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Gives a major focus to the need for methodologies, tools, and architectures for complex distributed systems that address the practical issues of performance guarantees, timed execution, real-time management of resources, synchronized communication under various load conditions, satisfaction of QoS constraints, as well as dealing with the trade-offs between these aspects.

Presents relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in this area for professionals in academic institutions and industry who want to improve their understanding of this key platform. This will serve as a reference for education and program designers across the world involved in industry-oriented education and production of graduates for its globalization.

Highlights current technological trends and related research issues. This book focuses on performance and dependability issues associated with service computing and these two complementary aspects, which include concerns of quality of service, real-time constraints, security, reliability and other important requirements when it comes to integrating services into real-world business processes.

Information Communication Technologies are ubiquitous in today's learning institutions. This book provides an important platform for the furthering of the modern instructional paradigm. It shows how to blend and learn from the revolution taking place in educational institutions across the world.

Introduces and explores the current technological innovations and applications of information systems and informatics in the healthcare industry while directing frameworks for advancing healthcare and clinical practices and research. Practitioners, educators, and researchers will find an international collection of case studies, surveys, and empirical research using qualitative approaches.

Identifies the latest technological solutions, practices and principles on network security while exposing possible security threats and vulnerabilities of contemporary software, hardware, and networked systems. This book is a collection of current research and practices that can be used as a reference by practitioners as well as a text by academics and trainers.

Discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities and solutions related to electronic business adoption with a special focus on SME while providing researchers, scholars, professionals with some of the most advanced research developments, solutions and discussions of E-Business challenges, impacts and opportunities under the social, managerial and organisational dimensions.

Pprovides an overview of the major questions that researchers and practitioners are addressing, outlining possible future directions for theory development and empirical research on gender and computing. This comprehensive reference focuses on three areas of research on gender and computing: gender and computing in the work arena, in cyberspace, and in eDating.

Provides research-based policy and management recommendations for innovative e-governance. By focusing on recent developments that will shape the future of e-governance, this book offers an analytical and comparative framework for evaluating and improving e-governance and provides a rich array of models from diverse institutional contexts, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.

Provides a framework for evaluating and conducting educational technology research, sharing research on educational technology in education content areas, and proposing structures to guide, link, and build new structures with future research. This book provides essential support for compiling the resulting literature and envisioning future research directions in this area.

Offers a state-of-the-art overview of the dependability research, from engineering various software-intensive systems to validating existing IT-frameworks and solving generic and particular problems related to the dependable use of IT in our society. It iexplores the existing research on the topic as well as the key challenges associated with the engineering of dependable IT systems in the future.

Explores a range of topics that contribute to understanding consumers' behaviour in new computer-aided retailing environments, and how this influences buying behaviour while providing useful knowledge on the management of these new technologies and on the management of the digital contents as a reliable teaching resource for teachers and researchers.

Provides relevant theoretical foundations, and disseminates new research findings and expert views on the remaining challenges in ontology learning. This book is invaluable resource as a library or personal reference for graduate students, researchers, and industrial practitioners.

Combines state-of-the-art modelling approaches at various scales with case studies from across the world. These examples help natural resource managers, scientists, and decision makers overcome their fear of models. The case studies show how to translate models into results and illustrate how pro-active implementation can mitigate biodiversity loss.

Provides an overview of the general and interdisciplinary topic of pervasive computing and communications. Particular aspects studied in this book include enabling factors, key characteristics, future trends, user adoption, privacy issues and impact of pervasive computing on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and its associated social aspects.

Presents perspectives on the management, delivery and consumption, and creation of new e-services technologies and tools. This book reviews specific e-services such as e-banking and e-health initiatives and offers new perspectives useful to industry professionals and academics interested in the creation, application, and evaluation of a number of different mobile and electronic services.

Offers solutions, best practices, and case studies on information management on a global scale among developed, developing, and emerging nations. Organisational and managerial implications are explored in-depth, making this publication essential for researchers and professionals who need to understand the mechanics of today's global business environment.

Identifies the multidimensional impact of e-adoption and provides theoretical and practical solutions for policy makers, managers, and researchers in government, industry, and academia. This publication unites research on all aspects of e-adoption with the aim of understanding this phenomenon on both an organisational and individual level.

Examines the stakeholders of e-government and reveals the stages of growth or service maturity levels. This publication sheds light on the paradigms and fundamental discourses of the e-government adoption process, including empirical studies in both developed and developing countries.

A comprehensive collection of work from researchers in related fields, such as information systems, distributed AI, intelligent agents, and collaborative work, that explores and discusses various aspects of design and development of intelligent technologies.

Offers suggestions, solutions, and recommendations for new and emerging research in Semantic Web technology. Focusing broadly on methods and techniques for making the Web more useful and meaningful, this book unites discussions on Semantic Web directions, issues, and challenges.