Breakthrough Discoveries in Information Technology Research: Advancing Trends (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection, entitled Breakthrough Discoveries in Information Technology Research: Advancing Trends , aims to inform researchers and practitioners of novel and emerging research in information science and technology, allowing for the discussion and dissemination of critical concepts that will promote further study and innovation. Selections explore all facets of the discipline, with specific contributions focusing on outsourcing, ethical concerns in research, biometrics, and information technology s role in disaster prediction and prevention.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 14
Information Technology / Systems Offshore Outsourcing: Key Risks and Success Factors......Page 18
Emerging Trends in Outsourcing......Page 39
Agile Software Processes forthe 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Environment......Page 50
Leveraging Knowledge Reuseand System Agility in the Outsourcing Era......Page 65
Extending the Balanced Scorecard for Outsourcing: The Goals Alignment Perspective......Page 85
Business Process Onshore Outsourcing within the Community Banking System: An Investigative Study......Page 97
Offshoring in the Pharmaceutical Industry1......Page 110
Enhancing e-Business Decision Making: An Application of Consensus Theory......Page 127
Changing Healthcare Institution swith Large Information Technology Projects......Page 140
Crisis Compliance: Using Information Technology to Predict, Prevent and Prevail over Disasters......Page 154
Ethical Concerns in Usability Research Involving Children......Page 168
A Generic Framework for Bluetooth Promoted Multimediaon Demand (BlueProMoD)......Page 177
Social Interaction with a Conversational Agent: An Exploratory Study......Page 190
Voice-Based Approach for Surmounting Spatial and Temporal Separations......Page 200
Intelligent Biometric System Using Soft Computing Tools......Page 208
Analysis and Modelling of Hierarchical Fuzzy Logic Systems......Page 225
Fuzzy Logic in Medicine......Page 235
On Bias-Variance Analysis for Probabilistic Logic Models......Page 242
Compilation of References......Page 254
About the Contributors......Page 277
Index......Page 285