The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, held in Puschino, Russia, in October 2017.The 49 full papers and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as microblog data analysis, social network data analysis, data mining, pattern mining, event detection, cloud computing, query pro...

This book analyzes unexpected preference query results for three problems: causality and responsibility problems, why-not and why questions, and why-few and why-many questions. Further, it refines preference queries and discusses how to modify the original preference query based on different objectives, in order to obtain satisfying results. This highly informative and carefully presented book provides valuable insights for researchers, postgraduates and practitioners with an interest in d...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spatial Data and Intelligence, SpatialDI 2021, which was held during April 22-24, 2021 in Hangzhou, China.The 14 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They are organized in the topical sections named: traffic management, data science, and city analysis.

The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, held in Puschino, Russia, in October 2017.The 49 full papers and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as microblog data analysis, social network data analysis, data mining, pattern mining, event detection, cloud computing, query pro...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops of the 5th Asia-Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2021: The Fourth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Management and Applications, KGMA 2021, The Third International Workshop on Semi-structured Big Data Management and Application, SemiBDMA 2021, and The Second International Workshop on Deep Learning in Large-scale Unstructured Data Analytics, D...

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2020, and 5th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2020, held in Ningbo, China in October 2020.Together for the ICWL 2020 Conference and SETE 2020 Symposium 39 full papers were accepted together with 31 short papers out of 233 submissions. The papers focus on the following subjects: Semantic Web for E-Learning, through Learning

This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2014, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014. The volume contains papers from 4 workshops, each focusing on hot topics related to database systems and applications: the Second International Workshop on Big Data Management and Analytics, BDMA 2014; the Third International Workshop on Data Management for Emerging Network Infrastructure, DaMEN 2014; the Thi...

DASFAA is an annual international database conference, located in the Asia-Pacific region,which show cases state-of-the-art R & D activities in databases-terms and their applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry. DASFAA 2015 the 20th in the series, was held during April 20-23, 2015 in Hanoi, Vietnam. In this year, we carefully selected two workshops, each focusing on sp...

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 two-volume set, LNCS 9658 and 9659, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2016, held in Nanchang, China, in June 2016.The 80 full research papers presented together with 8 demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 266 submissions. The focus of the conference is on following topics: data mining, spatial and temporal databases, recommender systems, graph data management, informa...

This two –volume set, LNCS 10366 and 10367, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2017, held in Beijing, China in July 2017.The 44 full papers presented together with 32 short papers and 10 demonstrations papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: spatial data processing and data quality; graph data processing; data mining, privacy and seman...

This two volume set LNCS 10177 and 10178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2017, held in Suzhou, China, in March 2017. The 73 full papers, 9 industry papers, 4 demo papers and 3 tutorials were carefully selected from a total of 300 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: semantic web and knowledge management; indexing and distributed systems; network embedding; trajector...