Graphical and digital media applications

Geometric modelling has been an important and interesting subject for many years from the purely mathematical and computer science viewpoint, and also from the standpoint of engineering and various other applications, such as CAD/CAM, entertainment, animation, and multimedia.

The short history of the International Working Conference on Educating Professionals for Network Centric Organizations is a good illustration of the tremendous rate of development of global networking, its impact and of its deep penetration into management of business, industty and administration.

High Performance Networking is a state-of-the-art book that deals with issues relating to the fast-paced evolution of public, corporate and residential networks.

Testing of Communicating Systems presents the latest world-wide results in both theory and practice.

Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems presents research and development and industrial experience of usability engineering for multimedia user interfaces.

In most schools the dominant supporting technology has been either the stand-alone personal computer or a modest local network.

Cooperative working environments and their development are becoming increasingly important and ever more frequent in different industrial sectors and this book provides a scientific approach for managing Team Engineering.

PROLAMAT (PROgraming LAnguages for MAchine Tools) is a series of international conferences devoted to the filed of manufacturing - 1969 Roma, Italy; 1973, Budapest, Hungary; 1976, Stirling, Scotland; 1979 Ann Arbor, USA; 1982 Leningrad, USSR; 1992 Tokyo, Japan; 1995 Berlin, Germany; 1998, Trento, Italy; 2001, Budapest, Hungary; - organized by IFIP the International Federation for Information Processing.

Canadian Semantic Web is an edited volume based on the first Canadian Web Working Symposium, June 2006, in Quebec, Canada.

Usability has become increasingly important as an essential part of the design and development of software and systems for all sectors of society, business, industry, government and education, as well as a topic of research.

The 2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact (WITASI 2002), held in Wroclaw, Poland, October 10-11, 2002, presents different research aspects of the Internet, both technical and societal.

This volume is the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC 2002).

Many teachers are hesitant as to how to teach about ICT and, at the same time, integrate ICT into subject-based learning.

A large number of information systems use many different individual schemas to represent data.

The volume contains the papers presented at the fifth working conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2001), held on May 21-22, 2001 at (and organized by) the GMD -German National Research Center for Information Technology GMD - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute IPSI, in Darmstadt, Germany.

Due to the decreasing production costs of IT systems, applications that had to be realised as expensive PCBs formerly, can now be realised as a system-on-chip.

Image-Based Rendering examines the theory, practice, and applications associated with image-based rendering and modeling.

In Thermal and Power Management of Integrated Circuits, power and thermal management issues in integrated circuits during normal operating conditions and stress operating conditions are addressed.

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.

Human Identification Based on Gait is the first book to address gait as a biometric.

Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge.

Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining system performance in nanometer technologies.

The Semantic Web, that adds a conceptual layer of machine-understand- able metadata to the existing content, will make the content available for processing by intelligent software allowing automatic resource integration and providing interoperability between heterogeneous systems.

If you survey hardware design groups, you will learn that between 60% and 80% of their effort is dedicated to verification.

Until the late eighties, information processing was associated with large mainframe computers and huge tape drives.

"e;New Trends and Technologies in Computer-Aided Learning for Computer-Aided Design"e; contains the proceedings from the EduTech Workshop, an IFIP TC-10 Working Conference held in Perth, Australia.

Reliable human authentication schemes are of paramount importance in our highly networked society.

Scalable Hardware Verification with Symbolic Simulation presents recent advancements in symbolic simulation-based solutions which radically improve scalability.

SystemC provides a robust set of extensions to C++ that enables rapid development of complex hardware/software systems.

Constraint-Based Verification covers an emerging field in functional verification of electronic designs, referred to as the "e;constraint-based verification.

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems: Quartus II Edition provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses using FPGAs and CAD tools for simulation and hardware implementation.

Parallel and distributed computing is one of the foremost technologies for shapingfuture research and development activities in academia and industry.

John Eargle's 4th edition of The Handbook of Recording Engineering is the latest version of his long-time classic hands-on book for aspiring recording engineers.

Computer graphics is important in many areas including engineering design, architecture, education, and computer art and animation.

Current middleware solutions, e.

This text is a light technical introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking), compressive encoding of digital media, and Internet protocol and services.

Hard real-time systems are very predictable, but not sufficiently flexible to adapt to dynamic situations.

Scaling transistors into the nanometer regime has resulted in a dramatic increase in MOS leakage (i.

Biometric user authentication techniques evoke an enormous interest by science, industry and society.

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.

SystemVerilog for Verification provides practical information for hardware and software engineers using the SystemVerilog language to verify electronic designs.

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Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits: Techniques for Low Emission and Susceptibility focuses on the electromagnetic compatibility of integrated circuits.

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).

It is widely acknowledged that the cost of validation and testing comprises a s- nificant percentage of the overall development costs for electronic systems today, and is expected to escalate sharply in the future.

Motion-Free Super-Resolution is a compilation of very recent work on various methods of generating super-resolution (SR) images from a set of low-resolution images.

Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques, which enable a secure exchange of multimedia intellectual property.

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