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UNISA996466144503316 |
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Advanced Information Systems Engineering [[electronic resource] ] : 7th International Conference, CAiSE '95, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 12 - 16, 1995. Proceedings / / edited by Juhani Iivari, Kalle Lyytinen, Matti Rossi |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995 |
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[1st ed. 1995.] |
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1 online resource (XII, 396 p.) |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 932 |
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Computers |
Software engineering |
Computer simulation |
Database management |
Theory of Computation |
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems |
Simulation and Modeling |
Database Management |
Software Engineering |
Models and Principles |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Process improvement — The way forward -- A method for explaining the behaviour of conceptual models -- COLOR-X: Linguistically-based event modeling: A general approach to dynamic modeling -- Supporting transaction design in conceptual modelling of information systems -- Facet models for problem analysis -- A framework for requirements analysis using automated reasoning -- Towards a deeper understanding of quality in requirements engineering -- Modelling inheritance, composition and relationship links between objects, object versions and class versions -- Hypertext version management in an actor-based framework -- Modelling ways-of-working -- Modelling communication between cooperative systems -- Challenges in applying objects to large systems -- Feasibility of flexible information modelling |
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support -- A meta-model for business rules in systems analysis -- Metrics in method engineering -- InfoHarness: Use of automatically generated metadata for search and retrieval of heterogeneous information -- Designing the user interface on top of a conceptual model -- Graphical representation and manipulation of complex structures based on a formal model -- Providing integrated support for multiple development notations -- A federated approach to tool integration -- Domain knowledge reuse during requirements engineering -- Strategies and techniques: Reusable artifacts for the construction of database management systems -- The impact of new information architectures on industry and government transformation -- Standard transformations for the normalization of ER schemata -- The rapid application and database development (RADD) workbench — A comfortable database design tool -- A psychological study on the use of relationship concept Some preliminary findings -- Alignment of software quality and service quality -- A guide for software maintenance evaluation: Experience report -- Natural naming in software development: Feedback from practitioners. |
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE '95, held in Jyväskylä, Finland in June 1995. The 26 full papers presented in this volume were selected from more than 100 submissions; in addition there are three invited papers. Among the contributing authors are academics as well as information system practitioners from industry and administration. The volume is organized in sections on behaviour modelling, requirements engineering, 00 concepts and applications, work and communication modelling, meta modelling, user interface issues, CASE integration, reuse, conceptual modelling issues, and software development issues. |
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UNINA9910523800403321 |
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Autore |
Awange Joseph |
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Food Insecurity & Hydroclimate in Greater Horn of Africa : Potential for Agriculture Amidst Extremes / / by Joseph Awange |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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9783030910020 |
9783030910013 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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1 online resource (431 pages) |
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Atmospheric science |
Agriculture |
Environmental protection |
Civil engineering |
Climatology |
Atmospheric Science |
Soil and Water Protection |
Climate Sciences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Part I Food Insecurity in GHA: Potentials and Challenges -- 1. Part I Food Insecurity in GHA: Potentials and Challenges -- 2. Food Security in Blue Nile: Ethiopian GERD -- 3. Earth Observation Remote Sensing -- Part II Water Resources -- 4. Global Freshwater Resources -- 5. GHA's Greatest Freshwater Source: Victoria -- 6. GHA's Water Tower: Ethiopian Highlands -- Part III Extreme Climate: Drought -- 7. Rainfall-SST Fluctuation: Predictability -- 8. Decadal Rainfall Variability: Link to Oceans -- 9. Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation -- 10. GHA Droughts: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Phenomena -- 11. Extreme Climate: Food Security in GHA -- 12. Hydrometeorological Droughts over GHA -- Part IV Potential of Irrigated Agriculture in GHA -- 13. Potential for Irrigated Agriculture: Groundwater -- 14. Agricultural Drought's Indicators: Assessment -- 15. Drought Monitoring: |
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Topography & Gauge Inuence -- References -- Index. |
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This book will benefit users in food security, agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of Greater Horn of Africa (GHA)’s food insecurity and hydroclimate using the state-of-the-art Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-on (GRACE-FO)’s, centennial precipitation, hydrological models’ and reanalysis’ products. It is here opined that GHA is endowed with freshwater (surface and groundwater) being home to the world's second largest freshwater body (Lake Victoria) and the greatest continental water towers (Ethiopian Highlands) that if properly tapped in a sustainable way, will support its irrigated agriculture as well as pastoralism. First, however, the obsolete Nile treaties that hamper the use of Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Ethiopian Highland (Blue Nile) have to be unlocked. Moreover, GHA is bedevilled by poor governance and the ``donor-assistance” syndrome; and in 2020-2021 faced the so-called ``triple threats’’ of desert locust infestation, climate variability/change impacts and COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, climate extremes influence its meagre waters leading to perennial food insecurity. Coupled with frequent regional and local conflicts, high population growth rate, low crop yield, invasion of migratory pests, contagious human and livestock diseases (such as HIV/AIDs, COVID-19 & Rift Valley fever) and poverty, life for more than 310 million of its inhabitants simply becomes unbearable. Alarming also is the fact that drought-like humanitarian crises are increasing in GHA despite recent progress in its monitoring and prediction efforts. Notwithstanding these efforts, there remain challenges stemming from uncertainty in its prediction, and the inflexibility and limited buffering capacity of the recurrent impacted systems. To achieve greater food security, therefore, in addition to boosting GHA's agricultural output, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggest that its “inhabitants must create more diverse and stable means of livelihood to insulate themselves and their households from external shocks”. This is a task that they acknowledge will not be easy as the path ahead is “strewn with obstacles namely; natural hazards and armed conflicts”. Understanding GHA’s food insecurity and its hydroclimate as presented in this book is a good starting point towards managing the impacts of the natural hazards on the one hand while understanding the impacts associated with extreme climate on GHA's available water and assessing the potential of its surface and groundwater to support its irrigated agriculture and pastoralism would be the first step towards “coping with drought” on the other hand. The book represents a significant effort by Prof Awange in trying to offer a comprehensive overview of the hydroclimate in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). Prof Eric F. Wood, NAE (USA); FRSC (Canada); Foreign member, ATSE (Australia). |
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