The advent of the digital era, the Internet, and the development of fast com­ puting devices that can access mass storage servers at high communication bandwidths have brought within our reach the world of ambient intelligent systems. These systems provide users with information, communication, and entertainment at any desired place and time. Since its introduction in 1998, the vision of Ambient Intelligence has attracted much attention within the re­ search community. Especially, the need for intelligence generated by smart al­ gorithms, which run on digital platforms that are integrated into consumer elec­ tronics devices, has strengthened the interest in Computational Intelligence. This newly developing research field, which can be positioned at the inter­ section of computer science, discrete mathematics, and artificial intelligence, contains a large variety of interesting topics including machine learning, con­ tent management, vision, speech, data mining, content augmentation, profiling, contextual awareness, feature extraction, resource management, security, and privacy.

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1. Algorithms in Ambient Intelligence.- I User Interaction.- 2. Multimodality and Ambient Intelligence.- 3. From Stereotypes to Personal Profiles via Viewer Feedback.- 4. CubyHum: Algorithm for Query by Humming.- 5. Personalized Multimedia Summarization.- 6. Features for Audio Classification.- 7. Information Retrieval in the Audio Domain.- 8. Approaches in Machine Learning.- 9. Machine Learning for Ambient Intelligence: Boosting in Automatic Speech Recognition.- 10. Exchange Clustering and EM Algorithm for Phrase Classification in Telephony Applications.- II System Interaction.- 11. Algorithms for Audio and Video Fingerprinting.- 12. Near Video-on-Demand with Limited Client Bandwidth and Distributed Servers.- 13. Methods to Optimally Trade Bandwidth against Buffer Size for a VBR Stream.- 14. Dynamic Control of Scalable Media Processing Applications.- 15. Saving Energy in Portable Multimedia Storage.- 16. Storage of VBR Video Content on a Multi-Zone Recording Disk based on Resource Usage.- 17. Test Resource Management and Scheduling for Modular ManufacturingTest ofSOCs.