“…Vast amounts of privacy-sensitive data are being collected today by organizations for a variety of reasons. Unauthorized disclosure, modification, usage, or denial of access to these data and corresponding services may result in high human and financial costs. …”

“…A note listing topics and names of panel members, and describing the general organization of the groups is included on the following page, however, because of the enthusiastic reception accorded these sessions…”

“…PODS has a tradition of being the premier international conference on the theoretical and foundational aspects of data management, and the interested reader is referred to the web page https://databasetheory.org/pods for information on the history of this conference series. …”

“…We express our sincere gratitude to our generous local supporters who agreed to continue supporting the conference even after Covid-19 budget cuts in their organizations. We encourage you to thank these supporters/exhibitors since their contribution allowed a dramatic reduction in our registration rates for all delegates to the virtual conference. …”

“…Awarding of badges follows the ACM guidelines: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-and-badging-current. …”

“…We will also have a Panel on Cultural Interfaces as well as some tutorial courses plus a workshop on Interaction Agents.The presentations cover the following areas: visualization techniques for high quantities of data, usability engineering applied to interfaces, design of multimedia systems and new proposals for enhancing visual interaction during the accomplishement of tasks.I am particularly indebted to the Program Committee and to all the reviewers who have helped us with their hard work to select the best papers for this Conference, while, at the same time, I wish to thank all the sponsors without whom we could never have organized this fourth edition.If software may be seen as a medium for creating vktualities (as in a spreadsheet program, through the use of a desktop metaphor, playing a videogame or browsing the Internet); we may assert that the interface is the main communication channel between such a software and the user who is, always more frequently, a technically unskilled person. …”

“…It must be commended to the groups for organizing this significant body of work across multiple time zones. …”

“…To accommodate the time differences among authors and attendees, sessions are organized based on three time zone areas (CST UTC+8 for Asia and Pacific, EDT UTC-4 for North and South America, and BST UTC+1 for Europe and Africa), and the presenter's time zone is used to determine which session a paper is assigned to. …”

“…To accommodate the growth of our conference, this year HRI is organized as a single-track conference for 2.5 days, and dual track on the final day. …”

“…Besides the contributing authors and presenters, many volunteering hours were dedicated by chairs, programcommittee members, local organizers, local volunteers, steering-committee members and many others. …”

“…In addition to the quantitative and qualitative challenges, data pressure in systems and networks also comes from various sources such as end systems, routers, firewalls, intrusion sensors, and the newly emerging network elements speaking with different syntax and semantics, which makes organizing and incorporating the generated data difficult for extensive analysis. …”

“…The community engaged with novel and thought-provoking ideas and discussed original research, work in progress, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, its current theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges as well as Web practices of individuals, collectives, institutions, and platforms. …”

“…Special thanks are also due to Rakesh Verma, former IWSPA chair, for his guidance during the entire process of organizing IWSPA '21…”

“…We would like to thank the authors, who submitted their best work to this conference; the program chairs and the program committee for putting together an excellent program; the steering committee and SIGSAC for providing behind-the-scenes support; and of course the organizing committee who spent many hours on administrative and organizational tasks. …”

“…This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. …”

“…Similarly, a lawyer, faced with a new case, would surely like to receive a relevance-ordered listing of all applicable court experience, and a doctor might be willing to trade clinical data and careful reporting in return for ordered estimates of diagnosis. …”

“…Putting together SNTA2021 was very hard, but with the team effort, we expect another successful organization of the full-day workshop. The workshop has about 87.5% of acceptance rate, after a rigorous review process. …”

“…PODS has a tradition of being the premier international conference on the theoretical and foundational aspects of data management; and the interested reader is referred to the web page https://databasetheory.org/pods for information on the history of this conference series…”

“…All quotations from the sources cited are given in English translation, with the original text, in Spanish and Catalan, given in footnotes…”
Accés lliure

“…(2:1-12:24)," "Strangers in the Night (2:1-24)," "Changing State (3:1-4:24)," "First Things First (5:1-15)," "Going in Circles (6:1-27)," "Ai Spy (7:1-8:35)," "Foiled Again (9:1-10:27)," "Conquering Canaanites (10:28-12:24)," "Organizing Israel (13:1-21:45)," "Altar Egos (22:1-34)," "Unfinished Business (23:1-18)," and "Decisions, Decisions (24:1-33)." …”