Conference Description:

Measurement is a fundamental activity in the advancement of the sciences. Historically, civilizations have contributed a myriad of knowledge stemming from the discoveries and inventions of scientists, and in order to perfect such results, the names and studies of those savants are part of the scientific cultural wealth of all humankind; and so they have been carefully recorded in the annuals of history ever since the earliest origins of the human endeavor to know more.

Today, it would be relatively easy to analyse the mistakes of those who at the end of the 20th century saw the multimedia as a union of media, when in reality it is an intersection of the same. This intersection was easily detectable by the communication professionals, from the social point of view, for instance. However, initially that crossroads was rejected from the computer science perspective. By way of example, for a large part of the last decade of the past century overlapping concepts were ignored, especially when the issues concerning multimedia communications and the measurement of the quality of the communicative process among human beings through computers were approached. in few words, that denial derived from a lack of training and/or experience of what should have been a 360 degree vista between the factual, formal and natural sciences.

Actually, such a holistic vision mustn't be understood simply as synonymous with of interdisciplinary study, but rather as a balance between theories and practices of the factual, formal and natural sciences. The current space intends to locate that balance among amongst all of the components of the multimedia / emerging new interactive systems, including their variables and also their relationships, from the point of view of software quality as well as the point of view of hardware efficiency. It is a context where scientific information occupies a predominant place and around it we find many of the key elements for the current and also future trends in the quality and communicational / informative / formative systems as a whole.

In this field the details of the informative systems, especially aimed at multimedia / emerging interactive systems and technologies; scientific visualization; content of scientific information; extended reality; amongst so many other issues related to computer science; computer graphics & animation; software / systems / telecommunications / electronics / artificial intelligence / robotics engineering; quality assessment; heuristics methods; etc., are all studied in detail. In other words, these are the fundamental issues that we all will have to approach on a daily basis as future professionals of the informative systems, and as we embark on a journey towards a new era: “Quantic-nanotechnological-self-suffic ient era.”