Intelligent Multimedia Communication: Techniques and Applications
Intelligent Multimedia Communication: Techniques and Applications

Author: Chang Wen Chen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-07-06

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 364211685X

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Multimedia data are used more and more widely in human being's life, e.g., videoconferencing, visual telephone, IPTV, etc. Nearly most of the applications need multimedia transmission techniques that send multimedia data from one side to another side and keep the properties of efficiency, robustness and security. Here, the efficiency denotes the time cost of transmission operations, the robustness denotes the ability to survive transmission errors or noises, and the security denotes the protection of the transmitted media content. Recently, various intelligent or innovative techniques are invented, which bring vast performance improvements to practical applications. For example, such content transmission techniques as p2p, sensor network and ad hoc network are constructed, which adaptively use the peers’ properties to improve the network’s resources. Multimedia adaptation techniques can adjust the multimedia data rate in order to compliant with the network’s bandwidth. Scalable encryption techniques can generate the data stream that can be correctly decrypted after bit rate conversion. Ubiquitous multimedia services make the user share any kind of content anywhere. The book includes fourteen chapters highlighting current concepts, issues and emerging technologies. Distinguished scholars from many prominent research institutions around the world contribute to the book. The book covers various aspects, including not only some fundamental knowledge and the latest key techniques, but also typical applications and open issues. For example, the covered topics include the present and future video coding standards, stereo and multiview coding techniques, free-viewpoint TV techniques, wireless broadcasting techniques, media streaming techniques, wireless media transmission techniques and systems, and User-Generated Content sharing.

Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 2
Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 2

Author: Malay Kumar Kundu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-26

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 3319073508

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Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics are three distinct and mutually exclusive disciplines of knowledge with no apparent sharing/overlap among them. However, their convergence is observed in many real world applications, including cyber-security, internet banking, healthcare, sensor networks, cognitive radio, pervasive computing amidst many others. This two-volume proceedings explore the combined use of Advanced Computing and Informatics in the next generation wireless networks and security, signal and image processing, ontology and human-computer interfaces (HCI). The two volumes together include 148 scholarly papers, which have been accepted for presentation from over 640 submissions in the second International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics, 2014, held in Kolkata, India during June 24-26, 2014. The first volume includes innovative computing techniques and relevant research results in informatics with selective applications in pattern recognition, signal/image processing and HCI. The second volume on the other hand demonstrates the possible scope of the computing techniques and informatics in wireless communications, networking and security.

Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking
Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking

Author: Xuemin Shen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-03

Total Pages: 1421

ISBN-13: 0387097511

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Peer-to-peer networking is a disruptive technology for large scale distributed app- cations that has recently gained wide interest due to the successes of peer-to-peer (P2P) content sharing, media streaming, and telephony applications. There are a large range of other applications under development or being proposed. The - derlying architectures share features such as decentralizaton, sharing of end system resources, autonomy, virtualization, and self-organization. These features constitute the P2P paradigm. This handbook broadly addresses a large cross-section of c- rent research and state-of-the-art reports on the nature of this paradigm from a large number of experts in the ?eld. Several trends in information and network technology such as increased perf- mance and deployment of broadband networking, wireless networking, and mobile devices are synergistic with and reinforcing the capabilities of the P2P paradigm. There is general expectation in the technical community that P2P networking will continue to be an important tool for networked applications and impact the evo- tion of the Internet. A large amount of research activity has resulted in a relatively short time, and a growing community of researchers has developed. The Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking is dedicated to discussions on P2P networks and their applications. This is a comprehensive book on P2P computing.

Optimal Resource Allocation for Distributed Video Communication
Optimal Resource Allocation for Distributed Video Communication

Author: Yifeng He

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1439875162

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While most books on the subject focus on resource allocation in just one type of network, this book is the first to examine the common characteristics of multiple distributed video communication systems. Comprehensive and systematic, Optimal Resource Allocation for Distributed Video Communication presents a unified optimization framework for resour

NETWORKING 2010
NETWORKING 2010

Author: Mark Crovella

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-04-23

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 3642129625

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2010, held in Chennai, India, in May 2010. The 24 revised full papers and 9 work in progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers cover a variety of research topics in the area of P2P and overlay networks; performance measurement; quality of service; ad hoc and sensor networks; wireless networks, addressing and routing; and applications and services.

Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XX
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XX

Author: Abdelkader Hameurlain

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 3662467038

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The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. Current decentralized systems still focus on data and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and the support of agent systems with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy between grids, P2P systems, and agent technologies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale environments. This, the 20th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, presents a representative and useful selection of articles covering a wide range of important topics in the domain of advanced techniques for big data management. Big data has become a popular term, used to describe the exponential growth and availability of data. The recent radical expansion and integration of computation, networking, digital devices, and data storage has provided a robust platform for the explosion in big data, as well as being the means by which big data are generated, processed, shared, and analyzed. In general, data are only useful if meaning and value can be extracted from them. Big data discovery enables data scientists and other analysts to uncover patterns and correlations through analysis of large volumes of data of diverse types. Insights gleaned from big data discovery can provide businesses with significant competitive advantages, leading to more successful marketing campaigns, decreased customer churn, and reduced loss from fraud. In practice, the growing demand for large-scale data processing and data analysis applications has spurred the development of novel solutions from both industry and academia.

Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2010
Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2010

Author: Lei Chen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 3642176151

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2010, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2010. The 32 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with 4 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on web service, social networks, web data mining, keyword search, web data modeling, recommender systems, RDF and web data processing, XML and query languages, web information systems, and information retrieval and extraction.

Advances in Control and Communication
Advances in Control and Communication

Author: Dehuai Zeng

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-21

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13: 3642260071

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With success of ICEEE 2010 in Wuhan, China, and December 4 to 5, 2010, the second International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2011) will be held in Macau, China, and December 1 to 2, 2011. ICEEE is an annual conference to call together researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Electrical and Electronics Engineering along with Computer Science and Technology, Communication Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, etc. This year ICEEE is sponsored by International Industrial Electronics Center, Hong Kong. And based on the deserved reputation, more than 750 papers have been submitted to ICEEE 2011, from which 92 high quality original papers have been selected for the conference presentation and inclusion in the “Future Information Technology and Computer Engineering” book based on the referees’ comments from peer-refereed. We expect that the Future Information Technology and Computer Engineering book will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in the importance subject including Database Management, Information Technology and System, Computing Methodologies, Computer Systems Organization, Computer Application, etc. We expect that the Future Information Technology and Computer Engineering book will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in the importance subject including Database Management, Information Technology and System, Computing Methodologies, Computer Systems Organization, Computer Application, etc.

Social Media Retrieval
Social Media Retrieval

Author: Naeem Ramzan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1447145550

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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 result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an improved multimedia-centric quality of experience. Each chapter offers a practical step-by-step walkthrough for a variety of concepts, components and technologies relating to the development of applications and services. Topics and features: introduces the fundamentals of social media retrieval, presenting the most important areas of research in this domain; examines the important topic of multimedia tagging in social environments, including geo-tagging; discusses issues of personalization and privacy in social media; reviews advances in encoding, compression and network architectures for the exchange of social media information; describes a range of applications related to social media.

Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2010
Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2010

Author: Lei Chen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-29

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 364217616X

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th Welcome to the Proceedings of WISE 2010 — the 11 International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering. This year, WISE returned to the place where the inaugural conference was held in 2000, Hong Kong. WISE has also been held in: 2001 Kyoto (Japan), 2002 Singapore, 2003 Rome (Italy), 2004 Brisbane (Australia), 2005 New York (USA), 2006 Wuhan (China), 2007 Nancy (France), 2008 Auckland (New Zealand), and 2009 Poznan (Poland). Continuing its trend, this year’s WISE provided a forum for engineers and scientists to present their latest findings in Web-related technologies and solutions. The submitted contributions address challenging issues in Web services, search, modeling, recommendation and data mining, as well as keyword search, social network analysis, query languages, and information retrieval and extraction. This year, WISE received 170 submissions from 25 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, and the USA. After a thorough reviewing process, 32 papers were selected for presentation as full papers – the acceptance rate was 18.8%. In addition, 19 papers were selected for presentation as short papers, yielding an overall acceptance rate of 30%.