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Taking a holistic approach to the affects P2P Computing has on a number of disciplines, this book includes current articles from academics as well as IT practitioners and consultants from around the world. It addresses researchers and practitioners to a more thorough understanding of current P2P technologies and their emerging ramifications.

Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology provides an introduction to causal mapping for IS researchers and practitioners and goes further to provide IS researchers and practitioners everything they need to use causal mapping for both research and application.

This text emerges out of the need to share information and knowledge on the research and practices of using multimedia in various educational settings. It discusses issues relating to planning, designing and development of interactive multimedia, offering research data.

Introduces the reader to the world of spatial databases, and related subtopics. The broad range of topics includes spatial data modeling, indexing of spatial and spatiotemporal objects, data mining and knowledge discovery in spatial and spatiotemporal management issues and query processing for moving objects.

This book disseminates the research results and best practices from researchers and practitioners interested in and working on modelling methods and methodologies.

Recently, the emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the admission of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce, defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or information on the Internet through the use of mobile handheld devices. In just a few years, mobile commerce has emerged from nowhere to become the hottest new trend in business transactions. However, the prosperity and popularity of mobile commerce will be brought to a higher level only if information is securely and safely exchanged among end systems (mobile users and content providers). Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce includes high-quality research papers and industrial and practice articles in the areas of mobile commerce security and payment from academics and industrialists. It covers research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of mobile commerce security and payment.

This title provides a survey on approaches to information systems supporting sustainable development in the private or public sector. It also documents and encourages the first steps of environmental information processing towards this more comprehensive goal.

This text introduces the inter-organizational information system for managing inter-organizational activities of virtual organizations, extended enterprises and trans-enterprise systems.

In light of today's fast paced, globalised economy, there is an increasing need for organizations to produce products and use resources more effectively and efficiently. This book provides the tools and techniques for organizations to streamline their supply chains.

This volume aims to cover the areas of modeling and animating 3D synthetic human models at a level that is useful to students, researchers, software developers and content generators. It presents research-level, techniques for the analysis and synthesis of still and moving human bodies.

This work includes articles addressing the social, cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of e-commerce technologies and advances on organizations around the world. It covers the impact of e-commerce on consumer behaviour, organizational behaviour, and development.

Anabela Sarmento looks at issues related to human-computer interaction and end user computing, as well as issues related to the human side of IT. She emphasises the role of IT as facilitator of social relationships, so enabling the development of the organizational and individual intelligence.

Addressing critical architectural issues in constructing m-commerce applications and in applying mobile technologies in different areas, this book includes: methodologies, enabling technologies, models, paradigms, architecture, standards and innovations.

Providing a combination of the conceptual and practical aspects of knowledge management, this book demonstrates how this management approach can be effectively used. Everyday examples are provided to encourage its practical application within organizations.

Addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with information and communication technologies (ICTs) as related to education. This book discusses how innovative ICT models can assist student needs and keep universities in the competitive marketplace of online learning.

This text brings together essays on organizational learning, knowledge workers, intellectual capital and virtual teams. It includes the methodologies, systems and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge-based organizations in the 21st century.

Virtual schools are a result of widespread changes in knowledge about learning, in available technology and in society. This work brings together knowledge of virtual schools as a reference, and reviews best practice from concept and development, through implementation and evaluation.

This work offers guidance on how the traditional instructional system has been used and how it must be changed to work within other systems. Each chapter includes a case study showing how the application of ID strategies and systems theory are adapted and applied in various environments.

To select the right information and communication technology (ICT) tools for competitive intelligence (CI), an organization needs to understand he role of ICT in the CI process. This work addresses this need, and sets out the role of ICT in the intelligence activities from different perspectives.

This work aims at tying trust to knowledge management (KM). It highlights the complexity of the invisible phenomenon of trust challenged by the global economy, and explores the multidisciplinary nature of the concepts of trust and KM.

Addresses several issues pertaining to the development and design of online courses, and the implementation and evaluation of an online learning programme. The contributions by Temple University administrators and faculty give a comprehensive overview.

A study of the socio-technical and human cognition elements of information systems. It brings together chapters from Europe, Australasia, Canada and the Americas, and presents information management not as technology influenced by people, but as fundamentally a people-centred domain.

Includes original material concerned with all aspects of global information management in three areas: global information systems in business functions; information technology in specific regions of the world; and management of global information resources and applications.

This text presents knowledge about Decision-Making Support Systems (DMSS). It aims to spread knowledge about methods and strategies for designing, developing, implementing and evaluating DMSSs, and to create an awareness about the relevance of DMSS in the dynamic management environment.

Documents real-world experiences of innovators in higher education who have redesigned spaces for learning and teaching. The redefined spaces encompass a broader range of physical, virtual, formal, informal, blended, flexible, and time sensitive factors.

Provides broad coverage of technical and socio-economic perspectives for utilizing information and communication technologies and developing practical solutions in cyber security, cyber crime, and cyber forensics.

Provides a focused assessment of the peculiarities of online collaborative learning processes by looking at the strategies, methods, and techniques used to support and enhance debate and exchange among peers. It reviews issues from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint and includes methodological contributions as well as perspectives on real experiences.

Provides information about open source products used in each phase of the mobile learning. Comparison of popular open source products and their usability in a mobile learning system is given in selected chapters. The book also presents possible solutions to the challenges encountered in the mobile learning system construction, management, and course material development.