Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: Integrated Systems

✍ Scribed by George A. Tsihrintzis, Lakhmi C. Jain (auth.), George A. Tsihrintzis, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a continuation of our previous books on multimedia services in intelligent environments [1-4]. It includes fourteen chapters on integrated multimedia systems and services covering various aspects such as geographical information systems, recommenders, interactive entertainment, e-learning, medical diagnosis, telemonitoring, attention management, e-welfare and brain-computer interfaces. Each chapter in the book was reviewed by two independent reviewers for novelty and clarity of the research presented in it.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Advances in Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Integrated Systems....Pages 1-3
Use of GIS and Multi-Criteria Evaluation Techniques in Environmental Problems....Pages 5-59
Integrating Multimedia GIS Technologies in a Recommendation System for Geotourism....Pages 63-74
Lighting Design Tools for Interactive Entertainment....Pages 75-102
Utilization of Fuzzy Rules in Computer Character Animation....Pages 103-118
Instructional Design of a Requirements Engineering Education Course for Professional Engineers....Pages 119-151
Building Intelligent E-Learning Systems by Activity Monitoring and Analysis....Pages 153-174
Supporting the Search for Explanations of Medical Exceptions....Pages 175-199
Security in Medical Telediagnosis....Pages 201-226
Audio Content Analysis in the Urban Area Telemonitoring System....Pages 227-239
Video Content Analysis in the Urban Area Telemonitoring System....Pages 241-261
Enterprise Attention Management....Pages 263-282
e-Welfare as a Client Driven Service Concept....Pages 283-298
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI): Types, Processing Perspectives and Applications....Pages 299-321
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Multimedia Information Systems