Special Issue on Learning: Advances in Multimedia Communications, Information Processing, and Education

T IS universally recognized that learning is an essential process both for living beings and for physical machines or computational programs to be efficient in carrying out complex tasks or when working in changing environments: Consequently, more and more intensive research is being dedicated to its many aspects. Most of this research adopts a particular point of view: biological, psychological, educational, mathematical, algorithmic, computational, etc. Nevertheless, many researchers consider that perspectives coming from other scientific fields are important, sometimes critical, to produce significant advances and useful results. The conference Learning’02 was intended to provide a forum for interdisciplinary study and discussion of the different aspects of learning: during two-and-a-half days, it hosted invited lectures by well-known experts, poster sessions, and round tables to discuss how the different approaches can help one another. This special issue contains seven papers originally presented at Learning’02, selected by members of the committees of the conference, and have all been extended by their authors and revised following the standard procedures for peer reviewing in IEEE journals.