Systemic enterprise architecture as future: tackling complexity in governments in the cusp of change / Pallab Saha -- Enterprises as complex systems: extended axiomatic design theory and its application in enterprise architecture practice / Hadi Kandjani, Peter Bernus, Lian Wen -- Complex...

Since the dawn of civilization, new technologies-from the plow to the locomotive to the computer-have transformed human lives. These changes have often been for the better, but occasionally also for the worse. No matter what consequence, these changes have always been irrevocable and pervasive....

Gender economics: an introduction to contemporary gender economics / Susanne Moore -- A note on the history of gender economics and feminist economics: not the same story / Giandomenica Becchio -- Impact of microfinance on female empowerment: a review of the empirical literature / Sefa Kwami...

As instructors move further into the incorporation of 21st century technologies in adult education, a new paradigm of digitally-enriched mediated learning has emerged. Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Perspectives on Online Technologies and Outcomes provides a comprehensive framework of trends...

The technologies in data mining have been applied to bioinformatics research in the past few years with success, but more research in this field is necessary. While tremendous progress has been made over the years, many of the fundamental challenges in bioinformatics are still open. Data mining...

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As the number of mobile device users increases rapidly and exceeds that of PC users by a large margin, conducting business and services over these mobile devices, also known as mobile commerce is becoming very attractive and is expected to drive the future development of electronic commerce. To...

"This book presents the recent advances in multi-mobile agent systems, the product development process, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks and ambient intelligent environments among many other innovations in this exciting field"--Provided by publisher.

"The book gives an introduction to basic biometric image discrimination technologies including theories that are the foundations of those technologies and new algorithms for biometrics authentication"--Provided by publisher.

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