Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides

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.