Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types -- including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others -- applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at...

Section II. Identifying Interesting Rules -- 2. From Change Mining to Relevance Feedback: A Unified View on Assessing Rule Interestingness -- 3. Combining Data-Driven and User-Driven Evaluation Measures to Identify Interesting Rules -- 4. Semantics-Based Classification of Rule Interestingness...

1. Introduction to the field of technology innovation management -- 2. R&D process models -- 3. Technology development and innovative practice -- 4. Social influence and human interaction with technology -- 5. Diffusion and innovation : an organizational perspective -- 6. Knowledge and change in...

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1. Personalisation through technology-enhanced learning / Gráinne Conole -- 2. Breaking the hierarchy / Beth Granter -- 3. PLE / Sabrina Leone -- 4. Community@Brighton / Stan Stanier -- 5. eLearning / Barbara Newland, Maria-Christiana Papaefthimiou -- 6. Personalising teaching and learning with...