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Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance addresses the recent developments of systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to...

Provides research papers and industrial practice articles in the areas of information security in the financial service industry. This work also offers insight into information security measures,...

The digital business world is undergoing phenomenal and sometimes turbulent changes. The digital economy has also seen the rise of entirely new businesses. Traditional 'bricks and mortar' businesses...

This title presents research in areas such as IT performance, electronic commerce Internet adoption, and IT planning methodoligies. It focuses on how these areas impact small businesses.Author:...

The nature of information technology work has changed dramatically in the past decade. The rise of the Internet has driven massive shifts in both what IT people are asked to do, and how they are...

This title provides the basic vocabulary and managerial framework for managing strategically the IT workforce at the firm level. It gives different perspectives on managing IT skills - how...

Currently, there is neither a commonly-accepted definition of information systems (IS) quality nor a convergence of perspectives on quality approaches. The IS community has focused on the various...

How can the contribution of IT to business performance be measured? This guide, by posing and answering key management questions, offers insights into the valuation of IT once it has been developed,...

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

With the increasing complexity of software systems and their widespread growth into many aspects of our lives, the need to search for new models, paradigms, and ultimately, technologies, to manage...

Strives to be the point of reference for the most important issues in the field of multidimensional databases. This book provides a brief history of the field and distinguishes between what is new in...

This work explores the myriad of issues regarding multimedia security. It covers various issues, including perceptual fidelity analysis, image, audio, and 3D mesh object watermarking, medical...

Multimedia systems and content-based image retrieval are important areas of research in computer technology. Numerous research works are being done in these fields at present. These two areas are...

Forecasting is one of the most important activities that form the basis for strategic, tactical, and operational decisions in all business organizations. Recently, neural networks have emerged as an...

In order to properly understand a field, a researcher has to first understand the accumulated knowledge of that field. Micro-architectural design has accumulated knowledge elements that are clearly...

This text presents learning and knowledge management from a point of view where the basic tools and applications are provided by open source technologies. It explains an intense orientation to the...

Focuses on the essentials of knowledge management, business intelligence, and smart business systems. This publication highlights the shortcomings of information systems. It explores a holistic...

Successfully competing in the new global economy requires immediate decision capability. This immediate decision capability requires quick analysis of both timely and relevant data. To support this...

Since the dawn of civilization, new technologies - from the plough to the locomotive to the computer - have transformed human lives. These changes have often been for the better, but occasionally for...

Covers various aspects of outsourcing and offshoring and the influences, challenges, and socio-economic impacts of this phenomenon. This book is useful to academicians, students, and business people...

Outsourcing is currently one of the hottest topics in business practices and in particular in the field of management information systems (MIS) education. Outsourcing Management Information Systems...

Peer to Peer Computing: The Evolution of Disruptive Technology takes a holistic approach to the affects P2P Computing has on a number a disciplines. Some of those areas covered within this book...

Practicing E-Government: A Global Perspective presents a variety of chapters covering many of the important topics in e-government, and is intended to elicit comments, raise concerns and open...

Reports on the advances in privacy protection issues and technologies for e-services, covering important material, such as: consumer empowerment, assessing privacy risks, and more. This book is...

In many decision support fields, the data that is exploited is becoming more and more complex. To take this phenomenon into account, classical architectures of data warehouses or data mining...

Written by academics and public administration practitioners, this book addresses general policy and administrative issues in this arena, as well as the information technology skills needed by public...

Public Management Information Systems provides public administrators with a map of the key actors and processes they need to be aware of if they are to be successful in making IT decisions in the...

Through case studies and practical examples, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: Strategies and Realities illustrates how organizations worldwide can apply strategies for supply chain...

The book brings together recent qualitative research studies in enterprise-wide implementations. The collection is useful as a teaching case for academia, a student reference and also for academics,...

This study seeks to help the information systems researcher determine which qualitative methods are most appropriate for addressing their particular research questions. The details of specific...