This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD, PinKDD 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in March 2008 in conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2008. The 5 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited keynote lecture and 2 invited panel sessions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are extended versions of the workshop presentations and incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop and represent the diversity of data mining research issues in privacy, security, and trust as well as current work on privacy issues in geographic data mining.

This text surveys research from the fields of data mining and information visualisation and presents a case for techniques by which information visualisation can be used to uncover real knowledge hidden away in large databases.

As the 21st century begins, we are faced with opportunities and challenges of available technology as well as pressured to create strategic and tactical plans for future technology. Worldwide, IT professionals are sharing and trading concepts and ideas for effective IT management, and this co-operation is what leads to solid IT management practices. This volume is a collection of papers that present IT management perspectives from professionals around the world. The papers seek to offer new ideas, refine old ones, and pose interesting scenarios to help the reader develop company-sensitive management strategies.

This book offers to readers a selection of refereed papers that were presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’20). All submissions were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality. This book consists of 28 papers (19 regular and 9 short papers) that were virtually presented at the Symposium. The papers cover different areas such as big data analytics, security and privacy, Internet of things, machine and deep learning, health informatics, visual computing, signal processing, and natural language processing. The book is directed to the researchers and scientists engaged in various fields of intelligent systems.

Since publication of the first edition in 1988, this book has established itself as the premier reference text for nurses, nursing administrators, nursing students, and other health care professionals who seek a state-of-the-art review of the role of IT in the nursing profession. The third edition of this seminal work keeps readers at the forefront of the rapidly evolving field of nursing informatics, examining new trends and thoroughly updating and revising all content. New chapters include: Selecting a Nursing Informatics Consultant; Project Management; Consumer Informatics; Data Mining; Education (CME, Patient); Electronic Medical Imaging; Nursing Informatics Competencies; Telehealth and Implications; Business Process Reengineering; Nursing's Role in Telehealth.

Achieving Synergy Between Computer Power and Human Resources to Temporal and Modal Logic Programming Languages.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea in August 2006. Coverage in the 30 revised full papers includes public key crypto applications and virus protection, cyber indication and intrusion detection, biometrics and security trust management, secure software and systems, smart cards and secure hardware, and mobile security.