| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xix |
| Why Human-Centered e-Business? | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| e-Business and e-Commerce | p. 2 |
| Converging Trends Towards Human-Centeredness | p. 4 |
| Technology-Centeredness vs Human-Centeredness | p. 5 |
| Human-Centered Approach | p. 8 |
| Organization Levels and e-Business | p. 10 |
| Summary | p. 10 |
| References | p. 12 |
| e-Business Concepts and Technologies | p. 13 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| e-Business Systems | p. 13 |
| e-Business Strategies | p. 15 |
| e-Business Models | p. 17 |
| Internet and Web Technologies | p. 22 |
| Intelligent Technologies | p. 29 |
| Software Engineering Technologies | p. 55 |
| Multimedia | p. 59 |
| Summary | p. 60 |
| References | p. 61 |
| Converging Trends Towards Human-Centeredness and Enabling Theories | p. 65 |
| Introduction | p. 65 |
| Pragmatic Considerations for Human-Centered System Development | p. 65 |
| Enabling Theories for Human-Centered Systems | p. 78 |
| Discussion | p. 93 |
| Summary | p. 95 |
| References | p. 95 |
| Human-Centered e-Business System Development Framework | p. 103 |
| Introduction | p. 103 |
| Overview | p. 103 |
| External and Internal Planes of Human-Centered Framework | p. 104 |
| Components of the Human-Centered e-Business System Development Framework | p. 107 |
| Activity-Centered e-Business Analysis Component | p. 108 |
| Problem Solving Ontology Component | p. 116 |
| Summary | p. 120 |
| References | p. 121 |
| Human-Centered Virtual Machine | p. 123 |
| Introduction | p. 123 |
| Problem Solving Ontology Component | p. 123 |
| Human-Centered Criteria and Problem Solving Ontology | p. 141 |
| Transformation Agent Component | p. 142 |
| Multimedia Interpretation Component | p. 146 |
| Application of Multimedia Interpretation Component in Medical Diagnosis | p. 151 |
| Emergent Characteristics of HCVM | p. 158 |
| Summary | p. 161 |
| References | p. 162 |
| e-Sales Recruitment | p. 163 |
| Introduction | p. 163 |
| Human Resource Management e-Business Systems | p. 163 |
| Information Technology and Recruitment | p. 164 |
| Activity Centered e-Business Analysis of Sales Recruitment Activity | p. 165 |
| Human-Centered Activity Model | p. 177 |
| Implementation and Results | p. 182 |
| Summary | p. 190 |
| References | p. 190 |
| Customer Relationship Management and e-Banking | p. 193 |
| Introduction | p. 193 |
| Traditional Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Process | p. 194 |
| Data Mining Algorithms | p. 195 |
| Data Mining and the Internet | p. 197 |
| Multi-layered . Component-based Multi-Agent Distributed Data Mining Architecture | p. 201 |
| Application in e-Banking | p. 202 |
| Data Mining Implementation Results | p. 210 |
| Summary | p. 214 |
| References | p. 215 |
| HCVM Based Context-Dependent Data Organization for e-Commerce | p. 219 |
| Introduction | p. 219 |
| Context-dependent Data Management | p. 221 |
| Context Modeling in XML | p. 225 |
| Flexible Access to Context Information | p. 232 |
| Sample Interaction | p. 239 |
| Summary | p. 241 |
| References | p. 241 |
| Human-Centered Knowledge Management | p. 245 |
| Introduction | p. 245 |
| HCVM approach to Knowledge Sharing and Decision Support in Knowledge Management Systems | p. 246 |
| Resource Description Format (RDF) for Knowledge Representation | p. 248 |
| The Regional Innovation Leadership (RIL) Cycle | p. 249 |
| Knowledge Hub for RIL | p. 249 |
| HCVM and Technological Architecture of the Knowledge Hub | p. 251 |
| Knowledge Hub's Content Management System | p. 252 |
| Decision Support and Navigation Agents | p. 257 |
| Summary | p. 258 |
| References | p. 259 |
| Hypermedia Information Systems | p. 261 |
| Introduction | p. 261 |
| Background | p. 262 |
| Character of Multimedia Data | p. 263 |
| Hypermedia Data Modeling | p. 264 |
| Content-Based Retrieval Indexing | p. 265 |
| Bridging the Semantic Gap | p. 278 |
| Commercial Systems for Hypermedia Information Systems | p. 281 |
| Summary | p. 282 |
| References | p. 282 |
| Human-Centered Intelligent Web Based Missing Person Clothing Identification System | p. 287 |
| Introduction | p. 287 |
| Relevance Feedback | p. 287 |
| Genetic Algorithms and Other Search Techniques | p. 290 |
| Design Components of Clothing Identification System | p. 291 |
| Implementation and Results | p. 301 |
| Relevance Feedback Results | p. 306 |
| Summary | p. 306 |
| References | p. 308 |
| Index | p. 309 |
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