Automated Enterprise Systems for Maximizing Business Performance

The integration of recent technological advances into modern business processes has allowed for greater efficiency and productivity. However, while such improvements are immensely beneficial, the modeling and coordination of these activities offers a unique set of challenges that must be addressed. Automated Enterprise Systems for Maximizing Business Performance is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the modeling and application of automated business systems. Featuring extensive coverage on a variety of topics relating to the design, implementation, and current developments of such systems, this book is an essential reference source for information system practitioners, business managers, and advanced-level students seeking the latest research on achievements in this field. This publication features timely, research-based chapters within the context of business systems including, but not limited to, enterprise security, mobile technology, and techniques for the development of system models.

Petraq Papajorgji is a professor and dean of engineering at the Canadian Institute of Technology, Albania. His field of reseach is modelling of complex information system. He is author of a number of books in modelling and has a number of publications in his research area.

François Pinet (http://www.irstea.fr/pinet) received his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1997 (ENS Lyon) and his PhD in Computer Science in 2002 (INSA Lyon). He is currently a research director at the French Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (IrsteaClermont-Ferrand). His field of research is in data warehouse, environmental information systems and geomatics. He is member of several scientific committees of different international conferences and journals in the fields of geomatics. Dr. Pinet has coauthored over 100 papers (Geoinformatica, IJGIS, Sigmod Record, Environmental Modelling & Software, ER, ACM GIS, ISSDQ, etc.) and has been involved in numerous national and international IT projects. He has been a co-organizer for several conferences and workshops on information systems. In France, he also teaches graduate courses (M.Sc and PhD degrees) on computer science and GIS (Blaise Pascal University). Petraq Papajorgji and François Pinet are the editors-in-chief of the International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems.

Alaine Margarete Guimarães is a professor in the Computer Sciences Department and serves the State University of Ponta Grossa Brazil as Director of Research.