This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, heldin Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in October 2015.

The 11 revised full papers presented in this volume werecarefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The topics focus onprivacy by design (PbD), i.e. the attempt to combine technical and organizationalmeasures to ensure the basic rights of the individual. The papers are organizedin three sessions: measuring privacy; rules and principles; legal and economicperspectives on privacy.

The three volume set LNAI 9851, LNAI 9852, and LNAI 9853 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016. The 123 full papers and 16 short papers presented  were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 460 submissions. The papers presented focus on practical and real-world studies of machine learning, knowledge discovery, data mining; innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use machine learning techniques and knowledge discovery processes in a real setting; recent advances at the frontier of machine learning and data mining with other disciplines. Part I and Part II of the proceedings contain the full papers of the contributions presented in the scientific track and abstracts of the scientific plenary talks. Part III contains the full papers of the contributions presented in the industrial track, short papers describing demonstration, the nectar papers, and the abstracts of the industrial plenary talks.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, heldin Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in October 2015.

The 11 revised full papers presented in this volume werecarefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The topics focus onprivacy by design (PbD), i.e. the attempt to combine technical and organizationalmeasures to ensure the basic rights of the individual. The papers are organizedin three sessions: measuring privacy; rules and principles; legal and economicperspectives on privacy.

The three volume set LNAI 9851, LNAI 9852, and LNAI 9853 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016. The 123 full papers and 16 short papers presented  were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 460 submissions. The papers presented focus on practical and real-world studies of machine learning, knowledge discovery, data mining; innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use machine learning techniques and knowledge discovery processes in a real setting; recent advances at the frontier of machine learning and data mining with other disciplines. Part I and Part II of the proceedings contain the full papers of the contributions presented in the scientific track and abstracts of the scientific plenary talks. Part III contains the full papers of the contributions presented in the industrial track, short papers describing demonstration, the nectar papers, and the abstracts of the industrial plenary talks.