The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for enhancing search and retrieval of product information using content-based image retrieval in an electronic retailing application. Content-based image retrieval techniques have been applied to various applications such as medical information systems, environmental modeling, and satellite image analysis. Such techniques, however, can also...

Using modern, electronic technology to promote the culture and worldview of technology producers and to subjugate its consumers is the gist of what McPhail (2006) calls electronic colonialism theory (ECT). As an example of electronic technology, Internet-mediated English educational materials are rapidly growingbut they do not appear to have been critically analyzed in terms of their potential ...

implementation of electronic prescribing system can overcome many problems of the paper prescribing system, and provide numerous opportunities of more effective and advantageous prescribing. successful implementation of such a system requires complete and deep understanding of work content, human force, and workflow of paper prescribing. the current study was designed in order to model the curr...

Converging media industry calls for tighter integration of creativity, business processes, and technologies. Media companies need flexible methods to manage electronic content production and delivery, and metadata is a key enabler in making this goal a reality. However, metadata is useful only if its nature is understood clearly and its structure and usage are well-defined. For this purpose, an...

OUTLINE 1. What is information revolution? 2. What are the advantages of information in electronic form? 3. What is hyper-text? 4. Where are Indian languages in the information revolution? 4.1 Digital content 4.2 Machine translation 4.3 Speech 4.4 Optical character recognition 4.5 Search and knowledge organization 4.6 Other applications 5. Relevant technologies 5.1 Basic research 6. Are compute...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a multi-agent system for collaborative multimedia information retrieval in an electronic retailing application. We use content-based information (CBIR) retrieval for multimedia data including full-texts and images. Content-based image retrieval deals with retrieving data based on automatic content analysis as opposed to manual annotations, such as metada...