This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications, BigCom 2016, held in Shenyang, China, in July 2016. The 39 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions.BigCom is an international symposium dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from big data related computing and networking.The conference is targeted to attract researchers and practitioners who are int...

This book constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2016, held in Granada, Spain, in December 2016. The 30 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They cover many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems trying to pus...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2017, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2017.The 17 full papers and 3 poster papers presented together with 6 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions (118 abstract and 90 full paper submissions). The ICDCIT conference focusses on mobile computing; analytics; distributed computing; virtual machines; acce...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, APSCC 2016, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2016.The 38 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the fields of cloud/utility/Web computing/big data; foundations of services computing; social/peer-to-peer/mobile/ubiquitous/pervasive computing; service-centric computing mo...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2016, held in Wuhan, China, in September 2016.The 30 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: body sensor networks and wearable devices; cloud computing and networking; distributed computing and big data; distributed scheduling and optimiza...

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers of the 6th workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware, BPOE 2015, held in Kohala Coast, HI, USA, in August/September 2015 as satellite event of VLDB 2015, the 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The workshop focuses on architecture and system support for big data systems, aiming at brin...

In celebration of Prof. Morik's 60th birthday, this Festschrift covers research areas that Prof. Morik worked in and presents various researchers with whom she collaborated.The 23 refereed articles in this Festschrift volume provide challenges and solutions from theoreticians and practitioners on data preprocessing, modeling, learning, and evaluation. Topics include data-mining and machine-learning algorithms, feature selection and feature generation, optimization as well as effici...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2016, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2016.The 6 full papers, 7 short papers and 11 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The ICDCIT conference focusses on distributed computing, internet technologies, and societal applications. The book also contains 3 full paper invited talks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 3 workshops of the 17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2016, held in Nanchang, China, in June 2016.The three workshops were as follows:• The International Workshop on Spatiotemporal Data Management and Mining for the Web (SDMMW 2016)• The International Workshop on Semi-structured Big Data Management and Applications (SemiBDMA 2016).• The International Workshop on Mobile Web D...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 12 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015, in Vienna, Austria, in August 2015.The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The volume includes papers from the following workshops: BigDataCloud: 4th Workshop on Big Data Management in Clouds - Euro-EDUPAR: First European Workshop on Parallel a...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2015, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in June 2015 and the 7th International Workshop, WBDB 2015, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2015.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They deal with recent trends in big data and HPC convergence, new proposals for big data benchmarking, as well a...

Multimedia Database Management Systems presents the issues and the techniques used in building multimedia database management systems.Chapter 1 provides an overview of multimedia databases and underlines the new requirements for these applications. Chapter 2 discusses the techniques used for storing and retrieving multimedia objects. Chapter 3 presents the techniques used for generating metadata for various media objects. Chapter 4 examines the mechanisms used for storing t...