This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16 Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2015, held in Beijing, China, in May 2015.The 64 regular and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefu
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First National Conference on Big Data Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015, held in Harbin, China, in December 2015.The 26 revised papers presen
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data, CloudCom-Asia 2015, held in Huangshan City, China, in June 2015.The 29 full paper
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2015, held in New York, NY, USA, in June 2015. The 33 revised ful
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Medicine and healthcare are currently faced with a significant rise in their complexity. This is partly due to the progress made during the past three decades in the fundamental biological understandi
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, ACALCI 2016, held in Canberra, ACT, Australia, in February 2016.The 30 fu
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, GKR 2015, held in Buenos Air
The book is a collection of contributions by leading experts, developed around traditional themes discussed at the annual Linz Seminars on Fuzzy Set Theory. The different chapters have been written by
This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on emerging issues regarding the role of information and communication technologies in organizations, inter-organizational systems,
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2015, held
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2015. T
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2015, held in Dallas,
This book presents high-quality original contributions on new software engineering models, approaches, methods, and tools and their evaluation in the context of defence and security applications. In a
This, the 26th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, is comprised of ten extended versions of selected papers from the International Conference on Cyberworlds 2014, held in Santa
This book includes a short history of interactive narrative and an account of a small group collaboratively authored social media narrative:Romeo and Juliet on Facebook: After Love Comes Destruction.A
This book introduces the concept of holistic design and development of cyber physical systems to achieve their safe and secure operation. It shows that by following the standards for embedded sy
This book presents recent advances in nonlinear speech processing beyond nonlinear techniques. It shows that it exploits heuristic and psychological models of human interaction in order to succeed in
This volume includes extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the 4th Workshop on “Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications” (CIMA 2014) which was intended to become a foru
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2015) held in Berlin, Germany, i
This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in the field of green information systems and green information and communication technology (ICT). It provides insights into a whole range
In a down-to-the earth manner, the volume lucidly presents how the fundamental concepts, methodology, and algorithms of Computational Intelligence are efficiently exploited in Software Engineering and
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2014, held in Sydney, Australia, on December 12, 201
This book is a comprehensive introduction to LabVIEW FPGA?, a package allowing the programming of intelligent digital controllers in field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using graphical code. It sho
This book focuses on the outcome of the of the European research project “FP7-ICT-2011-8 / 317882: Embedded Engineering Learning Platform” E2LP. Additionally, some experiences and researches outside t
This book reviews the theoretical concepts, leading-edge techniques and practical tools involved in the latest multi-disciplinary approaches addressing the challenges of big data. Illuminating perspec
The present book includes a set of selected extended papers from the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2014), held in Vien
Going from the philosophy and concepts to the implementation and user study, this book presents an excellent overview of Japan's contemporary technical challenges in the field of human–computer intera
This book introduces a new set of orthogonal hybrid functions (HF) which approximates time functions in a piecewise linear manner which is very suitable for practical applications.The book presents an
This textbook introduces the vast array of features and powerful mathematical functions of Mathematica using a multitude of clearly presented examples and worked-out problems. Each section starts with
This Edited Volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the second International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS-2015),
This book highlights state-of-the-art research, development and implementation efforts concerning social media in government services, bringing together researchers and practitioners in a number of ca
This book explores the future of cyber technologies and cyber operations which will influence advances in social media, cyber security, cyber physical systems, ethics, law, media, economics, infrastru
This book contains the articles from the international conference 11th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps 2016 (WSOM 2016), held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, 6{8 January 2016. WSOM is a bi
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2014, consisting of the Joint Conferences on Computer Vision (VISAPP), the International Conference on Compute
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2015, and the 1st International Conference on Vehicle T
This booklet provides a practical introduction to the practice of peer reviewing. Although it mainly focuses on paper reviewing for scientific events in computer science and business informatics, many
The book offers a comprehensive and timely overview of advanced mathematical tools for both uncertainty analysis and modeling of parallel processes, with a special emphasis on intuitionistic fuzzy set
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the First International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data, MOD 2015, held in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, in July 2015.The 32 pape