The theme of the 2nd International KES Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services was integration of multimedia processing techniques in a new wave of user-centric services and processes. This text offers the symposium's proceedings.

Cost-Efficient Development of Virtual Sales Assistants.- Cost-Efficient Development of Virtual Sales Assistants.- Security of Linguistic Threshold Schemes in Multimedia Systems.- Surveillance Camera Tracking of Geo positioned Objects.- Distributed knowledge creation, recording and improvement in collaborative design.- Effectiveness of Business Alliances Partnerships.- Towards Semantic-based RSS Merging.- An Efficient Simulator for Reactive Web Caching.- Constructing World Abstractions for Natural Language in Virtual 3D Environments.- Standardized Mobile Multimedia Query Composer.- Computer Animation and Communicability in Multimedia System: A Trichotomy Evaluation.- Virtual Learning Environment: Quality Design for Foreign Languages in Multimedia Systems.- Recognizing objects in images using visual attention schema.- Towards a Comprehensive Data Fusion Architecture For Cognitive Robotics.- Nondestructive Flaw Detection System of Intelligent Robot with Machine Vision.- A Novel Online Textual/Graphical Domain Separation Approach for Sketch-Based Interfaces.- Effective Region-based Relevance Feedback for Interactive Content-based Image Retrieval.- Workshop and Invited Session.- The Feasibility of Auto Profiling Online.- Progress Evaluation Based on Fuzzy Relationships.- A Study of the Effect of Pupils’ Learning Achievement on Project-based Learning with Context Awareness Technology.- Improving interactions in knowledge intensive communities of practices for SMEs.- Visual Interface for Content-based Query in Image Databases.- Enhancement of computer character animation utilizing fuzzy rules.- Comparative performance evaluation of classifiers for Facial Expression Recognition.- Human-Computer Interaction Approach Applied to the Multimedia System of Polysensory Integration.-Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting for Evaluating a Personalised Geographical Information System.- Animated Agents in the User Interface of Recommender Systems.- A Web-Based Interactive System for Learning NL to FOL Conversion.- Document Design with Interactive Evolution.- Enhancing 2D environments with 3D data input.- Determining a Discrete Geometric Random Sum in Computational Intelligence for Supporting a Complex Human-Computer Interaction System under a Major Risk.- Usability Factors for an Intelligent Tutoring System on Computer Programming.- Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Object Oriented User Interfaces.- A Mobile Music Recommender System based on a Two-level Genre-Rating SVM Classifier enhanced by Collaborative Filtering.- Video Deinterlacing Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Reasoning with Angle Extraction Approach.- Semantic Similarity Based Video Retrieval.- Fast and low cost 3d object recognition.- Emotional State Inference Using Face Related Features.- UBIAS Systems supporting interpretation of radiological images.- Multimedia Elements for Medical e-Learning Improvement.- An Infrastructure for Pervasive Access to Clinical Data in eHospitals.- Intelligent Systems for Optimized Operating Rooms.- A healthcare real-time monitoring system for multiple sensors data collection and correlation.- Personal Health Monitor.- Basic Actions in Art Study: Toward an Intelligent Environment for Human Creative Interaction.- A Simple method for 3-dimensional Photorealistic Facial Modeling.- Automatic Linefeed Insertion for Improving Readability of Lecture Transcript.- An Ad-hoc Unicursal Protocol for Human Communication in Disaster Situations.- Geographic Information Management, Based on Version Control System Subversion.- Multiuser Network Administration Training in LiNeS: Connection Function between Virtual Networks.- Intelligent Educational System Based on Personal Agents.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the  2nd International KES Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS 2009) This second edition of the KES-IIMSS Symposium was organized by the  Department of Information Technologies of the University of Milan, Italy in conjunction  with Hanyang University, Korea and KES International. KES-IIMSS is a new series of international scientific symposia aimed at presenting novel research in the fields of intelligent multimedia systems relevant to the development of a new generation of interactive  services.   The major theme underlying KES-IIMSS 2009 is the rapid integration of multimedia processing techniques within a new wave of user-centric services and processes. Indeed, pervasive computing has blurred the traditional distinction between conventional information technologies and multimedia processing, making multimedia an integral part of a new generation of IT-based interactive systems. This volume can provide useful insight to researchers, professors, and graduate students in the areas of multimedia and service-oriented computing, as it reports novel research work on challenging open issues in the area of intelligent multimedia services.

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