Information science and technology ushers 21st century into an Internet and multimedia era. Multimedia means the theory and application of filtering, coding, estimating, analyzing, detecting and recognizing, synthesizing, classifying, recording, and reproducing signals by digital and/or analog devices or techniques, while the scope of "signal" includes audio, video, speech, image, musical, multimedia, data/content, geophysical, sonar/radar, bio/medical, sensation, etc. Networking suggests transportation of such multimedia contents among nodes in communication and/or computer networks, to facilitate the ultimate Internet. Theory, technologies, protocols and standards, applications/services, practice and implementation of wired/wireless networking are all within the scope of this series. Based on network and communication science, we further extend the scope for 21st century life through the knowledge in robotics, machine learning, cognitive science, pattern recognition, quantum/biological/molecular computation and information processing, biology, ecology, social science and economics, user behaviors and interface, and applications to health and society advance.

• Communication/Computer Networking Technologies and Applications
• Queuing Theory, Optimization, Operation Research, Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, Statistics, and Applications
• Multimedia/Speech/Video Processing, Theory and Applications of Signal Processing
• Computation and Information Processing, Machine Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Decision, and Brian Science
• Network Science and Applications to Biology, Ecology, Social and Economic Science, and e-Commerce

List recently published and forthcoming titles

Traffic and Performance Engineering for Heterogeneous Networks (Book cover and details)
Editor: Demetres D. Kouvatsos

Performance Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Networks (Book cover and details)
Editor: Demetres D. Kouvatsos

Mobility Management and Quality-of-Service for Heterogeneous Networks (Book details)
Editor: Demetres D. Kouvatsos

Biomedical and Environmental Sensing (Book cover and details)
J.I. Agbinya, E. Biermann, Y. Hamam, F. Rocaries, S. K. Lal

Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision (Book details)
Patrick S.P. Wang