Breakthrough Discoveries in Information Technology Research: Advancing Trends

Breakthrough Discoveries in Information Technology Research: Advancing Trends

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A.

Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 288

ISBN13: 9781605669663|ISBN10: 1605669660|EISBN13: 9781605669670|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924072

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-966-3

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Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi, ed. Breakthrough Discoveries in Information Technology Research: Advancing Trends. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-966-3

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Information technology is a discipline under constant evolution.

This collection, entitled Breakthrough Discoveries in Information Technology Research: Advancing Trends, aims to inform researchers and practitioners of novel and emerging research in information science and technology, allowing for the discussion and dissemination of critical concepts that will promote further study and innovation. Selections explore all facets of the discipline, with specific contributions focusing on outsourcing, ethical concerns in research, biometrics, and information technology's role in disaster prediction and prevention.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Information Technology / Systems Offshore Outsourcing: Key Risks and Success Factors (pages 1-21)

Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Brandi Starr, Blake Hickerson, Marshelle Morrison, Michael Howard

The offshore outsourcing of information technology and information systems (IT/IS) is being increasingly practiced among firms that are focusing on core competencies and cost-effectiveness. With the increase in offshore IT/IS...

Chapter 2

Emerging Trends in Outsourcing (pages 22-32)

Tapasya Patki, A.B. Patki, Mahesh Kulkarni

Outsourcing has been conventionally viewed as a solution to generate quick profits and provide business continuity. The previous decades have seen the emergence of the Information Age, where the key focus was on knowledge acquisition...

Chapter 3

Agile Software Processes for the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Environment (pages 33-47)

Nathan Denny, Igor Crk, Ravi Sheshu Nadella

The growing adoption of outsourcing and offshoring concepts is presenting new opportunities for distributed software development. Inspired by the paradigm of round-the-clock manufacturing, the concept of the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory...

Chapter 4

Leveraging Knowledge Reuse and System Agility in the Outsourcing Era (pages 48-67)

Igor Crk, Dane Sorensen, Amit Mitra

Collaborative work groups that span multiple locations and time zones, or “follow the sun,” create a growing demand for creating new technologies and methodologies that enable traditional spatial and temporal separations to be...

Chapter 5

Extending the Balanced Scorecard for Outsourcing: The Goals Alignment Perspective (pages 68-79)

Preeti Goyal, Bhimaraya A. Metri

Alliances, collaborations and networks are synonymous with strategy today. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is one such type of alliance. With increasing reliance on outsourcing, the organizational boundaries are blurring. The...

Chapter 6

Business Process Onshore Outsourcing within the Community Banking System: An Investigative Study (pages 80-92)

B. Dawn Medlin, Adriana Romaniello

Business processes refer to the activities that are performed within an organization that are used in order to produce value for the organization and its customers. Through the use of onshore outsourcing, banks as do other industries...

Chapter 7

Offshoring in the Pharmaceutical Industry (pages 93-109)

Jason McCoy, Johannes Sarx

Offshoring has been adopted as a tool for reducing costs and for gaining strategic advantages by financial services, software development, and other competitive industries. For a variety of reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has...

Chapter 8

Enhancing e-Business Decision Making: An Application of Consensus Theory (pages 110-122)

William J. Tastle, Mark J. Wierman

Statistical analysis is the universally accepted method by which sense is created from raw data. Successful requirements determination is often dependent upon the gathering customer data over the Internet, and it may be largely...

Chapter 9

Changing Healthcare Institutions with Large Information Technology Projects (pages 123-136)

Matthew W. Guah

This article reviews the development of institutional theory in direct relations to historical changes within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) with an eye to contributing to the theoretical specification of healthcare...

Chapter 10

Crisis Compliance: Using Information Technology to Predict, Prevent and Prevail over Disasters (pages 137-150)

Laura Lally

This article develops the concept of crisis compliance (CC)—defined as making appropriate use of IT, and non-IT methodologies to predict, prevent, and prevail over disasters. CC emerges from Lally’s Target Shield and Weapon Model...

Chapter 11

Ethical Concerns in Usability Research Involving Children (pages 151-159)

Kirsten Ellis, Marian Quigley, Mark Power

This chapter examines the issues in conducting ethical usability testing with children including the special complications presented by the unique characteristics of children. It outlines the process of gaining approval of overseeing...

Chapter 12

A Generic Framework for Bluetooth Promoted Multimedia on Demand (BlueProMoD) (pages 160-172)

Panayotis Fouliras, Nikolaos Samaras

In recent years many technologies have converged to integrated solutions and one of the hottest topics has been the deployment of wireless personal area networks (WPANs). In this article we present a generic architecture scheme that...

Chapter 13

Social Interaction with a Conversational Agent: An Exploratory Study (pages 173-182)

Yun-Ke Chang, Miguel A. Morales-Arroyo, Mark Chavez, Jaime Jimenez-Guzman

Conversational agents that display many human qualities have become a valuable method business uses to communicate with online users to supply services or products, to help in online order process or to search the Web. The gaming...

Chapter 14

Voice-Based Approach for Surmounting Spatial and Temporal Separations (pages 183-190)

Kate O’Toole, Srividhya Subramanian, Nathan Denny

This article describes a new voice-based tool for global collaboration. This tool, called EchoEdit, attempts to provide multimedia capabilities to program source code editing for the purpose of eliciting in situ vocal commentary from...

Chapter 15

Intelligent Biometric System Using Soft Computing Tools (pages 191-207)

Anupam Shukla, Ritu Tiwari, Chandra Prakash Rathore

Biometric Systems verifiy the identity of a claimant based on the person’s physical attributes, such as voice, face or fingerprints. Its application areas include security applications, forensic work, law enforcement applications...

Chapter 16

Analysis and Modelling of Hierarchical Fuzzy Logic Systems (pages 208-217)

Masoud Mohammadian

In this article the design and development of a hierarchical fuzzy logic system is investigated. A new method using an evolutionary algorithm for design of hierarchical fuzzy logic system for prediction and modelling of interest...

Chapter 17

Fuzzy Logic in Medicine (pages 218-224)

Michelle LaBrunda, Andrew LaBrunda

This article explores the use of fuzzy logic in the medical field. While giving a comparison of classic and fuzzy logic we present the various uses of the applications made possible by fuzzy logic, focusing on diagnosis and...

Chapter 18

On Bias-Variance Analysis for Probabilistic Logic Models (pages 225-236)

Huma Lodhi

Deliberate exploitation of natural resources and excessive use of environmentally abhorrent materials have resulted in environmental disruptions threatening the life support systems. A human centric approach of development has...

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