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There are opinion leaders in a society who represent the opinion of general public. The general public accepts information not only by mass media but also by opinion leaders. Since the late 20th century, the number of Internet users has increased fast. Many users interact with each other in an online social network. This makes the Web community similar to the real society. Thus it is a natural task...
This study is aimed at investigating the importance of positive reputation from external experience sources for diffusion of a mobile convergent device, Smartphone. We categorized the different reputation sources into four; personal, expert, consumers, and mass media. By conducting a conjoint analysis with 53 samples from a university, we found that the prior experience of consumer group has the largest...
In Web 2.0, there is no clear distinction between users and webmasters. Many internet users are not only information consumers but also information providers. There are lots of information in the Web and most people can find what they want by searching the Web. One problem of the large number of data in the Web is that we often spend most of our time to find a correct result from search results. Thus,...
This paper presents a new method to find leading indicators of domestic book sales from conventional Blog information. Although Blog information is different from actual purchases, it will influence customer behaviors. They consider it would be useful for decision making of businesses and organizations. Main contributions of the paper are three fold: 1) As well as study on the US of an Internet bookstore,...
BitTorrent has achieved a huge success, being estimated to account for Internet traffic. The ever increasing usage of BitTorrent is due to some attractive properties of its swarming systems. First, cooperation among peers in a swarm results from the tit-for-tat based incentive mechanism to improve the overall system performance in terms of throughput. Second, the tit-for-tat strategy also prevents...
Automatic face indexing is a promising technique for personalized IPTV applications. This paper proposes a novel framework that makes use of an STB's Internet connection in order to realize face indexing for a personal media library. In particular, given a drama or movie title, actor names are first retrieved from a drama or movie information web service. The obtained actor names are subsequently...
The Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service provides rich multimedia services over IP networks and is widely believed to be the next killer application over the Internet. It is generating a lot of interest, especially in potential service providers who are eager to develop successful business models that will ensure their survival in this emerging market. We believe that the success of an IPTV...
Currently, requirements of the retrieval of illegal movies and objectionable multimedia (images and movies) are needed in Internet era. So we developed XMAS (X multimedia analysis system). XMAS consists of two service applications - One is a detecting solution objectionable multimedia for clean internet and another is a retrieval solution of illegal movies for digital rights. XMAS uses feature extraction...
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