Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

Tackling globalization is a great challenge - it is both extremely beneficial and essentially problematic.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advancement in the field of automatic speech recognition with a focus on deep learning models including deep neural networks and many of their variants.

This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS).

Personality Capture and Emulation is the gateway to an amazing future that actually may be achieved, enabling the preservation and simulation of human personalities at progressively higher levels of fidelity.

The rise of the Internet and social media in particular offer great opportunities for brand owners to increase business and brand recognition.

Presenting the latest technological developments in arts and culture, this volume demonstrates the advantages of a union between art and science.

Since the publication of the companion volume Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds in 2010, there has been a growth not only in the range and number of educational initiatives taking place in virtual worlds, but also in the depth of analysis of the nature of that education.

This exciting new book explores the relationship between cultural traditions and computers, looking at how people from very different cultures and backgrounds communicate and how the use of information technologies can support and enhance these dialogues.

This edited book discusses the exciting field of Digital Creativity.

Mobile Persuasion Design presents ten conceptual design projects (or 'Machines') for new mobile application's (smartphone or tablet with Web portals) that combine theories of persuasion and information design to change people's behaviour.

This book discusses all aspects of computing for expressive performance, from the history of CSEMPs to the very latest research, in addition to discussing the fundamental ideas, and key issues and directions for future research.

This agenda-setting book presents state of the art research in Music and Human-Computer Interaction (also known as 'Music Interaction').

This textbook presents the fundamental concepts and methods for understanding and working with images and video in an unique, easy-to-read style which ensures the material is accessible to a wide audience.

Rough Set Theory, introduced by Pawlak in the early 1980s, has become an important part of soft computing within the last 25 years.

The book describes the world's first successful experiment in fully automated board game design.

This publication has grown out of two frustrations.

This book presents a set of models, methods, and techniques that allow the successful implementation of data governance (DG) in an organization and reports real experiences of data governance in different public and private sectors.

The two-volume set LNCS 14910 and 14911 constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2024, which took place in Naples, Italy, in August 2024.

The two-volume set LNCS 14910 and 14911 constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2024, which took place in Naples, Italy, in August 2024.

This volume constitutes revised selected papers of two workshops, the Doctoral Consortium, the Joint CBI-EDOC Forum and and other Joint CBI-EDOC event, which were held in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2024, in Vienna, Austria, in September 10-13, 2024.

This book brings together original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2024 10th International Conference on E-Business and Applications, held in Singapore from February 26 to 28, 2024.

The two-volume set LNBIP 518 and 519 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2023, which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, during April 2023.

The two-volume set LNAI 15497 and LNAI 15498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2024, held in Hefei, China, during December 6-8, 2024.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2025, held in Belgrade, Serbia, in May 2025.

The two-volume set LNCS 14910 and 14911 constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2024, which took place in Naples, Italy, in August 2024.

The two volume set LNCS 14674 and 14675 constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2024, which took place in Olhao, Portugal, during June 4-7, 2024.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the PhD Symposium, Demos and Workshops* from the 25th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2024, held in Doha, Qatar during December 2-5, 2024.

This book brings together original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2024 10th International Conference on E-Business and Applications, held in Singapore from February 26 to 28, 2024.

This book presents the theoretical foundations of the MDATA cognitive model and its applications in the field of cybersecurity.

The ten-volume set LNCS 14220, 14221, 14222, 14223, 14224, 14225, 14226, 14227, 14228, and 14229 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023, which was held in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2023.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing and the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, CCKS-IJCKG 2024, held in Chongqing, China, during September 20-22, 2024.

The five-volume set LNCS 14884, 14885, 14886, 14887 & 14888 constitutes the refereed deadline proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2024, held in Birmingham, UK, during August 16-18, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2024, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, during October 17-18, 2024.

This book comprehensively covers various aspects of research and development (R&D).

Generative AI is transforming the landscape of numerous industries, and the creative fields are no exception.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science, CSECS 2024, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, during  June 28-30, 2024.

The two-volume set LNAI 15497 and LNAI 15498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2024, held in Hefei, China, during December 6-8, 2024.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the PhD Symposium, Demos and Workshops* from the 25th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2024, held in Doha, Qatar during December 2-5, 2024.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 21st Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2022, which took place virtually on December 10, 2022.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing and the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, CCKS-IJCKG 2024, held in Chongqing, China, during September 20-22, 2024.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2024, held in Rabat, Morocco, during May 9-11, 2024.

The three-volume book set LNAI 14734, 14735, and 14736 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in HCI, AI-HCI 2024, held as part of the 26th International Conference, HCI International 2024, which took place in Washington, DC, USA, during June 29-July 4, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2024, held as part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, which took place in Washington, DC, USA, during June 29-July 4, 2024.

This book provides a broad survey of advanced pattern recognition techniques for human behavior analysis.

This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2011, the 12th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious.

This groundbreaking text examines the problem of user authentication from a completely new viewpoint.

Mobile context-awareness is a popular research trend in the field of ubiquitous computing.

This book presents a different approach to pattern recognition (PR) systems, in which users of a system are involved during the recognition process.