Expert systems / knowledge-based systems

This proceedings volume contains selected papers that were presented in the 3rd International Symposium on Big data and Cloud Computing Challenges, 2016 held at VIT University, India on March 10 and 11.

This ground-breaking text/reference divergesfrom the traditional view that computer vision (for image analysis) and stringprocessing (for text mining) are separate and unrelated fields of study,propounding that images and text can be treated in a similar manner for thepurposes of information retrieval, extraction and classification.

This book offers a timely report on keytheories and applications of soft-computing.

This book comprehensively covers the topic of recommender systems, which provide personalized recommendations of products or services to users based on their previous searches or purchases.

This volume contains the lecture notes of the five coursesand one seminar given at the School on Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems(SETSS 2014), held in September 2014 at Southwest University in Chongqing,China.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conferenceon Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, heldin Barcelona, Spain, in April 2015.

Numericalcomputation, knowledge discovery and statistical data analysis integrated withpowerful 2D and 3D graphics for visualization are the key topics of this book.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theSecond International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data, CloudCom-Asia2015, held in Huangshan, China, in June 2015.

This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational, and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical implications of research in human affairs using big data.

This book contains some selected papersfrom the International Conference on Extreme Learning Machine 2015,which was held in Hangzhou, China,December 15-17,2015.

This book contains some selected papersfrom the International Conference on Extreme Learning Machine 2015,which was held in Hangzhou, China,December 15-17,2015.

This work provides a careful selection of extended contributions presented at the 2014 ECCS conference and its satellite meetings, reflecting the scope and diversity of both fundamental and applied research areas in the field.

This textbook provides readers with the tools, techniques and cases required to excel with modern artificial intelligence methods.

The 9 papers presented in this book arerevised and significantly extended versions of papers submitted to threerelated workshops:The 5th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE2014, and the First International Workshop on Machine Learning for Urban SensorData, SenseML 2014, which were held on September 15, 2014, in conjunction withthe European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice ofKnowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2014) in Nancy, France; and the 5thInternational Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2014) that was held onApril 8, 2014 in conjunction with ACM WWW in Seoul, Korea.

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers of the 6th workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware, BPOE 2015, held in Kohala Coast, HI, USA, in August/September 2015 as satellite event of VLDB 2015, the 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the11th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, held in Brisbane,QLD, Australia, in December 2015.

Thiswork presents link prediction similarity measures for social networks that exploitthe degree distribution of the networks.

This book investigates organizational learning from a variety ofinformation processing perspectives.

This book features a selection of papers presented at the Second IFIP WG 12.

This book introduces Meaningful Purposive Interaction Analysis (MPIA) theory, which combines social network analysis (SNA) with latent semantic analysis (LSA) to help create and analyse a meaningful learning landscape from the digital traces left by a learning community in the co-construction of knowledge.

Introducing the IBM SPSS Modeler, this book guides readers through data mining processes and presents relevant statistical methods.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health,ICSH 2015, held in Phoenix, AZ, USA, in November 2015.

Medicineand health care are currently faced with a significant rise in theircomplexity.

This book investigates the ways inwhich these systems can promote public value by encouraging the disclosure andreuse of privately-held data in ways that support collective values such asenvironmental sustainability.

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.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.

The two-volume set LNCS 9516 and 9517 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2016, held in Miami, FL, USA, in January 2016.

The two-volume set LNCS 9516 and LNCS 9517 constitutesthe refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on MultimediaModeling, MMM 2016, held in Miami, FL, USA, in January 2016.

This bookconstitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium onLanguages, Applications and Technologies, SLATE 2015, held in Madrid, Spain, inJune 2015.

This volume is aiming at a wide range of readers andresearchers in the area of Big Data by presenting the recent advances in the fieldsof Big Data Analysis, as well as the techniques and tools used to analyze it.

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

This bookconstitutes revised selected papers from the third ECML PKDD Workshop on DataAnalytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2015, held in Porto, Portugal,in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SecondInternational Conference on Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2015, held inChengdu, 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 bookconstitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on FutureAccess Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures, FABULOUS 2015,held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereedconference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Big DataAnalytics, BDA 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015.

This PALO volume constitutes the Proceedingsof the 19th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and EvolutionarySystems (IES 2015), held in Bangkok, Thailand, November 22-25, 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, APSCC 2015, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly referred post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems biology, HSB 2015, held as part of the Madrid Meet 2015 event, in Madrid, Spain in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theThird International Conference on Mining Intelligence and KnowledgeExploration, MIKE 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015.

This book constitutesthe proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models forthe Web Graph, WAW 2015, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in December 2015.

This thesis covers a diverse set of topics related to space-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2015, held in Canberra, Australia, in November/December 2015.

This book contains a selection of papers from The 2015 International Conference on Software Process Improvement (CIMPS'15), held between the 28th and 30th of October in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutesthe proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information SystemsEngineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015.

This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2015, held in Fuzhou, China, in November 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2015, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in April 2015.

This innovative reference examines how consumer health informatics (CHI) can transform healthcare systems stressed by staffing shortages and budget constraints and challenged by patients taking a more active role in their care.