A set of standard technologies already developed or under development by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) promises to bring back to authors the control of their works. The technologies are those of Content Representation, Digital Item Declaration, Interoperable Intellectual Property Management and Protection, and Metadata.

An extension of the DS/AHP method is proposed in the paper. It takes into account the fact that the multi-criteria decision problem might have several levels of criteria. Moreover, it is assumed that expert judgments concerning the criteria are imprecise and incomplete. The proposed extension also uses groups of experts or decision makers for comparing decision alternatives and criteria. Howeve...

This study­aimed to explain thebehavior and attitudes of farmersin the adoption ofIntegrated Pest­­­Management (IPM) technologiesinrice fields. The main instrument ofresearch was a questionnaire whose validitywas confirmed bya panel of professorsandexecutive experts, and its reliabilitywas confirmed by apreliminarytest.The sample employed inthe research study comprisedfarmers who were participa...

The aim of this study was to determine influencing factors on participation of fishermen member cooperative in sustainable fishing in Golestan Province. The methodological approach of this study was descriptive- correlative. The research population consisted of 144 fishermen who member cooperative, which were selected using census method. Validity of the instrument was established by a panel of...

In an increasingly connected world where solving complex problems is not possible by solitary experts, educators and learners need opportunities to develop ways of thinking that allow them to engage with the dynamic and complex situations that arise in the world. The development of graduate attributes has been suggested as one way in which students can be prepared as active agents of social goo...

Experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment or surplus from trade than their customers. Providing both diagnosis and treatment, this leaves scope for fraud. In a credence good set-up, we experimentally investigate how intensity of price competition and the level of customer information about past expert behavior in uence an expert's incentive to defraud his custom...

The transition to digital in the TV broadcasting industry is already gradually being performed while the complete digital switchover seems now possible to be accomplished within the near future. This article describes and analyses this phenomenon and the role of MPEG-21 may play in it. MPEG-21 is the ISO/IEC standard currently under development in MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11). Unlike preceding...

Resource Description Framework (RDF) datasets can be created by transforming structured databases, extracting the triples from semi-structured and unstructured sources, crowd-sourcing, or by integrating the existing datasets. The reliability and quality of these datasets can be improved by the participation of domain experts via a special purpose tool or a crowd-sourced application. Wikidata an...

The Joint Video Team (JVT) of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has standardized a scalable video coding (SVC) extension of the H.264/AVC standard. Thanks to SVC, it is possible to partially transmit or decode a video bitstream resulting in various video qualities (spatial, temporal or reduced delity). Within our lab, the aim is to d...