Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization [electronic resource] / edited by Manolis Wallace, Marios C. Angelides, Phivos Mylonas.

Dynamic Linking of Web Resources: Customisation and Personalisation -- A Multi-Purpose Ontology-Based Approach for Personalised Content Filtering and Retrieval -- Analysing the Behaviour of Students in Learning Management Systems with Respect to Learning Styles -- Improving Image Retrieval Using Semantic Resources -- Implementing an Internet Image Search Service Based on the AJAX Web Programming Techniques -- A Rule-Based Adaption Model for Ontology-Based Personalization -- Management and Processing of Personalized Annotations in Image Retrieval Systems -- An Incremental Framework for Adapting the Hypermedia Structure of Multimedia Documents -- Improving the Adaptiveness of an e-Learning System -- The Context Oriented Architecture: An Augmentation of Context Awareness and Reactivity into Web Services -- Knowledge-Assisted Analysis of Video for Content-Adaptive Coding and Transmission -- Mobile Photography within a Social Context -- An Adaptive Semantic Framework to Support Multiple User Viewpoints over Multiple Databases -- User Preferences for Access to Textual Information: Model, Tools and Experiments -- Modeling the Reusable Content of Adaptive Web-Based Applications Using an Ontology -- Indexing and Browsing of Color Images: Design Considerations -- Generic Personal Assistance Architecture for Mobile Environments.

Realizing the growing importance of semantic adaptation and personalization of media, the editors of this book brought together leading researchers and practitioners of the field to discuss the state-of-the-art, and explore emerging exciting developments. This volume comprises extended versions of selected papers presented at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2006), which took place in Athens in December 2006.