Information retrieval

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing, CollabTech 2023, held in Osaka, Japan, during August 29-September 1, 2023, in hybrid mode.

Intelligent Systems involve a large class of systems which posses human-like capabilities such as learning, observation, perception, interpretation, reasoning under uncertainty, planning in known and unknown environments, decision making, and control action.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2017, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in August 2017, associated with IJCAI 2017, the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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.

The two-volume set LNAI 9692 and LNAI 9693 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2016, held in Zakopane, Poland in June 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2019, held in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, in July 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers Artificial General Intelligence, CCKS 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 24-27, 2023.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.

This two-volume set LNCS 14193-14194 constitutes the proceedings of International Workshops co-located with the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2023, held in San Jose, CA, USA, during August 21-26, 2023.

This book is for both specialist and generalist.

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.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics, CCL 2017, and the 5th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data, NLP-NABD 2017, held in Nanjing, China, in October 2017.

13E 2006, the 6th in this series of IFIP conferences, marked the congregation of researchers and practitioners in the areas of e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2019, held in Daejeon, South Korea, in June 2019.

This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015.

This book starts from the classic recommendation algorithms, introduces readers to the basic principles and main concepts of the traditional algorithms, and analyzes their advantages and limitations.

This book examines the FinTech revolution from a data privacy perspective.

This book features selected research papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cyber Intelligence and Information Retrieval (CIIR 2023) held at the Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, in association with CSI Kolkata section on 14-15 December 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging, CMMI 2017, the International Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, RAMBO 2017, and the International Stroke Workshop: Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH 2017, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017, in Quebec City, QC, Canada, in September 2017.

This book provides a deep analysis and wide coverage of the very strong trend in computer vision and visual indexing and retrieval, covering such topics as incorporation of models of Human Visual attention into analysis and retrieval tasks.

Digital technologies are reshaping every field of social and economic lives, so do they in the world of scientific knowledge.

Visual information retrieval (VIR) is an active and vibrant research area, which attempts at providing means for organizing, indexing, annotating, and retrieving visual information (images and videos) from large, unstructured repositories.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of five workshops that were held in conjunction with the 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2025, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during June 10–13, 2025.

The three-volume set LNCS 10288, 10289, and 10290 constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017, jointly with 14 other thematically similar conferences.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information in Contemporary Society, iConference 2019, held in Washington, DC, USA, in March/April 2019.

This two volume set LNCS 9827 and LNCS 9828 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, September 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference, NooJ 2016, held Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, in June 2016.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2017.

Responding to the escalating demands placed on organizations and enterprises as they navigate the intricacies of cloud economics, this book offers pragmatic insights for establishing a sturdy foundation for cloud cost management.

The rapid growth in Internet, WWW and Intranet systems demands an increased sophistication in established information services, engineeering techniques and methods to improve the development of information services in a World Wide Web environment.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2016, held in Sant Julia de Loria, Andorra, in September 2016.

This two volume set LNCS 8644 and LNCS 8645 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2014, held in Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014.

This book is an essential guide designed to equip you with the vital tools and knowledge needed to excel in data science.

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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2011, held in Obidos, Portugal, in September 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in December 2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2017, held in Hong Kong, China,in June 2017.

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 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.

The three-volume set LNCS 13747, LNCS 13748 and LNCS 13749 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2022, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in November 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2017, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2017.

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 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 February 23-25, 2022.

To date, the relation between multilingualism and the Semantic Web has not yet received enough attention in the research community.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2021, held in Cardiff, UK, in November 2021.

This, the24th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems,contains extended and revised versions of seven papers presented at the 25thInternational Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA2014, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014.

The research in content-based indexing and retrieval of visual information such as images and video has become one of the most populated directions in the vast area of information technologies.

Information retrieval (IR) is a complex human activity supported by sophisticated systems.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2021, held in Phuket, Thailand, in April 2021.