"This book provides researchers and practitioners with valuable information on recent advances and developments in emerging e-business models and technologies. It covers a variety of topics such as e-business models, telecommunication network utilization, online consumer behavior, electronic...

"This book presents various opinions, judgments, and ideas on how the use of digitally created worlds is changing the face of e-commerce and extending the use of Internet technologies to create a more immersive experience for customers"--Provided by publisher.

This book covers issues, developments, and influences in technologies and their impact on modern global socioeconomics, including e-commerce, e-services, outsourcing applications, and consumer resources management.

For more than ten years there has been an obvious trend of globalization of leading companies, as they have moved from multinational to global operations. Recently there has also been increased demand for combining locally-customized services to the economies of the scale of worldwide...

"This book explores information technology concepts, tools, methodologies, and ethnography in the contexts of global communication systems and web engineered applications. It also emphasizes research among the various steps involved in data/knowledge (structured and unstructured) capture (manual...

"This book addresses the difficulties and challenges faced in implementing e-government/m-government technologies and applications. It also addresses different aspects of security of E-government/M-government, ranging from big data issues, trust management, Blockchain technologies, and related...

The tremendous growth of the Internet is successfully making a variety of e-services a part of citizens' everyday life. E-services such as: Web-banking, Web shopping, e-learning, e-healthcare, and e-government, are available in most countries around the world. This book provides an overview of...

As businesses, researchers, and practitioners look to devise new and innovative technologies in the realm of e-commerce, the human side in contemporary organizations remains a test in the industry. This book broadens the overall body of knowledge regarding the human aspects of electronic...

A web portal is a special web site designed to act as a gateway giving convenient access to other related sites. This book investigates the various types of portals and describes how they can be used in business applications. After considering the nature of portals, the book describes the first...

Many techniques, algorithms, protocols and tools have been developed in the different aspects of cyber-security, namely, authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality and non-repudiation as they apply to both networks and systems. Web Services Security and...