"While some related books cover separate aspects of digital media and cloud computing, none integrate both of these areas together. Bridging the gap between digital media and cloud computing, this book brings together technologies for media/data communication, elastic media/data storage, security, authentication, cross-network media/data fusion, inter-device media interaction/reaction, data centers, platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). The book also covers interesting applications involving digital media in the cloud"-- Provided by publisher.

"A Chapman & Hall book."

Chapter 1. Mobile multimedia cloud computing : an overview / Jiehan Zhou, Haibin Zhu, Mika Ylianttila, and Mika Rautiainen -- chapter 2. Resource optimization for multimedia cloud computing / Xiaoming Nan, Yifeng He, and Ling Guan -- chapter 3. Supporting practices in professional communities using mobile cloud services / Dejan Kovachev and Ralf Klamma -- chapter 4. GPU and cloud computing for two paradigms of music information retrieval / Chung-Che Wang, Tzu-Chun Yeh, Wei-Tsa Kao, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Wen-Shan Liou, and Yao-Min Huang -- chapter 5. Video transcode scheduling for MPEG-DASH in cloud environments / Roger Zimmermann -- chapter 6. Cloud-based intelligent tutoring mechanism for pervasive learning / Martin M. Weng, Yung-Hui Chen, and Neil Y. Yen -- chapter 7. Multiple-query processing and optimization techniques for multitenant databases / Li Jin, Hao Wang, and Ling Feng -- chapter 8. Large-scale correlation-based semantic classification using MapReduce / Fausto C. Fleites, Hsin-Yu Ha, Yimin Yang, and Shu-Ching Chen -- chapter 9. Efficient join query processing on the cloud / Xiaofei Zhang and Lei Chen -- chapter 10. Development of a framework for the desktop grid federation of game tree search applications / I-Chen Wu and Lung-Pin Chen -- chapter 11. Research on the scene 3D reconstruction from internet photo collections based on cloud computing / Junfeng Yao and Bin Wu -- chapter 12. Pearly user interfaces for cloud computing : first experience in health-care IT / Laure Martins-Baltar, Yann Laurillau, and Gaø•lø•le Calvary -- chapter 13. Standardized multimedia data in health-care applications / Pulkit Mehndiratta, Hemjyotasna Parashar, Shelly Sachdeva, and Subhash Bhalla -- chapter 14. Digital rights management in the cloud / Paolo Balboni and Claudio Partesotti -- chapter 15. Cloud computing and adult literacy : how cloud computing can sustain the promise of adult learning? / Griff Richards, Rory McGreal, Brian Stewart, and Matthias Sturm.