Information retrieval

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2015, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in February 2015.

This book explores provenance, the study and documentation of how things come to be.

This book presents a state-of-the art review of current perspectives on Communications and Multimedia Security.

The 3-volume set LNCS 9169, 9170, 9171 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015.

While traditional databases excel at complex queries over historical data, they are inherently pull-based and therefore ill-equipped to push new information to clients.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2024, held in Kyoto, Japan, during November 18–19, 2024.

TV viewers today are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information, and challenged by the plethora of interactive functionality provided by current set-top boxes.

The two LNCS volume set 9754-9755 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 14 other thematically conferences.

The database industry is a multi-billion, world-wide, all-encompassing part of the software world.

This two-volume set LNAI 13355 and 13356 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2022, held in Durham, UK, in July 2022.

Advanced information technology is pervasive in any kind of human activity - science, business, finance, management and others - and this is particularly true for database systems.

Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself.

This book constitutes revised papers from the seven workshops and one accompanying event which took place at the 21st International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2018.

This book constitutesthe thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference onContext-Aware Systems and Applications, ICCASA 2015, held in Vung Tau, Vietnam,in November 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns, NFMCP 2015, held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2015 in Porto, Portugal, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2014, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in May 2014 in conjunction with PAKDD 2014, the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2020.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2024, held in Akita, Japan, during September 3-6, 2024.

This book explains the word association thematic analysis method, with examples, and gives practical advice for using it.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Machine Translation (MT) is both an engineering technology and a measure of all things to do with languages and computers-whenever a new theory of language or linguistics is offered, an important criteria for its success is whether or not it will improve machine translation.

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.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2013, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2013.

This book presents the basics of search engines and their components.

This book provides a new model to explore discoverability and enhance the meaning of information.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2025, held as part of EvoStar 2025, in Trieste, Itlay, during April 23–25, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 4 workshops, held at the 4th International Conference on Internet Science, Thessaloniki, Greece, in November 2017: the Second International Workshop on the Internet for Financial Collective Awareness and Intelligence, IFIN 2017, the International Workshop on  Data Economy 2017, the International Workshop on Digital Technology to Support Social Innovation, DSI 2017, and the International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2017.

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 11th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2020.

Social information access is defined as a stream of research that explores methods for organizing the past interactions of users in a community in order to provide future users with better access to information.

This book constitutes the selected papers from the scientific satellite events held in conjunction with the19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2021.

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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2018, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Work-Conference on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2015, held in Puerto Varas, Chile, in December 2015.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum image processing, which focuses on extending conventional image processing tasks to the quantum computing frameworks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017.

Knowledge Discovery demonstrates intelligent computing at its best, and is the most desirable and interesting end-product of Information Technology.

This bookconstitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium onLanguages, Applications and Technologies, SLATE 2015, held in Madrid, Spain, inJune 2015.

This book contains the papers presented at the two CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation) workshops, namely the First International Workshop on the Internet for Financial Collective Awareness and Intelligence, IFIN 2016, and the First International Workshop on Internet and Social Media for Environmental Monitoring, ISEM 2016, held in Florence, Italy in September 2016.

This book bridges the gap between academic and applied User Experience (UX) research, offering a fresh perspective on uniting these two communities.

Modern computer-based control systems are able to collect a large amount of information, display it to operators and store it in databases but the interpretation of the data and the subsequent decision making relies mainly on operators with little computer support.

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 thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings at PAKDD Workshops 2016, held in conjunction with PAKDD, the 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Auckland, New Zealand, in April 2016.

This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2019, held in Xi'an, China, in October 2019.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2017, held in Palermo, Italy, in September 2017.

This LNCS double volume LNCS 10069-10070 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2016, which includes the International Work Conference on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL), and the International Conference on Am-bient Intelligence for Health (AmIHEALTH), held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November/December 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2014.