During the past two decades, telecommunication and Web-enabled technologies have combined to create a new field of knowledge known as 'Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies'. The main objective of this book is to learn from faculty experiences gained while implementing and utilizing these...

"This book emphasizes how organizations enable both businesses and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT enabled corporation investments"--Provided by publisher.

"This book presents a collection of diverse perspectives on cloud computing and its vital role in all components of organizations, improving the understanding of cloud computing and tackling related concerns such as change management, security, processing approaches, and much more"--Provided by...

Scatter search and path relinking: a tutorial on the linear arrangement problem / Rafael Martí ... [et al.] -- A complementary cyber swarm algorithm / Peng-Yeng Yin ... [et al.] -- Path relinking scheme for the max-cut problem within global equilibrium search / Volodymyr P. Shylo, Oleg V. Shylo...

The evaluation of IT and its business value are recently the subject of many academic and business discussions, as business managers, management consultants and researchers regularly question whether and how the contribution of IT to business performance can be evaluated effectively. Investments...

The evaluation of information technology and its business value are the subjects of many academic and business discussions. Investments in IT are growing extensively and business managers worry whether the benefits derived might not be as high as expected. This phenomenon is often called the IT...

"This book discusses current research analyzing how the collective behavior of decentralized systems in the natural world can be applied to intelligent system design and discussing the application of swarm principles, optimization techniques, and key algorithms being used in the field"--Provided...

"This book explores the emerging realm of swarm intelligence, which finds its basis in the natural social behavior of animals, and applies to apply this behavior to independent intelligent agents, creating complex solutions for real world applications"--Provided by publisher.