The burgeoning capabilities of Web browsers to exploit full-featured devices can turn the huge pool of social connected users into a powerful network of processing assets. HTML5 and JavaScript stacks support the deployment of social client-side processing infrastructure, while WebGL and WebCL fill the gap to gain full GPU and multi-CPU performance. Mobile Grid and Mobile Cloud Computing solutions leverage smart devices to relieve the processing tasks to be performed by the service infrastructure. Motivated to gain cost-efficiency, a social network service provider can outsource the video analysis to elements of a mobile grid as an infrastructure to complement an elastic cloud service. As long as users access to videos, batch image analysis tasks are dispatched from the server, executed in the background of the client-side hardware, and finally, results are consolidated by the server. This paper presents SaW (Social at Work) to provide a pure Web-based solution as a mobile grid to complement a cloud media service for image analysis on videos.

5G represents the next generation of communication networks and services, and will bring a new set of use cases and scenarios. These in turn will address a new set of challenges from the network and service management perspective, such as network traffic and resource management, big data management and energy efficiency. Consequently, novel techniques and strategies are required to address these challenges in a smarter way. In this paper, we present the limitations of the current network and service management and describe in detail the challenges that 5G is expected to face from a management perspective. The main contribution of this paper is presenting a set of use cases and scenarios of 5G in which machine learning can aid in addressing their management challenges. It is expected that machine learning can provide a higher and more intelligent level of monitoring and management of networks and applications, improve operational efficiencies and facilitate the requirements of the future 5G network.

There is a growing gap between the multimedia production and the context centric multimedia services related to the under-exploitation of the content creation design. This could support dynamic content generation adapted to the user or display profile. Our work faces it by implementing a web platform for automatic generation of multimedia presentations based on SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) standard. The system is able to produce rich media with dynamic multimedia content retrieved automatically from different content databases matching the semantic context. For this purpose, we extend the standard interpretation of SMIL tags in order to accomplish a semantic translation of multimedia objects in database queries. This permits services to take benefit of production process to create customized content enhanced with real time information fed from databases. The described system has been successfully deployed to create advanced context centric weather forecasts.