Moodle has evolved into one of the most widely-used Learning Management Systems in the world, with over 35,000 installed sites and 25 million users. Much of its popularity is due to its ability to be extended by developers, by using its open source architecture. Understanding how to develop on the Moodle platform provides an organization...

Multimedia data require specialized management techniques because the representations of color, time, semantic concepts, and other underlying information can be drastically different from one another. The user's subjective judgment can also have significant impact on what data or features are relevant in a given context. These factors...

This book describes the optimization methods most commonly encountered in signal and image processing: artificial evolution and Parisian approach; wavelets and fractals; information criteria; training and quadratic programming; Bayesian formalism; probabilistic modeling; Markovian approach; hidden Markov models; and metaheuristics (genetic...