Information retrieval

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2019, held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2019.

The two-volume set LNICST 460 and 461 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2022, held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2022.

Searching Multimedia Databases by Content bridges the gap between the database and signal processing communities by providing the necessary background information for the reader and presenting it along with the intuition and mechanics of the best existing tools in each area.

Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in engineering and science in modern history such as penicillin, Teflon, and Post-it notes.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018: the Third International Workshop on Big Data Management in Cloud Systems, BDMICS 2018, the 9th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data, BIOKDD, and the 15th International Workshop on Technologies for Information Retrieval, TIR.

This book delivers a brief introduction to misinformation, and various novel approaches for solving misinformation detection problems.

The three-volume set LNICST 561, 562  563 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2023, held in Corfu Island, Greece, during October 4-6, 2023.

This book constitutes selected revised papers of the 14th International Conference, NooJ 2020, held Zagreb, Croatia, in June 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2022, held in La Rochelle, France, in May 2022.

This two-volume set, LNCS 13426 and 13427, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022, held in Vienna in August 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications, BigCom 2016, held in Shenyang, China, in July 2016.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 4th edition of the Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, SemWebEval 2018, co-located with the 15th European Semantic Web conference, held in Heraklion, Greece, in June 2018.

Advances in hardware technology have lead to an ability to collect data with the use of a variety of sensor technologies.

This volume represents the 20th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG), 2023.

This two volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, held in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece during May 26-30, 2024.

The W3C XQuery 3.

This text presents a theoretical and practical examination of the latest developments in Information Retrieval and their application to existing systems.

This two-volume set LNAI 13995 and LNAI 13996 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2023, held in Phuket, Thailand, during July 24-26, 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop, SAVE-SD 2017, held in Perth, Australia, in April 2017, and the 4th International Workshop, SAVE-SD 2018, held in Lyon, France, in April 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, SciSec 2024, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, during August 14-16, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Social Networks, CSoNet 2015, held in Beijing, China, in August 2015.

Challenges in complexity and variability of multimedia data have led to revolutions in machine learning techniques.

The three-volume set LNCS 9186, 9187, and 9188 constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences.

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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 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 book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2017, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2017.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2016, held in Firence, Italy, in February 2016.

This book presents an introduction to the field of applied evaluative informetrics, dealing with the use of bibliometric or informetric indicators in research assessment.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2020, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Innovations for Community Services, I4CS 2019, held in Wolfsburg, Germany, in June 2019.

Reading is a complex human activity that has evolved, and co-evolved, with technology over thousands of years.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to conversational spoken language understanding and surveys recent advances in conversational AI.

Globalization of business, internationalization of trade, and increasing prevalence of multi-cultural interdisciplinary teams are beginning to redefine the nature of office work.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th China Conference on Machine Translation, CCMT 2020, held in Xining, China, in October 2021.

The 7 papers presented in this book are revised and significantly extended versions of papers submitted to three related workshops:6th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, September 2015, in conjunction with the 6th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML-PKDD 2015; 6th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2015, held in Florence, Italy, May 2015, in conjunction with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2015; 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2016, Montreal, QC, Canada, April 2016, in conjunction with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2018, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2018.

This volume contains the lecture notes of the 13th Reasoning Web Summer School, RW 2017, held in London, UK, in July 2017.

Information Visualisation is a fast growing research field and an industry with tremendous potential.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in November 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2014, held in Novi Sad, Serbia.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2015, held in Plymouth, UK, in  June 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2019, held in Portoroz, Slovenia.

This book provides modern technical answers to the legal requirements of pseudonymisation as recommended by privacy legislation.

The six-volume set LNCS 14608, 14609, 14609, 14610, 14611, 14612 and 14613 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2024, held in Glasgow, UK, during March 24-28, 2024.

This two-volume set, LNCS 11317 and 12318, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2020, held in Tianjin, China, in September 2020.

The three-volume set LNCS 13980, 13981 and 13982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 45th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2023, held in Dublin, Ireland, during April 2-6, 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 16th Research Conference onMetadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2022, held in London, UK, during November 7-11, 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2020, held virtually in November 2020.