Semantic interoperability provides the means to automatically process and integrate large amounts of information without human intervention. Cases on Semantic Interoperability for Information Systems Integration: Practices and Applications provides an in-depth analysis of issues involved with...

The evololution of online relationships in business to consumer e-commerce / Pauline Ratnasingam -- A technological perspective of mobile and electronic commerce systems / Wen-Chen Hu ... [et al.] -- A component-basesd software architecture for delivering location based services / Ioannis...

"This book provides a detailed analysis of the important strategies for integrating IT systems into fields such as e-business and customer-relationship management. It supplies readers with a comprehensive survey of existing enterprise architecture and integration approaches, and presents case...

The lack of formal semantics of applications and services to be integrated into business processes makes it difficult for software engineers and developers to interconnect heterogeneous applications. This book provides methods that incorporate and streamline processes that allow employees,...

"This book explores technical integration challenges with a focus on identifying a viable solution on how to enable rich, flexible, and responsive information links, in support of the changing business operations across organizations"--Provided by publisher.

"This book identifies the likely trajectories of development of information technology and communication systems, process technologies and methods of Smart Grid Analytics for the Smart City. It explores the importance of understanding how process analysis in energy usage is manifested and how it...

This book presents a comprehensive collection of quality of service mechanisms for various access technologies and introduces existing and traditional approaches to traffic management for wireless technologies. With expert international contributions, this critical mass of knowledge covers both...

1. The application of virtual organization technology for eHealth / Ekaterina Kldiashvili -- 2. Grid technology / I. Aas -- 3. Health and health care grid services and delivery integrating eHealth and telemedicine / Thomas Clark -- 4. The Teams of Leaders (Tol) concept / Dag von Lubitz -- 5....

High-performance image reconstruction (HPIR) in three dimensions / Olivier Bockenbach ... [et al.] -- Compression of surface meshes / Frédéric Payan, Marc Antonini -- The role of self-similarity for computer aided detection based on mammogram analysis / Filipe Soares ... [et al.] -- Volumetric...

"This book offers over 400 accounts from a wide range of specific research efforts on methodologies, tools, and architectures for complex distributed systems that address the practical issues of performance guarantees, timed execution, real-time management of resources, synchronized...