"This book investigates different protocols and architectures that can be used to design, create, and develop security infrastructures by highlighting recent advances, trends, and contributions to the building blocks for solving security issues"--Provided by publisher.

This book presents trends and techniques for successful intelligent decision-making andtransfer of products through digital signal processing. A defining collection of field advancements, this publication provides the latest and most complete research in supply chain management with examples and...

1. Making the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) flexible / Daniela Wolff, Nishant Singh -- 2. A Framework for the use of business activity monitoring in process improvement / Owen Molloy, Claire Sheridan -- 3. The socio-technical balanced scorecard for assessing a public university /...

1. IT/IS readiness maturity model / Mustafa Alshawi and Hafez Salleh -- 2. Readiness in systems implementation: lessons from the higher education sector / Eric Lou and Hafez Salleh -- 3. Improving the tendering process: a construction organization perspective / Hafez Salleh -- 4. Building for...

"This book presents ideal research in the areas of database theory, systems design, ontologies and many more, including examples of the convergence of ideas from various disciplines aimed at improving and developing the theory of information technology and management of information...

Managing organizations -- Management and control: organizational preparedness -- Understanding IT acquisitions preparedness: organizational perspectives -- Understanding IT acquisitions: associated models -- Conceptualization of IT acquisition life cycle management model -- Development of IT...

"This book provides a broad working knowledge of all the major security issues affecting today's enterprise IT activities. Multiple techniques, strategies, and applications are thoroughly examined, presenting the tools to address opportunities in the field.It is an all-in-one reference for IT...

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....

"This book supplies the industry leaders, practicing managers, researchers, experts, and educators with the most current findings on undertaking the operation of the latest information technology reforms, developments, and changes. It presents the issues facing modern organizations and provides...

The pervasive use of technology in business organizations has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance. This book presents insight gained through literature reviews and case studies to provide practical guidance for organizations that want to start...