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This work ""pulls together"" existing areas of existing psychological involvement, to suggest yet new areas and to present an initial, and coherent vision and framework for extending and humanizing the sphere of IT work.

Digital scholars can use this work as a tool to explore the vast parameters of the applications, problems, and solutions related to digital disciplines. Topics include adaptive narrative virtual environments, and the analysis of musical content in digital audio.

This work discusses the foundation as well as the practical side of intelligent agents and their theory and applications for web data mining and information retrieval.

This work explores the myriad of issues regarding multimedia security. It covers various issues, including perceptual fidelity analysis, image, audio, and 3D mesh object watermarking, medical watermarking, and error detection (authentication) and concealment.

This work is written by experts that share an interest in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) movement. When ERP projects stop being the make or break ventures they can be and we stop getting these reports about failed implementation, then the ERP market will be less of a jungle.

A discussion of research in theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems, in particular in information systems and related security tools. Topics explored in the text include XML-based management systems, security of multimedia data, and technology and use of smart cards.

Mobile commerce is based on the rapidly growing applications of wireless technologies and mobile communications. This study collects holistic perspectives to explore strategic considerations regarding potential opportunities and issues in mobile commerce.

Virtual teams are a new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance and organizations. This text gathers academic research on real, work-based virtual teams. It presents practical research, insight and advice on how virtual team projects can be better managed.

This work brings together knowledge from many parts of the world to provide theoretical and applied concepts, methodologies, and techniques that help diffuse skills required to create intelligent enterprises of the 21st century for gaining sustainable competitive advantage in a global environment.

To aid the examination of the cross-impacts of the information society, this text assembles thinking by researchers and policy makers in the field. It covers all key subject areas and presents innovative business models, case studies, normative theories and social explanations.

Embracing a wide variety of personal Web usage issues, this book covers: antecedents of Web usage; frameworks/models of Web usage; Web technologies for monitoring useage; Web usage within other cultures and countries; and the impact of Web usage on others.

This work addresses e-business innovation and change management issues. It provides an understanding of the interdependence and synergy between the two issues and that a holistic approach is imperative for organizations to survive in this economy and achieve a competitive advantage.

This work addresses eCommerce issues in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a global setting. It covers issues that are of importance to researchers, students, and professionals interested in the eCommerce field in SMEs.

Successfully competing in the new global economy requires immediate decision capability. Technology that facilitates this process of optimal decision-making is known as Organizational Data Mining (ODM). This work shows how organizations can leverage ODM for enhanced competitiveness.

This text aims to equip leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community workers with successful strategies and principles of community informatics to transform regions. It embraces an integrative cross-sectoral approach in the use of community informatics.

Studies have shown that the IS profession is characterized by staff skill shortages, high turnover rates, job stress and burnout. This title explores the challenges faced by organizations as they develop strategies for recruiting, training, retraining and retaining IT professionals.

This work covers transformation in government and governance due to the information society development. It provides conceptual clarification of the e-transformation in governance, and presents empirical findings on the developments in Western countries.

This work integrates research and practice in user-centred design and learning design for instructors in post-secondary institutions and learning organizations who are developing e-learning resources. The accompanying practice guide provides additional information and activities.

E-government has emerged not merely as a specialization in public administration but as a transformative force affecting all leaves and functions in government. This text provides an overview of the management challenges and issues involved in seeking this new form of governance.

This text addresses many trends and issues associated with web-based education, and explores the opportunities and problems confronting colleges and universities to effectively utilize and manage web-based education in their teaching environments.

This work provides a brief history of multidimensional databases and distinguishes between what is new in research and what is merely a renaming of old concepts. It discusses research projects in the hope to encourage the search for new solutions to the many problems that are still unsolved.

The field of intelligent user interfaces has received great attention from the research community over the years. This book combines broad research areas in intelligent user interfaces to provide a review of studies, applications, and methodologies and theories that support the issue of adaptation and personalization in various application levels.

Examines the IT investment paradox or the IT Black Hole, where larges sums are invested in IT that seem to be swallowed by a large black hole without rendering many returns. This volume presents the most current research in the field of IS evaluation. It is an area of study that touches on a variety of types of businesses and organisation.

This text aims to bring together researchers in related fields such as information systems, distributed artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, machine learning, collaborative work, to explore aspects of IIS design and implementation, as well as to share experiences and lessons learned.

This volume strives to explore the human resource and social dimensions of knowledge and IT management, to discuss the opportunities and major issues related to the management of people along the supply chain in Internet marketing.

The organization, functioning and the role of libraries in university communities continue to change dramatically. This volume addresses the issue by providing insight into the current changes and developments within the area of library science.

Covers topics such as didactic ergonomics; evolving roles for the teacher; implications for language learning; materials design for distance language learning; model of didactic ergonomics; pedagogic and didactic consequences; relationship between technology and education; Second-language learning; and tasks design for distance language learning.

For people wanting to learn how to apply neural networks to a variety of business applications, this text introduces the three most common network models and how they work. Each chapter serves as a tutorial describing how to use the models to solve a business problem.

Explores the crossroads of information technology systems and strategic management. This book presents research on: specific market enhancements, information management for decision making, inter-organizational efficiencies, the importance of maintaining crucial relationships, and broader societal and global ramifications.