Context-aware Mobile Multimedia Services in the Cloud

Mobile devices become widely accepted computing paradigms; but the mobile services need to be aware of the dynamical user environment and adapt accordingly to the context. With the increasing amount of multimedia, ontologies can add value to the new semantic multimedia services, by considering the contextual information. Our goal is to provide new concepts for mobile multimedia computing in certain domains like cultural heritage data management. We propose to model the mobile, user and multimedia context with the use of ontologies. We take cloud computing as service infrastructure for supporting complex semantic multimedia tasks for the mobile clients.