Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2019, held in Magdeburg, Germany, in September 2019.

This two-volume set of LNCS 12836 and LNCS 12837 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 12838 - the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2021, held in Shenzhen, China in August 2021.

Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations contains selected articles from PRO-VE'03, the Fourth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Lugano, Switzerland in October 2003.

The 3-volume set LNAI 12712-12714 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2021, which was held during May 11-14, 2021.

In today's rapidly changing global work environment, all workers experience increased organizational complexity.

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

Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine covers the basic foundations of the area while extending the foundational material to include the recent leading-edge research in the field.

Straightforward, clear, and applied, this book will give you the theoretical and practical basis you need to apply data analysis techniques to real data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in December 2020.

In this book, a solid and emerging group of international researchers contributes to the theory of metadiscourse and to our understanding of the role metadiscourse and related 'meta' phenomena may play in digital forms of communication.

Modeling Visual Aesthetics, Emotion, and Artistic Style offers a comprehensive exploration of the increasingly significant topic of the complex interplay between human perception and digital technology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

This SpringerBrief  brings order  to the wealth of research studies that contribute to shape our understanding of on-line social networks (OSNs)  lurking phenomena.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9thInternational Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2019, and the 4th International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications, SmartGIFT 2019, both held in Beijing, China, in December 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online, HELMeTO 2019, held in Novedrate, Italy, in June 2019.

This book consists of thirteen chapters covering many facts like psycho-social intervention on emotional disorders in individuals, impact of emotion and cognition on blended theory, theory and implication of information processing, effects of emotional self esteem in women, emotional dimension of women in workplace, effects of  mental thinking in different age groups irrespective of the gender, negative emotions and its effect on information processing, role of emotions in education and lastly emotional analysis in  multi perspective domain adopting machine learning approach.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the international workshops co-located with the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in September 2021.

This three-volume set, LNAI 11670, LNAI 11671, and LNAI 11672 constitutes  the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2019, held in Cuvu, Yanuca Island, Fiji, in August 2019.

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 combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity, gender, and kinship shaped early modern Algerian society and politics.

This book walks you through learning probability and statistics from a Bayesian point of view.

The four-volume set LNCS 13311 - 13314 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2022, which was held as part of HCI International 2022 and took place virtually during June 26 - July 1, 2022.

Why have developers at places like Facebook and Twitter increasingly turned to graph databases to manage their highly connected big data?

Data driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in digital pathology, radiology, and dermatology is very promising.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, held as a virtual event, in July 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2018, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2018.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Sustainable Digital Communities, iConference 2020, held in Boras, Sweden, in March 2020.

This two volume set (CCIS 858 and CCIS 859) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2018, held in St.

This book presents the main theoretical foundations behind smart services as well as specific guidelines and practically proven methods on how to design them.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2019, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in June 2019.

Designing Organizations: 21st Century Approaches is a benchmark publication in the field of organization design.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019.

This two-volume set LNCS 12212 and 12213 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July, 2020.

This book looks at how AgeTech can support the autonomy and independence of people as they grow older.

As we have come to accept the duality of physical and virtual learning spaces as a permanent feature of our educational landscape, we begin to question its validity.

The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020.

This two-volume set LNCS 12774 and 12775 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2021, which was planned to take place in Porto, Portugal.

This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods.

After the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011-12, increasing numbers of civilians sought refuge in neighboring countries.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1st IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium held in Milan, Italy on September 7-10, 2008.

The three-volume set of LNCS 12532, 12533, and 12534 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2020, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2020.

This two-volume set LNCS 12212 and 12213 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July, 2020.

This two-volume set LNCS 11578 and 11579 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA.

Learn to create seamless designs backed by a responsible understanding of the human mind.

This study investigates the impacts and risk assessment of technology-ena- bled information (TET), v^hich are engaged in the process of discovering the opportunities and challenges presented by TEI to the new form of small medi- um enterprises (SME) business transactions: Technology Enable Information Small Medium Enterprises (TEISME).

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations.

This timely edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective on social commerce, a phenomenon that has gained increasing interest over the last 8 years.