Bücher der Reihe Integrated Series in Information Systems

This comprehensive book outlines and explains the parameters of design science research. It demonstrates how to conduct such research, and provides examples of various types of research that have been conducted using design science.

From baseball to greyhound racing and beyond, Sports Data Mining presents the latest research, developments, software and applications for data mining in sports. The text examines hidden patterns in gaming and wagering, along with the most common systems for wager analysis.

This book examines trends and challenges in research on IT governance in public organizations, reporting innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices within the area.

Over the past years, business schools have been experimenting with distance learning and online education. Virtual Corporate Universities: A Matrix of Knowledge and Learning for the New Digital Dawn offers a source for new thoughts about those processes in view of the use of new technologies.

This book is nothing less than a complete and comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of terrorism informatics. The book details three major areas of terrorism research: prevention, detection, and established governmental responses to terrorism.

At last, a right up-to-the-minute volume on a topic of huge national and international importance. Successful applications in a variety of government settings are delineated, while the authors also analyse the implications for current and future policy-making.

Authors are widely recognized professors and researchers in Schools of Medicine and Information Systems from the University of Arizona, University of Washington, Columbia University, and Oregon Health & Science University.

Knowledge Management and Management Learning: Extending the Horizons of Knowledge-Based Management examines a range of topical considerations in the field by utilizing dynamic and non-linear systems behavior or the complexity paradigm.

Targets wide-ranging audience: from researchers in computer science, information management and information science via analysts and policy makers in federal departments and national laboratories to consultants in IT hardware, communication, and software companies.

This book describes the Dark Web landscape of international terrorism, suggests a systematic, computational approach to understanding its problems, and presents techniques, methods, and case studies developed by the University of Arizona AI Lab Dark Web team.

Computer-based infectious disease surveillance systems represent a major step forward in disease surveillance. This book analyzes and evaluates the outbreak modeling and detection capabilities of existing surveillance systems under a unified framework.

In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Information and Management Systems for Product Customization will concentrate on both product customization and costs' efficiency, which is termed as mass customization.

Not only does this monograph combine, but it also extends the best that is on offer in Information Systems and Operations Research/Decision Sciences modeling paradigms. The result here facilitates gains in both business efficiency and business effectiveness.

This work probes the efficacy of using the Grounded Theory method to study the factors that lead to failure or success in the creation and ongoing management of IIS within the global enterprises. It details case studies of three large transnational companies.

This book details metagraph theory and its applications. The first part of the book develops the theoretical results with an emphasis on the development of a metagraph algebra. In the second part, four promising applications of metagraphs are examined.

Logical Data Modeling offers business managers, analysts, and students a clear, basic systematic guide to defining business information structures in relational database terms.

The main goal of this book is to serve as a reference for IS research building on EP concepts and theories (in short, IS-EP research). The book is organized in three main parts: Part I focuses on EP concepts and theories that can be used as a basis for IS-EP research;

It covers the methodological issues that arise when action research methods are conducted, provides examples of action research in practice, and summarizes the philosophical foundations of action research and its application as a methodology in Information Systems research and research programs.

This is the first book treatment on two "hot button" topics in Information Systems, Computer Science and Education: the application of web technology for educational use. The result is a thorough and highly useful presentation on the confluence of the technical aspects of the Semantic Web and the field of Education or the art of teaching.

Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance provides an authoritative reference for researchers, students and practitioners in the field. The text discusses the technology used in the collection and analysis of infectious disease data, in addition to methods for disease management and prevention.

This book goes beyond the discussion of global databases and presents a general Enterprise Resources Market model to facilitate the management and integration of enterprise information resources in a cooperating mode.

Comparative E-Government examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on governments throughout the world. Part III, the last part of the book, examines emerging innovations and technologies in the adoption of e-government in different countries.