Information retrieval

Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself.

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.

The 4-volume set LNAI 13455 - 13458 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022, which took place in Harbin China, during August 2022.

Genealogies document relationships between persons involved in historical events.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2008, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2008.

The four-volume set LNCS 11070, 11071, 11072, and 11073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018, held in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2017, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, in October 2017.

This book is a major update to the very successful first and second editions (2005 and 2010) of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the satellite events held at the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2023, held in Hersonissos, Greece, during May 28-June 1, 2023.

With the development of the World-Wide Web, data management problems have branched out from the traditional framework in which tabular data is processed under the strict control of an application, and address today the rich variety of information that is found on the Web, considering a variety of ?

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2013, held in London, UK, in March 2013.

Since its first edition in 2003, the XML Database Symposium series (XSym) has been a forum for academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss the use of and synergy between databases and XML.

This two-volume  set (LNAI 9875 and LNAI 9876) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2016, held in Halkidiki, Greece, in September 2016.

 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 20, held in Coventry, UK, in July 2003.

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

This handbook presents the state of the art of quantitative methods and models to understand and assess the science and technology system.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management, CISIM 2012, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2012.

This book provides a comprehensive tutorial on similarity operators.

Discover the simple steps to implementing information security standards using ISO 27001, the most popular information security standard across the world.

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 volume contains the 14 contributed papers and the contribution of the distinguished invited speaker B' ela Bollob' as presented at the 3rd Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW 2004), held in Rome, Italy, October 16, 2004, in conjunction with the 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2004).

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics.

This three volume set, CCIS 771, 772, 773, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the CCF Chinese Conference on Computer Vision, CCCV 2017, held in Tianjin, China, in October 2017.

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.

The aim of the International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and P2P Computing was to explore the promise of P2P to o?

As we stand at the precipice of the twenty first century the ability to capture and transmit copious amounts of information is clearly a defining feature of the human race.

This book constitutes the refereed and revised proceedings of the workshops and the doctoral consortium co-located with the 10th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR), held in Riga, Latvia, in October 2011.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings of two workshops held at the International Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015, held in Pavia, Italy, inJune 2015: the 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation forHealth Care, KR4HC 2015, and the 8th International Workshop on Process-orientedInformation Systems in Healthcare, ProHealth 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces, and Communicability, held in Huerta Grande, Argentina, in October 2010.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017.

Das Anliegen dieses Werkes unterscheidet sich von vielen anderen dadurch, daß die Informationstechnik nicht aus der Sicht der materiell-energetischen Realisierung, also nicht unter dem Aspekt der zur Verfügung stehenden physikalischen Effekte und der dabei auftretenden technischen Probleme behandelt wird.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2011, held in Vienna, Austria, on April 27, 2011 - co-located with EW 2011, the 17th European Wireless Conference.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2011, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in September 2011, in conjunction with VLDB 2011, the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th IFIP WG 5.

Enterprises and organizations of any kind embedded in today's economic environment are deeply dependent on their ability to take part in collaborations.

This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), held October 11-13, 2006, in Glasgow, Scotland.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2015, held in Gunzburg, Germany, in June/July 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2018, held in Guilin, China, in September 2018.

Text and Context: Document Storage and Processing describes information processing techniques, including those which do not appear in conventional textbooks on database systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2016, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in September 2016.