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Presents a coherent and realistic image of today's research results in large scale distributed systems, explains state-of-the-art technological solutions for the main issues regarding large scale distributed systems, and explores the benefits of using large scale distributed systems and the development process of scientific and commercial distributed applications.

Provides research in the rapidly changing world of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). These findings feature developments and studies of WSNs to provide a seedbed for new breakthroughs in this technology.

Examines how reliance is transferred from a social to a digital concept, enabling digital system users to build up confidence in their system. This innovative publication provides an understanding of the current challenges, solutions, and their limitations to those interested in this advancing field.

Focuses on e-collaboration technologies that enable group-based interaction, and the impact that those technologies have on group work. A defining body of research, this reference addresses a range of e-collaboration topics, including interdisciplinary perspectives on e-collaboration, and adaptation and creativity in e-collaboration.

Covers topics such as advanced manufacturing technology; consortial benchmarking; cybernetics and organizational evaluation; decision integrity; implications of complexity thinking; management of complex organizations; neuro-knowledge system; second order cybernetics; systemic management research; and theory of management.

Investigates the impact of anonymity and its effects on online identity and learning. A close examination of the implications of anonymity in cyber education reveals issues of authenticity and trust, which are at the heart of online learning.

Assistive and augmentive communication is an emerging research area receiving much support from the disabled community. It enables communication for those with impairments or restrictions on the production or comprehension of spoken or written language. Assistive and Augmentive Communication for the Disabled: Intelligent Technologies for Communication, Learning and Teaching provides benefits to the professionals and researchers working in various disciplines in the field, such as special education, healthcare, computational intelligence and information technology. Moreover, this book provides insights and support to individuals who are concerned with the development of children and adults with disabilities. It covers recently completed studies, as well as ongoing research, to provide a cutting-edge window into this area of promising, new applications.

Highlights ongoing issues in three areas having implications for EIS: adaptability, intervention, and people. This book discusses the role of change management, conversion management, readiness management, knowledge management, e-business management, people management, and stakeholder management for a competitive advantage in EIS.

Presents innovative research findings utilizing the incorporation of the systems approach into fields such as systems engineering, computer science, and software engineering. This work contains philosophical evaluations and issues related to complexity.

Provides a panorama of the current boundary between biomedical complexity coming from the medical image context and the multiple techniques which have been used for solving many of these problems. It will serve as a leading industry reference.

Explores new technologies, approaches, issues, solutions, and cases that can help an organization implement a knowledge management initiative or provide a knowledge base for the practitioner/academic researcher. It contributes to existing knowledge management literature by providing new insight into the continual evolution of the discipline in modern organizations.

Explores the problems related to information integration and interoperability throughout the lifecycle of a building. It provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies within the field.

Discusses the widespread influence of technologies across the globe, with particular attention placed on moral considerations. This innovative publication provides researchers, academicians, and practitioners with a comprehensive survey of theories and insight into human considerations of globalization.

Examines emerging issues in e-government research, development, and implementation, offering insights into enhanced security, citizen-centered e-government efforts, and specific e-government deployments on local and national levels.

Provides emerging research topics in cognitive informatics research with a focus on such topics as reducing cognitive overload, real-time process algebra, and neural networks for iris recognition, emotion recognition in speech, and the classification of musical chords.

Overcoming many challenges, data mining has already established discipline capability in many domains. This book discusses advances in modern data mining research in a global and technological environment.

Semantic interoperability provides the means to automatically process and integrate large amounts of information without human intervention. This work provides an analysis of issues involved with the application of semantic interoperability to information assimilation tasks followed by field professionals.

Responding to the specific needs of each student, personalized learning has the potential to refocus education on the individual rather than the institution. This work explores the metaphor of anytime and anywhere individual education as well as the idea of tailoring instruction to meet individual needs.

Explores software architectures and platforms used to support distributed and mobile e-learning systems.

Presents research and teaching into the study of corruption and those affected by it. With examinations into real-life situations, this work analyzes the benefits and disadvantages of various teaching methodologies in universities, police academies, and crime victim services.

Focuses on the interactions between human language and communication technologies. This collection examines the practical implications and applications of how computers can be used to process natural languages for the design of communication systems and devices.

Today, fuzzy methods are of common use as they provide tools to handle data sets in a relevant, robust, and interpretable way, making it possible to cope with both imprecision and uncertainties. This work presents techniques for addressing data management problems with logic and memory use.

Presents critical research and knowledge on electronic cultivation and political development experiences from around the world. This reference source describes and evaluates real-life case studies, examines theoretical frameworks, and discusses key global policy development issues, challenges, and constraints on socioeconomic advancements.

Treats the emerging discipline of soft computing, which exploits this data through tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty to achieve solutions for complex problems.