Expert systems / knowledge-based systems

Modern terrorist networks pose an unprecedented threat to international security.

The second, revised edition of this book was suggested by the impressive sales of the first edition.

Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science.

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Community structure is a salient structural characteristic of many real-world networks.

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.

Machine Learning - Modeling Data Locally and Globally presents a novel and unified theory that tries to seamlessly integrate different algorithms.

This book presents a unique examination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines.

Following the increase in of the information available on the Web, the diversity of its users and the complexity of Web applications, researchers started developing adaptive Web systems that tailored their appearance and behavior to each individual user or user group.

Formal methods are coming of age.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems, SCOPES 2003, held in Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2003.

This textbook is intended to give an introduction to and an overview of sta- of-the-art techniques in the design of complex embedded systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2026, held in Rennes, France, during January 2026.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2026, held in Rennes, France, during January 2026.

This volume contains the papers presented at the Tenth SDL Forum, Cop- hagen.

Ubiquitous computing is coming of age.

Processing multimedia content has emerged as a key area for the application of machine learning techniques, where the objectives are to provide insight into the domain from which the data is drawn, and to organize that data and improve the performance of the processes manipulating it.

Computer Vision has now reached a level of maturity that allows us not only to perform research on individual methods but also to build fully integrated computer vision systems of a signi cant complexity.

Formal methods are coming of age.

This volume contains the proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on L- guages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2000), held June 18, 2000, in Vancouver, Canada.

This state-of-the-art survey offers a renewed and refreshing focus on the progress in evolutionary computation, in neural networks, and in fuzzy systems.

Conceptual modeling represents a recent approach to creating knowledge.

The importance of visual data mining, as a strong sub-discipline of data mining, had already been recognized in the beginning of the decade.

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 21st International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, SAFECOMP 2002, held in Catania, Italy in September 2002.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2003).

One of the grand challenges in our digital world are the large, complex and often weakly structured data sets, and massive amounts of unstructured information.

The4thWorkshoponInformationSecurityApplications(WISA2003)wassp- sored by the following Korean organizations and government bodies: the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC), the Electronics and TelecommunicationsResearchInstitute(ETRI),andtheMinistryofInformation and Communication (MIC).

* Semantic caching * Data warehousing and semantic data mining * Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics * Semantics in data visualization * Semantic services for mobile users * Supporting tools * Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues.

The all pervasive web is influencing all aspects of human endeavour.

The idea of creating the European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) was born at the moment when the Iron Curtain fell.

Truly personal handheld and wearable technologies should be small and unobtrusive and allow access to information and computing most of the time and in most circumstance.

The Ninth International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada- Europe 2004, took place in Palma, Spain, June 14-18, 2004.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2026, which took place in Rennes, France, during January 12-13, 2026.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2026, which took place in Rennes, France, during January 12-13, 2026.

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.