Information retrieval

In our increasingly mobile world the ability to access information on demand at any time and place can satisfy people's information needs as well as confer on them a competitive advantage.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2022, which was held during November 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2015 held in Guangzhou, China, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 12.

This double volumes LNCS 11229-11230 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2018, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2018, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2018 in October 2018 in Valletta, Malta.

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

This thesis presents an experimental study of quantum memory based on cold atomic ensembles and discusses photonic entanglement.

This book discusses text mining and different ways this type of data mining can be used to find implicit knowledge from text collections.

The two-volume set LNCS 8935 and 8936 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2015, held in Sydney, Australia, in January 2015.

Currently, there is a considerable interest in integrating the results of information extraction in retrieval systems, because of the growing demand for search engines that return precise answers to flexible information queries.

The four LNCS volume set 9175-9178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, UAHCI 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 15 other thematically similar conferences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2018, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2018.

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in Medicine"e; held in Evian, France, October 14- 26, 1990.

Data is a core asset in the current development of information technology and needs to be stored efficiently and reliably to serve many important real-world applications such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing.

Observability is critical for building, changing, and understanding the software that powers complex modern systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2017, held in Luxembourg, in November 2017.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2017, held in Modena, Italy, in January 2017.

This three-volume set LNCS 10361, LNCS 10362, and LNAI 10363 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2017, held in Liverpool, UK, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, held in online mode in September 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligence Science, ICIS 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Conference on Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web, KESW 2015, held in Moscow, Russia, in September/October 2015.

This book seeks to advance our understanding of the relationship between information and human values by synthesizing the complementary but typically disconnected threads in the literature, reflecting on my 15 years of research on the relationship between information and human values, advancing our intellectual understanding of the key facets of this topic, and encouraging further research to continue exploring this important and timely research topic.

Amateur astronomers - particularly deep-sky observers - are always on the lookout for new observing challenges.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the third edition of the Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, SemWebEval 2016, co-located with the 13th European Semantic Web conference, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May/June 2016.

The two volume set LNCS 14958 + 14959 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2024, held in Grenoble, France, during September 9-12, 2024.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Sciences, RCIS 2024, which took place in Guimaraes, Portugal, during May 2024.

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2017, held as part of the 19 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , HCII 2017, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017.

With its theme, "e;Our Information, Always and Forever,"e; Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us.

This book discusses the applications of different soft computing techniques for the web-based systems and services.

Thisbook constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th JointInternational Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2015, held in Yichang,China, in November 2015.

This book introduces pioneering developments in binary representation learning on visual images, a state-of-the-art data transformation methodology within the fields of machine learning and multimedia.

In the past five years, the field of electrostatic discharge (ESD) control has under- gone some notable changes.

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

This two-volume set LNCS 10058 and LNCS 10059 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2016, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in October/November 2016.

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.

This book, written by experts from universities and major research laboratories, addresses the hot topic of network coding, a powerful scheme for information transmission in networks that yields near-optimal throughput.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2018, held in South Bend, IN, USA, in July 2018.

Core Data is Apple's data storage framework: it's powerful, built-in, and can integrate with iCloud.

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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, APSCC 2016, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2016.

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 two collaborative prediction approaches based on contextual representation and hierarchical representation, and their applications including context-aware recommendation, latent collaborative retrieval and click-through rate prediction.

With the growing popularity of "e;big data"e;, the potential value of personal data has attracted more and more attention.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of five workshops symposia, held at the 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2018, in Xi'an, China, in October 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in August/September 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2016, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in July 2016.

This two-volume set of LNAI 13028 and LNAI 13029 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021, held in Qingdao, China, in October 2021.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the AVI 2016 Workshop on Road Mapping Infrastructures for Advanced Visual Interfaces Supporting Big Data Applications in Virtual Research Environments, AVI-BDA 2016, held in Bari, Italy, in June 2016.

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.