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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of two workshops held at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015, held in Pavia, Italy, in June 2015: the 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2015, and the 8th International Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare, ProHealth 2015.

The 10 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge-driven health IT and simulation,...

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Ambient Intelligence for Health, AmIHEALTH 2015, held in Puerto Varas, Chile, in December 2015.

The 20 revised full papers and 9 short papers were reviewed and selected from 32 submissions and cover topics on technologies for implementing AmIHealth environments; frameworks related with AmIHealth environments; applied algorithms in e-Health systems; interactions within the AmIHealth environments; applications and case studies of AmIHealth environments; and metrics for health...

The history and future of geographic information (GI) in the context of big data creates new avenues of concern over its organization, access and use. In this book the authors explore both the background and present challenges facing the preservation of GI, focusing on the roles of librarians, archivists, data scientists, and other information professionals in the creation of GI records for its organization, access, and use.

The technological interoperability of digital libraries must be rethought in order to adapt to new uses and networks. Informative digital environments aimed at responding to heritage, cultural, scientific or commercial demands have taken over the global cyberspace and have redesigned the techno-informative landscape of the Web. However, while the technological models demonstrate their effectiveness and explain to a large extent the creation of digital libraries, archives and deposits, the subjacent concept of uses continues to cause debate.

The information technologies used by...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2015, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in December 2015.

The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: properties of large graph models, dynamic processes on large graphs, and properties of PageRank on large graphs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015.

The 48 full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 4 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including information retrieval, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge discovery, classification, clustering, image processing, network security, speech processing, natural language processing,...

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015.

The 9 revised full papers and 9 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions and cover topics on big data: security and privacy; big data in commerce; big data: models and algorithms; and big data in medicine.

The doctoral thesis of Tatiana Gossen formulates criteria and guidelines on how to design the user interfaces of search engines for children. In her work, the author identifies the conceptual challenges based on own and previous user studies and addresses the changing characteristics of the users by providing a means of adaptation. Additionally, a novel type of search result visualisation for children with cartoon style characters is developed taking children s preference for visual information into account.

Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, SLATE 2015, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2015.

The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on human-human languages; human-computer languages; computer-computer languages.

The two-volume set LNCS 9516 and LNCS 9517 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2016, held in Miami, FL, USA, in January 2016.

The 32 revised full papers and 52 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. In addition 20 papers were accepted for five special sessions out of 38 submissions as well as 7 demonstrations (from 11 submissions) and 9 video showcase papers.