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This concise textbook presents the mathematics that is foundational to multimedia applications. Featuring a rigorous survey of selected results from algebra and analysis, the work examines tools used to create application software for multimedia signal processing and communication. Key features include: * Over 100 exercises with complete solutions; * Useful algorithms presented in pseudocode and Standard C to help readers with programming, experimentation, and the solution of exercises; * Numerous illustrations based on data from real studies; * Suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter; * A companion website maintained by the author providing computer programs described in the book as well as additional references and data files, such as images and sounds, to enhance the reader's understanding of key topics; * A supplementary manual containing several hundred exercises, solutions, and sample programs not included in the book available to instructors upon request; * Minimal prerequisites only an undergraduate-level knowledge of mathematics, not including statistics, is required. Mathematics for Multimedia is an ideal textbook for upper undergraduate and beginning graduate students in pure and applied mathematics, engineering, and computer science seeking an innovative approach to contemporary mathematics with practical applications. The work may also serve as a useful reference for multimedia applications developers and other researchers and practitioners interested in the mathematics underlying multimedia software design and implementation.

Mathematics. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- Algorithms. --- Fourier Analysis. --- Mathematical Software. --- Multimedia systems. --- Fourier analysis. --- Computer software. --- Mathématiques --- Multimédia --- Analyse de Fourier --- Algorithmes --- Logiciels --- Multimedia systems --- Math --- Science --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Mathematics

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This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the three workshops held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2005, in New York, NY, USA, in November 2005. A total of 47 papers were submitted to the three workshops, and 28 revised full papers were carefully selected for presentation. The workshop on Web Information Systems Quality (WISQ 2005) - discussing and disseminating research on the quality of WIS and Web services from a holistic point of view - included 7 papers out of 12 submissions. The workshop on Web-based Learning (WBL 2005) accounted for 10 papers from 14 papers submitted - organized in topical sections on tools, models, and innovative applications. The workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS 2005) included 11 presentations selected from 21 submissions. Topics addressed are scalable repository and reasoning services, practical Semantic Web applications, query handling and optimization techniques.

Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Database management. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Multimedia systems. --- Popular Computer Science. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Database Management. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Multimedia Information Systems.

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Interactive media is pervasive. The colonization of our everyday lives by the computational power of the silicon chip is a fundamental feature of our digital age, and raises important questions such as: What does this mean for us as inhabitants of such media rich environments? How can we make sense of these media and the ways in which they have changed our interactions? What theories can we draw on to help us make sense of life in the digital age? Human Computer Interaction has been looking at versions of these questions for a long time now, but as technology advances so quickly it is hard to keep pace with the changes. In reflecting on some of these issues and by providing a way to relate some of the disparate threads of theory from fields such as phenomenology, cognitive science, semiotics and the ecological theory of perception, Shaleph O’Neill provides an exploration of the theories that impact our understanding over a spectrum of interactive media. Dr. Shaleph O’Neill is Course Director of Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee.

Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- Media Design. --- Computer science. --- Multimedia systems. --- Informatique --- Multimédia --- Human-computer interaction. --- Semiotics. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Human-computer interaction --- Semiotics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Design --- Design. --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Multimedia information systems. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Human-machine systems --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Informatics --- Science --- Multimedia systems .

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Multimodal Usability demonstrates several major generalisations of human-computer interaction and extends the traditional focus on graphical user interfaces to all input/output modalities accessible to vision, hearing, and touch. Multimodal Usability can help make a multimodal interactive system usable no matter if you are building a work tool or a game, and whether your system models aspects of people, like a virtual (or robot) companion or friend, or not. Successful implementation can be achieved using the following usability development steps: (1) Augment system model specification with an AMITUDE model of use specified in terms of Application type, Modalities, Interaction type, Task, User, Device and Environment of use. (2) Apply usability methods to collect the usability data needed at any time. A toolbox of 24 key methods are presented in a common format. Methods are of five kinds: question-answering, meetings with discussion, observation, imagination, and interaction with the system. (3) For each method application, post-process, annotate, analyse, report, and act on the data to improve system model usability. Three multimodal system Cases are included to illustrate usability development from idea to user test of the implemented prototype. Multimodal Usability assumes no prior knowledge about usability and human-computer interaction.

Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- System Performance and Evaluation. --- Media Design. --- Computer science. --- Computer system performance. --- Informatique --- Human-computer interaction --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Interactive multimedia --- Human-computer interaction. --- Human engineering. --- Informatics --- Science --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computer system failures. --- Multimedia systems . --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer failures --- Computer malfunctions --- Computer systems --- Failure of computer systems --- System failures (Engineering) --- Fault-tolerant computing --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Failures

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Over the last decade researchers and practitioners have developed a wide range of knowledge related to e-learning. This book provides state-of-the-art e-learning networked environments and architectures carried out over the last few years from a knowledge management perspective. The book is organized into four parts: After an introductory chapter which attempts to characterize the e-learning environments, Part I exposes the problems of building knowledge scenarios followed by Part II which analyzes the process of building knowledge environments. Part III summarizes the principles, methods and issues related to the design of knowledge networks and finally Part IV addresses the problem of retrieving resources and knowledge from networked environments. Presenting a wide-ranging survey of methods and applications from contributors from around the world, this book will be a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and graduates.

Computer Science. --- Computers and Education. --- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet). --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Computer science. --- Information systems. --- Multimedia systems. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Social sciences --- Education. --- Informatique --- Réseaux d'ordinateurs --- Multimédia --- Reconnaissance optique des formes (Informatique) --- Sciences sociales --- Education --- Data processing. --- e-learning e-learning --- Enseignement à distance Afstandsonderwijs --- Matériel didactique Leermiddelen --- Réseaux informatiques Netwerken (Informatica) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Systèmes d'information --- Distance education. --- Employees -- Training of -- Data processing. --- Internet in education. --- Knowledge management. --- Employees --- Distance education --- Internet in education --- Knowledge management --- Commerce --- Marketing & Sales --- Business & Economics --- Training of --- Data processing --- Management of knowledge assets --- Internet (Computer network) in education --- Distance learning --- Laborers --- Personnel --- Workers --- Personnel management. --- Computer communication systems. --- Application software. --- Educational technology. --- Human Resource Management. --- Educational Technology. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Open learning --- Telecommunication in education --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management --- Training of&delete&