Data mining

This book presents recent advances in Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) with a focus on the areas of market basket database, time-stamped databases and multiple related databases.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2014, held in conjunction with the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in December 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2014, held in Beijing, China, in December 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers of the 4th and 5th workshops on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware, BPOE 4 and BPOE 5, held respectively in Salt Lake City, in March 2014, and in Hangzhou, in September 2014.

This book comprises a set of articles that specify the methodology of text mining, describe the creation of lexical resources in the framework of text mining and use text mining for various tasks in natural language processing (NLP).

The three volume set LNCS 8834, LNCS 8835, and LNCS 8836 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in November 2014.

The three volume set LNCS 8834, LNCS 8835, and LNCS 8836 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in November 2014.

The three volume set LNCS 8834, LNCS 8835, and LNCS 8836 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in November 2014.

On various examples ranging from geosciences to environmental sciences, thisbook explains how to generate an adequate description of uncertainty, how to justifysemiheuristic algorithms for processing uncertainty, and how to make these algorithmsmore computationally efficient.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2014, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in April 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, which was held in October/November 2014 in Leuven, Belgium.

The volume LNCS 8866 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2014, held in Hong Kong and Macao, China on November/ December 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2014, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in October 2014.

This SpringerBrief presents spatio-temporal data analytics for wind energy integration using stochastic modeling and optimization methods.

This book introduces the fundamental concepts of homomorphic encryption.

This book is devoted to recent progress in social network analysis with a high focus on community detection and evolution.

This book explores how PPPM, clinical practice, and basic research could be best served by information technology (IT).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2014, held in Sibiu, Romania, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2012, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2012.

The papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2014, the Thirty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2014 in both the technical and the application streams.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2014, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2014, held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, in October 2014.

This book and its companion volume, LNCS vol.

This book and its companion volume, LNCS vol.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2014, held in Bled, Slovenia, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2014, held in Bled, Slovenia, in October 2014, and co-located with the 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2014, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in October 2014.

This book constitutes revised post-proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health, MindCare 2014, held in Tokyo, Japan, in May 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 5 workshops of the 15th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2014, held in Macau, China, June 16-18, 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2014, held in Oxford, UK, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, PGM 2014, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2014, held in Grenoble, France, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2014, held in Seoul, Korea, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2014) held in Cork, Ireland, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 16th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2014, in Changsha, China, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2014 held in Changsha, China, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2014, held in Athens, Greece in September 2014.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2014, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2014, held in Ohrid, Macedonia, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing, PolTAL 2014, Warsaw, Poland, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2014, held in Salamanca, Spain, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2013, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint proceedings of the Third and Fourth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2014, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014, in Cambridge, MA, USA, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2014, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Conference on Advances in Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2014, held in Birmingham, UK, in September 2014.