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Free Download Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval By Dr. Javier Nogueras-Iso, Dr. F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, Dr. Pedro R. Muro-Medrano (auth.)
2005 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 3540244646 | PDF | 4 MB
Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about data", it is an essential requirement for locating and evaluating available data. Therefore, this book focuses on the study of different metadata aspects, which contribute to a more efficient use of DLs and SDIs. The three main issues addressed are: the management of nested collections of resources, the interoperability between metadata schemas, and the integration of information retrieval techniques to the discovery services of geographic data catalogs (contributing in this way to avoid metadata content heterogeneity).

Free Download Geo-information for Disaster Management By Alessandro Annoni, Lars Bernard, John Douglas, Joseph Greenwood, Irene Laiz (auth.), Professor Dr. Peter van Oosterom, Dr. Siyka Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel (eds.)
2005 | 1433 Pages | ISBN: 3540249885 | PDF | 55 MB
Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and similar catastrophes (for example the recent huge disaster with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004). Access to needed information, facilitation of the interoperability of emergency services, and provision of high-quality care to the public are a number of the key requirements.Such requirements pose significant challenges for data management, discovery, translation, integration, visualization and communication based on the semantics of the heterogeneous (geo-) information sources with differences in many aspects: scale/resolution, dimension (2D or 3D), classification and attribute schemes, temporal aspects (up-to-date-ness, history, predictions of the future), spatial reference system used, etc.The book provides a broad overview of the (geo-information) technology, software, systems needed, used and to be developed for disaster management. The book provokes a wide discussion on systems and requirements for use of geo-information under time and stress constraints and unfamiliar situations, environments and circumstances.

Free Download Advances in Web-Age Information Management: 7th International Conference, WAIM 2006, Hong Kong, China, June 17-19, 2006. Proceedings By Kun-Lung Wu, Shyh-Kwei Chen, Philip S. Yu (auth.), Jeffrey Xu Yu, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Hong Va Leong (eds.)
2006 | 610 Pages | ISBN: 3540352252 | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in June 2006.The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on, indexing, XML query processing, information retrieval, sensor networks and grid computing, peer-to-peer systems, Web services, Web searching, caching and moving objects, temporal database, clustering, clustering and classification, data mining, data stream processing, XML and semistructured data, data distribution and query processing, and advanced applications.

Free Download Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2006: 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hangzhou, China, November 2-4, 2006. Proceedings By Selma Yilmazyildiz, Wesley Mattheyses (auth.), Yueting Zhuang, Shi-Qiang Yang, Yong Rui, Qinming He (eds.)
2006 | 1042 Pages | ISBN: 3540487662 | PDF | 24 MB
Welcome to the proceedings of the 7th Paci?c-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM2006)heldatZhejiang University,Hangzhou,China,November2-4,2006. Following the success of the previous conferences, PCM 2000 in Sydney, PCM 2001 in Beijing, PCM 2002 in Hsinchu, PCM 2003 in Singapore, PCM 2004 in Tokyo, and PCM 2005 in Jeju, PCM 2006 again brought together researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators in the ?eld of multimedia from around the world. Both theoretical breakthroughs and practical systems were presented at the conference. There were sessions from multimedia retrieval to multimedia coding to multimedia security,coveringa wide spectrum of multimedia research. PCM2006featuredacomprehensiveprogramincludingkeynotetalks,regular paper presentations, and special sessions. We received 755 submissions and the number was the largest among all the PCMs. From such a large number of submissions,weacceptedonly116oralpresentations.Wekindlyacknowledgethe great support provided by the Program Committee members in the reviewing of submissions, as well as the additional reviewers who generously spent many hours. The many useful comments provided by the reviewing process are very useful to authors’ current and future research.

Free Download Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2004: 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, November 30 – December 3, 2004. Proceedings, Part I By Shuqiang Jiang, Tiejun Huang (auth.), Kiyoharu Aizawa, Yuichi Nakamura, Shin’ichi Satoh (eds.)
2005 | 667 Pages | ISBN: 354023974X | PDF | 18 MB
Welcome to the proceedings of the 5th Paci?c Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004) held in Tokyo Waterfront City, Japan, November 30-December 3, 2004. Following the success of the preceding conferences, PCM 2000 in Sydney, PCM 2001 in Beijing, PCM 2002 in Hsinchu, and PCM 2003 in Singapore, the ?fth PCM brought together the researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators in the ?eld of multimedia. Theoretical breakthroughs and practical systems were presented at this conference, thanks to the support of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Region 10 and IEEE Japan Council, ACM SIGMM, IEICE and ITE. PCM2004featuredacomprehensiveprogramincludingkeynotetalks,regular paperpresentations,posters,demos,andspecialsessions.Wereceived385papers andthenumberofsubmissionswasthelargestamongrecentPCMs.Amongsuch a large number of submissions, we accepted only 94 oral presentations and 176 poster presentations. Seven special sessions were also organized by world-leading researchers. We kindly acknowledge the great support provided in the reviewing of submissions by the program committee members, as well as the additional reviewers who generously gave their time. The many useful comments provided by the reviewing process must have been very valuable for the authors’ work. Thisconferencewouldneverhavehappenedwithoutthehelpofmanypeople. We greatly appreciate the support of our strong organizing committee chairs and advisory chairs. Among the chairs, special thanks go to Dr. Ichiro Ide and Dr. Takeshi Naemura who smoothly handled publication of the proceedings with Springer. Dr. Kazuya Kodama did a fabulous job as our Web master.

Free Download Advances in Information and Computer Security: First International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2006, Kyoto, Japan, October 23-24, 2006. Proceedings By Man Ho Au, Joseph K. Liu, Tsz Hon Yuen, Duncan S. Wong (auth.), Hiroshi Yoshiura, Kouichi Sakurai, Kai Rannenberg, Yuko Murayama, Shinichi Kawamura (eds.)
2006 | 438 Pages | ISBN: 3540476997 | PDF | 6 MB
ItwasourpleasuretoholdtheInternationalWorkshoponSecurity2006(IWSEC 2006) this year in Kyoto and to publish the proceedings as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The workshop was our ?rst trial in that two major academic society groups on security in Japan, viz. ISEC and CSEC, jointly organized it; ISEC is a te- nical group on information security of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), and CSEC is a special interest group on computer security of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). It was Ryoichi Sasaki, the former head of CSEC, who proposed holding such an international workshop in Japan for the ?rst time, two years ago. The two groups supported his idea and started organizing the workshop. CSEC has its annual domestic symposium, the Computer Security Symposium (CSS), in – tober for three days, and we decided to organize the workshop prior to CSS this year. The initial aim of the workshop was primarily to provide young researchers with the opportunity to present their work in English. However, due to more submissions than we had anticipated, the quality of the accepted papers became far better than we had expected. Theconferencereceived147submissions,outofwhichtheprogramcommittee selected 30 for presentation. These proceedings contain the ?nal versions of the accepted papers, which the authors ?nalized on the basis of comments from the reviewers. Since these revisions were not subject to editorial review, the authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers.

Free Download Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2007: 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Nancy, France, December 3-7, 2007 Proceedings By Junhu Wang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chengfei Liu (auth.), Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Claudio Bartolini, Wasim Sadiq, Claude Godart (eds.)
2007 | 680 Pages | ISBN: 3540769927 | PDF | 24 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2007, held in Nancy, France, in December 2007.The 40 revised full papers and 18 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on querying, trust, caching and distribution, interfaces, events and information filtering, data extraction, transformation, and matching, ontologies, rewriting, routing, and personalisation, agents and mining, QOS and management, modeling, and topics.

Free Download Visual Information and Information Systems: 8th International Conference, VISUAL 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 5, 2005, Revised Selected Papers By A. Rizzi, C. Gatta, C. Slanzi, G. Ciocca (auth.), Stéphane Bres, Robert Laurini (eds.)
2006 | 291 Pages | ISBN: 3540304886 | PDF | 8 MB
Visual Information Systems on the Move Following the success of previous International Conferences of VISual Information Systems held in Melbourne, San Diego, Amsterdam, Lyon, Taiwan, Miami, and San Francisco, the 8th International Conference on VISual Information Systems held in Amsterdam dealt with a variety of aspects, from visual systems of multimedia information, to systems of visual information such as image databases. Handling of visual information is boosted by the rapid increase of hardware and Internet capabilities. Now, advances in sensors have turned all kinds of information into digital form. Technology for visual information systems is more urgently needed than ever before. What is needed are new computational methods to index, compress, retrieve and discover pictorial information, new algorithms for the archival of and access to very large amounts of digital images and videos, and new systems with friendly visual interfaces. Visual information processing, features extraction and aggregation at semantic level and content-based retrieval, and the study of user intention in query processing will continue to be areas of great interest. As digital content becomes widespread, issues of delivery and consumption of multimedia content were also topics of this workshop. Be on the move… June 2005 Stéphane Bres Robert Laurini

Free Download Innovations in 3D Geo Information Systems By Sisi Zlatanova (auth.), Dr. Alias Abdul-Rahman, Dr. Sisi Zlatanova, Dr. Volker Coors (eds.)
2006 | 760 Pages | ISBN: 354036997X | PDF | 20 MB
This book covers various aspects of spatial data modelling specifically regarding three-dimensional (3D) modelling and structuring. The realization of "true" 3D geoinformation spatial systems requires a high input, and the developmental process is taking place in various research centers and universities around the globe. The development of such systems and solutions, including the modelling theories are presented in this book. Furthermore, several applications of the 3D geoinformation systems are also highlighted. Innovations in 3D Geoinformation Systems is intended for various geoinformation-related professionals such as GIS engineers, photogrammetrists, land surveyors, mapping specialists, and researchers, as well as for postgraduate students and lecturers.

Free Download Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction, 2nd Edition by James V. Stone
English | October 5, 2022 | ISBN: 1739672704 | True PDF | 292 pages | 14.9 MB
Originally developed by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, information theory laid the foundations for the digital revolution, and is now an essential tool in telecommunications, genetics, linguistics, brain sciences, and deep space communication.