Böcker utgivna av IGI Global

Presents the technological foundation, recent research findings, developments, and critical issues associated with blockchain technology from both computer science and social science perspectives. The book features a range of topics, including artificial intelligence, digital economy, and network technology.

Explores the relevance and necessity of strategic leadership in PK-12 settings, and discusses correlates that connect strategic leadership in education in order to achieve positive outcomes in student achievement. The book highlights a range of topics, including curriculum design, personalized learning, and special education.

Examines the strategies that women across class and cultural groups use and the struggles they face in order to become successful in professional fields, including business, politics, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The book highlights a range of topics, including higher education, workplace perceptions, and information literacy.

Provides relevant teacher initiated theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in English language teaching that promote English as the tool for global integration and communication. The book highlights a range of topics, including curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher education.

Covers a spectrum of intelligent applications of the IoT in parking, traffic management, waste management, lighting, air pollution control, healthcare, weather tracking, retail, and other areas calling for automation. The book covers a wide range of topics, including e-commerce, security management, and web infrastructure.

Summarizes existing research on inclusive practices globally while presenting emerging research and opportunities for cementing change in inclusive teacher education locally, including examples of how inclusive practices are integrated in and adapted to diverse cultural contexts.

Offers guidance in using social media in academic libraries and in instruction with a special emphasis on assessment and evidence-based practice. Featuring research on topics such as digital libraries, marketing, and web analytics, this book is designed for librarians, administrators, educators, managers, IT specialists, researchers, and students.

Presents research on the methods and applications of mobile technologies in learning and training and explores best practices of mobile learning in organisations and the workplace. The book highlights a range of topics, including ethics, informal education, and virtual reality.

Presents innovative research that explores new methods and techniques for achieving reliable and efficient communication in recent applications, including machine learning, network optimization, adaptive methods, and smart algorithms and protocols. Topics covered include artificial intelligence, sensor networks, and mobile network architectures.

Explores unified campaigns and how they can help to make the economy globally competitive and sustainable through their impact on innovation, production, generating revenue, and increasing employability and quality of life. The book covers a wide array of topics, including customer value, digital innovation, and social innovation.

Explores methods for reducing waste and cutting food loss in order to help the environment and support local communities, as well as solve issues including that of land space. The book covers topics including food degradation, enzymes, and microorganisms.

Explores the development of sustainable city models based on investments in eco-oriented solutions by protecting and making publicly available green areas, and by innovative investments with the use of bioeconomical solutions. The book features research on topics such as bioeconomy vision, environmental education, and rural planning.

Examines the concepts of imagination and creativity, as well as responsible management practices, and their application to the development and use of innovative technologies. This book aims to help readers understand the importance of continuously developing their cognitive skills and to remain responsible and accountable in the new digital era.

Explores innovative activities focusing on the integration between data warehousing and data mining, with an emphasis on the applicability to real-world problems. Featuring a range of topics such as index structures, ontology, and user behaviour, this book is designed for researchers, professionals, computer scientists, academics, and managers.

Provides comprehensive research into the effects of the #MeToo movement on institutions and organisations with a significant religious basis. Readers will gain insights and tools for improving social conditions in their personal lives, in places of worship, in organizations, and in academic or other institutional environments.

Examines technological methods and technical means that ensure the organisation of production of various products and adapts them for application in small-scale production. Additionally, the book seeks to organise an efficient production process in the face of energy resource scarcity and emphasizes the need to rationally use them.

Presents innovative research that explores the recent FinTech initiative in ASEAN with respect to its process, strategies, challenges, and outcomes and highlights new business models, products, and services that affect financial markets and institutions and the provision of financial services.

Investigates how interior design models can transform existing spaces into more flexible and functional housing units while also increasing the functional value and spatial quality of living spaces in social housing. The book specifically discusses how genetic algorithms, a generative design approach, are used to solve nonlinear design problems.

Explores issues and challenges faced by women and provides guidance for organisations in developing strategic initiatives to involve women in decision-making processes and improve women's wellbeing in the workplace. The book covers macro (socio-economic) and micro-level (organisational) issues in relation to women's positions at work.

Provides a unified platform for the dissemination of basic and applied knowledge about additive manufacturing. The book carefully examines how additive manufacturing is increasingly being used in series production, giving those in the most varied sectors of industry the opportunity to create a distinctive profile for themselves.

Examines the use of fuzzy expert systems for prediction and problem solving in the agricultural industry. Featuring research on topics such as nutrition management, sustainable agriculture, and defuzzification, this book is designed for farmers, researchers, scientists, academics, students, policymakers, and development practitioners.

Addresses applications of technology use and digital competence development in education systems around the world including both specific uses in classrooms and broader uses in national and regional policies. The book is designed for educators, administrators, policymakers, managers, politicians, and academics.

Explores frameworks and models for teaching cybersecurity literacy in order to deliver effective training and compliance to organisational staff so that they have a clear understanding of what security education is, the elements required to achieve it, and the means by which to link it to the wider goal of good security behaviour.

Provides vital insights into basic legal and technical topics and challenges that occur while planning and conducting typical space activities. The book uses high-profile space missions as examples and highlights the major technical aspects of these missions and the legal issues applied to these missions.

Addresses the need for a scholarly exploration of the cultural and social impacts of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in the field of education, including potential consequences these impacts could have on culture, social relations, and values. The book covers such topics as ethics, critical thinking, and augmented intelligence.

Examines applications of artificial intelligence in agriculture and the main uses of shape analysis on agricultural products such as relationships between form and genetics, adaptation, product characteristics, and product sorting. Additionally, the book provides insights developed through computer vision techniques.

Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of computational intelligence and the Internet of Things. Featuring research on topics such as data analytics, machine learning, and neural networks, this book is designed for IT specialists, managers, professionals, researchers, and academics.

Examines environmentally conscious technologies and their applications in advancing retrofitting practices. Providing relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area, the book highlights an array of topics such as climate change, energy management, and optimization modelling.

Addresses changes wrought by Industry 4.0 and its effects on project management as well as adaptations and adjustments that will need to be made within project life cycles and project risk management. The book highlights a range of topics, including agile planning, cloud projects, and organisation structure.

Discusses the analysis of the role of myth and mythical thinking in the operation of media organisations and their functioning on the media market. Featuring research on topics such as social media, brand management, and advertising, this book is ained at everyone involved with media and new media management.