This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2005, held in Jeju Island, Korea, in October 2005. The 32 revised full papers and 36 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 papers submitted. All current issues in information retrieval are addressed: applications, systems, technologies and theoretical aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multi-media data. The papers are organized in topical sections on relevance/retrieval models, multimedia IR, natural language processing in IR, enabling technology, Web IR, question answering, document/query models, a special session: digital photo album, TDT/clustering, multimedia/classification, and two poster and demo sessions…. More >>

Information Retrieval Technology: Second Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2005, Jeju Island, Korea, October 13-15, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2004, held in Beijing, China, in October 2004. The 28 revised full papers presented have passed through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from 106 papers submitted. All current issues in information retrieval are addressed, ranging from algorithmic and methodological issues to application in various fields. Particular emphasis is given to aspects of Asian languages; text retrieval and Web information retrieval are addressed in several papers…. More >>

Information Retrieval Technology: Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2004, Beijing, China, October 18-20, 2004. Revised Selected Papers

This book explores Japanese investment in Europe and Southeast Asia, in relation to the automobile industry…. More >>

Production Networks in Asia and Europe: Skill Formation and Technology Transfer in the Automobile Industry

Compares IT parks within the Asian Pacific in search of strategies that policy makers can adopt to: reduce the global digital divide; advance distributional equity; and soften some of the negative effects of economic globalization. “Best practices” are suggested based on these cases…. More >>

Information Technology Parks of the Asia Pacific: Lessons for the Regional…