Guest Editorial Trustworthiness in Social Multimedia Analytics and Delivery

The papers in this special issue focus on trustworthiness in multimedia communications. Recently, social multimedia content is being delivered to users with a high quality of experience (QoE) with the advance of multimedia technologies and social networks. However, as a huge amount of social users have various demands to exchange and share multimedia content with each other, it becomes a new challenge for the current social multimedia analytics and delivery to deal with the various attacks perpetrated by malicious users or through spam contents. Therefore, the trust and risk management for social multimedia content based on the social tie of users become of prime importance to face the unpredicted threats and subsequent damage. This Special Section aims to provide a premier forum for researchers working on the trust-based social multimedia analytics and delivery. It also provides the opportunity for both academic and industrial researchers to discuss recent results and provide solutions to the above-mentioned challenges.