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In this technological era, failure to address application-layer fault-tolerance, a key ingredient to crafting truly dependable computer services, leaves the door open to unfortunate consequences in quality of service. This book increases awareness of the need for application-layer fault-tolerance (ALFT) through qualitative analysis of solutions.

Offers advancements in cognitive informatics and natural intelligence. This book covers the five areas of cognitive informatics, natural intelligence, autonomic computing, knowledge science, and relevant development. It is suitable for researchers, academicians, students, and practitioners.

Online collaboration is improving partnerships for organizations across the globe, strengthening existing relationships and creating new alliances. This book offers insights into the array of information management issues surrounding living and working in a global environment.

Contains research articles on e-business concepts, models, processes, services, and applications. This book covers topics that include e-CRM, e-business model, multi-channel management, e-health, m-commerce adoption, offshore outsourcing, and e-business innovation.

There is global spread of e-commerce technologies and rapid pace of organizational adoption of these technological advancements. This book covers contemporary issues, developments, and influences in e-commerce.

Offers an overview of the state of Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on organizations and educational institutions.

Highlights innovative technologies used for the design and implementation of developed e-commerce systems facilitating digital rights management and protection.

Helps readers understand e-commerce models and practices in less developed countries.

A seminal publication in the discipline of enterprise architecture (EA).

The broad, interdisciplinary field of technology and innovation management contains emergent boundaries as well as developing frameworks and theories. This book provides analysis of over 100 peer-reviewed articles that have had an impact on the multi-disciplinary field of technology and innovation management.

Presents the academic community with a broad range of international findings in online consumer protection. This book offers an understanding in the nature of online threats, consumer concerns, and techniques for online privacy protection.

Reviews trends and efforts in Web-based science instruction and evaluates contemporary philosophies and pedagogies of online science instruction.

Offers learning materials and guidance to geography teachers and others interested in electronic/online learning.

Offers guidelines, models, and techniques for improving software processes and products for small and medium enterprises. This book is intended for academics, scholars, and practitioners.

Provides coverage of the translation of language learning designs utilizing information communication technology in learning contexts. This book offers knowledge related to research on computer-enhanced language acquisition and learning. It is intended for researchers, scholars, students, and professionals.

Offers comprehensive definitions and explanations on topics such as firewalls, information warfare, encryption standards, and social and ethical concerns in enterprise security. This reference provides tools to combat the risk associated with technology.

Explores the utilization of urban technology to support knowledge city initiatives. This book provides scholars and practitioners with fundamental techniques and processes for the integration of information technologies and urban production.

Combines the fundamental methods, algorithms, and concepts of pervasive computing with innovations and solutions to emerging challenges.

Proposes a panorama of research on knowledge management while presenting a variety of viewpoints, approaches, and indications of the shared elements intended as the foundations of this field.

Offers both advanced and novice programmers with coverage of various issues in Java 3D. This book includes illustrations of essential keywords, syntax, and methods.

Bridges the knowledge between information technology planning, enterprise architecture, and IT portfolio management taking into account their financial impact. Suitable for IT professionals, researchers, and academicians, this book provides techniques and tools appropriate for building application portfolios and developing strategies.

Discusses developments in computational intelligence in areas such as forecasting, scheduling, production planning, inventory control, and aggregate planning.

Examines knowledge management strategies and their formulation and alignment with organizations' competitive business strategies.

Distance learning technologies have reshaped the diffusion of communication within the educational system. This book provides tactical uses of distance education technologies to assist instructors and researchers in their quest to provide a progressive, alternative approach to traditional education techniques.

Covers various semantic Web-enabled tools for the citizen, learner, organization, and business. This work includes real-world applications toward the development of the knowledge society and semantic Web issues, challenges and implications in each of the IS research streams.

Brings together real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology. This work includes cases that present a range of issues related to systems development, and more.

The growth of modern information technology has created a challenge in the organizational and managerial areas of IT. While technological advances often make tasks easier, the human side of a task is still affected. Cases on the Human Side of Information Technology provides many real-life examples of how organizations have handled human side issues in the overall utilization and management of IT. It presents information to assist educators and professionals in the implementation of strategies for the benefit of the company or organization.

Explores the full range of issues - moral, ethical, social, legal, and technological - involved in developing firm controls and best practices to secure the ever growing information infrastructure upon which societies and individuals depend.

Uses a flexible learning framework to explain the ways of creating a meaningful learning environment. This framework consists of eight factors - institutional, management, technological, pedagogical, ethical, interface design, resource support, and evaluation.

The emergence of the Internet allows millions of people to use a variety of electronic information retrieval systems, such as: digital libraries, Web search engines, online databases, and online public access catalogs. This work provides theoretical framework in understanding the nature of information retrieval.