Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

This book explains aspects of social networks, varying from development and application of new artificial intelligence and computational intelligence techniques for social networks to understanding the impact of social networks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2017, held in Brasilia, Bazil, in September 2017.

Design is a conceptive activity which is usually presented as a sensible, sequential process and action.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2017, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum from the International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, September 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Conference on Creativity in Intelligent Technologies and Data Science, CIT&DS 2017, held in Volgograd, Russia, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2017, held in Lepzig, Germany, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8thScandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2017, held in Halden, Norway, in August 2017.

This is the fourth volume of the second edition of the now classic book "e;The Topos of Music"e;.

This is the third volume of the second edition of the now classic book "e;The Topos of Music"e;.

This two volume set LNCS 10438 and LNCS 10439 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2017, held in Lyon, France, August 2017.

This two volume set LNCS 10438 and LNCS 10439 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2017, held in Lyon, France, August 2017.

This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book "e;The Topos of Music"e;.

This is the first volume of the second edition of the now classic book "e;The Topos of Music"e;.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017.

This book provides a multidisciplinary view into how individuals and groups interact with the information environments that surround them.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017.

This book explores how digital storytelling can catalyze change in healthcare.

This volume provides the latest outcomes of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) research conducted in various industries.

This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2017, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2017, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 2017.

This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games.

This book is divided into three elements.

This book presents computational methods for extracting the useful information from audio signals, collecting the state of the art in the field of sound event and scene analysis.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2017, held in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, in May 2017.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2017, held in Beijing, China, in August 2017.

This book constitutes extended, revised and selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.

The six-volume set LNCS 10404-10409 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017, held in Trieste, Italy, in July 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2017, held in Hiong Kong, China, in August 2017.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.

This book provides an understanding of the core pillars of trust and reputation systems in electronic business settings.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security, RFIDSec 2016, held in Hong Kong, China, in November/December 2016.

This state of the art monograph presents a unique introduction to thinking about cuteness and its incorporation into modern, especially computer-based, products and services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2016, held in Athens.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the JSAI-isAI 2016 Workshops, LENLS 13, HAT-MASH, AI-Biz, JURISIN and SKL, held in Kanagawa, Japan, in November 1016.

This book presents the user-facing aspects of digital media, from the web and computer games, to mobile technologies and social media, and demonstrates how these are continuously growing and developing.

This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism.

This invaluable text/reference reviews the state of the art in simulation-based approaches across a wide range of different disciplines, and provides evidence of using simulation-based approaches to advance these disciplines.

This book constitutes the tutorial lectures of the 6th European Business Intelligence and Big Data Summer School, eBISS 2016, held in Tours, France, in July 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 31st British International Conference on Databases, BICOD 2017 - formerly known as BNCOD (British National Conference on Databases) - held in London, UK, in July 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference of the  Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2017, held in Coimbra, Portugal in June 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the nine workshops co-located with the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, SBP-BRiMS 2017, held in Washington, DC, USA, in July 2017.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the rapidly changing world of Web-based business technologies and their often-disruptive innovations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2017, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2017.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of three international workshops held in Essen, Germany, in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2017, in June 2017.