Remote communities generally have limited access to telecommunications and broadcast media services. The development of terrestrial and satellite based digital TV delivery systems, particularly those using Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) standards, provide new opportunities for service delivery for remote communities. We investigate potential DVB based interactive TV, data and voice services for ...

Network-based services such as surveillance, chatbot and entertainment are becoming more popular, and service robot platform with mobililty can be used as human caring services in infant or elderly care. This paper presents developemnt of a service robot platfrom and its software with a cooperative server-client control ability for human care and edutainment. The experimental results show the f...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess clinical practice and barriers associated with cancer rehabilitation from the perspective of Korean physiatrists. MATERIALS AND METHODS All active members of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine were invited to complete an online survey developed after focus group discussions. RESULTS A total of 97 physiatrists (72 males and 25 female...

Content networks (CNs) are being introduced to extend content distribution networks (CDNs) with content creation, modification, management, and placement mechanisms to support value-added services and modern applications. This paper presents a CN-based architecture supporting collaborative media streaming services which allow a synchronous group of users to select, watch and control a multimedi...

Service negotiation is a complex activity in e-business. Negotiation automation is able to free people from tedious interactions including both trivial actions, such as selection of a brand of wines for purchase, and complex tasks, such as conference organizations. Most of the existing negotiation automations are “price” bargaining type of position based negotiations, or simple alternative solu...

Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Director/Dean, Cooperative Extension Service/CTAHR, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. Copyright 2014, University of Hawai‘i. For reproduction...

In databases and traditional paper documents, an index is often tightly coupled with the information resources being indexed. Digital libraries require a generalized notion of indexing that is suitable for distributed and heterogeneous collections. The main contribution of the generalization described in this paper is to introduce an additional intermediate layer between the navigational struct...

The Internet has evolved from a service to transport simple text files into a platform for transporting a variety of complex multimedia services. The initial centralized management systems were not designed and are therefore not able to perform efficient management of Quality of Experience (QoE) for these complex services. Deploying an autonomic management system resolves these complexity issue...

Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Director/Dean, Cooperative Extension Service/CTAHR, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. Copyright 2011, University of Hawai‘i. For reproduction...