This text reviews the issues involved in handling and processing digital documents. Examining the full range of a document’s lifetime, the book covers acquisition, representation, security, pre-processing, layout analysis, understanding, analysis of single components, information extraction, filing, indexing and retrieval. Features: provides a list of acronyms and a glossary of technical terms; contains appendices covering key concepts in machine learning, and providing a case study on bui...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2017, held in Bari, Italy, in November 2017.The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications of AI; natural language processing; knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge engineering, ontologies and the semantic web; machinel...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2015, held in Lyon, France, in October 2015.The 31 revised full papers presented together with 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining methods; databases, information retrieval, recommender systems; machine learning; knowledge representation, semantic web; emot...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, held in Bari, Italy, in January 2020.The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, bid data and data science in DL; cultural heritage; open science.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2016, held in Firence, Italy, in February 2016.The 15 papers presented were carefully selected from 23 submissions and cover topics such as formal methods, long-term preservation, metadata creation, management and curation, multimedia, ontology and linked data.The papers deal with numerous multidisciplinary aspects ranging from computer science to hum...

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the development of automatic traffic analysis systems that are able to not only anticipate traffic scenarios, but also understand the behavior of road users (vehicles, bikes, trucks, etc.) in order to provide better traffic management, prevent accidents and, potentially, identify criminal behaviors. Topics also include traffic surveillance and vehicle accident analysis using formal concept analysis, convolutional and recurrent neura...

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 book provides a systematic and comparative description of the vast number of research issues related to the quality of data and information. It does so by delivering a sound, integrated and comprehensive overview of the state of the art and future development of data and information quality in databases and information systems.To this end, it presents an extensive description of the techniques that constitute the core of data and information quality research, including record ...

Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services, or social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt different ontologies. Thus, merely using ontologies, like using XML, does not reduce heterogeneity: it just raises heterogeneity problems to a higher level.Euzenat and Shva...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014.The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 287 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; knowledge management and informatio...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshopscollocated with the SEFM 2015 conference on Software Engineering andFormal Methods, held in York, UK, in September 2015.The 25 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed andselected from 32 submissions.The satellite workshops provided a highly interactive and collaborative environment for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to discuss emerging areas of so...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2015.The 25 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 280 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development...