Business process management (BPM) is an established research domain for computer
science, information systems, and management scholars. The record number
and wide scope of submissions to the eighth installation of the International
Conference on Business Process Management was an indication of the vibrancy
of the area and the varied...
Parallel computing has been confined, for much of its over 40 year history, to highly
specialized, technology-wise advanced domains such as scientific computing or
telecommunications. There were only a few experts who had the background and
experience to write efficient, robust and scalable programs for these parallel machines.
In the emerging era of Web 3.0, securing cyberspace has gradually evolved into a
critical organizational and national research agenda inviting interest from a multidisciplinary
scientific workforce. There are many avenues into this area, and, in recent
research, machine-learning and data-mining techniques have been applied to design,...
The Internet already is the broadest and most used source of legal information: in
the web one can find most statutory texts (all in some jurisdictions), a vast amount of
case law, huge repertoires of doctrinal contributions, many blogs and fora discussing
different legal issues. Moreover, as legal activities (legislative,...
One of the consequences of the information revolution is the ever-growing amount of
information we are surrounded with and the need to process this information
efficiently and extract meaningful knowledge. This phenomenon was termed “digital
obesity” or “information obesity” by Toshiba Ltd. One...
The authors of this book are both practicing software architects who have
worked in this role, together and separately, on information system development
projects for quite a few years. During that time, we have seen a significant
increase in the visibility of software architects and in the importance
with which our role has been...
We are entering the golden age of GPU computing. Since the introduction of CUDA in 2007, more
than 100 million computers with CUDA-capable GPUs have been shipped to end users. Unlike the
previous GPGPU shader programming models, CUDA supports parallel programming in C. From my
own experience in teaching CUDA programming, C programmers...
As the title of this book suggests, it is an update of the first edition of the Handbook of Natural Language
Processing which was edited by Robert Dale, Hermann Moisl, and Harold Somers and published in the
year 2000. The vigorous growth of new methods in Natural Language Processing (henceforth, NLP) since
then, strongly suggested that...
What will data management technologies look like in ten years? While the future's difficult to predict, this book provides students, researchers and professionals alike with a brief and engaging look at one prescient trend: the convergence of search and database technologies. This convergence has given rise to a new breed of...
The Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering is the first comprehensive handbook covering these two important areas that have become interwoven in recent years. Many international experts contribute to this Hand book. Each article is written in a way that a practitioner of software engineering and knowledge engineering can...
With the unprecedented rate at which data is being collected today in almost all
elds of human endeavor, there is an emerging economic and scienti c need to
extract useful information from it. For example, many companies already have
data-warehouses in the terabyte range (e.g., FedEx, Walmart). The World Wide
Web has an estimated 800...
Welcome to the proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Embedded
and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004) which was held in Aizu-Wakamatsu
City, Japan, 25–27 August 2004.
Embedded and ubiquitous computing are emerging rapidly as exciting new
paradigms and disciplines to provide computing and communication services...
