This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the international workshops associated with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2024, which was held in Limassol, Cyprus, during June 2024.The total of 25 full and 5 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They stem from the following workshops:– International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, PoEM 2023, which took place in Vienna, Austria, during November 28 - December 1, 2023.PoEM offers a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. This year the theme of the conference is Enterprise Modeling in the Circular Economy.The 12 full papers presented in this volume were ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2022, which took place in October 2022 in a virtual mode.The 48 full papers presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 239 submissions. They deal with the latest advances in fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications of the Semantic Web, linked data, knowledge graphs, and knowledge processing on the Web. Papers are organized in a research track, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during November 6-9, 2023. The 21 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. Additionally, the book contains 4 keynote speeches and 3 tutorials, and one invited paper corresponding to one of the keynote speeches.The papers cover a broad spectrum of classical and modern topics on conceptual modeling, including rese...

This book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on Progress in Digital and Physical Manufacturing (ProDPM'19), organized by the School of Technology and Management (ESTG) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL). It presents a significant contribution to the current advances in digital and physical manufacturing issues as it contains topical research in this field. The book content is of interest to those working on digital and physical manufacturing, promoti...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, in October 2022.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: enterprise security; enterprise architecture; business process modeling and monitoring; business process mining and discovery; and process-dri...

This is a fiction/Horror novel about a teenage girl from Bangor, Maine, who goes away with her parents for a summer vacation and is attacked in the the woods of the resort, by an unknown demon. She later discovers that she is pregnant and is confused as to how it happened, because she remembers that she was alone in the woods the night the attack took place. Jocelyn decides to keep her child and notices that she is going through many strange changes with her body. After Opus is born, Jocel...

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for FictionFinalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book AwardA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearIt's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling ...

This volume celebrates the career of Prof. Ricardo de Almeida Falbo on the occasion of his formal retirement. The volume includes reflections from collaborators and former students, casting light on his academic work and contributions.The chapters show how Falbo's original contributions have influenced a number of developments in the application of Software Engineering practices to Ontology Engineering and in the application of Ontologies in Software Engineering.A few perso...

A rollicking and poignant romantic comedy about a young widow who decides to get in shape...and winds up getting her groove back—and a whole lot more!Holly Brennan used food to comfort herself through her husband’s illness and death. Now she’s alone at age thirty-two. And she weighs more than she ever has. When fate throws her in the path of Logan Montgomery, personal trainer to pro athletes, and he offers to train her, Holly concludes it must be a sign. Much as sh...

Wild Billionaires After Dark are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series.Indulge your inner vixen with these sexy billionaires!Meet the Wilds... Four sinfully sexy, uber-alpha brothers, about to fall head over heels for their leading ladies.Stella "Stormy" Knight is an expert at hiding--her feelings, her past, and her identity. Sometimes all that hiding takes its toll, and...

Sherri Travis is three months behind on her mortgage and it will be last call for the Sunset Bar & Grill if she doesn't come up with some cash. When Aunt Kay offers to pay Sherri to ask a few questions about Holly Mitchell's death, it sounds like easy money. It quickly descends into a dangerous world of drugs,sex workers, and perversion. Did Holly really take the highball exit, or was she murdered? And what happened to Holly's baby?