Bücher der Reihe Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI

The 12 revised full papers, 2 short papers and 5 poster papers presented together with 2 keynote talks, 2 tutorial papers and summaries of 3 co-located workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2009, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2009. The 18 revised full papers and 20 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions.

The rich programme of ICIDS 2009, comprising invited talks, technical pres- tations and posters, demonstrations, and co-located post-conference workshops clearly underscores the event's status as premier international meeting in the domain.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2010, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in February 2010. This title contains topics such as networking, grid computing and Web services, internet technology and distributed computing, and software engineering of secured systems.

This two volume set LNCS 7825 and LNCS 7826 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2013, held in Wuhan, China, in April 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery, HCI-KDD 2013, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in July 2013, at SouthCHI 2013.

The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics, such as, among others: web mining and knowledge extraction, semantic and linked data management, crawling and web research, model-driven web engineering, component-based web engineering, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and client-side programming, web services, and end-user development.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems, PhyCS 2014, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2014. The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and methods;

This State-of-the-Art Survey constitutes the Final Publication of the COST Action IC1002 on Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access, MUMIA.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the workshops of the 13th International Conference of Web-based Learning, ICWL 2014, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2014. The Seventh International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2014) 2.

Topics covered are information retrieval, text classification and clustering, summarization, normalization of user generated content, "forensic" NLP, ontologies and natural language, sentiment analysis, question answering and information extraction, terminology and named entity recognition, and NLP tools development.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20 th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2012. The papers are organized in topical sections on user engagement;

The two-volume set LNCS 7382 and 7383 constiutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2012, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2012. The papers included in the second volume are organized in the following topical sections: portable and mobile systems in assistive technology;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2014, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2014. The 20 full papers, 19 short papers and 9 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2012, held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Serious Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports, GameDays 2012, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in September 2012. emerging learning and gaming technologies;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems, held in Cordoba, Spain, in June 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th EUNICE 2012 conference on information and communication technologies, held in Budapest, in August 2012. The papers are organized in topical sections on radio communications, security, management, protocols and performance, algorithms, models, and simulations.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2012, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in November 2012. The 44 full papers, 13 short papers, 9 demonstrations papers and 9 "challenge" papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions.

Information Visualization is a research area, which focuses on the use of visualization techniques to help people understand and analyze data. This book also focuses on general reflections on the value of information visualization; evaluating information visualizations; and teaching information visualization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Virtual Reality, ICVR 2007, held in Beijing, China.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness, LoCA 2007, held in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, in September 2007.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, GeoS 2007, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in November 2007.

Coverage in this proceedings volume includes data mining and knowledge discovery, wireless, sensor networks and grid, XML and query processing and optimization, security, information extraction, semantic Web and Web applications, and workflow and middleware.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Semantics in Data and Knolwedge Bases, SDKB 2008, held in Nantes, France, on March 29, 2008.

The papers selected show that SAMT is able to attract researchers from media analysis, who see the bene?ts that more explicit semantics can provide, as well as researchers from knowledge engineering who realize that, while a picture can be expressed as a thousand concepts, a million morearewaiting to be extracted.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2011 and the 20th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music, FRSM 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 2012, in conjunction with DEXA 2012.

This two volume set LNCS 7446 and LNCS 7447 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012. These papers discuss a range of topics including: database query processing, in particular XML queries;

This two volume set LNCS 7446 and LNCS 7447 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012. These papers discuss a range of topics including: database query processing, in particular XML queries;