This book presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in Networked Music Performance

Social Networks (LBSNs). Starting with a review of the advances in this area, the book then analyzes user

state security and financial sectors. The increased threat to national security by terrorists has led to

state-of-the-art in wireless ad-hoc networking and discusses some of the key research topics that are expected to

alternative approach that combines state of the art ICT technologies ranging from Augmented and Virtual

This volume brings together contributions representing the state-of-the-art in new multimedia and

user-centered methods and the state-of-the-art in visual media retrieval. It includes discussion on perceptually

respect to the information and the operations that need to be supported. From the database perspective

applications in the fuzzy databases. This volume is the outgrowth of research the author has conducted in

associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems. The contributions

Overview -- Ontologies: State of the Art, Business Potential, and Grand Challenges

complementary domains of research are highlighted in the text. The eleven chapters discuss the recent advances