Applied computing Books

Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2021, which was held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 17 full, 14 short, and 5 practice papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Knowledge Discovery from Digital Collections; Search for Better User Experience; Information Extraction; Multimedia; Text Classification and Matching; Data Infrastructure for Digital Libraries; Data Modeling; Neural-based Learning.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Meeting on Innovation for Systems Information and Decision, INSID 2021, which was held during December 1-3, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Recife, Brazil, but changed to a virtual meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 76 submissions. They reflect methodological improvements and advances in multi-criteria decision-making/multi-criteria decision-aid (MCDM/MCDA) oriented toward real-world applications, which contribute to the understanding of relevant developments of current research on and future trends of innovation for systems information and decision. Table of ContentsFITradeoff Based Analysis of Cultural Tourism Products Regarding Post-Industrial Heritage in Czeladź Commune in Poland.- The worth of cardinal information in MCDM – a guide to selecting weight-generating functions.- Efficiency of competitiveness evaluation of medium-lift launch vehicle (MLV) using integrated DEA-TOPSIS model.- Japanese port alliance: Cooperative game theory analysis.- Improving the Elicitation Process for Intra-criterion Evaluation in the FITradeoff Method.- Manufacturing Execution System Selection by Use of Multicriteria Partial Information Method.- Incorporating Hierarchical Criteria Structure in the FITradeoff Method.- A user interface for consistent AHP pairwise comparisons.- A Problem Structuring Multimethodology to Support a Post-graduation Course on Implant Dentistry.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2021, held in Biarritz, France, in May 2021.*The first international workshop on Big data-driven Edge Cloud Services (BECS 2021) was held to provide a venue in which scholars and practitioners can share their experiences and present on-going work on providing value-added Web services for users by utilizing big data in edge cloud environments. The 5 revised full papers and 1 revised short contribution selected from 11 submissions are presented with 2 invited papers.*The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of ContentsBECS 2021.- Putting Data Science Pipelines on the Edge.- DNN Model Deployment on Distributed Edges.- Towards Proactive Context-Aware IoT Environments by means of Federated Learning.- Real-time Deep Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach for Multivariate Data Streams with Apache Flink.- A Novel Approach to Dynamic Pricing for Cloud Computing Through Price Band Prediction.- Learning-based Activation of Energy Harvesting Sensors for Fresh Data Acquisition.- Invited Papers.- Exploiting Triangle Patterns for Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network.- Towards Seamless IoT Device-Edge-Cloud Continuum: Software Architecture Options of IoT Devices Revisited.

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Book SynopsisThis book bridges the gap between knowledge management and technology. It embraces the complete lifecycle of knowledge, information, and data from how knowledge flows through an organization to how end users want to handle it and experience it. Whether your intent is to design and implement a single technology or a complete collection of KM systems, this book provides the foundations necessary for success. It will help you understand your organization’s needs and opportunities, strategize and prioritize features and functions, design with the end user in mind, and finally build a system that your users will embrace and which will realize meaningful business value for your organization. The book is the culmination of the authors’ collective careers, a combined sixty years of experience doing exactly what is detailed in this book. Their guidance has been honed by their own successes and failures as well as many others they have researched in order to provide a comprehensive study on KM transformations and the technologies that help to enable them. They have successfully applied this knowledge as the founders and leaders of the world’s largest dedicated knowledge management consultancy, which runs these projects for many of the world’s most complex organizations. They are writing as practitioners directly to other practitioners with the intent to enable them to apply and benefit from their knowledge and experience.“Compelling reading for KM practitioners looking to ensure their technology decisions support their business and organizational objectives.” - Margot Brown, Director of Knowledge Management, World Bank Group "We are two years into our KM Transformation and if I’d had this book beforehand, it would have made the journey smoother and faster! This is a great playbook for how to plan, organize, and execute a KM transformation." - Stephanie Hill, Senior Director, Global Customer Services, PayPalTrade Review“This book … spans the crevasse between KM and IT and does so with considerable flair. … this is a very good overview of the importance of integrating KM and IT and should be on the desktop of all KM managers, especially in larger organisations with complex IT infrastructures. The experience of the authors is evident throughout and they write in an engaging style which makes for a very readable book.” (Martin White, intranetfocus.com, June 30, 2022)Table of Contents1. Knowledge Management Primer.- Part I: Knowledge Management Transformation Strategy and Planning.- 2. Assessing Your Organization’s KM Strengths and Weaknesses (Current State).- 3. Understanding Your Organization’s Future KM Needs (Target State).- 4. Creating the Target State Vision.- 5. Getting from Here to There (KM Transformation Roadmap).- Part II: Understanding KM Systems.- 6. Content Management Solutions.- 7. Collaboration Suites.- 8. Learning Management Systems.- 9. Enterprise Search.- 10. Taxonomy Management.- 11. Data Catalogs and Governance Tools.- 12. Text Analytics Tools.- 13. Graph Databases.- 14. KM as a Foundation for Enterprise Artificial Intelligence.- 15. Integration Patterns for KM Systems.- Part III: Running a KM Systems Project.- 16. Project Phases.- 17. Common KMS Project Challenges and Mistakes.- 18. Foundational Design Elements.- 19. Content.- 20. Operations and Iterative Improvements.- 21. Envisioning Success: Putting KM Solutions and Outcomes Together.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a framework for developing as well as a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art process querying methods. Process querying combines concepts from Big Data and Process Modeling and Analysis with Business Process Intelligence and Process Analytics to study techniques for retrieving and manipulating models of real-world and envisioned processes to organize and extract process-related information for subsequent systematic use. The book comprises sixteen contributed chapters distributed over four parts and two auxiliary chapters. The auxiliary chapters by the editor provide an introduction to the area of process querying and a summary of the presented methods, techniques, and applications for process querying. The introductory chapter also examines a process querying framework. The contributed chapters present various process querying methods, including discussions on how they instantiate the framework components, thus supporting the comparison of the methods. The four parts are due to the distinctive features of the methods they include. The first three are devoted to querying event logs generated by IT-systems that support business processes at organizations, querying process designs captured in process models, and methods that address querying both event logs and process models. The methods in these three parts usually define a language for specifying process queries. The fourth part discusses methods that operate over inputs other than event logs and process models, e.g., streams of process events, or do not develop dedicated languages for specifying queries, e.g., methods for assessing process model similarity. This book is mainly intended for researchers. All the chapters in this book are contributed by active researchers in the research disciplines of business process management, process mining, and process querying. They describe state-of-the-art methods for process querying, discuss use cases of process querying, and suggest directions for future work for advancing the field. Yet, also other groups like business or data scientists and other professionals, lecturers, graduate students, and tool vendors will find relevant information for their distinctive needs.Chapter "Celonis PQL: A Query Language for Process Mining" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Process Querying.- Part I: Event Log Querying.- BP-SPARQL: A Query Language for Summarizing and Analyzing Big Process Data.- Data-Aware Process Oriented Query Language.- Process Instance Query Language and the Process Querying Framework.- Part II: Process Model Querying.- The Diagramed Model Query Language 2.0: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.- VM*: A Family of Visual Model Manipulation Languages.- The BPMN Visual Query Language and Process Querying Framework.- Retrieving, Abstracting, and Changing Business Process Models with PQL.- QuBPAL: Querying Business Process Knowledge.- CRL and the Design-Time Compliance Management Framework.- Process Query Language.- Part III: Event Log and Process Model Querying.- Business Process Query Language.- Celonis PQL: A Query Language for Process Mining.- Part IV: Other Process Querying Methods.- Process Querying Using Process Model Similarity.- Logic-Based Approaches for Process Querying.- Process Model Similarity Techniques for Process Querying.- Complex Event Processing Methods for Process Querying.- Process Querying: Methods, Techniques, and Applications.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the significance of domain-specific conceptual modeling through new research and development approaches that are manifested in each of the chapters. They include novel modelling methods and tools that emphasize the recent results accomplished and their adequacy to assess specific aspects of a domain. Each chapter offers detailed instructions on how to build models in a particular domain, such as product-service engineering, enterprise engineering, digital business ecosystems, and enterprise modelling and capability management. All chapters are enriched with case studies, related information, and tool implementations. The tools are based on the ADOxx metamodelling platform and are provided free of charge via OMiLAB. Furthermore, the book emphasizes possible future developments and potential research directions. The collection of works presented here will benefit experts and practitioners from academia and industry alike, including members of the conceptual modeling community as well as lecturers and students.Table of ContentsPart I: Background.- 1. Conceptual Modelling Methods: The AMME Agile Engineering Approach.- 2. Development of Conceptual Models and Realization of Modelling Tools Within the ADOxx Meta-Modelling Environment: A Living Paper.- 3. Challenging Digital Innovation Through the OMiLAB Community of Practice.- Part II: Previous Volume: Synopsis.- 4. The Purpose-Specificity Framework for Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling.- Part III: Enterprise Management.- 5. Enterprise Modeling with 4EM: Perspectives and Method.- 6. PGA 2.0: A Modeling Technique for the Alignment of the Organizational Strategy and Processes.- 7. The LiteStrat Modelling Method: Towards the Alignment of Strategy and Code.- 8. itsVALUE: Modelling and Analysing Value Streams for IT Services.- Part IV: Enterprise Information Systems.- 9. Enterprise Construction Modeling Method.- 10. Tool Support for Fractal Enterprise Modeling.- 11. The Integration of Risk Aspects into Business Process Management: The e-BPRIM Modeling Method.- 12. Modeling the Phenomenon of Capability Change: The KYKLOS Method.- 13. A Security Assessment Platform for Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) Modelling in the Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem.- Part V: Business Ecosystems and Services.- 14. A Modeling Tool for Exploring Business Ecosystems in a (Pre-)conceptual Phase.- 15. A Capability-Based Method for Modeling Resilient Data Ecosystems.- 16. Space of Services Method (SoS).- 17. Design and Engineering of Product-Service Systems (PSS): The SEEM Methodology and Modeling Toolkit.- Part VI: Knowledge Engineering.- 18. Model-Based Guide Toward Digitization in Digital Business Ecosystems.- 19. Generating ROS Codes from User-Level Workflow in PRINTEPS.- 20. ECAVI: An Assistant for Reasoning About Actions and Change with the Event Calculus.- Part VII: Technology Enhanced Education.- 21. Tree Diagrams and Unit Squares 4.0: Digitizing Stochastic Classes with the Didactic Modeling Tool PROVIS.- 22. Improving Student Mobility Through Automated Mapping of Similar Courses.- Part VIII: Digital Humanities.- 23. Aggregation and Curation of Historical Archive Information.- Part IX: Modelling Method Conceptualization.- 24. Conceptualization of Modelling Methods in the Context of Categorical Mechanisms.- 25. Conceptualizing Design Thinking Artefacts: The Scene2Model Storyboard Approach.- 26. An Approach to the Information System Conceptual Modeling Based on the Form Types.- Part X: Conceptual Modelling Language Extension.- 27. BPMN4MoPla: Mobility Planning Based on Business Decision-Making.- 28. BPMN Extension for Multi-Protocol Data Orchestration.

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the functional scope, the data model, the solution architecture, the underlying engineering concepts, and the programming model of SAP S/4HANA as the most well-known enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The approach is to start with general concepts and then to proceed step-by-step to concrete implementations in SAP S/4HANA. In the first part the reader learns about the market view of ERP solutions and vendors. The second part deals with the business processes for sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, services, procurement, and human resources which are covered with SAP S/4HANA. In the third part the underlying concepts of SAP S/4HANA are described, for example in-memory storage, analytics and search, artificial intelligence, process and data integration, security and compliance, lifecycle management, performance and scalability, configuration and implementation. The book is concluded with a final chapter explaining how to deploy an appliance to explore SAP S/4HANA. The target audience for the book are managers and business analysts who want to understand the market situation and future ERP trends, end users and process experts who need to comprehend the business processes and the according solution capabilities provided with SAP S/4HANA, architects and developers who have to learn the technical concepts and frameworks for enhancing SAP S/4HANA functionality, and consultants and partners who require to adopt and configure SAP S/4HANA.Table of ContentsPart 1: Market View.- 1. Challenges and Characteristics of ERP Systems.- 2. ERP Market Analysis.- 3. ERP Future Trends.- Part 2: Functional View.- 4. Functional Departments and Enterprise Domains.- 5. Master Data of Business Partner.- 6. Master Data of Product.- 7. Master Data of Bill of Material.- 8. Process of Idea to Market.- 9. Process of Source to Pay.- 10. Process of Plan to Fulfill.- 11. Process of Lead to Cash.- 12. Process of Recruit to Retire.- 13. Process of Acquire to Decommission.- 14. Process of Governance.- 15. Process of Finance.- 16. Industry Solutions.- Part 3: Conceptual View.- 17. ERP Product Qualities: Customer View.- 18. ERP Product Qualities: Provider View.- 19. In-Memory Persistency.- 20. Virtual Data Model.- 21. Transactional Programming Model.- 22. Analytics.- 23. Search.- 24. Artificial Intelligence.- 25. Internet of Things.- 26. Process Integration.- 27. Data Integration.- 28. In-App Extensibility.- 29. Side-by-Side Extensibility.- 30. User Experience.- 31. Identity and Access Management.- 32. Data Protection and Privacy.- 33. Secure Development and Operations.- 34. Globalization and Localization.- 35. Scalability and Performance.- 36. Lifecycle Management.- 37. Configuration.- 38. Implementation.- Appendix.- 39. Explore SAP S/4HANA System.

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Book SynopsisModern business relies heavily on information technology. This book presents a new “always-on” business model for the digital age, one based on three interrelated components: a business model, an IT capability model, and an always-on information system model. In addition, it develops an implementation framework for the new model by identifying business-critical continuous computing information technologies as implementation drivers.The model proposed in this book reveals the critical role of business continuity management in ensuring business continuity even when operations are unaffected by any disasters. Using empirical survey data, PLS-SEM (Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling) combined with mediation analysis are used to test the model and hypotheses.The book is chiefly intended for students in Business Administration/Management degree programs and business leaders whose work involves addressing issues such as organizational performance, IT capability, enterprise information systems, IT management, business continuity management, disaster recovery management, risk management, IT auditing, and compliance. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Digital Age, Business Strategy, and Firm's Performance.- Chapter 3. Downtime and Business Continuity.- Chapter 4. BCM, DRP - Compliance in Practice.- Chapter 5. Master Contingency Plans and IT Auditing.- Chapter 6. Business Models and The Concept of Always-On Business.- Chapter 7. BCM, BCP, IT Capability: A Framework for Always-On Business.- Chapter 8. Empirical Research.

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Book SynopsisModern business relies heavily on information technology. This book presents a new “always-on” business model for the digital age, one based on three interrelated components: a business model, an IT capability model, and an always-on information system model. In addition, it develops an implementation framework for the new model by identifying business-critical continuous computing information technologies as implementation drivers.The model proposed in this book reveals the critical role of business continuity management in ensuring business continuity even when operations are unaffected by any disasters. Using empirical survey data, PLS-SEM (Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling) combined with mediation analysis are used to test the model and hypotheses.The book is chiefly intended for students in Business Administration/Management degree programs and business leaders whose work involves addressing issues such as organizational performance, IT capability, enterprise information systems, IT management, business continuity management, disaster recovery management, risk management, IT auditing, and compliance. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Digital Age, Business Strategy, and Firm's Performance.- Chapter 3. Downtime and Business Continuity.- Chapter 4. BCM, DRP - Compliance in Practice.- Chapter 5. Master Contingency Plans and IT Auditing.- Chapter 6. Business Models and The Concept of Always-On Business.- Chapter 7. BCM, BCP, IT Capability: A Framework for Always-On Business.- Chapter 8. Empirical Research.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries. To this end, the book is structured in four parts: Part I “Foundations and Contexts” provides a general overview about building, running, and governing data spaces and an introduction to the IDS and GAIA-X projects. Part II “Data Space Technologies” subsequently details various implementation aspects of IDS and GAIA-X, including eg data usage control, the usage of blockchain technologies, or semantic data integration and interoperability. Next, Part III describes various “Use Cases and Data Ecosystems” from various application areas such as agriculture, healthcare, industry, energy, and mobility. Part IV eventually offers an overview of several “Solutions and Applications”, eg including products and experiences from companies like Google, SAP, Huawei, T-Systems, Innopay and many more. Overall, the book provides professionals in industry with an encompassing overview of the technological and economic aspects of data spaces, based on the International Data Spaces and Gaia-X initiatives. It presents implementations and business cases and gives an outlook to future developments. In doing so, it aims at proliferating the vision of a social data market economy based on data spaces which embrace trust and data sovereignty.Table of ContentsPart I: Foundations and Context.- 1. The Evolution of Data Spaces.- 2. How to Build, Run, and Govern Data Spaces.- 3. International Data Spaces in a Nutshell.- 4. Role of Gaia-X in the European Data Space Ecosystem.- 5. Legal Aspects of IDS: Data Sovereignty—What Does It Imply?.- 6. Tokenomics: Decentralized Incentivization in the Context of Data Spaces.- Part II: Data Space Technologies.- 7. The IDS Information Model: A Semantic Vocabulary for Sovereign Data Exchange.- 8. Data Usage Control.- 9. Building Trust in Data Spaces.- 10. Blockchain Technology and International Data Spaces.- 11. Federated Data Integration in Data Spaces.- 12. Semantic Integration and Interoperability.- 13. Data Ecosystems: A New Dimension of Value Creation Using AI and Machine Learning.- 14. IDS as a Foundation for Open Data Ecosystems.- 15. Defining Platform Research Infrastructure as a Service (PRIaaS) for Future Scientific Data Infrastructure.- Part III: Use Cases and Data Ecosystems.- 16. Silicon Economy: Logistics as the Natural Data Ecosystem.- 17. Agricultural Data Space.- 18. Medical Data Spaces in Healthcare Data Ecosystems.- 19. Industrial Data Spaces.- 20. Energy Data Space.- 21. Mobility Data Space.- Part IV: Solutions and Applications.- 22. Data Sharing Spaces: The BDVA Perspective.- 23. Data Platform Solutions.- 24. FIWARE for Data Spaces.- 25. Sovereign Cloud Technologies for Scalable Data Spaces.- 26. Data Space Based on Mass Customization Model.- 27. Huawei and International Data Spaces.- International Collaboration Between Data Spaces and Carrier Networks.- 29. From Linear Supply Chains to Open Supply Ecosystems.- 30. Data Spaces: First Applications in Mobility and Industry.- 31. Competition, Security, and Transparency: Data in Connected Vehicles.- Data Space Functionality.- The Energy Data Space: The Path to a European Approach for Energy.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, DAI 2021, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2021.The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. DAI aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners in related areas including general AI, multiagent systems, distributed learning, computational game theory, etc., to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of distributed AI.Table of ContentsThe Power of Signaling and its Intrinsic Connection to the Price of Anarchy.- Uncertainty-aware Low-Rank Q-Matrix Estimation for Deep Reinforcement Learning.- SEIHAI: A Sample-effcient Hierarchical AI for the MineRL Competition.- GC: Multi-Agent Group Belief with Graph Clustering.- Incomplete Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems: Model, Algorithms, and Heuristics.- Securities Based Decision Markets.- MARL for Traffc Signal Control in Scenarios with Different Intersection Importance.- Safe Distributional Reinforcement Learning.- The Positive Effect of User Faults over Agent Perception in Collaborative Settings and its Use in Agent Design.- Behavioral Stable Marriage Problems.- FUN-Agent: a HUMAINE Competitor.- Signal Instructed Coordination in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.- A Description of the Jadescript Type System.- Combining M-MCTS and Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Game Playing.- A Two-Step Method for Dynamics of Abstract Argumentation.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2021, held in Durban, South Africa, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the SACAIR 2021 was held online. The 22 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 70 submissions. They are organized on the topical sections on ​AI in the humanities and society, AI in and for information systems, computer vision and image processing, deep learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, philosophy and ethics of AI.Table of ContentsAI in the Humanities and Society.- AI in and for Information Systems.- Computer Vision and Image Processing.- Deep Learning.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Machine Learning.- Philosophy and Ethics of AI.

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Book SynopsisThis book is composed by the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2022 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'22), held at Tecnológico de Costa Rica, in San Carlos, Costa Rica, between the 9th and the 11th of February 2022.ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern information technology and systems research, together with their technological development and applications.The main topics covered are: information and knowledge management; organizational models and information systems; software and systems modelling; software systems, architectures, applications and tools; multimedia systems and applications; computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; intelligent and decision support systems; big data analytics and applications; human–computer interaction; ethics, computers & security; health informatics; information technologies in education, and Media, Applied Technology and Communication.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2021, which was held during May 3-4, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in London, UK, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 20 full papers and 1 short paper included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 27 submissions. The contributions deal with agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, declarative agent languages and technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Table of ContentsPanSim + Sim-2APL: A Framework for Large-Scale Distributed Simulation with Complex Agents.- Implementing Ethical Governors in BDI.- A Unifying Framework for Agency in Hypermedia Environments.- Multiagent Foundations for Distributed Systems: A Vision.- An Epistemic Logic for Modular Development of Multi-Agent Systems.- Attention Guidance Agents with Eye-tracking: A Use-case Based on the MATBII Cockpit Task.- StreamB: A Declarative Language for Automatically Processing Data Streams in Abstract Environments for Agent Platforms.- BDI for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation.- An Appraisal Transition System for Event-driven Emotions in Agent-based Player Experience Testing.- Developer Operations and Engineering Multi-Agent Systems.- Smart Cyber-physical System-of-Systems using Intelligent Agents and MAS.- Formal Verification of a Map Merging Protocol in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest.- Analysis of the Execution Time of the Jason BDI Reasoning Cycle.- Autonomous Economic Agent Framework.- Seamless Integration and Testing for MAS Engineering.- Engineering Explainable Agents: An Argumentation-Based Approach.- TPO: A Type System for the Architecture of Agent Societies.- A Practical Framework for General Dialogue-based Bilateral Interactions.- Implementing Durative Actions with Failure Detection in Gwendolen.- Concept Description and Definition Extraction for the ANEMONE System.- GenGPT: a Systematic Way to Generate Synthetic Goal-Plan Trees.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP TC 3 Open Conference on Computers in Education, OCCE 2021, held in Tampere, Finland, in August 2021. The 22 full papers and 2 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers discuss key emerging topics and evolving practices in the area of educational computing research. They are organized in the following topical sections: Digital education across educational institutions; National policies and plans for digital competence; Learning with digital technologies; and Management issues.Table of ContentsDigital education across educational institutions.- An Integrated Model of Digitalisation-Related Competencies in Teacher Education.- Primary Education Student Teachers’ Perceptions of Computational Thinking through Bebras Tasks.- Programming Concepts in Lower Primary Years and their Cognitive Demands.- “Literacy from Python” Using Python for a Proposed Cross-curricular Teaching and Learning Model.- Advocating for Educational Support to Develop Socially Disadvantaged Young People’s Digital Skills and Competencies: Can Support Encourage their Human Development as Digital Citizens?.- Developing Inclusive Digital Pedagogies: Reflections on the Past, the Present and Future Directions.- Students’ Conceptions of Programming in the Context of Game Design.- A Closer Look at and Confirmation of the General and Study Interests of Future Computer Science Students.- Starter Projects in Python Programming Classes.- National policies and plans for digital competence.- Computer Education in Australia Fifty Years Ago.- Computational Thinking – Forces Shaping Curriculum and Policy in Finland, Sweden and the Baltic Countries.- Changing Computer Curricula in Australia.- Development of IPSJ Data Science Curriculum Standard.- Proof of Concept Teaching for 21st Century Digital Literacy in Portugal: A Pedagogical Approach Towards a New Educational Model.- Use of Vclass in Mathematics Education Delivery: The UEW Experience.- Needs and Challenges of Smart Agriculture and Entrepreneurship Education – A Case Study by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.- Learning with digital technologies.- Vocational Education during School Shutdown - A Danish Case on Emergency Remote Teaching.- Analysis of Practical Examples of a Real-time Online Class on Agriculture in Space, Using the Collaborative Learning Tool “Digital Diamond Mandala Matrix”.- AsTRA – An Assessment Tool for Recognition and Adaptation of Prior Professional Experience and Vocational Training.- Is It Real? – Learners’ Perceptions on Tele-immersive 3D Video Technology and its Further Use in K-12 Education.- DigiFit4All – Conceptualisation of a Platform to Generate Personalised Open Online Courses (POOCs).- Management issues.- What Kind of E-assessment Feedback is Important to Students? An Empirical Study.- Shifting to a Technology-Driven Work Mode: Workplace Learning and Dynamic Capability in the Case of a Public-Sector Service Organisation.- Digital Transformation of Education and Learning through Information Technology in Educational Management.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides solid guidance on how to produce information models in practice. Information modeling has become increasingly relevant as an approach for understanding the active role that data plays within business and management and promoting the planning of business activities. The text promotes a practical approach to information modelling based around the analysis of communicative practice within delimited domains of organization. The book chapters are designed to be read in sequence. The early chapters build an account of information modelling from the bedrock of a theory of information situations. Later chapters discuss a number of practical issues concerned with the application of this business analysis and design technique. The conclusion demonstrates a larger context for the application and importance of information modelling. Numerous in-text examples of the concepts of information modelling and their application are included throughout the text. A separate chapter is devoted to a range of exercises which the reader can use to test understanding and application of the technique. An appendix with solutions is also provided to support learning. Overall, this textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to information modelling for use in undergraduate and postgraduate modules in information systems, computer science and even digitally focused modules within business and management. No prerequisite knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader. Students and practitioners are tutored in the development of information modelling from first principles. The book covers all the core principles of both entity-relationship diagramming and class diagramming – the two major approaches to information modelling.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. What Is Information?.- 3. Why Model Information?.- 4. Information Modelling From First Principles.- 5. Visualising an Information M.- 6. Composing an Information Model.- 7. Practical Issues in Information Modelling.- 8. Information Modelling and Data Systems.- 9. Information Modelling in Context.- 10. Exercises.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2021, held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions and detail cloud computing technologies for efficient and intelligent computing in secure and smart environments with distributed devices. The theme of CloudComp 2021 was “Cloud Computing for Secure and Smart Applications”. The book is organized in three general areas of data analytics for cloud systems with distributed applications, cloud architecture and challenges in real-world use, and security in cloud/edge platforms.Table of ContentsData Analytics for Cloud Systems with Distributed Applications 1 Load quality analysis and forecasting for power data set on cloud platform.- A Survey of Traffic Prediction Based on Deep Neural Network: Data, Methods and Challenges.- A dynamic gesture recognition control file method based on deep learning.- A Lightweight FCNN-Driven Approach to Concrete Composition Extraction in a Distributed Environment.- Triangle Coordinate Diagram Localization for Academic Literature Based on Line Segment Detection.- Optimizing Fund Allocation for Game-based Verifiable Computation Outsourcing.- A Survey of Face Image Inpainting Based on Deep Learning.- Cloud Architecture and Challenges in Real-World Use.- Layered Service Model Architecture for Cloud Computin.- KPG4Rec: Knowledge Property-aware Graph for Recommender Systems.- 10 ERP as Software-as-a-Service: Factors depicting large enterprises cloud adoption.- Design Of An Evaluation System Of Limb Motor Function Using Inertial Sensor.- Towards a GPU-accelerated Open Source VDI for OpenStack Manuel.- Security in Cloud/Edge Platforms.- Trustworthy IoT Computing Environment Based on Layered Blockchain Consensus Framework.- Heuristic Network Security Risk Assessment Based on Attack Graph.- Research on Network Security Automation and Orchestration Oriented to Electric Power Monitoring System.- Energy- and Reliability-aware Computation Offloading with Security Constraints.- A Review of Cross-Blockchain Solutions.

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Book SynopsisThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2021, held in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2021. The 40 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 201 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topics: communication; computing; e-government and e-participation; e-learning; electronics; general track; intelligent systems; machine vision; security; technology trends.Table of ContentsCommunication.- Computing.- e-Government and e-Participation.- e-Learning.- Electronics.- General Track.- Intelligent Systems.- Machine Vision.- Security.- Technology Trends.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are:Immersive audio: the computational aspects of the acoustical-space properties of Virutal Reality (VR) technologies Sonic interaction: the human-computer interplay through auditory feedback in VEVR systems: naturally support multimodal integration, impacting different application domainsSonic Interactions in Virtual Environments will feature state-of-the-art research on real-time auralization, sonic interaction design in VR, quality of the experience in multimodal scenarios, and applications. Contributors and editors include interdisciplinary experts from the fields of computer science, engineering, acoustics, psychology, design, humanities, and beyond. Their mission is to shape an emerging new field of study at the intersection of sonic interaction design and immersive media, embracing an archipelago of existing research spread in different audio communities and to increase among the VR communities, researchers, and practitioners, the awareness of the importance of sonic elements when designing immersive environments. Table of ContentsPart I Introduction: Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments: the Egocentric Audio Perspective of the Digital Twin.- Part II Interactive and Immersive Audio: Procedural Modeling of Interactive Sound Sources in Virtual Reality.- Interactive and Immersive Auralization.- System-to-User and User-to-System Adaptations in Binaural Audio.- Audio Quality Assessment for Virtual Reality.- Part III Sonic Interactions: Spatial Design Considerations for Interactive Audio in Virtual Reality.- Embodied and Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments: Tactics and Examplars.- Supporting Sonic Interaction in Creative, Shared Virtual Environments.- Spatial Audio Mixing in Virtual Reality.- Part IV Sonic Experiences: Audio in Multisensory Interactions: from Experiments to Experiences.- Immersion in Audiovisual Experiences.- Augmenting Sonic Experiences through Haptic Feedback.- From the Lab to the Stage: Practical Considerations on Designing Performances with Immersive Virtual Musical Instruments.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes revised papers from the eight workshops which were held during June 2021 at the 24th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Hannover, Germany, and changed to a fully online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a total of 67 submissions to all workshops of which 31papers were accepted for publication. The workshops included in this volume are: AKTB 2021: 12th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business BisEd 2021: BIS Education: Trends and Challenges DigBD 2021: 1st Workshop on Digitization in the Flux of Big Data Scenarios DigEx 2021: 3rd International Workshop on transforming the Digital Customer Experience iCRM 2021: 6th International Workshop on Integrated Social CRM QOD 2021: 4th Workshop on Quality of Open Data BITA 2021: 12th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment BSCT 2021: 4th Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract TechnologiesTable of ContentsAKTB Workshop.- Analysis of the structure of Germany's energy sector with self-organizing Kohonen maps.- Time-to-Event Modelling for survival and hazard analysis of Stroke clinical case.- Automatically Extracting Insurance Contract Knowledge Using NLP.- Analyzing Medical Data with Process Mining: a COVID-19 Case Study.- Problem Domain Example of Knowledge-Based Enterprise Model Usage for Different UML Behavioral Models Generation.- BIS Education Workshop.- Reconsidering the Challenges of BIS Education in Light of the COVID Pandemic.- COVID-19-related challenges in business information systems education: experiences from Slovenia.- Successful Project Completion During the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Lesson Learnt.- Comparative analysis of highly ranked BIS degree programs.- DigBD Workshop.- Multi-Agent System for Weather Forecasting in India.- Towards a Data Collection Quality Model for Big Data Applications.- Investigating the Incorporation of Big Data in Management Information Systems.- The Perception of Test Driven Development in Computer Science - Outline for a Structured Literature Review.- DigEx Workshop.- Influence of Augmented Reality on Consumer Behaviour in Online Retailing.- Personality Based Data-driven Personalizationas as an Integral Part of the Mobile Application.- iCRM Workshop.- Social CRM as a business strategy: developing the dynamic capabilities of Micro and Small Businesses.- Gaining Insights on Student Satisfaction by applying Social CRM techniques for Higher Education Institutions.- Understanding Customer-induced Orchestration of Services: A Review of Drivers and Concepts.- QOD Workshop.- A high-resolution urban land surface dataset for the Hong Kong-Shenzhen area.- Review of literature on Open Data for scalability and operation efficiency of electric bus fleets.- Challenges of Mining Twitter Data for Analyzing Service Performance: A Case study of Transportation Service in Malaysia.- Data quality assessment of comma separated values using linked data approach.- Spatio-temporal data sources integration with ontology for road accidents analysis.- BITA Workshop.- IT-Service Value Modeling: A Systematic Literature Analysis.- Consolidating Academic and Practical Guidelines for Digital Transformation.- Integrated Security Management of Public and Private Sector for Critical Infrastructures - Problem Investigation.- Market Launch and Regulative Assessment of ICT-based Medical Devices: Case Study and Problem Definition.- BSCT Workshop.- A Probabilistic Logic Model of Lightning Network.- Enabling Electronic Bills of Lading by Using a Private Blockchain.- Modeling the Resilience of the Cryptocurrency Market to COVID-19.- Fast payment systems dynamics: lessons from diffusion of innovation models.- A Meta-Review of Blockchain Adoption Literature in Supply Chain.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Edge Computing and IoT, ICECI 2021, held in December 2021 in Shenzhen, China. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The explosion of the big data generated by ubiquitous edge devices motivates the emergence of applying machine learning systems for edge computing and Internet of Things (IoT) services. Machine learning techniques are delivering a promising solution to the industry for building IoT systems and to make innovation at a rapid pace. The 12 full papers of ICECI 2021 were selected from 26 submissions and present results and ideas in the area of edge computing and IoT.Table of ContentsAn Improved Audio Processing Method for Campus Broadcast System.- Committee Selection Based on Game Theory in Sharding Blockchain.- Green Transition Driven Carbon Trading Mechanism and Design Based on Urban Vehicle Trajectory Data.- Matching with Externalities for Device Assignment in IoT Sharding Blockchain.- Openflow-extended Queue Scheduling for Multi-tenants in Access Network.- Research and Improvement on detection algorithm of SCMA System.- A Survey of Adversarial Attacks on Wireless Communications.- Adversarial Examples in Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey.- Headmotion: Human-machine interaction requires only your head movement.- Implementation of the bone grid reconstruction based on CT data.- Intelligent Vocal Training Assistant System.- Wearable-based Human Emotion Inference System..

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the following main topics: A) information and knowledge management; B) organizational models and information systems; C) software and systems modeling; D) software systems, architectures, applications and tools; E) multimedia systems and applications; F) computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; G) intelligent and decision support systems; H) big data analytics and applications; I) human–computer interaction; J) ethics, computers and security; K) health informatics; L) information technologies in education; M) information technologies in radio communications; N) technologies for biomedical applications.This book is composed by a selection of articles from The 2022 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'22), held between April 12 and 14, in Budva, Montenegro.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences, and challenges of modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the following main topics: A) information and knowledge management; B) organizational models and information systems; C) software and systems modeling; D) software systems, architectures, applications and tools; E) multimedia systems and applications; F) computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; G) intelligent and decision support systems; H) big data analytics and applications; I) human–computer interaction; J) ethics, computers and security; K) health informatics; L) information technologies in education; M) information technologies in radio communications; N) technologies for biomedical applications.This book is composed by a selection of articles from The 2022 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'22), held between April 12 and 14, in Budva, Montenegro.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences, and challenges of modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the following main topics: A) information and knowledge management; B) organizational models and information systems; C) software and systems modeling; D) software systems, architectures, applications and tools; E) multimedia systems and applications; F) computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; G) intelligent and decision support systems; H) big data analytics and applications; I) human–computer interaction; J) ethics, computers and security; K) health informatics; L) information technologies in education; M) information technologies in radio communications; N) technologies for biomedical applications.This book is composed by a selection of articles from The 2022 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'22), held between April 12 and 14, in Budva, Montenegro. WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences, and challenges of modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications.

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume set LNCS 13315 and 13316 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2022, held as part of the 24rd International Conference, HCI International 2022, which took place in June-July 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The total of 1276 papers and 275 posters included in the 40 HCII 2022 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5583 submissions. The papers of SCSM 2022, Part II, are organized in topical sections named: social media in education; customer experience and consumer behavior.Table of ContentsSocial Media in Education.- Customer Experience and Consumer Behavior.

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Book SynopsisThe two-volume set, LNCS 13325 and 13326, are conference proceedings that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, which took place during June-July 2022. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 58 papers of DAPI 2022 are organized in topical sections named for each volume: Part I: User Experience and Interaction Design for Smart Ecosystems; Smart Cities, Smart Islands, and Intelligent Urban Living; Smart Artifacts in Smart Environments; and Opportunities and Challenges for the Near Future Smart EnvironmentsPart II: Smart Living in Pervasive IoT Ecosystems; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Education and Learning; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Well-being and Healthcare; and Smart Creativity and Art.

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Book SynopsisThe two-volume set, LNCS 13325 and 13326, are conference proceedings that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, which took place during June-July 2022. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 58 papers of DAPI 2022 are organized in topical sections named for each volume: Part I: User Experience and Interaction Design for Smart Ecosystems; Smart Cities, Smart Islands, and Intelligent Urban Living; Smart Artifacts in Smart Environments; and Opportunities and Challenges for the Near Future Smart EnvironmentsPart II: Smart Living in Pervasive IoT Ecosystems; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Education and Learning; Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Well-being and Healthcare; and Smart Creativity and Art.

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Book SynopsisChapter “Developing a VR Tool to Support Repeat Pattern Design Learning ” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Book SynopsisThe proceedings set LNCS 13231, 13232, and 13233 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, which was held during May 23-27, 2022, in Lecce, Italy,The 168 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions. They deal with video analysis and understanding; pattern recognition and machine learning; deep learning; multi-view geometry and 3D computer vision; image analysis, detection and recognition; multimedia; biomedical and assistive technology; digital forensics and biometrics; image processing for cultural heritage; robot vision; etc. Table of ContentsBrave New Ideas.- Biomedical and Assistive Technology.- Multimedia.- Deep Learning.- Image Processing for Cultural Heritage.- Robot Vision.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2022, which took place in Khouribga, Morocco, during May 26-28, 2022. The 23 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: decision support and artificial intelligence; business intelligence and database; and optimization and dynamic programming.Table of ContentsDecision Support and Artificial Intelligence.- Optimization Focused On Parallel Fuzzy Deep Belief Neural Network For Opinion Mining.- A Convolutional Neural Networks-Based Approach For Potato Disease Classification.- Performance Investigation of a Proposed CBIR Search Engine Using Deep Convolu-tional Neural Networks.- Decision Boundary to improve the sensitivity of deep neural networks models. - Facial Expression Recognition Using a Hybrid ViT-CNN Aggregator.- Machine Learning Approach to Automate Decision Support on Information System Attacks.- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Bitcoin Trading.- An exploration of student grade retention prediction using machine learning algorithms.- Deep Learning Model For Educational Recommender Systems.- Comparative Study of Deep Learning Models for detection and classification of intracranial hemorrhage.- Business Intelligence and Database.- Increasing Student Engagement in Lessons and Assessing MOOC Participants Through Artificial Intelligence. -Mining frequents itemset and association rules in diabetic dataset.- Automatic text summarization for Moroccan Arabic dialect using an artificial intelligence approach.- Automatic Change Detection based on the Independent Component Analysis and Fuzzy C-means Methods.- Sentiment analysis decision system for tracking climate change opinion in Twitter.- Analysis of Decision Tree Algorithms for Diabetes Prediction.- How far can Deep Learning improve Arabic Part of Speech Tagging.- Optimization and Dynamic programming.- Analysis of Several Algorithms for DOA Estimation in Two Different Communication Models by a Comparative Study.- A Novel hybrid Approach for improving the accuracy of the Supervised Link Prediction based on Graph Structure Features in Social Networks. - Intelligent system based on GAN model for decision support in brain Tumor segmentation.- Hospital room management for Covid-19 patients using Petri nets.- Dimensionality reduction of MI-EEG data via convolutional autoencoders with a low size dataset.- Car tracking technique for DLES Project.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Innovations for Community Services, I4CS 2022, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in June 2022. The 15 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. Three invited papers were also included in the volume. The papers focus on topics such as services for critical infrastructure; network architecture for communities; applications and services supporting work and life; community data and visualization; technology empowers industry processes; and future community support.Table of ContentsInvited Papers.- Energy Harvesting and Environment Protection.- Applied Security and Privacy.- eHealth and Infrastructure.- Smart Mobility and Routing.- Smart Cities and Standardization.- Applied Machine Learning.- Quantum Computing.

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Book SynopsisChapters “No. 10 and No. 21” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsResearch.- Resources.- In-Use Track.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 10th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2022 in Warsaw, Poland in June 2022. The 8 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in the area of privacy and data protection while focusing on privacy related application areas. A large focus of the 2022 conference was on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Table of ContentsUsers’ Rights.- Security of Personal Data.- Privacy Enhancing Technologies.- Privacy Engineering.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning, CSCML 2022, held in Be'er Sheva, Israel, in June - July 2022. The 24 full and 11 short papers presented together with a keynote paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. They deal with the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cyber security, cryptography and machine learning systems and networks, and conceptually innovative topics in these research areas.Table of ContentsBlind Rotation in Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Extended Keys.- Monitoring Time Series With Missing Values: a Deep Probabilistic Approach.- Time, Memory and Accuracy Tradeoffs in Side-Channel Trace Profiling.- Design of Intrusion Detection System based on Logical Analysis of Data (LAD) using Information Gain Ratio.- Simulating a Coupon Collector.- On the undecidability of the Panopticon detection problem.- Privacy-Preserving Contrastive Explanations with Local Foil Trees.- Timing leakage analysis of non-constant-time NTT implementations with Harvey butterflies.- Predicting the direction of changes in the values of time series for relatively small training samples.- Machine-Learning Based Objective Function Selection for Community Detection.- Randomness for Randomness Testing.- Botnet attack identification based on SDN.- Setting up an anonymous gesture database as well as enhancing it with a verbal script simulator for rehabilitation applications.- Fake News Detection in Social Networks using Machine Learning and Trust.- Reinforcement Based User Scheduling for Cellular Communications.- A Heuristic Framework to search for Approximate Mutually Unbiased Bases.- Counter Mode for Long Messages and a Long Nonce.- Transfer learning for time series classification using synthetic data generation.- Non-Stopping Junctions via Traffic Scheduling.- Predicting subscriber usage: Analyzing multidimensional time-series using Convolutional Neural Networks.- Smart Cybercrime Classification for Digital Forensics with Small Datasets.- Auditable, Available and Resilient Private Computation on the Blockchain via MPC.- Union Buster: A Cross-Container Covert-Channel Exploiting Union Mounting.- Mutual Accountability Layer: Accountable Anonymity within Accountable Trust.- Faster Post-Quantum TLS handshakes Without Intermediate CA Certificates.- Enhancing Cybersecurity of Satellites at sub-THz Bands.- Polynomial Approximation of Inverse sqrt Function for FHE.- Detecting Clickbait in Online Social Media: You Won’t Believe How We Did It.- Etherless Ethereum Tokens: Simulating Native Tokens in Ethereum.- A Linear-Time 2-Party Secure Merge Protocol.- FairMM: A Fast and Frontrunning-Resistant Crypto Market-Maker.-In-app Cryptographically-Enforced Selective Access Control for Microsoft Office and Similar Platforms.- Differentially-Private ``Draw and Discard'' Machine Learning: Training Distributed Models from Enormous Crowds.- Privacy Preserving Solution of DCOPs by Mediation.- BFLUT Bloom Filter for Private Look Up Tables.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2022, held in Hagen, Germany, in July 2022. The 24 full papers and 5 short papers accepted for KMO 2022 were selected from 61 submissions and are organized in topical sections on: ​knowledge transfer and sharing; knowledge and organization; knowledge and service innovation; industry 4.0; information and knowledge systems; intelligent science; AI and new trends in KM.Table of ContentsKnowledge Transfer and Sharing.- Knowledge and Organization.- Knowledge and Service Innovation.- Industry 4.0.- Information and Knowledge Systems.- Intelligent Science.- AI and New Trends in KM.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 2022, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2021. The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Programming; Cybersecurity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Charting the Way Forward in Education; and Real-World Cybersecurity-Inspired Capacity Building.Table of ContentsSecuring the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Programming.- Analyzing Error Rates in Cryptological Programming Assignments.- SecTutor: An Intelligent Tutoring System For Secure Programming .- Cybersecurity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Charting the Way Forward in Education.- How to Overcome Staff Shortage in Professionals for SOCs and NSICs.- Collaborative Cybersecurity Learning: Establishing Educator and Learner Expectations and Requirements.- A Maturity Assessment Model for Cyber Security Education in Europe.- Real-World Cybersecurity-Inspired Capacity Building.- ForCyRange: An Educational IoT Cyber Range for Live Digital Forensics.- South Africa’s taxi industry as a cybersecurity-awareness game changer: why and how?.- Maritime Cyber Threats Detection Framework: Building Capabilities.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 2022, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2021. The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Programming; Cybersecurity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Charting the Way Forward in Education; and Real-World Cybersecurity-Inspired Capacity Building.Table of ContentsSecuring the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Programming.- Analyzing Error Rates in Cryptological Programming Assignments.- SecTutor: An Intelligent Tutoring System For Secure Programming .- Cybersecurity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Charting the Way Forward in Education.- How to Overcome Staff Shortage in Professionals for SOCs and NSICs.- Collaborative Cybersecurity Learning: Establishing Educator and Learner Expectations and Requirements.- A Maturity Assessment Model for Cyber Security Education in Europe.- Real-World Cybersecurity-Inspired Capacity Building.- ForCyRange: An Educational IoT Cyber Range for Live Digital Forensics.- South Africa’s taxi industry as a cybersecurity-awareness game changer: why and how?.- Maritime Cyber Threats Detection Framework: Building Capabilities.

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines the development of the Trace R&D Center as an institution for furthering accessible and assistive technologies. The book walks readers through the Center’s nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative communication devices through contemporary efforts to establish global frameworks and infrastructures for accessibility. This book is premised on the Center’s mission to maximize the potential of people with disabilities by harnessing evolving technologies while at the same time dismantling the barriers created by those same technological advancements. Readers will learn how this has been done in the past and why this practice should be a fundamental and integrated feature in new technology planning and implementation. The book touches on pre-internet technologies before exploring the huge implications of, first, the personal computer and, second, the Internet. In parallel with the massive growth in scale rendered by the launch of the Web, the book traces the expansion of the Center’s focus from the individual to the universal, particularly in working to establish accessibility standards and infrastructures. Learning from the successes and failures of the Center, the book outlines many past challenges and future directions for the development of technologies for people with disabilities from the research and industry perspectives.Table of ContentsTrace Center Origin and Evolution.- Augmentative Communication (1971–).- Pre-Internet/Pre-Web Summative Information (1970s–1990s).- Computer Access (1980–).- Electronic Consumer Products and General Accessibility (1990–).- Web Access (1990–).- Telecommunication Access (1990–).- Kiosks and Information—Transaction Machine Access (1999–).- Accessibility Infrastructure (2010 –).- Move to University of Maryland (2016).- Elements that Have Defined the Trace Center.- Some Lessons Learned from Trace’s First 50 Years.- Trace’s Focus for the Next Decade(s) (2021–).

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2022, held in Bari, Italy, in July 2022. The 23 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The books also contains 6 demonstration and poster papers, 7 symposium and 5 tutorial papers. They are organized in topical sections named: recommender systems based on web technology; social web applications; web applications modelling and engineering; web big data and web data analytics; web mining and knowledge extraction; web security and privacy; web user interfaces.Table of Contentsrecommender systems based on web technology.- social web applications.- web applications modelling and engineering.- web big data and web data analytics.- web mining and knowledge extraction.- web security and privacy.- web user interfaces.- web mining and knowledge extraction.- web Big Data and Web data analytics.- Mobile Web applications.- web of Things applications.- social Web applications.- web crowdsourcing and human computation.- semantic web.- web ontologies, and Linked Open Data applications.- quality and accessibility aspects of Web applications.- web composition and mashups.- web user interfaces.- web security and privacy.- web programming.- web services, computing, and standards.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2022, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 2022. The 21 full regular papers presented together with 5 short papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The topics of the papers covering various fields in software engineering and the latest developments in in formal and theoretical software engineering methods and techniques.Table of ContentsSoftware Engineering.- Theoretical Computer Science in industrial applications.- Software Engineering Methodologies. Formal and theoretical software engineering methods and techniques.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications, INTAP 2021, held in Grimstad, Norway, October 11–13, 2021.The 33 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 243 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Intelligence, Decision support systems, IoT; Robotics; ML and AI for Intelligent Health, Applications of intelligent technologies in Emergency Management; Smart Electrical Energy Systems, AI and ML in Security; ML and AI for sensing technologies, Social Media Analytics; ML in energy sectors and materials; and Miscellaneous.Table of ContentsIntelligence, Decision support systems, IoT.- Dense Nearest Neighborhood Query.- Explainable nonlinear modelling of multiple time series with invertible neural networks.- Iterative Learning for Semi-automatic Annotation Using User Feedback.- Residual Stress Prediction of Welded Joints Using Gradient Boosting Regression.- A Novel Group Teaching Optimization Algorithm based Artificial Neural Network for Classification.- On the Effects of Properties of the Minibatch in Reinforcement Learning.- A novel migration simulation and prediction tool.- Development Environment for Software-defined Smart City Networks.- Robotics.- Branch-Manoeuvring Capable Pipe Cleaning Robot for Aquaponic Systems.- A Multi-Modal Auditory-Visual-Tactile e-Learning Framework.- A Perspective on Intervention Approaches for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.- framework for hazard identification of a collaborative Plug&Produce system.- ML and AI for Intelligent Health, Applications of intelligent technologies in Emergency Management.- Future Perspectives on Automated Machine Learning in Biomedical Signal Processing.- DeepFireNet - A Light-Weight Model for Fire-Smoke Classification.- Smart Electrical Energy Systems, AI and ML in Security.- THD Reduction Comparison of Three Phase SPPS via Conventional RC and Novel PRESH Controller.- Artificial Neural Network (ANN) trained by a Novel Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm (AOA) for Short Term Forecasting of Wind Power.- Bode Plot Analysis of PRES and Novel PRESH controller interfaced with three phase GTSPPS.- Energy tracing and blockchain technology: a primary review.- Emulation of IEC 60870-5-104 Communication in Digital Secondary Substations.- ML and AI for sensing technologies, Social Media Analytics.- Point Cloud Instance Segmentation for Automatic Electric Vehicle Battery Disassembly.- Radar-Based Passive Step Counter and its Comparison with a Wrist-Worn Physical Activity Tracker.- Principles for the Arrangement of Social Media Listening Practices in Crisis Management.- AMUSED: An Annotation Framework of Multi-modal Social Media Data.- ML in energy sectors and materials.- An evaluation of predictor variables for photovoltaic power forecasting.- Smart Meter Data Anomaly Detection using Variational Recurrent Autoencoders with Attention.- Detecting the linear and non-linear causal links for disturbances in the power grid.- Machine Learning for PV System Operational Fault Analysis: Literature Review.- Miscellaneous.- An overview of Data Based Predictive Modeling Techniques used in Analysis of Vehicle Crash Severity.- An Evaluation of Autonomous Car Simulators and their applicability for Supervised and Reinforcement Learning.- Classification of Mechanical Fault-Excited Events based on Frequency.- Intelligent Technologies in the Process of Recovering Historical, Cultural, and Heritage Value in Native Communities.- Tensile Experiments on Adhesion between Aluminium Profiles and Glass.- Machine learning for capacity utilization along the routes of an urban freight service.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12h International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2022, which took place in Fribourg, Switzerland, in June 2022.The 12 full and 9 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 56 submissions. BMSD is a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in business modeling and its relation to software design. Particular areas of interest are: Business Processes and Enterprise Engineering; Business Models and Requirements; Business Models and Services; Business Models and Software; Information Systems Architectures and Paradigms; Data Aspects in Business Modeling and Software Development; Blockchain-Based Business Models and Information Systems; IoT and Implications for Enterprise Information Systems. Each year, a special theme is chosen, for making presentations and discussions more focused. The BMSD 2022 theme is: Information Systems Engineering and Trust. Table of ContentsFull Papers.-- Rapid Prototyping of Business Rule-based Systems with Controlled Natural Language and Semantic Web Software.- - Agile Innovation Through Business Process Management: Realizing the Potential of Digital Transformation.-- Requirements for Dynamic Jumps at the Execution of Business Processes.- Results from the Verification of Models of Spectrum Auctions.- Context-Aware, Intelligent Musical Instruments for Improving Knowledge-Intensive Business Processes.- Detecting Data Incompatibilities in Process-Driven Decision Support Systems.- Semantic Relations of Sub-Models in an Enterprise Model.- VR-EA+TCK: Visualizing Enterprise Architecture, Content, and Knowledge in Virtual Reality.- A Case of Social Dynamics & Social Relativism.- Advantages of a Formal Specification of a Case: From Informal Description via Formal Specification to Realization.- An Architecture for Attesting to the Provenance of Ontologies Using Blockchain Technologies.- Trends for the DevOps Security. A Systematic Literature Review.- Short Papers.- Errors in the Process of Modeling Business Processes.- Use Cases for Augmented Reality Applications in Enterprise Modeling: A Morphological Analysis.- On the Context-Aware Servicing of User Needs: Extracting and Managing Context Information Supported by Rules and Predictions.- Towards Identification and Modelling of Privacy Requirements with Systems Thinking a Reference Architecture for User-Oriented Open Government Data Portals.- KnowGo : An Adaptive Learning-based Multi-Model Framework for Dynamic Automotive Risk Assessment.- OSRM-CCTV: CCTV-aware Routing and Navigation System for Privacy and Safety.- CCTV-Exposure: System for Measuring User’s Privacy Exposure to CCTV Cameras.- Computer Model for Assessment and Visualization of Specific Absorption Rate of Electromagnetic Field, Generated by Smartphone.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2022, held in Rome, Italy, in August 2022.The 18 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers of MobiWIS 2022 deal focus on topics such as security and privacy; web and mobile applications; networking and communication; intelligent information systems; and IoT and ubiquitous computing.Table of Contents​Session 1: Mobile Applications and Technologies.- Knowledge Behavior Gap Model: An Application for Technology Acceptance.- UI-Re-Engineering of a Mobile Documentation Software in the Care Sector.- GUI Element Detection from Mobile UI Images Using YOLOv5.- Session 2: Mobile Devices and Automous Vehicles.- Active Federated YOLOR Model for Enhancing Autonomous Vehicles Safety.- Neural Network for Public Transport Mode Inference on Mobile Devices.- Data-Driven Federated Autonomous Driving.- Session 3: Security in Healthcare and Smart Cities Environment.- Case Study on a Session Hijacking Attack: The 2021 CVS Health Data Breach.- Blockchain for Cybersecure Healthcare.- Design of a Method for Setting IoT Security Standards in Smart Cities.- Session 4: Software-Defined Networks.- Mathematical Models for Minimizing Latency in Software-Defined Networks.- Analyzing the Impact of DNN Hardware Accelerators-Oriented Compression Techniques on General-Purpose Low-End Boards.- Spatial Dependency in Software-Defined Networking In-Band Monitoring: Challenges and Future Perspective.- Session 5: Smart Systems and Applications.- What is a Smart Service?.- SSSB: An Approach to Insurance for Cross-Border Exchange by using Smart Contracts.- A Review: Sensors Used in Tool Wear Monitoring and Prediction.- Session 6: Advanced Information Systems.- Towards the use of IT technologies for health literacy and health information competences – a case study.- A Systematic Literature Review on Relationship between Internet Usage Behavior and Internet QoS in Campus.- Model Checking Intelligent Information Systems with 3-Valued Timed Commitments.

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