Information retrieval

Social computing concerns the study of social behavior and context based on computational systems.

Intelligent Information Technology (iiT) encompasses the theories and ap- plications of artificial intelligence, statistical pattern recognition, learning theory, data warehousing, data mining and knowledge discovery, Grid com- puting, and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in the context of today's as well as future IT, such as Electronic Commerce (EC), Business Intelligence (BI), Social Intelligence (SI), Web Intelligence (WI), Knowledge Grid (KG), and Knowledge Community (KC), among others.

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 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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2024, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in September 2024.

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.

This book constitutes extended selected papers from the 16th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management, AITM 2018, and the 13th Conference on Information Systems Management, ISM 2018, held as part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS, which took place in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2024, held in Athens, Greece, during August 30-31, 2024.

This book provides conceptual understanding of machine learning algorithms though supervised, unsupervised, and advanced learning techniques.

At a fundamental level, service-oriented crowdsourcing applies the principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA) to the discovery, composition and selection of a scalable human workforce.

We are delighted to welcome readers to the proceedings of the 6th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM).

The two-volume set LNCS 13451 and 13452 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2019 conference which took place in La Rochelle, France, April 2019.

A comprehensive introduction to computational analysis of sentiments, opinions, emotions, and moods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2016.

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the XVIIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2019, held in Rende, Italy, in November 2019.

The book, while introducing readers to the auction mechanism for resource provisioning in cloud computing, also endeavors to provide structured literature on the subject.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2020, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops which complemented the 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2013, held in Salamanca, Spain, in May 2013.

The IDEAL conference has become a unique, established and broad interdisciplinary forum for experts, researchers and practitioners in many fields to interact with each other and with leading academics and industries in the areas of machine learning, information processing, data mining, knowledge management, bio-informatics, neu- informatics, bio-inspired models, agents and distributed systems, and hybrid systems.

Assessment has long been recognized as a key feature inlearning efficacy, especially through formative evaluation.

This book provides a broad introduction to search engines by integrating five different perspectives on Web search and search engines that are usually dealt with separately: the technical perspective, the user perspective, the internet-based research perspective, the economic perspective, and the societal perspective.

This two-volume set LNCS 12035 and 12036 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2020.

Adaptation, for purposes of self-healing, self-protection, self-management, or self-regulation, is currently considered to be one of the most challenging pr- erties of distributed systems that operate in dynamic, unpredictable, and - tentially hostile environments.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference, UCMedia 2010, which was held in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, in September 2010, accompanied by the 4th InterMedia Open Forum Workshop (IMOF).

Although a number of cryptography and security techniques have been around for quite some time, emerging technologies, such as ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence that exploit increasingly interconnected networks, mobility and personalization, put new requirements on privacy and security with respect to data management.

Economic perspectives in network management have recently attracted a high level of attention.

This book constitutes, together with LNCS 6987 and LNCS 6988, the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining, WISM 2011, held in Taiyuan, China, in September 2011.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of two international workshops on special aspects of digital libraries, namely the First International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries, NLP4DL 2009, held in Viareggio, Italy in June 2009 and the CACAO Project Workshop Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, AT4DL 2009, held in Trento, Italy in September 2009.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2015, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in May 2015 in conjunction with PAKDD 2015, the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Clustering is an important technique for discovering relatively dense sub-regions or sub-spaces of a multi-dimension data distribution.

This book presents the first paradigm of social multimedia computing completely from the user perspective.

The two-volume set CCIS 2042 and 2043 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2023, held in Krakow, Poland, in October 2023.

Design and implement a secure end-to-end desktop management solution with Microsoft Endpoint ManagerKey FeaturesLearn everything you need to know about deploying and managing Windows on physical and cloud PCsSimplify remote working for cloud-managed cloud PCs via new service Windows 365Benefit from the authors' experience of managing physical endpoints and traditional virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI)Book DescriptionMicrosoft Modern Workplace solutions can simplify the management layer of your environment remarkably if you take the time to understand and implement them.

Type inheritance is that phenomenon according to which we can say, for example, that every square is also a rectangle, and so properties that apply to rectangles in general apply to squares in particular.

Key to our culture is that we can disseminate information, and then maintain and access it over time.

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

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2006, held in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2006.

Since its establishment in 1995, the ERCIM Working Group "e;User Interfaces for 1 All"e; (WG UI4ALL) has systematically promoted the proactive realization of the design for all principles in HCI.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2020, which took place during October 19-21, 2020.

The 2004 IFIP International Conference on Intelligence in Communication S- tems(INTELLCOMM2004),heldinBangkok,Thailand,23-26November2004, was the successor and an expansion of SMARTNET, a series of annual conf- ences on intelligence in networks held during 1995-2003 under the auspices of IFIP TC6's Working Group 6.