Cloud Computing and Digital Media

Kuan-Ching Li, Qing Li, Timothy K. Shih

• Mobile Multimedia Cloud Computing: An Overview. Resource Optimization for Multimedia Cloud Computing. Supporting Practices in Professional Communities Using Mobile Cloud Services. GPU and Cloud Computing for Two Paradigms of Music Information Retrieval. Video Transcode Scheduling for MPEG-DASH in Cloud Environments. Cloud-Based Intelligent Tutoring Mechanism for Pervasive Learning.Multiple-Query Processing and Optimization Techniques for Multi-Tenant Databases. Large-Scale Correlation-Based Semantic Classification Using MapReduce. Efficient Join Query Processing on the Cloud. Development of a Framework for the Desktop Grid Federation of Game Tree Search Applications. Research on the Scene 3D Reconstruction from Internet Photo Collections Based on Cloud Computing. Pearly User Interfaces for Cloud Computing: First Experience in Health-Care IT. Standardized Multimedia Data in Health-Care Applications. Digital Rights Management in the Cloud. Cloud Computing and Adult Literacy: How Cloud Computing Can Sustain the Promise of Adult Learning. Index.

"... a must read not only for the researchers, engineers, and graduate students who are working in the related research and development topics but also for technology company executives, especially media company executives, to keep pace with the innovations that may impact their business models and market trends. I expect that the timely contributions from these distinguished colleagues shall have prominent influences on the continued flourishing of research and development in cloud computing and digital media." -From the Foreword by Chang Wen Chen, State University of New York