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Information Technology in Contemporary Organizations: Redefining IT Management for Organizational Reliability (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology)
by Katarzyna TworekDue to tremendous shifts in the business environment of contemporary organizations following the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to redefine the role and importance of information technology (IT) support, which is essential for ensuring an organization’s survival. Current models are no longer valid, as in the new turbulent and digitalized environment, the need for IT support is more crucial and indispensable than ever. This book proposes a new model explaining the factors inf luencing the efficiency of adaptable IT support in contemporary organizations, including those operating normally and during crises. The author demonstrates how organizations benefit from IT support, not only by enabling higher performance but also by facilitating organizational continuity, reliability, and even survival during various stages of crisis. The proposed model provides a basis for theory development in the field of organizational continuity and reliability, offering a new body of knowledge related to the factors boosting organizational performance gained from IT support and enabling organizational survival. This book will provide valuable findings for scholars performing research in the field of IT use in organizations, IT management, crisis management, and organizational reliability.
Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction: 4th IFIP TC 5 DCITDRR International Conference, ITDRR 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 9–10, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #575)
by Yuko Murayama Dimiter Velev Plamena ZlatevaThis volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 5 DCITDRR International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2019, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in October 2019. The 17 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The main topics include areas such as natural disasters, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile computing, emergency management, disaster information processing, and disaster risk assessment and management.
Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction: 5th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference, ITDRR 2020, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 3–4, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #622)
by Yuko Murayama Dimiter Velev Plamena ZlatevaThis volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2020, in Sofia, Bulgaria, in December 2020.* The 18 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The main topics include areas such as natural disasters, remote sensing, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile computing, emergency management, disaster information processing, disaster risk assessment and management. *The conference was held virtually.
Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction: 6th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference, ITDRR 2021, Morioka, Japan, October 25–27, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #638)
by Yuko Murayama Jun Sasaki Dimiter Velev Plamena ZlatevaThis volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2021, in Morioka, Japan, in October 2021. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The papers are categorized in the following topical subheadings: Information Analysis for Situation Awareness; Evacuation and Rescue; COVID-19 Issues; and IT Use for Risk and Disaster Management.
Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction: 7th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference, ITDRR 2022, Kristiansand, Norway, October 12–14, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #672)
by Yuko Murayama Terje Gjøsæter Jaziar RadiantiThis volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2022, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in October 2022.The 23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The papers are categorized in the following topical subheadings: strategic disaster risk reduction; situational awareness; telecommunications, sensors and drones; collaborative emergency management; cybersecurity and privacy; earthquake and climate forecasting; social media analytics; community resilience.
Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction: 8th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference, ITDRR 2023, Tokyo, Japan, December 4–6, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #706)
by Julie Dugdale Terje Gjøsæter Osamu UchidaThis volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2023, held in Tokyo, Japan, during December 4-6, 2023. The 18 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Evacuation and Emergency Management; Situational Awareness; Social Media; Information Systems; Geographic Information System (GIS); and Healthcare.
Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction: First Ifip Tc 5 Dcdrr International Conference, Itdrr 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 16-18,, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #501)
by Yuko Murayama Dimiter Velev Plamena ZlatevaThis volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second IFIP TC 5 DCITDRR International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2017, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in October 2017. <P><P> The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The main topics include areas such as natural disasters, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile computing, emergency management, disaster information processing, and disaster risk assessment and management.
Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction: Third IFIP TC 5 DCITDRR International Conference, ITDRR 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 20–21, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #550)
by Yuko Murayama Dimiter Velev Plamena ZlatevaThis volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third IFIP TC 5 DCITDRR International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2018, held as part of the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018.The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The main topics include areas such as natural disasters, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile computing, emergency management, disaster information processing, and disaster risk assessment and management.
Information Technology in Educational Research and Statistics
by Cleborne D Maddux D Lamont Johnson Leping LiuThis important book focuses on creating new ideas for using educational technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, and various software packages to further research and statistics. You will explore on-going debates relating to the theory of research, research methodology, and successful practices. Information Technology in Educational Research and Statistics also covers the debate on what statistical procedures are appropriate for what kinds of research designs.
Information Technology in Environmental Engineering
by Jorge Marx Gómez Brenda ScholtzThis book presents new concepts as well as practical applications and experiences in the field of information technology for environmental engineering. The book has three main focus areas: firstly, it shows how information technologies can be employed to support natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Secondly, it demonstrates the application of computing in the everyday practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists and social scientists. And thirdly, it demonstrates how the complexity of natural phenomena can be approached using interdisciplinary methods, where computer science offers the infrastructure needed for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support documentation and reporting. The book collects selected papers presented at the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Engineering, held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in July 2015. It discusses recent success stories in eco-informatics, promising ideas and new challenges from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of computer scientists, environmental engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem-solving and decision-making.
Information Technology in Environmental Engineering
by Jorge Marx Gómez Burkhardt Funk Peter NiemeyerInformation technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support, documentation and reporting. Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while presenting new challenges for computer science Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems constitute a demanding application domain for modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems, control systems, as well as sustainable manufacturing and reverse logistics. This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Engineering, held in July 2013, in Lüneburg, Germany. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, industrial engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.
Information Technology in Fisheries and Aquaculture
by Pramod Kumar Pandey Parvaiz Ahmad Ganie Ravindra PostiThis book connects information technology (IT) to the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The topics covered in the book explore the diverse ways in which IT contributes to promoting sustainable practices and efficient management in aquatic environments. From examining current challenges through a technological lens to investigating advanced applications like Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensing and machine learning, the book covers a wide range of themes. The chapters address crucial aspects such as precision nutrition, disease management, environmental monitoring and the economic effects of adopting IT. It also bridges the gap between traditional aquaculture practices and the transformative potential of information technology. This book serves as a reference for researchers, practitioners, policymakers and students in the field of fisheries and aquaculture
Information Technology in Medical Diagnostics III: Metrological Aspects of Biomedical Research
by Waldemar WójcikThe science of biomedical measurements is experiencing a period of rapid development. Biomedical measuring systems are becoming increasingly accurate on the one hand and complex on the other. In order to make progress in this field, metrological problems must be solved using a systemic and formal approach. To this end, it is necessary to define the components of the system and the rules for their interaction, which allows the creation of a mathematical model. In this way, any technology or object can be presented in the form of a structure on which the necessary estimates can be formulated and synthesis, including metrological one, can be made. The authors have observed that despite the significance of the problem, few scientific centres deal with this issue in a generalised manner. Hence the idea of bringing together the achievements of the centres from Russia, Poland and Kazakhstan in one joint publication. The first and second volumes of Information Technology in Medical Diagnostics found readers not only in Poland, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan but also Spain, Russia and the Czech Republic. Following the readers’ suggestions, in the third volume of ITMD we returned to the formula of closed chapters known from volume one. Due to its limited volume, the book deals with the aforementioned issues in only selected areas of biomedical engineering. The book will be of interest not only for academics and engineers but also for professionals involved in biomedical engineering, seeking solutions for the problems that cannot be solved using "traditional" technologies or trying to improve existing measurement systems.
Information Technology, Systems Research, and Computational Physics (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #945)
by Radko Mesiar Janusz Kacprzyk László T. Kóczy Piotr Kulczycki Rafal WisniewskiThis book highlights a broad range of modern information technology tools, techniques, investigations and open challenges, mainly with applications in systems research and computational physics. Divided into three major sections, it begins by presenting specialized calculation methods in the framework of data analysis and intelligent computing. In turn, the second section focuses on application aspects, mainly for systems research, while the final section investigates how various tasks in the basic disciplines—mathematics and physics—can be tackled with the aid of contemporary IT methods. The book gathers selected presentations from the 3rd Conference on Information Technology, Systems Research and Computational Physics (ITSRCP'18), which took place on 2–5 July 2018 in Krakow, Poland. The intended readership includes interdisciplinary scientists and practitioners pursuing research at the interfaces of information technology, systems research, and computational physics.
Information Technology: An Introduction for Today's Digital World
by Richard FoxInformation Technology: An Introduction for Today's Digital World introduces undergraduate students to a wide variety of concepts they will encounter throughout their IT studies and careers. The book covers computer organization and hardware, Windows and Linux operating systems, system administration duties, scripting, computer networks, regular ex
Information Technology: An Introduction for Today's Digital World
by Richard FoxThis book presents an introduction to the field of information technology (IT) suitable for any student of an IT-related field or IT professional. Coverage includes such IT topics as IT careers, computer hardware (central processing unit [CPU], memory, input/output [I/O], storage, computer network devices), software (operating systems, applications software, programming), network protocols, binary numbers and Boolean logic, information security and a look at both Windows and Linux. Many of these topics are covered in depth with numerous examples presented throughout the text.New to this edition are chapters on new trends in technology, including block chain, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and the negative impact of computer usage, including how computer usage impacts our health, e-waste and concerns over Internet usage. The material on Windows and Linux has been updated and refined. Some content has been removed from the book to be made available as online supplemental readings.Ancillary content for students and readers of the book is available from the textbook’s companion website, including a lab manual, lecture notes, supplemental readings and chapter reviews. For instructors, there is an instructor’s manual including answers to the chapter review questions and a testbank.
Information Technology: An Introduction for Today’s Digital World
by Richard FoxThis revised edition has more breadth and depth of coverage than the first edition. Information Technology: An Introduction for Today&’s Digital World introduces undergraduate students to a wide variety of concepts they will encounter throughout their IT studies and careers. Features: Provides introductory system administration coverage of Windows 10 and Linux (Red Hat 7) as both general concepts and with specific hands-on instruction Includes coverage of programming and shell scripting, demonstrated through example code in several popular languages Presents Updated information on modern IT careers Covers computer networks including more content on cloud computing Contains more coverage of computer security (the original&’s coverage is largely limited to just one part of one chapter) Ancillary material which includes a lab manual for hands-on exercises Suitable for any introductory IT course, this classroom-tested text presents many of the topics recommended by the ACM Special Interest Group on IT Education (SIGITE). It offers a far more detailed examination of the computer and the IT field than computer literacy texts, focusing on concepts essential to all IT professionals—from system administration to scripting to computer organization. Four chapters are dedicated to the Windows and Linux operating systems so that students can gain hands-on experience with operating systems that they will deal with.
Information Technology: Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Information Technology (ISIT 2014), Dalian, China, 14-16 October 2014
by Lipo Wang Liangshan Shao Yi Wan Jinguang Sun, Jingchang Nan & Quangui ZhangThese proceedings of the symposium ISIT 2014 aim to be a platform for international exchange of the state-of-the-art research and practice in information technology. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from theoretical and analytical studies to various applications.
Information Theoretic Learning
by Jose C. PrincipeThis book presents the first cohesive treatment of Information Theoretic Learning (ITL) algorithms to adapt linear or nonlinear learning machines both in supervised or unsupervised paradigms. ITL is a framework where the conventional concepts of second order statistics (covariance, L2 distances, correlation functions) are substituted by scalars and functions with information theoretic underpinnings, respectively entropy, mutual information and correntropy. ITL quantifies the stochastic structure of the data beyond second order statistics for improved performance without using full-blown Bayesian approaches that require a much larger computational cost. This is possible because of a non-parametric estimator of Renyi's quadratic entropy that is only a function of pairwise differences between samples. The book compares the performance of ITL algorithms with the second order counterparts in many engineering and machine learning applications. Students, practitioners and researchers interested in statistical signal processing, computational intelligence, and machine learning will find in this book the theory to understand the basics, the algorithms to implement applications, and exciting but still unexplored leads that will provide fertile ground for future research.
Information Theoretic Principles for Agent Learning (Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology)
by Jerry D. GibsonThis book provides readers with the fundamentals of information theoretic techniques for statistical data science analyses and for characterizing the behavior and performance of a learning agent outside of the standard results on communications and compression fundamental limits. Readers will benefit from the presentation of information theoretic quantities, definitions, and results that provide or could provide insights into data science and learning.
Information Theoretic Security
by Anderson C.A. Nascimento Paulo BarretoThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings fo the 9th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2016, held in Tacoma, WA, USA, in August 2016. The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They are organized around the following topics: secret sharing; quantum cryptography; visual cryptography; cryptographic protocols; entropy, extractors and privacy.
Information Theoretic Security: 10th International Conference, ICITS 2017, Hong Kong, China, November 29 – December 2, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10681)
by Junji ShikataThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in November/December 2017.The 12 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They are organized around the following topics: quantum cryptography; quantum information theory; post-quantum cryptography (e.g. lattices and cryptography); physical layer security; wiretap channels; adversarial channel models; cryptography from noisy channels; bounded storage models; network coding security; biometric security; randomness extraction; key and message rates; secret sharing; authentication codes; multiparty computations; information theoretic reductions; and implementation challenges.
Information Theory And Coding By Example
by Mark Kelbert Yuri SuhovThis fundamental monograph introduces both the probabilistic and algebraic aspects of information theory and coding. It has evolved from the authors' years of experience teaching at the undergraduate level, including several Cambridge Maths Tripos courses. The book provides relevant background material, a wide range of worked examples and clear solutions to problems from real exam papers. It is a valuable teaching aid for undergraduate and graduate students, or for researchers and engineers who want to grasp the basic principles.
Information Theory Tools for Visualization (AK Peters Visualization Series)
by Min Chen Miquel Feixas Ivan Viola Anton Bardera Han-Wei Shen Mateu SbertThis book explores Information theory (IT) tools, which have become state of the art to solve and understand better many of the problems in visualization. This book covers all relevant literature up to date. It is the first book solely devoted to this subject, written by leading experts in the field.
Information Theory and Best Practices in the IT Industry
by Sanjay MohapatraThe importance of benchmarking in the service sector is well recognized as it helps in continuous improvement in products and work processes. Through benchmarking, companies have strived to implement best practices in order to remain competitive in the product- market in which they operate. However studies on benchmarking, particularly in the software development sector, have neglected using multiple variables and therefore have not been as comprehensive. Information Theory and Best Practices in the IT Industry fills this void by examining benchmarking in the business of software development and studying how it is affected by development process, application type, hardware platforms used, and many other variables. Information Theory and Best Practices in the IT Industry begins by examining practices of benchmarking productivity and critically appraises them. Next the book identifies different variables which affect productivity and variables that affect quality, developing useful equations that explaining their relationships. Finally these equations and findings are applied to case studies. Utilizing this book, practitioners can decide about what emphasis they should attach to different variables in their own companies, while seeking to optimize productivity and defect density.