Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the first two international workshops on computationalmodels of collaboration in distributed systems: CARE 2009, held assatellite event of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on ArtificialIntelligence AI09 in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009 and CARE2010, held in conjunction with the International Conference onIntelligent Agent Technology (IAT) in Toronto, Canada, in August 2010.

This book features papers from CEPE-IACAP 2015, a joint international conference focused on the philosophy of computing.

Technology and digitization are a great social good.

The Element describes the continued technological transformations that are incrementally, but radically, changing everyday life practices.

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

The two-volume set LNCS 11442 and 11443 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2019, held in Beijing, China, in April 2019.

This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and nonhuman actors.

Web services and service oriented environments are key enablers for the migration of entertainment, business, sociability, science and health-care from the physical world to the virtual world.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2018, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013.

This book is concerned with the importance of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability, user participants, and Sustainability in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry throughout the world.

The two-volume set LNCS 6769 + LNCS 6770 constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, incorporating 12 thematically similar conferences.

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

ED-L2L, Learning to Live in the Knowledge Society, is one of the co-located conferences of the 20th World Computer Congress (WCC2008).

Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other.

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

This book provides an examination of e-Government frameworks and maturity stages in governments around the world, including an overview of the legal frameworks that have supported them.

In the 1960s, it became increasingly clear that more and more information was going to be stored on computers, not on pieces of paper.

Explore the frontier of electronic discovery in the cloud Cloud Computing and Electronic Discovery comprehensively covers the quickly-evolving realm of eDiscovery in cloud computing environments, a computing and legal frontier in which the rules and legal precedents are being developed anew seemingly by the day.

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus-a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities-and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities.

A global examination of what influences women''s participation in computing and what can be done to fix the gender gap.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2012, held in Newcastle, UK, in June 2012.

Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is this true?

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This volume brings together the advanced research results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: "e;Cross Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication"e;.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2017, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Web and Information Systems, MobiWIS 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, in August 2014.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all papers th accepted for presentation at the 18 IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007), which was held in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, USA, on October 29-31, 2007.

The two LNCS volume set 9754-9755 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 14 other thematically conferences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, held in Malaga, Spain, in November 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovation and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas, InterSol 2017, and the 6th Collogue National sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (CNRIA), held in Dakar, Senegal, in April 2017.

If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone.

The area of smart homes is fast developing as an emergent area which attracts the synergy of several areas of science.

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline.

Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and globalization.

This book studies the evolution of sustainable green smart cities and demonstrates solutions for green environmental issues using modern industrial IoT solutions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in September 2012.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Cities, Smart-CT 2016, held in Malaga, Spain, in June 2016.

This book is a reference on digital technology and its impact on sustainability, providing insight into sustainable practices globally.

This book provides comprehensive, authoritative surveys covering the modeling, automatic detection, analysis, and synthesis of nonverbal social signals.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2013, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2013.

The two-volume set LNCS 6496 and 6497 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, held in Shanghai, China, during November 7-11, 2010.

The Third International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2001) continued the success of the PROFES'99 and PROFES 2000 conferences.

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work?

This book explores data science in practice through an ethnographic study at a global marketing technology and research firm.

This book introduces the reader to Artificial Intelligence and its importance to our future.