"This book aims to assist researchers in both understanding and utilizing online data collection by providing methodological knowledge related to online research, and by presenting information about the empirical quality, the availability, and the location of specific online...

"This book concentrates on one particular and fast-growing application of mobile technologies: data acquisition for the tourism industry, providing travel agents, visitors, and hosts with the most advanced data mining methods, empirical research findings, and computational analysis techniques...

Paper focuses on censuses and sample surveys as a means of generating the data required for migration analysis.

1. Interaction data : definitions, concepts and sources / John Stillwell, Adam Dennett, Oliver Duke-Williams -- 2. Access to census interaction data / Adam Dennett, John Stillwell, Oliver Duke-Williams -- 3. Interaction data : confidentiality and disclosure / Oliver Duke-Williams -- 4. Analysing...

"This book takes a close look at the impact of urbanization and international migration on the global economy, studying the dynamics of these two phenomena in countries across the world and the varying successes of regional regulations"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the Block-Roberts methodology for measuring labour standards, highlighting its relativism (does not rely on a universal benchmark like ILO Conventions) and its politically feasible benchmark (at least one jurisdiction enacted). Comparing the US with Canada and the EU, resp., determines...

Comprises six papers which explore the labour and social aspects of economic integration in North and South America during the 1990s. Reviews the activities of Mercosur in the labour and social security areas and investigates the content and impact of the North American Agreement on Labour...

"This book discusses the Semantic Web, as an extension of the current World Wide Web in which information is given well-defined, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation"--Provided by publisher.

This book considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. It not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures)...