Part I Preliminaries and relevant related topics -- 1 The Internet of Things and value co-creation in a Service Dominant logic perspective -- 2 Pervasive Systems Architecture and the main related technologies -- 3 Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Social and Legal Aspects and Technical Solutions -- Part II Sensors, data streams and storage -- 4 Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks as data sources: models and languages -- 5 Data Streams and Data Stream Management Systems and Languages -- 6 The Complex Event Processing Paradigm -- 7 Applying Semantic Interoperability Principles to Data Stream Management -- Part III Social networks as information sources -- 8 Multimedia Social Networks for Cultural Heritage Applications: the GIVAS project -- 9 Sentiment Detection in Social Networks using semantic analysis: a tool for sentiment analysis and its application in Cultural Heritage realm -- 10 Security and Privacy Issues in Social Networks -- Part IV Context awareness and personalization -- 11 Data Personalization -- 12 Context Awareness in Pervasive Information Management -- 13 Context Awareness in Mobile Systems -- Part V Multimedia information management -- 14 Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval -- 15 Multimedia Queries in Digital Libraries -- 16 Multimedia Recommendation and Delivery strategies -- Part VI Application to the DATABENC case study -- 17 PATCH: a Portable context-aware Atlas for browsing Cultural Heritage.