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Discusses the organizational implications of technological growth and advancement at an international level. Selections investigate within- and cross-cultural research, offshoring and outsourcing, and strategic decisions organizations make to succeed in a global environment.

Provides a link between theoretical research and Web engineering, presenting a more holistic approach to Internet serviceability. Containing analysis from leading international experts, this publication offers new insights on applications that enable or facilitate the development of usable Web systems.

Provides a central source of knowledge on MMIC development, containing research on theory, design, and practical approaches to integrated circuit devices. This will be of interest to researchers in industry and academia working in the areas of circuit design, integrated circuits, and RF and microwave as well as anyone with an interest in monolithic wireless device development.

Provides a sound understanding of the managerial implications of communities of practice, as well as their opportunities and limits for knowledge management. A defining body of research, this collection of international findings fosters innovation within management and assists organizations in the improvement of performance.

When applied to technologies development, collaboration often has a focus on user-centered design and rapid prototyping, with a strong people-orientation. This book covers a wide range of topics in collaboration, Web 2.0, and social computing, with a focus on technologies that impact the user experience.

Focuses on separation aspects and practices of engineering applications developers need to consider and implement. This reference provides academic researchers and industry practitioners, both reports and practices of engineering non-functional requirements in service-oriented architecture.

Knowledge management captures the right knowledge, to the right user, who in turn uses the knowledge to improve organizational or individual performance to increase effectiveness. This title collects and presents key research articles focused on identifying, defining, and measuring accomplishment in knowledge management.

Showcases event-based systems in real-world applications. This book provides professionals, researchers, and students in systems design with a compendium of applications in the field.

Presents various tools and applications addressing critical issues involved with information technology and Web engineering research. This book covers topics such as next-generation networks, XML query processing, and Semantic Web services.

Offers material that is concerned with various aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. This book helps in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management.

Explains bioinformatic methods for predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs), as well as data mining methods to mine or analyze various protein interaction networks. This book discovers underlying interaction mechanisms by studying intra-molecular features that form the common denominator of various PPIs.

Contains research trends used in digital simulations of teaching, surveying the uses of games and simulations in teacher education. This book helps solve problems in teaching and learning through introduction of the potential and benefits of practice with digital simulations.

Corporations across the globe are increasingly considering the importance of user experience and business process design in creation of Web information systems. This book provides an overview of modern Web application technologies useful to business designers.

Fresh technologies and concepts are constantly being developed within multimedia distribution. This title provides the research on secure multimedia content distribution, embracing a variety of aspects and providing a scientifically and scholarly sound treatment of the techniques to students, researchers, and academicians.

Organizational design plays a critical role in the development of complex multi-agent systems (MAS). This work brings together views and approaches from different communities including MAS, computational organizational simulation, social simulation, organizational theory, and cognitive science, to present the intersections of the different topics.

Presents a comprehensive and unified view of the some of the most innovative research findings for university professors, researchers, students, and industry professionals. This title shows the interactions between mobile networking, wireless communications, and ubiquitous computing.

The expectations of citizens in delivery of services by government institutions have increased. This book collects essential tools and alternative e-business strategies that can be incorporated into e-government solutions. It helps readers to examine issues and promote research initiatives to improve service delivery in e-government.

Nature is used as a source of inspiration for the development of new techniques for solving complex problems in various domains, from engineering to biology, with innovative adaptations under investigation. This title provides research findings, theoretical frameworks, and technologies of natural computing and artificial immune systems (AIS).

Since research on face recognition began in the 1960's, the field has rapidly widened to automated face analysis including face detection, facial gesture recognition, and facial expression recognition. This book provides theoretical background to understand the overall configuration and challenging problem of automated face analysis systems.

Covers theories and applications of neural networks with high-dimensional parameters such as complex-valued neural networks, quantum neural networks, quaternary neural networks, and Clifford neural networks. This book is suitable for graduate students, researchers and practitioners.

Intends to propose a comprehensive description of the needs that must be considered by IT engineers when designing technical assistance tools that can be used by disabled persons according to their specific motoric, visual, auditive, or psychic needs.

Offers a new approach towards managing the coordination of complex system development tasks. It combines a deep understanding of concrete, every-day conditions of the telecom industry with innovative theoretical development of the Activity Domain Theory (ADT).