Over the past decade, the success of multimedia and database technologies results a large extent to use various data resources provided to create innovative applications. Rapid progress in this technology and its applications has been seen especially in the Internet-based social aspects. Databases, knowledge bases, data mining and multimedia data managements have become important subjects not only in academic communities related to information systems and computer science but also in business areas.
['Yasushi Kiyoki', 'Virach Sornlertlamvanich']
Future directions of innovative integration between multimedia information services and ubiquitous computing technologies