Shirley A. Becker - Developing Quality Complex Database Systems: Practices, Techniques and Technologies

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Mehdi Khosrowpour

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Jan Travers

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Developing Quality Complex Database Systems: Practices, Techniques and Technologies/ Shirley Becker, Florida Institute of Technology/ 1-878289-88-8

Human Computer Interaction: Issues and Challenges/Qiyang Chen, Montclair State University/ 1-878289-91-8

Our Virtual World: The Transformation of Work, Play and Life via Technology/Laku Chidambaram, University of Oklahoma and Ilze Igurs/1-878289-92-6

Text Databases and Document Management:Theory and Practice/Amita Goyal Chin, Virginia Commonwealth University/1-878289-93-4

Computer-Aided Method Engineering: Designing CASE Repositories for the 21st Century/Ajantha Dahanayake, Delft University/ 1-878289-94-2

Managing Internet and Intranet Technologies in Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities/Subhasish Dasgupta, George Washington University/1-878289-95-0

Information Security Management: Global Challenges in the New Millennium/Gurpreet Dhillon, University of Nevada Las Vegas/1-878289-78-0

Telecommuting and Virtual Offices: Issues & Opportunities/Nancy J. Johnson, Capella University/1-878289-79-9

Managing Telecommunications and Networking Technologies in the 21st Century: Issues and Trends/Gerald Grant, Carleton University/-878289-96-9

Pitfalls and Triumphs of Information Technology Management/Mehdi Khosrowpour/1-878289-61-6

Data Mining and Business Intelligence: A Guide to Productivity/Stephan Kudyba and Richard Hoptroff/1-930708-03-3

Internet Marketing Research: Theory and Practice/Ook Lee, University of Nevada Las Vegas/1-878289-97-7

Knowledge Management & Business Model Innovation/Yogesh Malhotra/1-878289-98-5

Strategic Information Technology: Opportunities for Competitive Advantage/Raymond Papp, Quinnipiac University/1-878289-87-X

Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges/ Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Minnesota State University/1-930708-00-9

Internet Commerce and Software Agents: Cases, Technologies and Opportunities/Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Minnesota State University, and Robert J. Bignall, Monash University/1-930708-01-7

Environmental Information Systems in Industry and Public Administration/ Claus Rautenstrauch and Susanne Patig, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg/ 1-930708-02-5

Strategies for Managing Computer Software Upgrades/Neal G. Shaw, University of Texas Arlington/1-930708-04-1

Unified Modeling Language: Systems Analysis, Design and Development Issues/ Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Terry Halpin, Microsoft Corporation/ 1-930708-05-X

Information Modeling in the New Millennium/Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics/ 1-878289-77-2

Strategies for Healthcare Information Systems/Robert Stegwee, and Ton Spil, University of Twente/ 1-878289-89-6

Qualitative Research in IS: Issues and Trends/ Eileen M. Trauth, Northeastern University/ 1-930708-06-8

Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management/Wim Van Grembergen, University of Antwerp/1-878289-90-X

Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy (2001 Proceedings)/Mehdi Khosrowpour/1-930708-07-6

Preface

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Acknowledgments

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1. Organizational Concepts and Measures for the Evaluation of Data Modeling