Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2015.

This book takes a quantitative look at ICT-generated event data to highlight current trends and issues in Nigeria at the local, state and national levels.

The need for information privacy and security continues to grow and gets increasingly recognized.

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on big data and analytics, social media, electronic marketing, mobile computing and recommender systems, mobile sensors and geosocial services, augmented reality, wearable computing, smart tourism, electronic distribution for tourism and hospitality products and services, e-learning, responsive web design and management, and eTourism for development.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2013, held in September 2013 in Moscow, Russia.

This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict.

This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2014, held in Helsinki, Finland, in December 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014, held in Linkoping, Sweden, in November 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IberSPEECH 2014 Conference, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November 19-21, 2014.

This edited volume addresses the vast challenges of adapting Online Social Media (OSM) to developing research methods and applications.

This volume contains 12 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2014, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in December 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 10th Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy, RFIDSec 2014, held in Oxford, UK, in 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2014, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in November 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2013, held in Marseille, France, in October 2013.

This monograph deals with theoretical and practical aspects of creating course timetables at academic institutions.

This book comprises a set of articles that specify the methodology of text mining, describe the creation of lexical resources in the framework of text mining and use text mining for various tasks in natural language processing (NLP).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed, selected papers on the Second Cyber Security and Privacy EU Forum, CSP 2014, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in September 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling, ICIDS 2014, Singapore, Singapore, November 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, STM 2014, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2014, in conjunction with the 19th European Symposium Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2014, held in Xi'an, China, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2014, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in August 2014.

The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of statistics in computational musicology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2014, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2014, held in Valparaiso, Chile, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Euro Symposium on Systems Analysis and Design, SIGSAND/PLAIS 2014, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2014, held in Lund, Sweden, in September 2014.

This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two workshops organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Rome, Italy, in May and July 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2014, held in Ibiza, Spain in September 2014 under the sponsorship of the UNESCO chair in Data Privacy.

The mathematical theory of counterpoint was originally aimed at simulating the composition rules described in Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2014) held in Cork, Ireland, in September 2014.

This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views of music, computer science, education, creativity studies, psychology, and engineering.

This book identifies institutional mechanisms that can be used to promote consumer confidence in direct online sales with businesses (B2C e-commerce).

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.