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Presents research that provides a complete insight and overview of the application of intelligent computational techniques in power and energy. The book features research on a wide range of topics, including artificial neural networks, smart grids, and soft computing.

Presents research that reviews some of the most exigent facets of today's fandom and highlights understudied cultures of fandom as well as emerging intricacies of established fandom. While looking at topics such as esports and influencer culture, this book explores qualitative and quantitative approaches and methods of social science.

Presents innovative research on the current impact of machine learning methods within data security as well as its various applications and newfound challenges. The book highlights a wide range of topics, including anomaly detection systems, biometrics, and intrusion management.

Identifies promising designs, pedagogical and assessment strategies, conceptual models, and theoretical frameworks that support discussion-based learning in online and blended learning environments. This book provides a better understanding of the effects and both commonalities and differences of new tools that support interaction.

Presents research on the digital developments of instrumentation and control systems for assuring the safety and security of nuclear power plants. While highlighting topics such as accident monitoring systems, classification measures, and UAV fleets, this publication explores individual cases of security breaches and future methods of practice.

Investigates the different approaches and models of progressive technology within linguodidactics and the methodologies for teaching foreign languages. Th book featires coverage of a wide range of topics, including blended learning, cognition, and professional discourse.

Explores methods and implications for the design and implementation of upcoming immersive technologies in pedagogical and professional development settings. The book includes case studies that highlight the cognitive and affective processes in immersive technology as well as the successful applications of immersive technology in education.

Examines the role of technology in sexual identity formation, sexual communication, relationship formation and dissolution, and sexual learning and online sexual communities and activism. The book highlights a rnage of topics, including privacy management, cyber intimacy, and digital communications.

Presents research on creating efficient supply chain operations in emerging markets. While highlighting topics such as consumer behaviour, global operations, and information transparency, this publication investigates the needs of consumers in emerging markets as well as the methods of designing effective operations.

Presents vital research on the provision of higher educational access to a more diverse population with a specific focus on the growing population of women in the university, key intersections with race and sexual preference, and the experiences of low-income students, mid-career and reentry students, and special needs populations.

Presents vital research on the provision of higher educational access to a more diverse population with a specific focus on the growing population of women in the university, key intersections with race and sexual preference, and the experiences of low-income students, mid-career and reentry students, and special needs populations.

Provides a collection of case studies from former classroom teachers who now work with pre-service teachers to provide an understanding of the expectations and outcomes of teaching through actual K-12 teaching experiences. The book features coverage on a broad range of topics, such as cultural identity, teacher development, and learner diversity.

Combines the instructional system design approach with the current and emerging instructional technologies for planning and teaching effective and successful online courses. The book also offers recommendations that focus on best practice experiences for engaging online students and motivating them to be active participants in an online class.

Discusses the phenomenon of internet regulation in general and the use of internet regulation systems by authoritarian regimes and Western democracies, and proposes a blueprint for the development and implementation of a fair internet regulation system. The book also considers the function of a fair internet regulation system.

Solves the problem of the development of efficient models, methods, and tools for parallel programming automation based on the algebra of algorithms, term rewriting, and auto-tuning paradigms. The results of this book will help to further improve research on design, synthesis, and optimization of sequential and parallel algorithms and programs.

Discusses optimization problems with fuzzy random variables following several types of probability distributions and different types of fuzzy numbers with different defuzzification processes in probabilistic situations. Coverage includes waste management, agricultural systems, and fuzzy set theory.

Focuses on the essentials of knowledge management, business intelligence, and smart business systems. This publication highlights the shortcomings of information systems. It explores a holistic approach to exploring an organization's opportunities and solving its problems. It also looks at connecting points of wisdom.

Examines global information management (GIM), and its research and implications. This book discusses how many businesses exist in a global environment. It addresses the ability of both large and small business, and government, from the national level to local level, to function in altered environments by using information technology.

Concentrates on how to create, execute and evolve a customer-centric strategy of any Internet-based management strategy in order to provide valuable customer experiences. Presenting how enabling technologies are as important as ever, this book points out that there's a need to move to new levels in thinking and execution.

Providing a guide for both brick-and-mortar and dot.com companies to address the challenges of building and managing roductive e-partnerships to capitalize on business earnings, this book provides solutions to developing effective e-partnerships through a systematic inquiry into the nature and processes of e-partnering.

Fresh perspectives on the scope and future of intellectual property rights are presented in this collection of essays. Beginning with a broad overview of the subject, the book goes on to develop themes that include normative intellectual property theory and the legal infrastructure for property protection. languages and web-based applications.

This title provides the basic vocabulary and managerial framework for managing strategically the IT workforce at the firm level. It gives different perspectives on managing IT skills - how individuals, HR managers, educators and governments approach IT skills management.

E-business applications such as supply chain management and customer relations management improve transaction efficiency and scope, and function as effective marketing tools, but it is hard to capture such benefits as economic value or profits. This volume examines how the difficulty might be overcome.

This title reports on the most recent, important advances in agent technologies for distributed learning. Several chapters will be devoted to various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed software learning.

Volume one of this work addresses the importance of management and technology issues in electronic business, including collaborative design, collaborative engineering, collaborative decision making, electronic collaboration, communication and co-operation, workflow collaboration and knowledge networking.

This title addresses the recent developments of systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to managerial aspects of the topic.

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.

Digital government is a new frontier of the development of electronic commerce. This text addresses the issues involved in strategically implementing digital government.

Zhang (operations management and decision science, Georgia State University) presents the latest work in business forecasting applications of neural networks. Contributors in computer and information sciences, marketing, and operations management examine applications of neural networks to areas such

Provides a record of research and practical applications in the field of intelligent databases. This book integrates data management in databases with intelligent data processing and analysis in artificial intelligence. It challenges the database technology and promotes its evolution.