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

Search computing, which has evolved from service computing, focuses on building the answers to complex search queries by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, using the ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for service composition.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaption, and Personalization, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2014, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2014, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in June 2014, jointly with 13 other thematically conferences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2018, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in May 2018.The 23 full papers plus 6 short papers presented together with 3 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The Australasian Database Conference is an annual international forum for sharing the latest research advancements and novel applications of database systems, data-driven applications, and data analytics between researchers and practitioners from around the globe, particularly Australia and New Zealand.

The conference was planned to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings before the conference took place.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2020, held as part of SCF 2020 in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book examines how the computer, as we currently know it, will be replaced by a new generation of technologies, moving computing off the desktop and ultimately integrating it with real world objects and everyday environments.

Advanced database and web applications.-Big data.- Data mining.- Machine learning for database.- Data warehouse and OLAP.- Information retrieval.- Data model and query language.- Query processing.- Optimization.- Recommendation systems.- Data quality and credibility.- Multimedia databases.- Temporal and spatial databases.- Data streams and time-series data.- Semantic web and knowledge management.- Graph data management.- Social network analytics.- Bio and health informatics.- Blockchain and parallel/distributed systems.- Security.- Privacy and Trust.- Databases for emerging hardware.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2018, held in Beijing, China, in September 2018. The 19 full papers presented together with 6 short papers and 5 plenary talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China, June 2007.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2013, held in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in December 2013.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2017, held in Bangalore, India, in December 2017. The 28 full and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions.

This two volume set of LNCS 11706 and LNCS 11707 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2019. The 32 full papers presented together with 34 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions.

This two-volume set LNCS 11437 and 11438 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, held in Cologne, Germany, in April 2019. The 48 full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers, 44 short papers, 8 demonstration papers, 8 invited CLEF papers, 11 doctoral consortium papers, 4 workshop papers, and 4 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 365 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Modeling Relations; Classification and Search; Recommender Systems; Graphs; Query Analytics; Representation; Reproducibility (Systems); Reproducibility (Application); Neural IR; Cross Lingual IR; QA and Conversational Search; Topic Modeling; Metrics; Image IR; Short Papers; Demonstration Papers; CLEF Organizers Lab Track; Doctoral Consortium Papers; Workshops; and Tutorials.

This two-volume set LNCS 11592 and 11593 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2019, held in Athens, Greece, in September/October 2019.The 25 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks and one abstract paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Algorithmic Mechanism Design; Auctions and Markets; Computational Aspects of Games; Network Games and Congestion Games; Social Choice; and Matchings and Fair Division.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communications, SmartCom 2019, held in Birmingham, UK, in October 2019. The 40 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 286 submissions.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2019, held in Siena, Italy, in September 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2020, held in Dortmund, Germany, in February 2020. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions.

Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2019, held in Alcudia, Mallorca, Spain, in October 2019.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2020, held as part of SCF 2020, during September 18-20, 2020.

This volume contains 8 lecture notes of the 16th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2020), held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2020. The Reasoning Web series of annual summer schools has become the prime educational event in the field of reasoning techniques on the Web, attracting both young and established researchers.

The papers are grouped in topical sections on world wide web, recommendation, query processing and algorithm, natural language processing, machine learning, graph query, edge computing and data mining, data privacy and security, and blockchain.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2020, held in Laval, France, in December 2020. The 35 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers cover a broad spectrum of topics: Serious Game Design;

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in May 2014.