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Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry

IGI Global, 2007

Tourism is one of the leading industries worldwide. The magnitude of growth in tourism will bring both opportunities and problems to source and destination markets in years to come, especially in the internal and external exchange of information in the industry. Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry...

Business Strategies for Information Technology Management

IRM Press, 2003

This business guide presents theoretical and empirical research on the business value of information technology (IT) and introduces strategic opportunities for using IT management to increase organizational performance. Implementation management is addressed with attention to customer relationship outsourcing, decision support systems, and...

France and the World since 1870 (International Relations and the Great Powers)

Arnold, 2001

Here, John Keiger examines the subtle forces that have shaped France's international relations, from material aspects such as geography, demography, and economics, to more abstract features of France's national identity such as the notion of state and the impulse to spread French culture. The
first study of its kind in English, the book is...

Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists

Springer, 2006

Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians is a translation of a book that was published in Russia in 2001 and is based on articles that appeared from 1960–1980. The first edition of the book, less than half the size of the current one, was published in the Soviet Union in 1981 and in English in 1988. Thus the book has its own history, and I...

Linear and Nonlinear Programming: Third Edition (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2008

"Linear and Nonlinear Programming" is considered a classic textbook in Optimization. While it is a classic, it also reflects modern theoretical insights. These insights provide structure to what might otherwise be simply a collection of techniques and results, and this is valuable both as a means for learning existing material and for...

Internationalizing the Internet: The Co-evolution of Influence And Technology (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet’s adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure. The author...

Information Science

Princeton Press, 2006

From cell phones to Web portals, advances in information and communications technology have thrust society into an information age that is far-reaching, fast-moving, increasingly complex, and yet essential to modern life. Now, renowned scholar and author David Luenberger has produced Information Science, a text that distills and explains...

Designing a Not-for-Profit Compensation System

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Designing A Not-For-profit Compensation System

Until now, human resource and compensation professionals in the public/not-for-profit sector didn't have a compensation guidebook specifically for them. Unlike their for-profit counterparts, specialists in the not-for-profit sector wrestle with such questions as:

How is...

Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not: Economic and Strategic Management in Computing Markets

Imperial College Press, 2004

This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and management of information technology markets. The first part of the book focuses on events, notable birth dates and longstanding trends. The unifying theme revolves around the role of human economic behavior in the face of...

Information Operations Planning

Artech House Publishers, 2006

Information operations involve the use of military information and how it is gathered, manipulated, and fused. It includes such critical functions asintelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, command and control, communications, and precision navigation. Separating myth from reality, this authoritative resource provides military professionals with...

Turing (A Novel about Computation)

MIT Press, 2003

Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a...

Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co-Creation (Premier Reference)

IGI Global, 2007

Virtual teams constitute a relatively new knowledge area that has risen from two recent changes: the globalization of industry and markets, and advances in information communication technology tools. Continual technological advancement is set against a backdrop of international mergers, take-overs, and alliances, which invariably leads to more...

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