Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments [electronic resource] : Software Development Challenges and Solutions / edited by George A. Tsihrintzis, Maria Virvou, Lakhmi C. Jain.

Advances in Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments Software Development Challenges and Solutions -- Evaluating the Generality of a Life-Cycle Framework for Incorporating Clustering Algorithms in Adaptive Systems -- A Distributed Multimedia Data Management over the Grid -- A View of Monitoring and Tracing Techniques and Their Application to Service-Based Environments -- An Ontological SW Architecture Supporting Contribution and Retrieval of Service and Process Models -- Model-Driven Quality Engineering of Service-Based Systems -- Application of Logic Models for Pervasive Computing Environments and Context-Aware Services Support -- Intelligent Host Discovery from Malicious Software -- Swarm Intelligence: The Ant Paradigm -- Formulating Discrete Geometric Random Sums for Facilitating Intelligent Behaviour of a Complex System under a Major Risk -- Incorporating a Discrete Renewal Random Sum in Computational Intelligence and Cindynics.

This book presents various software development challenges and related solutions that are faced when attempting to accommodate multimedia services in intelligent environments.

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