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Managing multimedia semantics is a complex task because content creators and archivists describe and interpret semantics associated with the multimedia content in several ways, depending on the...

The fast expansion of popular Websites reinforces the importance of online strategic alliances through e-partnerships and their business successes. However, many e-business partnerships fail to...

Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities explores new business opportunities and critical issue related to mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G. This book...

The mobile services industry is going through a major transformation, which challenges many of the basic assumptions behind the existing business models. As the business paradigm shifts from...

Software quality is vitally important to the success of a business. A single undetected error or defect during the software development process could have disastrous consequences during a business...

Describes comprehensive and fundamental aspects of object-oriented data modeling and implementation in Oracle. It discusses the complete cycle of database design using object-oriented concepts,...

Over the last four decades, computer systems have required increasingly complex software development and maintenance support. The marriage of software engineering, the application of engineering...

In the past, project success has been defined too narrowly as simply meeting time and cost constraints for a given scope of work. However, in order for an IT project to be completely successful that...

Semantic-based visual information retrieval is one of the most challenging research directions of content-based visual information retrieval. It provides efficient tools for access, interaction,...

Skills for Managing Rapidly Changing IT Projects addresses management methodologies for projects that change rapidly in requirements and technology. These projects are most common among small to...

Strategic Alignment Process and Decision Support Systems: Theory and Case Studies presents a visualization of the nature, scope, objectives and difficulties of the overall decision making process...

Providing a source of high quality practical case studies of the planning, implementation & use of mobile & wireless data solutions in modern business, this book provides an analysis of business...

Video Data Management and Information Retrieval combines the two important areas of research within computer technology and presents them in comprehensive, easy to understand manner. Video Data...

Susan George explores the computer recognition of music notation, its interpretation & use within various application contexts. This includes research in the field of image processing & pen-based...

Web and Information Security consists of a collection of papers written by leading experts in the field that describe state-of-the-art topics pertaining to Web and information systems security. In...

Healthcare organizations are constantly designing effective systems aiming to help achieve customer satisfaction. Web-based and mobile-based technologies are two forms of information technologies...

During the past two decades, telecommunication and Web-enabled technologies have combined to create a new field of knowledge known as Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies. The main objective...

Wireless Information Highways provides an excellent introduction and balanced coverage of the most important topics related to the methodologies developed to support data management in asymmetric...