International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining - Special Issue on Beyond multimedia and XML streams querying and mining

International audience; Over the last decade, information has become available and reachable anywhere and everywhere. As a result, we have seen an explosion of multimedia and XML streams captured from multitudes of sources monitoring just about every aspect of life. This has lead to the emergence of a new generation of ambient and context-aware applications. Mining and querying the resulting large datasets is possibly the only way to discover information and extract new knowledge in them. One of the challenges is bridging several disciplines, such as database systems, XML and information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and multimedia processing. Thus, it has become important to understa…