Information retrieval

The two-volume set LNAI 10191 and 10192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2017, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in April 2017.

The two-volume set LNCS 7031 and LNCS 7032 constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2011, held in Bonn, Germany, in October 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, held in Paris, France, in June 2018.

The Web is the nervous system of information society.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2011, held in Wuhan, China in September 2011.

The two volume set, CCIS 288 and 289, constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Communications and Information Processing, ICCIP 2012, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in March 2012.

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

Internet-based information systems, the second covering the large-scale in- gration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space.

Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engine results.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2012, held in San Sebastian, Spain, in September 2012.

The two-volume set LNAI 6634 and 6635 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2011, held in Shenzhen, China in May 2011.

This 5-volume set (CCIS 214-CCIS 218) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education, CSEE 2011, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2011.

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

This book presents two collaborative prediction approaches based on contextual representation and hierarchical representation, and their applications including context-aware recommendation, latent collaborative retrieval and click-through rate prediction.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2021, held as a virtual event in November-December 2021.

This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015.

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.

This year marked the coming of age of the British National Conference on Databases with its 21st conference held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in July 2004.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17 International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2016, held in Yangzhou, China, in October 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2011, held in Guangzhou, China, in May/June 2011.

Traditionally,signalprocessingtechniqueslayatthefoundationofmultimedia data processing and analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2008, in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2008.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2013, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in September 2013.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations, Emergent Technologies, and Tools, ViNOrg 2011,held in Ofir, Portugal, in July 2011.

This volume contains updated versions of the ten papers presented at the First International Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (TSDM 2000) held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Prin- ples and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2000) in Lyons, France in September, 2000.

This book features research papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (IEMIS 2020) held at the University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, during July 2020.

The Three-Volume-Set CCIS 323, 324, 325 (AsiaSim 2012) together with the Two-Volume-Set CCIS 326, 327 (ICSC 2012) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Asia Simulation Conference, AsiaSim 2012, and the International Conference on System Simulation, ICSC 2012, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2012.

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 book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2013.

Content-Based Image And Video Retrieval addresses the basic concepts and techniques for designing content-based image and video retrieval systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computer Networks, CN 2011, held in Ustron, Poland, in June 2011.

The two LNCS volume set 9193-9194 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically conferences.

The volume LNCS 7269 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Swarm Intelligence and Differential Evolution, SIDE 2012, held in Zakopane, Poland, in April/May 2012 in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2012 (proceedings published as two-volume set LNAI 7267 and 7268).

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2011, held in Hangzhou, China, in December 2011.

This book provides a coherent and complete overview of various Question Answering (QA) systems.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CollabTech 2018, held in Costa de Caparica, in September  2018.

The book initially presents the basic concepts related to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web-based applications, Web applications, Ontology, and their qualitative aspects.

The continuous and intensive development of computer science results in the fast progress of computer networks.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, in June 2008.

International Association for Statistical Computing The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) is a Section of the International Statistical Institute.

This two volume set LNCS 7446 and LNCS 7447 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2018, held in Awaji, Japan, in November 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2012, held in Taipei, China, in November 2012.