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This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 6th International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2024, in Auckland, New Zealand, during May 6–10, 2024. The 13 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: User-centric XAI; XAI and Reinforcement Learning; Neuro-symbolic AI and Explainable Machine Learning; and XAI & Ethics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META 2023, held in Marrakech, Morocco, during November 1-4, 2023. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: combinatorial optimization; scheduling; continuous optimization; automatic metaheuristics tuning; optimization and machine learning; and applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2024, held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, during April 6–7, 2024. The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They focus on several topics, e.g., foundations; rewriting as a logical and semantic framework; rewriting languages; verification techniques; applications; and education.

This volume constitutes the papers of two workshops which were held in conjunction with the 21st International Workshop on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2023 Collocated Workshops, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on November 6–10, 2023 The 10 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. SEFM 2023 Collocated Workshops presents the following two workshops: 5th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications (CIFMA 2023) 11th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology (OpenCERT 2023)

The two-volume set CCIS 2061 and 2062 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2023, held in Changsha, China, during December 15–17, 2023.The 64 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence; and Membrane Computing and DNA ComputingVolume II: Machine Learning and Applications; and Intelligent Control and Application.

The two-volume set CCIS 2061 and 2062 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2023, held in Changsha, China, during December 15–17, 2023.The 64 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence; and Membrane Computing and DNA ComputingVolume II: Machine Learning and Applications; and Intelligent Control and Application.

This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 22–24, 2023. The 23 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 306 submissions. The conference was organized in 2 tracks as follows: One track focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general. The other track focuses mainly on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception Reactive AI Systems, and Evolutionary Computing and other topics related to Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence.

This two-volume set LNCS 14465-14466 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2023, held in Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Italy, in September 2023. The 31 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, and one contest report, were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 100 submissions. The abstracts of 11 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: beyond planarity; crossing numbers; linear layouts; geometric aspects; visualization challenges; graph representations; graph decompositions; topological aspects; parameterized complexity for drawings; planar graphs; frameworks; algorithmics.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 5th International Workshop on Dynamic Logic. New Trends and Applications, DaLí 2023, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, during September 15–16, 2023. The 8 full papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. They deal with new trends and applications in the area of Dynamic Logic.

This two-volume set LNCS 14465-14466 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2023, held in Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Italy, in September 2023. The 31 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, and one contest report, were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 100 submissions. The abstracts of 11 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: beyond planarity; crossing numbers; linear layouts; geometric aspects; visualization challenges; graph representations; graph decompositions; topological aspects; parameterized complexity for drawings; planar graphs; frameworks; algorithmics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2023, held in London, UK, on May 29, 2023 (co-located with 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)).This book contains 10 full papers which are the extended and revised versions of the papers accepted to the workshop.The papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Norms, Social contracts, Institutions, and Privacy; Studies on the notion of Value; and Argumentation and Conventions

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the JSAI annual conference, JSAI 2022, and the 14th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2022, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 2022. The 18 full papers were carefully selected from 67 submissions and presented during the two events: 16th International Workshop on Juris-informatics, JURISIN 2022, and JSAI 2022 Intenational Session. This papers present discussion on fundamental and practical issues in Juris-informatics among researchers from various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic, and philosophy, including the conventional AI and Law area.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 16, which took place in Milos Island, Greece, in June 2022.The 36 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. LION deals with automatic solver configuration, parallel methods, intelligent optimization, nature-inspired algorithms, hard combinatorial optimization problems, DC learning, computational intelligence, and others. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Invited Papers; Contributed Papers.

This book constitutes invited papers from the Second International Workshop on Frontiers in Software Engineering Education, FISEE 2023, which took place at the Château de Villebrumier, France, during January 23-25, 2023. The Editorial and the 8 papers included in this volume were considerably enhanced after the conference and during two different peer-review phases. The contributions cover the main topics of the workshop: education in technology and technology for education; new (and fearless) ideas on education; adjustments in teaching during pandemic: experience reports; models for class development; how to design learning objectives and outcomes; labs and practical sessions: how to conduct them; curriculum development; course design; quality course assessment; long-life studies in education; empirical research in SE education; experiences in starting-up new educational systems; blended education. FISEE 2023 is part of a series of scientific events held at the new LASER center in Villebrumier near Montauban and Toulouse, France.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2022, held in Tokyo, Japan, during September 13-16, 2022. The 25 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, one report on graph drawing contest, and one obituary in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The abstracts of 5 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: properties of drawings of complete graphs; stress-based visualizations of graphs; planar and orthogonal drawings; drawings and properties of directed graphs; beyond planarity; dynamic graph visualization; linear layouts; and contact and visibility graph representations.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 8th Summer School, CEFP 2019, held in Budapest, Hungary, during June 2019.The 7 full papers and the 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected. The lectures cover various programming subjects with a focus on composability, comprehensibility, and correctness of working software.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2022, which took place in Potsdam, Germany, on September 6, 2022.The 6 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cloud-Based Urban Mobility Services; New Results in Priority-Based Bin Packing; More Sparking Soundex-based Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage and Privacy Preserving Queries of Shortest Path Distances.

This volume LNCS 14127 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2023, held in London, UK, in May 2023. The 15 full papers presented together with 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The workshop focuses on Explainable Agents and multi-agent systems; Explainable Machine Learning; and Cross-domain applied XAI.

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2021, held online in November 2021. The 26 full papers were carefully selected from 86 submissions. The papers are organized in the volume according to the following workshops: 15th International Workshop on Juris-Informatics, JURISIN 2021; 18th Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, LENLS 18, 5th International Workshop on SCIentific DOCument Analysis, SCI-DOCA 2021; Workshop on Artificial Affective (Kansei) Intelligence, KANSEI-AI 2021; 5th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence of and for Business, AI-Biz 2021.

This book constitutes the extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2021, on October 25–27, 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The purpose of the IC3K is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K is composed of three co-located conferences, each specialized in at least one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas.

​This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language, AINL 2022, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2022. The 8 revised full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The volume presents recent research in areas of of text mining, speech technologies, dialogue systems, information retrieval, machine learning, articial intelligence, and robotics.

This book constitures selected and revised papers presented at the First International Workshop on Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement, MOVE 2020, held as Virtual Event in October 2020. The 7 extended and revised papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 13 submissions. Along with them, the volume presents 5 invited papers. The volume articles are arranged in the topical sections on complexity of knowledge-intensive endeavors; ontology modeling; enterprise ontologies; knowledge discovery and innovations.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2023, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on September 5, 2023. The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They focus on algorithmic aspects of computing and data management in modern cloud-based systems interpreted broadly so as to include edge- and fog-based systems, cloudlets, cloud micro-services, virtualization environments, decentralized systems, as well as dynamic networks.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2022, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in June 2022.The 6 revised papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The contributed presentations covered a range of topics about the algebraic approach to system specification, which encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems. Originally born as formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, the algebraic approach now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object-oriented, aspect-oriented, agent-oriented, logic, and higher-order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed, and mobile systems).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2023, held Tehran, Iran in May 4-5, 2023.The 9 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The topics of interest in FSEN span over all aspects of formal methods, especially those related to advancing the application of formal methods in the software industry and promoting their integration with practical engineering techniques. The papers are organized in topical sections on coordination, logic, networks, parallel computation, and testing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2022, held in Gaeta, Italy, during September 14–16, 2022. The 21 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: answer set programming; networks and complex systems, metaheuristics, robotics, and machine learningChapters 7, 8, and 9 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This volume constitutes the revised selected papers from the four workshops collocated with the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2022, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2022. The 19 full papers presented together with 9 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 39 submissions. The contributions that are collected in this volume have been selected from the presentations at the following workshops: AI4EA 2022: First Berlin Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Applications; F-IDE 2022: 7th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment; CoSim-CPS 2022: 6th Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems; CIFMA 2022: 4th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2021, held in Winterthur, Switzerland, in September 2022. The 14 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Networks; Droplets, Fluids, and Synthetic Biology; Robot Systems; Computer Vision and Computational Creativity; Semantic Search; Artificial Medicine and Pharmacy; Trade and Finance; Ethics in Computational Modelling.Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 22, and 24 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2023, which was held in London, UK, during May 29–30, 2023.The 11 full papers and 7 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: agent-oriented software engineering; agents and microservices; strategy, reasoning, and planning; engineering domains and applications; agents in hypermedia environments; frameworks, tooling, and devops.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Verified Software. Theories, Tools and Experiments, VSTTE 2022 held in Trento, Italy, during October 17–18, 2022.The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers describe software verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge as well as novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, ICTMF 2011, held in Singapore in May 2011. The conference was held together with the Second International Conference on High Performance Networking, Computing, and Communication systems, ICHCC 2011, which proceedings are published in CCIS 163. The 84 revised selected papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The topics covered range from computational science, engineering and technology to digital signal processing, and computational biology to game theory, and other related topices.

This volume constitutes revised selected papers from the four workshops collocated with the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2021, held virtually during December 6–10, 2021.The 21 contributed papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 29 submissions. The book also contains 3 invited talks.SEFM 2021 presents the following four workshops:CIFMA 2021 - 3rd International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications;CoSim-CPS 2021 - 5th Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems;OpenCERT 2021 - 10th International Workshop on Open Community approaches to Education, Research and Technology;ASYDE 2021 - 3rd International Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem Development.Due to the Corona pandemic this event washeld virtually.

This book constitutes selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2021, which was held online during February 4–6, 2021.A total of 72 full and 99 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected for the conference from a total of 298 submissions; 17 selected full papers are included in this book. They were organized in topical sections named agents and artificial intelligence.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1565 and CCIS 1566) constitutes selected and revised papers from the 16th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2021, held in Taiyuan, China, in December 2021. The 67 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ​evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence; DNA and molecular computing; ​machine learning and computer vision.

This book constitutes selected revised papers of the 15th International Conference, NooJ 2021, held in Besançon, France, in June 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena. NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, regular grammars, context-free grammars, context-sensitive grammars and unrestricted grammars as well as their graphical equivalent to formalize each linguistic phenomenon. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topics:​ linguistic formalization and analysis, digital humanities and teaching, natural language processing applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium'From Data Models and Back', DataMod 2021, which was held virtually during December 6-7, 2021, as a satellite event of SEFM 2021. The 9 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Model verification; data mining and processing related approaches; and other approaches.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computing, LSSC 23021, which was held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, during June 7-11, 2021. The 60 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 73 submissions. The volume also includes two invited talks in full paper length. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Fractional diffusion problems: numerical methods, algorithms and applications; large-scale models: numerical methods, parallel computations and applications; application of metaheuristics to large-scale problems; advanced discretizations and solvers for coupled systems of partial differential equations; optimal control of ODEs, PDEs and applications; tensor and matrix factorization for big-data analysis; machine learning and model order reduction for large scale predictive simulations; HPC and big data: algorithms and applications; and contributed papers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers the Digital Economy, CCKS 2022, in Qinhuangdao, China, August 24–27, 2022.The 15 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge acquisition and knowledge base construction; linked data, knowledge integration, and knowledge graph storage managements; natural language understanding and semantic computing; knowledge graph applications; and knowledge graph open resources.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th National Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, NCTCS 2022, held in Changchun, China, during July 29–31, 2022.The 13 full papers and 6 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computational theory and model; approximation algorithms; artificial intelligence; and system and resource scheduling.

This book constitutes selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2022, held in Munich, Germany, in April 2022.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They focus on topics in rewriting logic and its applications. The book also contains 2 invited papers, 2 invited tutorials and an experience report.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2021, which was held in Tübingen, Germany, during September 14-17, 2021.The 23 full papers and 5 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The abstracts of 13 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Best Paper (Track 1: Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects); Best Paper (Track 2: Experimental, Applied, and Network Visualization Aspects); Crossing Minimization and Beyond-Planarity; Morphing and Graph Abstraction; Geometric Constraints; Topological and Upward Drawings; Linear Layouts; Contact and Visibility Representations; Geometric Aspects in Graph Drawing; AI applications; and Graph Drawing Contest Report.

This book constitutes revised and selected papers of the First International Conference on Computational Sciences - Modelling, Computing and Soft Computing, held in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, in September 2020. The 15 full papers and 6 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 150 submissions. They are organized in the topical secions on computing; soft computing; general computing; modelling.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 39th National Conference of Theoretical Computer Science, NCTCS 2021, held in Yinchuan, China, in July 2021. The 67 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions, and 14 of them were selected for the volume. The papers present recent research in the areas of information hiding, data detection and recognition, system scheduling, time series prediction, and formal analysis.

This book constitutes the revised post-conference proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2021. The conference was held online in June, 2021. 16 full papers are presented in this volume, each of which carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 51 submissions. The papers report on both early and mature research and cover a wide range of topics in the field of multi-agent systems.

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2020. Organized in the Tokyo Institute of Technology, it was held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 19 full papers were carefully selected from 50 submissions and present two workshops: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 2020) focus on the formal and theoretical aspects of natural language. It is an annual International Workshop recognized internationally in the formal syntax-semantics-pragmatics community. The 14th International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2020) details legal issues for the perspective of information science. This workshop covers a wide range of topics, including any theories and technologies which are not directly related with juris-informatics but have a potential to contribute to this domain.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2020, held virtually in April 2020.The 7 revised papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. The contributed presentations covered a range of topics about the algebraic approach to system specification, which encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems. Originally born as formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, the algebraic approach now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object-oriented, aspect-oriented, agent-oriented, logic, and higher-order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed, and mobile systems).

This book includes revised selected papers from the International Workshops on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, AICOL-XI@JURIX2018, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, on December 12, 2018; AICOL-XII@JURIX 2020, held in Brno, Czechia, on December 9, 2020; XAILA@JURIX 2020, held in in Brno, Czechia, on December 9, 2020.•The 17 full and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected form 39 submissions. They represent a comprehensive picture of the state of the art in legal informatics. The papers are logically organized in 5 blocks: ​Knowledge Representation; Logic, rules, and reasoning; Explainable AI in Law and Ethics; Law as Web of linked Data and the Rule of Law; Data protection and Privacy Modelling and Reasoning.•Due to the Covid-19 pandemic AICOL-XII@JURIX 2020 and XAILA@JURIX 2020 were held virtually.

This book constitutes selected revised papers of the 14th International Conference, NooJ 2020, held Zagreb, Croatia, in June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena. NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, regular grammars, context-free grammars, context-sensitive grammars and unrestricted grammars as well as their graphical equivalent to formalize each linguistic phenomenon. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topics:​ Linguistic Formalization; Digital Humanities and Teaching with NooJ; Natural Language Processing Applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on From Data Models and Back, DataMod 2020, held virtually, in October 2020. The 11 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this book were selected from 19 submissions. The papers are grouped in these topical sections: machine learning; simulation-based approaches, and data mining and processing related approaches.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.The 25 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; and knowledge management and information systems.