SITIS 2016 foreword

The 12th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet-based Systems (SITIS 2016) includes four main tracks: SIVT, I-WeCA, MIRA, and SLNA. The track on Signal Image & Vision Technology (SIVT) is aimed at recent developments in digital signal processing, evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding, and authentication, and retrieval techniques. The Intelligent Web Computing and Applications (I-WeCA) track focuses on issues ranging from information modeling and retrieval techniques to novel concepts, architectures, and methodologies for interconnecting information systems. The track titled Multimedia Information Retrieval and Applications (MIRA) is focused on emerging modeling, representation, and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type, and diversity of multimedia information accessible in distributed computing environments. Finally, the focus of the Social Networks, Large Networks, and Their Applications (SLNA) track is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures, and methodologies for social networks analysis, tools, and applications, including issues related to complex graphs, semantics, big data, and security.