The Internet Encyclopedia: Wiley

Description: The definitive, three-volume Internet Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the Internet for professionals. This comprehensive compendium offers a broad perspective on the Internet as a business tool, an IT platform, and a medium for communications and commerce. It presents leading-edge theory and recent developments as described by global experts from such prestigious institutions as Stanford University, Harvard University, and MIT and such leading corporations as Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems. Available in print or in subscription-based online format, it’s the only resource that offers complete, up-to-the-moment coverage of fast-moving Internet technology.

Key Features

* Chapters are presented in easy-to-read, user-friendly format with detailed crossreferencing and extensive online and off-line references to additional reading
* Includes more than 200 articles vigorously peer-reviewed by more than 800 academics and practitioners from around the world
* Features more than 1,000 illustrations and tables for in-depth understanding of complex subjects
* Articles are divided into eleven major categories that address key issues in design, utilization, and management of Internet-based systems

Includes over 200 articles in these 11 major categories:

* Foundation for the Internet and Web technologies
* Infrastructure for the Internet and e-commerce
* Design, implementation, and management of Web-based systems
* Security issues and measures for computers, networks, the Internet, and online transactions
* Legal, social, organizational, and taxation issues of the Internet and Web technologies
* Wireless Internet and e-commerce
* E-commerce: fundamentals, taxonomies, and supporting technologies
* Supply-chain management: fundamentals, technologies, and management
* Web design and programming
* The Internet and e-commerce applications
* Marketing and advertising on the Web: fundamentals, technologies, and management

Vol 1
Vol 2
Vol 3