Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 2.

This book presents mathematical models of mob control with threshold (conformity) collective decision-making of the agents.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2010, held in Karlsruhe, Germany in October 2010.

Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, arts, politics, science and technology studies, political communication theory and popular culture studies, this volume engages both with theoretical debates and detailed empirical studies, showcasing how the public sphere is transformed by digital media, and in turn how this digital public sphere shapes and is shaped by debates surrounding crisis, conflict, migration and culture.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Modeling, Machine Learning and Astronomy, MMLA 2019, held in Bangalore, India, in November 2019.

The 7-volume set of LNCS 13841-13847 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2022, held in Macao, China, December 2022.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a very strong reminder that the future economic development of any country is more than ever influenced by its ability to ramp-up digital competitiveness.

This innovative book has combined the latest drive to integrate the findings and principles of quantum mechanics and quantum technology, especially here quantum computing, into the flamboyant world of social sciences.

To large organizations, business intelligence (BI) promises the capability of collecting and analyzing internal and external data to generate knowledge and value, thus providing decision support at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, VJ 2020, held in Mirandela, Portugal, in November 2020.

The aim of this book is to establish a basis for resolving the various issues facing modern society by exploring the field of Computational Social Science, which fuses the social and natural sciences.

The explosive growth of e-commerce and online environments has made the issue of information search and selection increasingly serious; users are overloaded by options to consider and they may not have the time or knowledge to personally evaluate these options.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2019, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2019.

This book presents a collection of the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference 2018 in Manchester, UK, and showcases how augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are transforming the business landscape.

Many challenges were identified in CSCW some thirty years ago, and some of these remain problematic today.

The three-volume set LNCS 12771-12773 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019 as part of the AAMAS 2019, the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in December 2018.

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Wikipedia for researchers and students of linguistics, discourse and communication studies, redressing the gap in research on Wikipedia in these fields and encouraging scholars to explore Wikipedia further as a platform and a medium.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11 workshops co-located with the 16th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2018, held in Toledo, Spain, in June 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 8.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2018, held in Tianjin, China, in August 2018.

The four-volume set CCIS 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1794 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2022, held as a virtual event, November 22-26, 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017.

The two-volume set LNAI 14453 and 14454 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2023, held in Doha, Qatar, during December 4-7, 2023.

This volume constitutes revised selected papers of several workshops, the EDOC Forum and the Demonstrations and Doctoral Consortium track, which were held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2023, in Groningen, The Netherlands, during October 30-November 3, 2023.

The two-volume set LNCS 10271 and 10272 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017.

Every day we share encounters with others as we inhabit the space around us.

The sixteen-volume set, CCIS 2282-2297, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2024, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2024.

This book constitutes the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, which took place in Orlando, Florida, in July 2019.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020, held in Seville, Spain, in September 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2022, held in  Beijing, China, during April 23-24, 2022.

The book contains select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Data, Engineering, and Applications (IDEA 2021).

This two-volume set 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.

This book, the first research publication on China's archery culture to appear in the English language, introduces the historic development, key concepts, and research methodologies for archery studies.

The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 15281-15285, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2024, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November 18-24, 2024.

The three-volume set LNBIP 549 - 551 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Wuhan International Conference on E-Business, WHICEB 2025, which was held in Guangzhou, China, during June 6-8, 2025.

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

This two-volume set, LNCS 10987 and 10988, constitutes  the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2018, held in Macau, China in July 2018.

'There is no doubt', dr.

This book investigates a new interactive data visualisation concept that employs traditional Chinese aesthetics as a basis for exploring contemporary digital technological contexts.

There is a prehistory of the adultery novel, which became a pan-European literary paradigm in the second half of the 19th century.

The seven-volume set LNCS 12261, 12262, 12263, 12264, 12265, 12266, and 12267 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Australasian Conference on Data Mining, AusDM 2019, held in Adelaide, SA, Australia, in December 2019.

Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture is a textbook that introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach to material cultural study.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2020, which was planned to be held in Kyoto, Japan, in November/December 2020, but it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2023, which took place in Grasmere, UK, in September 2023.

This five-volume set LNCS 15436 -15440 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2024, held in Doha, Qatar, in December 2024.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things, ICIOT 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018.

The 7-volume set LNCS 14651 - 14657 conference volume constitutes the proceedings of the 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2024, held in in Zurich, Switzerland, in May 2024.