This paper proposes a simple terminology for understanding and dealing with two current
phenomena; we suggest calling them heavyweight and lightweight IT. Heavy-weight IT …

Transactions carried out in the uncertain and impersonal conditions of the Internet require
substantial levels of trust. Obtaining customers' trust is therefore imperative to cultivating and …

In a ubiquitous environment, various enterprise information systems (EISs) are used for
supporting daily operations. Besides, with the support with Auto-ID technology, enterprises …

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Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges prepares engineers to fulfill their
managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much …

To improve the efficiency of deploying and calling of home services, this paper proposes a
distributed service-oriented architecture (D-SOA) for a smart-home system. In this proposed …

The chapter presents a holistic system that implements an advanced river flood modeling
and forecasting approach. This approach extends traditional methods based on separate …

We explore the use of models of continuous tandem (CT) lines for performance analysis of
discrete tandem (DT) production lines. We formalize the translation of input parameters and …

Today, production projects are often achieved by multi-site production and the associated
markets become more and more dynamic and service oriented. In this context, the multi-site …

In the present era, IT-enabled business applications are very much observed to be
pervasive and felt to be essential to manage an organisation. An organisation needs to …