Digital Multimedia Perception and DesignMultimedia is an interdisciplinary, application-oriented technology that capitalizes on the multi-sensory nature of humans and the ability of computers to store, manipulate, and convey non-numerical information such as video, graphics, and audio in addition to numerical and textual information. Multimedia has the intrinsic goal of... | | Semantic Grid: Model, Methodology, and Applications (Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China)Semantic Grid: Model, Methodology, and Applications introduces to the science, core technologies, and killer applications. First, scientific issues of semantic grid systems are covered, followed by two basic technical issues, data-level semantic mapping, and service-level semantic interoperating. Two killer applications are then introduced to... | | Causal Mapping for Research in Information TechnologyCausal maps represent cognition as a system of cause-effect relations for the purpose of capturing the structure of human cognition from texts, either archival or interview generated. Given the structure of causal maps, they can be represented pictorially, or as matrices. Once these cognitive structures have been represented, they... |