This book examines the techniques and applications involved in the Web Mining, Web Personalization and Recommendation and Web Community Analysis domains, including a detailed presentation of the principles, developed algorithms, and systems of the research in these areas. The applications of web mining, and the issue of how to incorporate web mining into web personalization and recommendation systems are also reviewed. Additionally, the volume explores web community mining and analysis to find the structural, organizational and temporal developments of web communities and reveal the societal sense of individuals or communities.

The volume will benefit both academic and industry communities interested in the techniques and applications of web search, web data management, web mining and web knowledge discovery, as well as web community and social network analysis.

This textbook introduces new business concepts on cloud environments such as secure, scalable anonymity and practical payment protocols for the Internet of things and Blockchain technology. The protocol uses electronic cash for payment transactions. In this new protocol, from the viewpoint of banks, consumers can improve anonymity if they are worried about disclosure of their identities in the cloud. Currently, there is not a book available that has reported the techniques covering the protocols with anonymizations and Blockchain technology. Thus this will be a useful book for universities to purchase. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2019, held in Xi’an, China, in October 2019.

The 14 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Medical Information System and Platform; Mining Medical Data; EEG and ECG; Medical Image; Mental Health; and Healthcare.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2020, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during October 20-23, 2020.

The 11 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: mental health; medical record processing; medical information systems; medical diagnosis with machine learning; and health behavior and medication.

The 81 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: network embedding; graph neural network; social network; graph query; knowledge graph and entity linkage; spatial temporal data analysis; and service computing and cloud computing

Part II: information extraction; text mining; security and privacy; recommender system; database system and workflow; and data mining and applications

The 81 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: network embedding; graph neural network; social network; graph query; knowledge graph and entity linkage; spatial temporal data analysis; and service computing and cloud computing

Part II: information extraction; text mining; security and privacy; recommender system; database system and workflow; and data mining and applications

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, held in Biarritz, France, in November 2022.

The 31 full, 13 short and 3 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Social Media, Spatial & Temporal Issues, Query Processing & Information Extraction, Architecture and Performance, Graph Data Management, Security & Privacy, Information Retrieval & Text Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Learning & Optimization, Spatial Data Processing, Recommendation, Neural Networks, and Demo Papers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014.The 52 full papers, 16 short and 14 poster papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8786 and 8787 were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining, modeling and classification; Web querying and searching; Web recommendation and personalization; semantic Web; social online networks; software architectures amd platforms; Web technologies and frameworks; Web innovation and applications; and challenge.

This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015. The 53 full papers, 17 short and 14 special sessions and invited papers, presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers cover the areas of big data techniques and applications, deep/hidden web, integration of web and internet, linked open data, semantic web, social network computing, social web and applications, social web models, analysis and mining, web-based applications, web-based business processes and web services, web data integration and mashups, web data models, web information retrieval, web privacy and security, web-based recommendations, and web search.

This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutesthe proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information SystemsEngineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015.

The 53 full papers, 17 short and 14 special sessions andinvited papers, presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed andselected from 189 submissions. The papers cover the areas of big datatechniques and applications, deep/hidden Web, integration of Web and internet,linked open data, semantic Web, social network computing, social Web andapplications, social Web models, analysis and mining, Web-based applications,Web-based business processes and Web services, Web data integration andmashups, Web data models, Web information retrieval, Web privacy and security,Web-based recommendations, and Web search.

This book examines the techniques and applications involved in the Web Mining, Web Personalization and Recommendation and Web Community Analysis domains, including a detailed presentation of the principles, developed algorithms, and systems of the research in these areas. The applications of web mining, and the issue of how to incorporate web mining into web personalization and recommendation systems are also reviewed. Additionally, the volume explores web community mining and analysis to find the structural, organizational and temporal developments of web communities and reveal the societal sense of individuals or communities.

The volume will benefit both academic and industry communities interested in the techniques and applications of web search, web data management, web mining and web knowledge discovery, as well as web community and social network analysis.

This textbook introduces new business concepts on cloud environments such as secure, scalable anonymity and practical payment protocols for the Internet of things and Blockchain technology. The protocol uses electronic cash for payment transactions. In this new protocol, from the viewpoint of banks, consumers can improve anonymity if they are worried about disclosure of their identities in the cloud. Currently, there is not a book available that has reported the techniques covering the protocols with anonymizations and Blockchain technology. Thus this will be a useful book for universities to purchase. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2019, held in Xi’an, China, in October 2019.

The 14 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Medical Information System and Platform; Mining Medical Data; EEG and ECG; Medical Image; Mental Health; and Healthcare.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2020, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during October 20-23, 2020.

The 11 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: mental health; medical record processing; medical information systems; medical diagnosis with machine learning; and health behavior and medication.

The 81 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: network embedding; graph neural network; social network; graph query; knowledge graph and entity linkage; spatial temporal data analysis; and service computing and cloud computing

Part II: information extraction; text mining; security and privacy; recommender system; database system and workflow; and data mining and applications

The 81 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: network embedding; graph neural network; social network; graph query; knowledge graph and entity linkage; spatial temporal data analysis; and service computing and cloud computing

Part II: information extraction; text mining; security and privacy; recommender system; database system and workflow; and data mining and applications

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, held in Biarritz, France, in November 2022.

The 31 full, 13 short and 3 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Social Media, Spatial & Temporal Issues, Query Processing & Information Extraction, Architecture and Performance, Graph Data Management, Security & Privacy, Information Retrieval & Text Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Learning & Optimization, Spatial Data Processing, Recommendation, Neural Networks, and Demo Papers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014.The 52 full papers, 16 short and 14 poster papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8786 and 8787 were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining, modeling and classification; Web querying and searching; Web recommendation and personalization; semantic Web; social online networks; software architectures amd platforms; Web technologies and frameworks; Web innovation and applications; and challenge.

This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015. The 53 full papers, 17 short and 14 special sessions and invited papers, presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers cover the areas of big data techniques and applications, deep/hidden web, integration of web and internet, linked open data, semantic web, social network computing, social web and applications, social web models, analysis and mining, web-based applications, web-based business processes and web services, web data integration and mashups, web data models, web information retrieval, web privacy and security, web-based recommendations, and web search.

This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutesthe proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information SystemsEngineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015.

The 53 full papers, 17 short and 14 special sessions andinvited papers, presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed andselected from 189 submissions. The papers cover the areas of big datatechniques and applications, deep/hidden Web, integration of Web and internet,linked open data, semantic Web, social network computing, social Web andapplications, social Web models, analysis and mining, Web-based applications,Web-based business processes and Web services, Web data integration andmashups, Web data models, Web information retrieval, Web privacy and security,Web-based recommendations, and Web search.