Towards Sustainable Society on Ubiquitous Networks: The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2008), September 24 - 26, 2008, Tokyo, Japan(286 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

The massive growth of the Internet has made an enormous amount of infor- tion available to us. However, it is becoming very difficult for users to acquire an - plicable one. Therefore, some techniques such as information filtering have been - troduced to address this issue. Recommender systems filter information that is useful to a user from a large amount of information. Many e-commerce sites use rec- mender systems to filter specific information that users want out of an overload of - formation [2]. For example, Amazon. com is a good example of the success of - commender systems [1]. Over the past several years, a considerable amount of research has been conducted on recommendation systems. In general, the usefulness of the recommendation is measured based on its accuracy [3]. Although a high - commendation accuracy can indicate a user's favorite items, there is a fault in that - ly similar items will be recommended. Several studies have reported that users might not be satisfied with a recommendation even though it exhibits high recommendation accuracy [4]. For this reason, we consider that a recommendation having only accuracy is - satisfactory. The serendipity of a recommendation is an important element when c- sidering a user's long-term profits. A recommendation that brings serendipity to users would solve the problem of “user weariness” and would lead to exploitation of users' tastes. The viewpoint of the diversity of the recommendation as well as its accuracy should be required for future recommender systems.

Table of Contents:
Organized Session.- eService Innovation and Sensor Based Healthcare.- Research Track.- Decision Making Model for Online Music Service Users.- Intraday-scale Long Interval Method of Classifying Intramonth-Scale Revisiting Mobile Users.- The Study of Customer Segmentation Examined by Catastrophe Model.- A Procedure of How to Conduct Research in Transparent Mobile Recommendations.- Development of Recommender Systems Using User Preference Tendencies: An Algorithm for Diversifying Recommendation.- Cryptographic Approch for Workflow Systems.- A Fuzzy Model for Scalable Trust in E-Commerce.- Extending RBAC for Large Enterprises and Its Quantitative Risk Evaluation.- Presence-Based Runtime Composition of IMS Services Deployed in a SIP Servlet Platform.- A Service Oriented and Agent-Based Architecture for the e-Collaboration of SMEs.- Autonomous Web Services Based on Dynamic Model Harmonization.- A Nonlinear Representation of Page History in P2P Wiki System.- Distributed Secure Virtual File System Using FUSE.- Pricing for Maximizing Provider’s Revenue in Multicast Content Delivery Services.- Personalized Public-Transport Guidance Using Mobile End Devices.- Internet Adoption in Tourism Industry in China.- The Use of Data Sources of Medication Information — a Finnish Primary Care Organization in the Light of National e-Health Scenarios.- Student Retention through Customized Service Processes.- e-Government in the Finnish Early Childhood Education: An Analysis of Current Status and Challenges.- Network-driven Context in User-driven Innovation.- Does E-government Trust in e-Commerce when Investigating Trust? A Review of Trust Literature in E-Commerce and e-government Domains.- Effects of Information Communication Technology on Urban and Rural Service Sectors: An EmpiricalAnalysis of Japanese Economic Geography.- The Age-Divide in E-Government — Data, Interpretations, Theory Fragments.- Software Piracy in Chilean e-Society.- A Computing System to Assist Business Leaders in Making Ethical Decisions.- Industrial and Administration Track.- Local Government ICT Platform Standardization Activities of ICT Systems and Services for Offering High Value-added Service by Interacting Local Governments, Regional Institutions and Private Sector.- Service Interaction Platform Technologies Providing High Value-added ICT Services.- Realizing Interoperable Infrastructure for Electronic Business Systems and Local Government Systems.- Group Support in Collaborative Networks Organizations for Ambient Assisted Living.