This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2013, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2013. The 13 full papers, 6 short papers, 11 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. In addition to these papers, the program featured 2 demos, 3 workshops, 3 tutorials and 3 art installations, also summarized in this book. The papers cover various topics in the multi-disciplinary field of entertainment computing.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2013, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, ...
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 27th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 27, held in Dundee, UK, in June 2010.
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 27th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 27, held in Du...
Covers topics such as XML compression, XML updates, column-oriented stores, provenance, warehousing, streamed data, data mashups, dataspaces, sensor network query processing, and pattern-oriented search.
Covers topics such as XML compression, XML updates, column-oriented stores, provenance, warehousing, streamed data, data mashups, dataspaces, sensor n...
This book constitutes the carefully refereed post-conference proceedings of two International Workshops: Self-Managing Solutions for Smart Environments, S3E 2011; and the workshop on Health and Well-being Technologies and Services for Elderly, HWTS 2011; as well as a Doctoral Colloquium, held in conjunction with, GPC 2011, in Oulu, Finland, in May 2011. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote lecture were carefully revised and selected from 26 submissions and focus on the topics self-managing solutions for smart environments; health and well-being technologies, and...
This book constitutes the carefully refereed post-conference proceedings of two International Workshops: Self-Managing Solutions for Smart Environment...
Constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2009, held in Vught, The Netherlands, in December 2009.
Constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval,...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces, and Communicability, held in Huerta Grande, Argentina, in October 2010. The 16 revised papers presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics addressed span the entire spectrum of design, e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-tourism, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. and discuss the latest advances in the areas of accessibility, communicability, computer animation,...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in New Technologies, Inter...
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2011, held in Portland, OR, USA, in July 2011. This title covers such topics as: ranked search; temporal data and queries; workflow and provenance; querying graphs; and, clustering and data mining.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2011, held in Portl...
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 5th International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2010, held in Saarbr cken, Germany, in December 2010.
As a result of a highly selective review procedure, 12 full papers and 4 short papers were accepted for publication. The contributions present novel approaches for managing, distributing and accessing large amounts of multimedia material. The topics covered include semantic search, analysis and retrieval of images, audio, video, 3D/4D material as well as of computer generated multimedia content. Also...
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 5th International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2010, held ...
The Semantic Web aims at enriching the existing Web with meta-data and processing methods so as to provide web-based systems with advanced capabilities, in particular with context awareness and decision support. The objective of this book is to provide a coherent introduction to semantic web methods and research issues with a particular emphasis on reasoning.
The 7th reasoning web Summer School, held in August 2011, focused on the central topic of applications of reasoning for the emerging "Web of Data." The 12 chapters in the present book provide excellent educational material as...
The Semantic Web aims at enriching the existing Web with meta-data and processing methods so as to provide web-based systems with advanced capabili...
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2011, held in Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2011, held in Toulouse, Fran...
