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Explores the issues educators, administrators, and instructional designers face when transferring knowledge and skills to other cultures through e-learning. This book presents a perspective of culture and e-learning issues, implications of cultural differences in online education, and the challenges to implementing e-learning in other countries.

Provides research into the advancement, productivity, and performance of the end user computing domain.

Knowledge management has been growing in importance and popularity as a research topic and business initiative. This book documents the key issues of knowledge management and serves as an useful resource for academicians, practitioners, researchers, and students.

Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (KDD) is dedicated to exploring meaningful information from a large volume of data. Intended for researchers and data mining practitioners, this title presents experiences and methodologies, providing theoretical and empirical guidance to users who have suffered from underlying, low-quality data.

Focuses on formalizing the solution element of patterns, providing tangible benefits to pattern users, researchers, scholars, academics, practitioners and students working in the field of design patterns and software reuse. The book explains details on several specification languages, allowing readers to choose the most suitable formal technique to solve their specific inquiries.

Agile methods are a collection of different techniques and practices that share the same values and basic principles. This title provides coverage of the important concepts, issues, trends, and technologies in agile software. It presents the research and instruction used to develop and implement software quickly.

Provides information on the various linguistic, cultural, technological, legal, and other factors that affect interactions in online exchanges within the global age. This book proposes information that implements effective decisions related to the uses and designs of online media when interacting with individuals from other cultures.

Includes issues related to simulation, such as: Web-based simulation, virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.

Bridges two fields that are closely related, but are often studied in isolation: enterprise modeling and information systems modeling. This book shows both the potential and the limit of using UML in an enterprise modeling context and a spectrum of ideas for aligning the development of information systems with the management of an enterprise.

Many techniques, algorithms, protocols and tools have been developed in the different aspects of cyber-security. This book focuses on architectures and protocols, while bringing together the understanding of security problems related to the protocols and applications of the Internet, and the contemporary solutions to these problems.

Provides a view of the solutions for mining and covers mining patterns, mining patterns under constraints, kinds of complex data, and real-world applications of these concepts.

Describes issues in business strategy and public policy rising from digital convergence. This book provides the descriptions of mobile communications, broadband networks, and digital multimedia broadcast services. It talks about the business opportunities generated by digital convergence, and raises governance issues caused by this union.

Information systems are shaped by the environment in which they operate. This title explains how e-procurement is shaped in emerging economies. It presents issues such as legal, technical, cultural and social analysis on e-procurement, and offers technical and managerial solutions to professionals in different emerging economies and industries.

Addresses various aspects of building secure e-government architectures and services, and presents the views of experts from academia, policy, and the industry to conclude that secure e-government Web services can be deployed in an application-centric and interoperable way. This work presents the promising area of Web services.

Discusses stepwise regression modeling, case-based reasoning, and classification and regression trees; helping small web development companies improve their cost estimation process.

Presents research efforts in artificial intelligence about building artificial systems capable of performing cognitive tasks. This book offers contributions from researchers with different backgrounds applying diverse perspectives in cognitive processes modeling and simulation, and brings forth an important discussion in artificial intelligence.

Compiles advanced research results focusing on architecture and modeling issues of multi-agent systems. This book serves as a reference for further research on system models, architectural design languages, formal methods and reasoning.

Provides a working knowledge of the major security issues affecting enterprise IT activities. This book examines multiple techniques, strategies, and applications and presents the tools to address opportunities in the field. It is a reference for IT managers, network administrators, researchers, and students.

Emphasizes the need to consider the geographic, historic, and cultural context of an information communication technology (ICT) for development initiative. This work includes several real examples that show some of the key success factors that have to be taken into consideration when using ICTs for development. It is a tool for practitioners.

The nature of governance is rapidly changing, due to fresh technologies which expand public sector capabilities. This title examines the most important dimensions of managing information technology in the public sector.

Proposes the mark-up of content on the Web using formal ontologies that structure underlying data for the purpose of comprehensive and transportable machine understanding. This book helps study, understand, and explore the theory, tools, and applications of the Semantic Web.

Covers real-world applications, such as computational biology, text categorization, time series prediction, interpolation, system identification, speech recognition, image de-noising, image coding, classification, and segmentation. This work presents chapters dedicated to adaptation and use of kernel methods.

Based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology. This book also presents several perspectives that influence IS/IT strategy work.

Discusses the range of contemporary research topics such as computer modeling, geometry, geoprocessing, and geographic information systems. This book covers geoinformatics related issues, trends, theories, technologies, and applications.

Providing end user computing information, this collection includes empirical and theoretical research concerned with various aspects of end user computing, including development, utilization, and management. It also features the research findings dealing with end user computing concepts, issues, and trends.

Featuring case studies and practical examples, this book illustrates how organizations worldwide can apply strategies for supply chain implementation. It shows readers how to develop a supply chain strategy and implementation plan and use it to gain an advantage in the 21st century competitive marketplace.

Identifies unifying concepts in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), providing a comprehensive treatment of collaborative GIS focusing on system design, group spatial planning and mapping, Internet and wireless applications, and more. This book is of interest to academic researchers, planners and policy makers, and graduate students.