Information retrieval

This book documents progress and presents a broad perspective of recent developments in database security.

Multimedia Database Retrieval: A Human-Centered Approach presents thelatest development in user-centered methods and the state-of-the-art invisual media retrieval.

Current research in Visual Database Systems can be characterized by scalability, multi-modality of interaction, and higher semantic levels of data.

New technology is always evolving and companies must have appropriate security for their business to be able to keep up-to-date with the changes.

Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems reflects the state of the art of emerging research on the meaning of multimedia information, as presented during IFIP's Eighth Data Semantics Working Conference (DS-8), organized by its Working Group 2.

Smart cards or IC cards offer a huge potential for information processing purposes.

Computer technology evolves at a rate that challenges companies to maintain appropriate security for their enterprises.

Video segmentation is the most fundamental process for appropriate index- ing and retrieval of video intervals.

Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems is a state-of-the-art book that establishes the basis for an ongoing dialogue between the IT security specialists and the internal control specialists so that both may work more effectively together to assist in creating effective business systems in the future.

This book constitutes the Proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference PRO- COMET'98, held 8-12 June 1998 at Shelter Island, N.

In today's rapidly changing educational and business climate, organizational transformation has become a key area of development for many different and varied environments, both commercial and academic.

CHARM '97 is the ninth in a series of working conferences devoted to the development and use of formal techniques in digital hardware design and verification.

The purpose of this book is to discuss, in depth, the current state of research and practice in database security, to enable readers to expand their knowledge.

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the world.

This book is for both specialist and generalist.

Globalization of business, internationalization of trade, and increasing prevalence of multi-cultural interdisciplinary teams are beginning to redefine the nature of office work.

In multimedia and communication environments all documents must be protected against attacks.

This book considers how the fundamental issues relating to the use of information technology in education, are being tackled across the world.

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TRACK 1: Innovative Applications in the Public Sector The integration of multimedia based applications and the information superhighway fundamentally concerns the creation of a communication technology to support the ac- tivities of people.

The number of new applications in need of database support is exploding and there is an increasing need to link and access database systems supporting these new applications via computer networks.

These are the proceedings of the Eleventh International Information Security Conference which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, May 1995.

Many organisations are using an increased range of information technologies to support a variety of new organisational practices and organisational forms.

TC8 is one of IFIP's most active committees.

This is a compilation of papers presented at the Information System Concepts conference in Marburg, Germany.

Educational institutions in which administrators, managers and teachers will be working in the late 1990's will be far different from those oftoday.

Data mining is a mature technology.

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Semantic Issues in e-Commerce Systems comprises the proceedings of the Ninth Working Conference on Database Semantics, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Hong Kong in April 2001.

Research Directions in Data and Applications Security describes original research results and innovative practical developments, all focused on maintaining security and privacy in database systems and applications that pervade cyberspace.

Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription is the first book dedicated to uniting research related to signal processing algorithms and models for various aspects of music transcription such as pitch analysis, rhythm analysis, percussion transcription, source separation, instrument recognition, and music structure analysis.

Several works on multimedia storage appear in literature today, but very little if any, have been devoted to handling long duration video retrieval, over large scale networks.

Data mining has emerged as a significant technology for gaining knowledge from vast quantities of data.

The area of similarity searching is a very hot topic for both research and c- mercial applications.

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

Hyperspectral Data Compression provides a survey of recent results in the field of compression of remote sensed 3D data, with a particular interest in hyperspectral imagery.

The concept of content delivery (also known as content distribution) is be- coming increasingly important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information in the Internet.

Database security is one of the classical topics in the research of information system security.

Modern applications are both data and computationally intensive and require the storage and manipulation of voluminous traditional (alphanumeric) and nontraditional data sets (images, text, geometric objects, time-series).

A comprehensive survey of computer network security concepts, methods, and practices.

Researchers in data management have recently recognized the importance of a new class of data-intensive applications that requires managing data streams, i.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook organizes all major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, challenges and applications of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) into a coherent and unified repository.

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Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML aims to provide a single record of current research and practical applications in the fuzzy databases.

Coding is a highly integral component of viable and efficient computer and data communications, yet the often heavy mathematics that form the basis of coding may prevent a serious and practical understanding of this important area.

Semistructured Database Design provides an essential reference for anyone interested in the effective management of semsistructured data.

Scope The book provides comprehensive coverage of database performance tuning and opti- zation using Oracle 8i as the RDBMS.

Existence of huge amounts of data on the Web has developed an undeferring need to locate right information at right time, as well as to integrating information effectively to provide a comprehensive source of relevant information.