Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides

Although there have been two main perspectives on the nature of music through systematic and cultural musicology, music informatics has emerged as an interdisciplinary research area which provides a different idea on the nature of music through computer technologies.

Since the dawn of the digital era, the transfer of knowledge has shifted from analog to digital, local to global, and individual to social.

Technology trends may come and go, but cloud computing technologies have been gaining consideration in the commercial world due to its ability to provide on-demand access to resources, control the software environment, and supplement existing systems.

The new generation of internet technologies and web applications is seeing a growth in social software and networking, as well as other communications tools.

The latest advances in technology development have been particularly useful to actor-network theory as a structure for much of its research.

Cloud computing has revolutionized computer systems, providing greater dynamism and flexibility to a variety of operations.

Video games represent a unique blend of programming, art, music, and unbridled creativity.

The coming of age of the personal computer and World Wide Web has made it possible to reach a much wider portion of populations.

Computer and online games have emerged as a critical area of study due to their implications for business and society, as well as their increased presence in individuals' lives.

Recent technological progress in computer science, Web technologies, and the constantly evolving information available on the Internet has drastically changed the landscape of search and access to information.

The exploitation of theoretical results in knowledge representation, language standardization by W3C and data publication initiatives such as Linked Open Data have given a level of concreteness to the field of ontology research.

While the earliest character representations in video games were rudimentary in terms of their presentation and performance, the virtual characters that appear in games today can be extremely complex and lifelike.

This book introduces fundamental concepts and theories in pervasive computing as well as its key technologies and applications.

In late 2013, approximately 40 million customer debit and credit cards were leaked in a data breach at Target.

The amount of data in everyday life has been exploding.

Cloud Enterprise Architecture examines enterprise architecture (EA) in the context of the surging popularity of Cloud computing.

Broad in scope, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing provides a complete reference of techniques, algorithms, and solutions for the design and the implementation of contemporary multimedia systems.

This book examines both application and security architectures and illustrates the relationship between the two.

This book supplies comprehensive coverage of the principles, practice, and paradigm of component-oriented development and assembly.

Linked Data Management presents techniques for querying and managing Linked Data that is available on today's Web.

This book supplies step-by-step instructions on how to secure the provenance of data to make sure it is safe from inference attacks.

Rapid progress in software, hardware, mobile networks, and the potential of interactive media poses many questions for researchers, manufacturers, and operators of wireless multimedia communication systems.

Emerging social media and so-called Web 2.

The rapid advancement of digital multimedia technologies has not only revolutionized the production and distribution of audiovisual content, but also created the need to efficiently analyze TV programs to enable applications for content managers and consumers.

Cloud Computing and Digital Media: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications presents the fundamentals of cloud and media infrastructure, novel technologies that integrate digital media with cloud computing, and real-world applications that exemplify the potential of cloud computing for next-generation digital media.

In today's wireless environment, marketing is more frequently occurring at the server-to-device level-with that device being anything from a laptop or phone to a TV or car.

A rapidly growing number of services and applications along with a dramatic shift in users' consumption models have made media networks an area of increasing importance.

Recent advancements in mobile device technologies are revolutionizing how we socialize, interact, and connect.

In today's increasingly competitive business environment, organizations must be able to adapt to the ever-changing business landscape where traditional business concepts no longer ensure success.

Process-Driven SOA: Patterns for Aligning Business and IT supplies detailed guidance on how to design and build software architectures that follow the principles of business-IT alignment.

Recent research shows that collaboration and social networking can foster knowledge sharing and innovation by sparking new connections, ideas, and practices.

While the extensible markup language (XML) has received a great deal of attention in web programming and software engineering, far less attention has been paid to XML in mainstream computational science and engineering.

For machine intelligence applications to work successfully, machines must perform reliably under variations of data and must be able to keep up with data streams.

As more and more data is generated at a faster-than-ever rate, processing large volumes of data is becoming a challenge for data analysis software.

Demystifying one of the most popular content management systems in use today, Drupal Web Profiles offers a complete introduction to the installation, configuration, and administration of Drupal versions 6 and 7.

Cloud Enterprise Architecture examines enterprise architecture (EA) in the context of the surging popularity of Cloud computing.

This book examines the applications, trends and challenges of 5G Enabled technologies for Smart City and Urbanization systems.

The political process is seeing the impact of disruptive technologies that are leading to dramatic changes in the marketplace of ideas and action.

Almost everyone has heard a tale of someone getting rich by selling an Internet domain name for a staggering price.

Written at an introductory level, and featuring engaging case examples, this book reviews the theory and practice of personal and egocentric network research.