Books in the Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI series

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiSIS 2019, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in October 2019. The 20 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Sustainable Digital Communities, iConference 2020, held in Boras, Sweden, in March 2020. The 27 full papers and the 48 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 178 submissions.

The 2 volume-set of LNCS 12190 and 12191 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2020, which was due to be held in July 2020 as part of HCI International 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This two-volume set LNCS 12212 and 12213 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July, 2020.* A total of 1439 full papers and 238 posters have been carefully reviewed and accepted for publication in HCII 2020. The papers cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. MobiTAS 2020 includes a total of 59 papers and they are organized in the following topical sections: Part I, Automated Driving and In-Vehicle Experience Design: UX topics in automated driving, and designing in-vehicle experiences.Part II, Driving Behavior, Urban and Smart Mobility: studies on driving behavior, and urban and smart mobility. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2020, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in June 2020.*The 15 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions.

This LNCS 12216 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications, MOBILE 2020, held as part of HCI International 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the corona pandemic.

The workshop committee accepted three workshops for publication in this volume: 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web (KDWEB 2019), Second International Workshop on Maturity of Web Engineering Practices (MATWEP 2019), International Workshop on Data Science and Knowledge Graph (DSKG 2019).

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.*The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions.

This two-volume set LNCS 12194 and 12195 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which was planned to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

It provides an introduction and gives guidance for the next generation of researchers in this field.The 18 papers presented in this volume, together with an introduction, are the outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl seminar which was held at Schloss Dagstuhl in July 2015.

data management algorithms.These volumes also include accepted papers of the 8th International Conference on Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems, Globe 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, September 2, 2015.

The selected contributions covered cutting-edge aspects of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things, sensor networks, parallel and distributed computing, advanced networking, smart cities and smart buildings, Big Data and social networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theSecond International Conference on Data Science, ICDS 2015, held in Sydney,Australia, during August 8-9, 2015. The 19 revised full papers and 5 short papers presentedwere carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. data quality and data preparation;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Symbiotic 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2015. The 11 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions.

The two-volume set LNCS 10297 + 10298 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which 1228 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 83 papers presented in the two volumes of ITAP 2017 were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: aging and technology acceptance; user-centred design for the elderly; product design for the elderly; aging and user experience; digital literacy and training. Part II: mobile and wearable interaction for the elderly; aging and social media; silver and intergenerational gaming; health care and assistive technologies and services for the elderly; aging and learning, working and leisure. 

The two-volume set LNCS 9516 and 9517 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2016, held in Miami, FL, USA, in January 2016. The 32 revised full papers and 52 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Symposiumon Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2016, held in Linz,Austria, in March 2016.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, HAS 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016 and received a total of 4354 submissions, of which 1287 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.The 25 papers presented in the HAS 2016 proceedings are organized in topical sections as follows: human factors of authentication; security, privacy, and human behavior; and security technologies.

This two-volume set, LNCS 9658 and 9659, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2016, held in Nanchang, China, in June 2016. The 80 full research papers presented together with 8 demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 266 submissions.

The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences.

This two volume set LNCS 10041 and LNCS 10042 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2016, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2016. The 39 full papers and 31 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 233 submissions.

The two-volume set LNCS 10539 and 10540 constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2017, held in Oxford, UK, in September 2017.The 37 full papers and 43 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 142 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017.

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2017, held as part of the 19 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , HCII 2017, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 International Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2017, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in July 2017. The 21 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions.