Information retrieval

Trusting a computer for a security-sensitive task (such as checking email or banking online) requires the user to know something about the computer's state.

The two-volume set LNCS 8935 and 8936 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2015, held in Sydney, Australia, in January 2015.

The ship has left the Miraflores Locks, let loose from the 'mules' run by the crews of the Panama Canal Commission.

This book gathers a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at International Conference on Cyber Intelligence and Information Retrieval (CIIR 2023), held at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India during 14 - 15 December 2023.

This book constitutes the papers presented at the Evaluation Track of the 8th China Conference on Health Information Processing, CHIP 2022, held in Hangzhou, China during  October 21-23, 2022.

The two-volume set LNCS 14910 and 14911 constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2024, which took place in Naples, Italy, in August 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2025, which took place in Pavia, Italy, during June 23-26, 2025.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing and the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, CCKS-IJCKG 2024, held in Chongqing, China, during September 20-22, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International TRIZ Future Conference on Automated Invention for Smart Industries, TFC 2022, which took place in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2022; the event was sponsored by IFIP WG 5.

As the first to focus on the issue of Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering, this book introduces a model-driven requirements process used to identify requirements granules and incrementally develop data warehouse fragments.

This thesis presents an experimental study of quantum memory based on cold atomic ensembles and discusses photonic entanglement.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conferences ICCASA and ICTCC 2017, held in November 2017 in Tam Ky City, Vietnam.

A comprehensive overview of data science covering the analytics, programming, and business skills necessary to master the discipline Finding a good data scientist has been likened to hunting for a unicorn: the required combination of technical skills is simply very hard to find in one person.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the selected workshops co-located with the 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013, held in Valletta, Malta, in September 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2020, held in Qufu, China, in December 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2016, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2015.

This three-volume set, LNCS 13421, 13422 and 13423, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2022, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2022.

This book presents an in-depth exploration of multimodal learning toward recommendation, along with a comprehensive survey of the most important research topics and state-of-the-art methods in this area.

ICMCCA 2012 is the first International Conference on Multimedia Processing, Communication and Computing Applications and the theme of the Conference is chosen as 'Multimedia Processing and its Applications'.

This book constitutes the combined refereed proceedings of ISWC Satellite Wor shops KEKIand NLP&DBpedia 2016 which were held in conjunction with ISWC 2016 in Kobe, Japan, inOctober 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Innovations for Community Services, I4CS 2017, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in June 2017.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of blockchains, a significant innovation that has already started to redesign business, social and political interactions.

The three volume set LNAI 9851, LNAI 9852, and LNAI 9853 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016.

This book explores integrated information spaces in the web context and beyond, with a focus on putting theories and principles into practice.

This invaluable guide addresses the Why, What, and How of enterprise cloud adoption, leveraging a clear framework and proven best practices from Microsoft's own experience.

Data Quality provides an expose of research and practice in the data quality field for technically oriented readers.

Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2015, held in Windsor, UK, in September 2015.

This book not only presents the state-of-the-art research on knowledge modelling, knowledge retrieval and knowledge reuse, but also elaborates the Collaborative Knowledge Management (CKM) paradigm and the architecture for the next generation of knowledge management systems.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook organizes all major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, challenges and applications of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) into a coherent and unified repository.

Sentiment analysis research has been started long back and recently it is one of the demanding research topics.

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.

The 47 revised full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 204 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference, KogWis 2016, held in Bremen, Germany, in September 2016, and the 10th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2016, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in August 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language, AINL 2019, held in Tartu, Estonia, in November 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2019, held in Pisa, Italy, in January/February 2019.

Thisbook constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th InternationalConference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, andWorksharing, CollaborateCom 2015, held in Wuhan, China, in November  2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the JSAI-isAI 2013 Workshops LENLS, JURISIN, MiMI, AAA, and DDS which tool place on October 2013, in Japan.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet Science held in St.

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 volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, which took place in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016.

This is the second book based on the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) approach to digital libraries (DLs).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2018, held in Udine, Italy, in January 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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2016, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2015.

Technologies for Business Information Systems The material collected in this book covers a broad range of applications of c- puter science methods and algorithms in business practice.