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Brings together research on the latest trends and patterns of data mining tools and techniques in dynamic social networks and fuzzy systems. With these improved modern techniques of data mining, this publication aims to provide insight and support to researchers and professionals concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information, and organisational development.

Highlights the main concepts of e-business as well as the advanced methods, technologies, and aspects that focus on technical support. This book is an essential reference source of professors, students, researchers, developers, and other industry experts in order to provide a vast amount of specialised knowledge sources for promoting e-business.

Presents theoretical and practical aspects on the activities concerning measurement technologies and instrumentation. This wide range of new ideas in the field of measurements and instrumentation is useful to researchers, scientists, practitioners, and technicians for their area of expertise.

Businesses continue to design and implement a variety of information systems that facilitate the creation, aggregation, and provision of product-related information in order to increase the role that quality information is playing in consumers' decision-making processes. Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management: Design, Implementation, and Use highlights empirical research, theoretical frameworks, and relevant models on the understanding and implementation of consumer information systems. By covering consumer perceptions of practicality and ease of use, this book is essential for practitioners in business environments and strategic management, meeting consumer needs through the use of digital and Web-based technologies as well as recent empirical research findings and design and implementation of innovative information systems. This book is part of the Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services series collection.

Brings together innovative research, new concepts, and novel developments in the application of informatics tools for applied chemistry and computer science. This book is essential for chemists, engineers, and researchers in providing mutual communication between academics and industry professionals around the world.

As the increased demand for high-speed communication creates an interest in the development of optical networks, intelligent all optical networks have emerged as the next generation for reliable and fast connections. This is a comprehensive collection of research focused on theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent methodologies as applied to real world problems.

Provides a wide array of research on the intersections of business modelling, information systems, and optimization techniques. These various business models and structuring methods are proposed to provide ideas, methods, and points of view for managers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and researchers on how to improve business processes.

Advances in the nature-inspired swarm intelligence algorithms continue to be useful in solving complicated problems in nonlinear, non-differentiable, and un-continuous functions, as well as being applied to solve real-world applications. This title highlights the current research on swarm intelligence algorithms and its applications.

Cognitive informatics has emerged as a new and interesting field of study which investigates the natural intelligence and internal information processing mechanisms of the brain as well as the methods involved in perception and cognition. This title presents a comprehensive collection of research that builds a link between natural and life sciences with informatics and computer science.

Over the last decade virtual learning environments have become an important innovation in the student learning experience. This title presents a collection of research on the growth, innovation and implementation of learning technologies for educators, technologists and trainers.