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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 principals to produce economical and reliable software, to software development tools and methods promised to simplify software development while improving accuracy and speed, tools have evolved that use computer graphics to represent concepts that gen...

Managing Multimedia Semantics" effectively ties together current approaches and future trends in managing multimedia semantics. In one comprehensive volume, this book assembles research problems, theoretical frameworks, tools, and technologies required for designing multimedia information systems.

This book describes comprehensive and fundamental aspects of object-oriented data modeling and implementation in Oracle. It covers the implementation and structural aspects of an object model, including object types, collection types, object referencing, nesting tables, and inheritance structures, as well as the behavioral aspects including encapsulating member procedures and functions.

Written from an international perspective, this book provides a practical, insightful, and comprehensive guide for both brick-and-mortar and dot-com companies to address the challenges of building and managing productive e-partnerships through a systematic inquiry into the nature and processes of e-partnering.

Draws from emerging knowledge-flow theory to provide stable principles on which to build a practice of knowledge management. This book provides 30 principles on which to base the important decisions and actions in an organization: harnessing knowledge dynamics. It also provides also 30 leadership mandates.

Information technology has produced ethical challenges and concerns in dealing with issues about privacy, security, piracy and professional ethics. This book discusses these issues as well as other important ethical issues such as the outsourcing of high-level jobs and the value of IT itself.

Aimed to provide a source of high quality practical case studies of the planning, implementation and use of mobile and wireless data solutions in modern business, this book provides an analyses of business applications of mobile technologies that help the practitioner understand the nature of the technology and how its value can be best harnessed.

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 that healthcare executives are increasingly looking to merge as an opportunity to develop such systems.Web Mobile-Based Applications for Healthcare Management addresses the difficult task of managing admissions and waiting lists while ensuring a quick...

It is becoming increasingly common for governments to initiate online governments for efficient and effective programs, facilitating more accessible government services, allowing greater public access to information and participation, and making government more accountable to citizens. Latin American countries are in pursuit of electronic government. They aim to understand and implement these programs much like the global leaders in communicat...

Addressing the value and the skills that an IT project manager must have, this book uses these values in a new methodology based on agile manifesto. This methodology merges the mustbe of agile manifesto with the needs of a controlled development environment, like the capability maturity model, which deals with aspects related to UML formalism.

Deals with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation, and also business operations/processes and information systems to support business operations/processes. This book allows the reader to avoid problems of teaching separate fields, providing the opportunity to better educate students.

Presents a visualization of the nature, scope, objectives and difficulties of the decision making process. This book focuses on the discussion and solution of strategic decision making processes in a way that gives assistance to readers in this important area of business administration. It is useful to MBA students.

Provides an understanding of the various aspects of performance testing in relation to the different phases of the software development life cycle. This book illustrates the various facets of application performance. It applies a practical approach to making appropriate choices of tools and project management for performance testing.

Introduces a community health group to the potential of using a geographic information system (GIS) to improve birth outcomes. This book provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, and shows the importance of the four main components of a GIS. It also introduces the importance of GIS.

In order for an IT project to be successful, the basic definition of success needs to be extended to include meeting return on investment expectations, product quality, and security. This book describes and illustrates practices, procedures, methods, and tools for IT project management that address this extended definition of project success.

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, searching, and retrieving from collected databases of visual media. Building on research from over 30 leading experts from around the world, Semantic-Based Visual Information Retrieval presents state-of-the-art advancements and developments in the fiel...

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. This book provides theoretical frameworks and examines the latest empirical research findings in the area. It is a resource of possible solutions and technologies that can be applied when designing, implementing, and deploying a data warehouse, and assists in the dissemination of knowledge in this field.

This book investigates the interaction of technology and humans from a variety of viewpoints, presents technology assessment of software/hardware development, interaction, and conversion between technologies and their impact on society, and explores the phenomenology of e-government.

Develops a conceptual model for examining consumer adoption, usage, and impact of broadband utilizing various construct methodologies, thereby providing a window into the rational decisions of potential broadband consumers.

The intersection of politics, law, privacy, and security in the context of computer technology is both sensitive and complex. This title connects privacy and politics, offering a review of developments in computer security, with focus on the relevance and implications of global privacy, law, and politics for society, individuals, and corporations.