With the development of digital technology, while digital publishing provide convenience for people to access to information it also influences the management mode of traditional copyrights and challenges current copyrights system. In this context, how to protect digital copyrights and promote the healthy development of digital publishing industry through the creation, management, protection an...

We live in a time when access to information is seemingly easier than ever before. It is a world where expectations seem to be that we can, and need to, move as quickly as possible to the information specific to our individual need. While this is often a desired outcome, it often comes at the expense of the opportunity for exploration and discovery of new information. The capacity of Web-based,...

Economic freedom indicators have become quite popular recently as a useful tool to quantify the relationship between a country’s institutions and its prosperity. In a recent article, Hanson (2003) criticizes these types of studies for: (i) failing to adequately distinguish between different proxies for economic freedom, (ii) not considering the potential for endogeneity, and (iii) accepting sig...

Many deaf adults in the U.S. have difficulty reading written English text; computer animations of American Sign Language (ASL) can improve these individuals' access to information, communication, and services. Current ASL animation technology cannot automatically generate expressions in which the signer associates locations in space with entities under discussion, nor can it generate many ASL s...

Public authorities that collect data on the environment increasingly offer online public access to information, but they do not always consider by whom such information is used and for what purposes. And where they do, demand may not be homogenous or sufficiently known, thus adding to the difficulties of which information should be presented in what ways. Here we discuss the main issues in the ...

We observe that many contemporary services in the Internet are moving away from being centered around communication between individuals towards production, publication and retrieval of information, and this trend is foreseen to continue. This trend poses many interesting questions on essential issues in the architectural foundations of the current and future Internet. One such key question is t...

In the vision towards future radio systems, where access to information and sharing of data is to be available anywhere and anytime to anyone for anything, a wide variety of applications and services are therefore envisioned. This naturally calls for a more flexible system to support. Moreover, the demand for drastically increased data traffic, as well as the fact of spectrum scarcity, would ev...

Information warfare has become an increasingly diverse field. The changes to its composition have been primarily driven by changes in technology and the resulting increased access to information. Further, it has been the progressively more diverse methods available for communication that has fuelled expanding applications for information warfare techniques into non-military environments. In ord...

The advancement of ICTs in recent decades has provided an easy and rapid access to information, improved communications, performance gains, and productivity gains. But, this advancement comes with a “bad effect” known as Technostress. Technostress has increased in frequency by the compulsive use of ICT. Now a day’s, Smartphone has became a primary device to access ICT among students. This study...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for social media event finding in order to support fast access to information that users find relevant. While there are many approaches related to this problem, they mainly focus on homogeneous data, such as either the text of the posts, or the network of users. Our research focuses on combining multiple types of data from social media in a heterogeneo...