Interdisciplinary Advances in Adaptive and Intelligent Assistant Systems: Concepts, Techniques, Applications, and Use (Premier Reference Source)

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• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Information is becoming the raw material of modern society; it is the driving force of modern service industries. Our information spaces have been pervaded by technology and are characterized by their increasing size and complexity. Furthermore, access to information spaces and the ability to use them effectively and efficiently have become key economic success factors.Interdisciplinary Advances in Adaptive and Intelligent Assistant Systems: Concepts, Techniques, Applications, and Use encourages knowledge on effective and efficient approaches to accessing information spaces. It fosters an emerging key competence: accessing and processing large, highly complex corpora of information by applying collaborative, intelligent technical systems. It is the mission of this book to trigger interdisciplinary research and cooperation at the intersection between information sciences, information technologies and communication sciences. This publication also raises awareness of the fields importance in business and management communities, thus contributing to the dissemination of scientific ideas and insights.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgment......Page 35
Towards Next Generation Web: Knowledge Web......Page 38
BDD-Based Combinatorial Keyword Query Processing under a Taxonomy Model......Page 63
Spreadsheet-Based Orchestration for Describing and Automating Web Information Access Processes......Page 77
A Component-Based 3D Geographic Simulation Framework and its Integration with a Legacy GIS......Page 100
A Web-Enabled, Mobile Intelligent Information Technology Architecture for On-Demand and Mass Customized Markets......Page 120
Enhancing Video Viewing Experience......Page 161
Utilisation of Expert Online Retrieval Tools: An Exploration of Barriers and Added Values......Page 190
Software Agents for Human Interaction in Social Networks......Page 214
Your Personal, Virtual Librarian......Page 236
Compilation of references......Page 272
About the contributors
......Page 289
Index......Page 296