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Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services

Author: Robert J Glushko

Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces. For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an online bookstore actually involves at least three different business collaborations--between the customer and the online catalog to select a book; between the bookstore and a credit card authorization service to verify and charge the customer's account; and between the bookstore and the delivery service with instructions for picking up and delivering the book to the customer. Document engineering is needed to analyze, design, and implement these Internet information exchanges. This book is an introduction to the emerging field of document engineering.

The authors, both leaders in the development of document engineering and other e-commerce initiatives, analyze document exchanges from a variety of perspectives. Taking a qualitative view, they look at patterns of document exchanges as components of business models; looking at documents in more detail, they describe techniques for analyzing individual transaction patterns and the role they play in the overall business process. They describe techniques for analyzing, designing, and encoding document models, including XML, and discuss the techniques and architectures that make XML a unifying technology for the next generation of e-business applications. Finally, they go beyond document models to consider management and strategic issues--the business model, or the vision, that the information exchanged in these documents serves.

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Issues in Economics Today

Author: Robert Guell

Robert Guell's Issues in Economics Today, 2e employs a unique format that allows instructors and students the flexibility to choose which issues they wish to cover in their one-semester survey course. The book begins with eight intensive core theory chapters followed by thirty shorter issues chapters that can be easily mixed and matched to create a customized course syllabus. Two additional issues chapters can be found on the book's website. In the preface, the author provides a list of suggested issues to cover in a course with specific themes, such as social policy, international issues, or business. For those instructors who want to "do it themselves," the author has also included a grid that shows which theory chapters need to be mastered before moving on to each issue.Instructors and students alike will appreciate the solid theoretical foundation as well as the intriguing and timely economic issues explored in the book, such as sports, education, and crime.

Table of Contents:

PrefaceIssues Chapter Grid Suggested Issues for Themed Courses I. Theory Chapters 1: Economics: The Study of Opportunity Cost 2: Supply and Demand 3: Elasticity, Consumer Surplus, and Producer Surplus 4: Production and Costs 5: Perfect Competition and Monopoly 6: Macroeconomic Vocabulary 7: Interest Rates and Present Value 8: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand II. Issue Chapters Part 1: Macroeconomic Issues 9: Federal Spending 10: Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt 11: Fiscal Policy 12: Monetary Policy 13: Overstatement of the Cost of Living by the CPI Part 2: International Issues 14: International Trade 15: International Monetary Fund 16: NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO Part 3: Externalities and Market Failure 17: Tobacco, Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, and Prostitution 18: Environment Part 4: Health Issues 19: Health Care 20: Government Provision of Health Insurance 21: The Economics of Prescription Drugs Part 5: Governmental Solutions to Societal Problems (and more...)