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Covers the issues that include theoretical models, pedagogy of e-learning, virtual team design and management, collaborative learning, and strategies for effectiveness in teaching and learning. This book brings a variety of research and practice on the subject of virtual and collaborative teams in teaching and learning together in a single source.

Provides a review of research into computational intelligence applications in business. The chapters of this book cover various fields of business, including: marketing, data mining, e-commerce, production and operations, finance, decision-making, and general management.

Provides a record of research and applications in industrial database modeling. This book discusses the major aspects of databases for industry data modeling, database models, and database applications in information systems. It helps readers gain an understanding of the techniques related to the developments of industrial database modeling.

Covers a range of factors that influence the design, use and adoption of personalized learning environments. This book shows how user and pedagogical considerations can be integrated into the design, development and implementation of adaptive hypermedia systems to create effective personalized learning environments.

Presents many diverse applications to finance and manufacturing, along with underlying neural network theories and architectures. This book aims to offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to access cutting-edge research, focusing on neural network applications.

An addition to the ""Cases on Information Technology Series"", a series which provides a collection of case studies focusing on IT implementation in organizations. This volume is useful to IT managers and researchers, as it describes various scenarios of IT implementation and also unfortunate downfalls.

Aimed to provide a source of high quality practical case studies of the planning, implementation and use of mobile and wireless data solutions in modern business, this book provides an analyses of business applications of mobile technologies that help the practitioner understand the nature of the technology and how its value can be best harnessed.

Intended for researchers and professionals in SMEs and e-commerce, this book points to various issues concerning e-commerce in SMEs, and highlights the need to do something in order to bridge the existing divide between the two. It raises the importance of addressing the e-commerce phenomenon in SMEs at a global level.

Discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, gives information to the history behind grid technology evolution, and supplies readers with the knowledge to make qualified managerial decisions. This book looks at computing platforms and global cyber-infrastructure for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and business.

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. These techniques can provide a breakthrough in the capability to model, plan and respond to critical events in modern society.

Addresses the importance of information technology management and issues in operating information systems in the global dynamic business environment.

This book is intended to elicit comments, raise concerns and open dialogue as e-government programs for mainstream society are continually implemented. It also responds to e-government's present shortcomings, while exploring a renewed understanding of e-government's visions and responsiveness.

This book introduces object-oriented development techniques, including modeling languages, programming languages, reusable patterns and software development processes. It discusses the ongoing trends of object-oriented development, including emerging e-business development frameworks, executable UML and requirements engineering.

This work addresses an aspect of Web-based education that has not attracted sufficient attention in the international research literature - that of virtual science centers, the cyberspace annex of traditional science centers.

Covering basic concepts of Web and information system security, this book provides insights into the semantic Web field and its related security challenges. It is for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in information security, and for technologists, researchers, managers and developers who want to know more about security technologies.

Virtual teams have been used to maximize scarce and distributed resources for many years. Expense reductions, health epidemics, air travel safety, and complex supply chains have only intensified this need. This is a perspective on the growing dependence on virtual teams and how best to exploit them.

Combines the two important areas of research within computer technology and presents them in comprehensive, easy to understand manner. In addition to looking at many relevant topics within both video data management and information retrieval, the book also provides a ""big picture"" view of each topic.

The Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology provides leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community workers with successful strategies and principles of Community Informatics to transform regions.

Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities explores new business opportunities and critical issue related to mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G. This book identifies motivations and barriers to the adoption of 3G mobile multimedia services and provides an end-user perspective on mobile multimedia services that are likely to emerge with the roll out of Third Generation Mobile Services (3G). Mobile and Wireless Systems beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities presents a single source of up-to-date information about mobile commerce including the technology (hardware and software) involved, security issues and factors driving demand adoption (consumer and business). This book provides researchers and practitioners with a source of knowledge related to this emerging area of business, while also facilitating managers and business leaders' understanding of the industrial evolutionary processes.

Ties together current approaches and future trends in managing multimedia semantics. It assembles research problems, theoretical frameworks, tools and technologies required for designing multimedia information systems.

An introduction and balanced coverage of topics related to the methodologies developed to support data management in asymmetric communication environments. This book provides an opportunity for practitioners and researchers to explore the connection between computer science techniques and to develop solutions to problems in wireless networks.

Hypermedia systems may be one of the most significant contributions to the Internet in recent years. As the needs of users have changed, the hypermedia systems have also changed, and adaptive and adaptable hypermedia systems have emerged. This text examines both types of systems; discussing the benefits, impacts and implications.

Providing a coverage of the concepts and realities in the field of virtual communities and technologies, the hundreds of entries included in this encyclopedia have been authored by leading international researchers, presenting an in-depth analysis of conceptual, technical, and the impacts of virtual environments in our global village.

This encyclopedia covers a wide range of Human Computer Interaction related topics such as concepts, design, usability, evaluation, innovations, and applications of HCI in organizations around the globe. It includes contributions from advisors from around the world as well as real life experiences and cases of HCI.

Provides web content management solutions through case studies. It contains successful database-to-web applications employed in academic libraries. The applications cover examples from database-driven web development, local web content management systems, systems for distributing content management responsibilities, and dynamic content delivery.

New information technologies enable us to interact with each other in totally new ways. The Interaction Society: Theories, Practice and Supportive Technologies provides readers with a rich overview of the emerging interaction society enabled by these new information and communication technologies (ICT). Readers will gain a theoretically deep understanding of the core issues related to the character of the emerging interaction society, be exposed to empirical case studies that can help to understand the impact of this emergence through analysis of concrete examples, and benefit from descriptions of concrete design projects aimed at designing new novel information technologies to support activities in the interaction society.

Approached not only from the technical side, but the business and legal sides as well, this book discusses digital watermarking as it relates to many areas of digital media. Broad in its approach, it provides a comprehensive for students, artists, composers, lawyers, and publishers.

Internet-Based Workplace Communications: Industry and Academic Applications examines the different ways in which online media are becoming a part of and affecting educational and professional writing practices. By overvieiwng how Internet-based technologies affect the communication process, this timely book provides educators with a synopsis of the tools and techniques that could be applied to a variety of educational and professional activities. Similarly, by covering the uses of online media in communication education, this book provides employers with insights related to the Internet-related discourse skills of prospective employees. This book serves as a bridge between educational developments and industry practices, and readers from a broad range of backgrounds learn of different concepts, technologies, and techniques that can affect the online communication process.

This overview of standards, practices and possibilities of course management systems in higher education focuses on current knowledge and the history of the CMS, while also discussing innovative practices in CMS instructional design that have been informed by learning theory and intentional pedagogy.

Defining the requirements that establish what a future sociotechnical system should do, and validating that the system has achieved its goals, is an immense task. In this book the reader will find a detailed account of the challenges posed by the elicitation, specification, validation and management of requirements for the definition of this kind of application.