Multimedia Tools and Applications gratefully acknowledges the editorial work of scholars, Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, M. Anwar Hossain, and Zhiwen Yu on this special issue devoted to Ambient Multimedia and Sensory Environments: Emerging Services and Applications.

The papers in this issue include:

  • Personality assessment using multiple online social networks by Shally Bhardwaj, Pradeep K. Atrey, Mukesh K. Saini, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (10.1007/s11042-015-2793-0)

  • Multimedia sensors embedded in smartphones for ambient assisted living and e-health by Lorena Parra, Sandra Sendra, José Miguel Jiménez, Jaime Lloret (10.1007/s11042-015-2745-8)

  • Tag-based personalized recommendation in social media services by Majdi Rawashdeh, Mohammed F. Alhamid, Jihad Mohamad Alja’am, Awny Alnusair, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (10.1007/s11042-015-2813-0)

  • CGMP: Cloud-assisted Green Multimedia Processing by Yujun Ma, Yin Zhang, Zhengguo Sheng, Hang Ruan, Junfeng Wang, Yanming Sun (10.1007/s11042-015-2783-2)

  • QoS-adaptive Service Configuration framework for a Cloud-assisted Video Surveillance Systems by Atif Alamri, M. Shamim Hossain, Ahmad Almogren, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Khalid Alnafjan, Mohammed Zakariah, Lee Seyam, Abdullah Alghamdi (10.1007/s11042-015-3074-7)

  • WhatsUpNow: Urban Social Application with Real-time Peer-to-Peer Ambient and Sensory Data Exchanges by Marcel Karam, Haidar Safa, Mehedi Masud (10.1007/s11042-015-2846-4)

  • Remote Display Solution for Video Surveillance in Multimedia Cloud by Biao Song, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Yuan Tian, M. Shamim Hossain, Atif Alamri (10.1007/s11042-015-2816-x)

  • QOS Management For Dependable Sensory Environments by Aitor Agirre, Jorge Parra, Aintzane Armentia, Ahmed Ghoneim, Elisabet Estévez, Marga Marcos (10.1007/s11042-015-2781-4)