The two-volume set LNAI 8346 and 8347 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2013, held in Hangzhou, China, in December 2013. The 32 regular papers and 64 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 222 submissions. The papers included in these two volumes cover the following topics: opinion mining, behavior mining, data stream mining, sequential data mining, web mining, image mining, text mining, social network mining, classification, clustering, association rule mining, pattern mining, regression, predication, feature extraction, identification, privacy preservation, applications, and machine learning.

The five volume set LNCS 7663, LNCS 7664, LNCS 7665, LNCS 7666 and LNCS 7667 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2012, held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2012. The 423 regular session papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. These papers cover all major topics of theoretical research, empirical study and applications of neural information processing research. The 5 volumes represent 5 topical sections containing articles on theoretical analysis, neural modeling, algorithms, applications, as well as simulation and synthesis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2012, held in London, UK, in September 2012. The 49 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers describe the applications of neural networks and other computational intelligence approaches to intelligent transport, environmental engineering, computer security, civil engineering, financial forecasting, virtual learning environments, language interpretation, bioinformatics and general engineering.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2012) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2012), held in Hiroshima, Japan, in November 2012 as a satellite event of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2012. The 80 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper and the Pierre Devijver award lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 120 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on structural, syntactical, and statistical pattern recognition, graph and tree methods, randomized methods and image analysis, kernel methods in structural and syntactical pattern recognition, applications of structural and syntactical pattern recognition, clustering, learning, kernel methods in statistical pattern recognition, kernel methods in statistical pattern recognition, as well as applications of structural, syntactical, and statistical methods.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. Current decentralized systems still focus on data and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and the support of agent systems with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy between grids, P2P systems, and agent technologies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale environments. This, the sixth issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains eight extended and revised versions of papers selected from those presented at DEXA 2011. Topics covered include skyline queries, probabilistic logics and reasoning, theory of conceptual modeling, prediction in networks of moving objects, validation of XML integrity constraints, management of loosely structured multi-dimensional data, data discovery in the presence of annotations, and quality ranking for Web articles.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th INNS IAPR TC3 GIRPR International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2012, held in Trento, Italy, in September 2012. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They cover a large range of topics in the field of neural network- and machine learning-based pattern recognition presenting and discussing the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2012, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2012. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on natural language processing, social networks, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, planning and agents, search, and computer vision.

This volume contains the lecture notes of the 8th Reasoning Web Summer School 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2012, in the form of worked out tutorial papers on the various topics that have been covered in that school. The 2012 summer school program had been put together under the general leitmotif of advanced query answering topics for the Web. The idea was to address on the one hand foundations and computational aspects of query answering, in formalisms, methods and technology, and on the other hand to also spotlight some rising or emerging application fields relating to the Semantic Web in which query answering plays a role, and which by their nature also pose new challenges and problems for this task; linked stream processing, geospatial data, semantic wikis, and argumentation on the web fall in this category.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2012. The 27 revised research papers, presented together with 2 invited talks and 5 research summaries were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections on technical communications, algorithms, design aspects of rule markup, design of ontology languages, engineering of engines, translators, and other tools, standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C, and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2012, held in Helsinki, Finland, in October 2012. The 32 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. All current aspects of intelligent data analysis are addressed, including intelligent support for modeling and analyzing data from complex, dynamical systems. The papers focus on novel applications of IDA techniques to, e.g., networked digital information systems; novel modes of data acquisition and the associated issues; robustness and scalability issues of intelligent data analysis techniques; and visualization and dissemination results.

Data analysis, machine learning and knowledge discovery are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics. They cover general methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as web and text mining, marketing, medicine, bioinformatics and business intelligence. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers in the field of data analysis, machine learning and knowledge discovery presented during the 36th annual conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl). The conference was held at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) in August 2012.

This two volume set LNCS 7446 and LNCS 7447 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012. The 49 revised full papers presented together with 37 short papers and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. These papers discuss a range of topics including: database query processing, in particular XML queries; labelling of XML documents; computational efficiency, data extraction; personalization, preferences, and ranking; security and privacy; database schema evaluation and evolution; semantic Web; privacy and provenance; data mining; data streaming; distributed systems; searching and query answering; structuring, compression and optimization; failure, fault analysis, and uncertainty; predication, extraction, and annotation; ranking and personalisation; database partitioning and performance measurement; recommendation and prediction systems; business processes; social networking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2012, held in Huangshan, China, in July 2012. The 85 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 753 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks, evolutionar learning and genetic algorithms, granular computing and rough sets, biology inspired computing and optimization, nature inspired computing and optimization, cognitive science and computational neuroscience, knowledge discovery and data mining, quantum computing, machine learning theory and methods, healthcare informatics theory and methods, biomedical informatics theory and methods, complex systems theory and methods, intelligent computing in signal processing, intelligent computing in image processing, intelligent computing in robotics, intelligent computing in computer vision, intelligent agent and web applications, special session on advances in information security 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Knowledge Technology Week, KTW 2011, held in Kajang, Malaysia, in July 2011. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. KTW 2011 consisted of a number of co-located events. This volume contains selected papers from the proceedings of the Third Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MJCAI 2011), the Third Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering (STAKE 2011), and the International Workshop on Semantic Agents (IWSA 2012).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 2012, in conjunction with DEXA 2012. The 12 revised long papers and 3 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address the following topics: medical data mining and information retrieval; metadata models, prediction and mobile applications; systems biology and data mining in bioinformatics. The papers show how broad the spectrum of topics in applications of information technology to biomedical engineering and medical informatics is.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2012 held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2012. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data warehouse design methodologies, ETL methodologies and tools, multidimensional data processing and management, data warehouse and OLAP extensions, data warehouse performance and optimization, data mining and knowledge discovery techniques, data mining and knowledge discovery applications, pattern mining, data stream mining, data warehouse confidentiality and security, and distributed paradigms and algorithms.

This two volume set LNCS 7446 and LNCS 7447 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012. The 49 revised full papers presented together with 37 short papers and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. These papers discuss a range of topics including: database query processing, in particular XML queries; labelling of XML documents; computational efficiency, data extraction; personalization, preferences, and ranking; security and privacy; database schema evaluation and evolution; semantic Web; privacy and provenance; data mining; data streaming; distributed systems; searching and query answering; structuring, compression and optimization; failure, fault analysis, and uncertainty; predication, extraction, and annotation; ranking and personalisation; database partitioning and performance measurement; recommendation and prediction systems; business processes; social networking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2012, held in Natal, Brazil, in August 2012. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 submissions for inclusion in the book and present the latest theoretical advances and real-world applications in computational intelligence.

The importance of having ef cient and effective methods for data mining and kn- ledge discovery (DM&KD), to which the present book is devoted, grows every day and numerous such methods have been developed in recent decades. There exists a great variety of different settings for the main problem studied by data mining and knowledge discovery, and it seems that a very popular one is formulated in terms of binary attributes. In this setting, states of nature of the application area under consideration are described by Boolean vectors de ned on some attributes. That is, by data points de ned in the Boolean space of the attributes. It is postulated that there exists a partition of this space into two classes, which should be inferred as patterns on the attributes when only several data points are known, the so-called positive and negative training examples. The main problem in DM&KD is de ned as nding rules for recognizing (cl- sifying) new data points of unknown class, i. e. , deciding which of them are positive and which are negative. In other words, to infer the binary value of one more attribute, called the goal or class attribute. To solve this problem, some methods have been suggested which construct a Boolean function separating the two given sets of positive and negative training data points.

Sensor networks comprise of a number of sensors installed across a spatially distributed network, which gather information and periodically feed a central server with the measured data. The server monitors the data, issues possible alarms and computes fast aggregates. As data analysis requests may concern both present and past data, the server is forced to store the entire stream. But the limited storage capacity of a server may reduce the amount of data stored on the disk. One solution is to compute summaries of the data as it arrives, and to use these summaries to interpolate the real data. This work introduces a recently defined spatio-temporal pattern, called trend cluster, to summarize, interpolate and identify anomalies in a sensor network. As an example, the application of trend cluster discovery to monitor the efficiency of photovoltaic power plants is discussed. The work closes with remarks on new possibilities for surveillance enabled by recent developments in sensing technology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2012, held in Florence, Italy, in October 2012. The 24 regular papers presented together with 13 short papers, 6 poster papers and 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on understandability and cognitive approaches; conceptual modeling for datawarehousing and business intelligence; extraction, discovery and clustering; search and documents; data and process modeling; ontology based approaches; variability and evolution; adaptation, preferences and query refinement; queries, matching and topic search; and conceptual modeling in action.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2013, held in Nanjing, China, in October 2013. The 48 full papers, 29 short papers, and 10 demo and 5 challenge papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8180 and 8181, were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining; Web recommendation; Web services; data engineering and database; semi-structured data and modeling; Web data integration and hidden Web; challenge; social Web; information extraction and multilingual management; networks, graphs and Web-based business processes; event processing, Web monitoring and management; and innovative techniques and creations.

The two volumes set, CCIS 383 and 384, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2013, held on Halkidiki, Greece, in September 2013. The 91 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers describe the applications of artificial neural networks and other soft computing approaches to various fields such as pattern recognition-predictors, soft computing applications, medical applications of AI, fuzzy inference, evolutionary algorithms, classification, learning and data mining, control techniques-aspects of AI evolution, image and video analysis, classification, pattern recognition, social media and community based governance, medical applications of AI-bioinformatics and learning.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2013, held in Krabi, Thailand, in December 2013. The 30 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions and cover topics such as cognitive science, computational intelligence, computational philosophy, game theory, machine learning, multi-agent systems, natural language, representation and reasoning, speech, vision and the web.

The two volumes set, CCIS 383 and 384, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2013, held on Halkidiki, Greece, in September 2013. The 91 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers describe the applications of artificial neural networks and other soft computing approaches to various fields such as pattern recognition-predictors, soft computing applications, medical applications of AI, fuzzy inference, evolutionary algorithms, classification, learning and data mining, control techniques-aspects of AI evolution, image and video analysis, classification, pattern recognition, social media and community based governance, medical applications of AI-bioinformatics and learning.