Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments [electronic resource] : Integrated Systems / edited by George A. Tsihrintzis, Lakhmi C. Jain.

Advances in Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Integrated Systems -- Use of GIS and Multi-Criteria Evaluation Techniques in Environmental Problems -- Integrating Multimedia GIS Technologies in a Recommendation System for Geotourism -- Lighting Design Tools for Interactive Entertainment -- Utilization of Fuzzy Rules in Computer Character Animation -- Instructional Design of a Requirements Engineering Education Course for Professional Engineers -- Building Intelligent E-Learning Systems by Activity Monitoring and Analysis -- Supporting the Search for Explanations of Medical Exceptions -- Security in Medical Telediagnosis -- Audio Content Analysis in the Urban Area Telemonitoring System -- Video Content Analysis in the Urban Area Telemonitoring System -- Enterprise Attention Management -- e-Welfare as a Client Driven Service Concept -- Brain-Computer Interface (BCI): Types, Processing Perspectives and Applications.

This book is a continuation of our previous books on multimedia services in intelligent environments [1-4]. It includes fourteen chapters on integrated multimedia systems and services covering various aspects such as geographical information systems, recommenders, interactive entertainment, e-learning, medical diagnosis, telemonitoring, attention management, e-welfare and brain-computer interfaces. Each chapter in the book was reviewed by two independent reviewers for novelty and clarity of the research presented in it.