Graphical and digital media applications

System Design: A Practical Guide with SpecC presents the system design flow following a simple example through the whole process in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion.

This book was motivated by the problems being faced with shrinking IC process feature sizes.

Control networks span a wide range of application areas.

Design is an art form in which the designer selects from a myriad of alternatives to bring an "e;optimum"e; choice to a user.

Low-Energy FPGAs: Architecture and Design is a primary resource for both researchers and practicing engineers in the field of digital circuit design.

Heterogeneous Network Quality of Service Systems will be especially useful for networking professionals and researchers, advanced level students, and other information technology professionals whose work relate to the Internet.

Asynchronous, or unclocked, digital systems have several potential advantages over their synchronous counterparts.

Spectral Techniques in VLSI CAD have become a subject of renewed interest in the design automation community due to the emergence of new and efficient methods for the computation of discrete function spectra.

Information Organization and Databases: Foundations of Data Organization provides recent developments of information organization technologies that have become crucial not only for data mining applications and information visualization, but also for treatment of semistructured data, spatio-temporal data and multimedia data that are not necessarily stored in conventional DBMSs.

Research and development of logic synthesis and verification have matured considerably over the past two decades.

This book contains the proceedings of the workshop Uncertainty in Geomet- ric Computations that was held in Sheffield, England, July 5-6, 2001.

JPEG2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice is an essential reference for engineers and researchers in the fields of communication, image processing, signal processing, information theory, and multimedia.

Multimedia Mining: A Highway to Intelligent Multimedia Documents brings together experts in digital media content analysis, state-of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, knowledge engineers and domain experts from diverse applied disciplines.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Test Resource Partitioning for System-on-a-Chip is about test resource partitioning and optimization techniques for plug-and-play system-on-a-chip (SOC) test automation.

Symbolic Simulation Methods for Industrial Formal Verification contains two distinct, but related, approaches to the verification problem.

Evolutionary Algorithms for Embedded System Design describes how Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) concepts can be applied to circuit and system design - an area where time-to-market demands are critical.

Analyzing Video Sequences of Multiple Humans: Tracking, Posture Estimation and Behavior Recognition describes some computer vision-based methods that analyze video sequences of humans.

Java is an exciting new object-oriented technology.

This book deals with digital watermarking, which is defined by the authors of this book as the art of hiding auxiliary information in digital data in a secure, robust and imperceptible fashion.

Content-Based Image And Video Retrieval addresses the basic concepts and techniques for designing content-based image and video retrieval systems.

This work began in 1995 as an outgrowth of the InfoPad project which showed us that in order to reduce the energy consumption of a portable multimedia terminal that something had to be done about the consumption of the microprocessor subsystem.

Robust Modal Control covers most classical multivariable modal control design techniques that were shown to be effective in practice, and in addition proposes several new tools.

This book answers a question which came about while the author was work- ing on his diploma thesis [1]: would it be better to ask for the available band- width instead of probing the network (like TCP does)?

DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 10179: 1996) published in the year 1996.

Programmable logic radically changed the electronic system design landscape.

Verification isjob one in today's modem design process.

Due to the great success and enormous impact of IP networks, In- ternet access (such as sending and receiving e-mails) and web brows- ing have become the ruling paradigm for next generation wireless systems.

Perspectives On Software Requirements presents perspectives on several current approaches to software requirements.

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Interconnect Technology and Design for Gigascale Integration is the cumulative effort from academic researchers at Georgia Tech, MIT, and Stanford, as well as from industry researchers at IBM T.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Software Visualization: From Theory to Practice was initially selected as a special volume for "e;The Annals of Software Engineering (ANSE) Journal"e;, which has been discontinued.

Exploration of Visual Data presents latest research efforts in the area of content-based exploration of image and video data.

This brief provides methods for harnessing Twitter data to discover solutions to complex inquiries.

As a foreword, here we publish an email letter of Late Professor Herb Simon, Nobel Laureate, that he wrote on the occasion ofthe death of the fatherofa friend.

mental improvements during the same period.

In 2002, the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Multimedia Signals and Systems is primarily a technical introductory level multimedia textbook, including problems, examples, and MATLAB(R) codes.

Legacy Data: A Structured Methodology For Device Migration in DSM Technology deals with the migration of existing hard IP from one technology to another using repeatable procedures.

Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards provides a detailed introduction to the methods, implementations, and official standards of state-of-the-art audio coding technology.

System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications will be of interest to engineers, both in industry and academia, working in the area of SoC VLSI design and application.

In February of 1990, the balloting process for the IEEE proposed standard P1149.

In 1998-99, at the dawn of the SoC Revolution, we wrote Surviving the SOC Revolution: A Guide to Platform Based Design.

Multi-Threshold CMOS Digital Circuits Managing Leakage Power discusses the Multi-threshold voltage CMOS (MTCMOS) technology, that has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to control the escalating leakage power, while maintaining high performance.

Modeling of Induction Motors with One and Two Degrees of Mechanical Freedom presents the mathematical model of induction motors with two degrees of mechanical freedom (IM-2DMF), formed in the electromagnetic field as well as in circuit theory, which allows analyzing the performance of these three groups of motors taking into account edge effects, winding and current asymmetry.

Shape Analysis and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects provides a comprehensive survey of the most advanced and powerful shape retrieval techniques used in practice today.

The digitisation of traditional media formats, such as text, images, video, and sound provides us with the ability to store, process, and transport content in a uniform way.

Preferential Emergency Communications: From Telecommunications to the Internet, a professional monograph, is divided into three sections.