Preface to Special Section on Intelligent Multimedia Systems and Data Management for UBI-COM

This special section is committed to capture the state-of-the-art and recent advances on various aspects of intelligent multimedia system and data management for ubiquitous computing (Ubi-Com). It aims to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of intelligent multimedia system and data management, especially focused for Ubi-Com environments. Original articles describing the state-of-the-art state-algorithms, protocols, performance evaluations, and case studies on intelligent multimedia system and data management are solicited for this special section. We received twenty-one manuscripts. Each manuscript was blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers consisting of guest editors and external reviewers. After the review process, six manuscripts were finally selected for this Special Section.