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Describes comprehensive and fundamental aspects of object-oriented data modeling and implementation in Oracle. It discusses the complete cycle of database design using object-oriented concepts, implementation of object-relational Oracle, and data manipulations using member procedures/functions and object-relational queries.

Provides an understanding of the various aspects of performance testing in relation to the different phases of the software development life cycle. This book illustrates the various facets of application performance. It applies a practical approach to making appropriate choices of tools and project management for performance testing.

Provides readers with an instructive insight into the complex process of ERP implementation in a global company. This book describes the issues, problems, and challenges of ERP execution, as well as the strategies companies use to react to and resolve them successfully.

Reviews the state of handheld computing technology and application development.

Explores the aspects of the rapid progress of mobile multimedia communication fundamentals, modern mobile multimedia communication features such as wireless and mobile multimedia protocols.

Provides a view of the possibilities and challenges facing online educators and evaluators in the 21st Century. This book uses established evaluation principles to employ new tools in evaluation systems that support stakeholders, clarify values and definitions of the evaluation methods, and refresh readers' memories of contexts and backgrounds.

Offers an understanding of the infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and technology studies. This book contains practical advice for the design of appropriate technological solutions, and long range assessments of the prospects for change useful both to policy makers and those implementing institutional infrastructures.

Provides a foundation in digital accounting by covering fundamental topics such as, accounting software, XBRL, and EDI. The effects of the Internet and ERP on accounting are classified and presented for each accounting cycle, along with a discussion of online controls.

Provides insights into the successes and challenges faced by development project implementers around the world. This book includes methodologies, technological constraints, implementation challenges, and sustainability issues of different projects, focusing on the empowerment of marginal communities.

Reviews several strands of modern artificial intelligence - using case studies for each to display how they may be applied to computer games.

Provides readers with an understanding of the field of e-learning, and advises them on the issues that are critical to the success of a meaningful e-learning environment. This book walks you through the various factors critical to developing, evaluating and implementing e-learning.

Provides descriptions of the principles that guide the development of a learning environment, while also providing examples across a wide range of discipline areas. The book presents the challenges and successes of the approach, and the authors relate the design of their learning environments to both discipline-based and situated theory.

From E-business to mobile database developments, this volume explores the emerging area of mobile commerce, the technologies that are facilitating this new sales interface and possible applications that we may see in the near future.

Provides critical analyses of Knowledge Management (KM) in higher education, with an emphasis on unintended consequences and future implications, using various social science perspectives. While most books on KM focus on functional issues relating to implementation of KM techniques, this book addresses the social aspects that are largely ignored.

A reference work that provides comprehensive coverage of the issues, methods, and theories that define the converging worlds of literacy and technology at the pre-collegiate level. This handbook details the needs of teachers, researchers, and scholars through state-of-the-art perspectives, exposing them to new ideas and developments.

This book provides a record of current research and practical applications in Web searching. It includes techniques that will improve the utilization of the Web by the design of Websites, as well as the design and application of search agents.

This volume provides a comprehensive review and in-depth understanding of ERP/SAP and addresses some of the issues relating to the successful implementation of ERP/SAP systems.

Knowledge Management in the Construction Industry: A Socio-Technical Perspective presents a portfolio of concepts, methods, models, and tools supported by real life case studies from various corners of the globe providing insights into the management of knowledge in the construction industry. Untangling the hype from the reality, practical means of implementing knowledge management in the construction industry through various mechanisms and tools are demonstrated. For the practitioner, it provides practical insights and experiences from real life cases, for the researcher and academic, it provides current and state-of-the-art undertakings in this emerging area for the construction industry.

This book is written around two theses: that business process improvement can itself be improved by using IT; and that process improvement affects organizational knowledge sharing in a non-linear way. The use of e-collaboration technologies can boost this influence by increasing the breadth and speed of knowledge dissemination in organizations.

Provides lessons learned from examples of knowledge management applications in a variety of organizational and global settings. Many KM issues are explored, including issues associated with building a KMS, organizational culture and its effect on knowledge capture, sharing, re-use, strategy, and implementation of KM initiatives and a KMS.

This work should be of use for practitioners and researchers as it brings together in a single volume a variety of research and practice on the subject of virtual and collaborative teams. Some challenges faced include geographic distance, lack of social presence, and lack of adequate training.

A resource for researchers and practioners working in the area of online collaborative learning, particularly in tertiary education. Articles on theory and practice are included that attempt to answer questions such as: what are the benefits and what problems can be expected?

Information systems pose unique challenges for technical professionals, taught to think in terms of logic, structure and flows. This book focuses on the human impact of information systems, including ethical challenges, social implications, legal issues and unintended costs and consequences.

This work shows that IT governance consists of the leadership and organizational structures, processes and relational mechanisms that ensure that the organization's IT sustains and extends the organization's strategy and objectives. It records and interprets some important existing theories.

Multimedia systems and content-based image retrieval are important areas of research in computer technology. These areas change our lifestyles because they cover creation, maintenance and retrieval of video, audio, image, and graphic data. This work covers the unresolved issues in these areas.

This text should be of interest to those responsible for the management of major change within organizations, and provides the theories and values that should be adhered to in order to achieve that change successfully and effectively.

Discusses advances in the area of educational technology and e-learning. This book is suitable for practitioners, researchers, and academicians with an interest in the use of the Web for providing meaningful learning experiences.

Presents a multifaceted, global view of the human dynamics of education, supply, demand, and career development in the information systems and technology industry.

Discusses research on the role of the instructor in computer-supported collaborative learning, real-world perspectives on virtual learning group collaboration, and supporting learning group motivation.

Discusses a variety of online instructional models and best practices focusing on the theoretical and practical aspects of online learning.