This book brings together high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. It includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge in various types of healthcare organizations. Furthermore, it has a global...

"This book provides an extensive and rich compilation of international research, discussing the use, adoption, design, and diffusion of information communication technologies (ICTs) in healthcare, including the role of ICTs in the future of healthcare delivery; access, quality, and value of...

The Concept of Knowledge Media / Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva -- Experience with a Functional-Logic Multi-Agent Architecture for Medical Problem Solving / Giordano Lanzola, Harold Boley -- Cross-Fertilizing Logic Programming and XML for Knowledge Representation / Harold Boley -- Four Different...

Strategies for healthcare information systems -- Experiences in SIS implementation in UK healthcare -- Technology-based marketing in the healthcare industry -- The use of artificial intelligence techniques and applications in the medical domain -- An intelligent data mining system to detect...

The use of social media has gained a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media. However, general concerns exist among the public, community, schools, and administration that online social communication may pose more threats than benefits...

"This book attempts to bring together a selection of the latest results of state-of-the art research in image and video segmentation, one of the most critical tasks of image and video analysis that has the objective of extracting information (represented by data) from an image or a sequence of...

Even though there are various methods of access to the Internet and telephony with speeds and banwidths increasing, many consumers are not adopting the latest technologies. This book develops a conceptual model for examining consumer adoption, usage, and impact of broadband utilizing various...

Section I. Background -- 1. Google: Technological Convenience vs. Technological Intrusion -- 2. A Taxonomic View of Consumer Online Privacy Legal Issues, Legislation, and Litigation -- 3. Online Privacy, Vulnerabilities, and Threats: A Manager's Perspective --

This book addresses the computer recognition of music notation, its interpretation and use within various application contexts. It includes research in the field of image processing and pen-based computing, representation languages and web-based applications, and consolidates the successes,...