Information retrieval

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in June 2017.

This second edition textbook covers a coherently organized framework for text analytics, which integrates material drawn from the intersecting topics of information retrieval, machine learning, and natural language processing.

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2019, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in June 2019.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2018, held in Manchester, UK, in June 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2014, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the16th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and AutomatedLearning, IDEAL 2015, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in October 2015.

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, the 28th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of six papers presented at the 26th International Conference on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications, DEXA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015.

New technology is always evolving and companies must have appropriate security for their businesses to be able to keep up to date with the changes.

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.

No detailed description available for "e;RAG-Driven Generative AI"e;.

This book is dedicated to exploring and explaining time series event detection in databases.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2017, held in Ustron, Poland, in May/June 2017.

This book discusses how a genealogical history of the modern world can be created by linking the Royal Families of Western Europeans database to Unifying Ancestry.

Cultural forces govern a synergistic relationship among information institutions that shapes their roles collectively and individually.

As the first book devoted to relational data mining, this coherently written multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the area.

This book features research papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (IEMIS 2022) held at Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, during 23-25 February 2022.

Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, is the collected proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in Prague, Czech Republic, August 25 - 27, 2010.

Discover the unified, distributed storage system and improve the performance of applications Key FeaturesExplore the latest features of Ceph's Mimic releaseGet to grips with advanced disaster and recovery practices for your storageHarness the power of Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS) to help you optimize storage systemsBook DescriptionCeph is an open source distributed storage system that is scalable to Exabyte deployments.

This two-volume set LNCS 14457 and LNCS 14458 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2023, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 4-7, 2023.

This conference proceeding LNCS 12796 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications, MOBILE 2021 which was held as part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021 as a virtual event, due to COVID-19, in July 2021.

With the development of big data, data sharing has become increasingly popular and important in optimizing resource allocation and improving information utilization.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AICoB 2015, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in August 2015.

This book is an authoritative handbook of current topics, technologies and methodological approaches that may be used for the study of scholarly impact.

We intend to edit a Festschrift for Henk Moed combining a "e;best of"e; collection of his papers and new contributions (original research papers) by authors having worked and collaborated with him.

Conceptually, a database consists of objects and relationships.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology, IAIT 2013, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2013.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2016, held in Phuket, Thailand, in August 2016.

One consequence of the pervasive use of computers is that most documents originate in digital form.

This book is your essential guide to mastering Snowflake's SQL API, offering a comprehensive understanding of this powerful tool.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2021, held in  Guangzhou, China, in November 2021.

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 provides practical information about web archives, offers inspiring examples for web archivists, raises new challenges, and shares recent research results about access methods to explore information from the past preserved by web archives.

This book presents the theoretical foundations of the MDATA cognitive model and its applications in the field of cybersecurity.

Social tagging (including hashtags) is used over platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress, Tumblr and YouTube across countries and cultures meaning that one single hashtag can link information from a variety of resources.

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.

The chapter "e;An Efficient Index for Reachability Queries in Public Transport Networks"e; is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

This book explores a proactive and domain-driven method to classification tasks.

This two-volume set, LNCS 10987 and 10988, constitutes  the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2018, held in Macau, China in July 2018.

The two-volume set LNCS 11233 and LNCS 11234 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2018, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in November 2018.

In this book, the authors first address the research issues by providing a motivating scenario, followed by the exploration of the principles and techniques of the challenging topics.

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 deals with a hard problem that is inherent to human language: ambiguity.

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 two-volume set LNCS 10273 and 10274 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the thematic track on Human Interface and the Management of Information, held as part of the 19th HCI International 2017, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017.

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.