myriad of possible UML diagrams, project teams often resort to ineffective ad-hoc techniques.

The purpose of this book is to enable software architects, their managers, and other development team members to become more effective in directing the course of large-scale software development projects. Written by two experienced architects that have worked in the trenches on many projects, this book provides practical advice for all software teams about developing and capturing critical software architectural concerns.

Leveraging the recent IEEE standard on software architecture and using UML compatible with versions 1.4 and 2.0 this book describes a series of viewpoints for capturing the software architecture and related concerns. These viewpoints convey essential information to users, stakeholders and other members of the development team.

Large-Scale Software Architecture covers:

• a series of UML based viewpoints for capturing software architecture and related concerns

• useful techniques for development of software architectures

• the roles and responsibilities of the software architect and the architecture team

• traps and pitfalls of architecture development

• utilization of reusable and off-the-shelf software frameworks and components

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the First International Symposiumorganized by the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. The symposium was held in Kanazawa, Japan, November 4-6, 1993 and attracted many researchers from academia and industry as well as ambitioned practitioners. Object technologies, in particular object-oriented programming, object-oriented databases, and software object bases, currently attract much attention and hold a great promise of future research and development in diverse areas of advanced software. The volume contains besides 6 invited presentations by renown researchers and 25 contributed papers carefully selected by an internationalprogram committee from a total of 92 submissions.

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach held in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7-9, 1992. It contains the full versions of all the 22 accepted papers selected from in total 64 submissions; in addition, the two invited talks by Scheer and by Tsichritzis and others are represented asfull papers and the two other invited speakers contribute extended abstracts. All the contributions describe original research related to theoretical or practical aspects of the Entity-Relationship Approach, reflecting the trend of recent years in a wide range of database research activities. In particular, the topics database design aspects, object-orientation, integrity constraints, query languages, knowledge-based techniques, and development of new applications are addressed.

Object-orientation and the need for multi-paradigmatic systems constitute a challenge for researchers, practitioners and instructors. Presentations at the OCG/NJSZT joint conference in Klagenfurt, Austria, in September 1992 addressed these issues. The proceedings comprise such topics as: project management, artificial intelligence - modelling aspects, artificial intelligence - tool building aspects, language features, object-orientied software development, the challenge of coping with complexity, methodology, and experience, software engineering education, science policy, etc.

Technologiebasiertes und mobiles Lernen und Lehren sind in der heutigen Informations- und Wissensgesellschaft von zentraler Bedeutung. Adressiert wird die lebenslange Aus- und Weiterbildung vom Vorschul- bis ins Rentenalter unter Verwendung von Rechnern und Rechnernetzwerken. Lehrangebote und Lernszenarien mussen ein gutes Kosten-/Nutzenverhaltnis aufweisen und im nichtstaatlichen Bereich mittel- bis langfristig betriebswirtschaftlich erfolgreich sein (Nachhaltigkeit). Wichtig sind ausserdem ganzheitliche, integrierte Ansatze, die die drei Saulen Technologie, Didaktik und Betriebswirtschaftslehre berucksichtigen.

Ziel dieses Sammelbandes E-Learning 2010" ist es, einen Blick in die nahe Zukunft des E- und M-Learning zu werfen. "

Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and Applications is a major research theme in CSCL and CSCW research community. It comprises a variety of research topics that focus on developing systems that are more powerful and flexible and also more adaptable to the learning process and thus provide better answers to the paradigmatic principles of on-line collaborative learning and work. The chapters collected in this book provide new insights, findings and approaches both on the analysis and the development of more powerful e-collaboration settings. Researchers will find in this book the latest trends in these research topics. On the other hand, academics will find practical insights on how to use conceptual and experimental approaches in their daily tasks. Finally, developers from CSCL community can be inspired and put in practice the proposed models and evaluate them for the specific purposes of their own work and context.

After many years of teaching circuit theory and analogue electronic circuits the author believes that for most students the main path to obtaining a good understanding of the principles involved, as measured by their ability to apply them in a correct and intelligent manner, is through problem solving and design exercises. In an ideal world the student would be able to construct the circuit being analysed or designed, and so directly test the calculated or pre dicted results. Indeed, experience leads to the conclusion that typical students like to see their own circuits perform as intended, with a con sequent increase in motivation. At present, however, time and facility constraints mean that most of this work is of the pencil and paper variety, students having few opportunities to see the consequences of their efforts in a practical situation. At best they have to accept sample solutions or simply num erical answers. This path can seem tedious to all but the most motivated of students, so an alternative which can provide many of the benefits of direct circuit testing within the time and resources available is of im mediate interest. This is where the MINNIE and HSpice simulation package can assist the undergraduate teaching activity."

With the growth of the market for computer software there is a whole set of challenges to developers, marketers, designers, and programmers - especially in the areas of cultural, linguistic, and financial transferability. Dave Taylor explores these questions, points out common design and marketing errors and pitfalls, and presents clear, elegant solutions - necessary information for anyone involved in creating, packaging, marketing, and disseminating software.

Excel-erate your productivity with the only guide you'll need to the latest versions of Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel offers unsurpassed functionality and accessibility for data exploration and analysis to millions of users around the world. And learning to unlock its full potential is easier than you can imagine with help from Excel All-in-One For Dummies. Follow along with Excel expert and veteran author Paul McFedries as he walks you through every feature and technique you need to know to get the most out of this powerful software. You'll learn how to design worksheets, use formulas and functions, collaborate with colleagues and review their work, create charts and graphics, manage and analyze data, and create macros. Plus, you'll discover all the capabilities Microsoft has included in the newest versions of Excel, including dark mode and accessibility features. This indispensable reference allows you to: Get a firm grasp of Excel basics with the book's step-by-step guides before moving on to more advanced topics, like data analysis Access up-to-date information on all the new versions of Excel, including the ones bundled with Microsoft 365, Office 2021, and the LTSC/Enterprise Edition Enjoy the convenience of a single, comprehensive resource detailing everything you need to know about Excel Perfect for people coming to Excel for the very first time, Excel All-in-One For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition is also a must-read resource for anyone looking for a refresher on foundational or advanced Excel techniques.

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Das Prozessmodell Rational Unified Process (RUP) bietet eine Vielzahl praxiserprobter Details zur Entwicklung und zum Aufbau einer Software-Architektur und zum richtigen Einsatz der Unified Modeling Language (UML). Die Darstellung der Grundlagen und Methodik sowie die Anwendung des RUP in dem vorliegenden Buch ist streng auf die Aufgaben des Projektmanagements objektorientierter Software-Entwicklung ausgerichtet. Mit der F lle an Hintergrundinformationen und bew hrten Techniken und Tips aus der langj hrigen Praxis ist dieses Werk auch f r den erfahrenen Projektmanager ein unverzichtbares Arbeitsbuch.

In k rzester Zeit hat sich das E-Business zu einem festen Marktbestandteil entwickelt. Es ver ndert die Unternehmenslandschaft im ganzen und hat zugleich Auswirkungen auf die verschiedenen Bereiche in Unternehmen. F hrende Fachvertreter aus Europa und den USA liefern in diesem Buch Ans tze, die f r das Management des E-Business herangezogen werden k nnen. Analysiert werden u. a. die strategische Ausrichtung der New Economy, die Markenf hrung im Internet, die Ver nderung klassischer Vertriebsstrukturen durch das Internet, Nutzen und Schw chen der E-Education, Auswirkungen des Online-Banking und M glichkeiten des E-Consulting.

Gesch ftsprozesse optimieren: Die IDS Scheer AG, f hrendes IT- und Beratungshaus, steht f r einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz. Gesch ftsprozessmanagement versteht sie als betriebswirtschaftlich motivierten Zyklus von Strategie ber Design und Implementierung bis hin zum Controlling. Das Buch widmet sich dieser Theorie und Praxis aus technischer wie aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht. Wertvolle Anregung f r Unternehmen mit zahlreichen Fallbeispielen.

Gerhard Versteegen Ziele dieses Buches Dieses Buch gibt eine Einfuhrung in die Thematik des profession- len und werkzeuggestutzten Anforderungsmanagements innerhalb der Software-Entwicklung und soll dem Leser einerseits dazu v- helfen, die Bedeutung des Anforderungsmanagements zu verstehen und andererseits ihn in die Lage versetzen, Anforderungen korrekt zu formulieren, so dass sie auch in Software umgesetzt werden k- nen. Ferner gibt das Buch eine Einfuhrung in das marktfuhrende Produkt Telelogic DOORS, die verdeutlicht, wie ein werkzeugg- tutztes Anforderungsmanagement funktioniert und welche Vorteile daraus entstehen. Wer dieses Buch lesen sollte Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle Projektbeteiligten eines Software- Entwicklungsprojektes, die sich mit dem Thema Anforderungs- nagement beschaftigen, und zwar sowohl auf Kunden- als auch auf Lieferantenseite Diese werden im weiteren Verlauf dieses Buches auch Stakeholder genannt. Im Einzelnen handelt es sich dabei um die folgenden Rollen innerhalb eines Software-Projektes: ? Systemanalysten ? Anforderungsmanager ? Qualitatssicherer oder Qualitatsbeauftragte ? Projektleiter Vorwort V ? ? Links ? Designer Di ? Entwickler 1 ? Software-Tester Inhalte dieses Buches Das vorliegende Buch teilt sich in sechs Kapitel auf: Im ersten Kapitel geben wir eine Einfuhrung in das Thema Anforderungs- nagement. Wir beschreiben, warum Anforderungsmanagement gerade im Bereich der Software-Entwicklung von so grosser Bed- tung ist und welche Zusammenhange zu den anderen Disziplinen des Software-Engineerings existieren (insbesondere zum eng v- wandten Anderungsmanagement). In diesem Zusammenhang z- gen wir auch kurz die Integration des Anforderungsmanagements in n die beiden Prozessmodelle V-Modell und Rational Unified Process auf."

Mit der Einf hrung der "New Dimension"-L sungen der SAP wurden Anwendern neue M glichkeiten er ffnet, um wichtige interne und zwischenbetriebliche Gesch ftsaktivit ten ihrer Unternehmen mit einer integrierten Standardanwendungssoftware abzudecken. Neue Organisationskonzepte wie CRM, SCM oder internetbasierte Zusammenarbeit wurden mit softwaretechnischen Innovationen verkn pft und erm glichten eine umfangreichere Integration von Gesch ftsprozessen. Diese neuen Themenbereiche werden vorgestellt und auf Integrationsprozesse und -beziehungen zu bestehenden R/3-ERP-Systemen untersucht. Dar ber hinaus werden Neuerungen, organisatorische Voraussetzungen f r die Einf hrung, fehlende Funktionalit ten und der Vergleich mit Konkurrenzl sungen dargestellt.

As with other parts of business, technology is having a profound effect on the world of work and management of human resources. Technology is a key enabler for faster, cheaper and better delivery of HR services and in some cases can have a transformational as well as unintended negative effect. Designed for the digital era, e-HRM is one of the first textbooks on these developments. It incorporates the most current and important HR technology related topics in four distinct parts under one umbrella, written by leading scholars and practitioners drawn from across the world. All the chapters have a uniform structure and pay equal attention to theory and practice with an applied focus. Learning resources of the book include chapter-wide learning objectives, case studies, debates on related burning issues, and the companion website includes lecture slides and a question bank.