"The vital research of this casebook is useful for education researchers and practitioners aiming to better improve the understanding of the educational sources for individual students"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides cutting-edge research on reality, its nature and fundamental structure, represented both by human minds and intelligent machines -- striving to describe a world model and ontology; organized human knowledge; powerful reasoning systems; and secure communication interoperability...

"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of issues related to agent design, implementation, integration, deployment, evaluation, and business value; it presents research results and application of agents and other intelligent information technologies in various domains. It offers intelligent...

1. Developing tools that support effective mobile and game based learning : the COLLAGE platform / Evi Chryssafidou, Sofoklis Sotiriou, Pavlos Koulouris, Manolis Stratakis, Antonis Miliarakis, Mario Barajas, Marcelo Milrad, Daniel Spikol -- 2. Designing an architecture to provide ubiquity in...

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....

Semantic interoperability provides the means to automatically process and integrate large amounts of information without human intervention. Cases on Semantic Interoperability for Information Systems Integration: Practices and Applications provides an in-depth analysis of issues involved with...

This book presents research on databases and software development in the area of business applications. Information systems development activities enable many organizations to effectively compete and innovate, as new database and information systems applications are constantly being developed.

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. This book faces this challenge by...

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data integration, data collection and retrieval, query optimization, and data analysis to advanced user interfaces. New...

"This book bridges two fields that, although closely related, are often studied in isolation: enterprise modeling and information systems modeling. The principal idea is to use a standard language for modeling information systems, UML, as a catalyst and investigate its potential for modeling...