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• Plane and Planarity Thresholds for Random Geometric Graphs.- Connectivity of a dense mesh of randomly oriented directional antennas under a realistic fading model.- Maintaining Intruder Detection Capability in a Rectangular Domain with Sensors.- The Weakest Oracle for Symmetric Consensus in Population Protocols.- Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Data Mule Scheduling in a Sensor Network.- Limitations of Current Wireless Scheduling Algorithms.- Deterministic rendezvous with detection using beeps.- Minimizing total sensor movement for barrier coverage by non-uniform sensors on a line.- A comprehensive and lightweight security architecture to secure the IoT throughout the lifecycle of a device based on HIMMO.- Maximizing Throughput in Energy-Harvesting Sensor Nodes.- On verifying and maintaining connectivity of interval temporal networks.- Beachcombing on Strips and Islands.- Radio Aggregation Scheduling.- Gathering of Robots on Meeting-Points.- Mutual Visibility with an Optimal Number of Colors.- Mobile Agents Rendezvous in spite of a Malicious Agent.
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2015, held in Patras, Greece, in September 2015. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The deal with algorithms analysis and problem complexity; computer communication networks; computation by abstract devices; and mathematics of computing.
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• Multi-Message Broadcast in Dynamic Radio Networks.- Global Synchronization and Consensus Using Beeps in a Fault-Prone MAC 16.- Vertex Coloring with Communication and Local Memory Constraints in Synchronous Broadcast Networks.- A New Kind of Selectors, and Their Applications to Conflict Resolution in Wireless Multi-channels Networks.- The Impact of the Gabriel Sub-graph of the Visibility Graph on the Gathering of Mobile Autonomous Robots.- Search-and-Fetch with One Robot on a Disk.- A 2-Approximation Algorithm for Barrier Coverage by Weighted Non-uniform Sensors on a Line.- Flexible Cell Selection in Cellular Networks.- The Euclidean k-Supplier Problem in IR2.
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2016, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2016. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. This year papers were solicited into three tracks: Distributed and Mobile, Experiments and Applications, and Wireless and Geometry.
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• Learning sequential data with the help of linear systems
• A spiking neural network for personalised modelling of Electrogastogrophy (EGG)
• Improving generalization abilities of maximal average margin classifiers
• Finding small sets of random Fourier features for shift-invariant kernel approximation
• Incremental construction of low-dimensional data representations
• Soft-constrained nonparametric density estimation with artificial neural networks
• Density based clustering via dominant sets
• Co-training with credal models
• Interpretable classifiers in precision medicine: feature selection and multi-class categorization
• On the evaluation of tensor-based representations for optimum-pathforest classification
• On the harmony search using quaternions
• Learning parameters in deep belief networks through firefly algorithm
• Towards effective classification of imbalanced data with convolutional neural networks
• On CPU performance optimization of restricted Boltzmann machine and convolutional RBM
• Comparing incremental learning strategies for convolutional neural networks
• Approximation of graph edit distance by means of a utility matrix
• Time series classification in reservoir- and model-space: a comparison
• Objectness scoring and detection proposals in forward-Looking sonar images with convolutional neural networks
• Background categorization for automatic animal detection in aerial videos using neural networks
• Predictive segmentation using multichannel neural networks in Arabic OCR system
• Quad-tree based image segmentation and feature extraction to recognize online handwritten Bangla characters
• A hybrid recurrent neural network/dynamic probabilistic graphical model predictor of the disulfide bonding state of cysteines from the primary structure of proteins
• Using radial basis function neural networks for continuous anddiscrete pain estimation from bio-physiological signals
• Active learning for speech event detection in HCI
• Emotion recognition in speech with deep learning architectures
• On gestures and postural behavior as a modality in ensemble methods
• Machine learning driven heart rate detection with camera photoplethysmography in time domain.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2016, held in Ulm, Germany, in September 2016. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions for inclusion in this volume. The workshop will act as a major forum for international researchers and practitioners working in all areas of neural network- and machine learning-based pattern recognition to present and discuss the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas.

• Intro
• Preface
• Organization
• Contents
• Invited Papers
• What's Wrong with Computer Vision?
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Top Ten Questions a Theory on Vision Should Address
• 3 Hierarchical Description of Visual Tasks
• 3.1 Pixel-Wise and Abstract Visual Interpretations
• 3.2 The Interwound Story of Vision and Language
• 3.3 When Vision Collapses to Classification
• 4 Conclusions
• References
• Deep Learning in the Wild
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Face Matching
• 3 Print Media Monitoring
• 4 Visual Quality Control
• 5 Music Scanning
• 6 Game Playing
• 7 Automated Machine Learning

• 8 Conclusions
• References
• Learning Algorithms and Architectures
• Effect of Equality Constraints to Unconstrained Large Margin Distribution Machines
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Least Squares Support Vector Machines
• 3 Large Margin Distribution Machines and Their Variants
• 3.1 Large Margin Distribution Machines
• 3.2 Least Squares Large Margin Distribution Machines
• 3.3 Unconstrained Large Margin Distribution Machines
• 4 Performance Evaluation
• 4.1 Conditions for Experiment
• 4.2 Results for Two-Class Problems
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• DLL: A Fast Deep Neural Network Library

• 1 Introduction
• 2 DLL: Deep Learning Library
• 2.1 Performance
• 2.2 Example
• 3 Experimental Evaluation
• 4 MNIST
• 4.1 Fully-Connected Neural Network
• 4.2 Convolutional Neural Network
• 5 CIFAR-10
• 6 ImageNet
• 7 Conclusion and Future Work
• References
• Selecting Features from Foreign Classes
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methods
• 2.1 Learning from Context Classes
• 2.2 Foreign Class Combinations
• 3 Experiments
• 3.1 Datasets
• 4 Results
• 5 Discussion and Conclusion
• References
• A Refinement Algorithm for Deep Learning via Error-Driven Propagation of Target Outputs

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Error-Driven Target Propagation: Formalization of the Algorithms
• 2.1 The Inversion Net
• 2.2 Refinement of Deep Learning via Target Propagation
• 3 Experiments
• 4 Conclusions
• References
• Combining Deep Learning and Symbolic Processing for Extracting Knowledge from Raw Text
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Model
• 2.1 Semantic Features
• 2.2 Logic Constraints
• 2.3 Segmentation
• 3 Experiments
• 4 Conclusions
• References
• SeNA-CNN: Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Convolutional Neural Networks by Selective Network Augmentation
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work

• 3 Proposed Method
• 4 Experiments
• 4.1 Network Architecture
• 4.2 Training Methodology
• 4.3 Isolated Learning
• 4.4 Adding New Tasks to the Models
• 4.5 Three Tasks Scenario
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Classification Uncertainty of Deep Neural Networks Based on Gradient Information
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Entropy, Softmax Baseline and Gradient Metrics
• 3 Meta Classification
• A Benchmark Between Maximum Softmax Probability and Gradient Metrics
• 4 Recognition of Unlearned Concepts
• 5 Meta Classification with Known Unknowns
• 6 Conclusion and Outlook
• References

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2018, held in Siena, Italy, in September 2018. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers present and discuss the latest research in all areas of neural network- and machine learning-based pattern recognition. They are organized in two sections: learning algorithms and architectures, and applications. Chapter "Bounded Rational Decision-Making with Adaptive Neural Network Priors" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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• Deep Learning Methods for Image Guidance in Radiation Therapy Intentional Image Similarity Search.- Sttructured (De)composable Representations Trained with Neural Networks.- Long Distance Relationships without Time Travel: Boosting the Performance of a Sparse Predictive Autoencoder in Sequence Modeling.- Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Object Detection Algorithms using Multiscale Feature Aggregation Plugins.- Abstract Echo State Networks.- Minimal Complexity Support Vector Machines.- Named Entity Disambiguation at Scale.- Geometric Attention for Prediction of Differential Properties in 3D Point Clouds.- How (Not) to Measure Bias in Face Recognition Networks.-Feature Extraction: A Time Window Analysis based on the X-ITE Pain Database.- Pain Intensity Recognition - An Analysis of Short-Time Sequences in a Real-World Scenario.- A deep learning approach for efficient registration of dual view mammography.- Deep Transfer Learning for Texture Classification in Colorectal Cancer Histology.- Applications of Generative Adversarial Networks to Dermatologic Imaging.- Typing Plasmids with Distributed Sequence Representation.- KP-YOLO: a modification of YOLO algorithm for the keypoint-based detection of QR Codes.- Using Mask R-CNN for Image-Based Wear Classification of Solid Carbide Milling and Drilling Tools.- A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach For Forecasting Air Temperature.- Using CNNs to optimize numerical simulations in geotechnical engineering.- Going for 2D or 3D? Investigating various Machine Learning Approaches for Peach Variety Identification.- A Transfer Learning End-to-End Arabic Text-To-Speech (TTS) Deep Architecture.- ML-Based Trading Models: An investigation during COVID-19 pandemic crisis.- iNNvestigate-GUI - Explaining Neural Networks Through an Interactive Visualization Tool.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2020, held in Winterthur, Switzerland, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers present and discuss the latest research in all areas of neural network-and machine learning-based pattern recognition. They are organized in two sections: learning algorithms and architectures, and applications.
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• Mobile web data analytics.- Big spatial data and urban computing.- Graph data management and analytics.- Mobility analytics from spatial and social data.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First APWeb-WAIM 2017 Workshops, held jointly with the First International Joint Conference APWeb-WAIM 2017, held in Beijing, China, in July 2017. The 25 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers originating from six workshops present cutting-edge ideas, results, experiences, techniques, and tools from all aspects of web data management with the focus on mobile web data analytics; big spatial data and urban computing; graph data management and analytics; mobility analytics from spatial and social data.
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• Motivation.- Closing the Loop: Placing Ontology Usage Analysis in the Ontology Development and Deployment Lifecycle.- Ontology Usage Analysis Framework (OUSAF).- Identification Phase : Ontology Usage Network Analysis Framework (OUN-AF).- Investigation Phase: Empirical Analysis of Domain Ontology Usage (EMP-AF).
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This unique book succinctly summarizes the need to measure how ontologies (one of the building blocks of the Semantic Web) are currently being utilized, providing insights for various stakeholders. Where possible it improves and reuses terms in existing vocabularies/ontologies, as recommended by the Linked Data community. Recent advances in the Semantic Web have led to a proliferation of Resource Description Framework (RDF) data, which employ ontologies to semantically describe the information on the Web making it equally understandable for both humans and machines. However, to create a network effect, it is important that selective ontologies are used by more data publishers to improve the value of that ontology. For this to happen, it is vital to discover what is being used from an ontology to semantically annotate the information on the Web specific to a given domain. Answers to such basic but crucial questions can only be achieved by ascertaining how ontologies in the current semantic web are being utilized and adopted. The proposed frameworks to obtain such insights are explained with real-world examples to provide a clear and detailed description of ontology usage analysis. Both theoretical and practical, the book is of value to academics and professionals working in industry. Specifically, it is of primary interest to researchers, graduate students and practitioners in the area of the Semantic Web and its various real-world applications.
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• Introduction.- Problem Description.- Background.- Related Work.- The PLASTIC Algorithms.- Theoretical Analysis of PLASTIC.- Empirical Evaluation.- Discussion and Conclusion.
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This book is devoted to the encounter and interaction of agents such as robots with other agents and describes how they cooperate with their previously unknown teammates, forming an Ad Hoc team. It presents a new algorithm, PLASTIC, that allows agents to quickly adapt to new teammates by reusing knowledge learned from previous teammates. PLASTIC is instantiated in both a model-based approach, PLASTIC-Model and a policy-based approach, PLASTIC-Policy. In addition to reusing knowledge learned from previous teammates, PLASTIC also allows users to provide expert-knowledge and can use transfer learning (such as the new Two Stage Transfer algorithm) to quickly create models of new teammates when it has some information about its new teammates. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated on three domains, ranging from multi-armed bandits to simulated robot soccer games.
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• Introduction.- Background and Literature Survey.- VLSI Architecture for Fast Three Step Search Algorithm.- Parallel Architecture for Successive Elimination Block Matching Algorithm.- Fast One-Bit Transformation Architectures.- Efficient Pixel Truncation Algorithm and Architecture.- Introduction to Scalable Image and Video Coding.- Forward Plans.- 8 Forward Plans.- A Matlab Programs.- B Verilog Modules.
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The need of video compression in the modern age of visual communication cannot be over-emphasized. This monograph will provide useful information to the postgraduate students and researchers who wish to work in the domain of VLSI design for video processing applications. In this book, one can find an in-depth discussion of several motion estimation algorithms and their VLSI implementation as conceived and developed by the authors. It records an account of research done involving fast three step search, successive elimination, one-bit transformation and its effective combination with diamond search and dynamic pixel truncation techniques. Two appendices provide a number of instances of proof of concept through Matlab and Verilog program segments. In this aspect, the book can be considered as first of its kind. The architectures have been developed with an eye to their applicability in everyday low-power handheld appliances including video camcorders and smartphones.
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• Introduction Motivation Shape recognition Proposed method Objectives Assumptions and input data Book organization
• Preliminary knowledge Statistics Probability Random variable Expected value Variance and deviation Covariance and correlation Moment-generating function Fourier transform Structural and syntactic pattern recognition Introduction Grammar-based passing method Graph-based matching methods Neural network Architecture Learning process Summary
• Review of shape recognition techniques 2D shape recognition Shape representation Shape recognition approaches Logo recognition Statistical approach Syntactic/structural approach Neural network Hybrid approach Polygonal approximation Indexing Matching Distance measure Hausdorff distance Summary
• System overview Preprocessing Polygonal approximation Indexing Matching
• Polygonal approximation Feature point detection overview Dynamic two-strip algorithm The proposed method Results Comparison with other methods Summary
• Logo indexing Normalization Indexing Reference angle indexing (filter 1) Line orientation indexing (filters 2 and 3) Experimental results Summary
• Logo matching Hausdorff distance Modified LHD (MLHD) Experimental results Matching results Degradation analysis Results analysis with respect to the LHD and the MHD Discussion and comparison with other methods Summary
• Applications Mobile visual search with GetFugu Using logo recognition for anti-phishing and Internet brand monitoring The LogoTrace library Real-time vehicle logo recognition Summary
• Conclusion Book summary Contribution Future work Book conclusion References
• Appendix Test images Appendix Results of feature point detection
• Index.
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Used by companies, organizations, and even individuals to promote recognition of their brand, logos can also act as a valuable means of identifying the source of a document. E-business applications can retrieve and catalog products according to their logos. Governmental agencies can easily inspect goods using smart mobile devices that use logo recognition techniques. However, because logos are two-dimensional shapes of varying complexity, the recognition process can be challenging. Although promising results have been found for clean logos, they have not been as robust for noisy logos. Logo Recognition: Theory and Practice is the first book to focus on logo recognition, especially under noisy conditions. Beginning with an introduction to fundamental concepts and methods in pattern and shape recognition, it surveys advances in logo recognition. The authors also propose a new logo recognition system that can be used under adverse conditions such as broken lines, added noise, and occlusion. The proposed system introduces a novel polygonal approximation, a robust indexing scheme, and a new line segment Hausdorff distance (LHD) matching method that can handle more distortion and transformation types than previous techniques. In the first stage, raw logos are transformed into normalized line segment maps. In the second stage, effective line pattern features are used to index the database to generate a moderate number of likely models. In the third stage, an improved LHD measure screens and generates the best matches. A comprehensive overview of logo recognition, the book also presents successful applications of the technology and suggests directions for future research.
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• PREFACE. NOTATION.
• 1 Introduction. 1.1 Learning and Statistical Estimation. 1.2 Statistical Dependency and Causality. 1.3 Characterization of Variables. 1.4 Characterization of Uncertainty. 1.5 Predictive Learning versus Other Data Analytical Methodologies.
• 2 Problem Statement, Classical Approaches, and Adaptive Learning. 2.1 Formulation of the Learning Problem. 2.1.1 Objective of Learning. 2.1.2 Common Learning Tasks. 2.1.3 Scope of the Learning Problem Formulation. 2.2 Classical Approaches. 2.2.1 Density Estimation. 2.2.2 Classification. 2.2.3 Regression. 2.2.4 Solving Problems with Finite Data. 2.2.5 Nonparametric Methods. 2.2.6 Stochastic Approximation. 2.3 Adaptive Learning: Concepts and Inductive Principles. 2.3.1 Philosophy, Major Concepts, and Issues. 2.3.2 A Priori Knowledge and Model Complexity. 2.3.3 Inductive Principles. 2.3.4 Alternative Learning Formulations. 2.4 Summary.
• 3 Regularization Framework. 3.1 Curse and Complexity of Dimensionality. 3.2 Function Approximation and Characterization of Complexity. 3.3 Penalization. 3.3.1 Parametric Penalties. 3.3.2 Nonparametric Penalties. 3.4 Model Selection (Complexity Control). 3.4.1 Analytical Model Selection Criteria. 3.4.2 Model Selection via Resampling. 3.4.3 Bias-Variance Tradeoff. 3.4.4 Example of Model Selection. 3.4.5 Function Approximation versus Predictive Learning. 3.5 Summary.
• 4 Statistical Learning Theory. 4.1 Conditions for Consistency and Convergence of ERM. 4.2 Growth Function and VC Dimension. 4.2.1 VC Dimension for Classification and Regression Problems. 4.2.2 Examples of Calculating VC Dimension. 4.3 Bounds on the Generalization. 4.3.1 Classification. 4.3.2 Regression. 4.3.3 Generalization Bounds and Sampling Theorem. 4.4 Structural Risk Minimization. 4.4.1 Dictionary Representation. 4.4.2 Feature Selection. 4.4.3 Penalization Formulation. 4.4.4 Input Preprocessing. 4.4.5 Initial Conditions for Training Algorithm. 4.5 Comparisons of Model Selection for Regression. 4.5.1 Model Selection for Linear Estimators. 4.5.2 Model Selection for k-Nearest-Neighbor Regression. 4.5.3 Model Selection for Linear Subset Regression. 4.5.4 Discussion. 4.6 Measuring the VC Dimension. 4.7 VC Dimension, Occam's Razor, and Popper's Falsifiability. 4.8 Summary and Discussion.
• 5 Nonlinear Optimization Strategies. 5.1 Stochastic Approximation Methods. 5.1.1 Linear Parameter Estimation. 5.1.2 Backpropagation Training of MLP Networks. 5.2 Iterative Methods. 5.2.1 EM Methods for Density Estimation. 5.2.2 Generalized Inverse Training of MLP Networks. 5.3 Greedy Optimization. 5.3.1 Neural Network Construction Algorithms. 5.3.2 Classification and Regression Trees. 5.4 Feature Selection, Optimization, and Statistical Learning Theory. 5.5 Summary.
• 6 Methods for Data Reduction and Dimensionality Reduction. 6.1 Vector Quantization and Clustering. 6.1.1 Optimal Source Coding in Vector Quantization. 6.1.2 Generalized Lloyd Algorithm. 6.1.3 Clustering. 6.1.4 EM Algorithm for VQ and Clustering. 6.1.5 Fuzzy Clustering. 6.2 Dimensionality Reduction: Statistical Methods. 6.2.1 Linear Principal Components. 6.2.2 Principal Curves and Surfaces. 6.2.3 Multidimensional Scaling. 6.3 Dimensionality Reduction: Neural Network Methods. 6.3.1 Discrete Principal Curves and Self-Organizing Map Algorithm. 6.3.2 Statistical Interpretation of the SOM Method. 6.3.3 Flow-Through Version of the SOM and Learning Rate Schedules. 6.3.4 SOM Applications and Modifications. 6.3.5 Self-Supervised MLP. 6.4 Methods for Multivariate Data Analysis. 6.4.1 Factor Analysis. 6.4.2 Independent Component Analysis. 6.5 Summary.
• 7 Methods for Regression. 7.1 Taxonomy: Dictionary versus Kernel Representation. 7.2 Linear Estimators. 7.2.1 Estimation of Linear Models and Equivalence of Representations. 7.2.2 Analytic Form of Cross-Validation. 7.2.3 Estimating Complexity of Penalized Linear Models. 7.2.4 Nonadaptive Methods. 7.3 Adaptive Dictionary Methods. 7.3.1 Additive Methods and Projection Pursuit Regression. 7.3.2 Multilayer Perceptrons and Backpropagation. 7.3.3 Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines. 7.3.4 Orthogonal Basis Functions and Wavelet Signal Denoising. 7.4 Adaptive Kernel Methods and Local Risk Minimization. 7.4.1 Generalized Memory-Based Learning. 7.4.2 Constrained Topological Mapping. 7.5 Empirical Studies. 7.5.1 Predicting Net Asset Value (NAV) of Mutual Funds. 7.5.2 Comparison of Adaptive Methods for Regression. 7.6 Combining Predictive Models. 7.7 Summary.
• 8 Classification. 8.1 Statistical Learning Theory Formulation. 8.2 Classical Formulation. 8.2.1 Statistical Decision Theory. 8.2.2 Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis. 8.3 Methods for Classification. 8.3.1 Regression-Based Methods. 8.3.2 Tree-Based Methods. 8.3.3 Nearest-Neighbor and Prototype Methods. 8.3.4 Empirical Comparisons. 8.4 Combining Methods and Boosting. 8.4.1 Boosting as an Additive Model. 8.4.2 Boosting for Regression Problems. 8.5 Summary.
• 9 Support Vector Machines. 9.1 Motivation for Margin-Based Loss. 9.2 Margin-Based Loss, Robustness, and Complexity Control. 9.3 Optimal Separating Hyperplane. 9.4 High-Dimensional Mapping and Inner Product Kernels. 9.5 Support Vector Machine for Classification. 9.6 Support Vector Implementations. 9.7 Support Vector Regression. 9.8 SVM Model Selection. 9.9 Support Vector Machines and Regularization. 9.10 Single-Class SVM and Novelty Detection. 9.11 Summary and Discussion.
• 10 Noninductive Inference and Alternative Learning Formulations. 10.1 Sparse High-Dimensional Data. 10.2 Transduction. 10.3 Inference Through Contradictions. 10.4 Multiple-Model Estimation. 10.5 Summary.
• 11 Concluding Remarks. Appendix A: Review of Nonlinear Optimization. Appendix B: Eigenvalues and Singular Value Decomposition. References. Index.
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An interdisciplinary framework for learning methodologies-covering statistics, neural networks, and fuzzy logic, this book provides a unified treatment of the principles and methods for learning dependencies from data. It establishes a general conceptual framework in which various learning methods from statistics, neural networks, and fuzzy logic can be applied-showing that a few fundamental principles underlie most new methods being proposed today in statistics, engineering, and computer science. Complete with over one hundred illustrations, case studies, and examples making this an invaluable text.
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• PREFACE. NOTATION.
• 1 Introduction. 1.1 Learning and Statistical Estimation. 1.2 Statistical Dependency and Causality. 1.3 Characterization of Variables. 1.4 Characterization of Uncertainty. 1.5 Predictive Learning versus Other Data Analytical Methodologies.
• 2 Problem Statement, Classical Approaches, and Adaptive Learning. 2.1 Formulation of the Learning Problem. 2.1.1 Objective of Learning. 2.1.2 Common Learning Tasks. 2.1.3 Scope of the Learning Problem Formulation. 2.2 Classical Approaches. 2.2.1 Density Estimation. 2.2.2 Classification. 2.2.3 Regression. 2.2.4 Solving Problems with Finite Data. 2.2.5 Nonparametric Methods. 2.2.6 Stochastic Approximation. 2.3 Adaptive Learning: Concepts and Inductive Principles. 2.3.1 Philosophy, Major Concepts, and Issues. 2.3.2 A Priori Knowledge and Model Complexity. 2.3.3 Inductive Principles. 2.3.4 Alternative Learning Formulations. 2.4 Summary.
• 3 Regularization Framework. 3.1 Curse and Complexity of Dimensionality. 3.2 Function Approximation and Characterization of Complexity. 3.3 Penalization. 3.3.1 Parametric Penalties. 3.3.2 Nonparametric Penalties. 3.4 Model Selection (Complexity Control). 3.4.1 Analytical Model Selection Criteria. 3.4.2 Model Selection via Resampling. 3.4.3 Bias-Variance Tradeoff. 3.4.4 Example of Model Selection. 3.4.5 Function Approximation versus Predictive Learning. 3.5 Summary.
• 4 Statistical Learning Theory. 4.1 Conditions for Consistency and Convergence of ERM. 4.2 Growth Function and VC Dimension. 4.2.1 VC Dimension for Classification and Regression Problems. 4.2.2 Examples of Calculating VC Dimension. 4.3 Bounds on the Generalization. 4.3.1 Classification. 4.3.2 Regression. 4.3.3 Generalization Bounds and Sampling Theorem. 4.4 Structural Risk Minimization. 4.4.1 Dictionary Representation. 4.4.2 Feature Selection. 4.4.3 Penalization Formulation. 4.4.4 Input Preprocessing. 4.4.5 Initial Conditions for Training Algorithm. 4.5 Comparisons of Model Selection for Regression. 4.5.1 Model Selection for Linear Estimators. 4.5.2 Model Selection for k-Nearest-Neighbor Regression. 4.5.3 Model Selection for Linear Subset Regression. 4.5.4 Discussion. 4.6 Measuring the VC Dimension. 4.7 VC Dimension, Occam's Razor, and Popper's Falsifiability. 4.8 Summary and Discussion.
• 5 Nonlinear Optimization Strategies. 5.1 Stochastic Approximation Methods. 5.1.1 Linear Parameter Estimation. 5.1.2 Backpropagation Training of MLP Networks. 5.2 Iterative Methods. 5.2.1 EM Methods for Density Estimation. 5.2.2 Generalized Inverse Training of MLP Networks. 5.3 Greedy Optimization. 5.3.1 Neural Network Construction Algorithms. 5.3.2 Classification and Regression Trees. 5.4 Feature Selection, Optimization, and Statistical Learning Theory. 5.5 Summary.
• 6 Methods for Data Reduction and Dimensionality Reduction. 6.1 Vector Quantization and Clustering. 6.1.1 Optimal Source Coding in Vector Quantization. 6.1.2 Generalized Lloyd Algorithm. 6.1.3 Clustering. 6.1.4 EM Algorithm for VQ and Clustering. 6.1.5 Fuzzy Clustering. 6.2 Dimensionality Reduction: Statistical Methods. 6.2.1 Linear Principal Components. 6.2.2 Principal Curves and Surfaces. 6.2.3 Multidimensional Scaling. 6.3 Dimensionality Reduction: Neural Network Methods. 6.3.1 Discrete Principal Curves and Self-Organizing Map Algorithm. 6.3.2 Statistical Interpretation of the SOM Method. 6.3.3 Flow-Through Version of the SOM and Learning Rate Schedules. 6.3.4 SOM Applications and Modifications. 6.3.5 Self-Supervised MLP. 6.4 Methods for Multivariate Data Analysis. 6.4.1 Factor Analysis. 6.4.2 Independent Component Analysis. 6.5 Summary.
• 7 Methods for Regression. 7.1 Taxonomy: Dictionary versus Kernel Representation. 7.2 Linear Estimators. 7.2.1 Estimation of Linear Models and Equivalence of Representations. 7.2.2 Analytic Form of Cross-Validation. 7.2.3 Estimating Complexity of Penalized Linear Models. 7.2.4 Nonadaptive Methods. 7.3 Adaptive Dictionary Methods. 7.3.1 Additive Methods and Projection Pursuit Regression. 7.3.2 Multilayer Perceptrons and Backpropagation. 7.3.3 Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines. 7.3.4 Orthogonal Basis Functions and Wavelet Signal Denoising. 7.4 Adaptive Kernel Methods and Local Risk Minimization. 7.4.1 Generalized Memory-Based Learning. 7.4.2 Constrained Topological Mapping. 7.5 Empirical Studies. 7.5.1 Predicting Net Asset Value (NAV) of Mutual Funds. 7.5.2 Comparison of Adaptive Methods for Regression. 7.6 Combining Predictive Models. 7.7 Summary.
• 8 Classification. 8.1 Statistical Learning Theory Formulation. 8.2 Classical Formulation. 8.2.1 Statistical Decision Theory. 8.2.2 Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis. 8.3 Methods for Classification. 8.3.1 Regression-Based Methods. 8.3.2 Tree-Based Methods. 8.3.3 Nearest-Neighbor and Prototype Methods. 8.3.4 Empirical Comparisons. 8.4 Combining Methods and Boosting. 8.4.1 Boosting as an Additive Model. 8.4.2 Boosting for Regression Problems. 8.5 Summary.
• 9 Support Vector Machines. 9.1 Motivation for Margin-Based Loss. 9.2 Margin-Based Loss, Robustness, and Complexity Control. 9.3 Optimal Separating Hyperplane. 9.4 High-Dimensional Mapping and Inner Product Kernels. 9.5 Support Vector Machine for Classification. 9.6 Support Vector Implementations. 9.7 Support Vector Regression. 9.8 SVM Model Selection. 9.9 Support Vector Machines and Regularization. 9.10 Single-Class SVM and Novelty Detection. 9.11 Summary and Discussion.
• 10 Noninductive Inference and Alternative Learning Formulations. 10.1 Sparse High-Dimensional Data. 10.2 Transduction. 10.3 Inference Through Contradictions. 10.4 Multiple-Model Estimation. 10.5 Summary.
• 11 Concluding Remarks. Appendix A: Review of Nonlinear Optimization. Appendix B: Eigenvalues and Singular Value Decomposition. References. Index.
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An interdisciplinary framework for learning methodologies-covering statistics, neural networks, and fuzzy logic, this book provides a unified treatment of the principles and methods for learning dependencies from data. It establishes a general conceptual framework in which various learning methods from statistics, neural networks, and fuzzy logic can be applied-showing that a few fundamental principles underlie most new methods being proposed today in statistics, engineering, and computer science. Complete with over one hundred illustrations, case studies, and examples making this an invaluable text.
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• Low-level preprocessing, surveillance systems
• Tracking, robotics
• Identification, detection, recognition
• Behavior, activities, crowd analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Chinese Conference, IVS 2016, held in Beijing, China, in October 2016. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on low-level preprocessing, surveillance systems; tracking, robotics; identification, detection, recognition; behavior, activities, crowd analysis.

• Robotics
• Computer vision
• Basic theory of pattern recognition
• Image and video processing
• Speech and language
• Emotion recognition.

The two-volume set CCIS 662 and CCIS 663 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition, CCPR 2016, held in Chengdu, China, in November 2016. The 121 revised papers presented in two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on robotics; computer vision; basic theory of pattern recognition; image and video processing; speech and language; emotion recognition.

• Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Measuring Success. 1 Why Understanding Your Web Traffic Is Important to Your Business. 2 Available Methodologies. 3 Where Google Analytics Fits. Part II: Using Google Analytics Reports. 4 Using the Google Analytics Interface. 5 Top 10 Reports Explained Part III: Implementing Google Analytics. 6 Getting Started. 7 Advanced Implementation. 8 Best Practices Configuration Guide. 9 Google Analytics Hacks. Part IV: Using Visitor Data to Drive Website Improvement. 10 Focusing on Key Performance Indicators. 11 Real-World Tasks. 12 Integrating Google Analytics Data with Third-Party Systems. Appendix A Regular Expression Overview. Understanding the Fundamentals. Regex Examples. Appendix B Useful Tools. Tools to Audit Your GATC Deployment. Firefox Add-ons. Desktop Helper Applications. Appendix C Recommended Further Reading. Books on Web Analytics and Related Areas. Web Resources. Blog Roll for Web Analytics. Index.
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Packed with insider tips and tricks, this how-to guide is fully revised to cover the latest version of Google Analytics and shows you how to implement proven Web analytics methods and concepts. This second edition of the bestselling Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics is the perfect book for marketers, vendors, consultants, and Webmasters who want to learn the installation, configuration, tracking techniques, and best practices of Google Analytics.* Google Analytics is a free tool that measures Web site effectiveness and helps users better understand how web site performance; this book is a detailed usage guide written by one of the software's original creators* Explains what filters keep data accurate, how to measure Flash usage and tag for e-mail marketing, and what visitor segmentation provides the most useful feedback* Examines principles and practices of Web analytics, then shows how to use GA's reports and how to track dynamic Web pages, banners, outgoing links, and contact forms* Discusses advanced setups for configuring goals and filters, how to integrate GA with third-party systems, and how to leverage the new API Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, Second Edition is valuable for both novice and experienced users of Google Analytics.
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• Conversational Agents in Healthcare: Using QCA to Explain Patients Resistance to Chatbots for Medication
• An Approach for Ex-Post-Facto Analysis of Knowledge Graph-Driven Chatbots
• the DBpedia Chatbot
• Privacy Concerns in Chatbot Interactions
• Creating Humanlike Chatbots: What Chatbot Developers Could Learn from Webcare Employees in Adopting a Conversational Human Voice
• The Conversational Agent "Emoty" Perceived by People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Is It a Human or a Machine
• Gender Bias in Chatbot Design
• Conversational Web Interaction: Proposal of a Dialog-Based Natural Language Interaction Paradigm for the Web
• Designing Chatbots for Guiding Online Peer Support Conversations for Adults with ADHD
• Towards Chatbots to Support Bibliotherapy Preparation and Delivery
• CivicBots
• Chatbots for Supporting Youth in Societal Participation
• Using Theory of Mind to Assess Users Sense of Agency in Social Chatbots
• Exploring Age Differences in Motivations for and Acceptance of Chatbot Communication in a Customer Service Context
• Improving Conversations: Lessons Learnt from Manual Analysis of Chatbot Dialogues
• Conversational Repair in Chatbots for Customer Service: The Effect of Expressing Uncertainty and Suggesting Alternatives
• Working Together with Conversational Agents: The Relationship of Perceived Cooperation with Service Performance Evaluation
• Chatbots for the Information Acquisition at Universities
• A Students View on the Application Area
• A Configurable Agent to Advance Peers Productive Dialogue in MOOCs
• Small Talk Conversations and the Long-Term Use of Chatbots in Educational Settings
• Experiences from a Field Study.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2019, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2019. The 18 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: user and communication studies user experience and design, chatbots for collaboration, chatbots for customer service, and chatbots in education.

• Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies
• Requirements for and Evaluation of User Support for Large-Scale Ontology Alignment
• RODI: A Benchmark for Automatic Mapping Generation in Relational-to-Ontology Data Integration
• VocBench: a Web Application for Collaborative Development of Multilingual Thesauri
• Leveraging and Balancing Heterogeneous Sources of Evidence in Ontology Learning
• Reasoning
• A Context-Based Semantics for SPARQL Property Paths over the Web
• Distributed and Scalable OWL EL Reasoning
• Large scale rule-based Reasoning using a Laptop
• RDF Digest: Efficient Summarization of RDF/S KBs
• Linked Data
• A Comparison of Data Structures to Manage URIs on the Web of Data
• Heuristics for Fixing Common Errors in Deployed schema.org Microdata
• Semantic Web and Web Science
• LOD-based Disambiguation of Named Entities in @tweets through Context enrichment
• Knowledge Enabled Approach to Predict the Location of Twitter Users
• Semantic Data Management, Big data, Scalability
• A Compact In-Memory Dictionary for RDF data
• Quality Assessment of Linked Datasets using Probabilistic Approximations
• Cooperative Techniques for SPARQL Query Relaxation in RDF Databases
• HDT-MR: A Scalable Solution for RDF Compression with HDT and MapReduce
• Processing Aggregate Queries in a Federation of SPARQL Endpoints
• A survey of HTTP caching implementations on the open Semantic Web
• Query Execution Optimization for Clients of Triple Pattern Fragments
• Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval LIME: the Metadata Module for OntoLex
• Learning a Cross-Lingual Semantic Representation of Relations Expressed in Text
• HAWK Hybrid Question Answering using Linked Data
• Machine Learning
• Automating RDF Dataset Transformation and Enrichment
• Semi-supervised Instance Matching Using Boosted Classifiers
• Assigning Semantic Labels to Data Sources
• Inductive Classification through Evidence-based Models and their Ensembles
• Mobile Web, Internet of Things and Semantic Streams
• Standardized and Efficient RDF Encoding for Constrained Embedded Networks
• Services, Web APIs, and the Web of Things SPSC: Efficient Composition of Semantic Services in Unstructured P2P Networks
• Data as a Service: The Semantic Web Redeployed
• Cognition and Semantic Web
• On Coherent Indented Tree Visualization of RDF Graphs
• Gagg: A Graph Aggregation Operator
• FrameBase: Representing N-ary Relations using Semantic Frames
• Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
• Towards hybrid NER: a study of content and crowdsourcing-related performance factors
• Ranking Entities in the Age of Two Webs, An Application to Semantic Snippets
• In-Use Industrial Track
• Troubleshooting and Optimizing Named Entity Resolution Systems in the Industry
• Using Ontologies For Modeling Virtual Reality Scenarios
• Supporting Open Collaboration in Science through Explicit and Linked Semantic Description of Processes
• Crowdmapping Digital Social Innovation with Linked data
• Desperately searching for travel offers? Formulate better queries with some help from Linked Data
• Towards the Linked Russian Heritage Cloud: Data enrichment and Publishing
• From Symptoms to Diseases
• Creating the Missing Link
• Using semantic web technologies for enterprise architecture analysis
• PADTUN
• Using Semantic Technologies in Tunnel Diagnosis and Maintenance Domain.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2014, held in Anissaras, Portoroz, Slovenia, in May/June 2015. The 43 revised full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. This program was completed by a demonstration and poster session, in which researchers had the chance to present their latest results and advances in the form of live demos. In addition, the PhD Symposium program included 12 contributions, selected out of 16 submissions. The core tracks of the research conference were complemented with new tracks focusing on linking machine and human computation at web scale (cognition and Semantic Web, Human Computation and Crowdsourcing) beside the following subjects Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies, Reasoning, Linked Data, Semantic Web and Web Science, Semantic Data Management, Big data, Scalability, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Mobile Web, Internet of Things and Semantic Streams, Services, Web APIs, and the Web of Things, Cognition and Semantic Web, Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, and In-Use Industrial Track as well.

• Workshop on Emotions, Modality, Sentiment Analysis and theSemantic Web.- 5th Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining MeetsLinked Open Data (Know@LOD).- LDQ: 3rd Workshop on Linked Data Quality.- Fourth Workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2016).- Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web.- PROFILES
• '16: 3rd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data.- Workshop on Extraction and Processing of Rich Semantics from Medical Texts.- SALAD - Services and Applications over Linked APIs and Data.- Semantic Web Technologies in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SEMPER).- International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies.- 2nd Int. Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage (SW4SH).- 1st Workshop on Humanities in the SEmantic web (WHiSE 2016).
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 13th European Conference on the Semantic Web, ESWC 2016, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May/June 2016. The volume contains 16 full papers and 38 poster and demonstration papers, carefully selected from 12 workshops focusing on specific research issues related to the Semantic Web.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2018, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The 48 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The papers cover a large range of topics such as logical modelling and reasoning, natural language processing, databases and data storage and access, machine learning, distributed systems, information retrieval and data mining, social networks, and Web science and Web engineering. .
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• Poster and Demo Papers.- Finding Unexplainable Triples in an RDF Graph.- ATU-DSS: Knowledge-Driven Data Integration and Reasoning for Sustainable Subsurface Inter-Asset Management.- Deep Learning and Sentiment Analysis for Human-Robot Interaction.- Pseudo-Random ALC Syntax Generation.- A Protege Plugin for Annotating OWL Ontologies with OPLa.- An Editor that Uses a Block Metaphor for Representing Semantic Mappings in Linked Data.- A Diagrammatic Approach for Visual Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs.- Simplified SPARQL REST API - CRUD on JSON Object Graphs via URI Paths.- Hate Speech Detection on Twitter: Feature Engineering v.s. Feature Selection.- Incremental Data Partitioning of RDF Data in SPARK.- Developing an Ontology for Curriculum & Syllabus.- Computer-assisted Ontology Construction System: Focus on Bootstrapping Capabilities.- Matching Offerings and Queries on an Internet of Things Marketplace.- Exploiting Equivalence to Infer Type Subsumption in Linked Graphs.- Speleothem - An Information System for Caves Based on Semantic Web Technologies.- M-CREAM: A Tool for Creative Modeling of Emergency Scenarios in Smart Cities.- Context Spaces as the Cornerstone of a Near-Transparent & Self-Reorganizing Semantic Desktop.- SeGoFlow: A Semantic Governance Workflow Tool.- Image User Profiling with Knowledge Graph and Computer Vision.- reboting.com: Towards geo-search and visualization of Austrian Open Data.- Demoing Platypus - a Multilingual Question Answering Platform for Wikidata.- Knowledge Graph Embeddings with node2vec for Item Recommendation.- REDI: A Linked Data-powered Research Networking Platform.- Combining P-Plan and the REPRODUCE-ME Ontology to Achieve Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Experiments using Interactive Notebooks.- A Scalable Consent, Transparency and Compliance Architecture.- Enabling Conversational Tourism Assistants through Schema.org Mapping.- A Workflow for generation of LDP.- Supporting sustainable publishing and consuming of live Linked Time Series Streams.- TagTheWeb: Using Wikipedia Categories to Automatically Classify Resources on the Web.- ViziQuer: a Web-based Tool for Visual Diagrammatic Queries over RDF Data.- EventKG+TL: Creating Cross-Lingual Timelines from an Event-Centric Knowledge Graph.- ABSTAT 1
• .0: Compute, Manage and Share Semantic Profiles of RDF Knowledge Graphs.- Entity Linking in 40 Languages using MAG.- Ulysses: an Intelligent client for replicated Triple Pattern Fragments.- Bridging Web APIs and Linked Data with SPARQL Micro-Services.- Grasping Metaphors: Lexical Semantics in Metaphor Analysis.- The Unified Code for Units of Measure in RDF: cdt:ucum and other UCUM Datatypes.- Deep Linking Desktop Resources.- VocRec: An Automated Vocabulary Recommender Tool.- Declarative Rules for Linked Data Generation at your Fingertips.- Modeling and Reasoning over Data Licenses.- PhD Symposium Track.- Recommending spatial classes for entity interlinking in the Web of Data.- Ontology ABox Comparison.- Modeling and Querying Versioned Source Code in RDF.- Linkflows: enabling a web of linked semantic publishing workflows.- Adaptive anomaly detection and root cause analysis by fusing semantics and machine learning.- Question Answering over Knowledge Bases.- Semantic Query Federation for Scalable Security Log Analysis.- Assessing the Quality of owl:sameAs Links.- SHARK: A Test-driven Framework for Design and Evolution of Ontologies.- 3rd Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data.- Using Linked Open Geo Boundaries for Adaptive Delineation of Functional Urban Areas.- 4th Workshop on Sentic Computing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Emotion Detection.- A Study of the Similarities of Entity Embeddings Learned from Different Aspects of a Knowledge Base for Item Recommendations.- 2nd Workshop on Querying the Web of Data.- MAS: A Corpus of Tweets for Marketing in Spanish.- 4th Workshop on Social Media World Sensors.- Benchmarking Commercial RDF Stores with Publications Office Dataset.- 1st Workshop on Semantic Web of Things for Industry 4.0.- Such a wonderful Place: extracting sense of place from Twitter.- 3rd Workshop on Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage.- IoT Semantic Interoperability With Device Description Shapes.- Exploring Linked Data For The Automatic Enrichment of Historical Archives.- 4th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web.- nlGis: A Use Case in Linked Historic Geodata.- 2nd Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics.- Distributed RDF archives Querying with Spark.- 1st Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies.- Assessing FAIR Data Principles against the 5-Star Open Data Principles.- Translational Models for Item Recommendation.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2018, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in June 2018.The volume contains 41 poster and demonstration papers, 11 invited workshop papers, and 9 full papers, selected out of a total of 70 submissions. They deal with all areas of semantic web research, semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data. .
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