Expert systems / knowledge-based systems

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Networks, CN 2014, held in Brunow, Poland, in June 2014.

This comprehensive reference consists of 18 chapters from prominent researchers in the field.

Data mining applications range from commercial to social domains, with novel applications appearing swiftly; for example, within the context of social networks.

The two volume set LNAI 8481 and 8482 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2014, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in June 2014.

The two volume set LNAI 8481 and 8482 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2014, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in June 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2014, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in June 2014.

Information System Development-Improving Enterprise Communication are the collected proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems Development: Improving Enterprise Communication-ISD 2013 Conference, held in Seville, Spain.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN), held in Toulouse, France, during June 10-13, 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems (Bionetics 2012), held in Lugano, Switzerland, in December 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference Beyond Databases, Architectures, and Structures, BDAS 2014, held in Ustron, Poland, in May 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2013, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2014, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014 in conjunction with PAKDD 2014, the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014, held in Offenburg, Germany in May 2014.

The two-volume set LNAI 8443 + LNAI 8444 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2014, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014.

The two-volume set LNAI 8443 + LNAI 8444 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2014, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014.

With the onset of massive cosmological data collection through media such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), galaxy classification has been accomplished for the most part with the help of citizen science communities like Galaxy Zoo.

In this book a fuzzy-based recommender system architecture for stimulating political participation and collaboration is proposed.

The aim of this book is to explain to high-performance computing (HPC) developers how to utilize the Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) series products efficiently.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2014, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2014.

This book covers fundamental principles and computational approaches relevant to visual saliency computation.

This book addresses the need for a unified framework describing how soft computing and machine learning techniques can be judiciously formulated and used in building efficient pattern recognition models.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2014, held in Washington, DC, USA, in April 2014.

This book provides a timely and unique survey of next-generation social computational methodologies.

The two-volume set LNAI 8397 and LNAI 8398 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2014, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in April 2014.

Knowledge and expertise, especially of the kind that can shape public opinion, have been traditionally the domain of individuals holding degrees awarded by higher learning institutions or occupying formal positions in notable organizations.

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.

The two-volume set LNAI 8397 and LNAI 8398 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2014, held in Bangkok, Thailand in April 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2014.

Social network analysis increasingly bridges the discovery of patterns in diverse areas of study as more data becomes available and complex.

To enhance marketing analytics, approximate and inductive reasoning can be applied to handle uncertainty in individual marketing models.

These two volumes set LNCS 8421 and LNCS 8422 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014.

These two volumes set LNCS 8421 and LNCS 8422 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014.

This book is the outcome of the Dagstuhl Seminar 13201 on Information Visualization - Towards Multivariate Network Visualization, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in May 2013.

This Springer Brief provides a comprehensive overview of the background and recent developments of big data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2014, held in Shenzhen, China, in April 2014.

The book reports on the latest advances and challenges of soft computing.

This book presents a thorough overview of fusion in computer vision, from an interdisciplinary and multi-application viewpoint, describing successful approaches, evaluated in the context of international benchmarks that model realistic use cases.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, DNIS 2014, held in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 2014.

The book is inspired by the second seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano.

This book brings together geometric tools and their applications for Information analysis.

Addressing current issues of which any engineer or computer scientist should be aware, this monograph is a response to the need to adopt a new computational paradigm as the methodological basis for designing pervasive embedded systems with sensor capabilities.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2014, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in April 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2014, held in Oxford, UK, in February 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, CBDAR 2013, held in Washington, DC, USA, in August 2013.

The numeric values retrieved from a data warehouse may be difficult for business users to interpret, and may even be interpreted incorrectly.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Citizen Sensor Networks, CitiSens 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2013.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software, S-Cube 2013, held in Lucca, Italy, 2013.

This book takes a fresh look at biometrics and identity management, extending the dialogue beyond technical considerations, and exploring some of the broader societal and philosophical aspects surrounding the use of biometric applications.

The two-volume set LNCS 8325 and 8326 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th Anniversary International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2014, held in Dublin, Ireland, in January 2014.

The two-volume set LNCS 8325 and 8326 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th Anniversary International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2014, held in Dublin, Ireland, in January 2014.