Databases Books

This volume is centered around the issue of market design and resulting market dynamics. The economic crisis of 2007-2009 has once again highlighted the importance of a proper design of market protocols and institutional details for economic dynamics and...

Mining of Data with Complex Structures:- Clarifies the type and nature of data with complex structure including sequences, trees and graphs- Provides a detailed background of the state-of-the-art of sequence mining, tree mining and graph mining.- Defines...

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...

Discovery of Intrinsic Clustering in Spatial Data.- Statistical Approach to the Identification of Separation Surface for Spatial Data.- Algorithmic Approach to the Identification of Classification Rules or Separation Surface for Spatial Data.- Discovery...

Data Mining.- Evolutionary Algorithms.- Genetic Programming for Classification and Algorithm Design.- Automating the Design of Rule Induction Algorithms.- Computational Results on the Automatic Design of Full Rule Induction Algorithms.- Directions for...

Review of Clustering Algorithms.- Review of Linear Projection Methods.- Non-standard Clustering Criteria.- Topographic Mappings and Kernel Clustering.- Online Clustering Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning.- Connectivity Graphs and Clustering with...

Standard Harmony Search Algorithm for Structural Design Optimization.- Optimum Design of Steel Frames via Harmony Search Algorithm.- Adaptive Harmony Search Algorithm for Design Code Optimization of Steel Structures.- Harmony Particle Swarm Algorithm for...

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...

The topic of preferences is a new branch of machine learning and data mining, and it has attracted considerable attention in artificial intelligence research in previous years. It involves learning from observations that reveal...

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...

This book and its sister volume collect refereed papers presented at the 7th Inter- tional Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010), held in Shanghai, China, June 6-9, 2010. Building on the success of the previous six ...

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...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2010, held in Zakopane, PolandduringJune13-17,2010. TheconferencewasorganizedbythePolishN- ral...

Theneedforintelligentsystemstechnologyinsolvingreal-lifeproblemshasbeen consistently growing. In order to address this need, researchers in the ?eld have been developing methodologies and tools to develop intelligent systems...

As cameras become more pervasive in our daily life, vast amounts of video data are generated. The popularity of YouTube and similar websites such as Tudou and Youku provides strong evidence for the increasing role of video in...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2010, held in Zakopane, PolandduringJune13-17,2010. TheconferencewasorganizedbythePolishN- ral...

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 ...

These multiple volumes (LNCS volumes 6016, 6017, 6018 and 6019) consist of the peer-reviewed papers from the 2010 International Conference on Compu- tional Science and Its Applications (ICCSA2010)held in Fukuoka, Japanduring...

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...

This volume contains the proceedings of NOLISP 2009, an ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Non-Linear Speech Processing held at the University of Vic (- talonia, Spain) during June 25-27, 2009. ...

The First International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) was held in Albany from September 30 to October 2, 2009. The field of digital for- sics is growing rapidly with implications for several fields...

This volume contains the invited and contributed papers selected for presen- tion at SOFSEM 2010, the 36th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practiceof Computer Science, held January23-29,2010 in the Hotel Bed? richov,...

This volume contains the proceedings of the third international conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2009) which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, during December...

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to...

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...

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to...

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...

The Weighting Analysis of Influence Factor in Clinical Skin Physiology Assessment via Rough Set Method.- The Weighting Analysis of Influence Factor in Clinical Skin Physiology Assessment via Rough Set Method.- Identifying Candidate Disease Gene GAD2 for...

Steganalysis for Reversible Data Hiding.- An Incremental View Maintenance Approach Using Version Store in Warehousing Environment.- The Study of Synchronization Framework among Multi-datasets.- Clustering News Articles in NewsPage.com Using NTSO.-...

We are pleased to present this LNCS volume, the Proceedings of the 22nd A- tralasianJointConferenceonArti?cialIntelligence(AI2009),heldinMelbourne, Australia, December 1-4,2009.This long established annual regionalconference is...

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...

ASIACRYPT 2009,the 15th InternationalConferenceon the TheoryandApp- cationof Cryptologyand InformationSecurity washeld in Tokyo,Japan,during December 6-10, 2009. The conference was sponsored by the International - sociation for...

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),...

The 20th InternationalWorkshop on CombinatorialAlgorithms was held during June 28 - July 2, 2009 in the picturesque castle of Hradec nad Moravic´ ?,located in the north-east corner of the Czech Republic. IWOCA - the ...

The Second Annual Workshop on Privacy and Security, organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security of the School of C- munication and Information at Rutgers University, was held on May...

This book contains the collection of papers presented at the conference of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 "Information and Organizations." The conference took place during June 21-24,...

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...

Physics.- Magnetic Fields in Very Light Extragalactic Jets.- The SuperN-Project: Status and Outlook.- Massless Four-Loop Integrals and the Total Cross Section in e + e ? Annihilation.- Solid State Physics.- Computer Simulations of Complex Many-Body...

Mathematics Basics.- Elements of Lattice Theory.- Basics of Information Retrieval Technology.- Lattice-Based Retrieval Systems.- Boolean Retrieval.- Lattices of Subspaces and Projectors.- Vector Space Retrieval.- Fuzzy Algebra-Based Retrieval.-...

Setting the Stage.- Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: A Vision of Convergence.- Basic Concepts of Movement Data.- Characterising the Next Generation of Mobile Applications Through a Privacy-Aware Geographic Knowledge Discovery Process.- Wireless Network...

Information Access using the Guide of User Requirements.- From Linking Text to Linking Crimes: Information Retrieval, But Not As You Know It.- Modeling Retrieval and Navigation in Context.- Two Algorithms for Probabilistic Stemming.- Automated Text...

This book presents the state-of-the-art in simulation on supercomputers. Leading researchers present results achieved on systems of the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center in 2007. The reports cover all fields of...