Multimedia information systems for social, cross-cultural and environmental computing

Abstract

This paper includes five contributions on the topic of multimedia information systems for social, cross-cultural and environmental computing. Approaches, models, and methods for Web Semantization, Cross-cultural Image Computing, Information Modelling and Data Mining, Mobile Information Systems for Ubiquitous Society, and Multimedia Systems for Cross-cultural and Environmental Computing are introduced and discussed.

This paper is based on the contributions presented in the panel discussion of EJC 2012 Conference

Keywords

• cultural computing
• data mining
• global environment
• image processing
• information systems
• mobile computing
• multimedia
• semantic annotation
• semantic associative search
• semantic web
• social computing
• social network
• user preferences
• web 2.0 search