: Researchers in academia and practitioners in the field are concluding that object orientation (OO) supports well the stages of technical design and programming but not the stages...
We consider the global optimization problem for d-variate Lipschitz functions which, in a certain sense, do not increase too slowly in a neighborhood of the global minimizer(s). O...
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a business philosophy that has emerged and gained prominence in the field of IS in recent years. Organisations have begun to realise that...
Decision making, whether by an individual or a group, can be substantially enhanced by a "systems thinking" approach. Because groups are often challenged to justify thei...
Abstract. End System Multicasting (ESM) is fast becoming a feasible alternative to IP multicasting. ESM approaches can be broadly classified into two main categories: (i) Tree firs...