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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.