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This is the first comprehensive book dedicated entirely to the field of decision trees in data mining and covers all aspects of this important technique.Decision trees have become one of the most powerful and popular approaches in knowledge discovery and data mining, the science and technology of exploring large and complex bodies of data in order to discover useful patterns. The area is of great importance because it enables modeling and knowledge extraction from the abundance of data available. Both theoreticians and practitioners are continually seeking techniques to make the process more efficient, cost-effective and accurate. Decision trees, originally implemented in decision theory and statistics, are highly effective tools in other areas such as data mining, text mining, information extraction, machine learning, and pattern recognition. This book invites readers to explore the many benefits in data mining that decision trees offer:

This reader-friendly textbook presents a comprehensive review of the essentials of image data mining, and the latest cutting-edge techniques used in the field. The coverage spans all aspects of image analysis and understanding, offering deep insights into areas of feature extraction, machine learning, and image retrieval. The theoretical coverage is supported by practical mathematical models and algorithms, utilizing data from real-world examples and experiments.Topics and features: describes the essential tools for image mining, covering Fourier transforms, Gabor filters, and contemporary wavelet transforms; reviews a varied range of state-of-the-art models, algorithms, and procedures for image mining; emphasizes how to deal with real image data for practical image mining; highlights how such features as color, texture, and shape can be mined or extracted from images for image representation; presents four powerful approaches for classifying image data, namely, Bayesian classification, Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, and Decision Trees; discusses techniques for indexing, image ranking, and image presentation, along with image database visualization methods; provides self-test exercises with instructions or Matlab code, as well as review summaries at the end of each chapter.This easy-to-follow work illuminates how concepts from fundamental and advanced mathematics can be applied to solve a broad range of image data mining problems encountered by students and researchers of computer science. Students of mathematics and other scientific disciplines will also benefit from the applications and solutions described in the text, together with the hands-on exercises that enable the reader to gain first-hand experience of computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2024, held in New Delhi, India, on May 11, 2024. The 13 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. These papers have been categorized into the following topical sections: Intelligent systems and Pattern recognition.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2023, held in Moscow, Russia, during 24-27 October 2023. The 21 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. These papers are organized in the following topical sections: Data Models and Knowledge Graphs; Databases in Data Intensive Domains; Machine learning methods and applications; Data Analysis in Astronomy & Information extraction from text. Papers from keynote talks have also been included in this book.

The five-volume set LNCS 14961, 14962, 14963, 14964 and 14965 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2024, held in Jinhua, China, during August 30–September 1, 2024. The 171 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 558 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Natural language processing, Generative AI and LLM, Computer Vision and Recommender System. Part II: Recommender System, Knowledge Graph and Spatial and Temporal Data. Part III: Spatial and Temporal Data, Graph Neural Network, Graph Mining and Database System and Query Optimization. Part IV: Database System and Query Optimization, Federated and Privacy-Preserving Learning, Network, Blockchain and Edge computing, Anomaly Detection and Security Part V: Anomaly Detection and Security, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Demonstration Paper and Industry Paper.

The five-volume set LNCS 14961, 14962, 14963, 14964 and 14965 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2024, held in Jinhua, China, during August 30–September 1, 2024. The 171 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 558 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Natural language processing, Generative AI and LLM, Computer Vision and Recommender System. Part II: Recommender System, Knowledge Graph and Spatial and Temporal Data. Part III: Spatial and Temporal Data, Graph Neural Network, Graph Mining and Database System and Query Optimization. Part IV: Database System and Query Optimization, Federated and Privacy-Preserving Learning, Network, Blockchain and Edge computing, Anomaly Detection and Security Part V: Anomaly Detection and Security, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Demonstration Paper and Industry Paper.

​This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Recent Trends in Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2023, held in Yerevan, Armenia, during September 28–30, 2023. The 19 full papers 2 short papers and 1 demo paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Natural Language Processing; Computer Vision; Data Analysis and Machine Learning; Network Analysis; Theoretical Machine Learning and Optimization; and Demo Paper.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2024, held in Poitiers, France, in June 2024. The 18 full papers, 6 short papers and 5 industrial papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Classification and Clustering; Neural Network and Natural Language Processing; AI tools and Models; Neural Network and Data Mining; Explainability in AI; Industry Session; Learning with Complex Data; Recommendation Systems and Prediction.

The two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2023, held in Changa, Anand, India, in December 2023. The 42 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 351 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Volume number 2020: Theory and Methods; Systems and ApplicationsVolume number 2031: Systems and Applications; Hybrid Techniques.

The two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2023, held in Changa, Anand, India, in December 2023. The 42 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 351 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Volume number 2020: Theory and Methods; Systems and ApplicationsVolume number 2031: Systems and Applications; Hybrid Techniques.

These two-volume set IFIP AICT 717 and 718 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2024, held in Chennai, India, during February 21–23, 2024. The 63 full papers and 9 short papers were presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. The conference papers are organized in topical sections on: Part I - Applications of AI/ML in Natural Language Processing; and Applications of AI/ML in Image Processing. Part II - Applications of AI/ML in KDM, Cloud Computing & Security; Data Analytics; and Applications of ML.

These two-volume set IFIP AICT 717 and 718 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2024, held in Chennai, India, during February 21–23, 2024. The 63 full papers and 9 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. The conference papers are organized in following topical sections: Part I: Applications of AI/ML in Natural Language Processing; and Applications of AI/ML in Image Processing. Part II: Applications of AI/ML in KDM, Cloud Computing & Security; Data Analytics; and Applications of ML.

This conference LNAI 14502 volume constitutes the workshop proceedings of 22nd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in November 2023 in Mérida, Yucatán, México. The total of 34 papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.The proceedings of MICAI 2023 workshops are structured into three sections: – WILE 2023: 16th Workshop on Intelligent Learning Environments – HIS 2023: 16th Workshop of Hybrid Intelligent Systems – CIAPP 2023: 5th Workshop on New Trends in Computational Intelligence and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2024, held in Athens, Greece, during August 30-31, 2024. The 27 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions addressing topics like: document analysis and understanding; retrieval and VQA; layout analysis; document classification; OCR correction and NLP; recognition systems; and historical documents.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 6th International Conference on Adaptive Instructional Systems, AIS 2024, held as part of the 26th International Conference, HCI International 2024, which took place in Washington, DC, USA, during June 29-July 4, 2024. The total of 1271 papers and 309 posters included in the HCII 2024 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 5108 submissions. The HCII-AIS 2024 contributions have been organized in the following topical sections: Designing and developing adaptive instructional systems; adaptive learning experiences; AI in adaptive learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2024, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during October 10–12, 2024. The 27 full papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The conference focuses on: learning algorithms and architectures; applications in medical and health sciences; applications in computer vision; applications in NLP, speech, and music; applications in environmental and biological sciences.

This 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 2-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024. The total of 863 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2189 submissions. The intelligent computing annual conference primarily aims to promote research, development and application of advanced intelligent computing techniques by providing a vibrant and effective forum across a variety of disciplines. This conference has a further aim of increasing the awareness of industry of advanced intelligent computing techniques and the economic benefits that can be gained by implementing them. The intelligent computing technology includes a range of techniques such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Evolutionary Computing, Informatics Theories and Applications, Computational Neuroscience & Bioscience, Soft Computing, Human Computer Interface Issues, etc.

This 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 2-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024. The total of 863 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2189 submissions. The intelligent computing annual conference primarily aims to promote research, development and application of advanced intelligent computing techniques by providing a vibrant and effective forum across a variety of disciplines. This conference has a further aim of increasing the awareness of industry of advanced intelligent computing techniques and the economic benefits that can be gained by implementing them. The intelligent computing technology includes a range of techniques such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Evolutionary Computing, Informatics Theories and Applications, Computational Neuroscience & Bioscience, Soft Computing, Human Computer Interface Issues, etc.

This 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 2-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024. The total of 863 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2189 submissions. The intelligent computing annual conference primarily aims to promote research, development and application of advanced intelligent computing techniques by providing a vibrant and effective forum across a variety of disciplines. This conference has a further aim of increasing the awareness of industry of advanced intelligent computing techniques and the economic benefits that can be gained by implementing them. The intelligent computing technology includes a range of techniques such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Evolutionary Computing, Informatics Theories and Applications, Computational Neuroscience & Bioscience, Soft Computing, Human Computer Interface Issues, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2021, held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 62 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image processing; text, voice and video processing; bioinformatics; deep learning; medical image processing; theory and models; feature selection; biometrics and dermoscopy; facial image analysis; object and event detection; pattern recognition; machine learning applications.

The 4-volume set LNCS 14331, 14332, 14333, and 14334 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2023, which took place in Wuhan, China, in October 2023. The total of 138 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 434 submissions. They focus on innovative ideas, original research findings, case study results, and experienced insights in the areas of the World Wide Web and big data, covering Web technologies, database systems, information management, software engineering, knowledge graph, recommend system and big data.

The 4-volume set LNCS 14331, 14332, 14333, and 14334 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2023, which took place in Wuhan, China, in October 2023. The total of 138 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 434 submissions. They focus on innovative ideas, original research findings, case study results, and experienced insights in the areas of the World Wide Web and big data, covering Web technologies, database systems, information management, software engineering, knowledge graph, recommend system and big data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 21–23, 2023.The 216 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 503 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Data mining foundations, Grand challenges of data mining, Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms, Mining on data streams, Graph mining and Spatial data mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 21–23, 2023.The 216 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 503 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Data mining foundations, Grand challenges of data mining, Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms, Mining on data streams, Graph mining and Spatial data mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 21–23, 2023.The 216 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 503 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Data mining foundations, Grand challenges of data mining, Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms, Mining on data streams, Graph mining and Spatial data mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 21–23, 2023.The 216 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 503 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Data mining foundations, Grand challenges of data mining, Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms, Mining on data streams, Graph mining and Spatial data mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 21–23, 2023.The 216 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 503 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Data mining foundations, Grand challenges of data mining, Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms, Mining on data streams, Graph mining and Spatial data mining.

This volume LNCS 14252 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 25th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2023, held in Tianjin, China, during November 18–20, 2023. The 38 full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The conference focuses on: Symmetric-Key Cryptography; Public-Key Cryptography; Applied Cryptography; Authentication and Authorization; Privacy and Anonymity; Security and Privacy of AI; Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies; and System and Network Security.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2023, held in Kristiansand, Norway, during June 28–30, 2023. The 22 full papers and 16 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They were grouped into various subtopics including Knowledge Exploration in IoT, Medical Informatics, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, Application of Artificial Intelligence, and other areas.

The six-volume set LNCS 14447 until 14452 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 652 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1274 submissions. They focus on theory and algorithms, cognitive neurosciences; human centred computing; applications in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields.

The six-volume set LNCS 14447 until 14452 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 652 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1274 submissions. They focus on theory and algorithms, cognitive neurosciences; human centred computing; applications in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields.

The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 1274 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. The ICONIP conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2023, held in Évora, Portugal, during November 22–24, 2023.The 45 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. IDEAL 2023 is focusing on big data challenges, machine learning, deep learning, data mining, information retrieval and management, bio-/neuro-informatics, bio-inspired models, agents and hybrid intelligent systems, and real-world applications of intelligence techniques and AI.The papers are organized in the following topical sections: main track; special session on federated learning and (pre) aggregation in machine learning; special session on intelligent techniques for real-world applications of renewable energy and green transport; and special session on data selection in machine learning.

The six-volume set LNCS 14447 until 14452 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 652 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1274 submissions. They focus on theory and algorithms, cognitive neurosciences; human centred computing; applications in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2023, held in New Delhi, India, during May 27, 2023.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: global platform for researchers, scientists and practitioners from both academia and industry to present their research and development activities in all the aspects of Pattern Recognition and computational Intelligence techniques.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2023, which took place in Porto, Portugal, in October 2023. The 37 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Machine learning methods and applications; natural language processing and social media analysis; interpretability and explainability in AI; data analysis and optimization; fairness, privacy and security in AI; control and spatio-temporal modeling; graph theory and network analysis; time series and forecasting; healthcare and biological data analysis; anomaly, outlier and novelty detection.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2022, held in Changa, Anand, India during December 9–10, 2022. The 33 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 342 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Theory and Methods; Systems and Applications; and Hybrid Techniques.

This book presents an overview of recent methods of feature selection and dimensionality reduction that are based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for a clustering perspective, with particular attention to the knowledge discovery question. The authors first present a synthesis of the major recent influencing techniques and'tricks'participating in recent advances in deep clustering, as well as a recall of the main deep learning architectures. Secondly, the book highlights the most popular works by “family” to provide a more suitable starting point from which to develop a full understanding of the domain. Overall, the book proposes a comprehensive up-to-date review of deep feature selection and deep clustering methods with particular attention to the knowledge discovery question and under a multi-criteria analysis. The book can be very helpful for young researchers, non-experts, and R&D AI engineers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2023, which took place in Kalavakkam, India, in February 2023.The 24 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The major theme of the conference was intended to be computation intelligence and knowledge management. Various emerging areas like IoT, cyber security and data science need computation intelligence to align with the cutting-edge research. Machine learning delivers insights hidden in data for rapid, automated responses and improved decision making. Machine learning for IoT can be used to project future trends, detect anomalies, and augment intelligence by ingesting image, video, and audio.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th CCF Conference on BigData 2023, which took place in Nanjing, China, in September 2023. The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include theories and methods of data science, algorithms and applications of big data.

The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 1274 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. The ICONIP conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements.

The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 1274 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. The ICONIP conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements.

The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 1274 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. The ICONIP conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements.

This two-volume set LNAI 14471-14472 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2023, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia during November 28 – December 1, 2023. The 23 full papers presented together with 59 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 213 submissions. They are organized in the following topics: computer vision; deep learning; machine learning and data mining; optimization; medical AI; knowledge representation and NLP; explainable AI; reinforcement learning; and genetic algorithm.

This two-volume set LNAI 14471-14472 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2023, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia during November 28 – December 1, 2023. The 23 full papers presented together with 59 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 213 submissions. They are organized in the following topics: computer vision; deep learning; machine learning and data mining; optimization; medical AI; knowledge representation and NLP; explainable AI; reinforcement learning; and genetic algorithm..

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2021, which took place in Hammamet, Tunisia, in November 2021. The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They deal with topics such as evolutionary computation, knowledge exploration in IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and information retrieval, medical image analysis, pattern recognition and computer vision, speech / signal processing, text mining and natural language processing, intelligent security systems, Smart and Intelligent Systems, etc.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2021, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2021•.The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: problem solving infrastructures, experiment organization, and machine learning applications; data analysis in astronomy; data analysis in material and earth sciences; information extraction from text• The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2021, held in Changa, India, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 29 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers present recent research on theory and applications in fuzzy computing, neuro computing, and evolutionary computing.

The two-volume set LNAI 13725 and 13726 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2022, which took place in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in November 2022. The 72 papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Finance and Healthcare; Web and IoT Applications; On-device Application; Other Applications; Pattern Mining; Graph Mining; Text Mining; Image, Multimedia and Time Series Data Mining; Classification, Clustering and Recommendation; Multi-objective, Optimization, Augmentation, and Database; and Others.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2019, held in Poznan, Poland, in May 2019. The 24 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: Speech Processing; Language Resources and Tools; Computational Semantics; Emotions, Decisions and Opinions; Digital Humanities; Evaluation; and Legal Aspects.