Information retrieval

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications, DATA 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 2019.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on DistributedComputing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2016, held in Bhubaneswar, India, inJanuary 2016.

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 two volume set LNCS 7238 and LNCS 7239 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2012, held in Busan, South Korea, in April 2012.

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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research, NTCIR 2019, held in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2013, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2013.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of information retrieval by considering both Text Based Information Retrieval (TBIR) and Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), together with new research topics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2018, held in Udine, Italy, in January 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2013, held in Bordeaux, France, in October 2013.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2020, held in Pisa, Italy, in October 2020.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 27th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 27, held in Dundee, UK, in June 2010.

The two volume proceedings of CCIS 698 and 699 constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2016, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2016.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the international workshops, Confederated International Workshops: OTM Academy, OTM Industry Case Studies Program, ACM, EI2N, ISDE, META4eS, ORM, SeDeS, SINCOM, SMS and SOMOCO 2013, held as part of OTM 2013 in Graz, Austria, in September 2013.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2016, held in Beijing, China, in November 2016.

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.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2019, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May 2019.

This three-volume set LNAI 8724, 8725 and 8726 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2014, held in Nancy, France, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2019, held in Milan, Italy, in September 2019.

This two volume set LNCS 6587 and LNCS 6588 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in April 2010.

After Alice by Gregory Maguire, the bestselling author of WICKED, is a wonderful retelling of what happened next after Alice disappeared down the rabbit hole.

Sustainable Tech Solutions for Enterprise ScalabilityThe modern economy runs on technology; it is the backbone of all major businesses.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

Unlock the Power of Cloud Infrastructure with "e;IaaS Mastery"e; Book Bundle!

After the phenomenal success of Steve Wright's Book of Factoids, Steve returns with Further Factoids, bringing together the weirdest and most extraordinary factoids from BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon.

Struggling to remember all that information they're stuffing you with at school?

When you die, what will your digital legacy be?

IQ tests, which measure our ability to retain information, are out-dated.

A SEARCH AND FIND BOOKEver scrambled desperately around a shopping centre, train station or zoo in search of the facilities?

Technology makes things faster, and simpler.

 Unlock the world of data science—no coding required.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing and the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, CCKS-IJCKG 2024, held in Chongqing, China, during September 20-22, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 18th Research Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2024, held in Athens, Greece, during November 19-22, 2024.

New In This Edition: This second edition of the Encyclopedia of GIS includes 30% to 50% new content.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing and the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, CCKS-IJCKG 2024, held in Chongqing, China, during September 20-22, 2024.

 Unlock the world of data science—no coding required.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 18th Research Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2024, held in Athens, Greece, during November 19-22, 2024.

A handy, quick-reference guide to thousands of difficult-to-remember or difficult-to-find facts, now in ebook format.

A pocket-size guide featuring 5-minute techniques and ideas for improving your memory skills.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, held in Bari, Italy, in January 2020.

Encyclopedia of Multimedia, Second Edition provides easy access to important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, held in Bari, Italy, in January 2020.

Ein shortcut rund ums Testen: Spock ist möglicherweise vielen Entwicklern noch kein Begriff, dabei besticht das Testframework durch seine Einfachheit und Übersichtlichkeit.

To compete in today's competitive marketplace, customer focus is no longer simply nice to have-it's a fundamental mandate.