Information retrieval

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2017, held in London, UK, in June 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2018, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2018.

This proceedings constitutes selected papers from the Workshops KGMA and SemiBDMA which were held in conjunction with APWeb-WAIM 2023 which took place in Wuhan, China, during October 6-8, 2023.

Spatial trajectories have been bringing the unprecedented wealth to a variety of research communities.

This two-volume set LNCS 12645-12646 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021, held in Beijing, China, in March 2021.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2019, held in Segovia, Spain, in October 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the XVIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2018, held in Trento, Italy, in November 2018.

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 revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2016, held in Rome, Italy, April 23-25, 2016, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, WILF 2013, held in Genoa, Italy, in November 2013.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference on Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources, IKC 2017, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the BIRTE workshops listed below, which were held in in conjunction with VLDB, the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases: 9th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2015, held in Kohala Coast, Hawaii, in August 2015,  10th International Workshop on Enabling Real-Time Business Intelligence, BIRTE 2016, held in New Delhi, India, in September 2016,11th International Workshop on Real-Time Business Intelligence and Analytics, BIRTE 2017, held in Munich, Germany, in August 2017.

The two-volume set LNCS 10132 and 10133 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2017, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in January 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2015, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2015.

The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, held in Puschino, Russia, in October 2017.

This book provides a practical approach to designing and implementing a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy.

The number of new applications in need of database support is exploding and there is an increasing need to link and access database systems supporting these new applications via computer networks.

Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management.

This book offers a broad and structured overview of the state-of-the-art methods that could be applied for context-dependent languages like Arabic.

This book explores integrated information spaces in the web context and beyond, with a focus on putting theories and principles into practice.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2017, held in Goldcoast, QLD, Australia, in November 2017.

Today, interpreting data is a critical decision-making factor for businesses and organizations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2016, held in Salford, UK, in June 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2014, held in Athens, Greece in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2018, held in Nanjing, China in November 2018.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, on October 23-26, 2018.

This timely textbook presents a comprehensive guide to the core topics in cybersecurity, covering issues of security that extend beyond traditional computer networks to the ubiquitous mobile communications and online social networks that have become part of our daily lives.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Conference on Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web, KESW 2014, held in Kazan, Russia, in September/October 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2013, held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in December 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2022, which took place in Glasgow, UK, during October 19-21, 2022.

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

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 5th China Conference on Spatial Data and Intelligence, SpatialDI 2024, held in Nanjing, China, during April 25-27, 2024.

Information is a key factor in business today, and data warehousing has become a major activity in the development and management of information systems to support the proper flow of information.

Dear readers, Although it is well-known that confidentiality, integrity and availability are high- level objectives of information security, much of the attention in the security arena has been devoted to the confidentiality and availability aspects of security.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of Current Trends in Web Engineering, ICWE Workshops 2015 which was held in June 2015 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Schwerpunkte dieses Lehrbuchs sind der Entwurf und die Entwicklung einfacher Datenbankanwendungen.

The book initially presents the basic concepts related to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web-based applications, Web applications, Ontology, and their qualitative aspects.

Intelligent Information Technology (iiT) encompasses the theories and ap- plications of artificial intelligence, statistical pattern recognition, learning theory, data warehousing, data mining and knowledge discovery, Grid com- puting, and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in the context of today's as well as future IT, such as Electronic Commerce (EC), Business Intelligence (BI), Social Intelligence (SI), Web Intelligence (WI), Knowledge Grid (KG), and Knowledge Community (KC), among others.

Collections of digital documents can nowadays be found everywhere in institutions, universities or companies.

This textbook introduces new business concepts on cloud environments such as secure, scalable anonymity and practical payment protocols for the Internet of things and Blockchain technology.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the world of metadata, from its origins in the ancient cities of the Middle East, to the Semantic Web of today.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2014, held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2021, on October 25-27, 2021.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2015, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in April 2015.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2018, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in May 2018.

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.

Dan, is this book going to provide a substantial, coherent and timely contribution to CSCW or is it just going to be a ragbag of papers from several meetings stuck together?