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Despite decades of research, developing software that is fit for purpose, developed on time, and within budget remains a challenge. This title provides an overview of useful techniques in artificial intelligence for future software development along with critical assessment for further advancement.

The growing complexity and volume of modern databases make it important for researchers and practitioners involved with association rule mining to make sense of the information they contain. This book provides readers with a compendium of issues, trends, and technologies in association rule mining.

Offers an analysis on issues and trends in retrieval expansion. This book is suitable for academicians, researchers, and practitioners.

More than ever before, energy is becoming one of the most crucial concerns in economical and industrial development. This title provides an analysis of the need for a holistic approach for the construction and engineering of cities and societies. It examines key issues and approaches for energy use and also offers future direction of development.

Provides reference to the advancements in the area of educational technology and e-learning. This title includes a selection of chapters addressing research, case studies, best practices, pedagogical approaches, and strategies related to e-learning resources and projects.

Examines integrated approaches in new dimensions of social and organizational knowledge sharing with emphasis on intelligent and personalized access. A defining collection of field advancements, this provides current research, applications, and techniques in testing and validation of Web systems.

Discusses developments in data mining and warehousing as well as techniques for successful implementation. Contributions investigate theoretical queries along with real-world applications, providing a useful foundation for academicians and practitioners to research new techniques and methodologies.

Features theoretical reflections and approaches on the use of multiliteracies and technologies in the improvement of education and social practices.

Offers practitioners, researchers, and academicians with fundamental principles of cooperative communication. This book provides readers diverse findings and exposes underlying issues in the analysis, design, and optimization of wireless systems.

Improved interoperability between public organizations as well as between public and private organizations is of critical importance to make electronic government more successful. This book focuses on the integration of fresh technologies into digital government, generating insights into e-government interoperability.

The global technological marketplace has brought with it the need to address international and local target audiences. This book offers practical applications for the construction of user interfaces, products, services, and other online environments useful in the development of culture-based designs.

Covers topics such as e-technology, knowledge management, and security and risk management. This book informs business managers of important ICT strategy in changing business environments, and techniques for effective ICT development. It is suitable for practitioners, researchers, and academicians.

Combines perspectives of leading researchers in collaborative security to discuss recent advances in this burgeoning new field. Practitioners, researchers, and academics are presented with lessons learned by international experts to meet the new challenges of security in the global information age.

Collates research and pedagogies related to the convergence of teaching and learning methods. It provides access to the latest knowledge related to hybrid learning, discovered and written by an international gathering of e-learning experts.

Presents fundamental and theoretical issues pertaining to data management. Covering a range of topics on warehousing and mining sensor networks, this title provides industry solutions to those in database, data warehousing, and data mining research communities.

The increasing societal dependence on information technology has pushed cyber-security to the forefront as one of the most urgent challenges facing the global community. This book addresses pressing issues facing cyber-security from both a national and global perspective.

In global environments, healthcare organizations are required to be flexible and resilient in coping with uncertain and complex circumstances. This work collects a compilation of chapters on how knowledge impacts the layout and design of the medical industry. It provides comprehensive frameworks, constraints, and performances.

Explores the potential of Web 2.0 and its synergies with the Semantic Web and provides theoretical foundations and technological applications. This book emphasizes practical aspects of the integration of semantic applications into social Web technologies.

The provision of services on the Internet has expanded the field of e-banking to reach all major banks around the world. This book focuses on human, operational, managerial, and strategic organizational issues in e-banking. It also provides fresh theoretical constructs underpinning research and practices within the field.

The field of nursing informatics is one of the fastest growing areas of medical informatics. This book presents an overview of the state of nursing informatics paying particular attention to its social, socio-technical, and political aspects to further research and development projects.

The information systems (IS) discipline faces various challenges. Emerging technologies as well as matured approaches for the social, technical, and developmental role of IS provide a context for the evolution of the discipline. This book communicates the challenges and opportunities that information systems research is dealing with.

Presents case studies on applications of various modern data mining methods in several important areas of medicine, covering classical data mining methods, elaborated approaches related to mining in electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram data, and methods related to mining in genetic data.

In the information society, electronic intrusion has become a fresh form of trespassing often causing significant problems and posing great risks for individuals and businesses. This book focuses on abusive and illegal practices of penetration in the sphere of private communications.

The concepts of knowledge management and knowledge-intensive work have been developing as one of the most critical components to organizational success. This book offers a collection of studies on knowledge-intensive organizations with insight into organizational realities as varied as universities, consulting agencies and corporations.

The increasing trend of multimedia data use is likely to accelerate creating an urgent need of providing a clear means of capturing, storing, indexing, retrieving, analyzing, and summarizing data through image data. This book discusses major aspects of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) using technologies and applications.