The study on database technologies, or more generally, the technologies of data and information management, is an important and active research eld. Recently, many exciting results have been reported. In this fast growing eld, Chinese researchers play more and more active roles. Research papers from Chinese scholars, both in China and abroad, appear in prestigious

Communicative feedback in human-human and human-computer interaction is of interest to both language and ICT researchers. In this study, unimodal and multimodal feedback, produced by Chinese and Swedish interlocutors, has been investigated in four Chinese-Chinese, four Swedish-Swedish, and eight Chinese-Swedish informal dyadic videorecorded dialogs. We are investigating two issues: First, what ...

Inspired by the success of English grapheme-to-phoneme research in speech synthesis, many researchers have proposed phoneme-based English-to-Chinese transliteration models. However, such approaches have severely suffered from the errors in Chinese phoneme-to-grapheme conversion. To address this issue, we propose a new English-to-Chinese transliteration model and make systematic comparisons with...

Due to the growth of the Internet and e-commerce, both practitioners and researchers are in the midst of a social, business and culture revolution. Internet and e-commerce related research has been developed and grown up by United States, but China has become one of the most exciting research areas. This literature review consists of 1044 journal articles published between 1993 and 2003 in four...

present article focuses on service failure and recovery in the online shops in iran. the article investigates interaction between service failure and online shops readiness for service recovery and resulting impact on customer reaction. the data was collected by an e-questionnaire from 615 iranian online shoppers. the findings suggest, although many online shops are severely breaching few funda...

In this issue of The Design Journal are six original articles, two exciting PhD reports and an important book review. It is open which means it has a range design subjects, often with n...