Active Media Technology [electronic resource] : 8th International Conference, AMT 2012, Macau, China, December 4-7, 2012. Proceedings / edited by Runhe Huang, Ali A. Ghorbani, Gabriella Pasi, Takahira Yamaguchi, Neil Y. Yen, Beijing Jin.

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 -- Evaluating Ontology-Based User Profiles -- Semantic Information with Type Theory of Acyclic Recursion -- Pyxis: An Active Replication Approach for Enhancing Social Media Services -- Social Network Analysis of Virtual Worlds -- Active Media Framework for Network Processing Components -- Semantic Network Monitoring and Control over Heterogeneous Network Models and Protocols -- International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems -- Opinion Dynamics on Triad Scale Free Network -- Distribution of Node Characteristics in Complex Networks of Tree Class -- Dynamic Mergers Drive Industrial Competition Evolution: A Network Analysis Perspective -- A Study of Collective Action Threshold Model Based on Utility and Psychological Theories -- Recognition of Online Opinion Leaders Based on Social Network Analysis -- Critical Infrastructure Management for Telecommunication Networks -- Developing Self-Organizing Systems by Policy-Based Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems -- On Prioritized 2-tuple Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators -- Special Session on Social Knowledge Discovery and Management -- A Novel Collaboration Partner Model Based on the Personal Relationships of SNS -- An Innovative Way for Mining Clinical and Administrative Healthcare Data -- An Adaptive Recommendation System for Museum Navigation -- Adaptive SVM-Based Classification Systems Based on the Improved Endocrine-Based PSO Algorithm -- A Probability Model for Recognition of Dynamic Gesture Based on a Finger-Worn Device -- Design of a Situation-Aware System for Abnormal Activity Detection of Elderly People -- Special Session on Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery from Big Data -- Revealing Cultural Influences in Human Computer Interaction by Analyzing Big Data in Interactions -- Predicting Student Exam's Scores by Analyzing Social Network Data -- SPTrack: Visual Analysis of Information Flows within SELinux Policies and Attack Logs -- Using Mixed Node Publication Network Graphs for Analyzing Success in Interdisciplinary Teams -- On Text Preprocessing for Opinion Mining Outside of Laboratory Environments -- Human Involvement in Designing an Information Quality Assessment Technique - Demonstrated in a Healthcare Setting -- On Applying Approximate Entropy to ECG Signals for Knowledge Discovery on the Example of Big Sensor Data -- Towards a Framework Based on Single Trial Connectivity for Enhancing Knowledge Discovery in BCI.