Active Media Technology

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2012, held in Macau, China, in December 2012.
The 65 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on awareness multi-agent systems, data mining, ontology mining, web reasoning, social applications of active media, human-centered computing, personalization and adaptation, smart digital art and e-learning.

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Active Media Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques.- Movie Genre Classification Using SVM with Audio and Video Features.- Automatic Player Behavior Analyses from Baseball Broadcast Videos.- Hot Topic Detection in News Blogs from the Perspective of W2T.- A Clustering Ensemble Based on a Modified Normalized Mutual Information Metric.- Influence of Erroneous Pairwise Constraints in Semi-supervised Clustering.- User Correlation Discovery and Dynamical Profiling Based on Social Streams.- Extraction of Human Social Behavior from Mobile Phone Sensing.- Continuity of Defuzzification on L2 Space for Optimization of Fuzzy Control.- A On-Line News Documents Clustering Method.- Agent-Based Applications and Multi-agent Systems Distributed Protocols for Multi-Agent Coalition Formation: A Negotiation Perspective.- Multi-agent Liquidity Risk Management in an Interbank Net Settlement System.- An Enhanced Mechanism for Agent Capability Reuse.- A Bayesian Network Approach to Investigating User-Robot Personality Matching.- Modelling Multi-Criteria Decision Making Ability of Agents in Agent-Based Rice Pest Risk Assessment Model.- Agent Based Assistance for Electric Vehicles An Evaluation.- Ubiquitous Intelligent Devices and Systems.- Event Calculus-Based Adaptive Services Composition Policy for AmI Systems.- QoS- and Resource-Aware Service Composition and Adaptation.- An Event-Driven Energy Efficient Framework for Wearable Health-Monitoring System.- Learning Style Model for e-Learning Systems.- A Trajectory-Based Recommender System for Tourism.- An Adaptive Method for the Tag-Rating-Based Recommender System.- Comparative Study of Joint Decision-Making on Two Visual Cognition Systems Using Combinatorial Fusion.- Active Media Based Information Retrieval and Processing.- Research on Touch as a Means of Interaction in Digital Art.- Perceptual Image Hashing with Histogram of Color Vector Angles.- Data Hiding Method Based on Local Image Features.- Fast Flow Visualization on CUDA Based on Texture Optimization.- A Message Passing Graph Match Algorithm Based on a Generative Graphical Model.- Fast Content-Based Retrieval from Online Photo Sharing Sites.- Interactive Exploration of Image Collections on Mobile Devices.- The Derived Kernel Based Recognition Method of Vehicle Type.- An Approach to Define Flexible Structural Constraints in XQuery.- DC Stream Based JPEG Compressed Domain Image Retrieval.- Semantic Computing for ActiveMedia, Social Networks, and AMT-Based Systems A Comparative Study of Community Structure Based Node Scores for Network Immunization.- Semantic Precision and Recall for Evaluating Incoherent Ontology Mappings.- A Self-organization Method for Reorganizing Resources in a Distributed Network.- Extracting Property Semantics from Japanese Wikipedia.- An Ontology Based Privacy Protection Model for Third-Party Platform.- ...