To have buildings that are able to adapt to the user needs and at the same time to operate efficiently, it is essential to know the activity the people are performing. Presence sensors, which are widely deployed in modern buildings, attempt to regulate lighting to the presence of people in indoor spaces. Though, much more in terms of comfort and energy efficiency can be achieved if more detaile...

2) as kind of a variation on the above theme I propose in partcualr MM IE for the benefit of a group of users. There are different cases: for example, a) same info to be presented to a group; b) info segmented so that different people can work on the material collaboratively at the same time; c) info to be intelligently fragmented for individuals in a group, for specific strategic goals, e.g. l...

The concept of Personal Information Management (PIM) is currently a hot topic of research. Some of the ideas being discussed under this topic have a long history, and they are relevant to the work of intelligence analysts. Hence, the intelligence community should pay attention to the developments in this area. In this position paper we examine the concept of PIM, point out some issues that are ...

Personal Information Management (PIM) is an important discipline that evolves with the technology advancements in their operating systems. The understanding of its four main activities in PIM: organizing, retrieving, deleting and archiving are crucial because the information growth in our desktop increased overtime. The paper presents the study conducted to enhance understanding of one of the c...

Understanding the degree of cannibalization and competition in online and offline markets is important to firms’ product line designs. However, few empirical studies have measured both effects simultaneously or have examined the factors that determine the extent of cannibalization and competition. In this study, we develop an empirical model to identify cannibalization and competition effects s...

information has numerous potentials and features by which it can be used in various aspects of society. this paper aims to examine some roles and unique characteristics of information and supports the theory that information can be treated as wealth or wealth creator due to its vital impacts. finally, it is shown that identifying information significance, the roles it plays and making better us...

INTRODUCTION Interacting with digital PIM tools like calendars, to-do lists, address books, bookmarks and so on, is a highly manual, often repetitive and frequently tedious process. Despite increases in memory and processor power over the past two decades of personal computing, not much has changed in the way we engage with such applications. We must still manually decompose frequently performe...