This volume collects the 83 papers selected for the November/December 2008 conference as well as the 13 papers presented during two workshops on digital identities and secure exchanges, and knowledge acquisition and reuse. Researchers from around the world share recent developments digital signal processing, paying particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication. Other papers explore emerging information modeling and retrieval techniques, novel architectures for exchanging information over the web, and new software engineering methods for open source software development in distributed and large-scale environments. No subject index is provided. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
