Applied computing

Starting with Napster and Gnutella, peer-to-peer systems became an integrated part of the Internet fabric attracting millions of users.

The central themes of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004) were ontological engineering and the Semantic Web.

These are the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004), held at the Fair and Congress Center in - furt, Germany, September 27-29, 2004.

Welcome to the proceedings of GCC2004 and the city of Wuhan.

Welcome to the proceedings of GCC2004 and the city of Wuhan.

"e;We know more than we can tell and we can know nothing without relying upon those things which we may not be able to tell"e; (Michael Polanyi) The importance of knowledge management (KM) is increasingly recognized in the public sector and in relation with e-government implementations.

Grid and cooperative computing has emerged as a new frontier of information tech- logy.

Grid and cooperative computing has emerged as a new frontier of information tech- logy.

This LNCS conference 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2025, in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, during August 25–28, 2025.

This LNCS conference 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2025, in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, during August 25–28, 2025.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations.

These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations.

These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning.

This two volume set consists of the peer-reviewed papers from 15 workshops of the 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability, ARTIIS 2025, held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, during October 21–23, 2025.

This two volume set consists of the peer-reviewed papers from 15 workshops of the 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability, ARTIIS 2025, held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, during October 21–23, 2025.

This, the 29th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, is comprised of seven full papers focusing on the area of secure communication.

This book provides a new perspective on omics data modelling and analysis in bioinformatics area.

This book provides a new perspective on omics data modelling and analysis in bioinformatics area.

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.

The 14th volume of ToPNoC contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the best workshop and tutorial papers presented at the 39th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, Petri Nets 2018, and the 18th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design, ACSD 2018.

This, the 29th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, is comprised of seven full papers focusing on the area of secure communication.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related issues, from logical and mathematical foundations, through all aspects of rough set theory and its applications, such as data mining, knowledge discovery, and intelligent information processing, to relations between rough sets and other approaches to uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, such as fuzzy sets and theory of evidence.

This book describes recent multidisciplinary research at the confluence of the fields of logic programming, database theory and human-computer interaction.

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 documentation of the scientific outcome of the first meeting of the TIMELY network, the International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Time and Time Perception, which took place in Athens, Greece, in October 2010.

This book presents the state of the art in the areas of ontology evolution and knowledge-driven multimedia information extraction, placing an emphasis on how the two can be combined to bridge the semantic gap.

Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with database systems, through active databases, to become a topic that has grown beyond the scope of a single field encompassing a large range of subjects, such as distributed systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems.

The 8th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science has been divided into two parts.

For many years now, cryptography has been keeping messages secure for senders, irrespective of the routing to the destination.

Social systems are among the most complex known.

"e;The-computer-as-we-know-it"e; will have no role in our future everyday lives.

Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage, PEACH, is a large, interdisciplinary development project that explores the use of novel technologies for physical museum visits.

Heterogeneous object modelling is a new and quickly developing research area.

This volume is based on the contributions to the International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB'98), held in Valencia, Spain, March 27 and 28, 1998, in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'98).

This volume contains a collection of selected papers presented at the Symposium on Conceptual Modeling, which was held in Los Angeles, California, on December 2, th 1997, immediately before the 16 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'97), which was held at UCLA.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2002, held in Biarritz, France, and San Sebastian, Spain, in June 2002The 93 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 16 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 full paper submissions.

The Seventh International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2001), held in Redondo Beach, CA, USA, July 12{15, 2001, brought together leading researchers and developers in the area of spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal databases to discuss the state of the art in spatial and temporal data management and applications, and to understand the challenges and - search directions in the advancing area of data management for moving objects.

Creation Techniques for Software Development and Deployment, Agent-Based Management, Virtual Home Environment, Integrated and Scalable Solutions for Telecommunications Management.

ECDL 2002 was the 6th conference in the series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries.

This book presents refereed and revised papers presented at GREC 2001, the 4th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, which took place in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in September 2001.