Digital multimedia technologies, which provide powerful means to acquire and incorporate knowledge from various sources for a broad range of applications, have a strong impact on the daily life, and have changed our way of learning, thinking and living. The rapid increase of multimedia technology over the last decade has brought about fundamental changes to computing, entertainment, and education and it has presented our computerized society with opportunities and challenges that in many cases are unprecedented. As the use of digital multimedia increases, effective data storage and...

This book explores multidimensional particle swarm optimization, a technique developed by the authors and presented in a well-defined algorithmic approach. All featured applications are supported with fully documented source code as well as sample datasets.