Interdisciplinary Advances in Adaptive and Intelligent Assistant Systems: Concepts, Techniques, Applications, and Use (Premier Reference Source)

Information is becoming the raw material of modern society; it is the driving force of modern service industries. Our information spaces have been pervaded by technology and are characterized by their increasing size and complexity. Furthermore, access to information spaces and the ability to use them effectively and efficiently have become key economic success factors. Interdisciplinary Advances in Adaptive and Intelligent Assistant Systems: Concepts, Techniques, Applications, and Use encourages knowledge on effective and efficient approaches to accessing information spaces. It fosters an emerging key competence: accessing and processing large, highly complex corpora of information by applying collaborative, intelligent technical systems. It is the mission of this book to trigger interdisciplinary research and cooperation at the intersection between information sciences, information technologies and communication sciences. This publication also raises awareness of the field’s importance in business and management communities, thus contributing to the dissemination of scientific ideas and insights. Title ......Page 2 List of Reviewers......Page 4 Table of Contents......Page 5 Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 13 Preface......Page 15 Acknowledgment......Page 35 Towards Next Generation Web: Knowledge Web......Page 38 BDD-Based Combinatorial Keyword Query Processing under a Taxonomy Model......Page 63 Spreadsheet-Based Orchestration for Describing and Automating Web Information Access Processes......Page 77 A Component-Based 3D Geographic Simulation Framework and its Integration with a Legacy GIS......Page 100 A Web-Enabled, Mobile Intelligent Information Technology Architecture for On-Demand and Mass Customized Markets......Page 120 Enhancing Video Viewing Experience......Page 161 Utilisation of Expert Online Retrieval Tools: An Exploration of Barriers and Added Values......Page 190 Software Agents for Human Interaction in Social Networks......Page 214 Your Personal, Virtual Librarian......Page 236 Compilation of references......Page 272 About the contributors ......Page 289 Index......Page 296 'This book discusses how collaboration between humans and intelligent systems can potentially improve access to and processing of complex information, contributing to the synthesis, storage and integration of knowledge'--Provided by publisher.