This book presents a compilation of selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Healthcare Science and Engineering (Healthcare 2018). The work focuses on novel computing, networking, and data analytics techniques for various issues in healthcare. The book is a valuable resource for academic researchers and practitioners working in the field.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2018, held in Guilin, China, in September 2018. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Information retrieval, collaborative and social computing, natural language processing.