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Covers the principles of both wired and wireless communications of voice, data, images, and video and the impact of their business values on the organisations in which they are used. This reference book includes theoretical and practical works, relevant case studies, topical surveys, and research articles.

Presents a careful blend of conceptual, theoretical and applied research in regard to the relationship between the Middle East and North Africa region and business and management. This casebook explores the importance of these relationships, aspects related to ICT, accounting, data protection, usability concerning corporate change, and supply chain management.

Provides a comprehensive look at studies that show a significant contribution in EUC by relating organisational and end user computing to organisational and end user performance and productivity, strategic and competitive advantage, and electronic commerce. This book touches on possible future directions of ECU, and why they are viewed as important for the future.

Presents a careful blend of conceptual, theoretical and applied research in regards to the relationship between technology and humans. This book explores the importance of these interactions, aspects related with trust, communication, data protection, usability concerning organisational change, and e-learning.

The rapid, global growth of technology necessitates a continued review of issues relating to privacy and security, as well as studies on the adoption of and access to new products, tools, and software. ICT Ethics and Security in the 21st Century: New Developments and Applications highlights ethical dilemmas and security challenges posed by the rise of more recent technologies along with ongoing challenges such as the digital divide, threats to privacy, and organizational security measures. This book comprises a valuable resource for ICT researchers, educators, students, and professionals along with both employers and employees of large organizations searching for resolutions to the everyday ethical and security dilemmas we must grapple with in our highly globalised and technologized world.

Explores the many uses of games and simulations, focusing specifically on their use in organisational and educational settings. Providing perspectives on gaming for distance learning, gaming for rehabilitation, business simulators, and motivational games, this publication explores new and emerging trends in this ever-evolving area of research.

Examines Portals, SOA, the published research in these fields, as well providing an enterprise-based experience of factors that challenge implementation of Portal and SOA projects in practice. This book includes a balance of background information, summarizing the state of a particular area, and new research that was previously unpublished.

Computer and online games have emerged as a critical area of study due to their implications for business and society, as well as their increased presence in individuals' lives. Business, Technological and Social Dimensions of Computer Games: Multidisciplinary Developments is a collection of the most recent developments in all areas of game development, encompassing planning, design, marketing, business management, and consumer behavior. This publication explores a number of aspects of gaming, which include supporting technologies, human interaction, psychological and behavioral effects, business opportunities, and intellectual property considerations, offering readers a complete perspective on the evolution of games and gaming technologies.

Explores and promotes a conceptual and empirical understanding of the roles of electronic games and computer-mediated simulations across multiple disciplines. This book helps build a significant bridge between research and practice on electronic gaming and simulations, supporting the work of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

Provides an in-depth coverage of next-generation mobile computing paradigm, including mobile wireless technologies, mobile services and applications, and research and development challenges surrounding backend systems, network infrastructure, and mobile terminals including smart phones and other mobile devices.

Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, of which Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent cause. AD is characterized by the progressive formation of insoluble amyloid plaques and vascular deposits of amyloid beta peptide in the brain. AD patients suffer from a loss of neurons and synapses in the cerebral cortex and certain sub-cortical regions. Early Detection and Rehabilitation Technologies for Dementia: Neuroscience and Biomedical Applications provides a comprehensive collection for experts in the Neuroscience and Biomedical technology fields. Outlining various concepts from cognitive neuroscience and dementia to neural technology and rehabilitation; this book proves to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, in order to promote scientific research and industrial development in the field of early detection and rehabilitation technology of dementia.

Presents new technologies, approaches, issues, solutions, and cases that can help an organisation implement a knowledge management (KM) initiative or provide a knowledge base for the practitioner/academic researcher.

Examines innovative research in the emerging, multidisciplinary field of cognitive informatics. Researchers, practitioners and students can benefit from discussions of the connections between natural science and informatics that are investigated in this fundamental collection of cognitive informatics research.

With recent progress in information generation, users are experiencing increasing difficulties in processing the available amounts of high-dimensional data, extracting information from it, and eventually finding a meaning in the structured data. Computational Modeling and Simulation of Intellect: Current State and Future Perspectives confronts the problem of meaning by fusing together methods specific to different fields and exploring the computational efficiency and scalability of these methods. Researchers, instructors, designers of information and management systems, users of these systems, and graduate students will acquire the fundamental knowledge needed to be at the forefront of the research and to use it in the applications. The topic is of great importance for information and management science and technology, both currently and in future.

Provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge in cutting-edge research in fields as diverse as distributed computing, human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, embedded systems, and other interdisciplinary areas which all contribute to Ambient Intelligent technology.

Highlights the work of educators daring enough to teach in these digital frontiers. Instructors will find cutting-edge teaching ideas in the theoretical discussions, case studies, and experiments. These insights are applied to variety of subject areas and pedagogical contexts, examples which encourage educators to design and develop new worlds of learning inside and outside the university.

Provides a comprehensive compilation of knowledge covering state-of-the-art developments and research, as well as current innovative activities in data warehousing and mining. This book focuses on the integration between the fields of data warehousing and data mining, with emphasis on the applicability to real world problems and provides a broad perspective on the future of these two topic areas.

Focuses on the discussions of computational methods, algorithms implemented prototype systems, and applications of open and distance learning. This reference is a primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate practical solutions to the automation of open and distance learning.

Provides a comprehensive presentation of current and emerging perspectives focusing on all aspects of managing IT HR from the view of both practitioners and academics located around the globe. It will focus on the results of recent research and their implications to IT human resource considerations.

Distributed teams are becoming more common as organizations use new technologies to span across geographic boundaries. Distributed Team Collaboration in Organizations: Emerging Tools and Practices summarizes the challenges inherent in leading distributed teams and explores practices that are emerging to optimize distributed team performance. Learning to form and sustain high-performing distributed teams with members in multiple locations, time zones, and with diverse cultural perspectives requires new approaches to collaboration. This book highlights the new skills needed for leadership, collaboration, and cooperation and can aid organizations in developing these skills in the workforce.

This is devoted to examining a range of major issues concerning green finance and sustainability clustered into five sections on emerging environmentally aware business models, regulation and standard development, green ICT for sustainability, green finance and the carbon market, green manufacturing, logistics and SCM, and regional low carbon development.

Explores integrated approaches to IT and Web engineering, offering solutions and best practices for knowledge exchange within organizations. This focuses on research in a number of related disciplines, including data knowledge storage and retrieval, intelligent information systems, IT education and training, and IT readiness.

Provides theories, methods, and studies on digital crime prevention and investigation, useful to a broad range of researchers and communities. This field is under constant evolution as the nature of digital crime continues to change and new methods for tracking and preventing digital attacks are developed.

Reviews practices that lead to social and organizational change and how these practices are influenced by technology. Focusing on applications and approaches, this encourages focused research on societal change and growth on an organizational level.

Investigates the role of ICT in advancing economic, social, and political development, as well as the potential setbacks experienced as a result of introducing new initiatives. It offers strategies for continued societal growth through technology, and provides historical perspectives on the processes, procedures, and behaviours that have been impacted as a result of ICT programs.

Reviews pervasive and ubiquitous computing as it informs modern information systems. It provides an overview of emerging trends in context-aware computing, pervasive and smart environments, as well as research on applications of pervasive technologies in healthcare organizations, work environments, and educational settings.