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In Electronic Business Communications, Mike Chesher and Ricky Kaura tell you all that you need to know about electronic commerce over the Internet.

This agenda-setting book presents state of the art research in Music and Human-Computer Interaction (also known as 'Music Interaction').

This book reviews the challenges of all-optical and wireless networks for the future Internet, with a focus on cross-layer design and optimization.

Conceptual Design is one of the few areas of Engineering Design where computers have yet to make an impact.

One of the most significant developments in computing over the last ten years has been the growth of interest in computer based support for people working together.

As computer technology is used to control critical systems to an increasing degree, it is vital that the methods for developing and understanding these systems are substantially improved.

Parallel Processing Applications for Jet Engine Control is a volume in the new Advances in Industrial Control series, edited by Professor M.

This book describes the key concepts, principles and implementation options for creating high-assurance cloud computing solutions.

In past twenty years or so, information technology has influenced and changed every aspect of our lives and our cultures.

Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Wireless Communications reports the findings of COST 2100, a project of the European intergovernmental COST framework addressing various topics currently emerging in mobile and wireless communications.

The recent advances in display technologies and mobile devices is having an important effect on the way users interact with all kinds of devices (computers, mobile devices, laptops, tablets, and so on).

This important text provides a single point of reference for state-of-the-art cloud computing design and implementation techniques.

A successful cyber-physical system, a complex interweaving of hardware and software with some part of the physical environment, depends on proper identification of the, often pre-existing, physical element.

Information technology is the enabling foundation for all of human activity at the beginning of the 21st century, and advances in this area are crucial to all of us.

As computer systems evolve, the volume of data to be processed increases significantly, either as a consequence of the expanding amount of available information, or due to the possibility of performing highly complex operations that were not feasible in the past.

Identification of Multivariable Industrial Processes presents a unified approach to multivariable industrial process identification.

This volume contains the papers presented at the Intemational Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems 00lS'94, held at South Bank University, London, December 19 - 21, 1994.

In the light of the challenges that face today's organizations, there is a grow- ing recognition that future market success and long term' survival of enter- prises will increasingly depend upon the effective usage of information technology.

Lotus Notes is one of the most successful and versatile groupware products on the market today and is used widely in both large and small organisations.

A learning system can be defined as a system which can adapt its behaviour to become more effective at a particular task or set of tasks.

Logic and object-orientation have come to be recognized as being among the most powerful paradigms for modeling information systems.

The Software Engineering and Knowledgebase Systems (SOFfEKS) Research Group of the Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada, organized a workshop on Incompleteness and Uncertainty in Information Systems from October 8-9, 1993 in Montreal.

Past, Present, Parallel is a survey of the current state of the parallel processing industry.

This is the first international conference aimed at bringing the distributed database and distributed AI (DAD experts together, from both academia and industry, in order to discuss the issues of the next generation of knowledge based systems, namely Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems or CKBS for short.

This book of proceedings contains papers for the Second European Workshop on Mobile/Personal Satcoms (EMPS '96), held in Rome, Italy, and hosted by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

Computer supported work is increasingly being done out of the traditional office environment, for example whilst travelling or at home and there is a growing need to support the cooperative aspects of such work.

It is well-known that some 85% of the resources necessary to design and bring to market a product are committed by decisions taken in the first 10% of the design activity.

OOIS'95 (Object-Oriented Information Systems '95) contains contributions from leading researchers and practitioners working on object oriented technology and its application in information systems design and development.

This book is the proceedings of the Workshop on the Performance Engineering of Computer and Telecommunications Systems.

This book has two audiences: the practising Requirements Engineer and the advanced student of software engineering or computer science.

An important consideration in improving the performance of a distributed computer system is the balancing of the load between the host computers.

Semantics of Parallelism is the only book which provides a unified treatment of the non-interleaving approach to process semantics (as opposed to the interleaving approach of the process algebraists).

We first began looking at pointing devices and human performance in 1990 when the senior author, Sarah Douglas, was asked to evaluate the human performance ofa rather novel device: a finger-controlled isometric joystick placed under a key on the keyboard.

Cordless Telecommunications Worldwide describes the emergence of the global unlicensed PCS industry from initial developments in Europe to subsequent activities in Asia and America.

With the continuing success of Local Area Networks (IANs), there is an increasing demand to extend their capabilities towards higher data rates and wider areas.

Although the computer's life has been relatively short, it has brought about an information revolution that is transforming our world on a scale that is still difficult to comprehend.

Multimedia Communications is at the core of the advanced interactive services that make up today's Information Society.

We have, in the last few years, radically improved our grasp of the quantum world.

The idea of a Virtual Design Studio (VDS) has been around for many years.

Welcome to 00lS'01 and Calgary!

The proceedings of a congress concerning Open Communications, the basis for cost effective Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), are presented.

Public Data Networks provide a comprehensive survey of PDNs, covering all major countries.

In this volume Gerold Riempp examines the interaction of different workflow management systems (WFMS) in geographically-distributed and legally-separate organisations.

A revised and updated translation of the French original, this work deals effectively with local area network technologies and management, offering a broad overview of enterprise telecommunication technologies.

Client/server and distributed technologies have made great strides since their emergence in the late 1980s to become very popular in the IT industry today.

Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) are online digital places and spaces where we can be in touch, play together and work together, even when we are, geographically speaking, worlds apart.

Computer supported collaboration in academia is becoming increasingly important for two reasons.

Purpose The purpose of this book is to explain to information technology (IT) decision makers those aspects of finance that most affect their work.

This book gathers together research from three key application themes of modelling in operational research - modelling to support evaluation and change in organisations; modelling within the development and use of organisational information systems; and the use of modelling approaches to support, enable and enhance decision support in organisational contexts.

Electronic commerce is regarded as one of the most important commercial uses of information technology in recent times.