Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems) (International Handbooks on Information Systems)

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An ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents. The concept is important for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies. The handbook demonstrates standards that have been created recently, it surveys methods that have been developed and it shows how to bring both into practice of ontology infrastructures and applications that are the best of their kind.

Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information (RAND Studies in Policy Analysis)

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Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information (RAND Studies in Policy Analysis)
Gregory F. Treverton
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Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy(3rd Edition)
Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence, 3d Edition
Intelligence Analysis: A Target-centric Approach
Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning
Forecasting Terrorism: Indicators and Proven Analytic Techniques

ASIN: 052153349X

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In a bold and penetrating study, Gregory Treverton, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council and Senate investigator, offers his insider's views on how intelligence gathering and analysis must change. Treverton suggests why intelligence needs to be contrarian and attentive to the longer term. Believing that it is important to tap expertise outside government to solve intelligence problems, he argues that involving colleagues in the academy, think tanks, and Wall Street befits the changed role of government from doer to convener, mediator, and coalition-builder. Hb ISBN (2001): 0-521-58096-X

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Essential to Understanding Intelligence Challenges.......2006-04-06

Greg Treverton has written a much needed overview of the national intelligence process and correctly identified the challenges which face the US, in a post-9/11 world. His views of the world beyond 2010 are quite revealing and his challenges to the intelligence community to assess threats to the US are precisely focused. His views on the major intelligence entities reveal urgent modifications of structure and process, if the intelligence community is going to regain relevance with national customers. As a teacher of intelligence process, specifically as it relates to strategic warning, I believe this book is essential reading for anyone who aspires to be a true intelligence professional. This book will help even the wisest analyst understand how to maximize available sources and methods. The quest to provide the best possible intelligence is a goal which must be achieved.

Core Reference for Intelligence Reform in 2001.......2001-07-05

There are other books on intelligence reform--the best being those by Bruce Berkowitz and Allan Goodman and by Loch Johnson--but this book is very special because it is written by an insider who has come to grips with the imperative for change and who is able to articulate the case for change in a way that others have not. This is arguably the single best and most elegant presentation for why our $30 billion a year intelligence industry must be turned upside down and shift resources away from secret satellite technology and toward analysis, analytic tools, and access to open sources of information.

The author very correctly focuses on the fact that intelligence is about getting useful tailored information to the policy consumer, not about secrets per se. He is perhaps the best spokesperson for the view that the old paradigm--collecting secrets at great expense about a single enemy--must be replaced by the new paradigm--making sense of vast quantities of information that is not secret and covers a diversity of constantly changing targets. He correctly focuses on the selection and intelligent analysis of information rather than the collection of isolated secrets--on making the most of open information.

The book is rich with anecdotal examples and makes a compelling case for dismantling the current intelligence stovepipes while simultaneously dismantling the culture of secrecy that prevents the sharing of useful information, not just within the Nation (e.g. with state and local law enforcement) but with coalition government and non-government allies of the moment.

The author, a past Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and a learned man with deep ties to Harvard, the Council on Foreign Relations, and RAND, concludes on a bitter-sweet note that demands Congressional and Presidential reflection. He firmly believes that both the intelligence community budget and as much intelligence analysis as possible should be made public and be in the public service. This book is highly recommended, and could-together with the the other intelligence reform books published in the past two years--reasonably be used as the starting point for a complete make-over of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 6 internationl workshops held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2006, in Vienna, Austria in September 2006.

The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 94 overall submissions to the following 6 international workshops: Business Process Design (BPD 2006), Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2006), Enterprise and Networked Enterprises Interoperability (ENEI 2006), Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows (GPWW 2006), Dynamic Process Management (DPM 2006), and Semantic Web Service in Business Processes 2006 Workshop (Semantics4ws 2006).

Engineering Global E-Commerce Sites (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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Excellent Internationalisation and Data Standards Info !!!
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Engineering Global E-Commerce Sites (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
James Bean
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ASIN: 1558608923

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"This book is a boon to technology professionals who are responsible for global integration projects. Faced with the mind-boggling complexities of standardizing global data, global processes and global e-commerce, even the most experienced professionals are often at a loss. James Bean has created an extraordinary compilation of standards information, and provided his insight on how to resolve complex integration problems. This book will benefit IT community at large, and I would encourage both specialists and novices alike to bring this book into their personal libraries." -- Arka Mukherjee, Ph.D., CEO, Global IDs Inc.

A practitioner's guide to developing global e-commerce sites, focusing on the design and engineering of Web forms for global data collection and alignment with widely recognized international standards, XML structures, and XML vocabularies. The author describes the globalization problem, identifies common design errors, provides a representative scenario, and introduces effective solutions and techniques.

Structured around a practical, "real-world" theme, this book is written for the hands-on practicioner in any mid- to large-sized company engaging in international ecommerce (B2C, B2B, etc.)

* Presents effective techniques for flexible and extensible data capture
* Provides techniques for using the most recognized international data standards and describes the synergies, value and importance of XML as a transaction definition medium
* Only book on the subject written from a software engineering point of view

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Excellent Internationalisation and Data Standards Info !!!.......2005-11-09

I found this book from a bibliographic reference while reading "XML for Data Architects" by the same author. The "E-Commerce" part of the title threw me a bit, but after reading through the book I was amazed. This book contains a tremendous amount of strategy, approach, technique, and supporting reference for those who are involved with design and development of international technology. Even more valuable to me were the numerous international, national and industry data standards resources. After having given it a solid read, I am impressed. Cheers !

great choice.......2003-05-28

Excellent choice for the transition of broadening business network capapbilities! This is the 2nd book I have purchased and utilized from this author. This is a must have, and not a shelf space waster. Worth more than 40 bucks for the sales recruitment ability it created for my small company.

International Business Information on the Web: Searcher Magazine's Guide to Sites and Strategies for Global Business Research

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International Business Information on the Web: Searcher Magazine's Guide to Sites and Strategies for Global Business Research
Sheri R. Lanza , and Barbara Gilder Quint
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Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast-At Little or No Cost

ASIN: 0910965463

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With the increasing globalization of the world's markets and economies, more firms than ever are looking for business information beyond their own national borders. Finding such information on the Web can be so overwhelming it is often hard to know where to start. The sites selected for this Web research guide are specific to the needs of the business researcher, providing rigorously evaluated and carefully annotated listings of global business information sources. Researchers will find resources that address common business needs such as finding financial information on a foreign company, identifying overseas buyers and suppliers, and finding a market research study or an industry analysis from another country.

Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining: Proceedings of the International IIS: IIPWM´03 Conference held in Zakopane, Poland, June 2-5, 2003 (Advances in Soft Computing)

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Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining: Proceedings of the International IIS: IIPWM´03 Conference held in Zakopane, Poland, June 2-5, 2003 (Advances in Soft Computing)

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ASIN: 3540008438

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This edited book contains articles accepted for presentation during The Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining Conference IIS:IIPWM´03 held in Zakopane, Poland, on June 2-5, 2003. A lot of attention is devoted to the newest developments in the area of Artificial Intelligence with special calls for contributions on artificial immune systems and search engines. This book will be a valuable source for further research in the fields of data mining, intelligent information processing, immunogenetics, machine learning, or language processing for search engines.

Internet Resources and Services for International Business: A Global Guide (Global Guides to Internet Business Resources)

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Internet Resources and Services for International Business: A Global Guide (Global Guides to Internet Business Resources)
Lewis-Guodo Liu
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ASIN: 1573561193

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There are currently thousands of Web sites on the Internet that relate to international business. This resource analyzes these Web sites and organizes them into convenient categories to make searching for international business information on the Web faster and more efficient. The guide contains over 2,500 annotated listings covering the business-related Web sites of 176 countries. Organized by continent, then by country, entries are divided into five categories for each country: General Information, Economy, Business and Trade, Business Travel, and Contact Information.

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Unique, valuable, high-quality reference; outstanding value........1999-03-21

Offers over 2,500 annotated listings covering the business-related Web sites of 176 countries. Sites are selected for richness of content and stability. All sites are in english. The book is indexed by website title, country and subject, and updated periodically. A unique, valuable, high-quality reference; outstanding value. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder of hrconsultant.com. and Stern & Associates.

Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web

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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
David Weinberger
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The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
The Curious Researcher

ASIN: 0738205435
Release Date: 2002-03-26

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David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined does not merely celebrate the World Wide Web; it attempts to make a case that the institution has completely remodeled many of the world's self-perceptions. The book does so entertainingly, if not convincingly, and is a lively collection of epigrammatic phrases (the Web is "'place-ial' but not spatial"; "on the Web everyone will be famous to 15 people"), as well as illustrations of these changes. There are intriguing assertions: that the Web is "broken on purpose" and that its many pockets of erroneous information and its available forums for disputing, say, manufacturers' hyperbole, let people feel more comfortable with their own inherent imperfections. At other times the book seems stale: it declares that the Web has disrupted long-held axioms about time, space, and knowledge retrieval and that it has dramatically rearranged notions of community and individuality. Weinberger's analysis, though occasionally facile and too relentlessly optimistic and overstated, is surely destined to be the subject of furious debate in chat rooms the cyber-world over. --H. O'Billovich

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From a Web visionary and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, a fascinating, ambitious look at how the Web is transforming the concepts on which our society is built.

"The Web has not been hyped enough." That's the startling thesis of this one-of-a-kind book that's sure to become a classic work of social commentary. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the new medium of the Web is not only altering social institutions such as business and government but, more important, is transforming bedrock concepts of our culture such as space, time, the public, and even reality itself.

Weinberger introduces us to denizens of this new world, among them Zannah, whose online diary turns self-revelation into play; Tim Bray, whose map of the Web reveals what's at the heart of the new Web space; and Danny Yee and Claudiu Popa, part of the new breed of Web experts we trust despite their lack of qualifications. Through stories of life on the Web, an insightful take on some familiar (and some unfamiliar) Web sites, and a wicked sense of humor, Weinberger puts the Web into the social and intellectual context we need to begin assessing its true impact on our lives. The irony, according to Weinberger, is that this new technology is more in tune with our authentic selves than is the modern world. Funny, provocative, and ultimately hopeful, Small Pieces Loosely Joined makes us look at the Web--and at life--in a new light.

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The Web has sent a jolt through our culture, zapping our economy, our ideas about the sharing of creative works, and possibly even institutions such as religion and government. Why? How do we explain the lightning charge of the Web? If it has fallen short of our initial hopes and fears about its transformational powers, why did it excite those hopes and fears in the first place? Why did this technology hit our culture like a bolt from Zeus?

Suppose--just suppose--that the Web is a new world we're just beginning to inhabit...If the Web is changing bedrock concepts such as space, matter, time, perfection, public, knowledge, and morality--each a chapter of this book--no wonder we're so damn confused. That's as it should be. The Web is enabling us to rediscover what we've always known about being human: we are connected creatures in a connected world about which we care passionately...If this is true, then for all of the over-heated, exaggerated, manic-depressive coverage of the Web, we'd have to conclude that the Web in fact has not been hyped enough.

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Fantastic book.......2007-08-07

Rather unique combination of deep insight, new angles awash, solid theory, all the sources, splendid language, passion and humour. What else can you ask for?

Short Stories...Loosely Connected.......2004-09-08

"Small Pieces Loosely Joined" is one of the books that I was really excited to read. Great subject. Great author. And sure enough, within each chapter, I has some really thoughtful moments. But on balance--and maybe this was intentional--the overall connection just seemed missing (as if the chapters were loosely joined...). As a set of short stories, the chapters are provacative. Overall though it left me wanting a bit more. A good book for a slow afternoon...and hey, there's really nothing wrong with that.

Everything is connected.......2004-06-07

This is a great book that helps define what the internet is and how it is effecting our lives. This book provides great insight and gets you thinking about what we do every day on the internet. Are we being more social or anti-social if we spend more time on the internet? We are creating the internet with every web page and every weblog. It's like writing a book that never finishes.

This book looks at the internet by looking at Space, Time, Perfection, Togetherness, Matter and Hope.. This really gets you thinking about what the internet is and what it will become...

Didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.......2004-01-04

A confusing little book - from all the hype you'd think there was some earth-shattering discovery enclosed therein.

But this was just a collection of little essays about the web, the contents of which would be so plainly obvious to every 12 year-old I know. Yet for an over-40 who'd never used the Web, they wouldn't understand it either. So who is the target audience?

It doesn't even merit being considered as "WWW Futures 101". Very disappointing.

Philosophy of the 'Net.......2003-09-23

More a look at society as bounded by the Web than a look at the Web itself, as someone described this book. That's true, for it seems to offer more insights about modern humanity and the weird situation we've created for ourselves than about the Internet itself. Topics include knowledge, time, matter - the stuff of philosophy, and not of a book about the Net.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition, SWSWPC 2004, held in San Diego, CA, USA in July 2004.

The 9 revised full papers presented together with an introduction by the volume editors, a panel summary and the extended abstract of an invited talk were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement.

Web services and Web processes promise to ease several current Web infrastructure challenges, such as the integration of data, applications and processes. Web services are truly platform independent and allow the development of distributed loosely coupled applications, a key characteristic for the success of dynamic processes.

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AAA Press International, Inc.(company profile): An article from: Label & Narrow Web

Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Label & Narrow Web, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 386 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: AAA Press International, Inc.(company profile)
Publication: Label & Narrow Web (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
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