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

This book comprises selected papers of the Third International Conference on Future Generation Information Technology, FGIT 2011, held in Jeju Island, Korea, in December 2011. The papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and focuse on the various aspects of advances in information technology. They were selected from the following 13 conferences: ASEA 2011, BSBT 2011, CA 2011, CES3 2011, DRBC 2011, DTA 2011, EL 2011, FGCN 2011, GDC 2011, MulGraB 2011, SecTech 2011, SIP 2011 and UNESST 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2012, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2012. The 5 regular papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The volume also contains two tutorial papers in the section perspectives on big data analytics. The regular contributions are organized in topical sections on: data analytics applications; knowledge discovery through information extraction; and data models in analytics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2013, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in February 2013. The 40 full papers presented together with 5 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. The papers cover various research aspects in distributed computing, internet technology, computer networks, and machine learning.

Co-editors of the volume are: Federico Álvarez, Alessandro Bassi, Michele Bezzi, Laurent Ciavaglia, Frances Cleary, Petros Daras, Hermann De Meer, Panagiotis Demestichas, John Domingue, Theo G. Kanter, Stamatis Karnouskos, Srdjan Kr¿o, Laurent Lefevre, Jasper Lentjes, Man-Sze Li, Paul Malone, Antonio Manzalini, Volkmar Lotz, Henning Müller, Karsten Oberle, Noel E. O'Connor, Nick Papanikolaou, Dana Petcu, Rahim Rahmani, Danny Raz, Gaël Richards, Elio Salvadori, Susana Sargento, Hans Schaffers, Joan Serrat, Burkhard Stiller, Antonio F. Skarmeta, Kurt Tutschku, Theodore ZahariadisThe Internet is the most vital scientific, technical, economic and societal set of infrastructures in existenceand in operation today serving 2.5 billion users. Continuing its developments would secure much of the upcoming innovation and prosperity and it would underpin the sustainable growth in economic values and volumes needed in the future. Future Internet infrastructures research is therefore a must. The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is a successful conference that brings together participants of over 150 research projects from several distinct yet interrelated areas in the European Union Framework Programme 7 (FP7). The research projects are grouped as follows: the network of the future as infrastructure connecting and orchestrating the future Internet of people, computers, devices, content, clouds and things; cloud computing, Internet of Services and advanced software engineering; the public-private partnership projects on Future Internet; Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE). The 26 full papers included in this volume were selected from 45 submissions. Theyare organized in topical sections named: software driven networks, virtualization, programmability and autonomic management; computing and networking clouds; internet of things; and enabling technologies and economic incentives.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2013, held in Beidaihe, China, in June 2013. The 47 revised full papers presented together with 29 short papers and 5 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 248 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining; information integration and heterogeneous systems; big data; spatial and temporal databases; information extraction; new hardware and miscellaneous; query processing and optimization; social network and graphs; information retrieval; workflow systems and service computing; recommender systems; security, privacy, and trust; semantic Web and ontology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six workshops of the 14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2013, held in Beidaihe, China, June 2013. The 37 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on the six following workshops: The International Workshop on Big Data Management on Emerging Hardware (HardBD 2013), the Second International Workshop on Massive Data Storage and Processing (MDSP 2013), the First International Workshop on Emergency Management in Big Data Age (BigEM 2013), the International Workshop on Trajectory Mining in Social Networks (TMSN 2013), the First International Workshop on Location-based Query Processing in Mobile Environments (LQPM 2013), and the First International Workshop on Big Data Management and Service (BDMS 2013).

This volume contains the lecture notes of the 9th Reasoning Web Summer School 2013, held in Mannheim, Germany, in July/August 2013. The 2013 summer school program covered diverse aspects of Web reasoning, ranging from scalable lightweight formalisms such as RDF to more expressive ontology languages based on description logics. It also featured foundational reasoning techniques used in answer set programming and ontology-based data access as well as emerging topics like geo-spatial information handling and reasoning-driven information extraction and integration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Management in Grid and Peer-to-Peer Systems, Globe 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2013 in conjunction with DEXA 2013. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: data partitioning and consistency; RDF data publishing, querying linked data, and applications; and distributed storage systems and virtualization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2013 held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2013. The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling and ETL, query optimization and parallelism, spatial data warehouses and applications, text mining and OLAP, recommendation and prediction, data mining optimization and machine learning techniques, mining and processing data streams, clustering and data mining applications, social network and graph mining, and event sequence and Web mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10 th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems, MobiWIS 2013, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in August 2013. The 25 papers (20 full research papers, 4 demonstration papers, and one abstract of the keynote speech) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover the following topics related to mobile Web and Information Systems (WISs), such as mobile Web services, location-awareness, design and development, social computing and society, development infrastructures and services, SOA and trust, UI migration and human factors, and Web of Things and networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Joint International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, and Electronic Democracy, EGOVIS/EDEM 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2013, in conjunction with DEXA 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They focus on the currently most sensitive areas in the field, such as identity management as a core component in any e-government or participation system, open data, mobile government applications as well as intelligent and learning systems.The papers are organized in the following topical sections: identity management in e-government; intelligent systems in e-government; e-government cases; mobile government; open government data; and e-participation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2011, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in August/September 2011. The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on appreciation of social media; visualizing arguments; understanding eParticipation; eParticipation initiatiaves and country studies; participation and eServices; and innovative technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.2, 6.6 workshop on Advances in Communication Networking, EUNICE 2013, held in Chemnitz, Germany, in August 2013.The 23 oral papers demonstrated together with 9 poster presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on network modeling and design, traffic analysis, network and traffic management, services over mobile networks, monitoring and measurement, security concepts, application of ICT in smart grid and smart home environments, data dissemination in ad-hoc and sensor networks, and services and applications.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of two workshops: the Second International Workshop on Modern Cryptography and Security Engineering (MoCrySEn 2013) and the Third International Workshop on Security and Cognitive Informatics for Homeland Defense (SeCIHD 2013) held within the framework of the IFIP 8.4, 8.9, TC 5 International Cross-Domain Conference, CD-ARES 2013, in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2013. The 16 revised papers presented at MoCrySEn 2013 were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They deal with symmetric-key cryptography, public-key cryptography, algorithmic cryptanalysis, software and hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms, database encryption, and interaction between cryptographic theory and implementation issues. The 15 papers presented at SeCIHD 2013 are organized in topical sections on cyber security and dependability, network security and privacy, and multimedia technology for homeland defense.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 17th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2013, held in Genoa, Italy, in September 2013. The 26 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies; indexing; data mining; OLAP; XML data processing; querying; similarity search; GPU; querying in parallel architectures; performance evaluation; distributed architectures.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the confederated international conferences: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2013), Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA-Trusted Cloud 2013), and Ontologies, Data Bases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2013) held as part of OTM 2013 in September 2013 in Graz, Austria. The 47 revised full papers presented together with 6 short papers and 5 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 137 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on business process management; process modelling; service management; social networking; models and schemas; technical advances in cloud computing; towards trusted cloud computing; privacy for the cloud; querying and mining semantic information; semantic matching and mapping; semantic information management; semantics in use.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2013, held in A Coruna, Spain, in October 2013. The 19 full papers, 6 short papers and 2 demo papers, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on new scenarios and approaches; improving similarity search methods and techniques; metrics and evaluation; applications and specific domains; and implementation and engineering solutions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2013, held in Kenting, Taiwan, in October 2013. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 117 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on interactive learning environments, design, model and framework of e-learning systems, personalized and adaptive learning, Web 2.0 and social learning environments, intelligent tools for visual learning, semantic Web and ontologies for e-learning, and Web-based learning for languages learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2013, held in Hefei, China, in October 2013. The 76 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 130 submissions. These papers provided a valuable collection of latest research outcomes in data engineering and automated learning, from methodologies, frameworks and techniques to applications. In addition to various topics such as evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, probabilistic modelling, swarm intelligent, multi-objective optimisation, and practical applications in regression, classification, clustering, biological data processing, text processing, video analysis, including a number of special sessions on emerging topics such as adaptation and learning multi-agent systems, big data, swarm intelligence and data mining, and combining learning and optimisation in intelligent data engineering.