"This book is a multidisciplinary collection of research and approaches on the applications and processes of open source software, highlighting the development processes performed by software programmers, the motivations of its participants, and the legal and economic issues that have been...

Foreword : lost and found in the reading machine / Michael Toolan -- 1. Authorship attribution and the digital humanities curriculum / Patrick Juola -- 2. Multivariate analysis of stance in fiction : a case study / Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen -- 3. Literary onomastics and language technology / Lars...

Automatic language translation : an enhancement to the mobile messaging services / Swadesh Kumar Samanta, John Woods, Mohammed Ghanbari -- An examination of factors associated with user acceptance of social shopping websites / Jia Shen, Lauren Eder -- An office on the go : professional workers,...

The growth of modern information technology has created a challenge in the organizational and managerial areas of IT. While technological advances often make tasks easier, the human side of a task is still affected. Cases on the Human Side of Information Technology provides many real-life...

"This book is a manual for the novice-Human Computer Interaction (HCI) designer. It compares and contrasts online business training programs with e-Learning in the higher education sector and provides a range of positive outcomes for linking information management techniques, which exploit the...

Many factors contribute to the way people view and use information, including task requirements, organizational settings, and personality characteristics. Today it is generally accepted that people are an integral element of an information system. System development methodologies include various...

"This book provides a wide range of interesting and novel approaches to the relationship between technology and humans. It can be used for teaching as well as for research purposes; it contains insights that are of relevance for social and organizational use of information and communications...

This book supplements course instruction and student research with quality articles focused on key issues concerning the behavioral and social aspects of information technology. Containing over 30 chapters from authors across the globe, these selected readings in areas such as user behavior,...

"This book discusses the recent developments in open source GIS in terms of addition of new geospatial tools, development platforms, software libraries, wide ranging applications etc. in context of desktop as well as web versions. The comprehensive details of efforts of developer communities...