Distribution of digital content is a key revenue opportunity for telecommunications carriers. As media content moves from analog and physical media-based distribution to digital on-line distribution, a great opportunity exists for carriers to claim their role in the media value chain and grow revenue by enhancing their broadband “all you can eat” high speed Internet access offer to incorporate ...

Digital home industry provides a spectrum of services that standardizes digital home appliances and uses network technology allowing integrated control of these devices (thus enhancing the intelligence of home appliances). The application of digital home technology has extended to other domains such as environment, healthcare, security, and other areas. This study proposes replacing conventiona...

In past several years, researchers, archival organizations and institutes invested efforts in constructing digital archives. Nowadays, there are rich digital archives distributed in many archival systems. However, to retrieve archival contents from these systems, users must be familiar to the system’s URL address, the user interface and functions provided by the system, since no single Web site...

The advances in multimedia technologies have created opportunities for Internet pirates, who can copy multimedia documents and illegally distribute them, thus violating the legal rights of document owners or web content providers. Such a situation is an actual threat particularly for web content providers, which often have neither the technical competence nor the economical advantage to directl...

Digital information resources on the web have been playing an important role during the information and knowledge propagation. Advanced applications such as intelligent information retrieval and information recommendation need the semantic relations among the digital information resources. Massive hyperlinks have existed in the current web; however, the semantic relations among the information ...