Risk Assessment and Management in Pervasive Computing: Operational, Legal, Ethical, and Financial Perspectives

Risk Assessment and Management in Pervasive Computing: Operational, Legal, Ethical, and Financial Perspectives

Varuna Godara
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: October, 2008|Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 412
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-220-6
ISBN13: 9781605662206|ISBN10: 1605662208|EISBN13: 9781605662213
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Description:

The e-businesses of today are adopting pervasive computing with fervor but at the same time becoming increasingly aware of the many risks involved in it.

Risk Assessment and Management in Pervasive Computing: Operational, Legal, Ethical, and Financial Perspectives examines the implications of pervasive computing from varying crucial perspectives so that current and future e-business managers can make responsible decisions about where, when, and how to use this technology. Containing 19 chapters from an international pool of leading experts and field practitioners, this unmatched resource will enhance the awareness of emerging and global issues in e-business risk management.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Advancing women in the digital economy
  • Biometrical identification
  • Computational mobile grid
  • Cultural dimension in pervasive computing
  • Deciphering pervasive computing
  • E-fraud and privacy in pervasive computing
  • Ethical issues in pervasive computing
  • Gaming impact on child development
  • Human factor elements of pervasive computers
  • Knowledge sharing and pervasive computing
  • Mobile and pervasive technology in education
  • Pervasive business infrastructure
  • Pervasive computers in aviation passenger risk profiling
  • Pervasive Computing
  • Security issues in pervasive computing
  • Strategizing in the digital world
  • Success factors for implementing e-business
  • Ubiquitous computing for microbial forensics and bioterrorism
Reviews & Statements

This book provides extensive information about pervasive computing, its implications from operational, legal, and ethical perspectives, so that current and future pervasive service providers can make responsible decisions about where, when, and how to use this technology.

– Varuna Godara, University of Western Sydney, Australia

About half of the 19 contributions discuss pervasive computing applications and business models while the other half considers risk assessment and cultural implications.

– Book News Inc. (March 2009)
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Varuna Godara is the CEO of Sydney College of Management, Australia and SAP Australia certified consultant. Dr. Godara is the chair of International Congress on Pervasive Computing and Management. Previously, she worked as Director of Marketing at SCBIT and was a permanent faculty in Department of Business Systems, School of Management in University of Western Sydney, Australia from July 2003 to September 2008. Dr. Godara received her Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 1997, MBA in 1999, Maters in Computer Applications, and PhD in 2003. Her research interests are mainly in ERP, Pervasive business, E-business management, e-governance and innovation in business. She has authored a book in 2008, has contributed chapters in refereed books, papers in many refereed journals and presented research work in reputed conferences. She has also published popular articles and poems in various books and magazines. She was awarded with Roll of Honour two times by Kurukshetra University, India and was awarded once by National Library of Poetry, US.
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