Databases Books

This book constitutes the proceedings of the CAiSE Forum from the 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2011), held in London, UK, June 2011.The CAiSE 2011 Forum was a place to present...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop, FAW 2012, and the 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2012, jointly...

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 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2010, held in Athens, Greece, in July 2010.The 30 revised full papers presented together with 1...

Nearly everyone knows K-means algorithm in the fields of data mining and business intelligence. But the ever-emerging data with extremely complicated characteristics bring new challenges to this "old" algorithm. This book addresses these challenges and...

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 the proceedings of the 10th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2012, held in Arequipa, Peru, in April 2012. The 55 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and...

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 thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, TAFA 2011, held in Barcelona, Spain, in Juli 2011, as a workshop at IJCAI...

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...

The technique of data fusion has been used extensively in information retrieval due to the complexity and diversity of tasks involved such as web and social networks, legal, enterprise, and many others. This book presents both a theoretical and empirical...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2012, held in Cambgridge, UK, in April 2012. The 41 papers,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Intelligence, ICMMSC 2012, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India, in March 2012.The 62 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed...

The latest inventions in internet technology influence most of business and daily activities. Internet security, internet data management, web search, data grids, cloud computing, and web-based applications play vital roles, especially in business and...

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 selected papers from the lectures given at the workshops held in conjunction with the User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Conference, UMAP 2011, Girona, Spain, in July 2011. The 40 papers...

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 Festschrift volume, published in honor of Jean-Jaques Quisquater on the occasion of his 65th Birthday, contains 33 papers from colleagues all over the world and deals with all the fields to which Jean-Jaques dedicated his...

This research book presents key developments, directions, and challenges concerning advanced query processing for both traditional and non-traditional data. A special emphasis is devoted to approximation and adaptivity issues as well as to the...

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...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algebraic Biology, ANB 2010, held at the Castle of Hagenberg, Austria in July/August 2010. The conference is a follow up of the AB Conference...

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 textbook at hand aims to provide an introduction to the use of automated methods for gathering strategic competitive intelligence. Hereby, the text does not describe a singleton research discipline in its own right, such as machine learning or Web...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2012, held in Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, in January 2012. The 43 revised papers...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2011 in conjunction with AAMAS 2011, the...

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...

The book comprises an assembly of benchmarks and examples for porous media mechanics collected over the last twenty years. Analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes is essential to many applications in environmental engineering, such...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of 5 workshops, held at the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2011, in Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011. The 37...

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...

The theory presented in this book is developed constructively, is based on a few axioms encapsulating the notion of objects (points and sets) being apart, and encompasses both point-set topology and the theory of uniform spaces. While the...

Swamy Laxminarayan was an outstanding researcher active in many diverse fields of science and technology. He was one of the most prominent biomedical scientists and his ideas influenced the Biomedical Technology substantially. This book tries to provide...

The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations, governments and decision makers has been recorded for more than 20 years and dubbed e-Government. Moving towards open governance roadmaps worldwide, electronic...

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...