Editorial preface: special issue on multimedia data annotation and retrieval using web 2.0

Special Issue Editorial Preface: Mobile Multimedia for Business Data Communications

Editorial Preface: E-Services Special Issue

i This special issue of International Journal of E-Business Research aims at understanding and explaining the emerging paradigm of e-services. Today, the services industry provides the majority of all jobs, and services tend to be delivered more and more using the Internet, thus becoming e-services. Services often are characterized as intangible, perishable, experience-based, and difficult-to-s...

Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Multimedia Data Mining

M ULTIMEDIA data mining refers to the study and research on the knowledge discovery in a multimedia database. Presumably, multimedia and data mining are two very in-terdisciplinary and multidisciplinary areas with independently and simultaneously rapid developments in recent years. This special issue focuses on the theme of merging multimedia and data mining research together to exploit the syn...

Editorial Preface Special Theme Issue Data Management for E-business

i Over the last few years, there has been tremendous business growth in the area of e-business. We are pleased to present a special issue of the Journal of Database Management on the theme " Data Management for e-business ". While the issue of data management in business is relatively mature, e-business imposes special demands, mainly because extensive amounts of data need to be made available ...

Editorial - Special issue on multimedia in ecology

The recent advances in digital cameras and sensors, as well as in network bandwidth and information storage capacities, have revolutionized our ability to capture multimedia data (sounds, images, videos, etc.) for environmental monitoring and are also greatly improving our ability to effectively manage natural resources. Sensors are used increasingly in a range of monitoring or exploratory appl...