This volume contains the articles presented at the 6th International Symposium on Foundationsof Informationand KnowledgeSystems (FoIKS 2010)which was held in So?a, Bulgaria during February 15 19, 2010. The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoreticalandappliedresearchoninformationandknowledgesystems.Thegoal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2010 solicited original contributions dealing with any foundational...

The background to IDA 2010, the 9th International Symposium on Intelligent DataAnalysis(IDA), is ratherunusual. Previously, thesymposiawereheldbi- nially at European venues. Over this time, the IDA Symposium had established an identity, a dedicated group of Program Committee members, and a regular audience. However, this success had come at a cost to the original ambitions for the symposium concerned with interfacing AI, statistics and computer science for important and di?cult real-world data analysis problems being comp- mised in favor of more standard data mining content. IDA 2010 was...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2010, held in Vienna, Austria, im May 2010. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 high-quality submissions. IRF conferences wish to resonate in particular with young researchers. This first conference aimed to tackle four complementary research areas: information retrieval, semantic web technologies for IT, natural language processing for IR, and large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas.

Constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2010, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2010. This book coverrs such topics as: business process modeling, information systems quality, service modelling, security management, and process analysis.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research, DERIST 2010, held in St Gallen, Switzerland, in June 2010.

This volume contains papers from the technical program of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), held from May 30 to June 3, 2010, in Heraklion, Greece. ESWC 2010 presented the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2010 built on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but sought to extend its focus by engaging with other communities within and outside Information and Communication Technologies, in which semantics can play an important role. At the same time, ESWC has become a truly international conference....

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, held in Rome Italy in June 2010. The 18 full and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The topics covered are query and data privacy; data protection; access control; data confidentiality and query verification; policy definition and enforcement; and trust and identity management.

We are living in a world full of innovations for the elderly and people with special needs to use smart assistive technologies and smart homes to more easily perform activities of daily living, to continue in social participation, to engage in entertainment and leisure activities, and to enjoy living independently. These innovations are inspired by new technologies leveraging all aspects of ambient and pervasive intel- gence with related theories, technologies, methods, applications, and services on ub- uitous, pervasive, AmI, universal, mobile, embedded, wearable, augmented, invisible,...

Constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2010, held in Heidelberg, Germany in June/July 2010. In this title, the topics covered are query processing; scientific data management and analysis; data mining; indexes and data representation; and data stream processing.

th The 15 International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) took place during June 23-25 in Cardiff (UK). Since the first edition in 1995, the NLDB conference has been aiming at bringing together resear- ers, people working in industry and potential users interested in various applications of natural language in the database and information system area. However, in order to reflect the growing importance of accessing information from a diverse collection of sources (Web, Databases, Sensors, Cloud) in an equally wide range of contexts (- cluding...