Internet users create social media that enable information to be transferred more efficiently. In this work we focus on a typical social media platform Wikipedia and examine how management’s voluntary disclosure reacts to information arrivals on Wikipedia. In doing so, we seek to answer the question of whether social media indeed improve the information environment for investors in the financia...

The SALERO project observed a lack of ontologies for the description and annotation of characters in media production. In this field ontologies could be used to support media asset management, information retrieval, automated production or reuse. This paper presents the SALERO Virtual Character Ontology which can be used to describe and annotate characters in media production and game design to...

Distributed continuous media server (DCMS) architectures are proposed to minimize the communication-storage cost for those continuous media applications that serve a large number of geographically distributed clients. Typically, a DCMS is designed as a pure hierarchy (tree) of centralized continuous media servers. In an earlier work, we proposed a redundant hierarchical topology for DCMS networ...