Editorial Preface Cyberworlds and Education

Cyberworlds - Theory, Design and Potential -

Cyberworlds are being formed in cyberspaces as computational spaces. Now cyberspaces are rapidly expanding on the Web either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without design. Widespread and intensive local activities are melting each other on the web globally to create cyberworlds. The major key players of cyberworlds include e-finance that trades a GDP-equivalent a day and e-manufacturin...

Cyberworld Modeling -integrating Cyberworlds, the Real World and Conceptual Worlds - 1. on Conceptual Evolution of Cyberworlds

The globalization of the real world we live has been almost exploding in its speed and scale spatiotemporally in all the key aspects including business, economy, industry, education and culture, making it hard for human beings to cognize what's going on and deal with them . Thus the links between the real world and conceptual world is getting weaker. The globalization is mainly driven by the We...

Editorial Preface Search Engine Technology: A Closer Look at Its Future

This editorial preface will describe the need for new technology for search engines, the two generations of search engine technologies used, and the need for a third generation search engine. We will discuss the limitations of today’s search engines and difficulties in determining relevancy of the search and the need for a context-sensitive ranking system, and take a closer look at the future o...

Special Issue Editorial Preface: Mobile Multimedia for Business Data Communications

The Potentials of Cyberworlds -An Axiomatic Approach-

Considering the increasingly large impacts and potentials of cyberworlds as seen in e-financing that trades GDP equivalent in a day, we human beings living in the real world are at the stage of needing to firmly identify the nature of cyberworlds. It is clear that if we continue to deal with cyberworlds as we have been, they grow chaotic beyond human understanding and control, endangering the r...