The information revolution is drastically reshaping global society and pushing the world toward information based economy. Commercial activities such as information gathering, shopping, trading, collaboration, and distribution are changing, and companies are forced to adapt their strategies. The importance of information and communication technology (ICT), especially of the Web, in the travel a...

The development of new techniques and the emergence of new highthroughput tools have led to a new information revolution. The amount and the diversity of the information that need to be stored and processed have led to the adoption of data integration systems in order to deal with information extraction from disparate sources. The mediation between traditional databases and ontologies has been ...

For many years, information security has been the exclusive domain of a closed community of people from military, academics and IT companies. The information revolution in the 90s radically changed the scale and the nature of the issue. With the massive penetration of digital information and communication technology (ICT) in all advanced economies, people and engineered machines are now part of...

Information visualization should be human-centered because by definition it is the process of designing information to match the processing characteristics of human visual system. This is largely true for many special purpose visualization products regardless of whether the human-centered approach is taken deliberately in the design process. However, this type of humancentered visualization is ...

There can be no doubt that contemporary developments in information technology, including information systems developments, have changed business and organizational practices in many ways. For example, the world's ®nancial systems are so closely coupled that that a small decrease in interest rates in the United States may cause a disproportionately large rise in stock market values in South Eas...