Overview

Throughout society the explosion of information technologies is changing how we work and live. This volume focuses on emerging technologies and their impact on people and organizations in the early years of the new century. This book contains a collection of 36 papers selected from more than 110 high­ quality presentations at the 2000 International Conference on the Information Society in the 21st Ceptury (IS2000). The conference was held November 5-8, 2000, in Aizu­ Wakamatsu, Japan. IS2000 featured lively exchanges of ideas and opinions on the im­ pact of emerging technologies on our society among international participants from academic and industrial organizations. The chapters in this book are grouped under the following six headings: Information and Knowledge Management Towards an Intelligent Society; Collaborative Internet, Multimedia, and Electronic Commerce; Intelligent Robots and Auditory Interfaces; New Models and Approaches for a Knowledge Economic Society; IT-Based Innovative Edu­ cation Systems and Strategies; and Emerging Technologies for the Information Society in the New Century. The papers offer excellent perspectives on advances in the various fields and provide a framework for the development of improvements in technologies that hold promise for enhancing our lives in the new century. Special thanks are due to the University of Aizu and the Telecommunications Ad­ vancement Foundation for providing grants to support IS2000 and the publication of this volume. We also would like to thank all the authors for their excellent work in assuring the high quality of the contents.

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Author:   Q. Jin ,  J. Li ,  N. Zhang ,  J. Cheng
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9784431669814

ISBN 10:   4431669817
Pages:   381
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Information and Knowledge Management: Dilemmas and Directions.- Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Databases.- Constraints-Based Query Translation across Heterogeneous Sources for Distributed Information Retrieval.- Video Matching Methods Using Spatial Characteristics in MSP Search System.- Replica Management in Object-Based Systems.- Intelligence in Information Society.- The Internet Group Tour via a Shared Web Browser.- Computer-Supported Online Proofreading in Collaborative Writing.- Design of Satellite-Based Multimedia Content Distribution Systems and Metrics for Systems Evaluation.- Incremental Document Clustering for Web Page Classification.- Integration of Multiple Tailoring Interfaces in Compositional Web Applications.- A Petri Nets Approach to Behavior Testing of SET Payment.- Electronic Commerce Transactions in a Mobile Computing Environment.- Control of Golf Swing Robot by Learning — Generation of Optimal Trajectory for Real System—.- A Novel Obstacle Avoidance Control Scheme for Hyper-Redundant Manipulators.- Estimation of Mass and Center of Mass of Unknown Curved-Surface Object Using Passing-C.M. Lines.- Sound and Visual Tracking by Active Audition.- Speech Enhancement and Segregation Based on Human Auditory Mechanisms.- Integration of Spatial Localization Cues — Auditory Processing for a Hearing Robot —.- Muilticountry Modelling for the Japan Sea Rim Economic Relations.- State-Owned Enterprises and Their Contract with Government in China: An Econometric Analysis.- Evolution of Cooperation in a Situation with a Risk: a Closed Society versus an Open Society.- Effect on Spectral Properties by the Splitting Correction Preconditioning for Linear Systems that Arise from Periodic Boundary Problems.- Statistical Disclosure Control Based on RandomUncertainty Intervals.- Knowledge Management System for Information System Design and Implementation Education.- Learning Strategies for Information Systems Students.- Do-It-Yourself Electronic Lectures in Microsoft Powerpoint.- An Overview of an Interactive and Personalized Multimedia Tele-Education Environment over a Gigabit Network.- “Interactive Multimedia Education at a Distance- Linear Algebra (IMED-LA)”: Its Present Status and Special Features of Its Content.- Distributed Multimedia Presentation with Floor Control Mechanisms in a Distance Learning System.- Modelling Distant Learning Activities by Agent Task Coalitions.- Tightly Coupled Multiprocessing: The Super Processor Architecture.- A Mathematical Theory of NMR Quantum Computations.- Quantum Computa Using Artificial Molecules.- Agent-SE: A Methodology for Agent Oriented Software Engineering.- Promoting Wearable Computing.

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