Industrial informatics as a field is currently expanding beyond improving the manufacture of goods to facilitating every aspect of the process, from after-market sales, to service production, sourcing, and e-maintenance, demonstrating the profound impact of informatics in modern society. This...

Although it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to regularly collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information, a definitive work on the behaviors, practices, and systems that enable this collaborative information behavior has been lacking. This...

"The focus of the book is on managing innovation through bridging gaps created from theories, relative advantages or competitiveness, social differences, and innovation capability and performance"--Provided by publisher.

1. Innovation through virtual technologies / N. Raghavendra Rao -- 2. Soft-touch Haptics modeling of dynamic surfaces / Hanqiu Sun, Hui Chen -- 3. Collision detection / Gabriel Zachmann -- 4. Virtual environment visualisation of executable business process models / Ross Brown, Rune Rasmussen --...

1. Integrated marketing communications and their application to the open education field / Juliet Stoltenkamp, Jephias Mapuva -- 2. From consumer to prodsumer / Goknil Koçak -- 3. Educational marketing / Ruth Cook -- 4. Marketing online education / Ormond Simpson -- 5. Marketing and promoting...

"This book investigates the application of semantic technologies to business and information systems engineering. This reference work assists the reader in gaining knowledge on applying semantic technologies for advanced business information systems, in annotating semantics to business...

"This book provides a comprehensive look at the development of actor-network theory itself, as well as case studies of its use to assist in the explanation of various socio-technical phenomena"--Provided by publisher.