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Digital technologies maintain an important tool in today's business economy. As the economy continues to change, businesses seek out solutions in order to enhance and develop their organisation. Bringing together the classic economy theory and the developments of new technology, this book provides research on current innovations in the digital economy.

Our social, educational, professional, and political ethics play a significant role in every aspect of our life. As technology continues to influence our society, these principles needs to be valued. This highlights the innovations and developments in the ethical features of technology in society. It brings together research in the areas of computer, engineering, and biotechnical ethics.

Highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates. This comprehensive collection brings together research for practitioners and researchers interested in the uses of information technology in crisis management.

Brings together research from practitioners on the development, use, and importance of information technology in order to achieve organizational performance. This comprehensive collection is useful for academicians, scholars, researchers and other industry professionals to provide an understanding of strategy and use of information systems in organizations and entities.

Discusses a broad range of topics in order to advance handheld knowledge and apply the proposed methods to real-world issues for organizations and end users. This book brings together researchers and practitioners involved with mobile and handheld computing solutions useful for IT students, researchers, and scholars.

Presents innovative research on the integration of embedded systems, real-time systems and the developments towards multimedia technology. This book is essential for researchers, practitioners, scientists, and IT professionals interested in expanding their knowledge of this interdisciplinary field.

Discusses the challenges faced in building web services and integrating applications in order to reach the successful benefits web portals bring to an organization. This collection of research aims to be a resource for researchers, developers, and industry practitioners involved in the technological, business, organizational and social dimensions of web portals.

Highlights theories and technological growth in applied research as well as advances in logistics, supply chains, and industry experiences. Aiming to enhance the expansions made towards an efficient and sustainable economy, this book is essential for providing researchers, practitioners and academicians with insight into a wide range of topics.

An understanding of ICT implementation in regards to social enterprise is crucial for effectiveness. This provides research on the understanding of ICT in the social enterprise field as it emerges as a major component of both business model and developed economy. This reference source focuses on the role of information communication technology as it promotes the development of the social sector.

As computer technologies continue to evolve and new security threats emerge, secure-aware software developments are essential in the software engineering field. This title provides innovative ideas and methods on the development, operation, and maintenance of secure software systems and aims to highlight the construction of a functional software system and a secure system simultaneously.

Presents a collection of knowledge on the developments and approaches of mobile educational technology. Bringing together points of view from both technological and pedagogical practices, this book aims to enhance interest in nontraditional approaches to learning.

This comprehensive reference source is a collection of education cases which investigate transcultural education using theoretical aspects and practical applications inside a technological framework. It aims to be a reference for university professors, students, and researchers alike. Our differences in language, cultures, and history around the world play a vital role in the way we learn.

Provides widespread coverage and discussions on the methods and techniques of diagnosis and prognosis systems. Including practical examples to display the method's effectiveness in real-world applications as well as the latest trends and research, this reference source aims to introduce fundamental theory and practice for system diagnosis and prognosis.

Presents relevant theoretical frameworks and most recent research findings in this area. This extensive collection of works provides significant theories for research students and scholars to carry out their continuous research as well as practitioners who aim to improve upon their understanding of distributed production planning.

Features a comprehensive collection of research provided by leading experts in both academia and industries. This leading reference source provides state-of-the- art development on RFID and its contents will be of the upmost use to students and researchers at all levels as well as technologists, planners, and policy makers. RFID technology is progressing into a new phase of development.

This is a collection of research provided by academics and scholars aiming to introduce important advances in areas such as artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, neural networks, and much more. This scholarly piece will provide contributions that will define the line of development in complexity science.

Presents scientific, theoretical, and practical insight on the software and technology of social networks and the factors that boost communicability. By highlighting different disciplines in the computer and social sciences, this reference is essential for practitioners, researchers, and scholars invested in the current studies, as well as for future generations in the field of ICT.

As technology continues to play a vital role in our everyday lives, advances in human-computer interaction studies embrace ubiquitous computing as a tool for information processing to evolve into the human environment. This provides the global applications and efforts in building and applying pervasive and ubiquitous computer technology.

Studying the biological systems and applying the findings to the structure of computational vision models and artificial vision systems aims to be an essential approach of advancing the field of machine vision. This title provides interdisciplinary research which evaluates the performance of machine visual models and systems in comparison to biological systems.

Through the application of information architecture principles, the development of a comprehensible strategic planning process and a useable planning document together will provide an effective solution to any business's strategic planning problems. This title describes the principles of IT architecture to develop the creation of an information model of business strategic requirements.

Although good devices exist for presenting visual and auditory sensations, there has yet to be a device for presenting olfactory stimulus. Nevertheless, the area for smell presentation continues to evolve and smell presentation in multimedia is not unlikely in the future. This title provides the opportunity to learn about olfactory displays and its odour reproduction.

The shift from traditional procedures to the dynamics of chaos and complexity theory has resulted in a new element of complexity thinking allowing for a greater capability for analysing and understanding key business processes. This title explores chaos and complexity theory and its relationship with the understanding of the natural chaos in the business environment.