Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2016, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2016, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2016 in October 2016 in Rhodes, Greece.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2021, which took place virtually during October 11-13, 2021.

This two-volume set CCIS 961 and 962 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, TMM_CH 2018, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2018.

The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV.

Musicians, perhaps more than any other class of artists, have always been acutely aware of the scientific developments of their time.

This book is a festschrift in honour of Mike Papazoglou's 65th birthday and retirement.

This book introduces social manufacturing, the next generation manufacturing paradigm that covers product life cycle activities that deal with Internet-based organizational and interactive mechanisms under the context of socio-technical systems in the fields of industrial and production engineering.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2020, held as part of SCF 2020, during September 18-20, 2020.

When work began on the first volume ofthis text in 1992, the science of dis- tribution management was still very much a backwater of general manage- ment and academic thought.

This book constitutes revised selected and extended papers presented at track 4 on "e;Advances in Information Systems and Technologies"e; of the Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, FedCSIS 2021, which was held online during September 2-5, 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2021, held in Dalian, China, in October 2021.

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

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, held as a virtual event, in July 2021.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC), held in Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, on May 30 - June 3, 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, DART 2020, and the First MICCAI Workshop on Distributed and Collaborative Learning, DCL 2020, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2020 in October 2020.

This two-volume set LNCS 11437 and 11438 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, held in Cologne, Germany, in April 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, AC 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in July 2020.

In the past 10 years, the Member States of the European Union (EU) have intensified their exchange of information for the purposes of preventing and combating serious cross-border crime, as manifested in three main aspects.

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 bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the 10th InternationalConference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014, held inBarcelona, Spain, April 2014, organized by the Institute for Systems andTechnologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), andtechnically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems(ERCIS).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging, MLCN 2022, held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Singapore in September 2022.

The two-volume set LNAI 13653 and 13654 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2022, which took place in Campinas, Brazil, in November/December 2022.

This research monograph explores the rapidly expanding field of networked music making and the ways in which musicians of different cultures improvise together online.

Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, PoEM 2023, which took place in Vienna, Austria, during November 28 - December 1, 2023.

Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the most successful Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the Internet Infrastructure companies.

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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2017, held in St.

This two-volume set LNCS 12777 and 12778 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management, DHM 2021, which was held virtually as part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, in July 2021.

This volume LNCS 15557 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 16th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2024, held in Twente, The Netherlands, during November 13-16, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2023, which took place in Dornbirn, Austria, in December 2023.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP WG 6.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2018, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2018.

This book constitutes selected and extended papers from the Second International Workshop on Deployable Machine Learning for Security Defense, MLHat 2021, held in August 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ten international workshops held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2014, in September 2014.

The proceedings set LNCS 13231, 13232, and 13233 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, which was held during May 23-27, 2022, in Lecce, Italy,The 168 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions.

This thesis describes the development of a new technique to solve an important industrial inspection requirement for a high-value jet-engine component.

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

The 6-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12535 until 12540, constitutes the refereed proceedings of 28 out of the 45 workshops held at the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2018, held as part of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2018, in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social c- text based on computational systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2023, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, during October 8-12, 2023.

This two-volume set of HCI-Games 2023, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on HCI in Games, held as Part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which took place in July 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This two-volume set LNCS 13971 + 13972 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, held in March 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12h International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2022, which took place in Fribourg, Switzerland, in June 2022.

The e-commerce industry is growing year by year, with the COVID-19 pandemic having greatly accelerated this process.

Worldwide, the population ageing is a reality.

This book questions if spherology is a philosophy for designers, giving guidance on ways to read Spheres, how to approach the trilogy's indexicality, and apply the key tropes and ethics of atmospheres to digital design.