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Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications: 5th International Conference, DependSys 2019, Guangzhou, China, November 12–15, 2019, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1123)
by Guojun Wang Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Yizhi RenThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, DependSys, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2019.The volume presents 39 full papers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on dependability and security fundamentals and technologies; dependable and secure systems; dependable and secure applications; dependability and security measures and assessments; explainable artificial inteligence for cyberspace.
The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice
by Andrew Peterson, Robert Hattam, Michalinos Zembylas and James ArthurThis state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook is the first of its kind to fully explore the interconnections between social justice and education for citizenship on an international scale. Various educational policies and practices are predicated on notions of social justice, yet each of these are explicitly or implicitly shaped by, and in turn themselves shape, particular notions of citizenship/education for citizenship. Showcasing current research and theories from a diverse range of perspectives and including chapters from internationally renowned scholars, this Handbook seeks to examine the philosophical, psychological, social, political, and cultural backgrounds, factors and contexts that are constitutive of contemporary research on education for citizenship and social justice and aims to analyse the transformative role of education regarding social justice issues. Split into two sections, the first contains chapters that explore central issues relating to social justice and their interconnections to education for citizenship whilst the second contains chapters that explore issues of education for citizenship and social justice within the contexts of particular nations from around the world.Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of Education, Sociology, Social Policy, Citizenship Studies and Political Science.
Öffentlich-Private Partnerschaften: Auslaufmodell oder eine Strategie für kommunale Daseinsvorsorge?
by Michael Schäfer Ludger RethmannDas Prinzip Privat vs. Staat im Schwarz-Weiß-Verständnis von gut oder böse, effizient oder träge ist eine ideologische Mogelpackung. Das Buch zeigt erstmals die Realität und legt dabei den Fokus auf jenen Teil der Wirtschaft, der existenzielle Leistungen erbringt. Dafür stehen u.a. die Versorgung mit Wasser, die Entsorgung, das Recycling von Abfall oder der ÖPNV. In diesen Bereichen ist die Öffentlich-Private Kooperation, vor allem in gemeinsamen Unternehmen, seit Jahrzehnten ein Erfolgsmodell – unbeschadet von den Hoheliedern der 90er Jahre auf die Privatisierung sowie den neueren Tendenzen zur Rekommunalisierung.Das Buch ist ein Beitrag zu den großen gesellschaftspolitischen Zukunftsdiskussionen. Die existentiellen Herausforderungen können wir meistern, nicht zuletzt durch die Weiterentwicklung der sozialen Marktwirtschaft. Deren zentrales Bekenntnis lautet, dass Eigentum auch dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet sein muss. Dazu gehört die Anerkennung der herausgehobenen Rolle der Daseinsvorsorge im Kanon wirtschaftlicher Betätigungen.Weitere zentrale Themen des Buches sind: ÖPP zwischen Daseinsvorsorge, Infrastrukturdefiziten und Gewinnorientierung - Die falsche Reduktion auf Vertragspartnerschaften - Erfolgsfaktoren von ÖPP-Daseinsvorsorgeunternehmen - „Öffentlich-Private Daseinsvorsorge“ – ein neuer Begriff.
Heartsong: A Green Creek Novel (Green Creek #3)
by TJ KluneHeartsong is the third book in the Green Creek Series, the beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, loyalty, betrayal, and family.“Complex and startling... Green Creek is the perfect setting.” —Charlaine HarrisThe Bennett family has a secret: They're not just a family, they're a pack. Heartsong is Robbie Fontaine's story. All Robbie Fontaine ever wanted was a place to belong. After the death of his mother, he bounces around from pack to pack, forming temporary bonds to keep from turning feral. It’s enough—until he receives a summons from the wolf stronghold in Caswell, Maine. Life as the trusted second to Michelle Hughes—the Alpha of all—and the cherished friend of a gentle old witch teaches Robbie what it means to be pack, to have a home. But when a mission from Michelle sends Robbie into the field, he finds himself questioning where he belongs and everything he’s been told. Whispers of traitorous wolves and wild magic abound—but who are the traitors and who the betrayed? More than anything, Robbie hungers for answers, because one of those alleged traitors is Kelly Bennett—the wolf who may be his mate. The truth has a way of coming out. And when it does, everything will shatter.The Green Creek Series is for adult readers.Now available from Tor Books.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Hard Rain: A Novel (Annie McIntyre Mysteries #2)
by Samantha Jayne AllenFrom the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others.Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver.When Annie's search turns up a different victim—shot dead, not drowned—Annie questions if the hero they seek is actually a killer.Flexing her new skills while relying on the wisdom of her eccentric, ex-cop grandfather, the case leads Annie into a web of drug dealers, preachers, and wayward drifters trying to make sense of life after a disaster. Annie's own convictions are put to the ultimate test as long-held secrets, corruption, and violence are exposed like the ruin that lies beneath receding waters.
Rootbound: A Novel
by Tarah DeWittYou really can't go home again.Tait Logan is proud of the life she’s built for herself. Despite her world-shattering divorce, not having any genuine connections with other humans apart from her sister Ava, and the fact that the remainder of her family is estranged from her life, she’s happy…happy-adjacent, at least. She’s rebuilt herself through her photography; her dream career, the one thing she does still have. When that career contracts her to do an assignment on her estranged family's home, Logan Range—a now famous ranch functioning as the setting for a popular TV show—she’s left with no choice but to agree. It’s only a six-week assignment, after all. She has no plans to set down roots, or get to know the family that, seemingly, has had no interest in a relationship with her since her parents' divorce when she was seven.Henry Marcum is a cowboy who has dedicated his life to the Logan family and to their ranch. He owes them for raising him, rescuing him, and giving him purpose… He also owes them for every hardship he’s inadvertently brought their way. So, when Tait Logan shows up after 20 years of near total silence, he takes it upon himself to protect the people he knows and loves.It’s a rocky start when Tait and Henry first collide; he is naturally wary of her intentions, and she is more than perturbed by their literal collision - which results in her broken camera, during her first night on location, no less. But as the pair get to know each other better, they’re thrown off balance time and time again by their growing feelings, and by the story of the Logan family as it becomes increasingly less clear from their perspectives.Set in the mountains and valleys of Idaho on a rustic ranch, Rootbound is a steamy romance with a warm country feel that touches upon family, heartbreak, and whether the potential for disaster is worth the risk that accompanies love.
In the Lives of Puppets
by TJ KluneA NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.Most Anticipated from BookPage • Goodreads • The Nerd Daily • Paste Magazine • LitReactor • OverDrive • LGBTQ Reads • Tor.com • LibraryReads • more“An enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times.” —P. Djèlí ClarkIn a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe.The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.★ “An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness.” —Library Journal, starred reviewPraise for TJ Klune’s previous work: "Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket." —V.E. SCHWAB • “Very close to perfect.” —SEANAN McGUIRE • “Utterly absorbing.” —GAIL CARRIGER • "It will renew your faith in humanity.” —TERRY BROOKS • “It healed me.” —CASSANDRA KHAW • “Compassionate.” —RYKA AOKIAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Bee Sting: A Novel
by Paul MurrayOne of The New York Times Top 10 Books of 2023 Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2023 and the 2023 Nero Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and the 2024 Writers' Prize for FictionFinalist for the 2023 Kirkus Prize for FictionOne of The New Yorker's Essential Reads of 2023. One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2023. One of TIME's 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Economist, New York Public Library, BBC, and more.From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away.If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda’s wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man?The Bee Sting, Paul Murray’s exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.
The Translations of Seamus Heaney
by Seamus HeaneyThe complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator. Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, published in 1999, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece, “something imperishable and great” (James Wood, The Guardian). A few years after his death in 2013, his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI caused a similar stir, providing “a remarkable and fitting epilogue to one of the great poetic careers of recent times” (Nick Laird, Harper’s Magazine). Now, for the first time, the poet, critic, and essayist’s translations are gathered in one volume. Heaney translated not only classic works of Latin and Old English but also a great number of poems from Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Russian, German, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Ancient and Modern Greek, Middle and Modern French, and Medieval and Modern Italian, among other languages. In particular, the Nobel laureate engaged with works in Old, Middle, and Modern Irish, the languages of his homeland and early education. As he said, “If you lived in the Irish countryside as I did in my childhood, you lived in a primal Gaeltacht.” In The Translations of Seamus Heaney, Marco Sonzogni has collected Heaney’s translations and framed them with the poet’s own writings on his works and their composition, sourced from introductions, interviews, and commentaries. Through this volume, we come closer to grasping the true extent of Heaney’s extraordinary abilities and his genius.
Booked on a Feeling: A Novel
by Jayci LeeJayci Lee's romcom Booked on a Feeling features an overachieving lawyer. A failing bookstore. A childhood friend. And the chance of a lifetime…Lizzy "Overachiever" Chung, Esq. has her life mapped out neatly:* Become a lawyer. Check.* Join a prestigious law firm. Check.* Make partner. In progress.If all goes to plan, she will check off that last box in a couple years, make her parents proud, and live a successful, fulfilled life in L.A. What was not in her plans was passing out from a panic attack during a pivotal moment in her career. A few deep breaths and a four hour drive later, Lizzy is in Weldon for three weeks to shed the burnout and figure out what went wrong. And what better place to recharge than the small California town where she spent her childhood summers with her best friend, Jack Park.Jack Park didn't expect to see Lizzy back in Weldon, but now he's got three weeks to spend with the girl of his dreams. Except she doesn't know of his decades-long crush on her--and he intends to keep it that way. She's a high-powered attorney who lives in L.A. and he's a bookkeeper at his family's brewery who never left his hometown. He can't risk their friendship on a long shot. Can he? When Lizzy decides that the local bookstore needs a little revamp, of course, Jack is going to help her bring it back to life. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore there might be more than just friendship among the dusty shelves and books... Sometimes the path to the rest of your life has been in front of you all along.
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by Roxanna AsgarianA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Washington Post best nonfiction book of 2023 | Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction“A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book.” —Robert Kolker, The Washington Post“[A] moving and superbly reported book.” —Jessica Winter, The New Yorker“A harrowing account . . . [and] a powerful critique of [the] foster care system . . . We Were Once a Family is a wrenching book.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York TimesA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | One of Publishers Weekly's best nonfiction books of 2023 The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family’s loving facade was an alleged pattern of abuse and neglect that had been ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved west. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew all too little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children. Immersive journalism of the highest order, Roxanna Asgarian’s We Were Once a Family is a revelation of precarious lives; it is also a shattering exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that produced this tragedy. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian sought out the children’s birth families and put them at the center of the story. We follow the lives of the Harts’ adopted children and their birth parents, and the machinations of the state agency that sent the children far away. Asgarian’s reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as young people of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America’s most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families.
For the First Time, Again: A Take Them to the Stars Novel (Take Them to the Stars #3)
by Sylvain Neuvel“Exciting, thought-provoking, and ultimately shocking...I’m in for the ride to the very end!” —James Rollins on A History of What Comes NextAgainst the backdrop of authentic historical events, Sylvain Neuvel concludes his acclaimed Take Them to the Stars series with a biting satire on the role of authority in all its guises, bringing us a truly breathtaking science fiction trilogy that spans the ages. When you don’t know The Rules it’s hard to stay safe. After a traumatic incident, Aster's blood work comes back with some unusual readings. Unsurprising, as she’s the last of an alien race called the Kibsu, though she doesn’t know it. She becomes the focus of a hunt, with her mortal enemies, the Trackers, on one side, and the American government on the other. But help has come from a most unexpected quarter. Whoever finds her first, it won’t be good news for Aster.Or for the world!Also Available by Sylvain Neuvel:Take Them to the Stars series:1. A History of What Comes Next2. Until the Last of MeThe TestAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Big Data – BigData 2022: 11th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, Honolulu, HI, USA, December 10–14, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13730)
by Bo Hu Yunni Xia Yiwen Zhang Liang-Jie ZhangThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2022, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in December 2022. The 4 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions.The 2022 International Congress on Big Data (BigData 2022) aims to provide an international forum that formally explores various business insights of all kinds of value-added "services". Big Data is a key enabler of exploring business insights and economics of services.
Data Science for Entrepreneurship: Principles and Methods for Data Engineering, Analytics, Entrepreneurship, and the Society (Classroom Companion: Business)
by Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel Damian A. Tamburri Florian Böing-Messing Werner Liebregts Anne J. LafarreThe fast-paced technological development and the plethora of data create numerous opportunities waiting to be exploited by entrepreneurs. This book provides a detailed, yet practical, introduction to the fundamental principles of data science and how entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs can take advantage of it. It walks the reader through sections on data engineering, and data analytics as well as sections on data entrepreneurship and data use in relation to society. The book also offers ways to close the research and practice gaps between data science and entrepreneurship. By having read this book, students of entrepreneurship courses will be better able to commercialize data-driven ideas that may be solutions to real-life problems. Chapters contain detailed examples and cases for a better understanding. Discussion points or questions at the end of each chapter help to deeply reflect on the learning material.
Services – SERVICES 2020: 16th World Congress, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA, September 18-20, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12411)
by Joao Eduardo Ferreira Balaji Palanisamy Kejiang Ye Siva Kantamneni Liang-Jie ZhangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2020, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 5 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of software engineering foundations and applications with a focus on novel approaches for engineering requirements, design and architectures, testing, maintenance and evolution, model-driven development, software processes, metrics, quality assurance and new software economics models, search-based software engineering, benefiting day-to-day services sectors and derived through experiences, with appreciation to scale, pragmatism, transparency, compliance and/or dependability.
Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022: 21st International Conference, Lecce, Italy, May 23–27, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13232)
by Stan Sclaroff Cosimo Distante Marco Leo Giovanni M. Farinella Federico TombariThe proceedings set LNCS 13231, 13232, and 13233 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, which was held during May 23-27, 2022, in Lecce, Italy,The 168 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions. They deal with video analysis and understanding; pattern recognition and machine learning; deep learning; multi-view geometry and 3D computer vision; image analysis, detection and recognition; multimedia; biomedical and assistive technology; digital forensics and biometrics; image processing for cultural heritage; robot vision; etc.
Coding Theory and Applications: 5th International Castle Meeting, ICMCTA 2017, Vihula, Estonia, August 28-31, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10495)
by Ángela I. Barbero, Vitaly Skachek and Øyvind YtrehusThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications, ICMCTA 2017, held in Vihula, Estonia, in August 2017.The 24 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers cover relevant research areas in modern coding theory, including codes and combinatorial structures, algebraic geometric codes, group codes, convolutional codes, network coding, other applications to communications, and applications of coding theory in cryptography.
Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 20th International Conference, TSD 2017, Prague, Czech Republic, August 27-31, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10415)
by Kamil Ekštein and Václav MatoušekThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2017, held in Prague, CzechRepublic, in August 2017.The 56 regular papers presented together with 3 abstracts of keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech; speech and spoken language generation; semantic processing of text and speech; integrating applications of text and speech processing; automatic dialogue systems; as well as multimodal techniques and modelling.
Computer Vision – ECCV 2022: 17th European Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 23–27, 2022, Proceedings, Part XX (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13680)
by Shai Avidan Gabriel Brostow Moustapha Cissé Giovanni Maria Farinella Tal HassnerThe 39-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 13661 until 13699, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, during October 23–27, 2022. The 1645 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5804 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.
Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2019: 25th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Kobe, Japan, December 8–12, 2019, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11923)
by Steven D. Galbraith Shiho MoriaiThe three-volume set of LNCS 11921,11922, and 11923 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2019, held in Kobe, Japan, in December 2019. The 71 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Lattices; Symmetric Cryptography; Isogenies; Obfuscation; Multiparty Computation; Quantum; E-cash and Blockchain; Codes; Authenticated Encryption; Multilinear Maps; Homomorphic Encryption; Combinatorial Cryptography; Signatures; Public Key Encryption; Side Channels; Functional Encryption; Zero Knowledge.
Multi-Agent Systems: 20th European Conference, EUMAS 2023, Naples, Italy, September 14–15, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14282)
by Vadim Malvone Aniello MuranoThis volume LNCS 14282 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Conference EUMAS 2023, held in Naples, Italy, during September 2023.This volume includes 24 full papers and 5 short papers, carefully selected from 47 submissions. Additionally, the volume features 16 short papers, rigorously reviewed from 20 submissions for the PhD day. The conference focused on the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, covering a wide range of topics.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development: 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Manchester, UK, June 10–11, 2020, Proceedings (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #587)
by Julian M. Bass P. J. WallThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, which was supposed to be held in Salford, UK, in June 2020, but was held virtually instead due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers present a wide range of perspectives and disciplines including (but not limited to) public administration, entrepreneurship, business administration, information technology for development, information management systems, organization studies, philosophy, and management. They are organized in the following topical sections: digital platforms and gig economy; education and health; inclusion and participation; and business innovation and data privacy.
Databases Theory and Applications: 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, September 25–28, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10538)
by Zi Huang, Xiaokui Xiao and Xin CaoThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in September 2017. The 20 full papers presented together with 2 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The mission of ADC is to share novel research solutions to problems of today’s information society that fulfill the needs of heterogeneous applications and environments and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development work. The topics of the presented papers are related to all practical and theoretical aspects of advanced database theory and applications, as well as case studies and implementation experiences.
Neural Information Processing: 30th International Conference, ICONIP 2023, Changsha, China, November 20–23, 2023, Proceedings, Part XIV (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1968)
by Biao Luo Long Cheng Zheng-Guang Wu Hongyi Li Chaojie LiThe nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 1274 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. The ICONIP conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements.
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2020, Ghent, Belgium, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12458)
by Frank Hutter Kristian Kersting Jefrey Lijffijt Isabel ValeraThe 5-volume proceedings, LNAI 12457 until 12461 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2020, which was held during September 14-18, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Ghent, Belgium, but had to change to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 232 full papers and 10 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Pattern Mining; clustering; privacy and fairness; (social) network analysis and computational social science; dimensionality reduction and autoencoders; domain adaptation; sketching, sampling, and binary projections; graphical models and causality; (spatio-) temporal data and recurrent neural networks; collaborative filtering and matrix completion. Part II: deep learning optimization and theory; active learning; adversarial learning; federated learning; Kernel methods and online learning; partial label learning; reinforcement learning; transfer and multi-task learning; Bayesian optimization and few-shot learning. Part III: Combinatorial optimization; large-scale optimization and differential privacy; boosting and ensemble methods; Bayesian methods; architecture of neural networks; graph neural networks; Gaussian processes; computer vision and image processing; natural language processing; bioinformatics. Part IV: applied data science: recommendation; applied data science: anomaly detection; applied data science: Web mining; applied data science: transportation; applied data science: activity recognition; applied data science: hardware and manufacturing; applied data science: spatiotemporal data. Part V: applied data science: social good; applied data science: healthcare; applied data science: e-commerce and finance; applied data science: computational social science; applied data science: sports; demo track.