Emerging Information Technology : Improving Decisions, Cooperation, and Infrastructure
by Kenneth E. KendallFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-06-23
Publisher(s): Sage Publications, Inc
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Summary
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
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| PART ONE: DECISION-SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES - Edward A Stohr and Sivakumar Visanathan | |
| Recommendations Systems | |
| Decision Support for the Information Economy - Cleotilde Gonz[ac]alez and George M Kaspar | |
| Animation in User Interfaces Designed for Decision Support Systems | |
| The Effects of Image Abstraction, Transition and Interactivity on Decision Quality - Narender K Ramarapu, Mark N Frolick, Ronald B Wilkes and James C Wetherbe | |
| The Emergence of Hypertext and Problem Solving | |
| An Experimental Investigation on Accessing and Using Information from Linear Versus Nonlinear Systems - Paul Gray | |
| Data Warehousing | |
| Three Major Applications and Their Significance - Phillip Ein-Dor | |
| Artificial Intelligence | |
| A Short History and the Next Forty Years | |
| PART TWO: COOPERATION-FACILITATING TECHNOLOGIES - Ruth C King and Weidong Xia | |
| Media Appropriateness | |
| Effects of Experience on Communication Media Choice - Susan Rebstock Williams and Rick L Wilson | |
| Group Support Systems, Power and Influence in an Organization | |
| A Field Study - Arun Rai and Deepinder S Bajwa | |
| An Empirical Investigation Into Factors Relating to the Adoption of Executive Information Systems | |
| An Analysis of EIS for Collaboration and Decision Support - Merrill E Warkentin, Luifus Sayeed and Ross Hightower | |
| Virtual Teams Versus Face-to-Face Teams | |
| An Exploratory Study of a Web-based Conference System | |
| PART THREE: INFRASTRUCTURE-ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES - Julie E Kendall and Kenneth E Kendall | |
| Web Pull and Push Technologies | |
| The Emergence and Future of Information Delivery Systems - Vladimir Zwass | |
| Structure and Macro-Level Impacts of Electronic Commerce | |
| From Technological Infrastructure to Electronic Marketplaces - Tor Guimaraes and Magid Igbaria | |
| Client//Server System Success | |
| Exploring the Human Side - Gordon B Davis and J David Naumann | |
| Knowledge Work Productivity | |
| Features and Fuctions of Information Technologies |
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