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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition

IGI Global, 2017

In recent years, our world has experienced a profound shift and progression in available computing and knowledge sharing innovations. These emerging advancements have developed at a rapid pace, disseminating into and affecting numerous aspects of contemporary society. This has created a pivotal need for an innovative compendium encompassing...

Innovative Knowledge Management: Concepts for Organizational Creativity and Collaborative Design (Premier Reference Source)

IGI Global, 2010

The purpose of this book is to collect and to present the results of theoretical and empirical research into various aspects of Knowledge Management (KM), innovation and, especially, the conjunction of KM and innovation. To this end, chapters are included from both academics and practitioners, and the contributions represent...

Advances in Computer-Supported Learning

IGI Global, 2006

The Internet and growth of computer networks have eliminated geographic barriers, creating an environment where education can be brought to a student no matter where that student may be. The success of distance learning programs and the availability of many Web-supported applications and multimedia resources have increased the effectiveness of...

Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Intelligent Information Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications

IGI Global, 2006

For most of our history the wealth of a nation was limited by the size and stamina of the work force. Today, national wealth is measured in intellectual capital. Nations possessing skillful people in such diverse areas as science, medicine, business, and engineering produce innovations that drive the nation to a higher quality of life. Artificial...

Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities

IGI Global, 2006

The Web has rapidly become more and more pervasive in almost everybody’s lives. There are many daily activities that can be performed much more comfortably online. There are also daily activities that cannot be performed without using the Web. Much of the power of the Web comes from the fact that it presents information in a variety of...

Integrating Security and Software Engineering: Advances and Future Vision

IGI Global, 2006

Protecting valuable assets from intentional harm has been a focus of human activity from time immemorial. The proliferation of computers in society has meant that many business and mission critical assets are increasingly stored and manipulated by computer-based systems. The scale of misuse of these assets has also increased, because of their...

Hybrid Algorithms for Service, Computing and Manufacturing Systems: Routing and Scheduling Solutions

IGI Global, 2011

In a global, highly competitive environment, organizations face increasing economic pressure and customer demands for more complex products and services. Hybrid algorithms have the potential to play an important role in helping organizations achieve cost reduction and increased product development.

Hybrid Algorithms...

Enterprise Modeling and Computing With UML

IGI Global, 2006

This book is important: I will tell you why. I will also say a few words about me so that you get an idea of this person advising you on how to spend your time. Finally, I will outline my wishes about the direction I would like the future research on enterprise modeling to take.

In general terms, this book is focused on tools for the...

Agile Software Development Quality Assurance

IGI Global, 2007

After spending the summer north of the Arctic Circle, basking in the midnight sun and the warmest weather for over 100 years in Finland, I was especially happy to find this book sitting on my desk waiting to be read. Although there is no shortage of books on agile methodologies and practices, something had been missing. The concept of quality is...

Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation

IGI Global, 2007

The Semantic Web vision of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is comprised of four primary components: (1) expressing meaning, (2) knowledge representation, (3) ontology, and (4) agents. Expression of meaning is fundamental to the construction of the new “intelligent” Web. The current Web lacks mechanisms for expressing meaning and is...

Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies

IGI Global, 2006

The Web revolution currently under way is making the Internet more and more central to our everyday lives. The amount of information available on the Web is increasing at an enormous rate, and almost everyday new services become available. The Internet is now widely used not only for B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer)...

Intelligent Assistant Systems: Concepts, Techniques and Technologies

IGI Global, 2006

Information is becoming the raw material of modern society. That “difference that makes a difference” (Bateson, 1979) is the driving force of modern service industry. Our information spaces have been technologized and their size as well as their complexity increased. Access to information spaces and the capability to use them...

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