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3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body aims to cover the areas of modeling and animating 3D synthetic human models at a level that is useful to students,...

Hypermedia systems may be one of the most significant contributions to the Internet in recent years. This powerful new technology has revolutionized the delivery of e-content through the internet...

Business Processes: Operational Solutions for SAP Implementation deals with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation, and also business operations/processes and information systems...

The intersection of politics, law, privacy, and security in the context of computer technology is both sensitive and complex. Computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spy-ware, computer exploits,...

This title offers a conceptual model for examining consumer adoption, usage and impact of broadband, utilizing various construct methodologies, and thereby providing a clear window into the rational...

Information technology has produced new ethical challenges and concerns in dealing with issues about privacy, security, piracy and professional ethics. Contemporary Issues in Ethics and Information...

The IT explosion in our global society is creating challenges and opportunities for educators but in these times of budget cuts, the challenges become even greater. This work addresses the ongoing...

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data integration, data...

This text presents contemporary knowledge about Decision-Making Support Systems (DMSS). Its main goals are to help diffuse knowledge about effective methods and strategies for successfully designing,...

Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and ERP on Accounting provides a foundation in digital accounting by covering fundamental topics such as accounting software, XBRL (eXtensible Business...

Currently in a state of cultural transition, global society is moving from a literary society to digital one, adopting widespread use of advanced technologies such as the Internet and mobile devices...

E-Collaboration technologies are broadly defined as technologies that enable collaboration among individuals engaged in a common task. Examples of such technologies are Web-based chat tools,...

This text covers topics including CRM implementation across Internet and wireless channels; wireless cryptographic systems; mobile payments; negative critical incidents and quality attributes...

Health and medicinal informatics encompass a broad field that is rapidly developing in both its research and operational aspects. This book emphasizes issues dealing with the most recent innovations...

The successful implementation and deployment of Enterprise Resource Planning depends hinges on an organization's understanding of the complex and challenging issues involved in the process. And, the...

Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a geographic information system (GIS) to...

Harnessing Knowledge Dynamics: Principled Organizational Knowing & Learning draws from emerging knowledge-flow theory to provide stable principles on which to build a practice of knowledge management...

Describes enterprise-level information systems that businesses use to support their processes. This book provides a clear and simple framework to help software companies understand this experience,...

Organizations today realize that information systems must be managed. Management can no longer continue to introduce components into information systems without studying the effectiveness,...

The IT revolution has affected the entire world by producing an Internet-based, digital economy in which geographical distance and borders have become less of an obstacle to global trade. Thanks to...

Innovations of Knowledge Management highlights the broad range of topics that fall under the term knowledge management, thus emphasizing the large role knowledge management plays in organizations. As...

Advances in technology are making online learning a reality, but there are still many questions that need to be answered. Can traditional university do a good job of teaching online? What are the...

The performance testing of Web applications is not understood properly and no skill sets are available to address the challenges faced by practitioners. In addition, there is currently a lack of...

While the area of Intelligent Support Systems has experienced significant progress in the recent past, the advent of the Internet and World Wide Web has sparked a renewed interest in this area. There...

Internet use for business-to-business e-commerce is expected to grow at spectacular rates. Many experts feel that perceived lack of trust in e-commerce transactions on the Internet has contributed to...

Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services Solutions reminds readers that several attempts have been made to convince the world that DOT.COM was developed to take over businesses, and the...

Issues and Trends in Technology and Human InteractionAuthor: Bernd Carsten StahlPublisher: IRM PressPublication Date: Oct 31, 2006Number of Pages: 366 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

The book, discusses issues related to Human Computer Interaction and End User Computing, as well as issues related to the Human Side of IT. This book will help to set a framework of the social and...

It is becoming increasingly common for governments to initiate online governments for efficient and effective programs, facilitating more accessible government services, allowing greater public...

Governments around the world are now placing increasing importance upon the success of small business entrepreneurs and are providing increased resources to support this emphasis. The simple fact...