Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies. Theory and Applications (Springer 2008).pdf

Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies
Yiannis Kompatsiaris · Paola Hobson
Editors
Semantic Multimedia
and Ontologies
Theory and Applications
Editors
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Dipl Eng, PhD Paola Hobson, BSc, PhD, MBA
Informatics and Telematics Institute Chartered Engineer
Thermi-Thessaloniki Motorola Labs
Greece Basingstoke
UK
ISBN: 978-1-84800-075-9 e-ISBN: 978-1-84800-076-6
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Acknowledgments
This work was partially supported by the mission under contracts
FP6-001765 aceMedia and FP6-027685 MESH.
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Contents
Contributors ....................................................... ix
List of Abbreviations ............................................... xiii
Part I Introduction
1 Introduction to Seman