Innovations and developments in networking technology have been driven by technical considerations with little analysis of the benefit to the user. In this paper we argue that network parameters that define the network Quality of Service QoS must be driven by user-centric parameters such as user expectations and requirements for multimedia transmitted over a network. To this end a mechanism for...

Our everyday environments are gradually becoming intelligent, facilitated both by technological development and user activities. Although large-scale intelligent environments are still rare in actual everyday use, they have been studied for quite a long time, and several user studies have been carried out. In this paper, we present a user-centric view of intelligent environments based on publis...

Summary mining aims to find interesting summaries for a data set and to use data mining techniques to improve the functionality of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems. In this paper, we propose an interactive summary mining approach, called GenSpace summary mining, to find the interesting summaries based on user expectations. In the mining process, to record the user’s evolving knowledg...

background and objectives: evaluation has an important role in software development. quality is considered in the evaluation of information systems, which depends on usability, availability, validity, compatibility, and response time. this research was performed with the aim of determining the usability of hospital information systems according to the 7 principles of isometric 9241, part 10. me...

this study examines the quality of services at iran’s central library of management and planning organization (mpo) from the viewpoint of its users. the research was conducted in two phases: first, the library and its services were compared to the standards for special libraries published by the national library of iran (nli). the library was found to meet most of the standards. second, the qua...