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...

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"This edited book is an early attempt by primarily European researchers to harness and expand the use of grid technologies in accessing distributed sources for sharing, and also to extract and produce knowledge. … Overall, the book is well organized and the selected material represents a very interesting range of...

Video segmentation has been a key technique for visual information extraction and plays an important role in digital video processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision. A wide range of video-based applications will benefit from advances in video segmentation including security and surveillance, bank transactions monitoring,...

Blogging can help you deepen customer loyalty, reach new customers, gain indispensable feedback, and drive more sales. This no-nonsense guide...

Information infrastructures are integrated solutions based on the fusion of information and communication technologies. They are characterized by the large amount of data that must be managed accordingly. An information infrastructure requires an efficient and effective information retrieval system to provide access to the items stored in the...

More and more people are using the query language SPARQL (pronounced “sparkle”) to pull data from a growing collection of public and private data. Whether this data is part of a semantic web project or an integration of two inventory databases on different platforms behind the same firewall, SPARQL is making it easier to access...

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Semantic Web Services, Processes and...