1. E-service customization: the provider perspective -- 2. E-service customization: the consumer perspective -- 3. Technologies for e-service customization -- 4. E-service composition -- 5. Service customization strategies -- 6. Business processes design for service customization -- 7. Case...

1. The life event cycle / Florian Siems, Dominik Walcher -- 2. Optimizing consumer responses to mass customization / Ruth Mugge, Jan Schoormans -- 3. Resource implications of manufacturer-customer interactions in mass customization / Emmanuel Kodzi Jr., Rado Gazo -- 4. A multi-agent system for...

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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...