Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2021, held in St.

This Festschrift is in honor of Sushil Jajodia, Professor in the George Mason University, USA, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

This book goes beyond the current hype of expectations generated by the news on artificial intelligence and machine learning by analyzing realistic expectations for society, its limitations, and possible future scenarios for the use of this technology in our current society.

This book describes in an easily accessible way how artificial intelligence (AI) will help us to overcome the ongoing rise in complexity and thus shape our lives and work in a not-too-distant future.

This book provides a wide and deep perspective on the ethical issues raised by pervasive information and communication technology (PICT) - small, powerful, and often inexpensive Internet-connected computing devices and systems.

This edited book presents point of view and the work being undertaken by active researchers in the domain of IOT and its applications with societal impact.

What is artificial intelligence (AI)?

This volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA).

This synthesis lecture provides a survey of work on privacy in online social networks (OSNs).

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK.

This book focuses on the methodologies, organization, and communication of digital image collection research that utilizes social media content.

Twitter is not just for talking about your breakfast anymore.

Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications: The Change to the Competition Landscape provides a framework that allows you to understand and analyze the impact of social media in various industries.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2022, held in Turku, Finland, in August 2022.

The three volumes LNCS 10820, 10821, and 10822 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2018, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in April/May 2018.

This book provides a holistic overview of the complexities of modern technological advances and their implications for crime and security.

Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version?

The leading thinkers from the cognitive science tradition participated in a workshop sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories in July of 2003 to discuss progress in building their models.

"e;Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.

This book explores the intersection of legal frameworks, healthcare innovation, and computational intelligence, shedding light on how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are reshaping the medical landscape.

The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history.

An examination of the social impact of the Internet, this volume explores political, social, technical, legal, and economic controversies in a manner accessible to the general reader.

This edited collection approaches the field of social robotics from the perspective of a cultural ecology, fostering a deeper examination of the reach of robotic technology into the lived experience of diverse human populations, as well as the impact of human cultures on the development and design of these social agents.

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives.

Most biometric systems employed for human recognition require physical contact with, or close proximity to, a cooperative subject.

As a discipline, Informatics has developed over the years from its initial focus on data processing and software development, towards a more recent emphasis on people's use of technology and its impact on their working and private lives.

This book collates the key security and privacy concerns faced by individuals and organizations who use various social networking sites.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC13 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018.

This engaging textbook highlights the essential need for a strong ethical framework in our approach to computer, information and engineering science.

This is the most comprehensive book on computer security on the market, with 23 chapters and 29 Appendices covering virtually all aspects of computer security.

Society faces many challenges in workplaces, everyday life situations, and education contexts.

This book is a compilation of chapters written by leading researchers from all over the world.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2015, held in Helsinki, Finland, in September 2015.

The three volume-set LNCS 11476, 11477, and 11478 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2019,held in Darmstadt, Germany, in May 2019.

Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Pacific Asia Workshop onIntelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2016, held in Auckland, NewZealand, in April 2016 in conjunction with PAKDD 2016, the 20th Pacific-AsiaConference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC15 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2022.

A new edition, packed with even more clever tricks and methods that make everyday life easier Lifehackers redefine personal productivity with creative and clever methods for making life easier and more enjoyable.

The three volume-set, LNCS 10401, LNCS 10402, and LNCS 10403, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2017, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2017.

By focusing on the experiences of users, gamers, and audiences inside one of the world's largest gaming communities (Xbox Live), this book provides an overview of the landscape, architecture, and socio-technical structure of console gaming.

This edited book discusses the exciting field of Digital Creativity.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2014, held in Kampala, Uganda, November 24-25, 2014.

This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences.

The six volume set LNCS 10634, LNCS 10635, LNCS 10636, LNCS 10637, LNCS 10638, and LNCS 10639 constitues the proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2017, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2017.