Databases

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Format Systems, DCFS 2019, held in Kosice, Slovakia, in July 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, GameNets 2019, held in Paris, France, in April 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2019, held in Portoroz, Slovenia.

This book focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT).

Sustainability and mobile computing embraces a wide range of Information and Communication Technologies [ICT] in recent times.

This book presents the latest perspectives and challenges within the interrelated fields of econophysics and sociophysics, which have emerged from the application of statistical physics to economics and sociology.

This book reports on new theories and applications in the field of intelligent systems and computing.

This book, drawing on recent literature, highlights several methodologies for the detection of outliers and explains how to apply them to solve several interesting real-life problems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International SIPAIM Workshop on Processing and Analysis of Biomedical Information, SaMBa 2018, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

The two-volume set LNCS 11136 and 11137 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018, held in Monterey, USA, in October 2018.

This book explains the use of cloud computing systems for engineering applications to satisfy the need for enterprise level, state-of-the-art computational capacities at an affordable cost.

The two-volume set of LNCS 11778 and 11779 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2019, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in October 2019.

This book equips readers to handle complex multi-view data representation, centered around several major visual applications, sharing many tips and insights through a unified learning framework.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop of Computational Neuroscience, held in Sao Joao Del-Rei, Brazil, in September 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain, in June 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 book presents a unique approach to stream data mining.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communications, TridentCom 2019, held in December 2019 in Changsha, China.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligence Science, ICIS 2018, held in Beijing China, in November 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2018, held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, SciSec 2019, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2019.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2019, held in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2019.

The digital traces that people leave behind as they conduct their daily lives provide a powerful resource for businesses to better understand the dynamics of an otherwise chaotic society.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2018, held in conjunction with the 44th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2018) in August 2018.

This book addresses many-criteria decision-making (MCDM), a process used to find a solution in an environment with several criteria.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2019, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2019.

This book reports on new theories and applications in the field of intelligent systems and computing.

Activity recognition has emerged as a challenging and high-impact research field, as over the past years smaller and more powerful sensors have been introduced in wide-spread consumer devices.

This book of peer-reviewed contributions presents the latest findings in classification, statistical learning, data analysis and related areas, including supervised and unsupervised classification, clustering, statistical analysis of mixed-type data, big data analysis, statistical modeling, graphical models and social networks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2018, held in Mallorca, Spain, in October 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2019, and the Third International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, CBT 2019, held in conjunction with the 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2019, held in Luxembourg in September 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2018, held in Allahabad, India, in December 2018.

Data-intensive systems are a technological building block supporting Big Data and Data Science applications.

The three volume-set LNCS 12105, 12106, and 12107 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2020, which was due to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, in May 2020.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the workshops that were held in conjunction with the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2019, in Macau, China, in April 2019.

Addressing the effect of big data analytics-capable information systems on organizational ambidexterity, this book investigates how these systems can be used to enhance organizational agility and flexibility, generally considered to be two key determinants of organizational ambidexterity.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2019, held in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in May 2019.

This book provides an extensive coverage of the methodology of survival analysis, ranging from introductory level material to deeper more advanced topics.

The peer-reviewed contributions gathered in this book address methods, software and applications of statistics and data science in the social sciences.

This book provides a general introduction to the most important geophysical exploration methods and their application to forensic sciences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop post-proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2018, held in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2018 as part of ALGO 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2019, held in Washington, DC, USA, in July 2019.

This two-volume set LNCS 12131 and LNCS 12132 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2020, held in Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, in June 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop, SAVE-SD 2017, held in Perth, Australia, in April 2017, and the 4th International Workshop, SAVE-SD 2018, held in Lyon, France, in April 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 reviews the state of the art of big data analysis and smart city.

Modern businesses depend on data for their very survival, creating a need for sophisticated databases and database technologies to help store, organise and transport their valuable data.

This book gathers papers on interactive and collaborative mobile learning environments, assessment, evaluation and research methods in mobile learning, mobile learning models, theory and pedagogy, open and distance mobile learning, life-long and informal learning using mobile devices, wearables and the Internet of Things, game-based learning, dynamic learning experiences, mobile systems and services for opening up education, mobile healthcare and training, case studies on mobile learning, and 5G network infrastructure.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held during the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, which took place in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.