Combining the arts, science, artificial intelligence, computer science, and the humanities, intelligent multimedia computing has the potential to create significant advances in information technologies. In this upper-division or graduate text, Nourani (U. of California, Los Angeles) defines the notion of intelligent media and then covers creative multimedia techniques in virtual reality, basic morphs, motion pictures, animation techniques and flash MX, artificial intelligence and intelligent multimedia media object paradigms, basic intelligent multimedia techniques, agent computing, mathematical foundations, intelligent visual databases and data mines. He then integrates the technology with applications, including those in business and e-commerce, spatial heterogeneous visual computing, knowledge representation and predictive diagram models, business intelligence and content exploration, interfaces, heterogeneous computing, agent-based structures and implementations, abstract planning, models and virtual trees. Nourani closes with a chapter on intelligent cyberspace interfaces and wireless access protocol generic computing. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)