Author: Hamideh Sedghi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: unveiling, reveiling, veiling, iran, politics, women
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-07-09
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 052183581X
ISBN-13: 9780521835817

Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi’s original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women’s agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women’s identities, sexuality, and labor has been cent

Authors:Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: emerging, business, models, agenda, research, networked, organizations, collaborative
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2004-03-31
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1402078234
ISBN-13: 9781402078231

Text includes a comprehensive set of recommendations from the multidisciplines involved in CNOs, towards the establishment of a research agenda for emerging collaborative networks. Provides valuable elements for research strategy planners, decision makers, and research themes.

Authors:Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: information, communication, technology, advances, ifip, foundations, virtual, organizations, processes
Number of Pages: 572
Published: 2003-10-31
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 140207638X
ISBN-13: 9781402076381

Collaborative networked organizations, either as a collaboration among organizations such as virtual enterprises / virtual organizations, or collaboration among people such as professional virtual organizations, or even a mixed combination such as in e-Science, represent a very dynamic research and development area. Collaborative networked organizations - for which a growing number of case studies can be found nowadays in different sectors of industry, services, and even governmental organizations - provide a basis for cooperation, competitiveness, world-excellence, and agility in t

Authors:Luis Camarinha-Matos,  Hamideh Afsarmanesh,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: modeling, reference, networks, collaborative
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387794255
ISBN-13: 9780387794259

Collaborative Networks: Reference Modeling works to establish a theoretical foundation for Collaborative Networks. Particular emphasis is put on modeling multiple facets of collaborative networks and establishing a comprehensive modeling framework that captures and structures diverse perspectives of these complex entities. Further, this book introduces a contribution to the definition of reference models for Collaborative Networks. Collaborative Networks: Reference Modeling provides valuable elements for researchers, PhD students, engineers, managers, and leading practitioners interested in co

Authors:Luis Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Paulo Nov
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ifip, working, enterprises, september, information, technology, communication, virtual, eighth, collaborative, foundation, networks, group, establishing, conference
Number of Pages: 689
Published: 2007-08-22
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0387737979
ISBN-13: 9780387737973

This book includes a number of selected papers from the PRO-VE ’07 Conference providing a comprehensive overview of recent advances in various CN domains. Thereis a special emphasis on the Collaborative Network topics related to trust aspects, performance and value systems, VO breeding environments, VO creation, e-contracting, collaborative architectures and frameworks, professional virtual communities, interoperability issues, business benefits, and case studies and applications in industry and services.

Authors:Vladimír Marík, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afs
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: technology, knowledge, cycle, ifip, information, communication, life, advances, product, integration, production, services, balancing, service
Number of Pages: 554
Published: 2002-08-31
List price: $218.00
ISBN-10: 1402072112
ISBN-13: 9781402072116

Knowledge and Technology Integration in Production and Services presents novel application scenarios for balanced distributed and integrated systems based on knowledge and up-to-date technology and provides a great opportunity for discussion of concepts, models, methodologies, technological developments, case studies, new research ideas, and other results among specialists. It comprises the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing and Services (BASYS’02), which was sponsored by the International

Authors:Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Angel
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ifip, valencia, enterprises, september, information, technology, communication, virtual, conference, breeding, networks, environments, sixth, working, collaborative
Number of Pages: 607
Published: 2005-09
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 0387282599
ISBN-13: 9780387282596

This book contains selected articles from PRO-VE’05, the sixth working conference on virtual enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Valencia, Spain. Being recognized as the most focused scientific / technical conference on Collaborative Networks, PRO-VE continues offering the opportunity for the presentation and discussion of both the latest research developments and practical application case studies. Following the IFIP vision, PRO-VE offers a forum for collaboration and knowledge exchange among experts from diffe