This book brings together compelling content related to the continually emerging technologies in areas of information systems such as Web services, electronic commerce, distance learning, healthcare, business process management, and software development. Focusing on the implications innovative...

This book emphasizes the importance of validation and verification in the modernization of systems that are critical to safety, security, and economic profits. Containing integration analyses to control the evolution of legacy systems towards object oriented technologies, this publication...

This book discusses the organizational implications of technological growth and advancement at an international level. Selections investigate within- and cross-cultural research, offshoring and outsourcing, and strategic decisions organizations make to succeed in a global environment--Provided...

Redefining the information technology in the 21st century / Ruben Xing, Zhongxian Wang, Richard L. Peterson -- Strategic market and customer driven IS/IT planning model / Teay Shawyun -- The duality of information technology roles: a case study / M. Gordon Hunter -- A systematic approach to...

"This book presents the emerging fields of service intelligence and service science, positioning them as the most promising directions for the evolution of service computing, demonstrating the critical role such areas play in supporting service computing processes"--Provided by publisher.

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