 Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing
Parallelism, the capability of a computer to execute operations concurrently, has been a constant throughout the
history of computing. It impacts hardware, software, theory, and applications. The fastest machines of the past few
decades, the supercomputers, owe their performance advantage to parallelism. Today, physical limitations... |  |  Multimedia Semantics: Metadata, Analysis and Interaction
Digital multimedia items can be found on most electronic equipment ranging from mobile
phones and portable audiovisual devices to desktop computers. Users are able to acquire,
create, store, send, edit, browse, and render through such content at an increasingly fast
rate. While it becomes easier to generate and store data, it also... |  |  |