"This book highlights the rising trends and studies in the information technology field, offering interesting perspectives on common problems as well as suggestions for future improvement"--Provided by publisher.

The consistency of the medical expert system CADIAG-2: a probabilistic approach / Pavel Picado Klinov, Bijan Parsia, David Muiño -- Development of a knowledge based system for an intensive care environment using ontologies / Ana Torres Morgade ... [et al.] -- Breast cancer diagnosis using...

Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology....

In recent years rapid Internet growth has pushed the development of new multimedia applications in all aspects of life such as entertainment, communication, collaborative work and electronic commerce. Future applications will make use of different technologies like voice, data and video, but in...

Multi-objective optimization (MO) is a fast-developing field in computational intelligence research. Giving decision makers more options to choose from using some post-analysis preference information, there are a number of competitive MO techniques with an increasingly large number of MO...

This volume is the latest addition to the Cases on Information Technology Series, a series which provides a collection of case studies focusing on IT implementation in organizations. The cases included in Cases on Information Technology: Lessons Learned, Volume 7 cover a variety of IT...