GUEST EDITORIAL: Special Issue on Social Sensing and Privacy Computing in Intelligent Social Systems

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Clouds for Social Computing

IN recent time, two complimentary Internet based research areas are emerging: social computing and cloud computing. On the one hand, social computing empowers individual users with relatively low technological sophistication to use the web to engage in social interactions, contribute their expertise and share their content, experiences and opinions. On the other hand, cloud computing offers eve...

Guest editorial special issue on intelligent multimedia computing

Guest Editorial - Special issue: Recent developments in hybrid intelligent systems

The human-centric facet of intelligent systems, which are inherently based upon the principle of hybridization of the individual information technologies, is definitely an interesting and highly promising avenue to follow. The diversity of communication channels between information systems and the environment is immense, and their effective realization does call for a truly heterogeneous nature...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Enterprise Systems

The term Enterprise System is interpreted and defined in many different ways. Up to date there is no single universally accepted definition. It is often thought of as a multilevel system composed of business, information processing and ICT levels. Other authors view it as " an integrated system, built on one database " (Strong and Volkoff, 2004) or as a single system that is central to the orga...

Editorial: special issue on "social computing and e-business"

This ISeB special issue on social computing and e-business consists of a selected set of best papers presented in the Second China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2008) held in Kunming, Yunnan, China on June 29–30, 2008 and in the First International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2008) held in Taipei on June 17, 2008. The objective of the CSWIM is to create a bridge to pro...