Recommender systems can provide valuable services in a digital library environment, as demonstrated by its commercial success in book, movie, and music industries. One of the most...
One of the key challenges in large information systems such as online shops and digital libraries is to discover the relevant knowledge from the enormous volume of information. Rec...
We set out to examine whether current, DRM-based online offerings of music and movies accord with consumers’ current expectations regarding the personal use of copyrighted works...
The increasing diffusion of mobile computing and of portable devices with wireless connectivity identifies new challenging scenarios for service provisioning. The access from devi...
The use of bandwidth smoothing techniques for the delivery of prerecorded compressed video has been shown to be an effective technique in reducing the network bandwidth requiremen...