Dickson K.W. Chiu

The Chinese government has been promoting reading education recently, as previous studies showed reading improves students' academic performance. More citizens with higher...

This study investigates the development of social capital in university libraries using the Fudan University Medical Library (FUML) as the case. The authors first use the SWOT...

With the growing number of orchestras and competitions from other media and popular music, orchestras are experiencing higher competition. The world's current trend of art...

This study investigates the recent green development in the main library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the construction of the library's new wing and the...

The global economy and organizations are evolving to become service-oriented and driven by technology, and this is not just limited to commercial work. Further study on this...

Online social media has gradually become a trend. Many companies, brands, and organizations attach great importance to social media for community engagement, aiming for...

This study explores the AIDA model (attention, interest, desire, action) for social media promotion and community engagement for small cultural organizations. The internal...

There have been increasing concerns about spreading COVID-19 fake news and misinformation from social media sites (SNSs) such as Facebook and Twitter, as they facilitate...

Social media has provided promotion and communication channels for organizations to reach their target audience efficiently and cost-effectively. Despite wide social media...

To explore the effect of beauty on income in the Chinese labor market and its impact, this chapter uses the Chinese family panel studies (CFPS2018) open-access data to conduct a...

Museums offer education and enjoyment to the public through exhibitions and public programs, but what happens behind the museums can be a mystery. Thus, this study uses the visit...

Ubiquitous internet access over the past decade has provided opportunities to learn languages online. However, most of the online language learning studies focus on higher...

Similar to the plight of other traditional villages, Qiqiao Ancient Village is declining under the impact of urbanization and the devastation of modernization. Qiqiao is chosen...

The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) of ESF King George V School (KGV) decided to enhance the awareness of students' use of electronic databases and e-books. This study...

In the current digital environment, academic library databases are growing large enough to meet the needs of most users. However, the increasing availability of information has...

Sustainability is an increasingly important topic internationally, but scant studies focus on the sustainability strategies of niche art museums, especially in Asia. Therefore...

Information literacy education is a crucial driver for the rapid development and success of current academic library services. Yet, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and...

Due to rising operational expenses, competition from online booksellers, and the popularity of digital reading, many traditional bookstores in China have closed, while others are...

Online event ticketing is booming, and the competition in the event ticketing industry is keen. This study analyzes the business environment of ticketing services platforms...

Gen-Z students' learning styles have recently changed significantly due to inquiry-based learning and rapid information technology development. Physical libraries have to...

The most popular uses of blockchain technology in the art market are related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This chapter explores the adoption of NFT in the digital art market...

This study reviews the current parents' perspectives and habits of using graphic novels, including electronic equipment, in Hong Kong to support children's reading and...

Makerspaces have developed from a trend to a core service in higher education libraries. Many academic libraries have been actively expanding the “makerspace” within the physical...

As the US is a highly ethnically diverse country and the origin of public libraries, this chapter explores how US public libraries construct social capital for the public via...

Antique bookstores record the history of urban development and are crucial for urban cultural construction. Traditional business models can no longer meet antique bookstores'...

To facilitate the management process of many physical collections displayed and stored in a group of museums and collection storerooms distributed in a wide area in a...

This paper proposes a framework for career information management and guidance systems (CIMGS) to support career decision-making by providing relevant career information and...

In recent years, time series forecasting has attracted more attention from academia and industry. This research used raw data from the “Web Traffic Forecasting” competition on...

This chapter analyzes the current situation of video games with Chinese cultural knowledge in China's game market by analyzing Weibo messages of five selected video games...

Traditional services have had to adapt to keep up with changing dynamics in the digital age, including the digitalization of library services and moving them online, especially...

In a transition economy, there is an increasing need for vocational training and career counseling for workers to cope with changes in the job market. This study seeks to enhance...

The COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine policies have caused the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HKPhil) to significantly reduce offline concerts and ticket revenue, while...

Chinese martial arts (Kungfu) is a popular cultural heritage, but its teaching and learning is very traditional. Social media have been increasingly used in education. The use of...

This study investigates the adaption and digitalization development of Buddhist libraries in the current mobile computing age and proposes a three-level pyramid model of Buddhist...

Currently, online travel agencies (OTA) allow their customers to make timely travel reservations anytime and anywhere through websites and mobile technologies. Customer service...

Social media has become a popular communication platform and aggregated mass information for sentimental analysis. As cryptocurrency has become a hot topic worldwide in recent...

A movie's economic revenue comes mainly from the movie box office, while the influencing factors of the movie box office are complex and numerous. This research explores the...

In recent years, machine learning has been used for data processing and analysis, providing insights to businesses and policymakers. Deep learning technology is promising to...

This article studies the motivations and behaviors of young people for playing online games. In this article, the authors used the quantitative methods research methodology to...

This study aims to explore the usage behaviors of smartphones for learning purposes by Library and Information Science (LIS) students of mainland China. A quantitative...

In a transition economy, there is an increasing need for vocational training and career counseling for workers to cope with changes in the job market. This study seeks to enhance...

This article studies the motivations and behaviors of young people for playing online games. In this article, the authors used the quantitative methods research methodology to...

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) uncovers a new learning space for students to start their learning in multidisciplinary subjects and provides an enormous storage for different...

Auction is a common competitive business-to-business (B2B) procurement procedure for supplying products and services, which are solicited, received, and evaluated. Currently...

It is widely believed that parents' involvement in students' music learning is vital to their success. Shinichi Suzuki not only provided teachers with useful and logical...

The continuous advances in mobile and web technology are forming the areas of software and systems development and the connection between service users and providers. Mobile and...

This article proposes a novel approach that combines user’s instant requirement described in keywords with her or his long-term knowledge background to better serve article...

There is an increasing demand for sharing documents for process integration among organizations. Web services technology has recently been widely proposed and gradually adopted...

Various contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) have revolutionized the global computing environment. This impacts most companies, especially traditional...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has recently gained attention both within industry and academia; however, its characteristics cannot be easily solved using existing distributed...

As organizations, businesses, and other institutions work to move forward during a new era of ubiquitous modern technology, new computing and technology implementation strategies...

Systems designers are asked constantly to improve end-users’ experiences while ensuring network stability and security and minimizing the use of resources. This trifold demand...

With keen competition and the continuous quest for service improvement, e-commerce processes are becoming increasingly complex. Recent adoption of the Service-Oriented...

In a business-to-business (B2B) e-service environment, cross-organizational collaboration is important for attaining the interoperability of business processes and their proper...

The demand is increasing to replace the current cost ineffective and bad time-to-market hardcopy publishing and delivery of content in the financial world. Financial Enterprise...

Coalition stability is a major requirement in coalition formation. One important problem to achieve stability in n-person game theories is the assumption that the preference of...

Peak electricity demands from huge number of households in a mega-city would cause contention, leading to potential blackout. This paper proposes bi-directional collaboration via...

The global economy and individual organizations are evolving to become service-oriented. There have recently been more and more research works on services provision, particularly...

Assembling a coherent view of distributed heterogeneous information and their processing is challenging but important for inter-organizational business collaboration and service...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has recently gained attention both within industry and academia; however, its characteristics cannot be easily solved using existing distributed...

This article proposes a novel approach that combines user’s instant requirement described in keywords with her or his long-term knowledge background to better serve article...

Urgent requests and critical messages in healthcare applications must be delivered and handled timely instead of in an ad-hoc manner for most current systems. Therefore, we...

Various contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) have revolutionized the global computing environment. This impacts most companies, especially traditional...

There is an increasing demand for sharing documents for process integration among organizations. Web services technology has recently been widely proposed and gradually adopted...

The International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) focuses on computing theories and empirical analyses of shared knowledge relevant to businesses....

The International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) brings together researchers from various fields, enriches their knowledge in related disciplines...

The International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) focuses on integration techniques, methods, and tools employed in applied distributed computing systems...

Assembling a coherent view of distributed heterogeneous information and their processing is challenging but important for inter-organizational business collaboration and service...

With recent advances in mobile technologies and e-commerce infrastructures, there have been increasing demands for the expansion of collaboration services within and across...

In a business-to-business (B2B) e-service environment, cross-organizational collaboration is important for attaining the interoperability of business processes and their proper...

In a business-to-business (B2B) e-service environment, cross-organizational collaboration is important for attaining the interoperability of business processes and their proper...

Assembling a coherent view of distributed heterogeneous information and their processing is challenging but important for inter-organizational business collaboration and service...

The demand is increasing to replace the current cost ineffective and bad time-to-market hardcopy publishing and delivery of content in the financial world. Financial Enterprise...

Urgent requests and critical messages in healthcare applications must be delivered and handled timely instead of in an ad-hoc manner for most current systems. Therefore, we...

Urgent requests and critical messages in healthcare applications must be delivered and handled timely instead of in an ad-hoc manner for most current systems. Therefore, we...

In a service-oriented enterprise, the professional workforce such as salespersons and support staff tends to be mobile with the recent advances in mobile technologies. There are...

In a service-oriented enterprise, the professional workforce such as salespersons and support staff tends to be mobile with the recent advances in mobile technologies. There are...