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Agile Software Development Quality AssuranceAfter spending the summer north of the Arctic Circle, basking in the midnight sun and the warmest weather for over 100 years in Finland, I was especially happy to find this book sitting on my desk waiting to be read. Although there is no shortage of books on agile methodologies and practices, something had been missing. The concept of quality is... | | Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and ApplicationsSemantic Web is here to stay! This is not really a marketing campaign logo, but it is a truth that every year is becoming more and more relevant to the daily life of business world, industry and society. I do not know how it happened, but the last years, through our activities in the Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems in... | | |
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Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and TechnologiesThe Web revolution currently under way is making the Internet more and more central to our everyday lives. The amount of information available on the Web is increasing at an enormous rate, and almost everyday new services become available. The Internet is now widely used not only for B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer)... | | Object-Oriented Design Knowledge: Principles, Heuristics and Best PracticesIn order to establish itself as a branch of engineering, a profession must understand its accumulated knowledge. In addition, software engineering as a branch of engineering must take several basic steps in order to become an established profession, highlighting understanding of the nature of its knowledge.
Software... | | Intelligent Assistant Systems: Concepts, Techniques and TechnologiesInformation is becoming the raw material of modern society. That “difference that makes a difference” (Bateson, 1979) is the driving force of modern service industry. Our information spaces have been technologized and their size as well as their complexity increased. Access to information spaces and the capability to use them... |
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Application of Agents and Intelligent Information TechnologiesThe Web has sparked renewed interest in developing intelligent information systems that enable users to accomplish complex tasks in Web-centric environments with relative ease. Although artificially intelligent (AI) technologies such as expert systems and neural networks have been successfully used in aerospace, communication, medical, and... | | Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and DevelopmentDesigning for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development is a book about how we plan, use, and understand the products, dynamic social processes, and tasks upon which depend some of the most vital innovations in the knowledge society—social as well as technological ones. Focusing on various forms of design, implementation, and... | | Artificial Cognition SystemsThe central questions confronting artificial intelligence and cognitive science revolve around the nature of meaning and of mind. Minds are presumed to be the processors of mental content, where that content has the capacity to influence our speech and other behavior. The hard part is figuring out how that is done. Mental states must exercise... |
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Semantic-Based Visual Information RetrievalContent-based visual information retrieval (CBVIR) is one of the most interesting research topics in the last years for the image and video community. With the progress of electronic equipment and computer techniques for visual information capturing and processing, a huge number of image and video records have been collected. Visual information... | | Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and CommerceNowadays, mobile communication, mobile devices, and mobile computing are widely available. Everywhere people are carrying mobile devices, such as mobile phones. The availability of mobile communication networks has made a huge impact to various applications, including commerce. Consequently, there is a strong relationship between mobile computing... | | Business Data Communications and Networking: A Research PerspectiveResearch in the area of data communications and networking is well and alive as this collection of contributions show. The book has received enhanced contributions from the authors that published in the inaugural volume of the International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (http://www.idea-group.com/ijbdcn). The chapters are... |
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