"The book first offers a brief introduction to the topic, covering big data mining, basic methodologies for mining data streams, and a simple example of MOA. More detailed discussions follow, with chapters on sketching techniques, change, classification, ensemble methods, regres…
The author argues that liveness is the product of a dynamic interaction between media institutions, technologies and users. In doing so, she challenges earlier conceptions of the notion, which tended to focus on either one of these contributors to its construction. By analyzing …
Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms challenge common …
"Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms challenge common…
The ever-increasing demand on content distribution and media streaming over the Internet has created the need for efficient methods of delivering information. One of the most promising approaches is based on multicasting. However, multicast solutions have to cope with several co…
This study aims to develop a real-time continuous gestures classification system. The approach does not rely on using any gloves, visual markings, or special camera to achieve the recognition task. Instead, it uses just real-time video streaming of bare hand from a webcam. The t…
Netflix's meteoric rise as an online content provider has been well documented and much debated in the popular press and in academic circles as an industry disrupter, while also blamed for ending TV's "Golden Age." For academic researchers, Netflix exists at the nexus of multipl…
This book relates the history of Netflix and its a long struggle for greatness marked by multiple disasters, lucky breaks, personal betrayal, and broken hearts. It has more drama than most of the movies Netflix rents. Netflix has come a long way since 1997 when two Silicon Valle…
"As the subject area of CDN gains research interest and momentum, it is crucial to stay up-to-date with recent developments of its evolutionary track, as well as the current landscape and roadmap. This book provides performance models, case studies, business analyses, and severa…
"Selling Digital Music documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully in…
This book provides a theoretically grounded account of the impact of digital technology on the music business, and develops the concept of the musical network to understand the transformation of this economy over space and through time. The impact of digital technology on the m…
