Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

This book constitutesthe thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference onContext-Aware Systems and Applications, ICCASA 2015, held in Vung Tau, Vietnam,in November 2015.

This book shows how Microsoft Excel is able to teach human resource management statistics effectively.

This book shows the is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical science problems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst International Rapid Mashup Challenge, RMC 2015, held on June 23, 2015, inRotterdam, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the 15th International Conferenceon Web Engineering, ICWE 2015.

This bookcombines work from curators, digital artists, human computer interactionresearchers and computer scientists to examine the mutual benefits andchallenges posed when working together to support digital art works in theirmany forms.

The papers presented in this volume advance thestate-of-the-art research on digital marketing and social media, mobile computingand responsive web design, semantic technologies and recommender systems,augmented and virtual reality, electronic distribution and online travelreviews, MOOC and eLearning, eGovernment and sharing economy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2014, held in Sydney, Australia, on December 12, 2014.

In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape,exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech.

Thisvolume deals with the pressing issue of uncertainty in archaeological modeling.

This book constitutes the revised proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web) held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015.

Thisbook focuses on cultural tourism as it develops into the second decade of thenew millennium.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2015, held in St.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on SocialInformatics, SocInfo 2015, held in Beijing, China, in December 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughlyrefereed proceedings of the Fourth InternationalSymposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis held in Riva del Milan,Italy, in November 2014.

This book highlightsstate-of-the-art research, development and implementation efforts concerningsocial media in government services, bringing together researchers andpractitioners in a number of case studies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th InternationalConference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2015, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November/December 2015.

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 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015, held in Bolzano, Italy, in December 2015.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2015, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2015, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2015 in October 2015 in Rhodes, Greece.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2015, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in November 2015.

This book provides an in-depth introduction and overview of current research in computational music analysis.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2015, held Catania, Italy, in October 2015.

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

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach educational and psychological statistics effectively.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances inthe field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potentialof emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with thelatest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians,computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex datasets.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18thInternational Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems,PRIMA 2015, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in October 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2015, held in Seoul, South Korea, in October 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed selected papers on the 4th Cyber Security and Privacy Innovation Forum, CSP Forum 2015, held in Brussels, Belgium, in April 2015.

The objective of this monograph is to improve the performance of the sentiment analysis model by incorporating the semantic, syntactic and common-sense knowledge.

This book starts with an introduction to process modeling and process paradigms, then explains how to query and analyze process models, and how to analyze the process execution data.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 6.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on RadioFrequency Identification held in New York, USA, in June 2015.

This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce.

This book constitutes thoroughly revised, selected papers of the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Collaborative Agents Research and Development, CARE 2015 and the Second International Workshop on Multi-agent Foundations of Social Computing, MFSC 2015, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 4, 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS 2015, held at CAiSE 2015, in June 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, ICCBR 2015, held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in September 2015.

We have always built tools to improve our productivity and help us lead better lives; however we find ourselves constantly battling against our new computerized tools, making us less productive and putting our health and our lives at risk.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2015 titled Information Systems: Development, Applications, Education, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 25.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2015, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 5.

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

This book studies social phenomena in a new way, by making judicious use of computer technology.

This book documents the creation of the Bichitra Online Tagore Variorum, a publicly accessible database of Rabindranath Tagore's complete works in Bengali and English totaling some 140,000 pages of primary material.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2015, held in Rome, Italy, in August 2015.

This book introduces the concept of the wise home.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications, SSCC 2015, held in Kochi, India, in August 2015.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2014, held in Paris, France, in November 2014.

This book introduces novel techniques and algorithms necessary to support the formation of social networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 8.