The academy is in crisis. Students call for speakers to be banned, books to be slapped with trigger warnings and university to be a Safe Space, free of offensive words or upsetting ideas. But as tempting as it is to write off intolerant students as a generational blip, or a science experiment gone wrong, they’ve been getting their ideas from somewhere. Bringing together leading journalists, a…
The academy is in crisis. Students call for speakers to be banned, books to be slapped with trigger warnings and university to be a Safe Space, free of offensive words or upsetting ideas. But as tempting as it is to write off intolerant students as a generational blip, or a science experiment gone wrong, they’ve been getting their ideas from somewhere. Bringing together leading journalists, a…
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 14th International Symposium, W2GIS 2015, held in Grenoble, France, in May 2015. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 19 submissions. Selected papers cover hot topics related to W2GIS including spatiotemporal data collection, processing and visualization, mobile user generated content, semantic trajec…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2015, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2015. The 30 regular papers presented together with 8 abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 142 submissions and cover results on incentives and computation in theoretical computer science, artificia…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2015 held in Guangzhou, China, in September 2015. The 67 full papers and presented together with 3 industrial track papers and 7 demonstration track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of Web-related data management problems, and provide a th…
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