Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: Recommendation Services

Abstract

The term Multimedia Services has been coined to refer to services which make use of coordinated and secure storage, processing, transmission, and retrieval of information which exists in various forms. As such, the term refers to several levels of data processing and includes such diverse application areas as digital libraries, e-learning, e-government, e-commerce, e-entertainment, e-health, and e-legal services, as well as their mobile counterparts (i.e., m-services). As new multimedia services appear constantly, new challenges for advanced processing arise daily. Thus, we have been attempting to follow relevant advances in a series of edited books on multimedia services in intelligent environments. This is the fifth volume on the topic. In our earlier books [1-4], we covered various aspects of processing in multimedia services, including advanced tools and methodologies, software development challenges and solutions, integrated systems, and advances in recommender systems. The current volume is devoted to recommendation services. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013.