Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web) held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Web and Information Systems, MobiWIS 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, in August 2014.

This work is an assessment of how to manage risk in property transactions in the context of the move from paper-based to electronic conveyancing (eConveyancing).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2014, held in Haifa, Israel, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2014 held in Munich, Germany, September 2014, in conjunction with DEXA 2014.

The increasing penetration of IT in organizations calls for an integrative perspective on enterprises and their supporting information systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the JSAI-isAI 2013 Workshops LENLS, JURISIN, MiMI, AAA, and DDS which tool place on October 2013, in Japan.

This book provides the most complete formal specification of the semantics of the Business Process Model and Notation 2.

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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2014, held in Ringsted, Denmark, in August 2014.

The first book of its kind devoted to this topic, this comprehensive text/reference presents state-of-the-art research and reviews current challenges in the application of computer vision to problems in sports.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaption and Personalization, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in July 2014.

Research findings and dissemination are making healthcare more effective.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO) held in Santiago, Chile, during September 2014.

This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, DEON 2014, held in Ghent, Belgium, in July 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2014, held in Egham, UK, in July 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PETS 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in July 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in August 2014.

The recent pursuits emerging in the realm of big data processing, interpretation, collection and organization have emerged in numerous sectors including business, industry and government organizations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2014, held in Toulouse, France, in July 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in July 2014.

The book collects contributions from well-established researchers at the interface between language and cognition.

This book reflects the state of the art on nonlinear economic dynamics, financial market modelling and quantitative finance.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third Australian Symposium on Service Research and Innovation, ASSRI 2013, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in November 2013.

This book constitutes the proceedings of 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece in June 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of five international workshops held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2014, in June 2014.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on HCI in Business, HCIB 2014, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2014, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in June 2014.

How can we optimize differentiating business processes and exploit their full potential?

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN), held in Toulouse, France, during June 10-13, 2014.

There is a growing body of literature that focuses on the similarities and differences between how people behave in the offline world vs.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the workshops of the 11th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2013), held in Berlin, Germany, in December 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2014, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2014.

This book contains the extended and revised versions of selected papers from the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD 2013), held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, during July 8-10, 2013.

In this book a fuzzy-based recommender system architecture for stimulating political participation and collaboration is proposed.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC), held in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, during May 5-8, 2014.

Rapid advancement of interactive technologies during the past two decades has made access to information easier though at the expense of a clear digital divide.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2014, held in Washington, DC, USA, in April 2014.

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Knowledge and expertise, especially of the kind that can shape public opinion, have been traditionally the domain of individuals holding degrees awarded by higher learning institutions or occupying formal positions in notable organizations.

To large organizations, business intelligence (BI) promises the capability of collecting and analyzing internal and external data to generate knowledge and value, thus providing decision support at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2014, held in Eichstatt, Germany, in April 2014.

This book aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the issues facing organizations when deciding whether to accept e-commerce as a platform for business.

The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications, ICCASA 2013, held in Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam in November 2013.

To enhance marketing analytics, approximate and inductive reasoning can be applied to handle uncertainty in individual marketing models.

Written by a team of world-renowned artists, researchers and practitioners - all pioneers in using augmented reality based creative works and installations as a new form of art - this is the first book to explore the exciting new field of augmented reality art and its enabling technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of nine international workshops held in Beijing, China, in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2013, in August 2013.

This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting.