Information Retrieval

The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata is a comprehensive and accessible guide to creating accurate, consistent, complete, user...

Ambient intelligence (AmI) was established in the late 1990s as a recent paradigm for electronic environments for the timeframe of 20102020. AmI is...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Busi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the third workshop on Business Process Model and Notation, BPMN 2011, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in Nov...

Withfour inspiringconferencesthattookplaceinClaremont,Pasadena,Atlanta and Philadelphia, the International Conference on Design Science Research in...

Economic perspectives in network management have recently attracted a high level of attention. The Third Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (E...

Theneedforintelligentsystemstechnologyinsolvingreal-lifeproblemshasbeen consistently growing. In order to address this need, researchers in the ?el...

Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) is an international - rum for academic exchanges and technical discussions among researchers,de...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2010, held ...

The 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010) was held in Shanghai at Fudan University, during September 2124, 2010. Since its inaugurat...

Web engineering is now a well-established and mature ?eld of research with strong relationships with other disciplines such as software engineering...

The Second Future Internet Symposium washeld during September 1-3, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. FIS 2009 provided a forum for leading researchers and p...

The International Conference on Scienti?c and Statistical Database Mana- ment (SSDBM) is an established forum for the exchange of the latest resear...

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Third International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2010) on the historical island of Cyprus. T...

The CAiSE series of conferences, started in 1989, provides an established - nue in the information systems engineering area for presenting and exch...

These proceedings of the ?fth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010) exemplify the highly relevant and successful resear...

Elasticsearch makes it easy to add efficient and scalable searches to enterprise applications. Busy administrators and developers love this open...

Dieses Buch behandelt die Kernfragen und grundlegenden Verfahren der Kryptographie. Diese werden aus Sicht der modernen Kryptographie studiert, die...

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on u- and e-Service, Science and Technology (UNESST 2010) one of the partnering ev...

This two-volume set (CCIS 134 and CCIS 135) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Infor...

This volume constitutes the second of three parts of the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Science and Informa...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on Ambient Systems and Media,...

The present economic and social environment has given rise to new situations within which companies must operate. As a first example, the globaliza...

Information engineering and applications is the field of study concerned with constructing information computing, intelligent systems, mathematical...

**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 po...

This book provides a comprehensive presentation of a recently introduced framework, named probabilistic indexing (PrIx), for searching text in larg...

Research Data Management (RDM) has become a professional topic of great importance internationally following changes in scholarship and government ...

Research Data Management (RDM) has become a professional topic of great importance internationally following changes in scholarship and government ...

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Integrated Business Planning (IBP), building on practitioners experience and showcasing the valu...

Observability is critical for building, changing, and understanding the software that powers complex modern systems. Teams that adopt observability...

An Introduction to Data Science is an easy-to-read, gentle introduction for advanced undergraduate, certificate, and graduate students coming from ...

This volume of Springers Lecture Notes in Computer Science series comprises th the scienti?c proceedings of the 10 International Workshop on Digita...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2011, held in Lake C...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference, ServiceWave 2010, held in Ghent, Belgium, in December 2010. The ...

Disruptive Procurement is a radical new approach to creating value and innovation by challenging the status quo in the entire product and service l...

The two-volume set (LNCS 6728 and 6729) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2011, held...

We are pleased to welcome you to the eleventh edition of the Middleware c- ference. The program this year is a sign of the robustness, activity, an...

This book constitutes the joint thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of The Modeling Social Media Workshop, MSM 2010 held in Toronto, Canada in Jun...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2011, held in Clermont-Ferra...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2011 held i...

This two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed papers of the 17th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2011, held in Taipei, Tai...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, in Bordea...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2011...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2010, held on Jeju Island, South ...

The IDEAL conference has become a unique, established and broad interdisciplinary forum for experts, researchers and practitioners in many fields t...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2010, held in Copenhagen Denmark in ...