1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996465793703316

Titolo

Cooperative Information Systems [[electronic resource] ] : 9th International Conference, CoopIS 2001, Trento, Italy, September 5-7, 2001. Proceedings / / edited by Carlo Batini, Fausto Giunchiglia, Paolo Giorgini, Massimo Mecella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001

ISBN

3-540-44751-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2001.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 456 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 2172

Disciplina

005.758

Soggetti

Database management

Computer engineering

Application software

Multimedia information systems

Computer communication systems

Information storage and retrieval

Database Management

Computer Engineering

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Multimedia Information Systems

Computer Communication Networks

Information Storage and Retrieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Invited Paper -- Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation -- The Evolution of Distributed Component Architectures -- Data Integration Is Harder than You Thought -- Agent Systems -- Implicit Culture for Multi-agent Interaction Support -- Extending Multi-agent Cooperation by Overhearing -- Mobile-Agent Based Distributed Web GIS -- Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking -- Deploying Distributed State Information in Mobile Agent Systems -- Cooperative Meeting Scheduling among Agents Based on Multiple



Negotiations -- Information Integration -- Autoplex: Automated Discovery of Content for Virtual Databases -- Cooperation Strategies for Information Integration -- Planning and Optimizing Semantic Information Requests Using Domain Modeling and Resource Characteristics -- Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language -- Deriving “Sub-source” Similarities from Heterogeneous, Semi-structured Information Sources -- Middleware, Platforms, Architectures -- P-Grid: A Self-Organizing Access Structure for P2P Information Systems -- Moving Active Functionality from Centralized to Open Distributed Heterogeneous Environments -- Generic Constraints for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe -- Supporting Heterogeneous Users in Collaborative Virtual Environments Using AOP -- Models -- A Process Service Model for Dynamic Enterprise Process Interconnection -- Employing Multiuser Interactions in the Development of Synchronous Applications -- Service Representation, Discovery, and Composition for E-marketplaces -- Multi and Federated Database Systems -- Schema Design and Query Processing in a Federated Multimedia Database System -- Global Semantic Serializability: An Approach to Increase Concurrency in Multidatabase Systems -- Checking Integrity Constraints in Multidatabase Systems with Nested Transactions -- Web Information Systems -- The Internet Marketplace Template: An Architecture Template for Inter-enterprise Information Systems -- Investigating the Evolution of Electronic Markets -- Coordinating Web-Based Systems with Documents in XMLSpaces -- Validating an Access Cost Model for Wide Area Applications -- Workflow Management Systems -- Querying and Splicing of XML Workflows -- On Demand Business-to-Business Integration -- Recommendation and Information Seeking Systems -- Yoda: An Accurate and Scalable Web-Based Recommendation System -- The Use of Machine-Generated Ontologies in Dynamic Information Seeking.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779457203321

Autore

Hobson J. A (John Atkinson), <1858-1940., >

Titolo

The economics of unemployment / / J.A. Hobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-49824-9

0-203-14240-3

1-283-88542-5

1-136-49825-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

331.13/7

331.137

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics)

Economic history

Unemployed

Income

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1922 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Economics of Unemoloyment; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Chapter I. A Limited Market; Chapter II. The Failure of Consumption; Chapter III. The Balance of Spending and Saving; Chapter IV. The Psychology of Trade Fluctuations; Chapter V. Surplus Income the Cause of Fluctuations; Chapter VI. Wage Reduction as Remedy for Depression; Chapter VII. Credit as a Factor in Fluctuations; Chapter VIII. The Douglas Theory; Chapter IX. Replies to Criticism; Chapter X. A Summary; Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1922, Hobson's study of the depression and resulting unemployment in the aftermath of the First World War is a far-sighted analysis which looks beyond the consequences of the war itself, at the root economic causes of the crisis. Dealing with issues such as the failure of consumption, trade fluctuations, the balance of spending and saving, and spiralling credit as factors which lay at the root of the depression, Hobson's study is a document of considerable economic, social and historical value, which still has much to teach the modern



reader, whether interested lay