Enabling Society with Information Technology

382 Pages·2002·16.392 MB·English

by  Albert Bokma (auth.), Qun Jin, Jie Li, Nan Zhang, Jingde Cheng, Clement Yu, Shoichi Noguchi (eds.)

Springer Japan KK
Q. Jin, J. Li, N. Zhang, J. Cheng,
C. Yu, S. Noguchi
(Eds.)
Enabling Society with
Information Technology
With 100 Figures
'Springer
Qun Jin
The University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima 965-8580, Japan
Jie Li
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
Nan Zhang
Hiroshima Shuda University
Hiroshima 731-3195, Japan
Jingde Cheng
Saitama University
Saitama 338-8570, Japan
ClementYu
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Shoichi Noguchi
Sendai Foundation for Applied Information Sciences
Sendai, Miyagi 983-0852, Japan
ISBN 978-4-431-66981-4
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Enabling society with information technology I Q. Jin ... [et al.].
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
Throughout society the explosion of information technologies is changing how we work
and live. This volume focuses on emerging technologies and their impact on people
and organizations in the early years of the new century.
This book contains a collection of 36 papers selected from more than 110 high
quality presentations at the 2000 International Conference on the Information Society
in the 21st Ceptury (IS2000). The conference was held November 5-8, 2000, in Aizu
Wakamatsu, Japan. IS2000 featured lively exchanges of ideas and opinions on the im
pact of emerging technologies on our society among international participants from
academic and industrial organizations.
The chapters in this book are grouped under the following six headings: Information
and Knowledge Management Towards an Intelligent Society; Collaborative Internet,
Multimedia, and Electronic Commerce; Intelligent Robots and Auditory Interfaces; New
Models and Approaches for a Knowledge Economic Society; IT-Based Innovative Edu
cation Systems and Strategies; and Emerging Technologies for the Information Society
in the New Century. The papers offer excellent perspectives on advances in the various
fields and provide a framework for the development of improvements in technologies
that hold promise for enhancing our lives in the new century.
Special thanks are due to the University of Aizu and the Telecommunications Ad
vancement Foundation for providing grants to support IS2000 and the publication of
this volume. We also would like to thank all the authors for their excellent work in
assuring the high quality of the contents.
The Editors
August 2001
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Contents
Preface ........................................................................................................................ V
Part I Information and Knowledge Management Towards
an Intelligent Society
Information and Knowledge Management: Dilemmas and Directions
Albert Bokma ............................................................................................................... 3
Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Databases
Fei Wu, Veronique Plihon and Georges Gardarin ...................................................... 13
Constraints-Based Query Translation across Heterogeneous Sources for
Distributed Information Retrieval
Lieming Huang, Ulrich Thiel, Matthias Hemmje and Erich J. Neuhold .................... 27
Video Matching Methods Using Spatial Characteristics in MSP Search System
Mei Kodama ............................................................................................................... 38
Replica Management in Object-Based Systems
Katsuya Tanaka and Makoto Takizawa ...................................................................... 49
Intelligence in Information Society
Matjaz Gams ............................................................................................................... 59
Part II Collaborative Internet, Multimedia and Electronic Commerce
The Internet Group Tour via a Shared Web Browser
Jianhua Ma and Runhe Huang .................................................................................... 69
Computer-Supported Online Proofreading in Collaborative Writing
Hiroaki Ogata, Yoshiaki Hada and Yoneo Yano ......................................................... 79
Design of Satellite-Based Multimedia Content Distribution Systems and
Metrics for Systems Evaluation
Yukari Shirota, Takako Hashimoto and Atsushi Iizawa ............................................. 89
Incremental Document Clustering for Web Page Classification
Wai-chiu Wong and Ada Wai-chee Fu ...................................................................... 101
Integration of Multiple Tailoring Interfaces in Compositional Web Applications
Igor Mejuev, Masahiro Higashida, Tohru Shimanaka and Noriyuki Makino ........... Ill
A Petri Nets Approach to Behavior Testing of SET Payment
Chun-Chia Wang, Jason C. Hung and Lun-Ping Hung ............................................ 122
Electronic Commerce Transactions in a Mobile Computing Environment
J ari Veijalainen and Aphrodite Tsalgatidou .............................................................. 131
VII
VIII Contents
Part Ill Intelligent Robots and Auditory Interfaces
Control of Golf Swing Robot by Learning -Generation of Optimal Trajectory
for Real System -
Aiguo Ming, Nan Luan and Makoto Kajitani .......................................................... 143
A Novel Obstacle Avoidance Control Scheme for
Hyper-Redundant Manipulators
Shugen Ma ................................................................................................................ 153
Estimation of Mass and Center of Mass of Unknown Curved-Surface Object
Using Passing-C.M. Lines
Yang Yu, Takashi Kiyokawa and Showzow Tsujio .................................................. 163
Sound and Visual Tracking by Active Audition
Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Tino Laurens and Hiroaki Kitano ............... 174
Speech Enhancement and Segregation Based on Human Auditory Mechanisms
Masato Akagi, Mitsunori Mizumachi, Yuichi Ishimoto and Masashi Unoki ........... 186
Integration of Spatial Localization Cues
-Auditory Processing for a Hearing Robot -
Jie Huang .................................................................................................... .............. 197
Part IV New Models and Approaches for a Knowledge Economic Society
Muilticountry Modelling for the Japan Sea Rim Economic Relations
Hiroshi Ohnishi and QingZhu Yin ............................................................................ 209
State-Owned Enterprises and Their Contract with Government in China:
An Econometric Analysis
Go Yano and Maho Shiraishi .................................................................................... 215
Evolution of Cooperation in a Situation with a Risk: a Closed Society
versus an Open Society
Hideki Fujiyama ....................................................................................................... 224
Effect on Spectral Properties by the Splitting Correction Preconditioning for
Linear Systems that Arise from Periodic Boundary Problems
Shoji Itoh, Yoshio Oyanagi, Shao-Liang Zhang and Makoto Natori ....................... 234
Statistical Disclosure Control Based on Random Uncertainty Intervals
Jinfang Wang ............................................................................................................ 244
Part V IT-Based Innovative Education Systems and Strategies
Knowledge Management System for Information System Design and
Implementation Education
Atsuo Hazeyama ....................................................................................................... 257
Learning Strategies for Information Systems Students
Lorna Uden and Neil Willis ...................................................................................... 268
Do-It-Yourself Electronic Lectures in Microsoft Powerpoint
Dan Diaper, Jacqui Taylor and Lee Hadaway .......................................................... 276
Contents IX
An Overview of an Interactive and Personalized Multimedia Tele-Education
Environment over a Gigabit Network
Z. Cheng, A. He, T. Huang, A. Koyama, S. Noguchi, N. Honda,
Y. Shibata and N. Shiratori ....................................................................................... 284
"Interactive Multimedia Education at a Distance-Linear Algebra (IMED-LA)":
Its Present Status and Special Features of Its Content
Yasuhiko Ikebe, DongSheng Cai, Yoshinori Miyazaki, Nobuyoshi Asai,
Yasushi Kikuchi and Maha Ashour-Abdalla ............................................................ 295
Distributed Multimedia Presentation with Floor Control Mechanisms in a
Distance Learning System
Huan-Chao Keh, Timothy K. Shih, Lawrence Y. Deng
and Teh-Sheng Huang .............................................................................................. 306
Modelling Distant Learning Activities by Agent Task Coalitions
Vadi m A. Ermolayev and Vyachyslav A. Tolok ....................................................... 316
Part VI Emerging Technologies for the Information Society in
the New Century
Tightly Coupled Multiprocessing: The Super Processor Architecture
Nimrod Bayer and Ran Ginosar ............................................................................... 329
A Mathematical Theory of NMR Quantum Computations
Tetsuro Nishino ......................................................................................................... 340
Quantum Computation Using Artificial Molecules
Nan-Jian Wu ............................................................................................................. 348
Agent-SE: A Methodology for Agent Oriented Software Engineering
Behrouz H. Far ......................................................................................................... 357
Promoting Wearable Computing
Polly Huang .............................................................................................................. 367
Index ........................................................................................................................ 377
Part I
Information and Knowledge Management
Towards an Intelligent Society
Information and Knowledge Management:
Dilemmas and Directions
Albert Bolana
Centre for Electronic Commerce, University of Sunderland
St. Peter's Campus, SCET-Room 306, Sunderland, SR6 ODD, United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract. As the amount of information that individuals and organisations have to deal with
on a day-by-day basis increases dramatically, new ways of information management are
needed. This need manifests itself both in the need of the individual to effectively manage
large collections of information and associated knowledge that builds up around these
collections as well as the need to effectively share these collections of information and the
knowledge with others in a collaborative environment. Current information management
strategies in our view tend to be search-based and are inadequate for more intuitive
browsing of information and knowledge. The paper introduces the dilemmas and presents
an innovative approach to the management of documents and associated knowledge. The
paper will present the use case and sketches a solution that will provide an intuitive, user
oriented solution and the benefits resulting.
1 Introduction
Rapid information growth and changes in organisational patterns: An almost
exponential proliferation of information, evident in recent times, is starting to
cause considerable problems both for individuals and organisations. As a conse
quence there is both a need to effectively manage existing collections of informa
tion and access and import new information relevant to a particular task. While
document management solutions and information retrieval techniques and systems
do exist to alleviate some of the problems associated with collections of docu
ments, they provide little assistance for the individual user to create their own maps
and pathways through this information and that allows them to manage collections
of documents and the knowledge they incrementally build up around these docu
ments. In addition, in collaborative situations there is also a need to effectively
share this with others in the organisation.
Emerging changes in organisational practice including the increased use of
flexible, project-based modes of working, as well as teleworking and virtual enter
prises are rapidly eroding a common culture and common understanding that tradi
tionally significantly helped the effective collaboration between individuals. Thus
there is a need for effective communication and sharing approaches to manage
shared collections of information and key knowledge to support increased produc
tivity.
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The need for integrated information and knowledge management: In the
process of working with these documents and information sources, knowledge
about these and their relations is being created and which is essential for engaging
with these collections and in the process of generating new documents and other
records. Detailed knowledge is often quickly forgotten when the user does not
continuously engage with the documents in question and if recorded this will both
help the individual user to speed up their tasks and if shared will help to increase
the productivity of their collaborators. There is a lack of solutions that do allow
the user to intuitively navigate such collections of information and understand the
relationships between individual documents/records as well as effectively commu
nicating associated knowledge in a context-sensitive fashion. We therefore argue
that effective solutions that are more user-centered and user-friendly in the future
remains a challenge to the IT community.
2 An Information and Knowledge Management Use Case
The case for associative approaches: As argued by Tan [1], amongst philoso
phers and psychologists it has long been recognised that human memory is associa
tive. It has been concluded by [2] that human beings tend to understand and man
age domains by devising abstract models and classifications and which are used to
interpret their observations and categorise them. Accordingly, information and as
sociated knowledge should be categorised in a conceptual fashion and where rela
tions amongst items of information (documents and their components in this case)
and any knowledge associated with them can be recorded.
It is therefore vital to maintain the context in which these documents fit in order
to ensure their correct interpretation by the owner and/or those these documents are
shared with. The issue of context is particularly significant for items of knowl
edge that typically build on information and cannot easily be taken out of its con
text and disassociated from its author. Therefore the connections and the interpre
tations that can be put on them need to be recorded. This lesson is increasingly
becoming evident in the field of knowledge management as can be seen from Sel
lens et al. [3].
The shortcomings of search based approaches: When trying to locate docu
ments in a shared environment (be it web-based or otherwise), the user either has
to already know likely locations where to find document. This requires to under
stand how the collection of documents are organised and may involve looking in
several candidate locations. Alternatively, the user may have to take recourse to
searching tools and in some cases search-based access is the only available strategy
where no filing structures are available. Though search-based retrieval techniques
have their uses, it often depends on the skill of the user to correctly locate and re
trieve documents. One cannot help but feeling that this is analogous to geologists
drilling for oil, who, while being able to rely on some scanning techniques, in the
end also need a bit of luck to hit on a productive site. Website searching facilities
are a typical example of this problem and who frequently provide bad and patchy
results leaving the more ingenious user to navigate the site manually in order to get
to the documents he knows to be there. Though this is not to denigrate the sound