Book Description
Freud outlines two types of conflict; that between drives and reality; and that between the drives themselves. Adrian Johnston identifies a third; the conflict embedded within each and every drive.
Author : Adrian Johnston
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0810122057
Freud outlines two types of conflict; that between drives and reality; and that between the drives themselves. Adrian Johnston identifies a third; the conflict embedded within each and every drive.
Author : Robert S. Kaplan
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1422163563
In the classroom, ABC looks like a great way to manage a company’s resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate resources required for business activities proved too time-consuming, expensive, and irritating to employees. This book shows you how to implement time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC. You can now estimate directly the resource demands imposed by each business transaction, product, or customer. The payoff? You spend less time and money obtaining and maintaining TDABC data—and more time addressing problems that TDABC reveals, such as inefficient processes, unprofitable products and customers, and excess capacity. The authors also show how to use TDABC to link strategic planning to operational budgeting, to enhance the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management and benchmarking. In presenting their model, the authors define the two questions required to build TDABC: 1) How much does it cost per time unit to supply resource capacity for each business process? 2) How much resource capacity (time) is required to perform work for a company’s many transactions, products, and customers? The book demonstrates how to develop simple, valid answers to these two questions. Kaplan and Anderson illustrate the TDABC approach with a wealth of case studies, in diverse settings, based on actual implementations.
Author : Pieter Kubben
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3319997130
This open access book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of clinical data science, focusing on data collection, modelling and clinical applications. Topics covered in the first section on data collection include: data sources, data at scale (big data), data stewardship (FAIR data) and related privacy concerns. Aspects of predictive modelling using techniques such as classification, regression or clustering, and prediction model validation will be covered in the second section. The third section covers aspects of (mobile) clinical decision support systems, operational excellence and value-based healthcare. Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science is an essential resource for healthcare professionals and IT consultants intending to develop and refine their skills in personalized medicine, using solutions based on large datasets from electronic health records or telemonitoring programmes. The book’s promise is “no math, no code”and will explain the topics in a style that is optimized for a healthcare audience.
Author : Teerawat Issariyakul
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0387717609
An Introduction to Network Simulator NS2 is a beginners’ guide for network simulator NS2, an open-source discrete event simulator designed mainly for networking research. NS2 has been widely accepted as a reliable simulation tool for computer communication networks both in academia and industry. This book will present two fundamental NS2 concepts:i) how objects (e.g., nodes, links, queues, etc.) are assembled to create a network and ii) how a packet flows from one object to another. Based on these concepts, this book will demonstrate through examples how new modules can be incorporated into NS2. The book will: -Give an overview on simulation and communication networks. -Provide general information (e.g., installation, key features, etc.) about NS2. -Demonstrate how to set up a simple network simulation scenario using Tcl scripting lanuage. -Explain how C++ and OTcl (Object oriented Tcl) are linked, and constitute NS2. -Show how Ns2 interprets a Tcl Script and executes it. -Suggest post simulation processing approaches and identify their pros and cons. -Present a number of NS2 extension examples. -Discuss how to incorporate MATLAB into NS2.
Author : Nicolas Guelfi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540250530
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications, FIDJI 2004, held in Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg in November 2004. The 11 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote talks and 1 tutorial were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics covered are the design of distributed applications; development of reliable and secure distributed systems; software architectures, frameworks, and design patterns; formal methods; model driven software development; Web services; mobility; component-based distributed systems; exceptional handling; UML statecharts; and embedded software.
Author : Robert N. Lussier
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1071856839
Using current examples and step-by-step behavioral models, the Seventh Edition of Leadership: Theory, Application, and Skill Development equips your students with the leadership skills they need to thrive in today′s business world.
Author : Haixun Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642235352
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2011, held in Wuhan, China in September 2011. The 53 revised full papers presented together with two abstracts and one full paper of the keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 181 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on query processing, uncertain data, social media, semantics, data mining, cloud data, multimedia data, user models, data management, graph data, name disambiguation, performance, temporal data, XML, spatial data and event detection.
Author : Giulio E Cantarella
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 0128143541
Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems: Solutions for Transportation Network Modeling breaks new ground on the topics, providing consistent and comprehensive coverage of steady state equilibrium and dynamic assignment within a common strategy. The book details the most recent advances in network assignment, including day-to-day and within-day dynamics, providing a solid foundation to help transportation planners solve transient overload and other problems. Users will find a book that fills the gap in knowledge with its description on how to use and employ the latest dynamic network models for evaluation of traffic and transport demand interventions. This book demystifies the many different dynamic traffic assignment approaches and requires no previous knowledge on the part of the reader. All results are fully described and proven, thus eliminating the need to seek out other references. The skills described will appeal to transportation professionals, researchers and graduate students alike. - Presents a consistent and comprehensive theory on steady state equilibrium assignment and day-to-day dynamic assignment models within a common framework - Describes and solves modeling calculations in detail, with no need to reference other sources - Includes numerical and graphical examples, text boxes and summaries at the end of each chapter to help readers better understand theoretical components - Includes primary mathematical tools necessary for each dynamic model, easing comprehension
Author : Witold Abramowicz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642247547
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth European Conference, ServiceWave 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in October 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on cloud computing, security, privacy and trust, service engineering fundamentals, business services, and FI-PPP. In addition to the scientific track, 14 extended abstracts of demonstrations covering a wide spectrum of technology and application domains were accepted.
Author : Zhengxin Chen
Publisher : Physica
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3790817864
Intelligent agents are one of the most promising business tools in our information rich world. An intelligent agent consists of a software system capable of performing intelligent tasks within a dynamic and unpredictable environment. They can be characterised by various attributes including: autonomous, adaptive, collaborative, communicative, mobile, and reactive. Many problems are not well defined and the information needed to make decisions is not available. These problems are not easy to solve using conventional computing approaches. Here, the intelligent agent paradigm may play a major role in helping to solve these problems. This book, written for application researchers, covers a broad selection of research results that demonstrate, in an authoritative and clear manner, the applications of agents within our information society.