Web and Communication Technologies and Internet-Related Social Issues - HSI 2005 [electronic resource] : 3rd International Conference on Human-Society@Internet, Tokyo, Japan, July 27-29, 2005, Proceedings /

Service -- Implementation and Usability Evaluation of AAC System for Handicapped Persons -- Tracking Data Management of Spatial DBMS Using Topology for Location-Based Services -- Optimized Initiation Phases for Anonymous Auction Protocols -- Wireless I -- mSCTP for Vertical Handover Between Heterogeneous Networks -- Increasing TCP Capacity in Wireless Multihop Networks -- A Study on Scalable Bluetooth Piconet for Secure Ubiquitous -- Security I -- A Mobile Phone Malicious Software Detection Model with Behavior Checker -- Mobile Password System for Enhancing Usability-Guaranteed Security in Mobile Phone Banking -- Internet Applications I -- Development of the Efficient OWL Document Management System for the Embedded Applications -- Internet at a Crossroads of Education -- Internet Applications II -- Use Case Study of Grid Computing with CGSP -- Visual Media Retrieval Framework Using Web Service -- Proposal of Social Internetworking -- Information Retrieval -- Exploiting Fine Grained Parallelism for Acceleration of Web Retrieval -- Semantic Template Generation Based Information Summarization for Mobile Devices -- A Strategy for Maintaining Client-Based Web Warehouse -- Medical Applications -- A Groupware Design for Supporting International Medical Collaboration over the Internet -- Towards the Construction of the Information Infrastructure for Genome Medicine -- Establishment and Assessment of Wide Area Medical Information Network System in Hokkaido -- Multimedia -- A Multimedia Service Implementation Using MJPEG and QCELP in Wireless Handset -- On a Video Surveillance System with a DSP by the LDA Algorithm -- A Web Service-Based Molecular Modeling System Using a Distributed Processing System -- Web Retrieval and Applications -- Automatic Generation and Use of Negative Terms to Evaluate Topic-Related Web Pages -- How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of URL Normalizations -- A New Approach for Semi-supervised Online News Classification -- E-Learning -- Automatic Generation of Web-Based Mathematical Courseware for Solving Simultaneous Equations -- Intercultural and Multilingual E-Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide -- SMIL-Based eLearning Wrapper for Incorporating Computer Games on Personalized Multimedia Course Materials -- Security II -- A Novel Conference Key Distribution System with Re-keying Protocol -- Multi-modal Techniques for Identity Theft Prevention -- Wireless II -- Vector Graphics Application Using Self-networking and Replaceable Structure in Wireless Handset -- Privacy-Aware Location Dependent Services over Wireless Internet with Anycast -- Short Contributions -- Economically-Motivated Decentralized Control of Eco-Network Computation Platform -- Correlations Between Digital Tools and Humans Cognitive Processes -- Detecting Adult Images Using Seven MPEG-7 Visual Descriptors -- Multi-proxy Signatures Based on Diffie-Hellman Problems Allowing Repeated Delegations -- Internet Collaboration: A Promise for Technology Transferring to Developing Countries -- A Method to Monitor a BBS Using Feature Extraction of Text Data -- Efficient Iris-Region Normalization for a Video Surveillance System -- A Design of Presentation System for Interactive Multimedia Contents Based on Event-Driven Processing Model -- Searching Color Images by Emotional Concepts.

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