This double volumes LNCS 10573-10574 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2017, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2017, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2017 in October 2017 in Rhodes, Greece.The 61 full papers presented together with 19 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 180 submissions. The OTM program every year covers dat...

This double volumes LNCS 10573-10574 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2017, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2017, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2017 in October 2017 in Rhodes, Greece.The 61 full papers presented together with 19 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 180 submissions. The OTM program every year covers dat...

This volume contains the lecture notes of the 11th Reasoning Web Summer School 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in July/August 2015.In 2015, the theme of the school was Web Logic Rules. This Summer School is devoted to this perspective, and provides insight into the semantic Web, linked data, ontologies, rules, and logic.

This book constitutes revised papers from the seven workshops and one accompanying event which took place at the 21st International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2018. Overall across all workshops, 58 out of 122 papers were accepted.The workshops included in this volume are:AKTB 2018 - 10th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in BusinessBITA 2018 - 9th Workshop on Busi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2018. The BIS conference follows popular research trends, both in the academic and the business domain. Thus the theme of BIS 2018 was "Digital Transformation - An Imperative in Today's Business Markets".The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They were organized in topical sec...

Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed applications out of the reusable application logic encapsulated by Web services. Web services could be considered the best-known and most standardized technology in use today for distributed comp...

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using...

This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of recent advancements in Big Data technologies and related paradigms. Chapters are authored by international leading experts in the field, and have been reviewed and revised for maximum reader value. The volume consists of twenty-five chapters organized into four main parts. Part one covers the fundamental concepts of Big Data technologies including data curation mechanisms, data models, storage models, programming models and programming platfor...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2016, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2016, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2016 in October 2016 in Rhodes, Greece.The 45 full papers presented together with 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The OTM program every year covers data and Web semantics, dis...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2017.The 20 full papers and 7 short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on domain specific languages; systems and software assessments; modeling and formal methods; data engineering; data exploration and exp

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016.The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The mission of ENASE is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to the evaluation of novel approaches to software engineer...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 9th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2014, the 7th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2014, and the 3rd International Workshop on Quantitative Aspects in Security Assurance, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2014, co-located with the 19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2014). The volume contains 7 full and 4 short papers plus 1 keynote talk from...