This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce. First, it lays out the foundations like the evolution of the Web and the so-called Social Web, its utility for users and businesses, and the evolution of the...

Reform and Practice of Laboratory Course for Compiler Principle in HIT -- A Philosophical Comparison of Chinese and European Models of Computer Science Education -- Study of Progressive Training Plan on Software Engineering Talents -- Agile Software Development in Business Informatics: Using...

Part I: Economies of 3D Printing - Reorganizing Manufacturing -- Part II: Communities of 3D Printing - Makers, Entrepreneurs, Outlaws -- Part III: Futures of 3D Printing - Trajectories and Applications.

Introduction -- Crowdsourcing Systems -- Current state of Personalized Task Recommendation.- Design of a Third-Party Task Recommendation Service -- Personalized Task Recommendation in the Field -- Conclusion. .

This book presents 3D3C platforms – three-dimensional systems for community, creation and commerce. It discusses tools including bots in social networks, team creativity, privacy, and virtual currencies & micropayments as well as their applications in areas like healthcare, energy,...

Introduction -- From IT to Digital Transformation: A Long Term Perspective -- Key Topics, Key Emergencies.- 25 Major Trends -- The Emerging Production System -- From Lean to Acceluction, Complements or Substitutes? -- Liquid Enterprise and Digitality -- Acceluction: Stakes, Opportunities and...

IT-Support within Facility Management in West- and Eastern Europe -- Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (CALS) Simulation Models on the Basis of the ERP and CAD Technologies Integration -- The Process - oriented Approach for Designing a Project Management System -- Towards to...

Introduction -- Theoretical and Conceptual Foundation -- Preliminary Research Model -- Research Design -- Descriptive Findings -- Single-Case Analysis -- Cross-Case Synthesis -- Summary and Discussion -- Conclusion. .

This book examines how and why collaborative quality assurance techniques, particularly pair programming and peer code review, affect group cognition and software quality in agile software development teams. Prior research on these extremely popular but also costly techniques has focused on...