Information technology: general topics

'Entertainment media' are entertainment products and services that rely on digital technology and include traditional media (such as movies, TV, computer animation etc) as well as emerging services for wireless and broadband, electronic toys, video games, edutainment, and location-based entertainment (from PC game rooms to theme parks).

Providing a comprehensive introduction into an overview of the field of pervasive healthcare applications, this volume incorporates a variety of timely topics ranging from medical sensors and hardware infrastructures, to software platforms and applications and addresses issues of user experience and technology acceptance.

Data Security Breaches and Privacy in Europe aims to consider data protection and cybersecurity issues; more specifically, it aims to provide a fruitful discussion on data security breaches.

The rise of the Internet and social media in particular offer great opportunities for brand owners to increase business and brand recognition.

Hacking Europe traces the user practices of chopping games in Warsaw, hacking software in Athens, creating chaos in Hamburg, producing demos in Turku, and partying with computing in Zagreb and Amsterdam.

With the increasing availability of electronic services, security and a reliable means by which identity is verified is essential.

This exciting new book explores the relationship between cultural traditions and computers, looking at how people from very different cultures and backgrounds communicate and how the use of information technologies can support and enhance these dialogues.

Securing privacy in the current environment is one of the great challenges of today's democracies.

This edited book discusses the exciting field of Digital Creativity.

Much debate has been given as to whether computer security is improved through the full disclosure of security vulnerabilities versus keeping the problems private and unspoken.

A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users.

Within the last decade, the Internet has developed as a phenomenon encompassing social, cultural, economic and legal facets.

This book is the third of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view.

This book is the second of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view.

This book is the first of three volumes that illustrate the concept of social networks from a computational point of view.

This book contains the majority of the papers presented at the 1990 Women into Computing Conference, together with selected papers from the 1989 and 1988 Conferences.

This agenda-setting book presents state of the art research in Music and Human-Computer Interaction (also known as 'Music Interaction').

This book reviews the shift in the historiography of computing from inventors and innovations to a user-perspective, and examines how the relevant sources can be created, collected, preserved, and disseminated.

Software similarity and classification is an emerging topic with wide applications.

Sociotechnical principles are now widely used around the world in both information systems and organisational design.

This publication has grown out of two frustrations.

The two-volume set LNCS 14634 and 14635 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2024, held as part of EvoStar 2024, in Aberystwyth, UK, April 3-5, 2024, and co-located with the EvoStar events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EuroGP.

This book presents a set of models, methods, and techniques that allow the successful implementation of data governance (DG) in an organization and reports real experiences of data governance in different public and private sectors.

This book describes how distinctive socio-political commitments and cultural practices developed upon the internet in the later 20th and early 21st century and considers what lies ahead in those terms.

This two-volume set LNCS 15263 and LNCS 15264 constitutes the refereed proceedings of eleven International Workshops which were held in conjunction with the 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2024, held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, during September 16-20, 2024.

In this compelling journey into Digital Transformation (DT) tailored for Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs), this book unravels the intricacies of technological integration.

This book provides an in-depth treatment of three important topical areas related to regulatory, ethical, and technical discussions in the context of information retrieval and recommender systems (IRRSs): (1) bias, fairness, and non-discrimination, (2) transparency and explainability, and (3) privacy and security.

As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the question of how AI can empower humans over the long term has become increasingly important.

This two-volume set LNCS 14859-14860 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2024, held in Manchester, UK, during July 24-26, 2024.

Generative AI has immensely influenced various fields, such as education, marketing, art and music, and especially healthcare.

'Reasonable expectations of privacy' have become a cornerstone concept in privacy and data protection legislation worldwide, extending today from US constitutional law to the GDPR, Article 8 ECHR, and various Asian and African data protection frameworks.

The cyber infrastructure – comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems – is vital to operations in every sector: chemicals, commercial facilities, communications, critical manufacturing, dams, defense industrial base, emergency services, energy, financial services, food and agriculture, government facilities, healthcare and public health, information technology, nuclear reactors, materials and waste, transportation systems, and water and wastewater systems.

The ten-volume set LNCS 15016-15025 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2024, held in Lugano, Switzerland, during September 17-20, 2024.

The five-volume set LNCS 14884, 14885, 14886, 14887 & 14888 constitutes the refereed deadline proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2024, held in Birmingham, UK, during August 16-18, 2024.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Italian Conference on Geomatics for Environmental Monitoring: From Data to Services, ASITA 2023, which was held as a virtual event during December 18-20, 2023.

This two-volume set LNCS 14859-14860 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2024, held in Manchester, UK, during July 24-26, 2024.

The multi-volume set LNAI 14169 until  14175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, in September 2023.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 18th IFIP WG 9.

Do you know what happens to your personal data when you are browsing, buying, or using apps?

This newly updated edition presents a global perspective on ergonomics, addressing its application across occupational, recreational, design, and technological environments.

The second edition of this bestselling book provides an in-depth explanation of not only why we fall for scams and how fraudsters use technology and other techniques to manipulate others but also why fraud prevention advice is not always effective.

This 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 2-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024.

This book presents the Proceedings from the Second International Workshop GLOW 2024 held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2024, in Jeju Island, South Korea, in August 2024.

This book presents the Proceedings from the Second International Workshop GLOW 2024 held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2024, in Jeju Island, South Korea, in August 2024.

This 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 2-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024.

The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious.

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

Mobile context-awareness is a popular research trend in the field of ubiquitous computing.