Emerging Information Technology : Improving

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

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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