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W. S. Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, C. Barry, K. Conboy, M. Lang, National University of C. Bettini, S. Jajodia, P. Samarati, X. S. Wang (Eds.) Arlington, VA, USA (Ed.) Ireland, Galway, Ireland; G. Wojtkowski, W. Wojtkowski, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA Privacy in Location-Based Online Worlds: Convergence (Eds.) Applications of the Real and the Virtual Information Systems Research Issues and Emerging Trends Development Virtual worlds are persistent online computer- Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education Location-based applications refer to those that use generated environments where people can location data in a prominent manner. Location interact, whether for work or play, in a manner data can be very effective for service provisioning, comparable to the real world. The most popular enabling the birth of a new generation of informa- current example is World of Warcraft, a massively Information systems development (ISD) progresses tion services. Although data security and privacy multiplayer online game with eleven million rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the issues have been extensively investigated in several subscribers. However, other virtual worlds, notably professionals involved. New concepts, approaches domains, current techniques are not readily appli- Second Life, are not games at all but internet- and techniques of systems development emerge cable to location-based applications. Conciliating based collaboration contexts in which people can constantly in this field. Progress in ISD is a result the effectiveness of these applications with privacy create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and of both research and practice. concerns constitutes a unique challenge, mostly working groups. These volumes discuss issues pertaining to ISD due to the semantic richness of location and time This book brings together an international team in the inter-networked digital economy. Authors information. Research in this field involves aspects of highly accomplished authors to examine the include researchers, both experienced and novice, of spatio-temporal reasoning, query processing, phenomena of virtual worlds, using a range of from industry and academia, as well as students system security, statistical inference, and more theories and methodologies to discover the prin- and practitioners. Themes will include methods importantly, anonymization techniques. Several ciples that are making virtual worlds increasingly and approaches for ISD; ISD education; philosoph- research groups have been working in recent years popular, and which are establishing them as a ical, ethical, and sociological aspects of ISD; as well to identify privacy attacks and defense techniques major sector of human-centred computing. as specialized tracks such as: distributed software in this domain. development, ISD and knowledge management, Features ISD and electronic business / electronic govern- Fields of interest 7 “Online Worlds” is a landmark publication ment, ISD in public sector organizations, IOS. Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); about virtual worlds, exploring the cutting edge Personal Computing; Information Storage and of social computing, and based on solid scientific Features Retrieval; Computer Applications; Management research 7 It is based on solid methodological 7 Presents the latest and greatest concepts, of Computing and Information Systems; Legal approaches including participation observation approaches, and techniques of systems develop- Aspects of Computing ethnography, quantitative statistical analysis, labo- ment - a notoriously transitional field ratory experimentation, design studies, and others 7 Illustrates the newest design and develop- Target groups ment in information systems, in applications Researchers and professionals Fields of interest engineering and reengineering, as well as issues User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; concerned with teaching and learning in this field Type of publication Computer Graphics; Computer Appl. in Social Collected works and Behavioral Sciences; Computers and Society; Fields of interest e-Commerce/e-business (previously: Electronic Database Management; Information Storage and Commerce/e-business Retrieval; Information Systems; Computer Science, general; Software Engineering/Programming and Target groups Operating Systems Instructors, students, researchers and practitioners working in the fields of virtual worlds or online Target groups games Researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of Information systems development Type of publication Contributed volume Type of publication Contributed volume
Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science Due September 2009 Due November 2009 Available 2009. VII, 217 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / 2010. Approx. 310 p. 8 illus., 4 in color. Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/ (Human-Computer Interaction Series) Softcover 2009. 600 p. (2-volume-set) Web, and HCI, Volume 5599) Softcover 7 € 59,95 | £39.95 7 € 219,00 | £197.00 7 € 46,00 | £41.99 7 * € (D) 64,15 | € (A) 65,95 | sFr 93,50 7 * € (D) 234,33 | € (A) 240,90 | sFr 340,00 7 * € (D) 49,22 | € (A) 50,60 | sFr 71,50 9
M. Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK (Ed.) M. Chakraborty, University of Calcutta, India; M. M. Gaber, Monash University, Melbourne, W. Wu, Zhejiang Ocean University, P.R. China; Australia (Ed.) Artificial Intelligence M. Wolski, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland (Eds.) An International Perspective Scientific Data Mining and Transactions on Rough Sets X Knowledge Discovery Principles and Foundations Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing Editor-in-chief: J. F. Peters, A. Skowron inter-disciplinary field with a long and distin- guished history that involves many countries With the evolution in data storage, large databases and considerably pre-dates the development of The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets have stimulated researchers from many areas, computers. It can be traced back at least as far is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets especially machine learning and statistics, to adopt as Ancient Greece and has evolved over time to related issues, from logical and mathematical and develop new techniques for data analysis in become a major subfield of computer science in foundations, through all aspects of rough set different fields of science. In particular, there have general. theory and its applications, such as data mining, been notable successes in the use of statistical, This state-of-the-art survey not only serves as a knowledge discovery, and intelligent information computational, and machine learning techniques “position paper” on the field from the viewpoint of processing, to relations between rough sets and to discover scientific knowledge in the fields of expert members of the IFIP Technical Committee other approaches to uncertainty, vagueness, and biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. With 12, its Working Groups and their colleagues, incompleteness, such as fuzzy sets and theory of the recent advances in ontologies and knowledge but also presents overviews of current work in evidence. representation, automated scientific discovery different countries. This book, which constitutes the tenth volume of (ASD) has further, great prospects in the future. The chapters describe important relatively new or the Transactions on Rough Sets series, provides The contributions in this book provide the reader emerging areas of work in which the authors are evidence of further growth in the rough set with a complete view of the different tools used in personally involved, including text and hypertext landscape, both in terms of its foundations and its the analysis of data for scientific discovery. Gaber categorization; autonomous systems; affective applications. The 8 papers presented in this volume has organized the presentation into four parts. intelligence; AI in electronic healthcare systems; focus on a number of research streams that were artifact-mediated society and social intelligence either directly or indirectly begun by the seminal Contents design; multilingual knowledge management; work on rough sets by Zdzislaw Pawlak. 1) Introduction.- Part I: Background.- 2) Machine agents, intelligence and tools. Learning - 3) Statistical Inference - 4) The Fields of interest Philosophy of Science and Its Relation to Machine Fields of interest Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Learning - 5) Concept Formation in Scientific Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Program- Computation by Abstract Devices; Theory of Knwoledge Discovery from a Constructivist View ming Techniques; Mathematical Logic and Formal Computation; Image Processing and Computer - 6) Knowledge Representation and Ontolo- Languages; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Vision; Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence gies.- Part II: Computational Science.- 7) Spatial Complexity; Data Mining and Knowledge (incl. Robotics) Techniques - 8) Computational Chemistry - Discovery 9) String Mining in Bioinformatics.- Part III: Target groups Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- Target groups Researchers and professionals 10) Knowledge Discovery and Reasoning in Researchers and professionals Geospatial Applications - 11) Data Mining and Type of publication Discovery of Chemical Knowledge - 12) Data Type of publication Collected works Mining and Discovery of Astronomical Knowl- Collected works edge.- Part IV: Future Trends.- 14) Onboard Data Mining - 15) Data Streams: An Overview and Scientific Applications.- References.- Index.
Fields of interest e-Commerce/e-business; Scientific Computing; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Pattern Recognition; Computer Applications in Chem- istry; Computer Applications in Earth Sciences
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Type of publication Monograph Computer Science Computer Science Due September 2009 Computer Science Due September 2009 2009. VII, 260 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Due September 2009 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 5640) 2009. IX, 275 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Softcover Transactions on Rough Sets, Volume 5656) Softcover 2009. X, 300 p. Hardcover 7 € 63,95 | £57.99 7 € 60,95 | £54.99 7 € 79,95 | £72.00 7 * € (D) 68,43 | € (A) 70,35 | sFr 99,50 7 * € (D) 65,22 | € (A) 67,05 | sFr 95,00 7 * € (D) 85,55 | € (A) 87,95 | sFr 124,50 9
N. Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, A. Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, A. El Rhalibi, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Kharagpur, India; A. Deutsch, Technical University of France; J. Küng, R. R. Wagner, University of Linz, (Ed.) Dresden, Germany; A. Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Austria (Eds.) Technology, Kharagpur, India (Eds.) Transactions on Edutainment II Transactions on Large-Scale Dynamics On and Of Complex Data- and Knowledge- Editor-in-chief: Z. Pan, A. D. Cheok, W. Müller Networks Centered Systems I Applications to Biology, Computer Science, This journal subline serves as a forum for and the Social Sciences stimulating and disseminating innovative research The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools on data management, knowledge discovery, and in all different genres of edutainment, such as This self-contained book systematically explores knowledge processing, which are core and hot game-based learning and serious games, interac- the statistical dynamics on and of complex topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, tive storytelling, virtual learning environments, networks having relevance across a large number the Internet has become the main driving force VR-based education, and related fields. It covers of scientific disciplines. The theories related to behind applicational development in all domains. aspects from educational and game theories, complex networks are increasingly being used by An increase in the demand for resource sharing human-computer interaction, computer graphics, researchers for their usefulness in harnessing the across different sites connected through networks artificial intelligence, and systems design. most difficult problems of a particular disci- has led to an evolvement of data- and knowledge- The second volume in this series contains a selec- pline. The book is a collection of surveys and management systems from centralized systems tion of outstanding contributions from GDTW cutting-edge research contributions exploring the to decentralized systems enabling large-scale 2008, the 6th International Conference in Game interdisciplinary relationship of dynamics on and distributed applications providing high scalability. Design and Technology, which took place in the of complex networks. Current decentralized systems still focus on data UK, in November 2008, and Cyberworlds 2008, Towards this goal, the work is thematically and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility held in Hangzhou, China, in September 2008. organized into three main sections: Part I studies of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to- These papers are complemented by contributions the application of complex networks to biological peer) techniques and the support of agent systems from international experts in this field. problems; Part II focuses on social networks; and with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy Part III is an overview of networks prevalent in the between Grids, P2P systems, and agent technolo- Fields of interest information sciences. gies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered Computers and Education; User Interfaces and systems in large-scale environments. Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia Infor- Fields of interest mation Systems; Information Systems Applications Computer Systems Organization and Commu- Fields of interest (incl.Internet); Computer Graphics; Educational nication Networks; Complexity; Systems and Database Management; e-Commerce/e-business; Technology Information Theory in Engineering; Complexity; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Mathematical Biology in General; Mathematical Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Target groups Modeling and IndustrialMathematics; Communi- Systems and Communication Service; Manage- Researchers and professionals cations Engineering, Networks ment of Computing and Information Systems Type of publication Target groups Target groups Collected works Graduate students, researchers, and practitioners Researchers and professionals in computer science, biology, statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, linguistics, and the social Type of publication sciences Collected works
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J. F. Peters,University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, S. Tessaris, E. Franconi, T. Eiter, C. Gutierrez, A. Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Canada; A. Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland (Eds) S. Handschuh, M. C. Rousset, R. A. Schmidt (Eds.) Germany; D. Metzing, Universität Bielefeld, Germany (Eds.) Transactions on Rough Reasoning Web. Semantic Sets VIII Technologies for Information Linguistic Modeling of Systems Information and Markup 5th International Summer School 2009, Languages The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, Contributions to Language Technology is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets August 30–September 4, 2009, Tutorial related issues, from logical and mathematical foundations, through all aspects of rough set Lectures theory and its applications, such as data mining, This book addresses the interests of a large knowledge discovery, and intelligent information community of researchers in the fields of XML- processing, to relations between rough sets and This book contains a collection of seven thor- based annotation techniques and corpus-based other approaches to uncertainty, vagueness, and oughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures language technology. It covers the most significant incompleteness, such as fuzzy sets and theory of given by leading researchers at the 5th Interna- recent developments in this field, from multi- evidence. tional Summer School on the Reasoning Web, layered mark-up and standards to theoretical This book, which constitutes the eighth volume of held in Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, from August formalisms to applications. The contributions are the Transactions on Rough Sets series, contains a 30 to September 4, 2009. The objective of the based on research projects at international level in wide spectrum of contributions to the theory and book is to provide a coherent introduction to text technology, computational linguistics, hyper- applications of rough sets. semantic web methods and research issues with a text modeling and in the domain of standards The 17 papers presented explore several research particular emphasis on reasoning. and tools for language resources. Core topics are: streams and introduce a number of new advances The focus of this year’s event was on the use of strategies for multi-layered document modeling in the foundations and applications of artificial semantic technologies to enhance data access on and processing, mark-up at different levels for intelligence, engineering, logic, mathematics, and the web. Topics covered include design and anal- textual resources, and text-technological informa- science. ysis of reasoning procedures for description logics; tion modeling. answer set programming basics, its modeling The sections of the book offer an exhaustive Fields of interest methodology and its principal extensions tailored coverage of many of the current topics in the fields Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; for semantic web applications; languages for concerned, especially: Multi-layered Markup; Computation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intel- constraining and querying XML data; RDF data- Markup Languages and Language Resources; ligence (incl. Robotics); Database Management; base theory and efficient and scalable support for Markup and Text Types; Markup Languages and Models and Principles RDF/OWL data storage, loading, inferencing and Hypertext; Markup and Formalization. querying; tractable description logics and their use Target groups for ontology-based data access. Features Researchers and professionals 7 An important contribution to the development Fields of interest of the new field of Annotation Science (a term Type of publication Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); recently coined by Nancy Ide) 7 Fully covers all Collected works Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Math- significant trends: multi-layered markup, markup ematical Logic and Formal Languages; Logics languages and language resources, markup and and Meanings of Programs; Mathematics of text types, hypertext, formalization, standards, Computing; Algorithm Analysis and Problem theoretical formalisms and applications Complexity Fields of interest Target groups Language Translation and Linguistics; Computa- Researchers and professionals tional Linguistics
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Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science Due September 2009 Available Due December 2009 2009. VII, 357 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / 2008. X, 521 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/ 2010. Approx. 300 p. (Text, Speech and Language Transactions on Rough Sets, Volume 5084) Softcover Web, and HCI, Volume 5689) Softcover Technology, Volume 40) Hardcover 7 € 85,00 | £76.50 7 € 48,95 | £44.99 7 € 99,95 | £90.00 7 * € (D) 90,95 | € (A) 93,50 | sFr 132,00 7 * € (D) 52,38 | € (A) 53,85 | sFr 76,00 7 * € (D) 106,95 | € (A) 109,95 | sFr 155,50 9