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Summary: "This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what", "why", and "where" aspects of outsourcing as well as the methodological "how" aspects"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book bridges two fields that, although closely related, are often studied in isolation: enterprise modeling and information systems modeling. The principal idea is to use a standard language for modeling information systems, UML, as a catalyst and investigate its potential for modeling enterprises"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what", "why", and "where" aspects of outsourcing as well as the methodological "how" aspects"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, including topics such as management issues, deployment considerations, facilities and tools for creating and managing grid and portal applications"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book discusses the economic impacts of outsourcing and off shoring to the developing countries and developed countries and the short term and long term implications"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "The book presents a comprehensive introduction of the concepts and practices of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book discusses information technology and its underdeveloped use in financial institutions despite some efforts to improve and upgrade their systems with new systems"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book deals with the computational intelligence field, particularly business applications adopting computational intelligence techniques"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book is designed to address the concerns of existing companies who wish to succeed in the new multi-channel environment as it develops and becomes commonplace"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This books tackles issues of e-business with a vision to the future on how to bridge these gaps and close down the barriers between the different corners of the world"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "The book presents a comprehensive introduction of the concepts and practices of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book covers industrial databases and applications and offers generic database modeling techniques"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book deals with the computational intelligence field, particularly business applications adopting computational intelligence techniques"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book provides an overall view of the emerging field of complex data processing, highlighting the similarities between the different data, issues and approaches"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book outlines a new way of approaching the development and implementation of information systems. Not only does the book explore a different approach to determining an organization's opportunities and solving its problems, but it also highlights methods for optimal decision making"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book is designed to address the concerns of existing companies who wish to succeed in the new multi-channel environment as it develops and becomes commonplace"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book reports on the latest advances in privacy protection issues and technologies for e-services, ranging from consumer empowerment to assess privacy risks, to security technologies needed for privacy protection, to systems for privacy policy enforcement, and even methods for assessing privacy technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book reports on the latest advances in privacy protection issues and technologies for e-services, ranging from consumer empowerment to assess privacy risks, to security technologies needed for privacy protection, to systems for privacy policy enforcement, and even methods for assessing privacy technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book discusses the process of transitioning an organization to a global one based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) including careful planning, execution and monitoring of the organization as it moves into the global market place"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book covers topics in e-government, discussing e-government's present shortcomings while exploring a renewed understanding of e-government's visions and responsiveness"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: With the large amount of data stored by many organizations, capitalists have observed that this information is an intangible asset. Unfortunately, handling large databases is a very complex process and traditional learning techniques are expensive to use. Heuristic techniques provide much help in this arena, although little is known about heuristic techniques. Heuristic and Optimization for Knowledge Discovery addresses the foundation of this topic, as well as its practical uses, and aims to fill in the gap that exists in current literature.

Summary: "This book reports accounting and other information about business processes to assess performance. It discusses the impact of the IT revolution on the accounting function, and indicates the process of IT investment, its advantages and limitations. It is a revolutionary explanation of the purpose of IT investment and its role in organizations"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book explores the issues of supply chain management with new perspective providing examples of integrated framework for global SCM, novel ways of improving flexibility, responsiveness, and competitiveness via strategic IT alliances among channel members in a supply chain network, and techniques that might facilitate improved strategic decision making in a SCM environment"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: As interest in computer, cognitive, and social sciences grow, the need for alternative approaches to models in related-disciplines thrives. An Imitation-Based Approach to Modeling Homogenous Agents Societies offers a framework for modeling societies of autonomous agents that is heavily based on fuzzy algebraic tools. This publication overviews platforms developed with the purpose of simulating hypotheses or harvesting data from human subjects in efforts for calibration of the model of early learning in humans. An Imitation-Based Approach to Modeling Homogenous Agents Societies reaches out to the cognitive sciences, psychology, and anthropology providing a different perspective on a few "classical” problems within these fields.

Summary: "Incorrect and misleading information associated with an enterprise's production and service jeopardize both customer relationships and customer satisfaction, and ultimately have a negative effect on revenue. This book provides insight and support for academic professionals as well as for practitioners concerned with the management of information"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents an extensive introduction to the field of kernel methods and real world applications. The book is organized in four parts: the first is an introductory chapter providing a framework of kernel methods; the others address Bioegineering, Signal Processing and Communications and Image Processing"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book addresses key issues for businesses utilizing data communications and the increasing importance of networking technologies in business; it covers a series of technical advances in the field while highlighting their respective contributions to business or organizational goals, and centers on the issues of network-based applications, mobility, wireless networks and network security"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents research related to the application of semantic Web technologies, including semantic service-oriented architecture, semantic content management, and semantic knowledge sharing in e-business processes. It compiles research from experts around the globe to bring to the forefront the many issues surrounding the application of semantic Web technologies in e-business"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book focuses on providing readers a comprehensive understanding of the development cycle of enterprise service computing. Covered topics range from concept development, system design, modeling, and development technologies, to final deployment. Both theoretical research results and practical applications are provided"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book summarizes theoretical studies and practical solutions for engineers, educational professionals, and graduate students in the research areas of e-learning, distance education, and instructional designs. Readers will find solutions and research directions in this interesting book"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book provides a comprehensive approach of signal processing tools regarding the enhancement, recognition, and protection of speech and audio signals. It offers researchers and practitioners the information they need to develop and implement efficient signal processing algorithms in the enhancement field"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book aspires to describe the link between ICTs and human development (which includes economic, social and political development), to identify the potential applications of ICTs in several areas, and to provide insightful analysis about those factors (also contextual and institutional ones) that affect ICTs for development initiatives success or failure"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book deals with a significant but often overlooked issue of Web design: universality. As the internet has become more pervasive, information disseminated through the Web grows in an exponential rate; there is a call for more universal design so that more people from different backgrounds are able to access this information"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents learning and knowledge management from a point of view where the basic tools and applications are provided by open source technologies. It explains an intense orientation to the critical issues of the open source paradigm: open source tools, applications, social networks, and knowledge sharing in open source communities"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book provides an overall view of trust for e-services including definitions, constructs, and relationships with other research topics such as security, privacy, reputation and risk. It offers contributions from real-life experience and practice on how to build a trust environment for e-government services"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book provides analysis, characterization and refinement of software engineering data in terms of machine learning methods. It depicts applications of several machine learning approaches in software systems development and deployment, and the use of machine learning methods to establish predictive models for software quality while offering readers suggestions by proposing future work in this emerging research field"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents research and trends in using knowledge management to aid police activities, offering principles and practices to help law enforcement professionals find ways to use vast amounts of knowledge as a tool"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what", "why", and "where" aspects of outsourcing as well as the methodological "how" aspects"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book contains contributions that cover a wide spectrum of very important real-world engineering problems, and explores the implementation of neural networks for the representation of structural responses in earthquake engineering. It assesses the efficiency of seismic design procedures and describes the latest findings in intelligent optimal control systems and their applications in structural engineering"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents the recent advances in multi-mobile agent systems, the product development process, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks and ambient intelligent environments among many other innovations in this exciting field"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "Interest in e-government, both in industry and in academies, has grown rapidly over the past decade. This book provides helpful examples from practitioners and managers involving real-life applications; academics and researchers contribute theoretical insights"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book examines the development and role of small business clusters from a variety of disciplines : economics, marketing, management and information systems. It gathers perspectives from varied disciplines and countries, extending current knowledge by emphasizing the pressure that international competition and IT have on the geographic structure of clusters, possibly leading to a new 'a-spatial' option developing"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents innovative spatial information systems developed for a specific problem or decision-making situation. It also discusses key concepts and theories underlying current spatial information systems and technology trends and emerging concepts that may impact spatial information system development and applications in the future"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents an alternative view to ubiquitous and pervasive knowledge, architectural frameworks, and methodological issues, and introduces some of the major techniques and tools developed in the domain of ontology building, analysis, and semantic Web"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book explains how to plan, use, and understand the products and dynamic social processes and tasks some of the most vital innovations in the knowledge society depend upon- social as well as technological. It Focuses on various forms of design, implementation and integration of computer mediated communication, bridging the academic fields of computer science and communication studies"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book provides an understanding of major issues, current practices and the main ideas in the field of Web data management, helping readers to identify current and emerging issues, as well as future trends. The most important aspects are discussed: Web data mining, content management on the Web, Web applications and Web services"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book demonstrates that assistant systems will become reality, as the technology for implementing these systems is available and the problems that require assistance for their solutions are soon to be discovered. It addresses intelligent assistant systems and issues, their scope, purpose, architecture, implementation, deployment, theoretical background, and use"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents an alternative view to ubiquitous and pervasive knowledge, architectural frameworks, and methodological issues, and introduces some of the major techniques and tools developed in the domain of ontology building, analysis, and semantic Web"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book bridges two fields that, although closely related, are often studied in isolation: enterprise modeling and information systems modeling. The principal idea is to use a standard language for modeling information systems, UML, as a catalyst and investigate its potential for modeling enterprises"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book focuses on the integration between the fields of data warehousing and data mining, with emphasis on applicability to real-world problems; it book provides an international perspective, highlighting solutions to some of researchers' toughest challenges. Developments in the knowledge discovery process, data models, structures and design offer answers and solutions"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book presents issues such as legal, technical, cultural and social analysis on e-Procurement, and offers technical and managerial solutions to professionals in different emerging economies and industries"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: Contemporary Issues in End User Computing brings a wealth of end user computing information to one accessible location. This collection includes empirical and theoretical research concerned with all aspects of end user computing including development, utilization, and management. Contemporary Issues in End User Computing is divided into three sections, covering Web-based end user computing tools and technologies, end user computing software and trends, and end user characteristics and learning. This scholarly book features the latest research findings dealing with end user computing concepts, issues, and trends.

Summary: "This book investigates the integration of security concerns into software engineering practices, drawing expertise from the security and the software engineering community; and discusses future visions and directions for the field of secure software engineering"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book explores artificial intelligence finding it cannot simply display the high-level behaviours of an expert but must exhibit some of the low level behaviours common to human existence"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "The book provides analyses and explains some of the contradictions and apparent paradoxes of many information systems quality perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "A collection of articles addressing a variety of aspects related to IT standards and the setting of standards"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book outlines a new way of approaching the development and implementation of information systems. Not only does the book explore a different approach to determining an organization's opportunities and solving its problems, but it also highlights methods for optimal decision making"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book covers research topics of data mining on bioinformatics presenting the basics and problems of bioinformatics and applications of data mining technologies pertaining to the field"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book identifies the main areas of cognitive science and for each area, how different system designs benefit from the findings made in that area"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This books tackles issues of e-business with a vision to the future on how to bridge these gaps and close down the barriers between the different corners of the world"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book details how new technologies can help people living in poverty improve their livelihood, increase productivity, improve the quality of services, and empower them if technologies are used in ways that are appropriate to their context and needs"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book provides an overall view of the emerging field of complex data processing, highlighting the similarities between the different data, issues and approaches"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, including topics such as management issues, deployment considerations, facilities and tools for creating and managing grid and portal applications"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book covers industrial databases and applications and offers generic database modeling techniques"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book deals with the computational intelligence field, particularly business applications adopting computational intelligence techniques"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book provides an overview of complex systems' techniques and presents both guidelines and specific instances of how they can be applied to security and defense applications"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "The book presents a comprehensive introduction of the concepts and practices of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book includes an introduction to fuzzy logic, fuzzy databases and an overview of the state of the art in fuzzy modeling in databases"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "The book covers the state-of-the-art concepts and methodologies of smart organization development featuring information and communication technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "The authors address Agile/Virtual Enterprises as a new organizational paradigm, highly dynamic reconfigurable agile networks of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including knowledge, market, customers, etc., and using specific organizational architectures that introduce the enterprises' true virtual environments"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book discusses the economic impacts of outsourcing and off shoring to the developing countries and developed countries and the short term and long term implications"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book makes an effort to explore the interaction of information technology and strategic management and aims to encourage joint research efforts among IT and strategy scholars for common solutions"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: "This book discusses information technology and its underdeveloped use in financial institutions despite some efforts to improve and upgrade their systems with new systems"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: Free/Open Source Software gives an overview of the current research streams in the field of free and open source software development. A multitude of research approaches are used to explore free and open source software development processes, attributes of their products and the workings within the development communities. This book offers a glimpse beyond 'classical' free and open source software development, and analyzes chances and risks for cooperations with traditional organizations and the implications of this new model for areas other than software development.

Summary: Successful Strategies in Supply Chain Management provides the tools and techniques for organizations to streamline their supply chain. From acquiring resources to distribution outlets, this book touches on all phases of the supply chain, giving readers the assets they need to obtain that important competitive advantage." "Beneficial to all readers, this book appeals to the smallest and largest of organizations. Whether you're a "Mom & Pop" store in a small town, or a multi-billion dollar global company, this book provides tools that will help your business become more efficient and more competitive

Summary: Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives addresses the emergent research and development issues for the most-advanced enterprise organizational paradigm of today's world - the virtual enterprise paradigm. Virtual enterprise is characterized as a dynamic agile network of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including knowledge, market, and customers, in order to be permanently aligned with the highly demanding and global dynamic market. This book is a guide that gives readers a broader perspective of VE integration requirements and raises their awareness on which technology and how technology can serve the needs of an expanding and increasingly competitive organizational model.

Summary: Current IT developments like component-based development and Web services have emerged as effective ways of building complex enterprise-scale information systems and providing enterprise application integration. To aid this process, platforms such as .NET and WebSphere have become standards in web-based systems development. However, there are still a lot of issues that need to be addressed before service-oriented software engineering (SOSE) becomes a prominent and widely accepted paradigm for enterprise information systems development and integration. This book provides a comprehensive view of SOSE through a number of different perspectives. Some of those perspectives include: service-based concepts, modeling and documentation, service discovery and composition, service-oriented architecture, model-driven development of service-oriented applications, service security and service-orientation in mobile settings. The book provides readers with an in-depth knowledge of the main challenges and practices in the exciting, new world of service-oriented software engineering. Addressing both technical and organizational aspects of this new field, it offers a balance making it valuable to a variety of readers, including IT architects, developers, managers, and analysts.

Summary: "This book disseminates current information on multimedia retrieval, advancing the field of multimedia databases, and educating the multimedia database community on machine learning techniques for adaptive multimedia retrieval research, design and applications"--Provided by publisher

Summary: "This book covers topics in e-government, discussing e-government's present shortcomings while exploring a renewed understanding of e-government's visions and responsiveness"--Provided by publisher.

Summary: The purpose of this book is to disseminate the research results and best practice from researchers and practitioners interested in and working on modeling methods and methodologies. Though the need for such studies is well recognized, there is a paucity of such research in the literature. What specifically distinguishes this book is that it looks at various research domains and areas such as enterprise, process, goal, object-orientation, data, requirements, ontology, and component modeling, to provide an overview of existing approaches and best practices in these conceptually closely-related fields.

Summary: Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the Digital Economy. This set of 18 essays covers the effects of Digital Economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various aspects of global production, trade, and investment and the effects of Internet. The chapters review best practices from concept to development, through implementation and evaluation. This book is one of the few books that looks at the digital economy from a socio economic angle, offering perspectives from scholars and practitioners of digital economics around the world.