Understanding, appreciating and taking corrective steps to maintain and enhance social and ethical responsibility in the information age is important not only because of our increased dependence on information and communication technologies, but also because information and communication...

This book explores the role of information seeking and retrieval in the development of information systems to support personalized and autonomous learning by introducing key concepts from information science.

Caste, class, and IT in India / Elizabeth Langran -- India's Dalits search for a democratic opening in the digital divide / P. Thirumal, Gary Michael Tartaw -- Exploring the notion of "technology as public good" : emerging characteristics and trends of the digital divide in East Asian education...

"Using the cognitive informatics approach as a basis for the investigation of wisdom, this book offers solutions on how to study and evaluate the state of wisdom in 21st century society and the requirements for wise civilization and its monitoring systems"--Provided by publisher.

"This book discusses the computation intelligence approaches, initiatives and applications in the engineering, science and business fields, highlighting that computational intelligence as no longer limited to computing-related disciplines and can be applied to any effort which handles complex...

This book provides models of various economic and financial issues while using computational intelligence as a foundation. The scope of this volume comprises finance, economics, management, organizational theory and public policies. It explains the ongoing and novel research in this field, and...

A comprehensive, research-based encyclopedia consisting of contributions from over 900 noted researchers in over 50 countries. This five-volume encyclopedia includes more than 550 articles highlighting current concepts, issues and emerging technologies. These articles are enhanced by special...

Business managers are striving to move toward process-centric organizations, but the challenge remains in ensuring adoption of a business process culture. This book aids managers in the transformation of organizations into world-class competitors through business process applications. A useful...

"This book focuses on cross-disciplinary research as well as examples of the use of actor-network theory in a variety of fields, including medicine, education, business, engineering, environmental science, computer science, and social science"--Provided by publisher.

"This book combines best practices and empirical research on social networking and other related technologies, emphasizing creative and innovative implementation across various disciplines"--Provided by publisher.