Ubiquitous Multimedia and Mobile Agents

This collection of twelve articles on emerging mobile computing technology showcases current scholarship in autonomous systems and ubiquitous computing. The works cover a variety of technologies, and topics discussed include mobility management for multimedia content delivery, agent-based collaborative software, ubiquitous content discovery systems and security management in distributed sensor networks. Individual chapters include illustrations, tables and equations as well as abstracts and bibliographies and a volume wide compilation of reading resources is provided. The contributors are computer scientists from American, European and Asian institutions. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)