eBook By Category (Information Systems)

When you invest in expensive technology and systems, you want to get the most out of them

Process improvement has been used for years as an effective strategy to reduce costs, shorten cycle times, improve quality, and increase user satisfaction in other areas of business such as Quality, Manufacturing, and Engineering

While there are many books available on process improvement and process re-engineering, few of them address the unique processes within information systems as clearly and succinctly as A Practical Guide to Information Systems Improvement

Until recently, information systems have been designed around different business functions, such as accounts payable and inventory control

Object-oriented modeling, in contrast, structures systems around the data--the objects--that make up the various business functions

Because information about a particular function is limited to one place--to the object--the system is shielded from the effects of change

Advances in the Economics of Information Systems provides a wide perspective on the issues related to applications of economics to information systems area

From grid computing to online auctions, the reader can find novel uses of economics tools in understanding concepts related to the use of technology at the firm level

IT professionals will also find rich analysis of problems at their agenda and benefit from the insights this reference field provides

Distributed business component computing?the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet?caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems

Assessing the most valuable technology for an organization is becoming a growing challenge for business professionals confronted with an expanding array of options

This book is an A-Z compendium of technological terms written for the non-technical executive, allowing quick identification of what the term is and why it is significant

This is more than a dictionary - it is a concise review of the most important aspects of information technology from a business perspective: the major advantages, disadvantages and business value propositions of each term are discussed, as well as sources for further reading, and cross-referencing with other terms where applicable

In any software design project, the analysis stage - documenting and designing technical requirements for the needs of users - is vital to the success of the project

This third edition of the successful Analysis and Design of Information Systems provides a comprehensive introduction and user-friendly survey to all aspects of business transformation and analysis, and aims to provide the complex set of tools covering all types of systems, including legacy, transactional, database, and web/e-commerce topics

Focusing on the applied aspects of analysis to create systems that meet the needs of their users, (consumers and businesses), this revised text aims to enhance the set of techniques and tools that the analyst/designer requires for success and to organizations to implement business transformation of operations

Information security teams are charged with developing and maintaining a set of documents that will protect the assets of an enterprise from constant threats and risks

In order for these safeguards and controls to be effective, they must suit the particular business needs of the enterprise

A guide for security professionals, Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture explains how to review, develop, and implement a security architecture for any size enterprise, whether it is a global company or a SMB

Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, gives information to the history behind grid technology evolution, and supplies the reader with the knowledge to make qualified managerial decisions

This book looks at next-generation computing platforms and global cyber-infrastructure for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and business

Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals includes a diverse range of topics, such as deployment considerations, facilities and tools for creating and managing grid and portal applications, including tools for visually linking corporate databases into grid or portal applications

Provides a complete methodology for everything from strategic planning to the selection of new technologies and the evaluation of application releases

A visual guide to developing an effective BI decision-support application

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Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology

Cases included in this publication present a wide range of issues related to systems development, design, and analysis of modern information systems applications without pitfalls

Professionals and educators alike will find this collection of cases very useful for learning about challenges and solutions related to the planning, design, and implementation of information technology applications

From the senior management to the clerical and support group levels, this study addresses the possible pitfalls and triumphs of implementing information technology (IT) into organizations in terms of organizational strategies, structures, and communication methods

Issues of human-computer interaction, ethics, privacy, and security are raised to help facilitate a sociopragmatic and constuctivist understanding of IT culture



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This book is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in creating computer-human interfaces and supporting end-users

When designing an information system, conceptual modeling is the activity that elicits and describes the general knowledge the system needs to know

This description, called the conceptual schema, is necessary in order to develop an information system

Recently, many researchers and professionals share a vision in which the conceptual schema becomes the only important description to be created, as the system implementation will be automatically constructed from its schema ?

Conceptual modeling has always been one of the cornerstones for information systems engineering as it describes the general knowledge of the system in the so-called conceptual schema

Krogstie, Opdahl and Brinkkemper compiled 20 contributions from renowned researchers covering all aspects of conceptual modeling on the occasion of Arne Sølvberg?s 67th birthday

The world moves on Critical Information Infrastructures, and their resilience and protection is of vital importance

Starting with some basic definitions and assumptions on the topic, this book will go on to explore various aspects of Critical Infrastructures throughout the world ? including the technological, political, economic, strategic and defensive

While implementing IS and IT in support of their business strategies, companies are looking for ways to bridge the gap between their competitive position and technological investment, including ways to use this investment to the advantage of the organization

Critical Reflections on Information Systems: A Systemic Approach faces this challenge by offering ways to incorporate IT into such organizations while also successfully giving the company an edge over its competitors

Design of Industrial Information Systems presents a body of knowledge applicable to many aspects of industrial and manufacturing systems

New software systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning, and new hardware technologies, such as RFID, have made it possible to integrate what were separate IT databases and operations into one system to realize the greatest possible operational efficiencies

This text provides a background in, and an introduction to, the relevant information technologies and shows how they are used to model and implement integrated IT systems

E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology

This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples

Topics include e-health records, e-public information systems, e-network and surveys, general and specific applications of e-health such as e-rehabilitation, e-medicine, e-homecare, e-diagnosis support systems, and e-health intelligence

Healthcare, a vital industry that touches most of us in our lives, faces major challenges in demographics, technology, and finance

Longer life expectancy and an aging population, technological advancements that keep people younger and healthier, and financial issues are a constant strain on healthcare organizations resources and management

Focusing on the organizations ability to improve access, quality, and value of care to the patient may present possible solutions to these challenges

The Encyclopedia of Information Systems provides essential answers to questions increasingly asked by people in all walks of life

People can no longer claim that information about computer viruses, for example, is unimportant to their work, or that advances in speech recognition and encryption will leave them unaffected

The Encyclopedia is therefore more useful than one might suspect to people well beyond the walls of information systems departments

Based on an extensive research project done by the author in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and Austria from December 1999 to June 2001, Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems focuses on four main themes: ·Next Generation Information Technology·The Likely Technologies of this Decade·Enterprise Computing·The Internet as the 21st Century's Answer to MerchandisingWhile the majority of books presently available on information systems are written from the viewpoint of system analysis, programming, or common applications, this text:·Brings to the reader's attention the importance of organization and infrastructure·Presents a wealth of case studies to explain the need for reengineering and restructuring·Details the latest advances which influence the implementation of advanced technologyWritten in a simple, comprehensive manner without specific prerequisites and data processing jargon, with concepts and case studies properly explained, this book addresses itself to practitioners in computer technology, telecommunications and software development, who are interested in acquiring skills through knowledge of the most advanced applications, tools, and methods, both present and coming

Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems will prove appealing to every person charged with planning, developing, applying, and delivering advanced information systems, architectural solutions, and programming products

Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues brings together authoritative authors to address one of the most pressing challenges in the IT field ? how to create secure environments for the application of technology to serve future needs

This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, academia and industry, computer science and MIS

The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'2003) was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems

The conference focused mainly on the following main topics : Information Systems: Databases and Information Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification and Software Agents and Internet Computing

This volume presents selected papers presented at ICEIS'2003

The sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) held in Porto in 2004, brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems

It is now the largest Conference in Europe in the area of Information Systems, and one of the most demanding with only 15% of the submissions accepted as full papers

The papers selected in this book are selected from the different aspect covered at the conference including Databases and Information Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Software Agents and Internet Computing and Human-Computer Interaction

The adoption of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) represents significant financial investments, with alternative perspectives to the evaluation domain coming from both the public and private sectors



As a result of increasing IT/IS budgets and their growing significance within the development of an organizational infrastructure, the evaluation and performance measurement of new technology remains a perennial issue for management

This book offers a refreshing and updated insight into the social fabric and technical dimensions of IT/IS evaluation together with insights into approaches used to measure the impact of information systems on its stakeholders

Foundations and Applications of MIS presents a unique systems theory approach to management information system (MIS) development

It covers an outline of the approach, providing a theoretical foundation for MIS from the systems theoretic viewpoint before presenting practical feasibility of the approach using applications ranging from a transaction processing system to a solver system

The author also describes his newly developed extended Prolog programming language, which takes full advantage of the mathematical framework employed

Reduce the environmental and budgetary impact of your IT infrastructure

This groundbreaking work offers a complete roadmap for integrating environmentally sound techniques and technologies into your Information Systems architecture

Green IT explains how to adopt a business-driven green initiative and provides a detailed implementation plan

You will find strategies for reducing power needs, procuring energy from alternative sources, utilizing virtualization technologies, and managing sustainable development

This important Handbook provides a unique overview of information systems (IS) research by focusing on the increasing interest in critical-related issues

Representing a significant step forward in the development of critical perspectives on the IS field, the Handbook draws together original contributions from leading authors who offer alternatives to the current mainstream approaches to IS research

Web information systems engineering resolves the multifaceted issues of Web-based systems development; however, as part of an emergent yet prolific industry, Web site quality assurance is a continually adaptive process needing a comprehensive reference tool to merge all cutting-edge research and innovations

The Handbook of Research on Web Information Systems Quality 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 collections

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of architectures, languages, methods, and techniques for analysing, modelling, and constructing information systems in organisations

Numerous approaches are surveyed coming from computer science, information systems, and business administration among others

With more than 30 contributions, the book is an authoritative source of information for professional researchers and graduate students

The handbook's goal is to enable the reader to gain a deep understanding of past, current and future research and applications in the field of educational technology

The reader will gain an in-depth understanding of complex theories, strategies, concepts, and methods relating to the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of educational technologies

Because it combines both the present experience in the field and the vision of its emerging directions, the handbook will be a comprehensive guide for researchers and practitioners working with educational technologies

This Handbook contains surveys of state-of-the-art concepts, systems, applications, best practices as well as contemporary research in the intersection between IT and finance

Included are recent trends and challenges, IT systems and architectures in finance, essential developments and case studies on management information systems, service oriented architecture modelling, IT architectures for securities trading, IT-systems in banking, process-oriented systems in corporate treasuries, grid computing and networking

The IT applications in banking, trading and insurance cover risk management and controlling, financial portals, electronic payment and others

An ontology is a formal description of concepts and relationships that can exist for a community of human and/or machine agents

The notion of ontologies is crucial for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse

The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies considering ontology languages, ontology engineering methods, example ontologies, infrastructures and technologies for ontologies, and how to bring this all into ontology-based infrastructures and applications that are among the best of their kind

This is the only book that covers all the topics that any budding security manager needs to know! This book is written for managers responsible for IT/Security departments from mall office environments up to enterprise networks



These individuals do not need to know about every last bit and byte, but they need to have a solid understanding of all major, IT security issues to effectively manage their departments

A spectacular dialogue of the deaf has been on going for many years

Information systems are as misunderstood today as they have been for a decade

The designers who make them, the managers who commission them and the stakeholders who use them consistently fail to communicate with each other resulting in the inevitable plethora of systems failures which appear in the media every week

Tourism is one of the leading industries worldwide

The magnitude of growth in tourism will bring both opportunities and problems to source and destination markets in years to come, especially in the internal and external exchange of information in the industry

Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry examines the process of transformation as it relates to the tourism industry, and the changes to that industry from modern electronic communications

In today?s competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes

Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs

Geared for managers and business practitioners operating in a web-centric environment, this text presents the most current research on information management in conjunction with support systems and multimedia technology

The useful models of decision making provided incorporate cooperative information processing, knowledge-based personalizations, and intelligent transportation systems

Electronic journalism, distance learning, and activity theory are also covered

Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems is an overview of current research in theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems, in particular in information systems and related security tools

Issues treated in the book are security in XML-based management systems, security of multimedia data, technology and use of smart cards, applications of cryptography, security of distributed applications and adherence to standards, model and security issues associated with the organization of components (architectures) of information systems, such as networked systems (Internet and WWW-based), client/server architectures, and layered architectures

Contributions come both from the academic and the industrial field

Despite people's best efforts information systems are particularly prone to failure

Some systems never materialize, others appear late and/or over budget and those that are implemented often fail to deliver the promised levels of performance

The consequences of these failures affect people throughout the organization concerned and beyond, sometimes to the point where they even threaten a company's future survival

Discussion of the precise nature of the Information System discipline has raged for more than twenty years and continues fiercely today

The most interesting aspect of recent debate is not only the sharpness and depth of the arguments, but the diverse conclusions arrived at by participants

Whilst very different, these have all been reached with the genuine aim of strengthening IS scholarship, and they all add to our specific understanding of the discipline in the last two decades

Information Systems and Data Compression presents a uniform approach and methodology for designing intelligent information systems

A framework for information concepts is introduced for various types of information systems such as communication systems, information storage systems and systems for simplifying structured information

The book introduces several new concepts and presents a novel interpretation of a wide range of topics in communications, information storage, and information compression

This volume is comprised of the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Development held August 26th-28th, 2004, at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

The aim of this volume is to provide a forum for the research and practices addressing current issues associated with Information Systems Development (ISD)

Every day, new technologies, applications, and methods raise the standards for the quality of systems expected by organizations as well as end users

It's common in the IT industry to hear of project disasters: overdue products, blown budget estimates, and dismal results

And the root cause of most of these commonplace disasters is the simple fact that people skilled in the technical aspects of a project are often not prepared to manage them

Managing projects requires expert skill in managing budgets, people, and processes

This book offers a clear and logical exposition of how to plan, organize and monitor projects effectively in order to deliver quality information systems within time, to budget and a high standard

This book is suitable for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying project management and information systems

Practicing managers will also find it to be a valuable tool in their work

The strategic importance of information systems is now widely accepted, and over the last three decades these systems have received considerable investment

Systems have evolved from file systems, through database systems, to the emergence of Management Information Systems (MIS) and ? more recently ?

Information Technology for Management 7/e prepares students how to take an active role in the design, use, and management of information systems and technology by providing a broad treatment of issues relating to an organization, the technology used, and how systems are developed

The main focus deals with applying technology in an organization or transforming existing systems with the use of information technology



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This book is a great start for a novice in IT

A completely revised update of the First Edition, this book focuses exclusively on outsourcing information technology such as data processing, computer systems, and specialized software programs essentially an intellectual property transaction

It covers, among other topics, licensing and software development agreements, sales of tangible assets, human resources management, and more



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Organizations enjoy two kinds of strategic advantages

One is transitory: being in the right place with the right products at the right time

The other comes from having first class management and instituting processes that mobilize an organization, keeping in ahead of the competition

On September 11, 2001 the World became completely cognizant of the security challenges it faces on an international scale

With this awareness a commitment has come from the scientific, engineering, and health communities to help meet the world meet an array of security challenges

From these activities the science of `Intelligence and Security Informatics,` is emerging, which will influence a new generation of policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and students

This book introduces the inter-organizational information system for managing inter-organizational activities of virtual organizations, extended enterprises, and trans-enterprise systems

This book begins with the introduction to IOIS which provide readers with a bird's-eye view with extensive bibliographies including definitions, concepts, incentives for IOIS development, managerial and technological issues, etc

This is a collection of more than a dozen of contributed chapters by well-known authors from North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe

IT management and staff are called upon to perform the almost-impossible tasks of evaluating, purchasing, integrating, and maintaining complex IT systems, and directing these systems to meet the ever-changing goals of an organization

Add to that the spending restraints of a down economy, and IT managers find themselves in need of a thoughtful, real-world guide that can maximize resources and bring efficiency to often chaotic environments

IS Management Handbook, Eighth Edition details how IT professionals can align people, information, and technology with the strategic goals of an organization

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`The work of the financial manager revolves around a company's financial systems

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Roehl-Anderson's latest offering addresses the two key aspects of these systems?

Learn how Lean IT can help companies deliver better customer service and value

Lean Enterprise Systems effectively demonstrates how the techniques derived from Lean Manufacturing, combined with the thoughtful application of information technology, can help all enterprises improve business performance and add significant value for their customers

The author also demonstrates how the basic concepts of Lean Manufacturing can be applied to create agile and responsive Lean IT



The book is divided into three parts that collectively explore how people, processes, and technology combine forces to facilitate continuous improvement:
* Part One: Building Blocks of the Lean Enterprise sets forth the essentials of Lean

Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming

It offers a general outline of the potential legal difficulties that could arise in relation to them, focusing on the programming of negotiation and contracting processes in a privacy, consumer and commercial context

The authors will elucidate how it is possible to create form of legal framework and design methodology for transaction agents, applicable in any environment and not just in a specific proprietary framework, that provides the right level of compliance and trust

Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance addresses the recent developments of systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to managerial aspects of the topic

It includes very contemporary issues such as evolving legacy systems to e-business, applying patterns for reengineering legacy systems to web, architectural recovery of legacy systems, evolving legacy systems into software components

The book offers insight on how information systems evolution and maintenance could be initiated, managed, and engineered

With the growth in social networking and the potential for larger and larger breaches of sensitive data,it is vital for all enterprises to ensure that computer users adhere to corporate policy and project staff design secure systems

Written by a security expert with more than 25 years' experience, this book examines how fundamental staff awareness is to establishing security and addresses such challenges as containing threats, managing politics, developing programs, and getting a business to buy into a security plan

Illustrated with real-world examples throughout, this is a must-have guide for security and IT professionals

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the use of information technology in manufacturing, so much so that it has rapidly permeated the organization at every level

Consequently, there is a growing need for those related to or interested in manufacturing to understand the nature of this technology and the way it can best be used to increase competitive advantage, hence the profit

This book is a contribution towards better understanding of information technology and information systems and their application in manufacturing

Mass customization is a business strategy aimed at satisfying an individual customers needs with near mass production efficiency

Mass Customization Information Systems in Business provides original and innovative research on IT systems for mass customization

This wide-ranging reference collection describes the solutions, tools, and concepts needed for the successful realization of these systems

Accelerate packaged (COTS) software implementations, increase returns on investment, and reduce implementation costs and customizations Develop implementation approaches that maximize packaged software advantages and minimize packaged software challengesReduce implementation costs, increase knowledge generation, and reduce non-value-added implementation activitiesEnable customers to lead during the implementation to maximize long term successFollow the Ten Essential Principles for implementing a business solution and learn best practices, tips and tricks

In Detail Using packaged software for Customer Relationship Management or Enterprise Resource Planning is often seen as a sure-fire way to reduce costs, refocus scarce resources, and increase returns on investment

However, research shows that the majority of packaged or Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) implementations fail to provide this value due to the implementation approach taken



Authored by Grady Brett Beaubouef, who has over fifteen years of packaged software implementation experience, this book will help you define an effective implementation strategy for your packaged software investment

Currently, there is neither a commonly-accepted definition of information systems (IS) quality nor a convergence of perspectives on quality approaches

The IS community has focused on the various contributions of people, delivery processes, development philosophies and methods

Measuring Information Systems Delivery Quality represents a spotlight on IS quality that exhibits the efforts of authors from several countries across the globe

Medical Imaging Informatics provides an overview of this growing discipline, which stems from an intersection of biomedical informatics, medical imaging, computer science and medicine

Supporting two complementary views, this volume explores the fundamental technologies and algorithms that comprise this field, as well as the application of medical imaging informatics to subsequently improve healthcare research

Clearly written in a four part structure, this introduction follows natural healthcare processes, illustrating the roles of data collection and standardization, context extraction and modeling, and medical decision making tools and applications

Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade

An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data, the Internet, and the wide application of computer use in all aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice

  MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine covers the basic foundations of the area while extending the foundational material to include the recent leading-edge research in the field

The graph is a critical and useful concept in designing many information processing systems

Systems such as transaction processing systems, decision support systems, and workflow systems are all helped immensely by a graphical structure

Simple graphs and digraphs allow for the construction of a variety of system design tools that provide a convenient and appealing format for illustrating information infrastructures, while allowing any subsequent analyses to be performed by the user

The nature of governance is rapidly changing, due to new technologies which expand public sector capabilities

Modern Public Information Technology Systems: Issues and Challenges examines the most important dimensions of managing information technology in the public sector

It explores the impact of information technology on governmental accountability and distribution of power, the implications of privatization as an IT business model, and the global governance of information technology

This handbook gives an overview on engineering of business information systems with agent technology

It introduces into this challenge, describes how to identify and to address the relevant technical problems, and explains how to engineer, integrated and test multiagent systems for real world applications

The book gives detailed descriptions of the development of two large scale multiagent systems: Agent

Outsourcing is currently one of the hottest topics in business practices and in particular in the field of management information systems (MIS) education

Outsourcing Management Information Systems focuses on concepts, processes, and methodologies for firms who are planning to undertake, or are currently involved in, outsourcing decisions in the field of management information systems

Outsourcing Management Information Systems helps MIS managers to manage outsourcing projects by establishing performance metrics, including: appropriate risk factor considerations, structuring a centralized architecture that best suits the organization, and avoiding the case study pitfalls reported in the literature

Taking the recent discussions on the status of information systems as a discrete discipline as its starting point, The Past and Future of Information Systems draws together many of the pioneers of IS research, to give their own perspectives and insights to the debate

This reflective text looks back on the last 30 years of IS research, as well as glancing towards the future, ensuring that it will be of great interest to anyone working within the IS field

Information systems have five main areas of research and practice in which humans relate to information and communications technology

Typically isolated from one another, these areas are: the nature of computers and information, the creation of information technologies, the development of artifacts for human use, the usage of information systems, and information technology as our environment

Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems strives to develop philosophical frameworks for these five areas and provides researchers, scholars, and practitioners in fields such as information systems, public administration, library science, education, and business management with an exemplary reference resource

A unifying foundation to design and implement process-aware information systems

This publication takes on the formidable task of establishing a unifying foundation and set of common underlying principles to effectively model, design, and implement process-aware information systems

Authored by leading authorities and pioneers in the field, Process-Aware Information Systems helps readers gain a thorough understanding of major concepts, languages, and techniques for building process-aware applications, including:
* UML and EPCs: two of the most widely used notations for business process modeling
* Concrete techniques for process design and analysis
* Process execution standards: WfMC and BPEL
* Representative commercial tools: ARIS, TIBCO Staffware, and FLOWer

Each chapter begins with a description of the problem domain and then progressively unveils relevant concepts and techniques

Examples and illustrations are used extensively to clarify and simplify complex material

Undertaking an academic project is a key feature of most of today's computing and information systems degree programmes

Simply put, this book provides the reader with everything they will need to successfully complete their computing project

The book brings together recent qualitative research studies in enterprise-wide implementations

The collection is useful as a teaching case for academia, a student reference and also for academics, researchers and IT practitioners who wish to gain a broad view of ERP implementation success and failure, The book provides relevant methodologies and recent empirical research findings in the area and includes sufficient background information for an understanding of each case but focuses on providing a rich description of more than a dozen real life cases

Published in conjunction with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Statistical Applications for Health Information Management, Second Edition covers the basic biostatistics, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics that are unique to health information management (HIM)

The text provides the essential theory while emphasizing practical applications that health information management professionals use in the real world every day

A single case study is woven throughout the book to serve as an example for each statistical process presented

Strategic Planning for Information Systems explores the impact that information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) have on business performance and the contribution that they make to the strategic options of organisations

It describes tools, techniques and management frameworks to both align strategies for IS and IT with business strategy, as well as seek out new opportunities through innovative deployment of technology

This book demonstrates why strategic planning for information systems is essential to organisational success, especially in times of increasingly rapid change

The material collected in Technologies for Business Systems covers a broad range of applications of computer science methods and algorithms in business practice

It presents a research cutting edge in development, implementation, and improvement of computer systems

The computer science and information systems topics covered in the book include data warehouses, ERP, XML, ontologies, rule languages, software engineering and Business Process Management

An engine of the world economy?the computer industry?is sputtering

Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications

The wide variety of methods used in terrorism informatics are derived from Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics, Linguistics, Social Sciences, and Public Policy and these methods are involved in the collection of huge amounts of information from varied and multiple sources and of many types in numerous languages

Information fusion and information technology analysis techniques which include data mining, data integration, language translation technologies, and image and video processing play central roles in the prevention, detection, and remediation of terrorism

Information systems (IS) are the backbone of any organization today, supporting all major business processes

This book deals with the question: how do these systems come into existence? It gives a comprehensive coverage of managerial, methodological and technological aspects including:

The book takes into account that for most organizations today, inhouse development is only one of several options to obtain an IS

?This book clearly shows how today?s industry pressures and business challenges mandate renewal of the contract between organizations and their IT assets and people?

?It is about time that a book like The New School came along

The age of security as pure technology is long past, and modern practitioners need to understand the social and cognitive aspects of security if they are to be successful

This interdisciplinary graduate text gives a full, explicit, coherent and up-to-date account of the modern theory of neural information processing systems and is aimed at student with an undergraduate degree in any quantitative discipline (e

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computer science, physics, engineering, biology, or mathematics)

Intelligent systems are necessary to handle modern computer-based technologies managing information and knowledge

This book discusses the theories required to help provide solutions to difficult problems in the construction of intelligent systems

Particular attention is paid to situations in which the available information and data may be imprecise, uncertain, incomplete or of a linguistic nature

With the economic crisis that began in 2008, a long-standing trend toward increased regulation is becoming a flood

The clamor for improved enterprise risk management and the complexity of multinational compliance present executives with a dramatically new array of challenges

Governance should offer solutions, but it is clear that yesterday?

The concept of content delivery has become increasingly more important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information from the Internet

The content can be diverse and broad-ranging, and the desire to facilitate ubiquitous information access demands varied network architectures and hardware devices

The need to deliver quality information ?

This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies

Healthcare and biomedical organizations are undergoing major transformations to meet the demand for improved access and quality of service, and modern information technologies are helping to process and manage the growing wealth of data involved

Web-based applications offer a sharp increase in data access and management, and they are at the forefront of the broad field of medical informatics