New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies

New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies

Author: Alvaro Rocha

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-25

Total Pages: 1218

ISBN-13: 3319164864

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This book contains a selection of articles from The 2015 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'15), held between the 1st and 3rd of April in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern Information Systems and Technologies research, technological development and applications. The main topics covered are: Information and Knowledge Management; Organizational Models and Information Systems; Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; Big Data Analytics and Applications; Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; Multimedia Systems and Applications; Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; Human-Computer Interaction; Health Informatics; Information Technologies in Education; Information Technologies in Radio communications.


Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing

Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing

Author: Florin Pop

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 3319284487

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing, ARMS-CC 2015, held in Conjunction with ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2015, in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, in July 2015. The 12 revised full papers, including 1 invited paper, were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers have identified several important aspects of the problem addressed by ARMS-CC: self-* and autonomous cloud systems, cloud quality management and service level agreement (SLA), scalable computing, mobile cloud computing, cloud computing techniques for big data, high performance cloud computing, resource management in big data platforms, scheduling algorithms for big data processing, cloud composition, federation, bridging, and bursting, cloud resource virtualization and composition, load-balancing and co-allocation, fault tolerance, reliability, and availability of cloud systems.


Advances in Information Retrieval

Advances in Information Retrieval

Author: Allan Hanbury

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-16

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13: 331916354X

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in March/April 2015. The 44 full papers, 41 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented together with 3 keynotes in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 305 submissions. The focus of the papers were on following topics: aggregated search and diversity, classification, cross-lingual and discourse, efficiency, evaluation, event mining and summarisation, information extraction, recommender systems, semantic and graph-based models, sentiment and opinion, social media, specific search tasks, temporal models and features, topic and document models, user behavior and reproducible IR.


The Turn

The Turn

Author: Peter Ingwersen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-11-30

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1402038518

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T The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their separate and narrow paths and construct a new avenue of research. An essential direction for this avenue is context as given in the subtitle Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Other essential themes in the book include: IS&R research models, frameworks and theories; search and works tasks and situations in context; interaction between humans and machines; information acquisition, relevance and information use; research design and methodology based on a structured set of explicit variables - all set into the holistic cognitive approach. The present monograph invites the reader into a construction project - there is much research to do for a contextual understanding of IS&R. The Turn represents a wide-ranging perspective of IS&R by providing a novel unique research framework, covering both individual and social aspects of information behavior, including the generation, searching, retrieval and use of information. Regarding traditional laboratory information retrieval research, the monograph proposes the extension of research toward actors, search and work tasks, IR interaction and utility of information. Regarding traditional information seeking research, it proposes the extension toward information access technology and work task contexts. The Turn is the first synthesis of research in the broad area of IS&R ranging from systems oriented laboratory IR research to social science oriented information seeking studies.


Understanding Information Retrieval Systems

Understanding Information Retrieval Systems

Author: Marcia J. Bates

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-12-20

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 1439891990

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In order to be effective for their users, information retrieval (IR) systems should be adapted to the specific needs of particular environments. The huge and growing array of types of information retrieval systems in use today is on display in Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Management, Types, and Standards, which addresses over 20 typ


Advances in Information Retrieval

Advances in Information Retrieval

Author: Joemon M Jose

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 827

ISBN-13: 3319566083

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2017, held in Aberdeen, UK, in April 2017. The 36 full papers and 47 poster papers presented together with 5 Abstracts, were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 submissions. Being the premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval, ECIR features a wide range of topics such as: IR Theory and Practice; Deep Learning and IR; Web and Social Media IR; User Aspects; IR System Architectures; Content Representation and Processing; Evaluation; Multimedia and Cross-Media IR; Applications.


Social Information Seeking

Social Information Seeking

Author: Chirag Shah

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-28

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 331956756X

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This volume summarizes the author’s work on social information seeking (SIS), and at the same time serves as an introduction to the topic. Sometimes also referred to as social search or social information retrieval, this is a relatively new area of study concerned with the seeking and acquiring of information from social spaces on the Internet. It involves studying situations, motivations, and methods involved in seeking and sharing of information in participatory online social sites, such as Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, and Twitter, as well as building systems for supporting such activities. The first part of the book introduces various foundational concepts, including information seeking, social media, and social networking. As such it provides the necessary basis to then discuss how those aspects could intertwine in different ways to create methods, tools, and opportunities for supporting and leveraging SIS. Next, Part II discusses the social dimension and primarily examines the online question-answering activity. Part III then emphasizes the collaborative aspect of information seeking, and examines what happens when social and collaborative dimensions are considered together. Lastly, Part IV provides a synthesis by consolidating methods, systems, and evaluation techniques related to social and collaborative information seeking. The book is completed by a list of challenges and opportunities for both theoretical and practical SIS work. The book is intended mainly for researchers and graduate students looking for an introduction to this new field, as well as developers and system designers interested in building interactive information retrieval systems or social/community-driven interfaces.


New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval

New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval

Author: Amanda Spink

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1402040148

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New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval presents an exciting new direction for research into cognitive oriented information retrieval (IR) research, a direction based on an analysis of the user’s problem situation and cognitive behavior when using the IR system. This contrasts with the current dominant IR research paradigm which concentrates on improving IR system matching performance. The chapters describe the leading edge concepts and models of cognitive IR that explore the nexus between human cognition, information and the social conditions that drive humans to seek information using IR systems. Chapter topics include: Polyrepresentation, cognitive overlap and the boomerang effect, Multitasking while conducting the search, Knowledge Diagram Visualizations of the topic space to facilitate user assimilation of information, Task, relevance, selection state, knowledge need and knowledge behavior, search training built into the search, children’s collaboration for school projects, and other cognitive perspectives on IR concepts and issues.