Social Security, demographics, and risk

The effective tax burden of companies in European Regions

an international comparison

Theory justice and social change

theoretical integrations and critical aplications

Throughout history, social and intellectual crises have given rise to compelling suggestions for reform steeped in various progressive sensibilities. For example, within the discipline of criminology -- particularly during the 1980's and 1990's -- a number of unconventional theoretical perspectives emerged that sought to challenge ...

After Bourdieu

influence, critique, elaboration

Integrated governance and water basin management

conditions for regime change and sustainability

Essays in cooperative games

in honor of Guillermo Owen

The political theories of risk analysis

Visualizing the Sementic Web

XML-based Internet and information visualization

The Web has evolved from HTML quite dramatically over the last few years with revolutionary techniques for content and structural modeling, including XML (eXtensible Markup Language), RDF (Resource Definition Framework) and Topic Maps. Compared to HTML, the content of XML documents is enriched with semantic ...

Ontological engineering

with examples from the areas of knowledge management, e-commerce and the semantic Web

Ontologies provide a common vocabulary of an area and define, with different levels of formality, the meaning of the terms and the relationships between them. Ontological engineering refers to the set of activities concerning the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and ...

Handbook on data management in information systems

Modeling financial time series with S-PLUS

The field of financial econometrics has exploded over the last decade This book represents an integration of theory, methods, and examples using the S-PLUS statistical modeling language and the S+FinMetrics module to facilitate the practice of financial econometrics. This is the first book to ...

Corporate finance, innovation, and strategic competition

Customer relationship management

organizational and technological perspectives

Asymptotic cones and functions in optimization and variational inequalities

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive account of asymptotic sets and functions from which a broad and useful theory emerges in the areas of optimization and variational inequalities. Mainly it is concerned with the existence of solutions of a given problem in these classes ...

Financial markets in continuous time

A framework for financial market modeling, the benchmark approach extends beyond standard risk neutral pricing theory. It permits a unified treatment of portfolio optimization, derivative pricing, integrated risk management and insurance risk modeling. This book presents the necessary mathematical tools, followed by a thorough introduction ...

Handelsrecht

Schnell erfasst.

A theory of interregional dynamics

models of capital, knowledge and economic structures

Networks and groups

models of strategic formation

Reporting on income distribution and poverty

perspectives from a German and a European point of view

Enterprise management with SAP SEM TM - Business analytics

Modeling software markets

empirical analysis, network simulations, and marketing implications

Understanding urban ecosystems

a new frontier for science and education

Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most intense - cities. People need to understand how cities work as ecological systems so they can take control of the ...