The #1 market leader is appropriate for MBA and undergraduate level courses in accounting information systems. The 8/e is extensively rewritten (almost 100 pages shorter) and includes a new two-color design. There is increased coverage of business strategy so that students can immediately begin to think about how information technology may be used ...
Intended for the introductory information systems course for all business students, this book it presents fundamental tenets, rules and guidelines of the discipline; a survey of various aspects of the discipline; and a perspective on why this discipline represents an important business function. It presents how and why information systems should ...
Taking users step-by-step through database development and creation, this title provides coverage of database basics, with exercises and problems at the end of each chapter which should encourage hands-on learning.
Appropriate for all introductory courses on database development and management, as well as database courses designed around specific database products such as Microsoft Access, SQL Server, or MySQL. In this book, one of the world's leading database experts introduces the essential concepts that students need to create and use working databases. ...
Offering concise, user-friendly coverage of core topics, this essential text provides a strong foundation for courses in Accounting Information Systems and gives instructors the flexibility they need to meet their individual course objectives. This text - now with more color! - is an excellent, stand-alone resource for a shorter course in ...
The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large ...
Learn how computers and technology affect the nurse's role in caring for the patient. Now fully updated and enhanced, the fourth edition includes new coverage of PDAs, the impact of HIPAA guidelines, patient safety issues, privacy issues, optimal use of decision support tools, and much more.
Some Web sites "work" and some don't. Good Web site consultants know that you can't just jump in and start writing HTML, the same way you can't build a house by just pouring a foundation and putting up some walls. You need to know who will be using the site, and what they'll be using it for. You need some idea of what you'd like to draw their ...
Information retrieval is a communication process that links the information user to a librarian, museum curator, fingerprint identification specialist, or whoever is in charge of a collection of what we are calling documents. The communication will normally involve the processing of text, strings of words known to both parties in the process that ...
Provides an up-to-date coverage of accounting information systems and related technologies. It features an early presentation of transaction cycles and emphasises on ethics, fraud, and the modern manufacturing environment.
For undergraduate or graduate courses in Accounting Information Systems. Core coverage of business processes, transaction cycles, and internal controls. An understanding of business processes is fundamental to contemporary auditing, and professional and legal considerations relating to an organization's internal control processes. Following a ...
Offering concise, user-friendly coverage of core topics, this essential text provides a strong foundation for courses in Accounting Information Systems and gives instructors the flexibility they need to meet their individual course objectives. The text is an excellent stand-alone resource for a shorter course in accounting information systems, or ...
Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods ...
This text provides helpful tips on how to find, select, and cite information accessed on the World Wide Web. From using search engines to avoiding Web cheating, this book will guide students through the jungle of data on the Internet. Covering topics such as using the Web as a research tool, types of Web sites and information credibility, content ...
Classical database technology is oriented toward a well-understood class of applications. Recently the field has attempted to solve the problems associated with new kinds of applications: computer-aided design, software engineering, and others that combine the need to deal with large amounts of data efficiently and the need to support queries in ...
Written in a straightforward casual tone, this web design primer guides novices through the process of setting up a site, from nuts-and-bolts server issues to marketing tips.
Significant amounts of our time and energy are devoted to creating, managing, and avoiding information. Computers and telecommunications technology have extended our regard for information and are driving changes in how we learn, work, and play. One result of these developments is that skills and strategies for storing and retrieving information ...
Accepting that information professionals need to learn both traditional and computerized information retrieval techniques, this book aims to provide students with a comprehensive view of information retrieval. It covers: classification, cataloguing, subject indexing, abstracting and vocabulary control; CD-ROM and online information retrieval, ...
This is a rigorous and complete textbook for a first course on information retrieval from the computer science (as opposed to a user-centred) perspective. The advent of the Internet and the enormous increase in volume of electronically stored information generally has led to substantial work on IR from the computer science perspective - this book ...
Michael Buckland offers an examination of information and information systems which is comparative rather than technical in approach. Using explicitly defined terms, Buckland interprets the nature of retrieval-based information systems such as museums, archives, libraries, and online databases, and their relative social utility. Introductory ...
This is a reference on data compression, tailored to the popular programming environment. The book includes compression techniques for computer graphics, video and sound data and discusses the JPEG sound algorithm. It also shows how to evaluate and choose data compression methods. All techniques are illustrated with complete working programs in C+ ...
This book gives a theoretical base and a perspective for the analysis, design, and operation of information systems, particularly their information storage and retrieval (ISAR) component, whether mechanized or manual. Information systems deal with many types of entities: events, persons, documents, business transactions, museum objects, research ...
Metadata is increasingly central to enterprise IT architecture, and to applications ranging from data warehousing to CRM. Finally, there's a comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to implementing metadata solutions. Leading data management consultant Adrienne Tannenbaum covers the real issues associated with bringing together data from multiple ...
A guide for evaluating, abstracting, and indexing directory, full-text, and page-image databases available on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM through traditional online services that were born on the Web. It looks at Web-based sources such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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