Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support: Advancing Effective Virtual Organizations (Premier Reference Source) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605663646 ISBN 13: 9781605663647

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2009

Synopsis

Managers today are experiencing an increased focus on emergent collaborative technologies designed to enable virtual organization users to share resources and accomplish complex tasks better. Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support: Advancing Effective Virtual Organizations provides a state-of-the-art collection of opportunities and applicable practices of grid technology to sustain competitive advantage. Offering a collection of international research studies by leading experts, this book describes how grid technology can be applied to serve the purpose within interconnected organizations in an effective and efficient collaborative setting.

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About the Author

Nik Bessis is currently a principal lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at University of Bedfordshire (UK). He obtained a BA (1991) from the TEI of Athens and completed his MA (1995) and PhD (2002) at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). His research interest is the analysis, research, and delivery of user-led developments with regard to trust, data integration, annotation, and data push methods and services in distributed environments. These have a particular focus on the study and use of next generation and grid technologies methods for the benefit of various virtual organizational settings. He is involved in and leading a number of funded research and commercial projects in these areas. Dr. Bessis has published numerous papers and articles in international conferences and journals, and he is the editor of two books and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) . In addition, Dr. Bessis is a regular reviewer of several journals and conferences and has served as an associate editor, a scientific program committee member, and a session chair in numerous international conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605663646
• ISBN 13: 9781605663647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Bessis Nik