The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge-Centered
Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge
processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the
1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application
development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource
sharing (e.g., computing resources, services, metadata, data sources)
across different sites connected through networks has led to an
evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized
systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed
applications providing high scalability.
This, the 50th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data and
Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains five fully revised selected regular
papers. Topics covered include data anonymization, quasi-identifier
discovery methods, symbolic time series representation, detection of
anomalies in time series, data quality management in biobanks, and the
use of multi-agent technology in the design of intelligent systems for
maritime transport.