"This book is aimed at researchers and practitioners involved in designing and managing complex multimedia information … : hyperlinking, search and retrieval of time-continuous data on the web / Silvia Pfeiffer, Conrad Parker, Andre Pang -- 8. Management … of multimedia semantics using MPEG-7 / Uma Srinivasan, Ajay Divakaran -- 9. Visualization, estimation and user modeling …

Foundations of media management -- Characteristics of media management -- Value-creation systems of media enterprises … -- Functions of media management -- Business models and value creation in the newspaper and magazine market 126 -- Business models … the Internet market -- International media management -- Integrated media conglomerates and cross-media -- Case Studies. …

"This book addresses the challenges encountered in multimedia data management by devising both classical and … intelligent techniques. It highlights the essence of multimedia data management and engineering involved"-- …