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Advances in Software Maintenance Management: Technologies and Solutions is a compilation of chapters from some of the best researchers and practitioners in the area of software maintenance, all of whom share the goal of exposing recent techniques and methods for helping in software maintenance....

Component-based software development, CBSD, is no longer just one more new paradigm in software engineering, but is effectively used in development and practice....

Here?s a thorough introduction to the latest developments in database systems design presented from an applications point of view....

In a global and increasingly competitive market, where organizations are driven by information, the search for ways to transform data into true knowledge is critical to a business\'s success. Few companies, however, have effective methods of managing thequality of this information....