The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education and governmental domains. This book aims to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.
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, 2014. FutureTech 2014 is the most comprehensive conference focused on the ...
"This book provides a much needed understanding of how management can deal with the impact of politics and culture on the overall utilization of information technology within an organization"--Provided by publisher.
As information technology applications are incorporated into all functioning
aspects of organizations of all types and size, more managers need to address
concerns regarding the impact of these technologies on organizational politics
and ...
This book focuses on negotiation processes and how negotiation modeling frameworks and information technology can support these. A modeling framework for negotiation as a purposeful complex adaptive process is presented and computer-implemented in the first three chapters. Two game-theoretic contributions use non-cooperative games in extensive form and a computer-implemented graph model for conflict resolution, respectively. Two chapters use the negotiators' joint utility distribution to provide problem structure and computer support. A chapter on cognitive support uses restructurable modeling as a framework. One chapter matches information technologies with negotiation tasks. Another develops computer support based on preference programming. Two final chapters develop a stakeholder approach to support system evaluation, and a research framework for them, respectively. Negotiation Processes: Modeling Frameworks and Information Technology will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of negotiation, group decision/negotiation support systems and management science, as well as to practising negotiators interested in this technology.
Some of these technologies include collaborative computing, electronic
publishing, intelligent systems, and networked communications — all supported
by a network of processors, applications, and data bases. This article explores
these ...
This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at government policymakers interested in economic development and at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology, now a worldwide expenditure of over $2 trillion annually. The book will also interest a wide range of academics concerned with the sociology, history, economics, and the effects of IT on contemporary society, ands to the general trade market.
"This book brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology"--Provided by publisher.
The Changing Paradigms at the University of Minnesota Crookston Dan Lim,
University of Minnesota Crookston, USA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many people in
higher education wonder where the rapid changes in information technology are
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This text explores a variety of advances in IT by a group of researchers who are at the cutting-edge of this research. There are four general categories in the book: future markets, inter-organizational systems, focused applications, and future strategies.
More recently, however, information technology has led to several MAJOR
changes in the structure of markets. Structural changes include redefining the
roles of intermediaries, altering the need for physical proximity among transactors
, and ...
"This book presents a wide range of issues and challenges related to business process reengineering technologies and systems through the use of case studies"--Provided by publisher.
The primary force behind this reevaluation has been the technological innovation
of information technology and the need to incorporate information technology in
all as- pects and functions of business. Cases on Information Technology and ...
Some of the most powerful tools in the hands of educators, researchers and managers are documented cases based on real-life experiences of others. This is particularly true for IT implementation and implications. Success and Pitfalls of Information Technology Management is a collection of actual, real-life cases dealing with a variety of issues in the overall utilization of IT in organizations.
In response to increasing competition and cost pressures from managed-care
practices, healthcare organizations are turning to information technology (IT) to
increase efficiency of their operations and reach out to new patient markets.
The driving influence of managed care and cost containment is causing home care organizations to reconceptualize their roles in the health care delivery system while stimulating massive changes in agency structure, operations, and services. Medicare-certified home health agencies, which have flourished under a per-visit, fee-for-service reimbursement model, are increasingly delivering care under managed care reimbursement models. Conducted at this pivotal point in time, the book examines the intersection of two rapidly growing health care sectors: home health and managed care.The environment surrounding the transition from traditional reimbursement to managed care is uncertain and rapidly changing. Strategies organizations are using to cope with this uncertainty and HHA administrators' perceptions of the two greatest impacts of managed care are described.Despite considerable variation in agency characteristics, more similarities than differences are found among HHAs. The research concludes that market and environment pressures within heavily HMO-penetrated communities encourage all HHAs to become similar, regardless of whether the HHAs have managed care contracts.
Information technology (IT) has become important to the very survival of
organizations. Information technology spending in the U.S. has increased from a
few million dollars in 1970 to over $50 billion in 1990 (Jorgenson and Stiroh,
1995).
