Análisis y diseño detallado de aplicaciones informáticas de gestión


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La información se ha convertido en el activo principal de las empresas, representando en la mayoría de los casos su principal ventaja estratégica. Es por ello por lo que el desarrollo de sistemas de información se ve sometido actualmente a grandes exigencias en cuanto a productividad y calidad, y se hace necesaria la aplicación de un nuevo enfoque en la producción del software, más cercano a una disciplina de ingeniería que a los hábitos y modos artesanales que, desafortunadamente, se han venido aplicando en más de una ocasión. El análisis y diseño de aplicaciones informáticas de gestión debe abordarse, por tanto, con técnicas y metodologías adecuadas, acompañadas por una precisa gestión de proyectos y una eficaz gestión de la calidad. Así mismo, es importante poder contar con el soporte de entornos y herramientas adecuadas, que faciliten la tarea del profesional informático y de los usuarios a la hora de desarrollar sistemas de información. En este libro se presentan de forma clara y resumida los conceptos fundamentales del desarrollo y del mantenimiento de Sistemas de Información (técnicas, metodologías, calidad, herramientas, etc.), al mismo tiempo que se ofrece un tratamiento sistemático de las técnicas y metodologías más difundidas, especialmente de Métrica V.3 y UML, proporcionando a sus lectores unos conocimientos prácticos (para lo que se ha desarrollado un gran número de ejemplos y ejercicios), sin descuidar el necesario rigor teórico. Además, se enfatiza la importancia de la gestión de proyectos y de la calidad en el desarrollo de sistemas y sus aspectos relacionados: pruebas, verificación y validación, gestión de configuración, etc. La obra va dirigida tanto a estudiantes del ciclo formativo de Técnico Superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas (Módulo profesional 2) como a alumnos de Escuelas y Facultades de Informática. También resulta muy adecuada para profesionales informáticos que estén trabajando en el área del desarrollo de Sistemas de Información y deseen ampliar y perfeccionar sus conocimientos, así como para directivos y usuarios avanzados que tengan interés en adquirir una base sólida sobre las técnicas y metodologías más utilizadas. Este libro es, sin duda, el más completo que se puede encontrar en el mercado sobre desarrollo de aplicaciones informáticas de gestión e Ingeniería del Software. Incluye CD-ROM con las soluciones a los ejercicios propuestos y los casos completos.







Computers and Education


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Annotation Proceedings from a conference held in 2000 in Puertollano, Spain. Thirty-one contributions are organized into sections of plenary lectures and papers, exploring a variety of issues ranging from human- computer interaction applied to education to teacher training in communication and information technologies. A sampling of topics: design issues in artificial intelligence in the HyperClass, learning communities in the Web, evaluation criteria for hypermedia educational systems, development of didactic resources for distance learning based on simulation, Simurob and Java Robot Factory (JRF), AulaNet, ED68K, HCI curricula in Spain, and creation of a multimedia system for learning about oscillations. For teachers, lecturers, researchers, advanced students and application designers of computers in education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).




International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI ́08)


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The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence is an annual forum that brings together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with distr- uted computing, artificial intelligence and its applications in different themes. This meeting has been held at the University of Salamanca from the 22th to the 24th of October 2008. This symposium has be organized by the Biomedicine, Intelligent S- tem and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite. usal. es/) of the Univ- sity of Salamanca. The technology transfer in this field is still a challenge and for that reason this type of contributions has been specially considered in this edition. This c- ference is the forum in which to present application of innovative techniques to complex problems. The artificial intelligence is changing our society. Its application in distr- uted environments, such as the Internet, electronic commerce, mobile communications, wireless devices, distributed computing, and so on is increasing and is becoming an element of high added value and economic potential, both industrial and research. These technologies are changing constantly as a result of the large research and technical effort being undertaken in both universities and businesses. The exchange of ideas between scientists and technicians from both academic and business areas is essential to facilitate the development of systems that meet the demands of today's society.




New Trends on Human-Computer Interaction


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This book comprises a variety of breakthroughs and recent advances on Human– Computer Interaction (HCI) intended for both researchers and practitioners. Topics addressed here can be of interest for those people searching for last trends involving such a growing discipline. Important issues concerning this book includes cutti- edge topics such as Semantic Web Interfaces, Natural Language Processing and - bile Interaction, as well as new methodological trends such as Interface-Engineering techniques, User-Centred Design, Usability, Accessibility, Development Meth- ologiesandEmotionalUserInterfaces. Theideabehindthisbookistobringtogether relevant and novel research on diverse interaction paradigms. New trends are gu- anteedaccordingtothedemandingclaimsofbothHCIresearchersandpractitioners, which encourage the explicit arrangement of new industrial and technological topics such as the previously cited Interfaces for the Semantic Web, and Mobile Interfaces, but also Multimodal Interaction, Collaborative Interfaces, End-User Development, Usability and User Interface Engineering. Chapters included in this book comprise a selection of top high-quality papers from Interaccion ́ 2007, which is the most important HCI conference sponsored by AIPO (the Spanish HCI Association). Papers were selected from a ranking - tained through double-blind peer review and later meta-review processes, cons- ering the best evaluated paper from both the review and presentation session. Such a paper selection constitutes only 33% of the papers published in the conference proceedings. We would like to thank the reviewers for their effort in revising the chapters included in this publication, namely Silvia T. Acuna, ̃ Sandra Baldasarri, Crescencio Bravo, Cesar A.










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