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Examines the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet contextually grounded, framework. It explores diverse perspectives and approaches, from political economy to cultural studies, and from policy studies to ethnography, to reflect varied perspectives on the convergence of culture and new media technology.

Provides the rationale, state-of-the-art studies and practical applications, proof-of-concepts, experimental studies, and future development on the use of emerging technologies in wireless ad-hoc networks. It also explores emerging wireless ad hoc technologies based on communication coverage areas: body sensor networks, personal area networks, local area networks, and metropolitan area networks.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the organizational and legal issues concerning digital libraries. It includes 24 contributions from world-renowned specialists. This is a must-have for researchers and professionals in the field of ICTs and its various disciplines, including library, education, computer science and management.

Examines the latest advances in Information Communication Technology. It provides in-depth insight into the current state of research in ICT, as well as identifies successful approaches, tools and methodologies, explores points of good practices, and discusses potential pitfalls to avoid.

Examines broadband deployment, diffusion, adoption, usage and impact from the global perspective. Including chapters from researchers with varied geographical, educational and cultural backgrounds, this will help the reader understand the differences in the adoption of broadband in different countries and examine comparative policy issues at national and international levels.

Investigates the use of computer-mediated communication technologies, that range from instant messaging and e-mail to interaction on Web pages, Webcasts, and graphical user interfaces, to facilitate effective interdependent collaboration in writing projects.

Recent advances in electronic and mobile commerce, precipitated by innovations in technology and user acceptance, have led to subsequent changes in individual and organizational behavior. This compiles contemporary research on the changing face of commerce, investigating the development, delivery, and perception of e- and m-commerce systems and tools.

Compiles numerous projects and research efforts in the design of agents in light of the development in neurocognitive science and quantum physics. This collection provides readers with interdisciplinary applications of multi-agents systems, ranging from economics to engineering.

Focuses on the latest innovations for developing, describing, integrating, sharing, and processing intelligent activities in the process of manufacturing in engineering. It provides readers with the scientific foundations, theories, and key technologies of manufacturing intelligence.

Tourism is a multi-billion dollar international industry and also one of the biggest users of Web technologies, constantly adopting innovative ideas to enhance its market penetration. This title provides coverage of various e-tourism systems and directions for future research and development.

Bridges the gap between professional and academic perceptions of advertising in fresh media environments through defining the evolution of consumerism within the context of media change. It offers coverage of practical issues related to consumer power shifts and economic issues related to media exposure.

Presents cutting-edge knowledge on scientific approaches to the management of supply networks in a highly informed global environment with abundant dynamic and uncertain challenges. It examines how new mathematical and conceptual approaches are integrated with IT and intelligent systems, and how these models can help to improve the coordination of supply networks.

Provides a valuable resource for promoting current academic discourse on innovation in knowledge-intensive organizations and contexts. A defining collection of field advancements, it creatively showcases wide-ranging issues relevant to the use of knowledge management.

The Web has metamorphosed into a powerful vehicle for the development and delivery of new, emergent products and services, creating vast implications for organizational strategies. This work highlights business products, services, strategies, and philosophies drawn from a collaborative information platform.

The use of multimodality combined with mobile devices allows a simple, intuitive communication approach and generates new and pervasive services for users. This title provides theoretical and practical concepts, methodologies, and applications used to design and develop multimodal systems.

Provides evidence-based insight into the management and contribution of IT within organizations. It also offers practical insights, models, and tools that are instrumental in gaining business value from IT. With contributions from 35 international professionals, this will appeal to both academics and practitioners in the field of IT management and business and IT alignment.

Disseminates knowledge regarding high performance computing for medical applications and bioinformatics. It contains a valuable collection of cutting-edge research chapters for those working in the broad field of medical informatics and bioinformatics.

Delivers real-life cases that illustrate the benefits of Semantic Web technologies as applied to e-business and e-commerce scenarios.

Discusses the considerations and implications surrounding the outsourcing and offshoring of professional services, such as software development computer-aided design, and healthcare, from multiple global perspectives. This title is suitable for industry professionals, policymakers, students, and educators.

Compiles advanced research on the cultural, technical, organizational, and human issues surrounding the creation, capture, transfer, and use of this knowledge in organizations.

As digital libraries expand in their proliferation, and as researchers, students, and consumers increasingly depend on them for their information needs, developers are keen to learn more about the design, use, and usability of these systems. This academic reference work provides comprehensive coverage of digital libraries.

Increasing amounts of digital image, video, and music have created many information security issues, this work examines the field of multimedia forensics and security by tackling challenging issues such as digital watermarking for copyright protection, digital fingerprinting for transaction tracking, and digital camera source identification.

Provides researchers and practitioners with information on advances and developments in emerging e-business models and technologies.

Examining cyberlaw worldwide, this work also discusses the legal, technical, and financial implications of e-business.

Offers an evidence-based management approach to issues associated with the human and social aspects of designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining health information systems across a healthcare organization - specific to an individual, team, organizational, system, and international perspective.