This book provides an in-depth treatment of three important topical areas related to regulatory, ethical, and technical discussions in the context of information retrieval and recommender systems (IRRSs): (1) bias, fairness, and non-discrimination, (2) transparency and explainability, and (3) privacy and security.
In an era when increasing numbers of people are conducting research and interacting with one another through the internet, the study of 'Inhabited Information Spaces' is aimed at encouraging a more fruitful exchange between the users, and the digital data they are accessing.
The 3-volume set LNCS 9731, 9732, and 9733 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016.
A practical guide to data mining using SQL and Excel Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel, 2nd Edition shows you how to leverage the two most popular tools for data query and analysis SQL and Excel to perform sophisticated data analysis without the need for complex and expensive data mining tools.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2018, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2018.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2014, held in Druskininkai, Lithuania, in October 2014.
This book provides a deep analysis and wide coverage of the very strong trend in computer vision and visual indexing and retrieval, covering such topics as incorporation of models of Human Visual attention into analysis and retrieval tasks.
Logic and the Organization of Information closely examines the historical and contemporary methodologies used to catalogue information objects-books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, emails, podcasts and more-in the digital era.
When you first hear the term Information Assurance you tend to conjure up an image of a balanced set of reasonable measures that have been taken to protect the information after an assessment has been made of risks that are posed to it.
Transform your data analysis experience with Power Query, the ultimate tool for importing, reshaping, and cleansing data through a user-friendly interface.
This two-volume set LNCS 14457 and LNCS 14458 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2023, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 4-7, 2023.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th National Conference of Social Media Processing, SMP 2017, held in Beijing, China, in September 2017.
The two-volume set LNCS 10539 and 10540 constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2017, held in Oxford, UK, in September 2017.
This two-volume set LNCS 12645-12646 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021, held in Beijing, China, in March 2021.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2014, held in Roskilde, Denmark, in June 2014.
This two volume set LNCS 9261 and LNCS 9262 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015.
This book constitutes therefereed proceedings of the 12th EUROLAN Summer School on Linguistic Linked Open Data and its Satellite Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data, RUMOUR 2015, held in Sibiu, Romania, in July 2015.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2014, held in Anissaras, Portoroz, Slovenia, in May/June 2015.
Build, manage, and configure high-performing, reliable NoSQL database for your applications with CassandraKey FeaturesWrite programs more efficiently using Cassandra's features with the help of examplesConfigure Cassandra and fine-tune its parameters depending on your needsIntegrate Cassandra database with Apache Spark and build strong data analytics pipelineBook DescriptionWith ever-increasing rates of data creation, the demand for storing data fast and reliably becomes a need.
Develop a custom, agile data warehousing and business intelligence architectureEmpower your users and drive better decision making across your enterprise with detailed instructions and best practices from an expert developer and trainer.
This three-volume set, LNAI 10937, 10938, and 10939, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in June 2018.
The five-volume set LNCS 9003--9007 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2014, held in Singapore, Singapore, in November 2014.
This book surveys the myriad facets of monitoring people in motion, from spatio-temporal data modeling, to data aggregation and warehousing, to data analysis.
This two volume set LNCS 9642 and LNCS 9643 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2016, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in April 2016.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2018, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2018.
The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science.
The two-volume set LNCS 9184-9185 constitutes the constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015.
This two-volume set, LNAI 9651 and 9652, constitutes thethoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advancesin Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2016, held in Auckland, NewZealand, in April 2016.
This two-volume set LNCS 14457 and LNCS 14458 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2023, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 4-7, 2023.
This book contains revised papers from the three workshops and two accompanying events that took place at the 20th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2017, held in Poznan, Poland, in June 2017.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2017, held in Ustron, Poland, in May/June 2017.
Searching for Semantics: Data Mining, Reverse Engineering Stefano Spaccapietra Fred M aryanski Swiss Federal Institute of Technology University of Connecticut Lausanne, Switzerland Storrs, CT, USA REVIEW AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS In the last few years, database semantics research has turned sharply from a highly theoretical domain to one with more focus on practical aspects.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2014, held in Filzbach, Switzerland, in June/July 2014.
In recent years, a new class of applications has come to the forefront { p- marily due to the advancement in our ability to collect data from multitudes of devices, and process them e ciently.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2020, held in Tarragona, Spain, in September 2020 under the sponsorship of the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2018, held as Part of SCF 2018 in Seattle, WA, USA in June 2018.
