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We discuss building digital language resources (such as annotated corpora, lexicons, ontologies, terminologies, tools), which are the main prerequisite for successful communication and information management in the e-society of the 21 century. We give an overview of the main requirements and best practices, and point to necessary steps for creation and maintenance of standardsbased and reusable...

Received: 30 June 2005 Revised: 30 December 2005 Accepted: 20 June 2006 Abstract The reconfiguration of the home-work boundary that at-home telework entails has significant implications for gender issues and the use of ubiquitous information and communications technologies (ICTs). By presenting a Marxinspired dialectical analysis of the family and home as both ‘haven and hell’, we develop a cri...

Biographical notes: Piet Kommers is an Associate Professor at the University of Twente at the Department of Media, Communication and Organization. He chairs the IADIS conferences and the e-society conference and web-based communities conference in particular. In his work for UNESCO, he brings forward the blend between the nature and the culture of learning. He distinguishes the ‘new’ media as c...

The referral incentive programs are one of the common incentive mechanisms to attract new customers in e-commerce websites, especially for start-ups, by leveraging existing customer’s social networks. Designing an appropriate referral reward program will allow online businesses to increase customer base and enhance sales. This paper leverages the ultimatum game (sense of fairness) and construal...

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