The Internet and other technological developments are now playing increasing roles in consumer health and the delivery of health services.
Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications provides developmental solutions and explanations for cardiovascular diagnostics. Useful to field researchers, academicians,...
Education and research in the field of telecommunications and networking can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements.
Selected Readings on Telecommunications and Networking supplements course instruction and student research with quality chapters focused...
Education and research in the field of electronic commerce technology can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements.
Selected Readings on Electronic Commerce Technologies: Contemporary Applications supplements course instruction and student research with...
Education and research in the field of database technology can prove problematic without the proper resources and tools on the most relevant issues, trends, and advancements.
Selected Readings on Database Technologies and Applications supplements course instruction and student research with quality chapters focused on key...
Over the past decade, software engineering has developed into a highly respected field. Though computing and software engineering education continues to emerge as a prominent interest area of study, few books specifically focus on software engineering education itself.
Software Engineering: Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches and...
E-dating is now among the largest global e-commerce sectors, allowing for interaction that was once not possible. Despite its dominance in the e-commerce market and society, it is almost completely absent from the information systems research literature. Social Networking Communities and E-Dating Services: Concepts and Implications...
Semantics and ontologies offer an extension to traditional information systems in which information is given well-defined meaning, enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. With expanding uses and integrations of semantics and ontologies, research in Semantic Web engineering has grown immensely. Semantic Web Engineering in the...
Recent years have witnessed giant leaps in the strength of database technologies, creating a new level of capability to develop advanced applications that add value at unprecedented levels in all areas of information management and utilization. Parallel to this evolution is a need in the academia and industry for authoritative references to...
The increasing trend of multimedia data use is likely to accelerate creating an urgent need of providing a clear means of capturing, storing, indexing, retrieving, analyzing, and summarizing data through image data.
Artificial Intelligence for Maximizing Content Based Image Retrieval discusses major aspects of content-based...
Multimedia searching and management have become popular due to demanding applications and competition among companies. Despite the increase in interest, there is no existing book covering basic knowledge on state-of-the-art techniques within the field.
Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Databases provides an...
With the increasing concerns on security breaches and transaction fraud, highly reliable and convenient personal verification and identification technologies are more and more requisite in our social activities and national services. Biometrics, used to recognize the identity of an individual, are gaining ever-growing popularity in an extensive...
Since research on face recognition began in the 1960's, the field has rapidly widened to automated face analysis including face detection, facial gesture recognition, and facial expression recognition.
Automated Face Analysis: Emerging Technologies and Research provides theoretical background to understand the overall...
