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​This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2023, as well as the Cardiac MRI Reconstruction Challenge, CMRxRecon Challenge. There was a total of 53 submissions to the workshop. The 24 regular workshop papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 paper submissions. They deal with cardiac segmentation, modelling, strain quantification, registration, statistical shape analysis, and quality control. In addition, 21 papers from the CMRxRecon challenge are included in this volume. They focus on fast CMR image reconstruction and provide a benchmark dataset that enables the broader research community to promote advances in this area of research.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2022, held in conjunction with the 25th MICCAI conference. The 34 regular workshop papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected after being revised and deal with topics such as: common cardiac segmentation and modelling problems to more advanced generative modelling for ageing hearts, learning cardiac motion using biomechanical networks, physics-informed neural networks for left atrial appendage occlusion, biventricular mechanics for Tetralogy of Fallot, ventricular arrhythmia prediction by using graph convolutional network, and deeper analysis of racial and sex biases from machine learning-based cardiac segmentation. In addition, 14 papers from the CMRxMotion challenge are included in the proceedings which aim to assess the effects of respiratory motion on cardiac MRI (CMR) imaging quality and examine the robustness of segmentation models in face of respiratory motion artefacts. A total of 48 submissions to the workshop was received.

This volume constitutes selected papers presented during the Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition, ISPR 2023, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in May 2023. The 44 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 129 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computer vision; data mining; pattern recognition; machine and deep learning.

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 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.

The two-volume proceedings set CCIS 2121 and 2122 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Development, ICICSD 2023, which took place in Hyderabad, India, during August 25–26, 2023. The 46 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. They focus on digital healthcare, renewable energy, smart cities, digital farming, and autonomous systems.

This book constitutes the Revised Selected Papers of the Second International Conference, ICAETA 2023, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during March 10–11, 2023.The 37 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The topics cover a range of areas related to engineering, technology, and applications. Main themes of the conference include, but are not limited to: Data Analysis, Visualization and Applications; Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Computer Vision; Computer Communication and Networks; Signal Processing and Applications; Electronic Circuits, Devices, and Photonics; Power Electronics and Energy Systems.

This volume constitutes selected papers presented during the Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition, ISPR 2023, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in May 2023. The 44 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 129 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computer vision; data mining; pattern recognition; machine and deep learning.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th International Conference, IVCNZ 2022, which took place in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2022.The 37 papers (14 accepted for long oral presentation, 23 for short oral presentation) included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The conference presents papers on all aspects of computer vision, image processing, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, visualization, and HCI applications related to these 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 Third International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2022, which was held in Marseille, France, during August 25–27, 2022.The 30 full papers and 4 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Machine Learning for Multimedia; Image Processing; Multimedia Applications; Multimedia for Medicine and Health-Care; Smart Homes; Multimedia Environments and Metaverse; Deep Learning on Video and Music; Haptic; Industrial.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1567-1568) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6h International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2021, held in Rupnagar, India, in December 2021. The 70 full papers and 20 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from the 260 submissions. The papers present recent research on such topics as biometrics, forensics, content protection, image enhancement/super-resolution/restoration, motion and tracking, image or video retrieval, image, image/video processing for autonomous vehicles, video scene understanding, human-computer interaction, document image analysis, face, iris, emotion, sign language and gesture recognition, 3D image/video processing, action and event detection/recognition, medical image and video analysis, vision-based human GAIT analysis, remote sensing, and more.

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 10th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2021, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in hybrid mode. The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions, out of which 92 were sent to peer review. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​natural language processing; computer vision; data analysis and machine learning; social network analysis; theoretical machine learning and optimisation.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fifth IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2022, held virtually, in March 2022. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers cover topics such as computational intelligence for text analysis; computational intelligence for image and video analysis; blockchain and data science.

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.

The two-volume set LNCS 13373 and 13374 constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, held in Lecce, Italy, in May 2022.The 96 revised full papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions.ICIAP 2022 presents the following Sixteen workshops:Volume I:GoodBrother workshop on visual intelligence for active and assisted livingParts can worth like the Whole - PART 2022Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition - FAPERWorkshop on Intelligent Systems in Human and Artificial Perception - ISHAPE 2022Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis - AIRCADDeep-Learning and High Performance Computing to Boost Biomedical Applications - DeepHealthVolume II: Human Behaviour Analysis for Smart City Environment Safety - HBAxSCESBinary is the new Black (and White): Recent Advances on Binary Image ProcessingArtificial Intelligence for preterm infants'healthCare - AI-careTowards a Complete Analysis of People: From Face and Body to Clothes - T-CAPArtificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities - AI4DHMedical Transformers - MEDXFLearning in Precision Livestock Farming - LPLFWorkshop on Small-Drone Surveillance, Detection and Counteraction Techniques - WOSDETCMedical Imaging Analysis For Covid-19 - MIACOVID 2022Novel Benchmarks and Approaches for Real-World Continual Learning - CL4REAL

This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the 28th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in June 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The presented 14 full and 5 short papers were thorougly reviewed and selected from the 76 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects of advanced signal processing in different scientific areas, including filter design, Fourier and other transforms, feature extraction, machine learning and system adaptation to user-oriented products like 5G networks, IoT, virtual teleport or tele-surgery operations.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2021, held as a virtual event during December 16–18, 2021.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Computational advances in bio and medical sciences; and computational advances in molecular epidemiology.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2021, as well as the M&Ms-2 Challenge: Multi-Disease, Multi-View and Multi-Center Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI Challenge.The 25 regular workshop papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected after being revised. They deal with cardiac imaging and image processing, machine learning applied to cardiac imaging and image analysis, atlas construction, artificial intelligence, statistical modelling of cardiac function across different patient populations, cardiac computational physiology, model customization, atlas based functional analysis, ontological schemata for data and results, integrated functional and structural analyses, as well as the pre-clinical and clinical applicability of these methods. In addition, 15 papers from the M&MS-2 challenge are included in this volume. The Multi-Disease, Multi-View & Multi-Center Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI Challenge (M&Ms-2) is focusing on the development of generalizable deep learning models for the Right Ventricle that can maintain good segmentation accuracy on different centers, pathologies and cardiac MRI views. There was a total of 48 submissions to the workshop.

The two-volume proceedings set CCIS 2121 and 2122 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Development, ICICSD 2023, which took place in Hyderabad, India, during August 25–26, 2023. The 46 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. They focus on digital healthcare, renewable energy, smart cities, digital farming, and autonomous systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Vehicles, ICAISV 2023, held in Tehran, Iran, during May 24-25, 2023.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: machine learning, data mining, machine vision, image processing, signal analysis, decision support systems, expert systems, and their applications in smart vehicles.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the workshops held at the 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2022, which took place in Macao, China, in December 2022. The 25 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows: Learning with limited data for face analysis; adversarial machine learning towards advanced vision systems; computer vision for medical computing; machine learning and computing for visual semantic analysis; vision transformers theory and applications; and deep learning-based small object detection from images and videos.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Information Systems, DIS 2023, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2023. The 18 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. They deal with topics ranging from theoretical, algorithmic, and practical perspectives in information systems, to offering readers valuable information, theories and techniques.

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 features research papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Innovations in Data Analytics (ICIDA 2022), held at Eminent College of Management and Technology (ECMT), West Bengal, India, during November 29–30, 2022. The book presents original research work in the areas of computational intelligence, advance computing, network security and telecommunication, data science and data analytics, and pattern recognition. The book is beneficial for readers from both academia and industry.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Iberoamerican Congress on Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, CIARP 2021, which took place during May 10–13, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Porto, Portugal, but changed to a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 45 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: medical applications; natural language processing; metaheuristics; image segmentation; databases; deep learning; explainable artificial intelligence; image processing; machine learning; and computer vision.

This 2-volume set CCIS 2014 and CCIS 2015 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Applied Intelligence, ICAI 2023, held in Nanning, China, December 8–12, 2023.The 64 full papers presented in this proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 228 submissions. The papers cover a wide range on theoretical aspects of biomedical data modeling and mining; computer vision; and deep learning. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Biomedical data modeling and mining; computer vision; deep learning; Part II: Intelligent control and automation; machine learning; natural language processing and computational linguistics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2023, held in Harbin, China, during September 23–24, 2023.The 38 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Industrial Digitization and Applications, Edge Intelligence, Mobile Sensing and Computing, Cyber-Physical-Social Systems, Pervasive and Green Computing and Wireless and Ubiquitous Networking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2023, held in Harbin, China, during September 23–24, 2023.The 38 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Industrial Digitization and Applications, Edge Intelligence, Mobile Sensing and Computing, Cyber-Physical-Social Systems, Pervasive and Green Computing and Wireless and Ubiquitous Networking.

This 2-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on 6GN for Future Wireless Networks, 6GN 2023, held in Shanghai, China, in October 7-8, 2023.The 60 full papers were selected from 151 submissions and present the state of the art and practical applications of 6G technologies. The papers are arranged thematically in tracks as follows: intelligent systems; big data mining, D2D communication, security and privacy for 6G networks; artificial intelligent techniques for 6G networks; power and energy systems I; power and energy system; power and energy systems; image, video, and signal processing; image, video, and signal processing & software engineering; communications systems and networking & control and automation systems; computer systems and applications.

This 2-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on 6GN for Future Wireless Networks, 6GN 2023, held in Shanghai, China, in October 7-8, 2023. The 60 full papers were selected from 151 submissions and present the state of the art and practical applications of 6G technologies. The papers are arranged thematically in tracks as follows: intelligent systems; big data mining, D2D communication, security and privacy for 6G networks; artificial intelligent techniques for 6G networks; power and energy systems I; power and energy system; power and energy systems; image, video, and signal processing; image, video, and signal processing & software engineering; communications systems and networking & control and automation systems; computer systems and applications.

The three-volume set LNCS 13980, 13981 and 13982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 45th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2023, held in Dublin, Ireland, during April 2-6, 2023. The 65 full papers, 41 short papers, 19 demonstration papers, 12 reproducibility papers consortium papers, 7 tutorial papers, and 10 doctorial consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 489 submissions. The book also contains, 8 workshop summaries and 13 CLEF Lab descriptions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and foundational aspects, machine learning, applications, evaluation, new social and technical challenges, and other topics of direct or indirect relevance to search.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference, AI4S 2023, held in Pune, India, during September 4-5, 2023.The 14 full papers and the 2 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. This volume aims to open discussion on trustworthy AI and related topics, trying to bring the most up to date developments around the world from researchers and practitioners.

This six-volume set of LNCS 14187, 14188, 14189, 14190, 14191 and 14192 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021, held in San José, CA, USA, in August 2023. The 53 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 316 submissions, and are presented with 101 poster presentations. The papers are organized into the following topical sections: Graphics Recognition, Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Document Analysis and Recognition.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication, SmartCom 2022, held in New York City, NY, USA, during November 18–20, 2022. The 64 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 312 submissions. SmartCom 2023 focus on recent booming developments in Web-based technologies and mobile applications which have facilitated a dramatic growth in the implementation of new techniques, such as cloud computing, edge computing, big data, pervasive computing, Internet of Things, security and privacy, blockchain, Web 3.0, and social cyber-physical systems. The conference gathered all high-quality research/industrial papers related to smart computing and communications and aimed at proposing a reference guideline for further research.

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 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.

This two-volume set LNCS 13344 and 13345 constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2022, which took place in Xi'an, China, in July 2022. The theme of this year's conference was “Serving Life with Swarm Intelligence”. The 85 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 171 submissions. The papers of the second part cover topics such as: Swarm Robotics and Multi-agent System; Deep Neural Networks; Machine Learning; Data Mining; Other Optimization Applications; ICSI-OC'2022: Competition on Single Objective Bounded Optimization Problems; Swarm Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Computing; Swarm-based Computing Algorithms for Optimization; Particle Swarm Optimization; Ant Colony Optimization; Genetic Algorithm and Evolutionary Computation; Fireworks Algorithms; Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm; Swarm Intelligence Approach-based Applications; Multi-Objective Optimization.

This two-volume set of LNCS 13393 and LNCS 13394 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 13395 - the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2022, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2022. The 209 full papers of the three proceedings volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 449 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies as well as the emerging applications of intelligent computing. Its aim was to unify the picture of contemporary intelligent computing techniques as an integral concept that highlights the trends in advanced computational intelligence and bridges theoretical research with applications. Therefore, the theme for this conference was “Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications”. Papers focused on this theme were solicited, addressing theories, methodologies, and applications in science and technology.

The three volume set LNCS 13155, 13156, and 13157 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2021, which was held online during December 3-5, 2021. The total of 145 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 403 submissions. They cover the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures including fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I, LNCS 13155: Deep learning models and applications; software systems and efficient algorithms; edge computing and edge intelligence; service dependability and security algorithms; data science; Part II, LNCS 13156: Software systems and efficient algorithms; parallel and distributed algorithms and applications; data science; edge computing and edge intelligence; blockchain systems; deept learning models and applications; IoT; Part III, LNCS 13157: Blockchain systems; data science; distributed and network-based computing; edge computing and edge intelligence; service dependability and security algorithms; software systems and efficient algorithms.

The 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October, 2023.The 145 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects; and commercial components and systems.

The 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October, 2023.The 145 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects; and commercial components and systems.

The 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October, 2023.The 145 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects; and commercial components and systems.

The 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October, 2023.The 145 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects; and commercial components and systems.

The 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October, 2023.The 145 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects; and commercial components and systems.

This book includes high quality research papers submitted at the 2022 “Four Session (ICFIE, ICORG, GDORS, CGHMORS) Celebration” Joint International Conference held on December 28, 2022 and the online meeting of the Fuzzy Information and Engineering Branch of the China Operations Research Society on September 17, 2022. It covers topics in the fields of certainty, stochastic uncertainty, and fuzzy uncertainty, including computer science and mathematics, operations research and control, artificial intelligence, information and engineering technology, barrier-free communication for people with disabilities, digital logistics and knowledge representation, medical applications, queuing theory and game theory, algorithms and optimization methods. The book is a valuable reference book for scholars, engineers, management professionals, and graduate, undergraduate, and vocational students interested in computer science, mathematics, and fuzzy mathematics and operations research, as well as their applications in information technology and engineering.

The two-volume set LNCS 14365 and 14366 constitutes the papers of workshops hosted by the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2023, held in Udine, Italy, in September 2023.In total, 72 workshop papers and 10 industrial poster session papers have been accepted for publication. Part I of the set, volume 14365, contains 10 papers from the industrial poster session, and 31 papers from the following workshops:– Advances in Gaze Analysis, Visual attention and Eye-gaze modelling (AGAVE)– Beyond Vision: Physics meets AI (BVPAI)– Automatic Affect Analysis and Synthesis (3AS)– International Contest on Fire Detection (ONFIRE)– Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics (BioFor)– Computer Vision for Environment Monitoring and Preservation (CVEMP)– Generation of Human Face and Body Behavior (GHB)

The two-volume set LNCS 14365 and 14366 constitutes the papers of workshops hosted by the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2023, held in Udine, Italy, in September 2023.In total, 72 workshop papers and 10 industrial poster session papers have been accepted for publication. Part II of the set, volume 14366, contains 41 papers from the following workshops:– Medical Imaging Hub:• Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (AIR-CAD)• Multi-Modal Medical Imaging Processing (M3IP)• Federated Learning in Medical Imaging and Vision (FedMed)– Digital Humanities Hub:• Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (AI4DH)• Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER)• Pattern Recognition for Cultural Heritage (PatReCH)• Visual Processing of Digital Manuscripts: Workflows, Pipelines, BestPractices (ViDiScript)

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, IWACIII 2023, held in Beijing, China, in November 2023.The 56 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 118 qualifies submissions. They are organized in the topical sections on intelligent information processing; intelligent optimization and decision-making; pattern recognition and computer vision; advanced control; multi-agent systems; robotics.