Overlay multicast networks are used by service providers to distribute contents such as web pages, streaming multimedia data, or security updates to a large number of users. Howeve...
Content-based image retrieval plays an important role in many multimedia applications. Images are typically retrieved based on a given sample image, a sketch or a simple descripti...
Service Management controls how business services are developed and delivered to customers. Business services must be flexible negotiable between customer and provider. Temporal a...
The user-centric service creation paradigm set out in Web 2.0 technologies on the Internet allows users to define and share their new content and applications. Open services and in...
Knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning (OL) have developed in both divergent and convergent ways. In particular, these fields have relatively distinct intellectual ...