Authors:
Hardcover, 434 pages
Publisher: North Holland
Publication Date: 1995-10-01
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Hardbound. The convergence of telecommunications, mass media and computer technologies has brought spectacular developments of ubiquitous intelligent interconnected systems. In the course of these evolutionary changes, debate and policy has swung again towards privatization, deregulation and increased reliance upon competition. Nevertheless, the underlying and powerful role of new information continues to bring so much restructuring and organizational change, that a reassessment of ideas about competition in this dynamic context, is essential. The aim of this volume is to provide an update of research and policy debates in this important field. An international perspective is provided with contributions from academic, business and governmental communities. The volume will be invaluable to researchers in telecommunications and information activities; decision-makers in industry, government and regulatory fields; consultants; and information service provide...

Authors: Gopal Sreenivasan.
Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 1995-09-14


Reviews :

    This book discusses Locke's theory of property from both a critical and an interpretative standpoint. The author first develops a comprehensive interpretation of Locke's argument for the legitimacy of private property, and then examines the extent to which the argument is really serviceable in defense of that institution. He contends that a purified version of Locke's argument--one that adheres consistently to the logic of Locke's text while excluding considerations extraneous to his logic--actually does establish the legitimacy of a form of private property. This version, which is both defensible in contemporary, secular terms and is, essentially, egalitarian, should provoke a reassessment of the nature of Locke's relevance to contemporary discussions of distributive justice....

Authors:
Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2000-11-11


Reviews :

    ...

Authors:
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: 2003-07-30


Reviews :

    Successful strategies and principles for using information technology to transform regional and community economies exist, and they are presented here with clarity and insight in a way that is useful to both practitioners and researchers. Although the communities discussed here range far and wide, from those in Russia to Australia and to Kenya, any community can benefit from enhanced utilization of information and communications technology....

Authors: Mark A. Mattaini.
Paperback, 297 pages
Publisher: NASW Press
Publication Date: 1993-03


Reviews :

    This book offers practical, innovative techniques to reduce the time and effort required to create graphics that help clients understand situations and relationships. More than a Thousand Words shows how to create and modify concepts such as time lines, single-subject designs, and family mapping to depict client data easily and effectively.

Special Features *Provides more than 150 illustrations of genograms, ecomaps, single-subject designs, timelines, and social support mapping. *Includes a succinct, comprehensive chapter on research methodology. *Explains how to apply graphic visualization concepts to clinical practice and practice research at all client levels....

Authors:
Paperback, 287 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2000-05-08


Reviews :

    This tutorial survey brings together two lines of research and development whose interaction promises to have significant practical impact on the area of spatial information processing in the near future: geographic information systems (GIS) and geometric computation or, more particularly, geometric algorithms and spatial data structures. In nine uniformly structured and coherent chapters, the authors present a unique survey ranging from the history and basic characteristics to current issues of precision and robustness of geometric computing. This textbook is ideally suited for advanced courses on GIS and applied geometric algorithms. Research and design professionals active in the area will find it valuable as a state-of-the-art survey....

Authors: U.S. Dept of Justice.
Unknown Binding, pages
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Justice
Publication Date: 2000

Authors:
Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
Publication Date: 1996-01

Authors: Geseke German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence 1989 Eringerfeld.
Paperback, 485 pages
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Publication Date: 1989-09

Authors:
Hardcover, 316 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2003-09-30
Edition: 1

Reviews :

   

Infrastructures have become more and more critical to the functioning of society, as economic and social processes to a large extent rely on the services provided by such systems. Failure of these infrastructures, therefore, is one of the most important vulnerabilities of modern society. In addition and simultaneously much change is taking place within and around these infrastructures. This change includes: increasingly rapid technological change, rapid institutional change, increasing system complexity, increasing trans-boundary dependencies, tensions between market concerns addressing (short-term) economic gains, and increasing demands on service quality. These and other changes pose formidable challenges to policy makers, business innovators, system designers, infrastructure operators and scientists alike.

Critical Infrastructures: State of the Art in Research and Application, comprising a selection of reviewed and edited contributions from all over the world, aims to shed light on the various aspects of critical infrastructures. The editors of this book have opted for a broad view on the various criticality aspects on infrastructures itself as well as contributions that discuss the institutional and technical environment of critical infrastructures which are crucial for their proper functioning.

Critical Infrastructures brings to light a number of eye-opening critical issues that have been only marginally touched upon in research and practice. Hence, the book is an indispensable resource for infrastructure policy makers, managers, consultants and researchers alike.
The book is divided into four sections:
*Vulnerability and Risk;
*System Development and Adaptation;
*Institutional Change;
*Capacity Management.

...