Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Information Systems and Information Technology

✍ Scribed by Heikki Topi, Allen Tucker

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1490
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Information Systems and Information Technology demonstrates the richness and breadth of the IS and IT disciplines. The second volume of this popular handbook explores their close links to the practice of using, managing, and developing IT-based solutions to advance the goals of modern organizational environments. Established leading experts and influential young researchers present introductions to the current status and future directions of research and give in-depth perspectives on the contributions of academic research to the practice of IS and IT developm.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Contents
Preface to the Computing Handbook Set
Preface to Volume II: Information Systems and Information Technology
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Evolving Discipline of Information Systems
Chapter 2: Discipline of Information Technology:: History and Development
Chapter 3: Information Systems as a Practical Discipline
Chapter 4: Information Technology:: Principles, Methods, and Theory
Chapter 5: Sociotechnical Approaches to the Study of Information Systems
Chapter 6: IT and Global Development. Chapter 7: Using ICT for Development, Societal Transformation, and Beyond:: Closing the Digital Divide in Developing Countries: Case of EgyptChapter 8: Data Models
Chapter 9: Tuning Database Design for High Performance
Chapter 10: Access Methods
Chapter 11: Query Optimization
Chapter 12: Concurrency Control and Recovery
Chapter 13: Distributed and Parallel Database Systems
Chapter 14: Multimedia Databases:: Description, Analysis, Modeling, and Retrieval
Chapter 15: Building Conceptual Modeling on the Foundation of Ontology. Chapter 16: Data and Information Quality Research:: Its Evolution and FutureChapter 17: Knowledge Management
Chapter 18: Digital Libraries
Chapter 19: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Chapter 20: Big Data
Chapter 21: Governance of Organizational Data and Information
Chapter 22: Design Science Research
Chapter 23: Identifying Opportunities for IT-Enabled Organizational Change
Chapter 24: Deconstructing Enterprise Systems:: Emerging Trends in the Next Generation of ES Applications
Chapter 25: Enterprise Architecture. Chapter 26: Business Process Management and Business Process AnalysisChapter 27: Information Requirements Determination
Chapter 28: From Waterfall to Agile:: A Review of Approaches to Systems Analysis and Design
Chapter 29: Human-Centered System Development
Chapter 30: Developing and Managing Complex, Evolving Information Infrastructures
Chapter 31: Impact of Culture on Information Systems Design and Use:: A Focus on E-Business
Chapter 32: Usability Engineering
Chapter 33: Task Analysis and the Design of Functionality
Chapter 34: Designing Multimedia Applications for User Experience. Chapter 35: Applying International Usability StandardsChapter 36: Designing Highly Usable Web Applications
Chapter 37: Transforming HCI:: The Art, Science, and Business of User Experience Design
Chapter 38: Individual-Level Technology Adoption Research:: An Assessment of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats, and Opportunities for Further Research Contributions
Chapter 39: Computer Self-Efficacy
Chapter 40: Developing Individual Computing Capabilities
Chapter 41: Role of Trust in the Design and Use of Information Technology and Information Systems. Chapter 42: Impacts of Information Systems on Decision-Making.

✦ Subjects

Information technology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc