Application of IT and Management in Economic Growth

Contents: Acknowledgements. List of contributors. Introduction. I. Technology and management: 1. Bhagavad Gita's Role in economic growth by transforming India corporate leaders to global corporate leaders/G. Surya Prakash Rao and V.M. Prasad. 2. Managing technological competence through university--industry relationships/Ashwini K. Awasthi and Balram Dogra. 3. Dematerialization and the capital market: a case study/Gian Kaur and Sherry Bawa. 4. Management of FDI for development of Indian economy/Neha Sharma. 5. Innovations in consumer payments: a sample survey in India/Gian Kaur and Sarabjeet Kaur. 6. Innovation and entrepreneurship: an overview/Vineet Singla, Ranjeet Verma and Inderjeet Kaur. II. Man-machine interface and network management: 7. ARTMAP: The character recognizer/Renu Dhir and Ashma Dhir. 8. Intelligent user interface/Daljeet Singh Matharu and Ashwani Kumar. 9. Natural language processing/Parvesh Kumar Gupta and Rohit Verma. 10. Speech and language processing: a conceptual framework/Hardeep K. Randhawa, Ravi Khurana and Rajni Bansal. 11. Application areas of Fiber-Optic Sensors/Rachit Garg and Manohar Singh. 12. Bioinformatics as a tool for network security/Rajiv Mahajan and Manohar Singh. 13. IPC Techniques for optimized message passing in distributed applications/Roopali Sood and Rachna Dhand. 14. Network management based on mobile agents/M.N. Doja and Sudhir Dawra. III. Sectoral applications: 15. Looking for a healthy India/Amit Kamra, Akshay Girdhar and Amit Makker. 16. Disaster management: an integrated approach/L.C. Patyal and Balram Dogra. 17. Disaster management: walking the talk/Ritu Sehgal. 18. Innovative sectoral applications of information and communication technology in field of disaster management/Ritesh Kumar Sharma and Yogesh Chaudhary. 19. Computers and crime in India--a projective scenario/Lakhwinder Kaur and Jagjit Singh. 20. Fraud detection: identifying and responding to corporate fraud in the 21 century/Rajiv Kumar Bhardwaz. 21. Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Indian sports goods industry/Navjote Khara. 22. Adoption of innovative technologies in Jalandhar Sports Goods Cluster/Rajesh Verma and Roopali Batra. 23. On building intelligent databases for economic growth of Punjab/Kawaljeet Singh, Harjeet Kaur and Harpreet Kaur. 24. An empirical study of E-Banking adoption by service class in Jalandhar/Anurag Pahuja and Dalbir Kaur. IV. Wireless networks and their security: 25. Fault tolerance, checkpointing and Ad Hoc Networks/Lalit Kumar Awasthi and Yash Pal Chopra. 26. Comparison of position based routing protocols for MANET/P.K. Bhatia and Shweta Malhotra. 27. Comparative study of On-Demand/Reactive Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks/Savita Yadav and Rishipal Singh. 28. Fourth generation wireless infrastructures/Ashish Sharma, Inderjeet Kaur and Saurabh Shukla. 29. Wireless local area network has no clothes/Atul M. Gonsai and Sanjib Kumar Sahu. 30. A comparative study of the Wired LAN with wireless LAN/Rahul Johari and Kalpana Johari. 31. Wireless Sensor Network (WISENET)/Jagdip Singh, Tirath Singh and Sandeep Sharma. 32. Wi-Fi : An overview/Avnip Deora and Gurvinder Singh. 33. Securing Wi-Fi Networks/Kirandeep Kaur and Kuljit Kaur. 34. Issues in design of energy efficient MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks/Batra Shalini. V. Supply chain and project management: 35. Supply Chain Management: practices, prospects and challenges/Sanjeev Kumar Singh and Mitu G. Matta. 36. Supply Chain Management (SCM): A fusion of systematic, reductionist and analytic approach towards value chain/Gurdev Singh Thakur, Ajay Prasher and Rajesh Bagga. 37. Optimizing supply chain costs through technology/Arpita Khare. 38. A systematic approach for quality management/Gagandeep. 39. Reengineering processes and methods: a study/Hardeep Singh and Sumesh Sood. 40. Software Project Risks: people aspect/P.K. Suri, Manoj Wadhwa and Shubha P. Wadhwa. 41. Effect of process re-engineering in business/Ashok Kumar and Sanjay Tyagi. 42. Computer aided fleet management system/Brij Bhushan Nanda and Karan Jetly. VI. Rural development: 43. Information and communication technologies: information bridge for growth/Sukhwinder Singh and Amandeep Kaur. 44. Rural connectivity/Manminder Singh and Jaspal Singh. 45. Road to rural connectivity: a vision for India/Ashu Gupta, Amanpartap Singh Pall and Navneet Gill. 46. Microfinance: a panacea for rural development/Shaveta Gupta. 47. Information technology: a catalyst in agriculture and rural development of India/Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Suresh Kumar and Ajay Kumar Bansal. 48. E-Readiness in India: scope and impact/Sanjeev K. Anand and Sandeep Bassi. VII. Community informatics: 49. Web-based instructional system for computer programming : a framework/Abdul Wahid, K. Mustafa and R.A. Khan. 50. Technology enhanced teaching and learning: an Indian perspective/Kulwant Kaur. 51. E-Governance: a road map for success/Ravi Kiran and Anupam Sharma. 52. E-Governance: a blend of information technology and internet towards SMART Governance/Sudhir Goyal and Vikram Aggarwal. 53. E-Governance: trends and innovations/Ruchi Ohri and Sudhir Dawra. 54. Unleashing potential of M-Government/Deepak Kaushik. 55. Mobile computing for E-Business/Amit Chhabra, Gurvinder Singh and Gaurav Kumar. 56. E-Tourism : Role of information technology in developing tourism industry in India/Shruti Bhardwaj. Index.

"India is in need of several affordable innovations in the IT Sector to leverage the advantages for the benefit of the society at large. The major sectors which are witnessing a special thrust for adoption of IT are E-Governance, insurance, banks, financial institutions, energy, defence, public tax system, ports, customs, telecommunication, education, small office, home office/individuals etc. Large sectors with slow IT penetration rate such as textile industry and healthcare are being encouraged by the government and private sector to adopt IT.

Our society needs to be rejuvenated and there is a need at this point of time for young and matured minds to come forward and assist to make it more vibrant than ever before. The conference offers a multidisciplinary forum to facilitate the exchange of information on the current theory, research, development and practice of information technology. All human activities require knowledge and skills and when computers are used by qualified and experienced people they are able to meet the challenges of the future to live in an ethical and highly developed society." (jacket)