This editorial book presents twelve contributions from the German "Wirtschaftsinformatik" that exemplify the contemporary approach of theory-guided modeling and empiricism which complements existing approaches. It summarizes recent research which has been presented at major inte…
Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2011, held in Pohang, South Korea, in June 2011. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. They are presented togethe…
Ontologies are increasingly recognized as essential tools in information science. Although the concepts are well understood theoretically, the practical implementation of ontologies remains challenging. In this book, researchers in computer science, information systems, ontology…
Thanks to reality and the stubborn resistance of history to accommodate urban planning, often cities of about the same size wind up fairly close to each other and, although they do not merge or in other ways behave as one entity, they become co-dependent either formally or infor…
This is the first book to present a comprehensive and advanced discussion on the latest insights into plant stress biology. Starting with general aspects of biotic as well as abiotic stresses, this handbook and ready reference moves on to focus on topics of stress hormones, tech…
This book presents a comprehensive and advanced discussion on the latest insights into plant stress biology. Starting with general aspects of biotic as well as abiotic stresses, this book moves on to focus on topics of stress hormones, technical approaches such as proteomics, tr…
This concise and up-to-date guide fills a gap in the literature by providing the essential knowledge for everyone with an interest in the topic of pseudomonas. The result is a comprehensive overview of the most important model organism in applied microbiology that covers basic b…
"Abstract and conceptual models have become an indispensable tool for analyzing the flood of empirical data generated in recent years by advanced techniques in the biosciences. In Modeling Biology, scholars investigate new modeling strategies in the domains of morphology, develo…
In its third edition, this book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions. This book further offers an understanding…