Subject(s): Database management | Expert systems (Computer science) | Artificial intelligence Summary: "This book integrates data management in databases with intelligent data processing and analysis in artificial intelligence. It challenges today's database technology and promotes its evolution"--Provided by publisher. Hol

Subject(s): Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects | Information technology -- Cultural aspects | Business ethics Summary: "This book is the first publication that takes a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by Information and Communication Technologies and their possible resolutions. Readers will gai

Subject(s): Family social work | Family counseling | Family -- Pscyhological aspects Summary: This book presents a transtheoretical 'response system framework' for understanding family practice. This framework organizes theoretical information, assessment protocols, skills, and intervention strategies into a learning structure that help

Subject(s): Investments -- Moral and ethical aspects Summary: Turning conventional wisdom on its head, this book shows why socially progressive companies that make political contributions to "blue" politicians and causes outperform "red" companies. The idea that progressives are better at businesses than conservatives will surpr

Subject(s): Application software -- Development | Web site development | Software architecture Summary: "This book presents new concepts regarding reliability, availability, manageability, performance, scalability, and secured-ability of applications, particularly those that run over the Web. It examines causes of failure in Web-based infor

Subject(s): Multimedia systems -- Security measures | Sound -- Recording and reproducing Digital techniques | Digital watermarking Summary: "Digital audio watermarking has been proposed as a new and alternative method to enforce intellectual property rights and protect digital audio from tampering. This composition of theoretical frameworks

Subject(s): Environmental protection -- Juvenile literature | Power resources -- Juvenile literature Subject: Discusses controversies surrounding energy such as whether we are running out of energy, energy development on public lands, the harmfulness of current energy sources, alternatives to fossil fuel, the government influence on energy use,

Subject(s): Computer simulation Summary: "This book offers insight into the computer science aspect of simulation and modeling while integrating the business practices of SM. It includes current issues related to simulation, such as: Web-based simulation, virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence, combining different m

Subject(s): Mobile communication systems | Multimedia communications Summary: "This book captures defining research on all aspects and implications of the accelerated progress of mobile multimedia technologies. Topics include fundamental network infrastructures, modern communication features such as wireless and mobile multimedia protocols,

Subject(s): Electronic commerce | Small business | Strategic alliances (Business) Summary: "This book presents detailed studies of e-commerce in multiple regions focusing on business size, sector, market focus, gender of CEO, and education level of CEO as driving forces for e-commerce adoption. Results show that regional SMEs in developed c