This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2012, held in Artiminio, Tuscany, Italy, June 12- 15, 2012. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 22 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers are categorized into a number of sessions that include: User Engagement for Improved Adoption of Assistive Technologies, Self-Management and Tele-Rehabilitation, Advances in Remote Monitoring and Activity Recognition, Sensor Networks for Unobstrusive Monitoring Solutions,...

Constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, July 2-3, 2012.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2011 and the 20th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music, FRSM 2011. This year the 2 conferences merged for the first time and were held in Bhubanes, India, in March 2011. The 17 revised full papers presented were specially reviewed and revised for inclusion in this proceedings volume. The book is divided in four main chapters which reflect the high quality of the sessions of CMMR 2011, the collaboration with FRSM 2011...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 27, 2012. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on privacy protection, access control, secure storage on the cloud, and trust on the Web.

Contains the lecture notes of the 8th Reasoning Web Summer School 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2012, in the form of worked out tutorial papers on the various topics that have been covered in that school.

Constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in September 2012.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Raesfeld, Germany, in September 2012. The 9 revised papers presented together with 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are grouped into five themes that represent collaborative learning, social media analytics, conceptual and design models, formal modeling and technical approaches and collaboration support in emergency scenarios.

The two-volume set LNCS 7565 and 7566 constitutes the refereed proceedings of three confederated international conferences: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), Distributed Objects and Applications - Secure Virtual Infrastructures (DOA-SVI 2012), and Ontologies, DataBases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2012) held as part of OTM 2012 in September 2012 in Rome, Italy. The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 169 submissions. The 31 full papers included in the second volume constitute the proceedings of DOA-SVI 2012 with 10 full...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2012, held in Palermo, Italy, in September 2012 under the sponsorship of the UNESCO chair in Data Privacy. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on tabular data protection; microdata protection: methods and disclosure risk; microdata protection: case studies; spatial data protection; differential privacy; on-line databases and remote access; privacy-preserving protocols.