Intelligent Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval

The Intelligent Organization offers a radical model of organization based on the integration of structure, individuals and information. In this game-changing book, leading consultant John Beckford pro

This book is a selection of results obtained within one year of research performed under SYNAT - a nation-wide scientific project aiming to create an infrastructure for scientific content storage and

Fifteen articles from computer marketing professionals from major firms such as Google and Microsoft showcase current trends in Internet based advertising. Divided into five sections covering text and

This book addresses the need for a multidisciplinary resource by offering various perspectives on the social construction of reality and the diverse ways people interpret the same information. The sec

The techniques of analytic mapping and of geographic information systems (GIS) have become increasingly important tools for analyzing census, crime, environmental and consumer data. The authors of thi

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2015, held in Rome, Italy, in August 2015. The 17 full pa

Written for a broad audience of professional informational and corporate filmmakers, film students, technical writers, and clients, Communicating Ideas with Film, Video, and Multimedia: A Practical Gu

As the disciplines of art, technology, and information science collide, computer graphics and multimedia are presenting a myriad of applications and problems to professionals and scholars in Computer

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, held in Singapore during December 4-6, 2012.The 59 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and sel

The research domains information retrieval and information visualization have always been independent from each other. However, they have the potential to be mutually beneficial. With this in mind, a

Information technology is transforming the practices of medicine, nursing, and biomedical research. Computers can now render diagnoses and prognoses more accurately than humans. The concepts of privacy and confidentiality are evolving as data moves from paper to silicon to clouds. Big data promises financial wealth, as well as riches of information and benefits to science and public health. Online access and mobile apps provide patients with an unprecedented connection to their health and health records. This transformation is as unsettling as it is exhilarating. This unique new book is essential for anyone who uses computers in health care, biomedical research or public health, and cares about the ethical issues that arise in their work. With chapters spanning issues from professionalism and quality to mobile health and bioinformatics, it establishes what will become the 'core curriculum' in ethics and health informatics, a growing field which encourages truly inter- and multidiscipli

Karmaker and Dooley, both affiliated with Monash University, Australia, gather research on all aspects and implications of the accelerated progress of mobile multimedia technologies. Covered topics in

Selected Papers from the Thirteenth International Baltic Conference DBIS 2018. The importance of databases and information systems to the functioning of 21st century life is indisputable.This book pre

This book offers results of research under SYNAT, a 2 year project to build a scientific content storage and sharing infrastructure for academia, education and open knowledge society in Poland. Covers

This book tackles the problems of update algorithms for databases. How can one construct and maintain a database of facts, capable of incorporating new information and getting rid of all outdated information, and yet in the process not disturb any other information in the database? The author has produced a formal method for specifying the desired change intentionally, using a 'formula-based' approach to updating needs rather than a 'model-based' technique. The complexity of the algorithms, choice of semantics and a means of enforcing integrity constraints are also discussed. The book will be of value to all involved in database research.

This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can res

There are many scientific databases, each of which are associated with a specific area of science and publish different information. Recognition of scientific databases is a necessity and researchers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2008, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in December 2008.The 79 revised full papers and 39 revised poster pres

The advent of increasingly large consumer collections of audio (e.g., iTunes), imagery (e.g., Flickr), and video (e.g., YouTube) is driving a need not only for multimedia retrieval but also informatio

ABC of Transfer and Retrieval Medicine provides the key information required to help health care professionals involved in the movement of critically ill patients to do so safely, correctly and with c

Learn cutting-edge MULTIMEDIA skills!Discover how to create impressive multimedia projects using state-of-the-art tools and techniques. Multimedia Demystified is filled with information on the latest

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia, IITM 2013, held in Allahabad, India, in March 2013.The 15

In the preface this book notes how computer vision is still at an "immature" stage of development and how much research, until recently, has only been devoted to specific tasks. This volume is intende

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2011, held in Pisa, Italy, in October 2011. The 30 long and 10 short pap

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, SPIRE 2009 held in Saariselka, Finland in August 2009.The 34 revised full papers were