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This book stems from the technical contributions presented at the Optical Networks and Technology Conference (OpNeTec), inaugurated this year 2004 in Pisa, Italy, and collects innovations of optical network technologies toward the 2V^ century network.

This book includes a number of selected papers from the PRO-VE '07 Conference, providing a comprehensive overview of recent advances in various Collaborative Networks domains.

industrial projects.To encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial networking research communities, the workshop welcomed academic research papers as well as industrial contributions, and both are included here.

Organizational Information Systems in the Context of Globalization exemplifies the role of social theory in approaching ICT utilization challenges in a globalization context.

Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice comprises the edited proceedings of the WG8.2 conference, "Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20-Year Perspective on IS Research," which was sponsored by IFIP and held in Manchester, England, in July 2004.

This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008, the Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, held in Trondheim, Norway from June 18 to June 20, 2008.

To be successful, these future management systems must provide global scalability, for instance, to support Grid computing and large numbers of pervasive devices. Management systems must also support the management of business processes and their supporting technology infrastructure as integrated entities.

The IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC) is one of the most important conferences in the area of computer science and a number of related Human and Social Science disciplines at the worldwide level and it has a federated structure, which takes into account the rapidly growing and expanding interests in this area.

Significantly, the following topics are addressed: * definitions and requirements of software for control technology * system design, describing forms of control software * CASE tools for the generation of a code * configuration, adaption of standard software variants, and re-usability of software * and man-machine interface.

Knowledge existing in modern information systems usually comes from many sources and is mapped in many ways. Heterogeneous Knowledge as a Source for Intelligent Systems Knowledge, the main element of so-called intelligent applications and systems, is very often heterogeneous.

Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 / WG5.3, WG5.7, WG5.12. Fifth International Working Conference of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing 2002 (DIIDM 2002), November 18-20, 2002 in Osaka, Japan

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the world.

This book is based on the presentations at the Third Workshop on Games in Production Management, The Effects of Games on Developing Production Management, held in Espoo, Finland, June 27-29, 1997.

Proceedings of the IFIP WG 7.2 International Conference, June 19-22, 1998, Hangzhou, PR of China

This book contains papers and panel discussions from the Fourteenth Annual Working Conference on Database Security, which is part of the Database Security: Status and Prospects conference series sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Testing of Communicating Systems XIV presents the latest international results in both the theory and industrial practice of the testing of communicating systems, ranging from tools and techniques for testing to test standards, frameworks, notations, algorithms, fundamentals of testing, and industrial experiences and issues.

Human Choice and Computers: Issues of Choice and Quality of Life in the Information Society presents different views about how terrorist actions are influencing political and social discussions and decisions, and it covers questions related to legitimacy and power in the Information Society.

In the foreword to this volume of conference proceedings for IFIP Working Group 8.4, it is appropriate to review the wider organization to which the Working Group belongs.

Service and network providers must be able to satisfy the demands for new services, improve the quality of service, reduce the cost of network service operations and maintenance, control performance and adapt to user demands.

Themes related to the conceptualisation of diffusion and adoption of networked information systems are discussed along with studies of the diffusion of networked information systems in public sector institutions and private businesses.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in Lifelong Learning supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This title discusses the following issues: Changing environments; What is Lifelong Learning; Who are the learners; Characteristics of learning environments; Sustainability of learning environments; and, more.

Globalization of business, internationalization of trade, and increasing prevalence of multi-cultural interdisciplinary teams are beginning to redefine the nature of office work. In addition, a number of specific topics will be discussed including: multi-cultural team productivity, IT platform requirements, and global telecommunications.

For many years production management has no longer been confined to individual production facilities. Strategic and legal issues had to be considered and production management had to include sophisticated logistic chain management.

The practical applications of system modeling and optimization can be seen in a number of fields. This work collects selected articles from the 21st and IFIP TC 7 conference in Sophia Antipolis, France. It is a useful reference for those interested in advances in the fields of System Modeling and Optimization.

International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.

This constitutes the Proceedings of the 22nd IFIP TC7 Conference held in July 2005, in Torino, Italy, and dedicated to Camillo Possio, on the 60th anniversary of his death during the last air raid over Torino.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2009, held in West Lafayette, IN, USA, in June 2009.

This book contains the collection of papers presented at the conference of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 "Information and Organizations."

The purpose of this book is to discuss, in depth, the current state of research and practice in database security, to enable readers to expand their knowledge. Database security is still a key topic in mist businesses and in the public sector, having implications for the whole of society.

phases of testing including test case generation, means of testing, test execution and test results analysis; classes of systems tested and the theory and practice of testing including test-related algorithms, practical testing methodology and practical testing experience.