Bøger i Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI serien

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2014, held in Beijing, China, in December 2014. The 32 regular and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions and cover results on incentives and computation in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and microeconomics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the First and Second International Workshops on In Memory Data Management and Analysis held in Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2013 and Hangzhou, China, in September 2014. The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions and cover topics from main-memory graph analytics platforms to main-memory OLTP applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2015, held in Washington, DC, USA, in March/April 2015. The 24 full papers presented together with 36 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The goal of the conference was to advance our understanding of human behavior through the development and application of mathematical, computational, statistical, simulation, predictive and other models that provide fundamental insights into factors contributing to human socio-cultural dynamics. The topical areas addressed by the papers are social and behavioral sciences, health sciences, engineering, computer and information science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.2, 6.6 Workshop on Advances in Communication Networking, EUNICE 2014, held in Rennes, France, in September 2014. The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and present aspects in the field of information and communication technologies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the third International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Symbiotic 2014, held in Helsinki, Finland, in October 2014.The 8 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: definitions of symbiotic interaction; reviews of implicit interaction; example applications; experimenting with users; and demos and posters.

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers of the 4th and 5th workshops on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware, BPOE 4 and BPOE 5, held respectively in Salt Lake City, in March 2014, and in Hangzhou, in September 2014. The 16 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. Both workshops focus on architecture and system support for big data systems, such as benchmarking; workload characterization; performance optimization and evaluation; emerging hardware.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of two workshops: the International Cross-Domain Conference and Workshop on Availability, Reliability and Security, CD-ARES 2014, and the 4th International Workshop on Security and Cognitive Informatics for Homeland Defense, SeCIHD 2014, co-located with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2014, held in Fribourg, Switzerland, in September 2014. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers deal with knowledge management, software security, mobile and social computing, enterprise information systems, homeland security and information processing.

This volume contains the lecture notes of the 10th Reasoning Web Summer School 2014, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2014. In 2014, the lecture program of the Reasoning Web introduces students to recent advances in big data aspects of semantic web and linked data, and the fundamentals of reasoning techniques that can be used to tackle big data applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint proceedings of the Third and Fourth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking. The third WBDB was held in Xi'an, China, in July 2013 and the Fourth WBDB was held in San José, CA, USA, in October, 2013. The 15 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 presentations. They focus on big data benchmarks; applications and scenarios; tools, systems and surveys.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2014, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014, in conjunction with DEXA 2014. The 23 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: identity management in e-government; e-participation; intelligent systems in e-government; semantic technologies in e-government; e-government cases; open government data and G-cloud; and privacy and security in e-government.

This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014. The volume contains papers from 4 workshops, each focusing on hot topics related to database systems and applications: the Second International Workshop on Big Data Management and Analytics, BDMA 2014; the Third International Workshop on Data Management for Emerging Network Infrastructure, DaMEN 2014; the Third International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining, SIM³ 2014, and the DASFAA Workshop on Uncertain and Crowdsourced Data, UnCrowd 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWak 2011 held in Toulouse, France in August/September 2011. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on physical and conceptual data warehouse models, data warehousing design methodologies and tools, data warehouse performance and optimization, pattern mining, matrix-based mining techniques and stream, sensor and time-series mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2014, held in A Coruña, Spain, in October 2014. The 21 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Improving Similarity Search Methods and Techniques; Indexing and Applications; Metrics and Evaluation; New Scenarios and Approaches; Applications and Specific Domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 5 workshops of the 15th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2014, held in Macau, China, June 16-18, 2014.The 38 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on the 5 following workshops: Second International Workshop on Emergency Management in Big Data Age, BigEM 2014; Second International Workshop on Big Data Management on Emerging Hardware, HardBD 2014; International Workshop on Data Management for Next-Generation Location-based Services, DaNoS 2014; International Workshop on Human Aspects of Making Recommendations in Social Ubiquitous Networking Environment, HRSUME 2014; International Workshop on Big Data Systems and Services, BIDASYS 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2012, held in Gdansk, Poland, in June 2012.The 42 revised full papers, 2 full-length invited papers and 4 short tutorial papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions. The contributions have been grouped into the following topical sections: business process model analysis; service and component composition; language and models; system variants and configuration; process mining; ontologies; requirements and goal models; compliance; monitoring and prediction; services; case studies; business process design; feature models and product lines; and human factors.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2011, held in Toulouse, France, in August/September 2011, in conjunction with DEXA 2011.The 13 long papers and 5 short papers were carefully selected and address the following topics: decision support and data management in biomedicine; medical data mining and information retrieval; workflow management and decision support in medicine; and classification in bioinformatics. The papers show how broad the spectrum of topics in applications of information technology to biomedical engineering and medical informatics is.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 77 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of online communities and social computing, addressing the following major topics: on-line communities and intelligent agents in education and research; blogs, Wikis and Twitters; social computing in business and the enterprise; social computing in everyday life; information management in social computing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2013, held in Aachen, Germany, in October 2013. The 25 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They cover various important aspects of algorithmic game theory, such as solution concepts in game theory, efficiency of equilibria and the price of anarchy, computational aspects of equilibria and game theoretical measures, repeated games and convergence of dynamics, evolution and learning in games, coordination and collective action, network games and graph-theoretic aspects of social networks, voting and social choice, as well as algorithmic mechanism design.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2013, held in Limassol, Cyprus, October 2013.The 8 papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 high-quality submissions. IRF conferences wish to bring young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage. This sixth conference aimed to tackle four complementary research areas: information retrieval, machine translations for search solutions, and interactive information access.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2012, held in Harbin, China in August 2012. The 32 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and three keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 178 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on wireless sensor networks; data warehousing and data mining; query processing; spatial databases; similarity search and queries; XML and Web data; graph and uncertain data; distributed computing; data security and management; information extraction and integration; and social networks and modern Web services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2014, held in Brisbane, NSW, Australia, in July 2014. The 15 full papers presented together with 6 short papers and 2 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. A large variety of subjects are covered, including hot topics such as data warehousing; database integration; mobile databases; cloud, distributed, and parallel databases; high dimensional and temporal data; image/video retrieval and databases; database performance and tuning; privacy and security in databases; query processing and optimization; semi-structured data and XML; spatial data processing and management; stream and sensor data management; uncertain and probabilistic databases; web databases; graph databases; web service management; and social media data management.