A unique treatment of digital video distribution technology in a business context, Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks explores a range of diverse topics within the field through a combination of theory and practice to provide the best possible insight and exposure. The theoretical...
This book is about computer facial models, computer-generated facial images, and facial animation. In particular, it addresses the principles of creating face models and the manipulation or control of computer-generated facial attributes. In addition, various sections in the book describe and explain the development of specific computer...
We are pleased to present the proceedings of the third international conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2010). The conference was held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands during October 12–13, 2010. It was co-located with the ninth international conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE) and the...
Welcome to the workshop program of the 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010), held in San Francisco, December 2010. These workshop proceedings represent high-quality research and industry papers that showcase recent and new working developments in service-oriented computing and related fields.
The key to understanding the breathtaking development of mankind lies in the ability to objectify knowledge. Just like human knowledge has undergone changes, so have the libraries in their role as treasure chambers of said knowledge. With the advent of the digital age, traditional libraries were complemented by huge collections of digital...
The world of the twenty-first century is, more than ever, global and impersonal. Criminal and terrorist threats, both physical and on the Internet, increase by the day. The demand for better methods of identification is growing, not only in companies and organizations, but also in the world at large.
"Fletcher and Gardner have created a comprehensive resource that will be of interest not only to those working in the field of finance, but also to those using numerical methods in other fields such as engineering, physics, and actuarial mathematics. By showing how to combine the high-level elegance, accessibility, and flexibility of...
This volume contains the papers presented at the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2008).
Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an artificial intelligence approach whereby new problems are solved by remembering, adapting and reusing solutions to a previously solved, similar problem. The collection of previously solved...
The 2004 IFIP International Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems (INTELLCOMM 2004), held in Bangkok, Thailand, 23–26 November 2004, was the successor and an expansion of SMARTNET, a series of annual conferences on intelligence in networks held during 1995–2003 under the auspices of IFIP TC6’s Working Group...
In this textbook, I take an unconventional approach to data analysis. Its contents
are heavily influenced by the idea that data analysis should help in enhancing and
augmenting knowledge of the domain as represented by the concepts and statements
of relation between them. According to this view, two main pathways for
data analysis are...
Topics in switching and finite automata theory have been an important part of
the curriculum in electrical engineering and computer science departments for
several decades. The third edition of this book builds on the comprehensive
foundation provided by the second edition and adds: significant new material
in the areas of CMOS logic;...
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological...
