Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments : Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges; IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 International Working Conference, August 1-3, 2005, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
The book brings in diverse perspectives on ubiquitous information environments, from computer-supported collaborative work, institutional perspective, diffusion of innovation, management, sociology, individual cognition, and software engineering. It also covers a variety of technologies that make up ubiquitous information environments including RFID, wireless grid, GPS, mobile phones, and wireless local area network. The papers cover many contexts of ubiquitous computing including personal use, library, automobile, healthcare, police, professional knowledge work, remote diagnostics of machines, and marketing, attesting to the wide range of potential of ubiquitous information environments.
Design and Optimization of Passive UHF RFID Systems
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves. Chip-based RFID tags contain silicon chips and antennas. Active tags require an internal power source, while passive tags do not.
Databases in Networked Information Systems ; 5th International Workshop, DNIS 2007, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, October 17-19, 2007, Proceedings
This book Is focusing on data semantics and infrastructure for information management and interchange, the papers are organized in topical sections on geospatial decision-making, Web data management systems, infrastructure of networked information systems, and Web query and web mining systems.
Cryptographic hardware and embedded systems - CHES 2006 ; 8th International Workshop, Yokohama, Japan, October 10-13, 2006, Proceedings
These are the proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2006) held in Yokohama, Japan, October 10-13, 2006. The CHES workshophas been sponsored by the International Association for Cryptographic Research (IACR) since 2004. The ?rst and the second CHES workshops were held in Worcester in 1999 and 2000, respectively, followed by Paris in 2001, San Francisco Bay Area in 2002, Cologne in 2003, Boston in 2004 and Edinburgh in 2005. This is the ?rst CHES workshop held in Asia.
Countering Counterfeit Trade : Illicit Market Insights, Best-Practice Strategies, and Management Toolbox
The book constitutes a unique combination of in-depth insights into the counterfeit market, best-practice strategies, novel management tools, and product protection technologies.
Consumer driven electronic transformation : Applying new technologies to enthuse consumers and transform the supply chain
The Symposia have become important, unique - casions in the international calendar of business research. The papers c- lected here, first presented in Athens, represent an important contribution to the research literature of modern business. The wide-scale institutional development of collaborative practices in the European consumer goods business began in 1994 with the creation of ECR (“Efficient Consumer Response”) Europe, a joint initiative of ma- facturers and retailers working together to improve the quality and p- formance of the value chain. At the heart of ECR was a business envir- ment characterised by dramatic advances in information technology, shifts in consumer demand, and the increasing movements of goods across int- national borders. This new reality required a fundamental reconsideration of the most effective way of delivering the right products to consumers at the right price.
Legal Programming : Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond
LEGAL PROGRAMMING: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming. It offers a general outline of the potential legal difficulties that could arise in relation to them, focusing on the programming of negotiation and contracting processes in a privacy, consumer and commercial context. The authors will elucidate how it is possible to create form of legal framework and design methodology for transaction agents, applicable in any environment and not just in a specific proprietary framework, that provides the right level of compliance and trust. Key elements considered include the design and programming of legally compliant methods, the determination of rights in respect of objects and variables, and ontologies and programming frameworks for agent interactions. Examples are used to illustrate the points made and provide a practical perspective.
Business Information Systems ; 10th International Conference, BIS 2007, Poznan, Poland, April 25-27, 2007, Proceedings
This volume covers research trends as well as current achievements and cutting-edge developments in the area of modern business information systems. It contiants Business Process Management, Web Services, Ontologies, Information Retrieval, System Design, Agents and Mobile Applications, Decision Support, Social Issues, Specific MIS Issues.
Business agility and information technology diffusion ; IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International working Conference, May 8-11, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Addresses issues related to business agility and the diffusion of Information Technology (IT). Success, even survival, in today's business environment has been made complex and difficult by technologically-based competitive pressure. One promising strategy is to be agile and ready to adapt quickly to changes in the environment or market. Such strategy takes shape as an agile software development, agile manufacturing, agile modeling and agile iterations. In contrast, successful IT diffusion is known to be a process that takes time and careful effort. Many IT projects that succeeded in developing a product have subsequently failed in changing the behavior of the target group when diffusion just didn't happen. Therefore this volume responds to the question: What is the relationship between agility and IT diffusion? The book's scope will cover information systems and technology issues, as well as organizational and managerial issues, related to agility and IT diffusion. The planned perspectives include topics such as diffusion of agile methods, enabling business agility with IT, creating agile environments that facilitate diffusion of IT, theories and frameworks for understanding diffusion and agility issues, best practices relating to business agility and IT diffusion, software process improvement and agility, diffusion studies of specific agile technologies, and impacts of diffusion of IT agile methods.
Applied cryptography and network security ; 6th International Conference, ACNS 2008, New York, NY, USA, June 3-6, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2008, held in New York, NY, USA, in June 2008.
Advances in information system development : New methods and practice for the networked society ; Vol. 1
Advances in Information Systems Development: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry, Volumes 1 and 2, are the collected proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development. These latest volumes on Information Systems Development examine the exchange of ideas between academia and industry and aims to explore new solutions.
Advances in Hybrid Information Technology ; 1st International Conference, ICHIT 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, November 9-11, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
As information technologies (IT) become specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in IT have common threads and because of this, advances in one sub-discipline may transmit to another. The presentation of results between di?erent sub-disciplines of IT encourages this interchange for the advancement of IT as a whole. Of particular interest is the hybrid approach or combining ideas from one discipline with those of another to achieve a result that is more signi?cant than the sum of the individual parts. Through this hybrid philosophy, a new or common principle can be discovered which has the propensity to propagate throughout this multifaceted discipline.
Advances in grid and pervasive computing ; 2nd International Conference, GPC 2007, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2007, Proceedings
This book address all aspects of grid and pervasive computing and focus on topics such as cluster computing, high performance computing, grid computing, semantic Web and semantic grid, service-oriented computing, peer-to-peer computing, pervasive computing, mobile computing, network storage, as well as grid and pervasive related applications.
Advances in communication systems and electrical engineering
Compiles revised and extended articles written by prominent researchers participating in the IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications, IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services, and IAENG International Conference on Electrical Engineering of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS) 2007. This volume presents the latest technologies and applications in wireless networks, telecommunication, and signal processing.
Ad-hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks ; 7th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2008 Sophia-Antipolis, France, September 10-12, 2008 Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2008, held in Sophia-Antipolis, France, September 2008.














