Databases Books

This contributed volume discusses diverse topics to demystify the rapidly emerging and evolving blockchain technology, the emergence of integrated platforms and hosted third-party tools, and the development of decentralized applications for various...

The book gathers selected papers presented at the KES International Symposium on Smart Transportation Systems (KES-STS 2019). Modern transportation systems have undergone a rapid transformation in recent years. This has produced a range of vehicle...

This book presents the latest research on hierarchical deep learning for multi-modal sentiment analysis. Further, it analyses sentiments in Twitter blogs from both textual and visual content using hierarchical deep learning networks: hierarchical gated...

This book is a product of the Third International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS2017) to be held in Langkawi in November 2017. It is divided into four sections according to the thrust areas: Computer Science, Mathematics,...

This book provides an overview of data mining methods demonstrated by software. Knowledge management involves application of human knowledge (epistemology) with the technological advances of our current society (computer systems) and big data, both in...

This book presents a compilation of selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Healthcare Science and Engineering (Healthcare 2018). The work focuses on novel computing, networking, and data analytics techniques for various issues in...

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Takao Terano on the occasion of his retirement. Takao Terano is a leading expert in the areas of agent-based modelling, knowledge systems, evolutionary computation, and service science.The...

This book brings together multi-disciplinary research and practical evidence about the role and exploitation of big data in driving and supporting innovation in tourism. It also provides a consolidated framework and roadmap summarising the major issues...

The book presents high-quality research work on cutting-edge technologies and the most-happening areas of computational intelligence and data engineering. It includes selected papers from the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and...

Focusing on students' presentations and discussions in laboratory seminars, this book presents case studies on evidence-based education using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It proposes a system to help users complete research activities, and...

Many machine learning tasks involve solving complex optimization problems, such as working on non-differentiable, non-continuous, and non-unique objective functions; in some cases it can prove difficult to even define an explicit objective function...

The aim of this book is to establish a basis for resolving the various issues facing modern society by exploring the field of Computational Social Science, which fuses the social and natural sciences. Today, society is threatened by problems concerning...

In this DIY guide, you will learn how to use Arduino - the open-source hardware board for makers, hobbyists, and inventors. You will learn how to develop your own projects, create prototypes, and produce professional-quality embedded systems.A simple...

This proceedings volume presents selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Emerging Databases: Technologies, Applications, and Theory (EDB 2017), which was held in Busan, Korea from 7 to 9 August, 2017. This conference series was launched...

This uniquely accessible book helps readers use CABology to solve real-world business problems and drive real competitive advantage. It provides reliable, concise information on the real benefits, usage and operationalization aspects of utilizing the...

This book is an outcome of the second national conference on Communication, Cloud and Big Data (CCB) held during November 10-11, 2016 at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology. The nineteen chapters of the book are some of the accepted papers of CCB 2016...

The book investigates fundamental issues in flexible manipulator systems, including distributed parameter modeling and boundary controller design. It presents theoretical explorations of several fundamental problems concerning the dynamics and control of...

This book records the new research findings and development in the field of industrial engineering, and it will serve as the guidebook for the potential development in industrial engineering and smart manufacturing.  It gathers the accepted papers...

This book provides a comprehensive picture of fog computing technology, including of fog architectures, latency aware application management issues with real time requirements, security and privacy issues and fog analytics, in wide ranging application...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Symposium, KSS 2019, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2018.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. This year KSS...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2018, held in Guilin, China, in August 2018. The 33 revised full papers presented along...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2018, held in Tianjin, China, in August 2018.The 27 revised full papers and 2 revised short papers presented were carefully...

This book presents the basics of search engines and their components. It introduces, for the first time, the concept of Cellular Automata in Web technology and discusses the prerequisites of Cellular Automata. In today's world, searching data from the...

This book offers comprehensive coverage of information retrieval by considering both Text Based Information Retrieval (TBIR) and Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), together with new research topics. The approach to TBIR is based on creating a...

This book presents the state-of-the-art work in terms of searchable storage in cloud computing. It introduces and presents new schemes for exploring and exploiting the searchable storage via cost-efficient semantic hashing computation. Specifically, the...

This book presents new theories and working models in the area of data analytics and learning. The papers included in this volume were presented at the first International Conference on Data Analytics and Learning (DAL 2018), which was hosted by the...

The book includes high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC 2018), which was held at the Guru Nanak Institute of Management (GNIM), Delhi, India on 5-6 May 2018. Introducing...

The book constitutes selected high quality papers presented in International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies 2018 (GUCON 2018) organised by Galgotias University, India, in September 2018. It discusses issues in electrical,...

The book is a collection of best papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA 2018), held at Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, India on 2-3 February 2018. Presenting original work in the field of...

This proceedings book presents selected papers from the 4th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers (ICSINC) held in Qingdao, China on May 23-25, 2018. It focuses on the current research in a wide range of areas related...

This book is a compendium of the proceedings of the International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing. It includes recent advances in the areas of big data analytics, cloud computing, internet of nano things, cloud security, data analytics in the...

This book systematically analyses the latest insights into night vision imaging processing and perceptual understanding as well as related theories and methods. The algorithm model and hardware system provided can be used as the reference basis for the...

This book systematically introduces Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs). Starting with a review of the advances in this area, the book then analyzes user mobility in LBSNs from geographical and temporal...

This unique book addresses the statistical modelling and analysis of microbiome data using cutting-edge R software. It includes real-world data from the authors' research and from the public domain, and discusses the implementation of R for data analysis...

The volume on Data Management, Analytics and Innovations presents the latest high-quality technical contributions and research results in the areas of data management and smart computing, big data management, artificial intelligence and data analytics...

This book presents high-quality papers from an international forum for research on computational approaches to learning. It includes current research and findings from various research labs, universities and institutions that may lead to development of...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurements and Scholarly Information Management, AROSIM 2018, held in Singapore, in January 2018.The 7 revised full papers presented...

The book gathers a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the International Conference on Data and Information Systems (ICDIS 2017), held at Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, India from November 3 to 4, 2017. The...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing, ICMC 2018, held in Varanasi, India, in January 2018.The 29 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions...

This book constitutes extended papers from the Third International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2018, held in Hong Kong, China, in January 2018.The 27 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 88...

This book covers the major fundamentals of and the latest research on next-generation spatio-temporal recommendation systems in social media. It begins by describing the emerging characteristics of social media in the era of mobile internet, and explores...

This book presents principles and applications to expand the storage space from 2-D to 3-D and even multi-D, including gray scale, color (light with different wavelength), polarization and coherence of light. These actualize the improvements of density,...

This bookconstitutes the refereed proceedings of the First National Conference on BigData Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015, held in Harbin, China, in December2015.The 26revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from...

This bookconstitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium onIntelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2015, held in Guangzhou,China, in November 2015.The 77revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected...

This book presents the combined proceedings of the 7th International Conference onComputer Science and its Applications (CSA-15) and the International Conference onUbiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2015), both held in Cebu,...

This book contains the combined proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Application and Wireless Sensor Network (UCAWSN-15) and the 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and...

Advanced Analytics of Agricultural Datasets provides a deep dive into how AI, machine learning, and data science are transforming agriculture. As the industry faces increasing challenges, this book offers actionable insights on how advanced analytics can...

Dyadic (Walsh) analysis emerged as a new research area in applied mathematics and engineering in early seventies within attempts to provide answers to demands from practice related to application of spectral analysis of different classes of signals,...