Databases Books

This book covers selected high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning, and Applications (BigDML 2019). It focuses on both theory and applications in the broad areas of big data and machine learning...

This book constitutes extended papers from the 5th International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2020, held in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 30 papers presented in this volume were...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Cyberspace Data and Intelligence, Cyber DI 2020, and the International Conference on Cyber-Living, Cyber-Syndrome, and Cyber-Health, CyberLife 2020, held under the umbrella...

The book is a collection of papers presented at First Doctoral Symposium on Natural Computing Research (DSNCR 2020), held during 8 August 2020 in Pune, India. The book covers different topics of applied and natural computing methods having applications...

This book comprises the best deliberations with the theme "Machine Learning Technologies and Applications" in the "International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS 2020)," organized by the Department of...

The book presents papers from the 6th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges (ICBCC 2019), held at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA, on September 9 and 10, 2019 and organized in collaboration with VIT Chennai. The...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Australasian Simulation Congress, ASC 2019, held in Gold Coast, Australia in September 2019. The 10 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They provide a forum...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2019, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in July 2019. The 26 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed...

The second volume of this book includes selected high-quality research papers presented at the Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, which was held at Brunel University, London, on February 27-28, 2019. It discusses...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to rough set-based feature selection. Rough set theory, first proposed by Zdzislaw Pawlak in 1982, continues to evolve. Concerned with the classification and analysis of imprecise or uncertain information...

This book first introduces classic as well as recent computational models for just-noticeable-difference (JND) applications. Since the discrete cosine transform (DCT) is applied in many image and video standards (JPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, H.261/3), the book also...

This book objectively represents the status quo and trends of world Internet development in 2021, systematically summarizes Internet development in major countries and regions, and deeply analyzes new development condition and trends in key fields of...

This book objectively represents the achievements, status quo, and trends of China Internet development in 2021, systematically summarizes the main experience of China Internet development, and deeply analyzes the strategic planning, policies and...

This book is the first practical case study on the application of big data in China's government management scenarios, which is important for comprehensively presenting the achievements of China's e-government and digital construction as well as deeply...

Planetary health involves complex spatial-temporal interactions among agents, hosts, and earth environment. Due to rapid technical development of geomatics, including geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in the era of big data...

This book facilitates both the theoretical background and applications of fuzzy, intuitionistic fuzzy and rough, fuzzy rough sets in the area of data science. This book provides various individual, soft computing, optimization and hybridization...

This edited book is a collection of selected research papers presented at the 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Technology (AIET 2022), held in Wuhan, China, on July 1-3, 2022. AIET establishes a platform for AI in...

This book discusses the role of mobile network data in urban informatics, particularly how mobile network data is utilized in the mobility context, where approaches, models, and systems are developed for understanding travel behavior. The objectives of...

The book presents the results of studies on selected problems (such as predictive model of transcription initiation and termination, protein recognition codes, protein structure prediction, feature selection for disease prediction, information retrieval...

This book starts from the relationship between urban built environment and travel behavior and focuses on analyzing the origin of traffic phenomena behind the data through multi-source traffic big data, which makes the book unique and different from the...

This book is devoted to the technology and methodology of individual travel behavior analysis and refined travel information extraction. Traditional resident trip surveys are characterized by many shortcomings, such as subjective memory errors,...

Geospatial technology is a combination of state-of-the-art remote sensing and technology for geographic information systems (GIS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for the mapping and monitoring of landscapes and environment. The main thrust...

This book provides an overview of the history of integrative bioinformatics and the actual situation and the relevant tools. Subjects cover the essential topics, basic introductions, and latest developments; biological data integration and manipulation;...

Representation learning in heterogeneous graphs (HG) is intended to provide a meaningful vector representation for each node so as to facilitate downstream applications such as link prediction, personalized recommendation, node classification, etc. This...

This book provides a detailed theoretical background of Logistics 4.0 using real-world examples and case studies and proposes a methodological framework to understand the technological revolutions happening in the present day from the perspective of...

Neural networks as the commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in the GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear and complex geographic...

Ocean covers 70.8% of the Earth's surface, and it plays an important role in supporting all life on Earth. Nonetheless, more than 80% of the ocean's volume remains unmapped, unobserved and unexplored. In this regard, Underwater Sensor Networks (USNs),...

This book constitutes revised and selected papers of the First International Conference on Computational Sciences - Modelling, Computing and Soft Computing, held in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, in September 2020. The 15 full papers and 6 short papers...

Globally, concerns for the environment and human well-being have increased as results of threats imposed by climate change and disasters, environmental degradation, pollution of natural resources, water scarcity and proliferation of slums. Finding...

​Gaisi Takeuti was one of the most brilliant, genius, and influential logicians of the 20th century. He was a long-time professor and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, before he passed away on May...

This book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it. Understanding the sensitivity and uncertainty is important in model applications. The book aims to advance an integral framework...

This book provides an introduction to the field of periodic pattern mining, reviews state-of-the-art techniques, discusses recent advances, and reviews open-source software. Periodic pattern mining is a popular and emerging research area in the field of...

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the Second International Conference on Digital Health and Medical Analytics, DHA 2020, held in Beijing, China, in July 25, 2020.The 5 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume...

Today, big data affects countless aspects of our daily lives. This book provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge study on big data analytics, based on the research findings and applications developed by the author and his colleagues in related areas. It...

This book presents the state of the art in distributed machine learning algorithms that are based on gradient optimization methods. In the big data era, large-scale datasets pose enormous challenges for the existing machine learning systems. As such,...

Graph data is powerful, thanks to its ability to model arbitrary relationship between objects and is encountered in a range of real-world applications in fields such as bioinformatics, traffic network, scientific collaboration, world wide web and social...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2020, held in Nanchang, China, in November 2020. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected...

The book presents contributions on statistical models and methods applied, for both data science and SDGs, in one place. Measuring and controlling data of SDGs, data driven measurement of progress needs to be distributed to stakeholders. In this...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence, HBAI 2020, held in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, Kyoto, Japan, in January 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic HBAI 2020...

This book covers selected topics and methods for peripheral security, which are gaining attention nowadays. The book discusses the security arrangement and methods for monitoring the inside/outside entry of peripheral areas that need to be secured. It...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops of the 4th Asia-Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2020: The Third International Workshop on...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Symposium on Machine Learning and Metaheuristics Algorithms, and Applications, SoMMA 2020, held in Chennai, India, in October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was...

With the proliferation of GPS devices in daily life, trajectory data that records where and when people move is now readily available on a large scale. As one of the most typical representatives, it has now become widely recognized that taxi trajectory...

This book includes selected papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Technology (ICDECT 2020), held at Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal, India, during 25-26 September 2020. It features...

This book establishes constructivist, interpretivist, and linguistic approaches based on conventions about the nature of qualitative and text data, the author's influence on text interpretation, and the validity checks used to justify text...

This book gathers selected high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies 2019 (GUCON 2019), organized by Galgotias University, India, in September 2019. The content is divided into three...

These proceedings gather cutting-edge papers exploring the principles, techniques, and applications of Microservices in Big Data Analytics. The ICETCE-2019 is the latest installment in a successful series of annual conferences that began in 2011. Every...

This two-volume book focuses on both theory and applications in the broad areas of communication technology, computer science and information security. It brings together contributions from scientists, professors, scholars and students, and presents...