For academics, educators, and researchers, Pullen (information and communication technology, professional studies, and multiliteracies, U. of Tasmania, Australia) et al. assemble 14 chapters that exam
Written for educators across the continuum, including teacher trainers, university faculty, and early childhood students, classroom practitioners, and administrators, this work offers perspectives on
The 13 chapters in the collection describe computational techniques inspired in part by nature and natural systems to represent and organize information from business, science, computing, and engineer
Fifty-nine international academics, researchers, and computer science and engineering professionals contribute 15 chapters addressing the issues of which modeling languages are good for embedded syste
The entire process of designing and using a data warehouse is detailed in this work, encompassing requirement specification, conceptual, logical, and physical design, and tuning and evolution manageme
Computer scientists, software engineers, and other researchers describe recent investigations into how artificial intelligence techniques and concepts as knowledge-based systems, neural networks, fuzz
"This book critically examines the synergy of technology use and conventional wisdom in retailing and explores contemporary changes determining higher customer value,"--Provided by publisher.
This handbook presents research on technologies related to assessment in higher education, and discusses assumptions about assessment and learning, race, cultural diversity, and creativity. Many of th
This book reveals conceptual and algorithmic perspectives on research issues, findings, and approaches to mobile and wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. Chapters are in sections on information retr
This book presents leading examples of radio frequency identification (RFID) research being developed for part identification and health systems, and examines the data convergence required for the tec
International researchers shed light on the third and most recent generation of XML research, in this collection on various challenges, open issues, and future visions in XML databases and application
"This book is for academic researchers and engineers who work with distance learning programs and software systems, as well as general users of distance education technologies and methods including co
Web 2.0 refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of internet-based services--such as social networking sites, wikis, mashups, and folksonomies--which emphasize online collaboration and shar
Karacapilidis (management information systems, U. of Patras, Greece) introduces 19 chapters aimed at helping researchers, educators, and others to understand and incorporate Web-based concepts and tec
Zhang (computer science, Hong Kong Polytechnic U.), Song (applied mathematics, New Star Research Institute of Applied Technology), Xu (pattern recognition and intelligence systems, Harbin Institute of
Enterprise information systems (EIS), such as electronic data interchange, e-commerce, and radio frequency identification, are used to automate business processes and provide access to data from globa
In the information systems field, a strong tradition of using empirical research has developed to evaluate the methods, systems, and processes used in organizations. Editors Steel (information systems
This title provides real-life cases illustrating the benefits of Semantic Web technologies as applied to e-business and e-commerce scenarios. Garcia (Universidad de Lleida, Spain) includes a variety o
These selected articles on developing technologies in e-Commerce emphasize the growing confidence in consumer purchases from online sources, and how security and safety has been guaranteed by continua
Sixty-seven international academics and researchers contribute 35 chapters conveying the current state of knowledge regarding systems analysis and design. The material is organized into eight topic ar
The 15 articles collected here by Brandon (Christian Brothers U., Tennessee) review current topics for engineers creating software for the web. The text may be appropriate as a supplement to textbooks
Forty-six international academics, researchers and practitioners contribute 16 chapters representing the current state of the art on the design and operation as well as on technical, managerial, behav
Massive amounts of textual data make up most organizations' stored information. Therefore, there is increasingly high demand for a comprehensive resource providing practical hands-on knowledge for rea
Karmaker and Dooley, both affiliated with Monash University, Australia, gather research on all aspects and implications of the accelerated progress of mobile multimedia technologies. Covered topics in
Fourteen contributions describe audio watermarking methods based on spread spectrum, parametric synthesis, correlation detection, chaotic signal, echo hiding, peak point extraction, and time frequency
This volume describes the design of a new generation of smart services, distributed smart spaces architecture, illustrating its features and advantages through the Smart-M3 platform, an open source
Zhang (Georgia Southern U., US) hopes to accomplish three goals with this volume. One is to add a piece of firework to the centennial celebrations of general relativity; to introduce a deeper theory t
This work characterizes the latest research on the use of quality of service (QoS) in grid computing, for academicians, engineers, IT professionals, and researchers in fields such as parallel and dist
Computer scientists, electrical engineers, and other researchers from India and Iran present 12 essays on the use of bio-inspired computing for information retrieval applications. They discuss the
"This book brings a broad spectrum of artificial intelligence and its applications under the purview of 3D image processing so that it is able to trigger further inspiration among various research com
