This, the 40th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains five revised selected regular papers. Topics covered include personalized social query expansion approaches, continuous query on social media streams, elastic processing systems, and semantic interoperability for smart grids and NoSQL environments. | Transactions On Large-scale Data- And Knowledge-centered Systems Xl by Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paperback | Indigo Chapters