This book is of importance to practitioners and researchers because it brings together in a single accessible source, a variety of current research and practice on the subject of virtual and collaborative teams. Geographic distance, technology, lack of social presence, lack of adequate training...

Advances in technology are making virtual education a force behind the educational policies and programs being developed for use in today's colleges and universities. And, the faster the technology advances and changes, the more opportunities and requirements there are within organizations to...

This book addresses the emergent research and development issues for the most-advanced enterprise organizational paradigm of today's world: the virtual enterprise paradigm. Virtual enterprise is characterized as a dynamic agile network of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including...

Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering bring teams, product engineering, and processes into the 21st century through the use of e-collaboration technologies. These powerful tools accomplish work efficiently and effectively, whether communication takes place only through...

Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. This book gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of...

This book includes the most encompassing research of the concepts and realities involved in the field of virtual communities and technologies. A ground-breaking, multi-volume compendium of 167 chapters from a global pool of more than 350 experts, it presents an in-depth analysis of the...

This collection presents a diverse overview of where the development of artificial minds is as the twenty-first century begins. Examined from nearly all viewpoints, this book includes perspectives from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, social studies and artificial intelligence. The...

Visual languages are the defining component of interactive computing environments, yet in spite of the rapid pace of evolution of this domain, significant challenges remain. This book presents comprehensive coverage of the problems and methodologies related to the syntax, semantics, and...

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,...

The unique research area of audio-visual speech recognition has attracted much interest in recent years as visual information about lip dynamics has been shown to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition systems, especially in noisy environments. This book presents an up-to-date...