Glocal Lounge

Glocal Multimedia Retrieval

Personal experience is intrinsically local while common knowledge is global. As a consequence, standard multimedia search engines suffer from a gap between local content and global concept, due to the diversity of context. Here we design a new multimedia retrieval system which integrates local diversity into an evolving global knowledge. A suitable personalization of global ontologies allows to...

The Glocal Forest

Spatial ecological patterns reflect the underlying processes that shape the structure of species and communities. Mechanisms like intra- and inter-specific competition, dispersal and host-pathogen interactions can act over a wide range of scales. Yet, the inference of such processes from patterns is a challenging task. Here we call attention to a quite unexpected phenomenon in the extensively s...

Introduction: Glocal pharmaceuticalization

Global + local = glocal public health.

Magic Lounge Architecture A First Outline

Magic Lounge is a virtual meeting application which will integrate a number of technologies most of which are already known, such as www and video conferencing. In addition, Magic Lounge will integrate the innovations necessary to achieve the envisioned Magic Lounge functionality as described in [Dybkjær and Bernsen 1998]. Figure 1 outlines the physical Magic Lounge environment, i.e. how users ...