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Information Ethics: Privacy and Intellectual Property provides an up-to-date discussion of the main ethical issues that face today's information-intensive society, including the areas of intellectual property rights, privacy, accessibility and censorship. The explosive growth of information technology, increased competition in the global marketplace, and the rush to use information in an effort to protect society from terrorism has led to the unintended erosion of rights and duties that are often considered fundamental. Through chapters written by some of today's leading Information Ethics researchers, this book provides the reader with a thorough overview of the current state of Information Ethics, the dangers and opportunities presented by information technology, and potential solutions to the risks currently faced by today's information society.

One in a series of books, which feature research findings dealing with end user computing concepts, issues, and trends. Volume 4 is divided into three segments which cover: organizational and end user computing issues, trends, and successes, collaborative technologies and implementation issues, and e-commerce processes and practices.

One of a series of books which feature research findings in all aspects of information resources management. Volume 4 presents new concepts in handling and sharing information resources with organizations and individuals worldwide.

The Intelligent Techniques for Planning presents a number of modern approaches to the area of automated planning. These approaches combine methods from classical planning such as the construction of graphs and the use of domain-independent heuristics with techniques from other areas of artificial intelligence. This book discuses, in detail, a number of state-of-the-art planning systems that utilize constraint satisfaction techniques in order to deal with time and resources, machine learning in order to utilize experience drawn from past runs, methods from knowledge systems for more expressive representation of knowledge and ideas from other areas such as Intelligent Agents. Apart from the thorough analysis and implementation details, each chapter of the book also provides extensive background information about its subject and presents and comments on similar approaches done in the past.

Showcases some of the best digital library practices from organizations in the Asia Pacific. Particular emphasis has been placed on the design, use and usability of digital libraries. Related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues surrounding digital libraries are examined.

A web portal is a special website designed to act as a gateway offering convenient access to other related sites. This book looks at various types of portals and describes how they might be used in business applications.

Although based primarily on MIS and computer science areas, Web engineering covers a wide range of disciplines, thus making it difficult to gain an understanding of the field. ""Web Engineering: Principles and Techniques"" provides clarity to this often muddied issue.

Provides a comprehensive view of service-oriented software engineering (SOSE) through a number of perspectives. This book provides readers with an in-depth knowledge of the main challenges and practices in SOSE, addressing both technical and organizational aspects.

Offers an overview of the use and diffusion of information systems in the health care sector with particular attention to the role of the user. This book starts with classic contributions and modifications and then continues with contemporary contributions, which include both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Interactive systems are growing in the last decade because of the amount of fields in which this kind of application can be used as a test bed to experiment in medicine, training, education, and so on. Developing Future Interactive Systems is a complilation of knowledge collected from several researchers in the field of interactive systems, offering an overview of the different parts of the environment that must be taken into account to develop a quality interactive system from the software engineering discipline. The book is oriented to developers of interactive systems, as well as researchers in the field of virtual environments.

This title includes articles of relevance to those interested in both theory and practice of computer-supported collaborative learning.

This title contains state-of-the-art research studies on the concepts, theory, processes and real world applications of geographical information systems (GIS) in business.

Presents the applicable concepts and methodologies of information and communication technologies, such as agent-based technologies, HUB, knowledge management, GRID, and wireless communication. This book covers these concepts, while taking into account several results and outlining the trends in these fields.

This work offers a chance to get to know more electronic business applications, successes, failures, challenges and opportunities in the developing world. These studies are gaining importance for future development of globalization, global trade and cultural dissemination.

With the increasing complexity of software systems and their widespread growth into many aspects of our lives, the need to search for new models, paradigms, and ultimately, technologies, to manage this problem is evident. The way nature solves various problems through processes evolving during billions of years was always an inspiration to many computational paradigms; on the other hand, the complexity of the problems posed by the investigation of biological systems challenged the research of new tractable models. Molecular Computational Models: Unconventional Approaches is looking into new computational paradigms from both a theoretical perspective which offers a solid foundation of the models developed, as well as from a modeling angle, in order to reveal their effectiveness in modeling and simulating, especially biological systems. Tools and programming concepts and implementation issues are also discussed in the context of some experiments and comparative studies.

Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to further our understanding of the linkage among various disciplines inherently connected with one another in electronic commerce.

There are many challenges facing organizations today as they incorporate electronic marketing methods into their strategy. This book examines these challenges within three major themes: the global environment, the strategic/technological realm, and the buyer behavior of online consumers.

Focuses on some semantic aspects and extends the EER model with fuzzy capabilities. This book, while providing a global and integrated view of fuzzy database constructions, serves as an introduction to fuzzy logic, fuzzy databases and fuzzy modeling in databases.

Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge management to actively inquire about their environment. This is a comprehensive collection of the key thinking regarding the use of C West Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer-based inquiring systems design and implementation.

Those working in healthcare management need to effectively manage knowledge and KM. KM places value on the tacit knowledge that individuals hold and often makes use of IT to free the collective wisdom of individuals within an organization. This book establishes a convergence in thinking between KM and knowledge engineering healthcare applications.

Susan George explores the computer recognition of music notation, its interpretation and use within various application contexts. This includes research in the field of image processing and pen-based computing, representation languages and web-based applications.

This work highlights the broad range of topics that fall under the term ""knowledge management"", thus emphasizing the large role knowledge management plays in organizations.

This work features research findings dealing with end user computing concepts, issues, and trends. Empirical and theoretical research concerned with all aspects of end user computing including development, utilization, and management are included.

This work covers research findings in all aspects of information resources management. It addresses many of the managerial and organizational applications of information technology in organizations. It also educates organizations on how they can benefit from and improve their information resources.

Provides insight and practical knowledge obtained from industry leaders regarding the overall successful management of e-commerce practices and solutions.

This work is dedicated to the new era of information systems on web environments, due not only to the growing popularity of the web technology but also the roles that web technology play in modern information systems. The major elements of web information systems include XML technologies.

This work describes what Business Intelligence (BI) is, how it is being conducted and managed and its major opportunities, limitations, issues and risks. It takes an in-depth look at the scope of global technological change and BI.

This work highlights successful policy and practices which encourage the success of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in numerous different countries. It offers insights into addressing the significant issues that are of importance to the small business sector.