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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, CNL 2010, held in Marettimo Island, Italy, in September 2010. The 9 revised papers presented in this volume,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2012, held in Krakow, Poland, in May/June 2012. The 37 revised full papers presented...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications, Mobilware 2011, held in London, UK, in June 2011. The 21 revised...

This two-volume-set (CCIS 293 and CCIS 294) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, NDT 2012, held in Dubai, UAE, in April 2012. The 96 papers presented in the...

This two-volume-set (CCIS 293 and CCIS 294) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, NDT 2012, held in Dubai, UAE, in April 2012. The 96 papers presented in the...

The two-volume set LNAI 7301 and 7302 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2012, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in May 2012. The total of 20...

The two-volume set LNAI 7301 and 7302 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2012, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in May 2012. The total of 20...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2010, held in Valencia, Spain, in October 2010.This book...

This book discusses the basic idea of Common Radio Resource Management (CRRM), especially on the Radio Access Technologies selection part of CRRM. It introduces two interaction functions (information reporting function and RRM decision support function)...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security, ADCONS 2011, held in Surathkal, India, in December 2011. The 73 papers included in this book were...

This book constitutes the refereed and revised proceedings of the workshops and the doctoral consortium co-located with the 10th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR), held in Riga,...

This 2-Volume-Set, CCIS 0269-CCIS 0270, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Global Trends in Computing and Communication (CCIS 0269) and the International Conference on Global Trends in Information Systems and Software...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2010. The 37 revised full...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2012 held in Kunming, China, in April 2012. The 39 full papers presented together with 34 short papers, 2 keynote talks, and 5 demo papers...

This two-volume set (CCIS 267 and CCIS 268) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Business Intelligence, IBI 2011, held in Chongqing, China, in December 2011. The 229 full...

This two-volume set, CCIS 0269-CCIS 0270, constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Global Trends in Computing and Communication, ObCom 2011, held in Vellore, India, in December 2011. The 173 full papers...

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2011, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in December 2011. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 5 work in...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2012. The thoroughly refereed 10 full papers and 8 short papers presented...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second MICCAI Workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support, MCBR-CBS 2011, held in Toronto, Canada, in September 2011. The 11 revised full...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Exploring Services Science (IESS) which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in February 2012.At the conference, researchers from all over the world presented innovative...

The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2012, held in Munich, Germany, in February/March 2012. The 20 revised full papers presented in 7...

Data mining, an interdisciplinary field combining methods from artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems, has grown tremendously over the last 20 years and produced core results for applications like business...

The three volume set LNICST 84 - LNICST 86 constitute the refereed proceedings ofthe Second International Conference on Computer Science and InformationTechnology, CCSIT 2012, held in Bangalore, India, in January 2012. The 70...

The three volume set LNICST 84 - LNICST 86 constitute the refereed proceedings ofthe Second International Conference on Computer Science and InformationTechnology, CCSIT 2012, held in Bangalore, India, in January 2012. The 66...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International KR4HC 2011 workshop held in conjunction with the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in medicine, AIME 2011, in Bled, Slovenia, in July 2011. The...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology, INCT 2011, held in Tehran, Iran, in December 2011. The 40 revised papers included in this book were carefully...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries held in Pisa, Italy, in January 2011. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and cover...

Commercial Web search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing are used every day by millions of people across the globe. With their ever-growing refinement and usage, it has become increasingly difficult for academic researchers to keep up with the...

Information retrieval is the science concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of documents starting from their semantic content. It is employed to fulfill some information need from a large number of digital documents. Given the ever-growing...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Information Systems, CISIM 2011, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2011. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 6...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, GDC 2011, held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2011, Jeju Island, Korea, in December 2011. The papers...

This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a...

1. Pattern and Process of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 2.Causes and Consequences of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 3. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 4. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 5. Mapping and Monitoring Urban Growth.- 6. Simulation...

The pervasive creation and consumption of content, especially visual content, is ingrained into our modern world. We're constantly consuming visual media content, in printed form and in digital form, in work and in leisure pursuits. Like our cave- man...

Due to the fast growth of the Web and the difficulties in finding desired information, efficient and effective information retrieval systems have become more important than ever, and the search engine has become an essential tool for many people.The...

Invited.- Is There Something Quantum-Like about the Human Mental Lexicon?.- Supporting for Real-World Tasks: Producing Summaries of Scientific Articles Tailored to the Citation Context.- Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base.-...

The Second International Conference on Networks and Communications (NeCoM 2010), the Second International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiMoN 2010), and the Second International Conference on Web and Semantic...

Welcome to the Proceedings of ICCHP 2010! We were proud to welcome participants from more than 40 countries from all over the world to this year's ICCHP. Since the late 1980s, it has been ICCHP's mission to support and reflect...

In the last 15 years we have seen a major transformation in the world of music. - sicians use inexpensive personal computers instead of expensive recording studios to record, mix and engineer music. Musicians use the Internet to distribute their - sic...

Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical,...

It is my pleasure to write the preface for Information Processing and Management. This book aims to bring together innovative results and new research trends in inf- mation processing, computer science and management ...

Applying Complex Event Processing and Extending Sensor Web Enablement to a Health Care Sensor Network Architecture.- Turn-Based Gesture Interaction in Mobile Devices.- A Large-Scale Wireless Network Approach for Intelligent and Automated Meter Reading of...

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. The scope of the journal ranges from...

1: Information Systems and Communications.- Volterra - Lax-Wendroff Algorithm for Modelling Sea Surface Flow Pattern from Jason-1 Satellite Altimeter Data.- Guidelines for Web Usability and Accessibility on the Nintendo Wii.- Improving Urban Land Cover...

GeoS 2009 was the third edition of the International Conference on Geospatial Semantics. It was held in Mexico City, December 3-4, 2009. Within the last years, geospatial semantics has become a prominent research ?eld in...

The 7th IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS) followed on the success of six previous editions in Capri, Italy (2008), Santorini, Greece (2007), Gyeongju, Korea (2006),...

to Semantic Knowledge Management.- Ontology Management.- Knowledge Discovery for Semantic Web.- Human Language Technologies.- OntoSTUDIO® as a Ontology Engineering Environment.- Shared Ontology for Knowledge Management.- Semantically Enhanced Search and...