The Future of the Northern Forest
Author: Christopher McGrory Klyza
A timely collection presenting the diverse voices involved in the debate over the fate of the Northern forestlands.
A truly effective 'environmental impact assessment' [that] . . . demonstrate[s] effectively that a scholarly book on a controversial issue need be neither pedantic nor academic . . . a truly interdisciplinary and interesting study of a major region of the nation . . . [and] a model for integrated case studies of other regions experiencing natural resource controversy and change.
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Emerging Information Technology: Improving Decisions, Cooperation, and Infrastructure
Author: Kenneth E Ed Kendall
The chapters in this volume explore cutting-edge research being conducted on emerging information technologies. All of the technologies are well known; this book's unique contribution is its explanation of the application and relevance for managers, consultants, and decision makers. The ultimate purpose of Emerging Information Technologies is to enable its readers - managers, consultants, scholars, and researchers - to build bridges from technological emergence to the technological sublime. In-depth topics include * Recommendation Systems * Hypermedia/Hypertext * Data Warehousing * Artificial Intelligence (AI) * Group Support Systems (GSS) * Executive Information Systems (EIS) * Virtual Teams * Information Delivery Systems (IDS) * E-Commerce * Client Server Systems * Knowledge Work Productivity
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Rather than introducing new and unknown information technologies, reports on the widening applications of those already known and the implications for managers, consultants, and decision makers. For recommendation systems, hypermedia and hypertext, data warehousing, artificial intelligence, group support systems, executive information systems, virtual teams, information delivery systems, electronic commerce, client server systems, and knowledge work productivity considers the life cycle of technological change and how the technologies are being used. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Emerging Information Technologies: Information Technologies That Support Decision Making, Facilitate Cooperation, and Enable the Information Infrastructure | 1 |
| Pt. I | Decision-Supporting Technologies | |
| 2 | Recommendation Systems: Decision Support for the Information Economy | 21 |
| 3 | Animation in User Interfaces Designed for Decision Support Systems: The Effects of Image Abstraction, Transition, and Interactivity on Decision Quality | 45 |
| 4 | The Emergence of Hypertext and Problem Solving: An Experimental Investigation of Accessing and Using Information From Linear Versus Nonlinear Systems | 75 |
| 5 | Data Warehousing: Three Major Applications and Their Significance | 99 |
| 6 | Artificial Intelligence: A Short History and the Next 40 Years | 117 |
| Pt. II | Cooperation-Facilitating Technologies | |
| 7 | Media Appropriateness: Effects of Experience on Communication Media Choice | 143 |
| 8 | Group Support Systems, Power, and Influence in an Organization: A Field Study | 177 |
| 9 | An Empirical Investigation Into Factors Relating to the Adoption of Executive Information Systems: An Analysis of EIS for Collaboration and Decision Support | 205 |
| 10 | Virtual Teams Versus Face-to-Face Teams: An Exploratory Study of a Web-Based Conference System | 241 |
| Pt. III | Infrastructure-Enabling Technologies | |
| 11 | Web Pull and Push Technologies: The Emergence and Future of Information Delivery Systems | 265 |
| 12 | Structure and Macro-Level Impacts of Electronic Commerce: From Technological Infrastructure to Electronic Marketplaces | 289 |
| 13 | Client/Server System Success: Exploring the Human Side | 317 |
| 14 | Knowledge Work Productivity: Features and Functions of Information Technologies | 343 |
| Index | 359 | |
| About the Editor | 365 | |
| About the Contributors | 367 |
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