As the Internet of Things (IoT) further develops and expands to the Internet of Everything (IoE), high-speed multimedia streaming data processing, analysis, and shorter response times are increasingly becoming the demands of today. Driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), a new computing paradigm, Edge computing, is currently developing rapidly. Compared with traditional centralized generalpurpose computing, Edge computing is a distributed architecture.

The International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence – IJIMAI (ISSN 1989-1660) provides an interdisciplinary forum in which scientists and professionals can share their research results and report new advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools or tools that use AI with interactive multimedia techniques. The present volume (June 2022), consists of 20 articles of diverse applications of great impact in several fields.

Machine learning (ML) is generating new opportunities for innovative research in areas apparently unrelated such as, economics, business or/and finance. Specifically, it has also been widely used in applications related to the economic and financial analysis, such as economic recessions prediction, labor market trends, risk management, prices analysis among others. However, it is important to note the differences between classical statistics/econometrics and machine learning.