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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science-Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (IJTCS-FAW 2023), consisting of the 17th International Conference on Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom...

Learn about the fastest-growing open source project in the world, and find out how it revolutionizes big data analytics About This Book * Exclusive guide that covers how to get up and running with fast data processing using Apache Spark * Explore and...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12fth International Conference on High Performance Computing in Computational Science, VECPAR 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016. The 20 full papers presented were...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from two VLDB workshops: The International Workshop on Polystore Systems for Heterogeneous Data in Multiple Databases with Privacy and Security Assurances, Poly 2020, and the 6th International Workshop on...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science held in Pec pod Snezkou, Czech Republic, during January 24-29, 2015. The book features 8 invited talks and 42 regular...

This volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 3rd Joint China-Dutch Workshop on Game Theory and Applications and the 7th China Meeting on Game Theory and Applications, GTA 2016, held in Fuzhou, China, in November 2016. The 25...

This two-volume set, CCIS 1453 and CCIS 1454, constitutes refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in October 2021. The 57 full papers and 28 short papers presented in this...

This book is the first general and extensive review on the algorithmics and mathematical results of beyond planar graphs. Most real-world data sets are relational and can be modelled as graphs consisting of vertices and edges. Planar graphs are...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2022, which was held virtually during June 12-16, 2022. The field of Group Decision and Negotiation focuses on decision processes...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan in June 2007 jointly with the Visual Computing / Graphics and CAD symposium, which takes place in Osaka, Japan. It covers...

This book begins with an introduction to fundamental issues related to digital preservation metadata before proceeding to in-depth coverage of issues concerning its practical use and implementation. It helps readers to understand which options need to be...

This book presents a unified framework, based on specialized evolutionary algorithms, for the global induction of various types of classification and regression trees from data. The resulting univariate or oblique trees are significantly smaller than...

This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and -now- connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing the evolution of the...

The three-volume set LNICST 465, 466 and 467 constitutes the proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Application of Big Data, Blockchain, and Internet of Things for Education Informatization, BigIoT-EDU 2022, held as virtual event, in...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th and 17th International Conferences on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2020 and WEBIST 2021, which took place virtually in November 2020 and October 2021, respectively.The 10...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2015, held in Oulu, Finland, in August 2015. The theme for this book as well as for the conference is "Design for, with, and by Users."...

The book is centered around the research areas of combinatorics, special functions, and computer algebra. What these research fields share is that many of their outstanding results do not only have applications in Mathematics, but also other disciplines,...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 29th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, IWOCA 2018, held in Singapore, Singapore, in July 2018. The 31 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2018, held as part of STAF 2018, in Toulouse, France, in June 2018. The 9 full papers, 2 short papers and 1 keynote presented in this book...

This undergraduate textbook provides an introduction to graph theory, which has numerous applications in modeling problems in science and technology, and has become a vital component to computer science, computer science and engineering, and mathematics...

The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of statistics in computational musicology. The authors then show how to analyze musical structure using Rubato, the...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2016. The 68 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2016, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in September 2016 under the sponsorship of the UNESCO chair in Data Privacy. The 19 revised full...

This book is a product of the Third International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS2017) to be held in Langkawi in November 2017. It is divided into four sections according to the thrust areas: Computer Science, Mathematics,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2018, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, in October 2018.The 35 revised full papers and the one short paper presented were carefully...

This book provides an in-depth introduction and overview of current research in computational music analysis. Its seventeen chapters, written by leading researchers, collectively represent the diversity as well as the technical and philosophical...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011, held in Vancouver, Canada, in November/December 2011. The 17 full papers, 14 short papers and 16 poster papers were...

This comprehensive book gives an up-to-date survey of the relevant bioinspired computing research fields - such as evolutionary computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence and ant colony algorithms - and examines applications in art, music and...

The gap between information technology and the legal profession is narrowing, in particular due to the Internet and the richness of legal sources that can be found online. This book further bridges the gap by showing people with a legal background what...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2014, held in Ringsted, Denmark, in August 2014. The theme for this book as well as for the conference is "Designing Human Technologies...

Covering network designs, discrete convex analysis, facility location and clustering problems, matching games, and parameterized complexity, this book discusses theoretical aspects of combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms. Contributions are by...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics, and Supply Chains, ILS 2016, held in Bordeaux, France, in June 2016. The conference deals with topics related to supply chain design...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th China-Japan Conference on Discrete Geometry, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, CJCDGCGT 2005, held in Tianjin, China, as well as in Xi'an, China, in November 2005. The 30 revised...

The monetization of data is a very young topic, for which there are only very few case studies. There is a lack of strategy or concept that shows decision-makers the way into the monetization of data, especially those who have discovered or are...

This two-volume set LNCS 14467-14468 constitutes the proceedings of the First Energy Informatics Academy Conference, EI.A 2023,held in Campinas, Brazil, in December 2023. The 39 full papers together with 8 short papers included in these volumes were...

Unleash the data processing and analytics capability of Apache Spark with the language of choice: Java About This Book * Perform big data processing with Spark-without having to learn Scala! * Use the Spark Java API to implement efficient...

Explore IoT, data analytics, and machine learning to solve cyber-physical problems using the latest capabilities of managed services such as AWS IoT Greengrass and Amazon SageMaker Key Features * Accelerate your next edge-focused product life cycle with...

This is the first book to explore how Semantic Web technologies (SWTs) can be used to create intelligent engineering applications (IEAs). Technology-specific chapters reflect the state of the art in relevant SWTs and offer guidelines on how they can be...

Steiner's Problem concerns finding a shortest interconnecting network for a finite set of points in a metric space. A solution must be a tree, which is called a Steiner Minimal Tree (SMT), and may contain vertices different from the points which are to...

The three-volume set LNICST 465, 466 and 467 constitutes the proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Application of Big Data, Blockchain, and Internet of Things for Education Informatization, BigIoT-EDU 2022, held as virtual event, in...