This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2017, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2017. The 73 revised
This book constitutes extended, revised and selected contributions from the Second International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2016, held i
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Today, when a security incident happens, the top three questions a cyber operation center would ask are: What has happened? Why did it happen? What should I do? Answers to the first two questions form
This book illustrates how to use description logic-based formalisms to their full potential in the creation, indexing, and reuse of multimedia semantics. To do so, it introduces researchers to multime
This book introduces the concept of software architecture as one of the cornerstones of software in modern cars. Following a historical overview of the evolution of software in modern cars and a discu
This book presents new optimization approaches and methods and their application in real-world and industrial problems, and demonstrates how many of the problems arising in engineering, economics and
This book presents advances in biomedical imaging analysis and processing techniques using time dependent medical image datasets for computer aided diagnosis. The analysis of time-series images is one
This volume summarizes the author’s work on social information seeking (SIS), and at the same time serves as an introduction to the topic. Sometimes also referred to as social search or social informa
This book presents direct and concise explanations and examples to many LaTeX syntax and structures, allowing students and researchers to quickly understand the basics that are required for writing an
This book provides a broad overview of the many card systems and solutions that are in practical use today. This new edition adds content on RFIDs, embedded security, attacks and countermeasures,
This book provides a new perspective on emotion in artificial systems. It presents an insightful explanation of how emotion might emerge deep inside the systems, and emotional behaviour could be seen
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2017, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May/June 2017. The 27 full papers prese
This book presents a broad spectrum of problems related to statistics, mathematics, teaching, social science, and economics as well as a range of tools and techniques that can be used to solve these p
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2016, held in Beiji
This book gathers 14 of the most promising papers presented at the 18th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computi
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2017, held in New York, NY, USA in July/August 2017
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Medical Computer Vision, MCV 2016, and of the International Workshop on Bayesian and grAphical
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.This volume discusses the prospects and evolution of informatics (or computer science), which has become the operating system of our world, and is
These proceedings consist of 19 papers, which have been peer-reviewed by international program committee and selected for the 5th International Conference on Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and
This book gathers 12 of the most promising papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2017) held
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Applied Cryptology and Network Security, ACNS 2017, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in July 2017.The 34 papers presented in this
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. The 53 papers presented
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2017, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2017.
This book reports on cutting-edge research into innovative system interfaces, emphasizing both lifecycle development and human–technology interaction, especially in virtual, augmented and mixed-realit
This book focuses on the importance of human factors in optimizing the learning and training process. It reports on the latest research and best practices and discusses key principles of behavioral an
The authors systematically review methods of online digital advertising (ad) fraud and the techniques to prevent and defeat such fraud in this brief. The authors categorize ad fraud into three major c
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2017, held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia,
This book focuses on the importance of human factors in the development of safe and reliable unmanned systems. It discusses current challenges such as how to improve the perceptual and cognitive
This book brings together studies broadly dealing with human error from different disciplines and perspectives. They concern human performance; human variability and reliability analysis; medical, dri
This book begins with a concentrated introduction into deterministic global optimization and moves forward to present new original results from the authors who are well known experts in the field. Mul
This book discusses the latest advances in human factors and ergonomics, focusing on methods for improving quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in patient care. By emphasizing the physical,
This book focuses on computational modeling and simulation research that advances the current state-of-the-art regarding human factors in simulation and applied digital human modeling. It reports on c
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communications Networks, SecureComm 2016, held in Guangzhou, China, in Oc
This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design. It reports on important theoretical and practical issues, covering a wealth of topics including aesthetics in product and s
This book offers a broad perspective on the field of cognitive engineering and neuroergonomics, covering emerging practices and future trends toward the harmonious integration of human operators with
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Conference on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2016, held in Crete, Greece, in September 2016
This book presents a coherent, novel vision of Smart Cities, built around a value-driven architecture. It describes the limitations of the contemporary notion of the Smart City and argues that the nex
This practically-focused reference presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in Cloud Computing, and examines the potential for future Cloud and Cloud-related technologies to address s
This book addresses a range of topics in design, such as universal design, design for all, digital inclusion, universal usability, and accessibility of technologies regardless of people’s age, financi
