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Knowledge management :classic and contemporary works
This book provides an introduction to the field of knowledge management. Taking a learning-centric rather than information-centric approach, it emphasizes the continuous acquisition and application of knowledge. The book is organized into three sections, each opening with a classic work from a leader in the field. The first section, Strategy, discusses the motivation for knowledge management an…
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- 9780262280174
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 435 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge engineering and management :the CommonKADS methodology
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283236
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) :illustrations
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Journey to data quality
A guide for assessing an organization's data quality practice and a roadmap for implementing a viable data and information quality management program, based on rigorous research and drawing on real-world examples.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256544
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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Materialized views :techniques, implementations, and applications
"When an application is built, an underlying data model is chosen to make that application effective. Frequently, other applications need the same data, only modeled differently. The solution of copying the underlying data and modeling is costly in terms of storage and makes data maintenance and evolution impossible. View mechanisms are a technique to model data differently for various applicat…
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- 9780262287500
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- 1 online resource (xix, 589 pages) :illustrations
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Market discipline across countries and industries
Papers presented at a conference cosponored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Bank for International Settlements, held on Oct. 30 to Nov. 1, 2003, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.Leading academics and policymakers address the theory of market discipline and consider evidence across different industries and countries.The effectiveness of market discipline--the strong built-in…
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- 9780262269032
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- 1 online resource (xii, 449 pages) :illustrations
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Management :inventing and delivering its future
"The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary."The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices fo…
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- 9780262277334
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) :illustrations
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The privatization of the oceans
Rich with detail and provocatively argued, this study of the development of property rights in the world's fisheries tells the story of one industry's evolution and provides a useful illustration of the forces that shape economic institutions. The emergence of exclusive individual rights of access in the fishing industry began after the revolution in the international law of the sea that took p…
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- 9780262274869
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- 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) :illustrations, 1 map
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Shadows in the forest :Japan and the politics of timber in Southeast Asia
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- 0585337888
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- 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Seeing the forest and the trees :human-environment interactions in forest eco…
'Seeing the Forest and the Trees' examines changes in land cover & land use in forested regions as major contributors to global environmental change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280150
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 442 pages) :illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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Scalable input/output :achieving system balance
As we enter the "decade of data," the disparity between the vast amount of data storage capacity (measurable in terabytes and petabytes) and the bandwidth available for accessing it has created an input/output bottleneck that is proving to be a major constraint on the effective use of scientific data for research. Scalable Input/Output is a summary of the major research results of the Scalable …
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- 9780262287869
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- 1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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