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Semantic Multimedia

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, ...

Semantic Multimedia

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, ...

Semantic Multimedia : Third International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2008, Koblenz, Germany, December 3-5, 2008. Proceedings

The book cover topics such as semantic analysis and multimedia, semantic retrieval and multimedia, semantic metadata management ...

Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies : Theory and Applications

Taking a step-by-step approach, and drawing on the expertise of key researchers in the multimedia and knowledge domains, ...

Semiotics : the basics / Daniel Chandler

Provides a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. Demystifying what ...

Semiotics : the basics / Daniel Chandler

Provides a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. Demystifying what ...

Service Availability (vol. # 3335)

Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering : AAMAS 2008 International Workshop, SOCASE 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008 Proceedings

The book address a range of topics at the intersection of service-oriented computing, semantic technology, and intelligent ...

Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Vol. 1 : Multiphase Flows I

Shock waves in multiphase flows refers to a rich variety of phenomena of interest to physicists, chemists, and fluid dynamicists, ...

Signal Processing for Image Enhancement and Multimedia Processing

This book presents research results on the application of advanced signal processing techniques for improving the value of ...

Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Multimedia

The unprecedented growth in the range of multimedia services offered today by modern telecommunication systems, is possible ...

Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations

This broad review is the first to gather comprehensive information on the complete contemporary range of toxicity testing ...

Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations

Contains 11 chapters on hazard assessment schemes. This work allows readers to know the different approaches/strategies, ...

Smart Graphics (vol. # 4073)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2006, held in Vancouver, ...

Smart Graphics L : 9th International Symposium, SG 2008, Rennes, France, August 27-29, 2008. Proceedings

This book is organized in topical sections on sketching, navigation and selection, studies and evaluation, camera planning, ...

Social Customer Relationship Management : Fundamentals, Applications, Technologies / Rainer Alt , Olaf Reinhold

Presents analytic and operational software tools that offer features for enhancing and streamlining interactions with customers. ...

Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication

From the phone phreaks of the 1970s to Anonymous, how how hackers deploy persuasion, helpfulness, manipulation, and deception ...

Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media

This book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged ...

Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web

This book covers in a great depth the fast growing topic of tools, techniques and applications of soft computing in the ontologies ...

Soft Real-Time Systems: Predictability vs. Efficiency

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