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This book approaches Location Based Mobile Games from a design perspective, investigating the peculiar traits that make them compelling contemporary practices and challenging fields of investigation.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Science Analytics and Applications, DaSAA 2017, held in Chennai, India, in January 2017. The 16 revise
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This book constitutes the refereed thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2017, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2017.The 24 revised fu
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2017, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2017. The 5 full and 4 short
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This book presents innovative and high-quality research regarding advanced decision support systems (DSSs). It describes the foundations, methods, methodologies, models, tools, and techniques for desi
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2017, held in Nancy, France in October 2017. The 20 papers presented in
In this book a new model for data classification was developed. This new model is based on the competitive neural network Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) and type-2 fuzzy logic. This computational
This book explores recent perspectives on type-2 fuzzy sets. Written as a tribute to Professor Jerry Mendel for his pioneering works on type-2 fuzzy sets and systems, it covers a wide range of topics,
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Interactive mobile technologies have now become the core of many—if not all—fields of society. Not only do the younger generation of students expect a mobile working and learning environment, but also
This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the seventh edition of the international workshop "Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing - SOHOMA'17", held on October 19
This book presents a collection of research findings and proposals on computer science and computer engineering, introducing readers to essential concepts, theories, and applications. It also shares p
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This book presents the latest developments regarding a detailed mobile agent-enabled anomaly detection and verification system for resource constrained sensor networks; a number of algorithms on multi
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This book gathers the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2017), held in Budapest, Hungary on 27–29 September 2017. The authors are currently wit
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2017, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2017. The 18 full paper
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This edition of the volume ‘Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing’ presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Scientific Conference BCI. The event was held at Opole University of Techno
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This book presents a collection of original research papers addressing the relationship between information systems (IS) and innovation. “Open”, “Smart” and “Network” are three keywords that are curre
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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 22nd Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2017, held in Valparaíso, Chile, in November 2017.The 87 papers pre
This, the 31st issue of the Transactions on Computational Science, focusses on signal processing and security in distributed systems. The areas of application include facial recognition, musical analy
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This book addresses the emerging area of cloud computing, providing a comprehensive overview of the research areas, recent work and open research problems. The move to cloud computing is no longer mer
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