Applied computing

by Roberto Cencioni At the Lisbon Summit in March 2000, European heads of state and government set a new goal for the European Union - to become the most competitive knowled- based society in the world by 2010.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the ?

Multimedia technologies are rapidly attracting more and more interest every day.

This volume is based on papers accepted for the Second International Workshop on Multi-agent-based Simulation (MABS-2000)federated with the Fourth Int- national Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000)held in Boston in July 2000.

The International User Modeling Conferences are the events at which research foundations are being laid for the personalization of computer systems.

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This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.

This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.

This volume contains the papers presented at the "e;Second International S- posium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems"e; (FoIKS 2002), which was held in Schlo Salzau, Germany from February 20th to 23rd, 2002.

This conference in Enschede, The Netherlands, is the sixth in a series of international conferences and workshops under the title Protocols for Multimedia Systems, abbreviated as PROMS.

This book provides a new direction in the field of nano-optics and nanophotonics from information and computing-related sciences and technology.

Peer-to-peer systems are now widely used and have become the focus of attention for many researchers over the past decade.

As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.

These Transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the Semantic Web, social networks and multiagent systems.

This volume contains the key contributions to workshops and meetings that were held within the context of the PRELUDE project.

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields.

Welcome to the second volume of Transactions on Computational Collective Intel- gence (TCCI), a new journal devoted to research in computer-based methods of c- putational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the Semantic Web, social networks and multi-agent systems.

Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that is often characterized as the study of automatically converting non-linguistic representations (e.

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL'99, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in June 1999.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cooperative Information Systems, CIA'99, held in Uppsala, Sweden in July/August 1999.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2002, held in Malaga, Spain, in May 2002.

This book presents papers describing selected projects on the topic of data mining in fields like e commerce, medicine, and knowledge management.

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This volume contains the proceedings of Pervasive 2002, the ?

High communication efforts and poor problem solving results due to restricted overview are two central issues in collaborative problem solving.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form, IWVF-4, held in Capri, Italy, in May 2001.

The objective of the workshops held in conjunction with ER 2002, the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, was to give participants the opportunitytopresentanddiscussemerginghottopics,thusaddingnewpersp- tives to conceptual modeling.

USM 2000 is the third event in a series of international IFIP/GI conferences on Trends in Distributed Systems.

ECDL2000, the Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Te- nology for Digital Libraries, is being held this year in Lisbon, Portugal, following previous events in Pisa (1997), Heraklion (1998), and Paris (1999).

This volume contains updated versions of the ten papers presented at the First International Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (TSDM 2000) held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Prin- ples and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2000) in Lyons, France in September, 2000.

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The objective of the workshops associated with the ER2000 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling was to give participants the opportunity to present and discuss emerging, hot topics, thus adding new perspectives to conceptual modeling.

Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery technology is emerging as a key technology for enterprises that wish to improve their data analysis, decision support activities, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data.

These are the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, held in Modena, Italy, September 6-8, 2001.

After the advent of data mining and its successful application on conventional data, Web-related information has been an appropriate and increasingly popular target of knowledge discovery.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition and the 3rd International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, SSPR 2000 and SPR 2000, held in Alicante, Spain in August/September 2000.