Databases Books

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2021, held in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was...

This volume discusses the concept of The Spatial University as part of the broad growth of spatial science and the need for spatial infrastructure in colleges and universities. The book centers on the development of U-Spatial, the spatial science...

This monograph offers an original broad and very diverse exploration of the seriation domain in data analysis, together with building a specific relation to clustering.Relative to a data table crossing a set of objects and a set of descriptive...

This book gathers the proceedings of the International Conference on Information, Communication and Cybersecurity, held on November 10-11, 2021, in Khouribga, Morocco. The conference was jointly coorganized by The National School of Applied Sciences of...

This volume offers the reader a  systematic and throughout account of branches of logic instrumental for computer science, data science and artificial intelligence. Addressed  in it are  propositional, predicate, modal, epistemic, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2021, which took place during November 25-27, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in...

In this book, Dr. Soofastaei and his colleagues reveal how all mining managers can effectively deploy advanced analytics in their day-to-day operations- one business decision at a time.Most mining companies have a massive amount of data at their disposal...

This book explores the benefits to online teaching incorporating extended reality technologies both from a teacher's and from a students' perspective. As we are all aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a worldwide lock down which is clearly visible...

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on Information Processing, ICInPro 2021, held in Bangaluru, India in October 2021. The 33 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were...

This book initiates a transformation of the Web into a self-managing, autonomous information system to challenge today's all-embracing role of big search engines as centralized information managers. In the last decades, the World Wide Web became the...

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in October 2021.The 55 full, 29 short and 5 demo papers, plus 2...

This book comprises a number of state-of-the-art contributions from both scientists and practitioners working in a large pool of fields where AI and IoT can open up new horizons. Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things have introduced themselves...

This book examines central aspects of the new technologies and the legal questions raised by them from both an international and an inter-disciplinary perspective. The technology revolution and the global networking of IT systems pose enormous challenges...

This book focuses on the application of geospatial technologies to study the land use land cover (LULC) dynamics, agricultural water management, water resources assessment and modeling, and studies on natural disasters. LULC dynamics is one of the major...

This book discusses human-computer interaction (HCI) which is a multidisciplinary field of study which aims at developing and implementing  tools and techniques to attain an effective and efficient interaction between the humans (the users) and...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Mobimedia 2021, held in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 66...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the 4th International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2021, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October, 2021.The 35 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions...

This book provides a sound theoretical base and an extensive practical expansion of smart sustainable cities and societies, while also examining case studies in the area to help readers understand IoT driven solutions in smart cities. The book covers...

This book states that the major aim audience are people who have some familiarity with Internet of things (IoT) but interested to get a comprehensive interpretation of the role of deep Learning in maintaining the security and privacy of IoT. A reader...

The greatly expanded and updated 3rd edition of this textbook offers the reader a comprehensive introduction to the concepts of logic functions and equations and their applications across computer science and engineering. The authors' approach...

This book introduces a comprehensive understanding in the use of space techniques in natural hazards and risk management in the MENA Region.  The book is based on different case-studies from 25 MENA countries, and will be useful in highlighting the...

As we have come to accept the duality of physical and virtual learning spaces as a permanent feature of our educational landscape, we begin to question its validity. Is this really a dichotomy, or is it a continuum? Should this be the primary dimension...

This book offers a clear understanding of the concept of context-aware machine learning including an automated rule-based framework within the broad area of data science and analytics, particularly, with the aim of data-driven intelligent decision making...

The second generation of cloud computing systems, known as domain-specific clouds, are emerging based on application-specific processors and serverless computing paradigm. As multimedia streaming services are increasingly growing in popularity and...

This book aims to explore the diverse landscape of journalism in the third decade of the twenty-first century, constantly changing and still dealing with the consequences of a global pandemic. 'Total journalism' is the concept that refers to the renewed...

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference International Conference on Application of Big Data, Blockchain, and Internet of Things for Education Informatization. The conference was held in August 2021...

This book aims to provide the necessary background to work with big data blockchain by introducing some novel applications in service operations for both academics and interested practitioners, and to benefit society, industry, academia, and government...

This book presents new research contributions in the above-mentioned fields. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have an integral role in today's society. Four major driving pillars in the field are computing, which nowadays enables data...

The ten-volume set LNCS 12949 - 12958 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2021, which was held in Cagliari, Italy, during September 13 - 16, 2021. The event was...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International TRIZ Future Conference on Automated Invention for Smart Industries, TFC 2021, held virtually in September 2021 and sponsored by IFIP WG 5.4.The 28 full papers and 8 short papers...

The multi-volume set LNAI 12975 until 12979 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021, which was held during September 13-17, 2021. The conference was...

This book provides its readers with an introduction to interesting prediction and science dynamics problems in the field of Science of Science. Prediction focuses on the forecasting of future performance (or impact) of an entity, either a research...

This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural...

The proceedings set LNCS 12891, LNCS 12892, LNCS 12893, LNCS 12894 and LNCS 12895 constitute the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.* The total of...

The book introduces concepts, principles, methods and procedures that will be valuable to students and scholars in thinking about existing organization systems, proposing new systems and working with management professionals in implementing new...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, HAIS 2021, held in Bilbao, Spain, in September 2021.The 44 full and 11 short papers presented in this book were carefully...

This book intersects the distributed ledger technology (DLT) community with the international security community. Given the increasing application of blockchain technology in the fields of business and international development, there is a growing body...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2021, held virtually in September 2021.The 62 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 108...

This book examines the conflicts arising from the implementation of privacy principles enshrined in the GDPR, and most particularly of the ``Right to be Forgotten'', on a wide range of contemporary organizational processes, business practices, and...

This book presents state-of-the-art research on security and privacy- preserving for IoT and 5G networks and applications. The accepted book chapters covered many themes, including  traceability and tamper detection in IoT enabled waste management...

This book provides an overview of the emerging smart connected world, and discusses the roles and the usage of underlying semantic computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies. The book comprises ten chapters overall, grouped in two parts. Part I...

Simulating for a crisis is far more than creating a simulation of a crisis situation. In order for a simulation to be useful during a crisis, it should be created within the space of a few days to allow decision makers to use it as quickly as possible...

This book is devoted to the leading research in applying learning automaton (LA) and heuristics for solving benchmark and real-world optimization problems. The ever-increasing application of the LA as a promising reinforcement learning technique in...

This book comprises theoretical foundations to deep learning, machine learning and computing system, deep learning algorithms, and various deep learning applications. The book discusses significant issues relating to deep learning in data analytics...

This book contributes to an improved understanding of knowledge-intensive business services and knowledge management issues. It offers a complex overview of literature devoted to these topics and introduces the concept of 'knowledge flows', which...

The book proposes techniques, with an emphasis on the financial sector, which will make recommendation systems both accurate and explainable. The vast majority of AI models work like black box models. However, in many applications, e.g., medical...

The 3-volume set LNAI 12712-12714 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2021, which was held during May 11-14, 2021.The 157 papers included in the proceedings were...

This volume gathers peer-reviewed contributions that address a wide range of recent developments in the methodology and applications of data analysis and classification tools in micro and macroeconomic problems. The papers were originally presented at...