Handbook of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has become a significant technology trend. Experts believe cloud computing is currently reshaping information technology and the IT marketplace. The advantages of using cloud computing include cost savings, speed to market, access to greater computing resources, high availability, and scalability.

Handbook of Cloud Computing includes contributions

 

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we’ve zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights into who

 

E-Strategies for Resource Management Systems: Planning and Implementation

E-Strategies for Resource Management Systems: Planning and Implementation offers insight into current research practices and trends in information resource management strategies that can implemented electronically. This reference describes new tools and technologies that have the potential to optimize business practices and presents descriptions of issues that arise when

 

Cultures and Globalization: Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation (The Cultures and Globalization Series)

Volume 3 of the Cultures & Globalization series, Creativity and Innovations, explores the interactions between globalization and the forms of cultural expression that are their basic resource. Bringing together over 25 high-profile authors from around the world, this volume addresses such questions as: What impacts does globalization have

 

Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus, 5th Edition

Full of relevant and current real-world applications, Stefan Waner and Steven Costenoble’s FINITE MATHEMATICS AND APPLIED CALCULUS, Fifth Edition helps your students relate to mathematics! Throughout the text is clearly delineated, thorough Microsoft Excel and Graphing Calculator instruction, optional so instructors can include any amount of technology instruction

 

Expert C++/CLI: .NET for Visual C++ Programmers

Stan Lippman is one of the best-selling authors on C++ and has long been one of the major contributors to its growth and standardization. He is the architect C++/CLI, Microsoft’s latest extension to C++. Under his guidance, experienced C++ developer and trainer – and Visual C++ MVP —

 

Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperability: Frameworks and Issues

As the e-learning industry continues to expand and the methods and tools necessary to create and maintain content and infrastructure applications become more complicated, there is an inherent need for these applications to interoperate and exchange data in order to better support the needs of learners and educators.

 

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, 6th Edition

Over 100,000 readers have relied on Trefil to gain a better understanding of physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology. The book focuses on the great ideas in each field while showing readers how core scientific principles connect to their daily lives. The sixth edition emphasizes important themes

 

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2011: Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, January 26-28, 2011

The papers advance in recommender systems, website quality and analysis, user-generated content, eWOM, mobile tourism, hospitality applications, technology acceptance and impact, Web 2.0, destination management, technology solutions, social media, marketing, tourist behavior, and other important topics. Authors of these articles are affiliated with some of the world’s prominent

 

Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering, 8th Edition

Building on seven strong editions, the eighth edition maintains the organization and approach for which Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering is known while making significant improvements and additions to content as well as problems and projects. The revisions for the eighth edition make the text easier to use