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The Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) Initiative was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to bring together researchers and practitioners working in this area, in order to discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation. The 1st SMAP meeting, named 1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2006) held in December 2006 outgrew all initial expectations and it had to be extended from a one-day to a two-day event. The 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2007), saw a similar growth which resulted in the event having to be held over three days, in addition to hosting a separate special session and a doctoral consortium. As a result of the overwhelming and continuing interest and support for the first two SMAP events, the SMAP initiative founders and chairs (the National Technical University of Athens, the University of Indianapolis and Brunel University) have decided to hold this annually as a focused meeting of a society of researchers and practitioners.