The paper presents an MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS)-based metadata and user profile model used within an enhanced DTV environment for semantic annotation and person...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
In multi-tier enterprise systems, application servers are key components to implement business logic and provide services. To support a large number of simultaneous accesses from ...
Most of the security proposals in m-commerce scenarios have been based on a classical payment model, which basically establishes relationships across domains among customers and me...
— Digital Ecosystems is the new paradigm for dynamic IT business integration. A Digital Ecosystem consists of institutions that compete, collaborate, and form stable or unstable ...