"This book highlights the successes of community wireless networks but also boldly addresses the potential risk factors and broader socioeconomic concerns, exploring previous successes and failures, various designs, and potential challenges with CWNs"--Provided by publisher.

1. Information systems success and failure--two sides of one coin, or different in nature? : an exploratory study / Jeremy Fowler, Pat Horan -- 2. Achieving sustainable tailorable software systems by collaboration between end-users and developers / Jeanette Eriksson, Yvonne Dittrich -- 3....

This book offers a distinctive understanding of new infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and technology studies. This field offers a unique potential to assess systematically the prospects for new modes of science enabled by information and communication technologies. The...

"This book aims to catalyze thinking and provide relevant information on the complex ways in which the information age is shaping Africa and the implications that this will have for the continent and the world"--Provided by publisher.

"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)...

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, electronic commerce, and enterprise applications, this book has been developed to focus on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Unified Process (UP) and other information modeling methods and methodologies, and involves conceptual, theoretical,...

This book provides a source of high-quality, practical case studies of the planning, implementation and use of mobile and wireless data solutions in modern business. The selected case studies are both good examples of wireless and mobile solutions and classical cases of multiple areas of common...

This book includes the most encompassing research of the concepts and realities involved in the field of virtual communities and technologies. A ground-breaking, multi-volume compendium of 167 chapters from a global pool of more than 350 experts, it presents an in-depth analysis of the...

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...