Special issue on Digital Information Management

Nowadays, most of the society activities and business models are driven by the unprecedented evolution of data acquisition technologies together with advances in computing and communications. This has resulted in an explosive growth in the number, size, diversity of potentially useful digital information sources of various types (image, audio, video, ...) in several application domains, such as bioinformatics, education, environment, security, etc., and leads us towards a digital society. However, the massive size, semantic heterogeneity, autonomy, and distributed nature of the digital multimedia repositories present significant hurdles in acquiring useful knowledge from the available data. Naturally, issues on how to capture, store, preserve, interpret, monitor, control, deliver and manage the massive available data sources and systems become crucial and require various improvements and major modifications of the current tools to be provided to the end-user. Currently, there is notable number of research work on designing and deploying information and organizational management systems, experts systems, tutoring systems, decision support systems, and in general, industrial systems. This special issue attempts to addresses these issues and includes extended and revised papers from the IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM) held in Bangalore-India in 2006. ICDIM aims to bring people from academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues of the digital society and solutions in information science and technology.