After the first wave of e-commerce and e-business implementations, we are witnessing an e-services paradigm shift in the way businesses, governments and consumers are using Internet-based technologies and mobile communications to innovate and produce new products and services. Cases on Managing...

"This book focuses on the application of preemptive planning in the media and entertainment industries to combat an increasingly uncertain future of innovation and competition, offering research-based examples and analysis"--Provided by publisher.

This book discusses the new aspects of digital watermarking in a worldwide context. Approached not only from the technical side, but the business and legal sides as well, it discusses digital watermarking as it relates to many areas of digital media. Broad in its approach, the book provides a...

Section 2. Social Semantic Web -- 17. On the Social Shaping of the Semantic Web -- 18. Social/Human Dimensions of Web Services: Communication Errors and Cultural Aspects, The Case of VRL-KCiP NoE -- 19. Socio-Technical Challenges of Semantic Web: A Culturally Exclusive Proposition -- 20. Social...

"This book integrates invaluable research on the models, measures, and methodologies of Web information systems, software quality, and Web engineering into one practical guide to Web information systems quality, making this handbook of research an essential addition to all library...

Section II: Case Studies -- 5. Considering the Impact of Broadband on the Growth and Development of B2C Electronic Commerce / Jyoti Choudrie, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi -- 6. A Theoretical Approach to Evaluate Online and Traditional Trading on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange / Haroun Alryalat -- 7. Adaptive...

"This book focuses on the advances in Web service quality, covering topics such as quality requirements, security issues, and development and integration methods of providing quality services. Covering both technical and managerial issues related to Web service quality, this authoritative...

Web service technologies are constantly being recreated, continuously challenging Web service professionals and examiners. This book facilitates communication and networking among Web services and e-business researchers and engineers in a period where considerable changes are taking place in Web...

"This book collects a complete set of studies addressing the security and dependability challenges of Web services and the development of protocols to meet them. Encompassing a complete range of topics including specifications for message level security, transactions, and identity management, it...

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,...