This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held in conjunction with EICS 2025 and it contains This book presents a series of revised papers selected from the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium organized in conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2025) which was held in Trier, Germany, during June 2025.The 17 full papers together with 16 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selec...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on End-User Development, IS-EUD 2023, held in Cagliari, Italy, during June 6–8, 2023.The 17 full papers and 2 (keynote extended abstracts) included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Artificial Intelligence for End-Users; Internet of Things for End-Users; Privacy; Security and Society; Supporting End-User Developme...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on End-User Development, IS-EUD 2017, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2017.The 10 full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. According to the theme of the conference "that was business, this is personal" the papers address the personal involvement and engagement of end-users, the application of end-user programming beyond the professi...

In this age of information overload, people use a variety of strategies to make choices about what to buy, how to spend their leisure time, and even whom to date. Recommender systems automate some of these strategies with the goal of providing affordable, personal, and high-quality recommendations. This book offers an overview of approaches to developing state-of-the-art recommender systems. The authors present current algorithmic approaches for generating personalized buying proposals, su...

This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an improved multimedia-centric quality of experience. Each chapter offers a practical step-by-step walkthrough for a variety of concepts, components and technologies relating to the development of applications and services. Topics an...

This book aims at capitalizing and transmitting know-how about the design of Augmented Environments (AE) from some of the most prominent laboratories in the field worldwide. The authors belong to the RUFAE network (Research on User- Friendly Augmented Environments, founded in 2002) who meet in research seminars to share experience; Writing this book was perceived as an opportunity to look back over the last few years to sum up important findings; and formalize their approach and experience...

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 4th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2016, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in September 2016.The 12 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are organized in three sessions: eIDAS and data protection regulation; IoT and public clouds; and privacy policies and privacy risk presentation.

This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015.In the first part of the book, two chapters give different perspectives on the current use of linked and open data in education, including the use of technology and the topics that are being covered.The second part of the book focuses on the specific, practical applications that are being put in place to exploit open and linked data in educatio...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications, DATA 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.The 12 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: databases, data warehousing, data mining, data management, data security, knowledge and information systems and technologies; advanced application of data.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 20-22, 2015, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and technically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS).The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers and practi...

Our increasingly smart environments will sense, track and model users and provide them with personalized services. We can already embed computers in everyday objects such as shirt buttons and pencils; objects of all sizes, from wristwatches to billboards, will soon incorporate high-quality flexible displays; we have improved access to wireless Internet communication; and we are now transitioning from traditional linear to targeted interactive media. The convergence of these factors -- mini...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015, held in Poznań, Poland, in September 2015.The 22 full papers and 14 poster and demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: interoperability and information integration; multimedia information management and retrieval and digital curation; personal informati...