Editors

PD Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Klamma has a a diploma degree, a doctoral degree and a habilitation all in computer science from RWTH Aachen University. Currently, Ralf Klamma leads the research group “metadata in community information systems” at the information systems chair, RWTH Aachen University. His research covers information systems theory, the application of information systems in engineering, cultural sciences, and virtual communities, social software, social network analysis, technology enhanced learning, geographic information systems, cultural heritage management, and new product development. In 2001, he spent several months as a visiting fellow at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center of Sloan School of Management, followed by stand-in professorships TU Chemnitz, the University of Passau, and in 2010 a guest professorship for multimedia communities at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He serves as associate editor for international journals like IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT) and Springer SNAM and chaired conference like EC-TEL, ICWL and IEEE Ubi-Media. He has published in various research journals and conference proceedings. He is reviewer for international journals like CACM, IEEE Multimedia, IEEE TKDE, IEEE Internet Computing, ACM TIST, ACM TMIS, MTAP, JNCA, or Information Systems and conferences including ICIS, ECIS, CAiSE, ACM CHI, ACM Multimedia, EC-TEL, IEEE ICALT, IEEE EDUCON, IEEE MUE, ACM GROUP, ACM Hypertext, ACM CSCW, CSCL and others. He is member of the German Informatics Society (GI-29676). You can follow him on his blog http://beamtenherrschaft.blogspot.com and on twitter http://twitter.com/klamma.

Dr. Pablo Cesar is a tenure track researcher in the Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures research group at CWI (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands). He has (co)authored over 40 articles (conference papers and journal articles) about multimedia systems and infrastructures, social media sharing, interactive media, multimedia content modelling, and user interaction. He is involved in standardization activities (e.g., SMIL from W3C) and has been active in a number of European projects such as Passepartout, SPICE, iNEM4U, and Ta2. He is co-editor of the book "Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives" and has given tutorials about multimedia systems in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia, CHI, and the WWW conference. Webpage: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/pablocesar2661

Ramesh Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator. He is a Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine where he is doing research in Event Web and experiential computing. Earlier he served on faculty of Georgia Tech, University of California at San Diego, The university of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Wayne State University, and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, and SPIE. His current research interests are in searching multimedia data and creating EventWebs for experiential computing. He is the recipient of several awards including the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award 2010. Ramesh co-founded several companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. These companies were PRAJA in event-based business activity monitoring (acquired by Tibco); Virage for media management solutions and visual information management (a NASDAQ company acquired by Autonomy); and ImageWare for surface modeling, reverse engineering rapid prototyping, and inspection (acquired by SDRC); Lambent (acquired by GlobalLogic); and Seraja. Currently he is involved in two new start-ups as cofounder and advisor: mChron and Stikco Studio. He has also been advisor to several other companies including some of the largest companies in media and search space.

Dr. Keith Mitchell is a researcher, entrepreneur and mountain biker. He is currently a Research Fellow within the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University and has over 13 years research experience of collaborative projects within the broad areas of computer communication and distributed systems. He is also the co-founder and director of 21media innovations ltd, a technology based spinout from the University of Lancaster. His current research interests are related to peer-to-peer, IPTV, content centric networking, personalisation/recommender systems and social informatics. He has experience of EU collaborative research projects and is currently work package leader for the EU FP7 project P2P-Next Living Lab trials. He has previous experience of collaborating with industrial partners such as Microsoft Research, Orange and Cisco and the BBC for the purposes of R&D. He has published within International workshops and conferences as well as published within peer reviewed journals. He was co-workshop organiser for the ACM Multimedia 2010 workshop on advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking. He has also served as an expert evaluator for the European Commission during previous FP7 calls. When he is not working, he loves hitting the trials around the UK on his beloved mountain bike. Contact him via his webpage http://www.21media.tv/or follow him on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/specialized