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Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology

Business Science, 2009

The information economy continues to challenge businesses in many ways with information technologies and globalization leading to blurred the organizational boundaries. Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology provides greater understanding of issues, challenges,...

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (Volume 1)

Microsoft Press, 2009

This book presents the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science, with the goal of influencing the worldwide scientific and computing research communities and inspiring the next generation of scientists. Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers...

Behavioral Biometrics For Human Identification: Intelligent Applications (Premier Reference Source)

Medical Information Science Reference, 2009

Automatic biometrics recognition techniques are becoming increasingly important in corporate and public security systems and have increased in methods due to rapid field development. Behavioral Biometrics for Human Identification: Intelligent Applications discusses classic behavioral biometrics as well as collects the latest...

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

Springer, 2010

The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions originating beyond the West, but of the West’s own traditions.

This is the first collection of...

The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on...

Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art

Nonstop Press, 2008

This collection of art and essays, by the best of todays science fiction and fantasy artists, presents candid opinions behind the revolution now taking place in the field. Are computers creating a seismic shift in the creation of sfandf art, or are they just another tool in the artists paint box?

I was there the day the commercial art...

Web-based Supply Chain Management and Digital Signal Processing: Methods for Effective Information Administration and Transmission

Business Science, 2009

Digital signal processing is now a growing area of study invading all walks of organizational life, from consumer products to database management. Web-Based Supply Chain Management and Digital Signal Processing: Methods for Effective Information Administration and Transmission presents trends and techniques for successful...

Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments: Processes and Interactions

Information Science Publishing, 2009

As emerging technologies increase the potential for constructivist learning processes and responses, it is critical that educational researchers, instructional designers, cognitive scientists, and information scientists become more aware of advances in these correlating fields. Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments:...

Web-Based Applications in Healthcare and Biomedicine (Annals of Information Systems)

Springer, 2009

This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies. Healthcare and biomedical organizations are undergoing major transformations to...

Interest Rates and Coupon Bonds in Quantum Finance

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The economic crisis of 2008 has shown that the capital markets need new theoretical and mathematical concepts to describe and price financial instruments. Focusing almost exclusively on interest rates and coupon bonds, this book does not employ stochastic calculus - the bedrock of the present day mathematical finance - for any of the derivations....

Algorithmic Adventures: From Knowledge to Magic

Springer, 2009

The public image of computer science does not reflect its true nature. The general public and especially high school students identify computer science with a computer driving license. They think that studying computer science is not a challenge, and that anybody can learn it. Computer science is not considered a scientific discipline but a...

Information Processing and Security Systems

Springer, 2005

Information Processing and Security Systems is a collection of forty papers that were originally presented at an international multi-conference on Advanced Computer Systems (ACS) and Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM) held in Elk, Poland. This volume describes the latest developments in...

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