Databases

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and  Operations Research, MOTOR 2019, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in July 2019.

This book presents an investigative approach to globalization-driving technologies that efficiently deliver ubiquitous, last-mile, broadband internet access to emerging markets and rural areas.

This book includes revised selected papers from five International Workshops on Artificial Intelligence Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, AICOL VI to AICOL X, held during 2015-2017: AICOL VI in Braga, Portugal, in December 2015 as part of JURIX 2015;  AICOL VII at EKAW 2016 in Bologna, Italy, in November 2016; AICOL VIII in Sophia Antipolis, France, in December 2016; AICOL IX at ICAIL 2017 in London, UK, in June 2017; and AICOL X as part of JURIX 2017 in Luxembourg, in December 2017.

This proceedings book covers the theory, design and applications of computer networks, distributed computing and information systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2018, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2018.

This book addresses the challenging topic of modeling adaptive networks, which often manifest inherently complex behavior.

Data processing has become essential to modern civilization.

This two-volume set LNCS 11437 and 11438 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, held in Cologne, Germany, in April 2019.

This book explores the changes in political communication in light of the development of a public opinion mediated by web 2.

This volume contains lecture notes of the 14th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2018), held in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2019, held in Fuzhou, China, in September 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Blockchain, ICBC 2019, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2019, in San Diego, CA, USA, in June 2019.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big DataEngineering, IScIDE 2018, held in Lanzhou, China, in August 2018.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 14th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2018, held in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2018.

This book explores internet applications in which a crucial role is played by classification, such as spam filtering, recommender systems, malware detection, intrusion detection and sentiment analysis.

This book examines the problem of relevant query answering over the Web and provides a comprehensive overview of relevant query answering over streaming and distributed data.

This book shows how open source intelligence can be a powerful tool for combating crime by linking local and global patterns to help understand how criminal activities are connected.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2019, held in Toulouse, France, in October 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference, NooJ 2018, held in Palermo, Italy, in June 2018.

This book presents research in artificial techniques using intelligence for energy transition, outlining several applications including production systems, energy production, energy distribution, energy management, renewable energy production, cyber security, industry 4.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 7th IFIP WG 2.

This book discusses fundamental and high-level concepts relating to intelligent computing and communications in the context of distributed computing, big data, high performance computing and the Internet of Things.

This book gathers the most recent developments in fuzzy & intelligence systems and real complex systems presented at INFUS 2020, held in Istanbul on July 21-23, 2020.

This book presents the most recent challenges and developments in sustainable computing systems with the objective of promoting awareness and best practices for the real world.

This reader-friendly textbook presents a comprehensive review of the essentials of image data mining, and the latest cutting-edge techniques used in the field.

The seven-volume set of LNCS 11301-11307 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in December 2018.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2018, held in Manchester, UK, in June 2018.

This book presents a comprehensive review for Knowledge Engineering tools and techniques that can be used in Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive yet concise overview of the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of big data in healthcare.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2019, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2019, held in Pisa, Italy, in January/February 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International ICT Innovations Conference, ICT Innovations 2019, held in Ohrid, Macedonia, in October 2019.

The book is devoted to the analysis of big data in order to extract from these data hidden patterns necessary for making decisions about the rational behavior of complex systems with the different nature that generate this data.

This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to broad learning, one of the novel learning problems studied in data mining and machine learning.

This book constitutes revised papers from the eight International Workshops held at the 16th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2018, in Sydney, Australia, in September 2018:BPI 2018: 14th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence;BPMS2 2018: 11th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management;- PODS4H 2018: 1st International Workshop on Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare;AI4BPM 2018: 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management; CCBPM 2018: 1st International Workshop on Emerging Computing Paradigms and Context in Business Process Management;BP-Meet-IoT / PQ 2018: Joint Business Processes Meet the Internet-of-Things and Process Querying Workshop;DeHMiMoP 2018: 1st Declarative/Decision/Hybrid Mining and Modelling for Business Processes Workshop;REBM /EdForum 2018: Joint Requirements Engineering and Business Process Management Workshop and Education ForumThe 45 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions.

This proceedings volume chronicles the papers presented at the 35th CIB W78 2018 Conference: IT in Design, Construction, and Management, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in October 2018.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 5, TC 12, WG 8.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 12, held in Kalamata, Greece, in June 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2020, in Bergen, Norway, in June 2020.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (IC2IT 2020), held on May 14th-15th, 2020, at Dusit Thani Pattaya, Thailand.

Data management and analysis is one of the fastest growing and most challenging areas of research and development in both academia and industry.

Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming delves deeply into a host of subjects that you need to understand if you are to develop sophisticated real-world programs.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2019, held in Kingston, Jamaica, in June 2019.

This book gathers the refereed proceedings of the 1st International Congress on Blockchain and Applications 2019, BLOCKCHAIN'19, held in Avila, Spain, in June 2019.

This book focuses on the emerging advances in distributed communication systems, big data, intelligent computing and Internet of Things, presenting state-of-the-art research in frameworks, algorithms, methodologies, techniques and applications associated with data engineering and wireless distributed communication technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Blockchain, SmartBlock 2019, held in Birmingham, UK, in October 2019.

This two-volume set LNCS 11437 and 11438 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, held in Cologne, Germany, in April 2019.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2018, held in Dallas, Texas, USA, in December 2018.