This comprehensive text covers the use of SAS for epidemiology and public health research. Developed with students in mind and from their feedback, the text addresses this material in a straightforward manner with a multitude of examples. It is directly applicable to students and researchers in the fields of public health, biostatistics and epidemiology. Through a “hands on†approac…
By introducing Semantic Web technologies into geospatial Web services, this book addresses the semantic description of geospatial data and standards-based Web services, discovery of geospatial data and services, and generation of composite services. Semantic descriptions for geospatial data, services, and geoprocessing service chains are structured, organized, and registered in geospatial catal…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2012, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in June 2012. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers cover various topics in software engineering and focus on the comparison of novel approaches wi…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in July 2012. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers focus on the following research topics and applications: programming issues, theoretical aspects of software engi…
This book contains 13 papers from the 7th Workshop on Global Sourcing, held in Val d’Isère, France, during March 11–14, 2013, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They are based on a vast empirical base brought together by leading researchers in information systems, strategic management, and operations. This volume is intended for students, academi…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2011, held in Mykonos, Greece, in September 2011. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. The papers address issues such as information technology, e-learning, e-business, cultural heritage, e-government.
This two volume set (CCIS 398 and 399) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in November 2013. The 136 papers presented, in addition to 4 keynote speeches and 5 invited sessions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 522 submissions. The papers are divided in…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2013, which took place in PoznaÅ„, Poland, in June 2013. BIS workshops give researchers the opportunity to share their preliminary ideas and first experimental results and to discuss research hypotheses with a highly…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis held in Campione d'Italia, Italy, in June 2012. The six revised full papers were carefully selected from 17 submissions. To improve the quality of the contributions the symposium fostered the discussion during the presentation, giving authors the oppor…
This volume contains 11 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce. They were originally presented at the Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2012) and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2012) co-located with AAMAS 2012 in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012. The i…