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Intelligent Media Agents

Key technology for Interactive Television, Multimedia and Internet Applications

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  1. Hartmut Wittig
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  • Key technology for Interactive Television, Multimedia and Internet Applications
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Part of the book series: Multimedia-Engineering (MUENG)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 1-15

  3. Towards Personal Television Systems

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 17-30

  4. Requirements

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 31-38

  5. Agent Run-Time Environment

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 39-46

  6. Architecture of the Intelligent Media Agent

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 47-53

  7. Program Descriptors and User Profiles

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 55-71

  8. Matching and Clustering

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 73-90

  9. Profile Initialization and Update

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    Pages 91-101

  10. Decision Support System

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 103-110

  11. Implementation and Testing

    • Hartmut Wittig
    Pages 111-134

  12. Conclusions

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    Pages 135-139

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 140-176
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About this book

Intelligent agents are rescuer in the information glut. They help users to find information which better corresponds to their interests and needs. This book describes the architecture and basic modules of an intelligent media agent. A personal television guide is described as an example of intelligent help, addressing the problem of managing TV channels by using an intelligent agent.
Contents: intelligent agents - software agents - programming - fuzzy logic
Target groups: Computer scientists - students - software developers - multimedia and internet programmer
About the Author: Hartmut Wittig is directing the corporate strategy department of "Deutsche Telekom Computer Service Management" (DeTeCSM). In the recent years, H.Wittig has directed multimedia and internet software R&D departments and groups. He gave lectures on "Multimedia Systems" in German universities and worked as Editor in Chief of IEEE Multimedia Newsletter.

About the author

Hartmut Wittig is directing the corporate strategy department of "Deutsche Telekon Computer Service Management" (DeTeCSM), In the recent years, H. Wittig has directed multimedia and internet software R&D departments and groups. He gave lectures on "Multimedia Systems" in German universities and worked as Editor in Chief of IEE Multimedia Newsletter.

Hartmut Wittig ist Zentralbereichsleiter für Unternehmensstrategie bei der Deutschen Telekom Computer Service Management GmbH (DeTeCSM). Das Buch stützt sich auf seine Erfahrungen in leitenden Tätigkeiten der Internet-Softwareentwicklung. In den vergangenen Jahren war er außerdem als Dozent für Multimedia-Systeme an verschiedenen deutschen Universitäten sowie als Herausgeber der IEEE Multimedia Newsletter tätig.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intelligent Media Agents

  • Book Subtitle: Key technology for Interactive Television, Multimedia and Internet Applications

  • Authors: Hartmut Wittig

  • Series Title: Multimedia-Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-86851-0

  • Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-528-05706-0Published: 29 July 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-86851-0Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 180

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Engineering, general, Artificial Intelligence

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