Proceedings of the 2011 ACM workshop on Social and behavioural networked media access

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the ACM Workshop on Social and Behavioural Networked Media Access (SBNMA'11). This year's workshop, supported by several European Research Projects on Multimedia, aims at acting as a forum for the dissemination of State of the Art research on networked multimedia, and trying to address two key questions: First, how multimedia content analysis can be combined with information derived from behavioral modeling and social interactions in order to improve personalized content distribution. Second, in which way personalized services can be offered to users, in a real time, ubiquitous seamless and comprehensive manner, through a comprehensive context framework that targets Quality of Experience rather than the traditionally sought Quality of Service. The corresponding call for papers attracted several high quality submissions from all over the world. The program committee with respect to the goals of the workshop, has selected 11 papers for presentation that cover a variety of topics on Multimedia content personalization and adaptation by social network analysis, Multimedia distribution including the use of P2P streaming, Multimedia characterization and classification, Personalized media search, annotation and retrieval, Social semantics and Social behavior methods for media access including interactivity. In addition, the program includes two keynote speeches by Prof Ebroul Izquierdo on "Social Networked Media: Advances and Trends" and by Prof, Tat-Seng Chua on "Learning the Social Pulses of a City from User- Generated Information Sources," The result has been a program that differentiates the workshop previous initiatives, acting complementary to them in involving the integration of multimedia content analysis techniques with information derived from users, networked communities, and context awareness.