Information retrieval

The Web has become the world's largest database, with search being the main tool that allows organizations and individuals to exploit its huge amount of information.

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

The Semantic Web is characterized by the existence of a very large number of distributed semantic resources, which together define a network of ontologies.

Since the 1990s Grid Computing has emerged as a paradigm for accessing and managing distributed, heterogeneous and geographically spread resources, promising that we will be able to access computer power as easily as we can access the electric power grid.

Data mining, an interdisciplinary field combining methods from artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems, has grown tremendously over the last 20 years and produced core results for applications like business intelligence, spatio-temporal data analysis, bioinformatics, and stream data processing.

This book is the result of a group of researchers from different disciplines asking themselves one question: what does it take to develop a computer interface that listens, talks, and can answer questions in a domain?

In the last 15 years we have seen a major transformation in the world of music.

Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical, artistic, or architectural styles, and entire industries maintain themselves by continuously creating and marketing new styles.

In today's dynamic business environment, IT departments are under permanent pressure to meet two divergent requirements: to reduce costs and to support business agility with higher flexibility and responsiveness of the IT infrastructure.

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, or peer computing, is a paradigm that is viewed as a potential technology for redesigning distributed architectures and, consequently, distributed processing.

The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.

Ever since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human experiences on how we interact with one another and data through service infrastructures via various computing devices.

Libraries have always been an inspiration for the standards and technologies developed by semantic web activities.

A general scenario that has attracted a lot of attention for multimedia information retrieval is based on the query-by-example paradigm: retrieve all documents from a database containing parts or aspects similar to a given data fragment.

Retrieval of multimedia data is different from retrieval of structured data.

Semantic fields are lexically coherent - the words they contain co-occur in texts.

Ontologies tend to be found everywhere.

The public information available on the Web today is larger than information distributed on any other media.

The rapid growth of the Web in the last decade makes it the largest p- licly accessible data source in the world.

Cultural history enthusiasts have asserted the urgent need to protect digital information from imminent loss.

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

Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses.

It still holds true: information is not always the answer.

Just like the industrial society of the last century depended on natural resources, today's society depends on information and its exchange.

Due to the lack of a uniform schema for Web documents and the sheer amount and dynamics of Web data, both the effectiveness and the efficiency of information management and retrieval of Web data is often unsatisfactory when using conventional data management techniques.

In order to make strategy happen there is a need for powerful management information systems.

This book addresses the integration of two areas of computer science, namely data mining and evolutionary algorithms.

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.

This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out.

Wikipedia, Flickr, You Tube, Facebook, LinkedIn are all examples of large community-built databases, although with quite diverse purposes and collaboration patterns.

The Semantic Web, which is intended to establish a machine-understandable Web, is currently changing from being an emerging trend to a technology used in complex real-world applications.

This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services.

Modern terrorist networks pose an unprecedented threat to international security.

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment to improve the productivity of knowledge work.

In order to make strategy happen there is a need for powerful management information systems.

This book collects ECM research from the academic discipline of Information Systems and related fields to support academics and practitioners who are interested in understanding the design, use and impact of ECM systems.

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment in order to improve productivity of knowledge work.

Machine Learning - Modeling Data Locally and Globally presents a novel and unified theory that tries to seamlessly integrate different algorithms.

In very short time, peer-to-peer computing has evolved from an attractive new paradigm into an exciting and vibrant research field bringing together researchers from systems, networking, and theory.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines.

Following the increase in of the information available on the Web, the diversity of its users and the complexity of Web applications, researchers started developing adaptive Web systems that tailored their appearance and behavior to each individual user or user group.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis, ISMDA 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in October 2003.