Intelligent Virtual World

Download or read book Intelligent Virtual World written by Timothy K. Shih and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, we have witnessed an explosive growth in multimediacomputing, communication and applications. This revolution istransforming the way people live, work and interact with each other, and is impacting the way business, government services, education, entertainment and health care operate. This important book summarizes recent research topics, focusing onfour major areas: (1) intelligent content-based information retrievaland virtual world, (2) quality-of-services of multimedia data, (3)intelligent techniques for distance education, and (4) intelligentagents for e-commerc