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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference, Évolution Artificielle, EA 2022, held in Exeter, UK, during October 31–November 2, 2022.The 15 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of artificial evolution, including, but not limited to: evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization, coevolution, artificial life, population dynamics, theory, algorithmic and modeling, implementations.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2022, held in Petrozavodsk, Russia, in July 2022. The 21 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: ​invited talks; integer programming and combinatorial optimization; mathematical programming; game theory and optimal control; operational research applications.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing, SEMCCO 2019, and 5th International Conference on Fuzzy and Neural Computing, FANCCO 2019, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in July 2019. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 31 submissions for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers cover a wide range of topics in swarm, evolutionary, memetic and other intelligent computing algorithms and their real world applications in problems selected from diverse domains of science and engineering.

This book constitutes revised papers from the 12th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computing, LSSC 2019, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2019. The 70 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The book also contains two invited talks. The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows: control and optimization of dynamical systems; meshfree and particle methods; fractional diffusion problems: numerical methods, algorithms and applications; pore scale flow and transport simulation; tensors based algorithms and structures in optimization and applications; HPC and big data: algorithms and applications; large-scale models: numerical methods, parallel computations and applications; monte carlo algorithms: innovative applications in conjunctions with other methods; application of metaheuristics to large-scale problems; large scale machine learning: multiscale algorithms and performance guarantees; and contributed papers.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed pChania, Crete, Greece, in May 2019. The 38 full papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers focus on advancedresearch developments in such interconnected fields as mathematical programming, global optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and describe advanced ideas, technologies, methods, and applications in optimization and machine learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2019, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, in September-October 2019.The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The papers cover such topics as optimization, operations research, optimal control, game theory, and their numerous applications in practical problems of operations research, data analysis, and software development.

The two-volume set LNCS 11973 and 11974 constitute revised selected papers from the Third International Conference on Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms, NUMTA 2019, held in Crotone, Italy, in June 2019. This volume, LNCS 11973, consists of 34 full and 18 short papers chosen among papers presented at special streams and sessions of the Conference. The papers in part I were organized following the topics of these special sessions: approximation: methods, algorithms, and applications; computational methods for data analysis; first order methods in optimization: theory and applications; high performance computing in modelling and simulation; numbers, algorithms, and applications; optimization and management of water supply.

​This two-volume set (CCIS 1159 and CCIS 1160) constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2019, held in Zhengzhou, China, in November 2019.The 121 full papers presented in both volumes were selected from 197 submissions. The papers are organized according to the topical headings: evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence; ​bioinformatics and systems biology; complex networks; DNA and molecular computing; neural networks and articial intelligence.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2020, held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 25 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 102 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: ​combinatorial optimization; mathematical programming; global optimization; game theory and mathematical economics; heuristics and metaheuristics; machine learning and data analysis.

This book constitutes the revised papers of the 46th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2020, held in Leeds, UK, in June 2020. The workshop was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 32 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. They cover a wide range of areas, aiming to present emerging research results and to identify and explore directions of future research of concepts on graph theory and how they can be applied to various areas in computer science.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2019, held in Mulhouse, France, in October 2019. The 16 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of artificial evolution, such as evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization, co-evolution, artificial life, population dynamics, theory, algorithmic and modeling, implementations, application of evolutionary paradigms to the real world (industry, biosciences...), other biologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, artificial ants, artificial immune systems, cultural algorithms...), memetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint handling, parallel algorithms, dynamic optimization, machine learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques.

This book features a selection of best papers from 11 workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, in Singapore in May 2016.The 11 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They cover specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. The 9 extended and revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 80 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named methodologies and technologies and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2019.The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: parallel algorithms; supercomputer simulation; HPC, BigData, AI: architectures, technologies, tools; and distributed and cloud computing.

This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. Overall, 46 full papers, 66 short papers, and 36 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 initial submissions. 17 of the 46 full papers were selected to be included in this volume. These papers deal with topics such as natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and agents.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2018, held in Parma, Italy, in September 2018. The 12 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They cover the following topics: Boolean networks and complex systems; economic, societal and technological applications; chemical, biological and medical applications. The chapter “Unveiling Latent Relations in the Photonics Techno-Economic Complex System” is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2018, held in Nice, France, in September 2018.The 12 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The papers address topics such as: psychology, economics, semantic and memory, natural language processing, cognition, information retrieval, biology, and political science.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT 2018, held in Bergen, Norway, in December 2018. The 11 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 28 submissions. The papers discuss new ideas and techniques for the design, implementation and verification of next generation open distributed systems centered on the notion of agreement among computational agents. They are organized in the following topical sections: AT foundations and modelling of reasoning agents; argumentation and negotiation; coordination in open distributed systems with applications.

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2019, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in July 2019. The 40 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 170 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: ​combinatorial optimization; game theory and mathematical economics; data mining and computational geometry; integer programming; mathematical programming; operations research; optimal control and applications.

This book constitutes the revised papers of the 45th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2019, held in Vall de Núria, Spain, in June 2019. The 29 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They cover a wide range of areas, aiming at connecting theory and applications by demonstrating how graph-theoretic concepts can be applied in various areas of computer science. Another focus is on presenting recent results and on identifying and exploring promising directions of future research.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications, NMA 2018, held in Borovets, Bulgaria, in August 2018. The 56 revised regular papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions for inclusion in this book. The papers are organized in the following topicalsections: numerical search and optimization; problem-driven numerical method: motivation and application, numerical methods for fractional diffusion problems; orthogonal polynomials and numerical quadratures; and Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, FTSCS 2018, held in Gold Coast, Australia in November 2018.The 10 revised full papers presented together with an abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis and verification of Safety-Critical Systems; analysis of timed systems; semantics and analysis methods, and model transformation.

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the Second International Congress on High-Performance Computing and Big Data Analysis, TopHPC 2019, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2019.The 37 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 103 submissions. The papers in the volume are organized acording to the following topical headings: deep learning; big data analytics; Internet of Things.- data mining, neural network and genetic algorithms; performance issuesand quantum computing.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1075 and CCIS 1076) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, ICAICR 2019, held in Shimla, India, in June 2019. The 78 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 382 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computing methodologies; hardware; information systems; networks; software and its engineering.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 14th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2018, held in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2018.The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. ALGOSENSORS is an international symposium dedicated to the algorithmic aspects of wireless networks. Originally focused on sensor networks, it now covers algorithmic issues arising in wireless networks of all types of computational entities, static or mobile, including sensor networks, sensor-actuator networks, autonomous robots. The focus is on the design and analysis of algorithms, models of computation, and experimental analysis.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Meeting on Computational. Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2017, held in Cagliari, Italy, in September 2017.The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers deal with the application of computational intelligence to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, medical informatics, computational approaches to life sciences in general.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2018, held in Volterra, Italy, in September 2018.The 46 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of machine learning, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, computational optimization and data science presenting a substantial array of ideas, technologies, algorithms, methods and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Finite Difference Methods, FDM 2018, held in Lozenetz, Bulgaria, in June 2018.The 69 revised full papers presented together with 11 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. They deal with many modern and new numerical techniques like splitting techniques, Green's function method, multigrid methods, and immersed interface method.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium, ISICA 2018, held in Jiujiang, China, in October 2018.The 32 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on nature-inspired computing; bio-inspired computing; novel operators in evolutionary algorithms; automatic object segmentation and detection; and image colorization; multilingual automatic document classication and translation; knowledge-based articial intelligence; predictive data mining.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2018, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018.The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 59 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Special Event on the Analysis of Experimental Algorithms, SEA² 2019, held in Kalamata, Greece, in June 2019.The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in both computer science and operations research/mathematical programming. They focus on the role of experimentation and engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of algorithms, data structures, and computational optimization methods.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 15th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2019, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2019. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. ALGOSENSORS is an international symposium dedicated to the algorithmic aspects of wireless networks.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2017, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2017.The 23 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They cover the following topics: physical-chemical phenomena; biological systems; economy and society; complexity; optimization.

The two-volume set LNCS 10671 and 10672 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2017, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in February 2017. The 117 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: pioneers and landmarks in the development of information and communication technologies; systems theory, socio-economic systems and applications; theory and applications of metaheuristic algorithms; stochastic models and applications to natural, social and technical systems; model-based system design, verification and simulation; applications of signal processing technology; algebraic and combinatorial methods in signal and pattern analysis; computer vision, deep learning and applications; computer and systems based methods and electronics technologies in medicine; intelligent transportation systems and smart mobility.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 25th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2017, held in Boston, MA, USA, in September 2017.The 34 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. Also included in this book are 2 abstracts of keynote presentations, 16 poster abstracts, and 1 contest report. The papers are organized in topical sections named: straight-line representations; obstacles and visibility; topological graph theory; orthogonal representations and book embeddings; evaluations; tree drawings; graph layout designs; point-set embeddings; special representations; and beyond planarity.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents, ALIA 2016, held in Birmingham, UK, in June 2016. The 8 revised full papers and three revised short papers presented together with two demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling; robotics; bio-inspired problem solving; human-like systems; applications and games.

The two-volume set LNCS 10671 and 10672 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2017, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in February 2017. The 117 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: pioneers and landmarks in the development of information and communication technologies; systems theory, socio-economic systems and applications; theory and applications of metaheuristic algorithms; stochastic models and applications to natural, social and technical systems; model-based system design, verification and simulation; applications of signal processing technology; algebraic and combinatorial methods in signal and pattern analysis; computer vision, deep learning and applications; computer and systems based methods and electronics technologies in medicine; intelligent transportation systems and smart mobility.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2018, held in Ma'ale HaHamisha, Israel, in June 2018. The 23 full papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They are devoted to the study of the interplay between structural knowledge, communications, and computing in decentralized systems of multiple communicating entities and cover a large range of topics.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Number-Theoretic Methods in Cryptology, NuTMiC 2017, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2017.The 15 revised full papers presented in this book together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on elliptic curves in cryptography; public-key cryptography; lattices in cryptography; number theory; pseudorandomness; and algebraic structures and analysis.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 12, held in Kalamata, Greece, in June 2018. The 28 full papers and 12 short papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers explore the advanced research developments in such interconnected fields as mathematical programming, global optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Special focus is given to advanced ideas, technologies, methods, and applications in optimization and machine learning.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2017, held in Paris, France, in October 2017. The 16 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of artificial evolution, such as evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization, co-evolution, artificial life, population dynamics, theory, algorithmics and modeling, implementations, application of evolutionary paradigms to the real world (industry, biosciences,...), other biologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, artificial ants, artificial immune systems, cultural algorithms...), memetic algorithms, multi-objective optimisation, constraint handling, parallel algorithms,, dynamic optimization, machine learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques.

The two-volume set LNCS 10777 and 10778 constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2017, held in Lublin, Poland, in September 2017.The 49 regular papers presented in this volume were selected from 98 submissions. For the workshops and special sessions, that were held as integral parts of the PPAM 2017 conference, a total of 51 papers was accepted from 75 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows:Part I: numerical algorithms and parallel scientific computing; particle methods in simulations; task-based paradigm of parallel computing; GPU computing; parallel non-numerical algorithms; performance evaluation of parallel algorithms and applications; environments and frameworks for parallel/distributed/cloud computing; applications of parallel computing; soft computing with applications; and special session on parallel matrix factorizations.Part II: workshop on models, algorithms and methodologies for hybrid parallelism in new HPC systems; workshop power and energy aspects of computations (PEAC 2017); workshop on scheduling for parallel computing (SPC 2017); workshop on language-based parallel programming models (WLPP 2017); workshop on PGAS programming; minisymposium on HPC applications in physical sciences; minisymposium on high performance computing interval methods; workshop on complex collective systems.

This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in eight workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2018, held in Toulouse, France, in June 2018. The 65 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The events whose papers are included in this volume are: CoSim-CPS 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical SystemsDataMod 2018: 7th International Symposium From Data to Models and BackFMIS 2018: 7th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive SystemsFOCLASA 2018: 16th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-adaptative SystemsGCM 2018: 9th International Workshop on Graph Computation ModelsMDE@DeRun 2018: 1st International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for Design-RuntimeInteraction in Complex SystemsMSE 2018: 3rd International Workshop on Microservices: Science and EngineeringSecureMDE 2018: 1st International Workshop on Security for and by Model-Driven Engineering

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop post-proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2018, held in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2018 as part of ALGO 2018. The 19 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. Topics of interest for WAOA 2016 were: graph algorithms; inapproximability results; network design; packing and covering; paradigms for the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms; parameterized complexity; scheduling problems; algorithmic game theory; algorithmic trading; coloring and partitioning; competitive analysis; computational advertising; computational finance; cuts and connectivity; geometric problems; mechanism design; resource augmentation; and real-world applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Human Centered Computing Conference, HCC 2017, that consolidated and further develops the successful ICPCA/SWS conferences on Pervasive Computing and the Networked World, and which was held in Kazan, Russia, in August 2017.The 48 full and 20 short papers presented in this book together with 2 invited keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. This proceedings present recent advances in human machine interfaces, wireless and mobile network technologies, and data analytics, which make computer services truly human-centric.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2017, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2017. The 63 revised short papers together with 3 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions.The conference presents results from the following topics: Hierarchical, adaptive, domain decomposition and local refinement methods;Robust preconditioning algorithms;Monte Carlo methods and algorithms;Numerical linear algebra;Control and optimization;Parallel algorithms and performance analysis;Large-scale computations of environmental, biomedical and engineering problems.The chapter'Parallel Aggregation Based on Compatible Weighted Matching for AMG'is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2017, held in Bradford, UK, in July 2017. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. They deal with membrane computing (P systems theory), an area of computer science aiming to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and the functioning of living cells, as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues or higher order structures. The volume also contains 2 invited talks.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 15, held in Athens, Greece, in June 2021. The 30 full papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. LION deals with designing and engineering ways of'learning'about the performance of different techniques, and ways of using past experience about the algorithm behavior to improve performance in the future. Intelligent learning schemes for mining the knowledge obtained online or offline can improve the algorithm design process and simplify the applications of high-performance optimization methods. Combinations of different algorithms can further improve the robustness and performance of the individual components.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop post-proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2019, held virtually in September 2020 as part of ALGO 2020.The 15 revised full papers presented this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Topics of interest for WAOA 2018 were graph algorithms, inapproximability results, network design, packing and covering, paradigms for the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms, parameterized complexity, scheduling problems, algorithmic game theory, algorithmic trading, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational advertising, computational -finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, mechanism design, resource augmentation, real-world applications.Chapter'Explorable Uncertainty in Scheduling with Non-Uniform Testing Times'is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2016, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2016. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on the present of supercomputing: large tasks solving experience; the future of supercomputing: new technologies.