Intelligent Algorithms in Ambient and Biomedical Computing

Contents Contributing Authors Preface Acknowledgments Part I HEALTHCARE 1. Bioscience Computing and the Role of Computational Simulation in Biology Christopher D. Clack 1.1. Introduction to bioscience computing 1.2. Simulating adaptive behaviour 1.3. Impact and future directions for bioscience computing 1.4. Summary and conclusions References 2. The Many Strands of DNA Computing Nevenka Dimitrova 2.1. Introduction 2.2. DNA computing 2.3. Synthetic biology 2.4. Conclusion and future directions References 3. Bio-Inspired Data Management Martin L. Kersten, Arno P.J.M. Siebes 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Data cell overview 3.3. The communication infrastructure 3.4. The life cycle 3.5. Application challenges 3.6. Conclusion References 4. An Introduction to Machine Consciousness Kees van Zon 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Biological consciousness 4.3. Machine consciousness 4.4. Is it relevant? 4.5. Applications 4.6. Conclusion References Part II LIFESTYLE 5. Optimal Selection of TV Shows forWatching and Recording Wim F.J. Verhaegh 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Problem definition 5.3. Computational complexity 5.4. Scheduling shows for watching 5.5. A dynamic programming approach 5.6. Run time improvements 5.7. Experiments 5.8. Conclusion References 6. Movie-in-a-Minute: Automatically Generated Video Previews Mauro Barbieri, Nevenka Dimitrova, and Lalitha Agnihotri 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Related work 6.3. Requirements 6.4. Formal model 6.5. Implementation and 100 7. Features for Audio Classification: Percussiveness References 8. Extracting the Key from Music Steffen Pauws 8.1. Introduction 8.2. Musical pitch and key 8.3. Method 8.4. Evaluation 8.5. Conclusion References 9. Approximate Semantic Matching of Music Classes on the Internet Zharko Aleksovski, Warner ten Kate, and Frank van Harmelen 9.1. Introduction 9.2. Semantic coordination 9.3. Internet music schemas 9.4. Approximate matching 9.5. Experiment with approximate matching 9.6. Future work 9.7. Conclusion References 10. Ontology-Based