This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Personal Analytics and Privacy, PAP 2017, held in Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017.The 14 papers presented together with 2 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book and handle topics such as personal analytics, personal data mining and privacy in the context where real individual data are used for developing a data-d...

This book investigates the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) in the accounting world. It integrates accounting competencies with specific competencies in AI and other digital technologies and offers an interdisciplinary perspective.First, the authors review and discuss the literature to summarize and systematize extant research on digitalization in accounting. Second, case studies are included to illustrate the potential impact of AI in business contexts in terms of opport...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, SocialSec 2023, which took place in Canterbury, UK, in August 2023.The 10 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: information abuse and political discourse; attacks; social structure and community; and security and privacy matters...

The two-volume set LNAI 15243 + 15244 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2024, which took place in Pisa, Italy, during October 14-16, 2024.The 53 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: LLM, Text Analytics, and Ethical Aspects of AI; Natural Language Processing, Sequential Data and Science Discovery; Da...

The two-volume set LNAI 15243 + 15244 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2024, which took place in Pisa, Italy, during October 14-16, 2024.The 53 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: LLM, Text Analytics, and Ethical Aspects of AI; Natural Language Processing, Sequential Data and Science Discovery; Da...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...