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Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services - 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2008, Samos Island, Greece, September 22-26, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
George Pavlou, Toufik Ahmed, Tasos Dagiuklas
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This volume presents the proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE
International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile
Networks and Services (MMNS 2008), which was held on Samos, Greece
during September 22-26 as part of the 4th International Week on
Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). As in the
previous three years, the Manweek umbrella - lowed an international
audience of researchers and scientists from industry and academia -
who are researching and developing management systems - to share
views and ideas and present their state-of-the-art results. The
other events co-located with Manweek 2008 were the 19th IFIP/IEEE
International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and
Management (DSOM 2008), the 8th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and
Management (IPOM2008), the Third IEEE International Workshop on
Modeling Autonomic
CommunicationsEnvironments(MACE2008),the4thIEEE/IFIPInternational
Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (EVGM
2008)
andthe5thInternationalWorkshoponNext-GenerationNetworkingMiddleware
(NGNM 2008). Under this umbrella, MMNS again proved itself as a top
public venue for dissemination of results and intellectual
collaboration with speci?c emphasis on the management of emerging
mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to
bring together researchers and scientists from academia and
industry interested in state-of-the-artmanagementof
convergedmultimedia networks and services across heterogeneous
networking infrastructures.
Thisstate-of-the-artsurveyoftechnologies, algorithms, models,
andexperiments in the area of Internet Quality of Service is the
?nal report of COST (European Cooperation in the ?eld of Scienti?c
and Technical Research) Action 263, Qu- ity of future Internet
Services, http: //www. fokus. fraunhofer. de/cost263 (QofIS). COST
263 ran from January 1999 until October 2003 with the participation
of some 70 researchers from 38 organizations from 14 European
countries (France, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, UK, Belgium, Germany,
the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Finland, Greece,
Romania, and Spain). The Action - longed to the COST area
"Multimedia and Internet Communication"; together with COST 264,
Networked Group Communication, this Action continued the e?ort
started in 1992 by COST 237, Multimedia Telecommunications
Services. Both groups have combined their e?orts now in the Network
of Excellence in Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies,
http: //www. ist-e-next. net (E-NEXT) of the 6th European Framework
program. The book consists of seven chapters that were written in
18 months by 67 individual authors. The main objective of this book
is to report the state of the art in the area of QofIS, as
percieved by the authors, including achievements that
wereoriginatedby the authors. The book wasdesigned in a top-downm-
ner: after three years of running the Action with close
co-ordination of research e?orts, it was easy to achieve a
consensus on the table of contents. To ensure the content quality
the following roles were de?ned and assigned to COST 263 members:
chapter editor, chapter author, chapter reader.
When mergers go wrong...a Credit Crunch comedy. What happens when
an American Investment Bank buys a very British Insurance company
then changes its mind to look for better deals in India and China?
The break up, selling off and shutting down of a major London based
Financial Services player, seen through the eyes of a romantically
smitten insurance clerk called Eric, a neurotic and chaotic Sales
Director, Nigel and a 60s rock guitar playing Compliance Officer,
Stan aka Feral Wilde. From the offshore banking centres of Bermuda
and the Isle of Man, to the insurance streets of London, Edinburgh
and East Grinstead. This is as irreverent and humorous as it gets,
from an insider at the heart of insurance, investments and banking
for the last 30 years.
This book offers a significant and original contribution to studies
on D.W. Griffith and film, through a systematic analysis of the
director's chase scenes, which create suspense and resolution in
his films. The predominance of the emphasis of building suspense
differs in the various stages of his chase scenes. The primary
source of material discussed here is Griffith's films after 1913
when he left the Biograph Company. Griffith's post-Biograph films
are more complete and representative of his techniques than his
earlier films, which were subject to financial constraints while he
was still innovating and developing his cinematic techniques. Most
of his films used in this analysis were provided by the Museum of
Modern Art in New York City. The purpose of this study is to
determine a definition of a Griffithian chase scene in terms of his
editing techniques. Categories are established, defining specific
tools. This is done by determining and documenting consistencies,
comparisons, and specific patterns occurring in his chase scenes
that generally do not occur in his general editing. Griffith's
basic mechanics in editing are filmic time and space, parallel
action, referential crosscutting, and decomposition.A major finding
in this book is that Griffith's chase scenes are the most important
part of his films in terms of suspense and resolution. His chase
scenes are complex, unique and sometimes even unpredictable. As
such, this is an important new work on D.W. Griffith, and will be
of interest to scholars and others interested in both the director
and film, and will also be an asset to libraries and bookstores.
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