The advent of the Internet and e-commerce has brought a new way of marketing and selling many products, including books. The system-wide impacts of this shift in retail methods on cost and the environment are still unclear. While reductions in inventories and returns provide significant environmental savings, some of the major concerns of the new e-commerce business models are the energy and pa...

Imagine that you are lucky enough to find some free time in your schedule, a you decide to take a trip. What do you do? If you're like most people, you co a travel agent to arrange the details. You describe your needs (where you wa go and when), the constraints that you need to impose (how much you are wi to spend, the hotel must provide child care) and some personal preferences (y preferred ai...

Newspapers, travel narratives, blogs, books and the Internet hold a huge amount of geographic information that can be extracted in order to provide visual exploration. Also, the understanding of place references involves knowledge of the document context. In this way, the study of tools for disambiguation is needed. For the automatic annotation of time and location, both shared world knowledge ...

Much of today’s information is digitised. Representation of information is increasingly becoming digital. Yet, paper books remain popular, as many readers prefer the reading experience that paper books provide, which digital interfaces cannot. In this paper, our aim is to improve users’ reading experience by enhancing books with digital functionalities. We conducted a user survey study to ident...

has the pleasure of sending to you our Publications 2003. This publication, nineth in a series, has 194 entries and includes 181 articles in English or Finnish; summarized in English for your convenience. We hope that you will find the booklet useful. Should you want to make a request for any listed book or article, please contact the authors or our Library at the addresses below. The library a...