Information retrieval

The three volume set LNAI 9851, LNAI 9852, and LNAI 9853 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016.

Data usually comes in a plethora of formats and dimensions, rendering the information extraction and exploration processes challenging.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet Science held in St.

These four volumes (CCIS 297, 298, 299, 300) constitute the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2012, held in Catania, Italy, in July 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2012 held in Belgrade, Serbia, July 9-11, 2012.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2009, held in Toulouse, France in April 2009.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2020, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2020.

Communications: Wireless in Developing Countries and Networks of the Future The present book contains the proceedings of two conferences held at the World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia (September 20-23) organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP): the Third IFIP TC 6 Int- national Conference on Wireless Communications and Information Technology for Developing Countries (WCITD 2010) and the IFIP TC 6 International Network of the Future Conference (NF 2010).

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is about detecting and describing patterns, trends, and relations in data, motivated by certain purposes of investigation.

This successful textbook on predictive text mining offers a unified perspective on a rapidly evolving field, integrating topics spanning the varied disciplines of data science, machine learning, databases, and computational linguistics.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2016, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2016, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2016 in October 2016 in Rhodes, Greece.

The three-volume set LNICST 561, 562  563 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2023, held in Corfu Island, Greece, during October 4-6, 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2015, held in Dresden, Germany, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Spanish Symposium on Bioinformatics, JBI 2010, held in Torremolinos, Spain, in October 2010.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2016, held in banff, AB, Canada in October 2015.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on  Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2018, held in  Charlottetown, PE, Canada, in July/August 2018.

This two-volume set of LNAI 11838 and LNAI 11839 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2019, held in Dunhuang, China, in October 2019.

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.

Telecommunications today is in the midst of far-reaching changes due to rapid development of new technologies, services and social evolution.

This two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed papers of the 17th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in January 2011.

This book conveys the fundamentals of Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases (LLKB) and sheds light on their different aspects from various perspectives, focusing on their construction and use in natural language processing (NLP).

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual international forum for participants to exchange research results, innovative ideas, and state-of-the-art developments in digital libraries.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2012, held in Coimbra, Portugal in April 2012.

The present economic and social environment has given rise to new situations within which companies must operate.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2021, which was due to be held in Essen, Germany, in April 2021.

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.

With the development of big data, data sharing has become increasingly popular and important in optimizing resource allocation and improving information utilization.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th Interntaional Workshop on Digital Watermarking, IWDW 2010, held in Seoul, Korea, in October 2010.

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.

The two volumes LNCS 10249 and 10250 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2017, held in Portoroz, Slovenia.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 4 international workshops held in conjunction with the 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, in Kunming, China, in April 2012 (see LNCS 7235).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2010) held in Santa Clara, CA, USA, during October 25-28, 2010.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2007, held in Honululu, Hawaii, USA, in May 2007, in the context of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2007.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS 2010) held in October 2010 in Athens, Greece.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language, AINL 2017, held in St.

Medicineand health care are currently faced with a significant rise in theircomplexity.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.

Smart cards or IC cards offer a huge potential for information processing purposes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2020, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2020.

The third international conference on Information Security Practice and - perience (ISPEC 2007) was held in Hong Kong, China, May 7 - 9, 2007.

Information Retrieval (IR) has concentrated on the development of information management systems to support user retrieval from large collections of homogeneous textual material.