Information systems knowledge is essential for creating competitive firms, managing global
corporations, and providing useful products and services to customers. This book introduces …

Computer security is severely threatened by software vulnerabilities. Prior work shows that
information flow tracking (also referred to as taint analysis) is a promising technique to detect …

There are essential differences between multimedia databases (which may contain
complicated objects, such as images), and traditional databases. These differences lead to …

The emergence of multimedia technology and the rapidly expanding image and video
collections on the Internet have attracted significant research efforts in providing tools for …

Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes (eg, image, text) are
becoming increasingly common. A query on these attributes will typically, request not just a …

We propose a new image feature called the color correlogram as a generic color-spatial
indexing tool to tackle various problems that arise in content-based image retrieval and …

In this paper, we describe a framework that we have developed for the support of ontology-
based semantic indexing and retrieval of audiovisual content following the MPEG-7 and TV …

Successful Web‐based information systems (WIS) are critical for electronic retailers to attract
and retain consumers and deliver business functions and strategy. However, the design and …

Data mining is an important research area in computer science. It is a computational process
of determining patterns in large data. Image mining is one of important techniques in data …

Over the past several years there has been a great deal of interest in the design of mixed
hardware/software systems, sometimes referred to as hardware/software co-design or …