Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce

Recently, the emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the admission of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce, defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or informati...

 Artificial Neural Networks in Real-Life Applications

Artificial Neural Networks in Real-Life Applications offers an outlook on the most recent works in the field of artificial neural networks (ANN). It includes theoretical developments of the ANN area and applications of these systems, using intelligent cha...

 Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing

Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing is necessary reading for undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers interested in knowing the most recent advances in problem solving techniques inspired by nature. This book covers the most...

 Software Evolution with UML and XML

Software Evolution with UML and XML provides a forum where expert insights are presented on the subject of linking three current phenomena: software evolution, UML and XML. Software evolution is a real problem in the software industry; various attempts ha...

 Peer to Peer Computing The Evolution of a Disruptive Technology

Peer to Peer Computing: The Evolution of Disruptive Technology takes a holistic approach to the affects P2P Computing has on a number a disciplines. Some of those areas covered within this book include grid computing, web services, bio-informatics, securi...

 Free/Open Source Software Development

Free/Open Source Software Development brings together a multitude of research in the area of free and open source software development, offering rigorous academic examples for each. Free/Open Source Software Development takes on free and open source ...

 Strategic Knowledge Management Technology

Strategic Knowledge Management Technology applies the knowledge-based view of the firm, which builds on the resource-based theory. The value shop is identified as the typical value configuration for knowledge firms. This book applies a stages of growth mo...

 Managing Business with SAP Planning Implementation and Evaluation

At a time when many companies, particularly in the technological field, are continuously laying off workers, SAP, Inc. and organizations using the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and SAP concepts and software packages, on the other hand, are in need of...

 Multimedia Security Steganography and Digital Watermarking Techniques for Protection of Intellectual Property

Multimedia security has become a major research topic, yielding numerous academic papers in addition to many watermarking-related companies. In this emerging area, there are many challenging research issues that deserve sustained studying towards an effec...