Information Management category: 2540 books
Academic Search Engines
A Quantitative Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Academic Search Engines: intends to run through the current panorama of the academic search engines through a quantitative approach that analyses the reliability and consistence of these services. The objective is to describe the main characteristics of these engines, to highlight their advantages...
Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices
Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in...
by Nor Aziah Alias
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how ICT has...
Service Research and Innovation
Third Australian Symposium, ASSRI 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia, November 27-29, 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third Australian Symposium on Service Research and Innovation, ASSRI 2013, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in November 2013.
Overall, eight research papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They are multidisciplinary...
by Hessam S. Sarjoughian, Raphaël Duboz, Jean-Christophe Soulie
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This guide demonstrates how virtual build and test can be supported by the Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) simulation modeling formalism, and the System Entity Structure (SES) simulation model ontology. The book examines a wide variety of Systems of Systems (SoS) problems, ranging from...
by Martin De Saulles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The internet of things (IoT) has the potential to change how we live and work. It represents the next evolution of the computing revolution and will see the embedding of information and communication technologies within machines at home and in the workplace and across a broad range of industrial processes....
Advances in Enterprise Engineering X
6th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2016, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, May 30-June 3 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC), held in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, on May 30 - June 3, 2016. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing world. The participants...
by Susan Batley
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Following on from the first edition of this book, the second edition fills the gap between more complex theoretical texts and those books with a purely practical approach. The book looks at major library classification schemes in use in Europe, UK and the USA, and includes practical exercises to demonstrate...
Enterprise Interoperability VI
Interoperability for Agility, Resilience and Plasticity of Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
In 2007 INTEROP-VLab defined Enterprise Interoperability as “the ability of an enterprise system or application to interact with others at a low cost with a flexible approach”. Enterprise Interoperability VI brings together a peer reviewed selection of over 40 papers, ranging from academic research...
School Security
How to Build and Strengthen a School Safety Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
It seems that every day there’s a new story about a security lapse, emergency lock-down, or violent act taking place at a school somewhere in the United States. Today it’s simply inexcusable not to have adequate security measures in place—regardless of how safe you think your community may be....
by Michael Missbach, Josef Stelzel, Cameron Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book provides an introduction to the various facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies. It describes and discusses the latest developments and challenges and suitable solutions, and also outlines future trends where possible. To ensure that this book...
by Linda Frederiksen, Margaret Bean, Heidi Nance
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Written from a global perspective, this book reviews sharing of library resources on a global scale. With expanded discovery tools and massive digitization projects, the rich and extensive holdings of the world’s libraries are more visible now than at any time in the past. Advanced communication...
Cataloguing and Classification
An introduction to AACR2, RDA, DDC, LCC, LCSH and MARC 21 Standards
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Cataloguing and Classification introduces concepts and practices in cataloguing and classification, and common library standards. The book introduces and analyzes the principles and structures of library catalogues, including the application of AACR2, RDA, DDC, LCC, LCSH and MARC 21 standards, and...
by Keith J. Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The Myth and Magic of Library Systems not only defines what library systems are, but also provides guidance on how to run a library systems department. It is aimed at librarians or library administrations tasked with managing, or using, a library systems department.
This book focuses on different...