Special Issue on “Future Tele-Infrastructure for Multi-sensory Devices (FIND)”

The 18th Edition of Strategic Workshop (SW’16) was held in, in Glymur Hotel, Hvalfjardarsveit, 301 Saurbaer, ICELAND, on May 23–25, 2016. The focus during the active 2-day discussion was, Future Tele-infrastructure for Multi-sensory Devises (FIND) addressing concept, systems, network security, and future strategy. The theme for the Strategic Workshop 2016 (SW’ 16) was Future Tele-infrastructure for Multi-sensory Devises (FIND): Multi-Sensory devices allow the integration and processing of multiple inputs across multiple devices to deliver contextual, connected and viral experiences. In the new era of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) where everyone and everything is connected, devices are no longer terminals for content viewing or data entry, they are transforming in rendering services in education, health-care, entertainment, and business to name few. The list of services relying on the use of Multisensory devices is certain to grow, and is limited only by the imaginations of innovative entrepreneurs and Multi-sensory enabling technologies. Technologies, for instance, Cloud, IoT, Big Data, and Machine Learning are helping us to deliver Multi-Sensory applications quickly and easily. Nevertheless, there are open issues and challenges that demands research and innovation to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-sensory based applications and related technologies. This Special Issue features eleven selected papers that concentrate on a wide range of research challenges in Future Tele-infrastructure for Multi-sensory Devises (FIND) as well as addressing issues pertaining to security in the use of Multi-Sensory enabled services, and innovative business models for multi-sensory technologies and associated services.