The explosive growth of the world-wide-web and the emergence of e-commerce has led to the development of recommender systems—a personalized information filtering technology use...
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), developed by the W3C, provides an XML-based language for websites to encode their datacollection and data-use practices in a machine-re...
This paper presents a method to implement integrated services of networked home electric appliances, which provide more convenient and comfortable living for home users. The conve...
The majority of today’s Internet-based services are generally not concerned about the level of Quality of Service (QoS) presented to their users. For many such services, however...
In this paper, an interactive image retrieval scheme using MPEG-7 visual descriptors is proposed. The performance of image retrieval systems is still limited due to semantic gap, w...