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Modern organizations are critically dependent on data communications and network systems utilized in managing information and communications, vital to continuity and success of operations. This book provides the academic, information technology, and managerial communities with the understanding to implement robust, secure, and effective solutions.

The technological and commercial landscape points to an expanding role for innovations in mobile technology in shaping various forms of business and transactions and driving the development of new models. This book presents research advances in the field of mobile business.

Intends to promote understanding of how ICTs contribute to the development of city marketing strategies to enhance local socio-economic development. Covering topics such as city branding, export promotion, and industry marketing, this comprehensive book looks into effective marketing initiatives for city development.

Green management has drawn much attention from researchers and practitioners. Facing critical impacts to its environment, a strategic change to integrate supply chain management on green products needs a solid base for decision making. This book reviews research in green management and control.

Presents research in the field of social networking communities and e-dating services.

Offers students and lecturers with research articles focusing on a variety of issues related to topics in IT and business systems management.

A collection of empirical studies in information systems.

The massive quantity of data, information, and knowledge available in digital form on the web or within the organizational knowledge base requires a way to control it. This title addresses Semantic Web from an operative point of view using theoretical approaches, methodologies, and software applications as solutions to true knowledge management.

Presents educational and learning models that meet complex educational demands, providing educators and teachers, as well as researchers, tutors, and students with a comprehensive understanding of the research and trends of both theory and pedagogy in e-learning, involving collaborative learning and concept mapping.

Provides coverage of the issues, methods, theories, and challenges connected with the provision of electronic resources in libraries, with an emphasis on strategic planning, operational guidelines, and practices. This book focuses on management practices of the life-cycle of commercially acquired electronic resources.

Compiles authoritative research on fundamental encryption algorithms and systems supported in information technology and secure communication networks.

Presents international practices in the development and use of applied e-Learning and e-Teaching in the classroom in order to enhance student experience, add value to teaching practices, and illuminate best practices in the area of e-Assessment. This book explores the varying roles of academic staff in adoption and application.

Integrates traditional map librarianship and contemporary issues in digital librarianship within a framework of a global embedded information infrastructure, addressing technical, legal and institutional factors such as collection development, reference and research services, cataloging/metadata, and issues in accessibility and standards.

Presents basic principles of geometric modeling while featuring contemporary industrial case studies. This book offers an account of product data management and product life cycle management.

Examines the special issues related to the collection, disbursement, and integration of various data within the healthcare system.

Examines a range of environmental factors, both internal and external, that contribute to complexity.

Presents relevant theoretical frameworks, empirical research findings, and practitioners' best practices in the area of organizational memory. Suitable for professionals, researchers, and academicians, this book contains a wide range of topics related to preserving organizational knowledge for the next generation.

Electronic commerce technologies and applications have changed the way information technology is used in business and society. This collection presents a range of real-life cases that describe the successful and unsuccessful adoption of e-commerce, e-business, e-government, mobile commerce, and Web services technologies.

Presents a range of issues and challenges related to business process reengineering technologies and systems. This book gives practitioners, educators, and students an understanding of business process reengineering difficulties, and presents solutions discovered by organizations worldwide.

Provides theoretical and empirical information related to the planning and execution of IT projects aimed at serving indigenous people. This book explores many cultural concerns with IT implementation, including language issues and questions of cultural appropriateness.

Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types, applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming available at warp speed. This presents challenges and obstacles to those in the multimedia industry. This title offers solutions to these challenges.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the organizing logic for a firm's core business processes and IT capabilities captured in a set of policies and technical choices. This title provides an overview of practical aspects of enterprise architecture. It includes an analysis of EA theory, concepts, strategies, implementation challenges, and case studies.

Outlines many terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of cyberspace. This book illustrates the use of the global information infrastructure by terrorists for the communication and coordination of distributed terrorist cells, the gathering of target intelligence, and the use of cyber criminal activities as a force multiplier.

Offer information about the human aspects of electronic commerce technologies and utilization in modern organizations. This work provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of e-commerce technologies and advances in organizations around the world.

Higher education institutions around the world are increasingly turning to e-learning as a way of dealing with growing and changing student populations. This volume provides insights and experiences from e-learning experts from around the world, addressing the institutional, pedagogical, and technological issues that higher education institutions are grappling with.

Audience response systems (ARS) are used to facilitate interaction with participants engaged in a variety of group activities. This work reveals some of the history behind these systems, and explores theory and practice. It presents the work of educators in a range of subject areas, and with differing levels of experience with these systems.

Digital forensics is the science of collecting evidence often used in a court of law to prosecute those who engage in digital activities that are deemed unlawful. This book depicts the nature of the crime and the motives of the criminals before proceeding to analyze the type of attacks one must understand in order to be prepared.

Features a number of case studies detailing online applications and uses of assessment and measurement methodologies, systems, and practices across three broad educational or training areas: elementary and secondary (K-12), higher education, and corporate.