 | | About the CollectionIGI Global's Research Essentials line is our latest publication format which will debut in the 2013 copyright year. Research Essentials aim to pack the same high-level research our audiences have come to expect from our more comprehensive publications, only in a smaller reference format.
Publications released as Research Essentials will offer a succinct discussion on niche topics in all areas of Information Science and Technology. Sized and priced appropriately, these concise, advanced, and timely resources will be perfect for supplementary course usage, targeted towards instructors and students, as well as the independent researcher looking for the most recent and innovative research in their field.
Areas of InterestResearch Essentials present the most cutting-edge research on niche topics within the diverse fields of information science and technology, engineering, medical technologies and administration, business and management. Areas of interest include specialized topic focus in the areas of:
- Accounting and Finance
- Aerospace Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioinformatics
- Business and Organizational Research
- Business Information Systems
- Business Management
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Data Mining and Databases
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- Educational Technologies
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronic Government
- Electronic Services
- Environmental Technologies and Engineering
- Health Information Systems
- High Performance Computing
- Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management
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- Human Resources Development and Management
- Industrial Engineering
- Information Resources Management
- IT Policy and Standardization
- IT Research and Ethics
- IT Security and Ethics
- Knowledge Management
- Library Science
- Marketing
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Engineering
- Mobile and Wireless Computing
- Multimedia Technology
- Networking and Telecommunications
- Public and Sector Management
- Social Computing
- Software and Systems Engineering
- Web Technologies
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View a complete list of our topics of interest: www.igi-global.com/publish/research-areas/Submitting a ProposalSubmit a proposal for a new Research Essentials publication: www.igi-global.com/publish/submit-a-proposal/Research Essentials Publications: |
Christopher O. Gekonge (Doing Business in Africa Inc., USA)
Copyright © 2014. 336 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Despite its often mismanaged economy, Africa remains the third largest continent in land mass and population. It continues to offer unexploited business opportunitie...
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Robert A. Schultz (Woodbury University, USA)
Copyright © 2014. 347 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Although human beings are technically part of the ecosystem, there still remains a conceptual conflict between technology and nature. These concerns highlight the id...
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Alfredo Aguilera (Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile), J. Paulo Davim (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Copyright © 2014. 302 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Wood material has acquired great importance due to its short supply and increasing environmental awareness amongst users and manufacturers. However, its use as an en...
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Avinash Kapoor (Management Development Institute (MDI), India), Chinmaya Kulshrestha (Management Development Institute (MDI), India)
Copyright © 2014. 247 pages. Priced from $175.00 to $350.00.
Although social marketing is generally associated with communication activities and mass media, there exists a broader scope of social marketing that utilizes a syst...
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John J. Regazzi (Long Island University, USA)
Copyright © 2014. 198 pages. Priced from $175.00 to $350.00.
The term infonomics has been coined to convey the underlying value of information in terms of its production, market demand, and economic impact. All consumers have...
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Pau Fonseca i Casas (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
Copyright © 2014. 296 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Models and simulations are an important first step in developing computer applications to solve real-world problems. However, in order to be truly effective, compute...
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I. M. Low (Curtin University, Perth, Australia), Y. Sakka (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan), C. F. Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Copyright © 2013. 299 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Ceramics are a versatile material, more so than is widely known. They are thermal resistant, poor electrical conductors, insulators against nuclear radiation, and no...
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Antoni Szumanowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Copyright © 2013. 314 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Hybridization is an increasingly popular paradigm in the auto industry, but one that is not fully understood by car manufacturers. In general, hybrid electric vehicl...
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Samer Habre (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)
Copyright © 2013. 308 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Mathematics is, by its very nature, an abstract discipline. However, many students learn best by thinking in terms of tangible constructs.Enhancing Mathematics Under...
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Jing Tian (Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China), Li Chen (Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China)
Copyright © 2013. 277 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Due to increasing potential in real-world applications such as visual communications, computer assisted biomedical imaging, and video surveillance, image and video i...
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Carmen R. Santos (University of Leon, Spain), Stéphane Ganassali (University of Savoie, France), Francesco Casarin (University of Venice, Italy), Pirjo Laaksonen (University of Vaasa, Finland), Hans-Ruediger Kaufmann (University of Nicosia, Cyprus & International Business School at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Copyright © 2013. 414 pages. Priced from $165.00 to $330.00.
Although studies indicate the assumption of one single European market, other research emphasizes European countries have distinct market identities. Meanwhile, as i...
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