Open and distance education in Asia, Africa and the Middle East : National perspectives in a digital age
This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: China, India, Russia, Turkey, South Africa and South Korea. It describes how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of the national higher education systems in these countries. It also explores the similarities and differences between how their open and distance higher education systems are managed and structured. The book compare and draw conclusions about the nature of open and distance education in the context of various national higher education systems. In a digital era characterized by the growing use of online, open and distance education, this book will prove particularly valuable for policy-makers and senior administrators who want to learn about establishing or expanding open and distance education services. In addition, it offers a valuable reference guide for researchers, academics and students interested in understanding the different approaches to open and distance education.
Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems ; 1st and Second VLDB Workshops, ODBIS 2005/2006 Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005 Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006 Revised Papers
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the First and Second VLDB Workshop Ontologies-based techniques for DataBases and Information Systems, held in Trondheim, Norway, September 2005 and Seoul, Korea, September 2006.
New Perspectives on Aloe
The contents include a brief introduction of aloe, isolation, purification, and structural analysis of components, and various physiological effects of those components for possible use as health foods or drugs. Various functions identified were wound healing, angiogenesis, anti-allergy, skin whitening, stimulation of cell proliferation such as liver or kidney, protection against nephrotoxicity, and immune modulation. Moreover, we suggest standardization and quality control procedures for manufacturing raw aloe, and how to develop related products for successful application of aloe. This is important in Korea because last year the Korean government listed aloe as a health food for which the government establishes regulatory laws. Therefore, many scientists in Korea who are interested in studying health foods would be interested in this kind of text. Other major fields related to this kind of research will be medicine, biology, pharmaceutics, natural products and analytics.
Network and Parallel Computing ; IFIP International Conference, NPC 2005, Beijing, China, November 30 - December 3, 2005, Proceedings
These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 2005 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2005), held in Beijing, China, between November 30 and December 3, 2005. The goal of the conference was to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in network and parallel computing. A total of 320 submissions were received in response to our Call for Papers. These papers were from the following countries or regions: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lux- burg, Nepal, Netherlands, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, and United States.
Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2005 ; 2nd International Joint Conference, Jeju Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2005, Proceedings
The Theme of IJCNLP 2005: “NLP with Kimchee”, a Conference with a Unique Flavor Welcometo IJCNLP 2005,thesecondannualconferenceof theAsian Federation ofNaturalLanguageProcessing(AFNLP). Followingthesuccessofthe?rstc- ference held in the beautiful cityof Sanya,Hainan Island,China, in March2004, IJCNLP 2005 is held in yet another attractive Asian resort, namely Jeju Island in Korea, on October 11–13, 2005
Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
This book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes and from a rich variety of research methods and perspectives. As a game with more than 40 million individual players, an annual international World Cup, and a franchised professional league with teams from Canada, China, Europe, South Korea, and the US, Overwatch provides a multifaceted perspective to the cultural, social, and economic topics associated with the development of esports, which has begun to attract attention from both commercial and academic audiences.
Model tests and numerical simulations of liquefaction and lateral spreading ; LEAP-UCD-2017
This book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2017. It addresses the repeatability, variability, and sensitivity of lateral spreading observed in twenty-four centrifuge model tests on mildly sloping liquefiable sand.
Intelligent data engineering and automated Learning - IDEAL 2008 ; 9th International Conference Daejeon, South Korea, November 2-5, 2008 Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2008, held in Daejeon, Korea, in November 2008.The 56 revised full papers presented together with 10 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and information processing, data mining and information management, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics, agents and distributed systems, as well as financial engineering and modeling.
Innovation and Technology in Korea : Challenges of a Newly Advanced Economy
Only inadequately perceived by the Western public, Korea has transformed into an economic heavy weight during recent decades. The Korean government believes it can turn it into one of the top 10 competitive economies until 2010. This goal does not sound overambitious as Korea has undergone tremendous efforts in order to forge ahead in the field of research and development. In some high tech industries, Korean firms have advanced into leading players in the global market place and are increasingly challenging their international competitors. Against this background, the volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually work. As Korea’s economy is now reaching the status of a newly advanced economy, the book also takes a close look on ongoing structural changes in the course of economic globalization.
Information security applications ; Vol. 3786 ; 6th International Workshop, WISA 2005, Jeju Island, Korea, August 22-24, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, held in 2005. The papers are organized in topical sections on security analysis and attacks, systems security, network security, DRM/software security, efficient HW implementation, side-channel attacks, and privacy/anonymity
Information security applications ; 8th International Workshop, WISA 2007, Jeju Island, Korea, August 27-29, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
Complete with Springer's trademark online files and updates, this fascinating text constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2007, held in Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2007.
Information security applications ; 7th International Workshop, WISA 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, August 28-30, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Monterey Workshop on Networked Systems with special focus on realization of reliable systems on top of unreliable networked platforms, held in Laguna Beach, CA, USA, in September 2005.
Information security applications ; 21st International Conference, WISA 2020, Jeju Island, South Korea, August 26–28, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Security Applications, WISA 2020, held in Jeju Island, South Korea, in August 2020. The 30 full research papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: AI Security and Intrusion Detection; Steganography and Malware; Application, System, and Hardware Security; Cryptography; Advances in Network Security and Attack Defense; and Cyber Security.
Information security applications : Vol. 3325 : 5th International Workshop, WISA 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, August 23-25, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
The 5th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2004) was held in Jeju Island, Korea during August 23-25, 2004. The workshop was sponsored by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC), the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC). The aim of the workshop is to serve as a forum for new conceptual and - perimental research results in the area of information security applications from the academic community as well as from the industry. The workshop program covers a wide range of security aspects including cryptography, cryptanalysis, network/system security and implementation aspects. The programcommittee received169 papersfrom 22 countries,andaccepted 37 papers for a full presentation track and 30 papers for a short presentation track. Each paper was carefully evaluated through peer-review by at least three members of the programcommittee. This volume contains revised versions of 36 papers accepted and presented in the full presentation track. Short papers were only published in the WISA 2004 pre-proceedings as preliminary versions and are allowed to be published elsewhere as extended versions. In addition to the contributed papers, Professors Gene Tsudik and Ross Andersongaveinvitedtalks,entitledSecurityinOutsourcedDatabasesandWhat does ‘Security’ mean for Ubiquitous Applications?, respectively.
Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2007 ; 10th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 29-30, 2007, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2007, held in Seoul, Korea, November 29-30, 2007.
Information Security and Cryptology – ICISC 2006; 9th International Conference, Busan, Korea, November 30 - December 1, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2006, held in Busan, Korea in November/December 2006. The 26 revised full papers cover such topics as hash functions, block and stream ciphers, network security and access control, mobile communications security, forensics, copyright protection, biometrics, public key cryptosystems, and digital signatures.
Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2005 ; 8th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, December 1-2, 2005, Revised Selected Paper
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2005, held in Seoul, Korea in December 2005. The 32 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from 192 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on key management and distributed cryptography, authentication and biometrics, provable security and primitives, system and network security, block ciphers and stream ciphers, efficient implementations, digital rights management, and public key cryptography
Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2004 ; 7th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, December 2-3, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
The 7th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology was organized by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC) and was sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Communi- tion of Korea. The conference received 194 submissions, and the Program Committee - lected 34 of these for presentation. The conference program included two invited lectures.MikeReiterspokeon“Securityby,andfor,ConvergedMobileDevices.” And Frank Stajano spoke on “Security for Ubiquitous Computing.” We would like to ?rst thank the many researchers from all over the world who subm- ted their work to this conference. An electronic submission process was ava- able. The submission review process had two phases. In the ?rst phase, Program Committeememberscompiledreports(assisteda...
Information Retrieval Technology ; Vol. 4182 ; 3rd Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, Singapore, October 16-18, 2006, Proceedings
Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2006 was the third AIRS conf- ence in the series established in 2004.The ?rst AIRS washeld in Beijing, China, and the 2nd AIRS was held in Cheju, Korea. The AIRS conference series traces its roots to the successful Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) workshop series which started in 1996. The AIRS series aims to bring together international researchers and dev- opers to exchange new ideas and the latest results in information retrieval. The scope of the conference encompassed the theory and practice of all aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. Wearehappyto reportthatAIRS2006received148submissions,thehighest number since the conference series started in 2004. Submissions came from Asia and Australasia, Europe, and North America. We accepted 34 submissions as regular papers (23%) and 24 as poster papers (16%). We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers to the conf- ence, the seven area chairs, who worked tirelessly to recruit the program c- mittee members and oversaw the review process, and the program committee members and their secondary reviewers who reviewed all the submissions.
Information Retrieval Technology ; Vol. 3689 ; 2nd Asia information retrieval symposium, AIRS 2005, Jeju Island, Korea, October 13-15, 2005, Proceedings
Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) was established in 2004 by the Asian information retrieval community after the successful series of Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) workshops held in six different locations in Asia, starting from 1996. The AIRS symposium aims to bring together international researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and the latest results in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the symposium covers applications, systems, technologies and theoretical aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multi-media data. We are very pleased to report that we saw a sharp and steady increase in the number of submissions and their qualities, compared with previous IRAL workshop series. We received 136 submissions from all over the world including Asia, North America, Europe, Australia, and even Africa, from which 32 papers (23%) were presented in oral sessions and 36 papers in poster sessions (26%). We also held a special session called “Digital Photo Albuming,” where 4 oral papers and 3 posters were presented. It was a great challenge and hard work for the program committee to select the best among the excellent papers. The high acceptance rates witness the success and stability of the AIRS series. All the papers and posters are included in this LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) proceedings volume, which is S- indexed. The technical program included two keynote talks by Prof. Walter Bender and Prof.



















