Starting a journey on the new path of converging information technologies is the aim of the present book. Extended on 27 chapters, the book provides the reader

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology, ICHIT 2011, held in Daejeon

Interactive multimedia and information infrastructure receive a lot of attention in the press, but what do they really mean for society? What are the most signi

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, held in Uppsala, Swe

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transfo