This book introduces policy, government, and security professionals to the concept of "information warfare," covering its evolution over the last decade and its developments among such economic and political giants as China, Russia, Japan, India, and Singapore. The text describes various conceptions of information warfare, along with how they function in military, diplomatic, political, and economic contexts. Recent notable cyber attacks are analyzed, the challenges faced by countries who fail to secure their cyberspace (Japan, the US, etc.) are enumerated, and ways to distinguish between cybercrime, cyberwarfare, and cyberterrrorism are discussed.

Although the field of informal learning has much to contribute to the field of formal learning, these fields appear to be failing to synergize and balance to create the ideal education environment. Multiple Literacy and Science Education: ICTs in Formal and Informal Learning Environments explores the nature of various learning enlightenment mediums and their consequences within a classroom context to synchronize understanding within the schooling fields. This authoritative collection provides an overview of current research, practices, and evidence-based approaches regarding further development for best practices of multiple literacy teaching atmospheres.

Language learning is one of the most rapidly changing disciplines. Along with changing perspectives in learning in the field of Second Language Acquisition, information communication technology (ICT) has also created many learning paths to assist the process of learning a second language (L2). In such an ever-evolving environment, teachers, researchers, and professionals of a diverse number of disciplines need access to the most current information about research on the field of computer-enhanced language acquisition and learning.""Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning"" provides comprehensive coverage of successful translation of language learning designs utilizing ICT in practical learning contexts. This authoritative reference source amasses research from over XX authors from XX countries, offering researchers, scholars, students, and professionals worldwide, access to the latest knowledge related to research on computer-enhanced language acquisition and learning.

The information economy continues to challenge businesses in many ways with information technologies and globalization leading to blurred the organizational boundaries. ""Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology"" provides greater understanding of issues, challenges, trends, and technologies effecting the overall utilization and management of information in modern organizations around the world. A leading field resource, this innovative collection addresses the emerging issues in information resources economics and its applications.

Cellular Automata (CA) are a class of spatially and temporally discrete mathematical systems characterized by local interaction and synchronous dynamical evolution, which show complex behavior and are able to model biological phenomena. Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena describes the use of cellular automata to provide important insights into a vast range of physical, biological, social, economic and psychological phenomena. This book presents contemporary research on discrete dynamical systems such as one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata and outlines how these systems can be exploited for artistic purposes, translating their mathematical configurations into music and visual media.

Advances in information technologies have allowed end users to become a fundamental element in the development and application of computing technology and digital information.

Interactive systems in the mobile, ubiquitous, and virtual environments are at a stage of development where designers and developers are keen to find out more about design, use and usability of these systems. Ubiquitous Computing: Design, Implementation and Usability highlights the emergent usability theories, techniques, tools and best practices in these environments. This book shows that usable and useful systems are able to be achieved in ways that will improve usability to enhance user experiences. Research on the usability issues for young children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly is presented, with different techniques for the mobile, ubiquitous, and virtual environments.

This book provides analytical and numerical methods for the estimation of dimension characteristics (Hausdorff, Fractal, Caratheodory dimensions) for attractors and invariant sets of dynamical systems and cocycles generated by smooth differential equations or maps in finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces or on manifolds. It also discusses stability investigations using estimates based on Lyapunov functions and adapted metrics. Moreover, it introduces various types of Lyapunov dimensions of dynamical systems with respect to an invariant set, based on local, global and uniform Lyapunov exponents, and derives analytical formulas for the Lyapunov dimension of the attractors of the Henon and Lorenz systems. Lastly, the book presents estimates of the topological entropy for general dynamical systems in metric spaces and estimates of the topological dimension for orbit closures of almost periodic solutions to differential equations.

Strategists describe networking and being able to access knowledge as the leading path to gaining a competitive advantage. ""Cultural Implications of Knowledge Sharing, Management and Transfer: Identifying Competitive Advantage"" gathers contributions of scholars from multi-disciplinary fields to illustrate, compare, and discuss models, perspectives, and approaches involved in the distribution, administration, and transmission of knowledge across organizations. Containing research from leading international experts, this defining reference collection offers diverse viewpoints and depicts possible trajectories of future development in achieving competitive advantage.

Smart homes, smart cities, and wearable technologies are the growing applications of the internet of things (IoT). Ranging from healthcare tracking applications to smart watches and smart bands for personal safety, the IoT has turned out to be one of the most indispensable parts of our lives even as it is becoming more interconnected to better serve people. With the exponential growth of the IoT and its applications, building the next-generation smart world becomes much more feasible. The IoT and the Net Revolutions Automating the World covers a spectrum of intelligent applications of the IoT in parking, traffic management, waste management, lighting, air pollution controlling, healthcare, weather tracking, retail, and other areas calling for automation. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as e-commerce, security management, and web infrastructure, this book is ideal for academicians, students, researchers, industry professionals, IT consultants, engineers, and scientists.

In recent years, innovative technologies have lead to rapid progression and accelerated research studies within the field of end-user computing. ""Computational Advancements in End-User Technologies: Emerging Models and Frameworks"" contains leading research and practices into the advancement, significance, and comprehensive nature of end-user computing. A defining collection of significant tools, applications, and methodologies within this expanding field of study, this publication provides academicians, researchers, and practitioners with a complete and practical resource of expert international findings.

In light of the emerging global information infrastructure, information technology standards are becoming increasingly important. At the same time, however, the standards setting process has been criticized as being slow, inefficient and out of touch with market needs. What can be done to resolve this situation? To provide a basis for an answer to this question, Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective paints as full a picture as possible of the varied and diverse aspects surrounding standards and standardization. This book will serve as a foundation for research, discussion and practice as it addresses trends, problems and solutions for and by numerous disciplines, such as economics, social sciences, management studies, politics, computer science and, particularly, users.

Discussing the extraordinary importance of Internet technologies, this volume is a single source for information on the worlds greatest network. It provides a wealth of information for the average Internet consumer, as well as an expert in the field of networking and Internet technologies.

At one time, the office was a physical place, and employees congregated in the same location to work together on projects. The advent of the internet and the world wide web, however, not only made the unthinkable possible, it forever changed the way persons view both the office and work. ""Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices"" compiles authoritative research from XX scholars from over XX countries, covering the issues surrounding the influx of information technology to the office environment, from choice and effective use of technologies to necessary participants in the virtual workplace.

Design Science Research is a powerful paradigm enabling researchers to make important contributions to society and industry. Simply stated, the goal of DSR is to generate knowledge on how to find innovative solutions to important problems in the form of models, methods, constructs and instantiations. Over the past 20 years, the design science research (DSR) paradigm has developed into an established paradigm in Information Systems Research and it is of strong uptake in many other disciplines, including Management Science and Computer Science. This book provides a collection of twelve DSR cases, presented by experienced researchers in the field. It offers readers access to real-world DSR studies, together with the authors' reflections on their research processes. These cases will support researchers who want to engage in DSR, and represent a valuable addition to existing introductions to DSR methods and processes. Readers will learn from the hands-on experiences of respected experts who have conducted extensive DSR in a range of application contexts.

Human, Social, and Organizational Aspects of Health Information Systems offers an evidence-based management approach to issues associated with the human and social aspects of designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining health information systems across a healthcare organization - specific to an individual, team, organizational, system, and international perspective. Integrating knowledge from multiple levels, this book will benefit scholars and practitioners from the medical information, health service management, information technology arenas.

Due to growing technologies for learning processes, universities are making modifications in the development and construction of courses and services they offer. ""Monitoring and Assessment in Online Collaborative Environments: Emergent Computational Technologies for E-Learning Support"" focuses on new models and systems that perform efficient evaluation of student activity in Internet-based education. Containing research from leading international experts, this Premier Reference Source introduces original case studies and experiences of educators worldwide regarding e-learning activities.

This book presents the stream-tube method (STM), a method offering computational means of dealing with the two- and three-dimensional properties of numerous incompressible materials in static and dynamic conditions. The authors show that the kinematics and stresses associated with the flow and deformation in such materials can be treated by breaking the system down into simple computational sub-domains in which streamlines are straight and parallel and using one or two mapping functions in steady-state and non-steady-state conditions. The STM is considered for various problems in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics with different geometries. The book makes use of examples and applications to illustrate the use of the STM. It explores the possibilities of computation on simple mapped rectangular domains and three-dimensional parallel-piped domains under different conditions. Complex materials with memory are considered simply without particle tracking problems. Readers, including researchers, engineers and graduate students, with a foundational knowledge of calculus, linear algebra, differential equations and fluid mechanics will benefit most greatly from this book.

Recent advances in gene sequencing technology are now shedding light on the complex interplay between genes that elicit phenotypic behavior characteristic of any given organism. In order to mediate internal and external signals, the daunting task of classifying an organism's genes into complex signaling pathways needs to be completed. The Handbook of Research on Computational Methodologies in Gene Regulatory Networks focuses on methods widely used in modeling gene networks including structure discovery, learning, and optimization. This innovative Handbook of Research presents a complete overview of computational intelligence approaches for learning and optimization and how they can be used in gene regulatory networks.

This book concerns issues related to biomathematics, medicine, or cybernetics as practiced by engineers. Considered population dynamics models are still in the interest of researchers, and even this interest is increasing, especially now in the time of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, when models are intensively studied in order to help predict its behaviour within human population. The structures of population dynamics models and practical methods of finding their solutions are discussed. Finally, the hypothesis of the existence of non-trivial ergodic properties of the model of erythropoietic response dynamics formulated by A. Lasota in the form of delay differential equation with unimodal feedback is analysed. The research can be compared with actual medical data, as well as shows that the structures of population models can reflect the dynamic structures of reality.