Intelligent Multimedia Multi-Agent Systems: A Human-Centered Approach (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) [Hardcover]

Rajiv Khosla (Author), Ishwar K. Sethi (Author), Ernesto Damiani (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0792379799 | ISBN-13: 978-0792379799 | Publication Date: October 31, 2000 | Edition: 1st

Intelligent Multimedia Multi-Agent Systems focuses on building intelligent successful systems. The book adopts a human-centered approach and considers various pragmatic issues and problems in areas like intelligent systems, software engineering, multimedia databases, electronic commerce, data mining, enterprise modeling and human-computer interaction for developing a human-centered virtual machine. The authors describe an ontology of the human-centered virtual machine which includes four components: activity-centered analysis component, problem solving adapter component, transformation agent component, and multimedia based interpretation component. These four components capture the external and internal planes of the system development spectrum. They integrate the physical, social and organizational reality on the external plane with stakeholder goals, tasks and incentives, and organization culture on the internal plane. The human-centered virtual machine and its four components are used for developing intelligent multimedia multi-agent systems in areas like medical decision support and health informatics, medical image retrieval, e-commerce, face detection and annotation, internet games and sales recruitment. The applications in these areas help to expound various aspects of the human-centered virtual machine including, human-centered domain modeling, distributed intelligence and communication, perceptual and cognitive task modeling, component based software development, and multimedia based data modeling. Further, the applications described in the book employ various intelligent technologies like neural networks, fuzzy logic and knowledge based systems, software engineering artifacts like agents and objects, internet technologies like XML and multimedia artifacts like image, audio, video and text.

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`For the research-oriented reader the book provides a complete and interesting discussion, enriched of practical results. I consider this book very good to have on one's shelf if one needs to apply software agent technology for advanced multimedia.' Soft Computing, 5 (2001)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 333 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (October 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792379799
• ISBN-13: 978-0792379799
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,405,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Grotesquely Expensive, April 3, 2008

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This review is from: Intelligent Multimedia Multi-Agent Systems: A Human-Centered Approach (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) (Hardcover)

I will buy this book if and when it gets down to $37.50 or so, which is where it should be. The authors should protest this grotesquely expensive profiteering and handicapping of knowledge by posting the book online as a free PDF document.