In the context of triple play Ominimedia is not just the simple combination of various media, but the aggregation of all media with different features, communication power and influences,and the interaction and mutual fusion among media of different forms and functions. This paper, based on the development trend of triple play, focused on the theme of Ominimedia, studied the traditional media d...

There are two well-known views of linguistic communication: the code model and its counterpart, the hypothesis of the semantic transparency. If both of these views were correct, then there would be only one possible type of mishap in communication, that due to noise in the communication channel. However, none of these views is

— This paper extends known results on the stability analysis of interconnected systems. In particular, a small-gain theorem for the interconnection of an arbitrary number of systems via communication channels is presented. Here the communication between the subsystems is over a delayed, possibly lossy communication channel. To this end, a notion of input-to-output stability for functional diffe...

Investment systems are studied using a framework that emphasize their profiles (the cumulative probability distribution on all the possible percentage gains of trades) and their log return functions (the expected average return per trade in logarithmic scale as a function of the investment size in terms of the percentage of the available capital). The efficiency index for an investment system, ...

As international standards (the latest examples being MPEG-4 and JPEG 2000) continue to be developed and provide widely adopted solutions for media communications, some of the most important research problems in multimedia compression are becoming those where pure compression performance is not the main requirement. Instead, in this project we are focusing in a number of system-level issues tha...

This article considers past and present European research into communications characteristics for transport telematics applications. The background for the work is derived from the European Commission’s DRIVEITransport Telematics programs and research projects, and recent CEN TC278 activities. The prospect that a single media cannot meet all the current applications requirements is supported by...

Design is fundamentally a social activity; through a series of projects that examined groups of designers engaged in real design activity, a model of design communications as the mutual building a shared understanding leads us to a different approach in which computing is used not in service of the individual, but of the group and as part of a larger fabric of communications technologies. These...

This paper reports on a small-scale study that explores the impact of social media adoption and use on corporate communications and brand image. The research is carried out in two phases; analysis of brand communications via social media; and a small-scale survey with social media managers. We draw upon Habermas’ theory of communicative action (the ideal speech situation and discourse ethics) i...

This paper surveys the research on the applications of inter-vehicle communications, the issues of the deployment and technology, and the current status of inter-vehicle communications projects in Europe, the United States and Japan. The inter-vehicle communications, defined here as communications between on-board ITS computers, improve road traffic safety and efficiency by expanding the horizo...