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This book is an extended collection of revised contributions that were initially submitted to the International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2006). This workshop was organized during July 27-28, 2006 at the U- versity of Geneva, Switzerland. AMR 2006 was the fourth workshop in the series, following AMR2005 - ganized at University of Glasgow (Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume th 3877). The series started in 2003 with a workshop during the 26 German C- ference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI 2003 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science th volume 3094) and continued in 2004 as part of the 16 European Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (ECAI 2004). This year, the AMR workshop kept its focus on accommodating user needs via adaptive processes.A number of contributions investigatedthe utility of s- mentation in the query and retrieval process. Adaptive de?nitions of similarity were also proposed in the papers contained in this volume. The invited cont- butions were intended to open on less-addressed topics in the community. This is the case for music information retrieval and distributed information retrieval (e.g., on P2P networks). Other contributions looked at more applicative aspects of IR. We think that this book provides a good and conclusive overview of the current research in the area of adaptive information retrieval. We would like to thankallmembersofthe ProgramCommitteefor supportingusin thereviewing process,theworkshopparticipantsfortheirwillingnesstoreviseandextendtheir papers for this book and all sta? at Springer for their support in publishing this book. We extend a special thanks to our supporting institutions.

Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- beeldverwerking --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- IR (information retrieval) --- multimedia --- informatiesystemen --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- robots