Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop in Cultural Robotics, 2025, CR 2025, held as part of ACM/IEEE HRI, in Melbourne, Australia, on March 3, 2025.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop in Cultural Robotics, 2025, CR 2025, held as part of ACM/IEEE HRI, in Melbourne, Australia, on March 3, 2025.

This manuscript is about an artifact, the Encyclopedia of Computer Science (ECS).

In the last few years, the protection of computerised medical records, and of other personal health information, has become the subject of both technical research and political dispute in a number of countries.

Digital government consists in the purposeful use of information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular the internet, to transform the relationship between government and society in a positive manner.

Open innovation increases the profit of companies and organizations via the input and the adoption of new ideas that are transformed into new processes, products, and services.

Communications and personal information that are posted online are usually accessible to a vast number of people.

Patent laws are different in many countries, and inventors are sometimes at a loss to understand which basic requirements should be satisfied if an invention is to be granted a patent.

The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.

The technologies of mobile communications and ubiquitous computing are p- vading our society.

The inspiration for this book emerged from the editors' participation in a panel d- cussion on Web search engines at an annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers.

The public information available on the Web today is larger than information distributed on any other media.

Cultural history enthusiasts have asserted the urgent need to protect digital information from imminent loss.

This manuscript is about an artifact, the Encyclopedia of Computer Science (ECS).

We were promised a utopian future where intelligent devices would seamlessly manage our homes, freeing up countless hours of precious leisure time.

Every time you click on crosswalks, traffic lights, or decipher twisted letters to prove you are human, you are working a totally unpaid job.

The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations, governments and decision makers has been recorded for more than 20 years and dubbed e-Government.

Wikipedia, Flickr, You Tube, Facebook, LinkedIn are all examples of large community-built databases, although with quite diverse purposes and collaboration patterns.

Modern terrorist networks pose an unprecedented threat to international security.

Das Buch analysiert die zentrale Rolle des Medien-, Telekommunikations- und IT-Sektors als Antriebsfaktoren auf dem Weg in eine digitale Wirtschaft: der Internet-Ökonomie.

The Internet transformed the landscape of world economy.

Das Buch analysiert die zentrale Rolle von Medien, Telekommunikation und Informationstechnologie als Antriebsfaktoren auf dem Weg in eine digitale Wirtschaft: der Internet-Ökonomie.

Cryptology, for millennia a "e;secret science"e;, is rapidly gaining in practical importance for the protection of communication channels, databases, and software.

On behalf of the program committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the fourth Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection Symposium.

 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human.

INDOCRYPT 2001, the Second Annual Crypto Conference, is proof of the s- ni?

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This volume of the LNCS is the formal proceedings of the 2nd European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, EUSAI 2004.

Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication, and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication.

Once again we bring you the proceedings of the International Workshop on Security Protocols.

In recent years the management of business processes has emerged as one of the major developments to ease the understanding of, communication about, and evolution of process-oriented information systems in a variety of appli- tion domains.

Nowadays, societies crucially depend on high-quality software for a large part of their functionalities and activities.

Haptic human-computer interaction is interaction between a human computer user and the computer user interface based on the powerful human sense of touch.

On behalf of the program committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Commerce 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2003.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2001, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in September/October 2001.

After some time of early experience Web Services are moving themselves from a new highly fragmented technology to a piece of nowadays infrastructures which promise to address various current challenges.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2003, held in Heidelberg, Germany in October 2002.

The 1st Workshop on Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources (SAPIR 2004) was the first event in a series introducing the concept of pi-resources and bridging it with the emerging and important field of distributed and heavily shared resources.

In most scenarios of the future a personalized virtual butler appears.

The ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management is the ?