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This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the 7th International Conference Logistics and Supply Chain Management, held in December 2020 in Tehran, Iran. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 17 full papers and 2 short papers pressented were thoroughly reviewed and selected out of 70 submissions. The papers are organized in the topical sections on ​information technology in supply chain management; production/scheduling and transportation in supply chain management; sustainable and resilient supply chain management; humanitarian supply chain management.

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 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 proceedings of the workshops of the 23rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2016, held in Grenoble, France in August 2016. The 65 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The volume includes the papers from the following workshops: Euro-EDUPAR (Second European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students) – HeteroPar 2016 (the 14th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms) – IWMSE (5th International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering) – LSDVE (Fourth Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Virtual Environments) - PADABS (Fourth Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations) – PBio (Fourth International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics) – PELGA (Second Workshop on Performance Engineering for Large-Scale Graph Analytics) – REPPAR (Third International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing) – Resilience (9th Workshop in Resilience in High Performance Computing in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids) – ROME (Fourth Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-Core Era) – UCHPC (9th Workshop on UnConventional High-Performance Computing).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2016, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2016. The 11 revised full papers presented together with one tutorial paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 initial submissions. They deal with the following topics: algorithmic aspects of elasticity and scalability for distributed, large-scale data stores (e.g. NoSQL and columnar databases); search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures; monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments; NoSQL, schemaless data modeling, integration; caching and load-balancing; storage structures and indexing for cloud databases; new algorithmic aspects of parallel and distributed computing for cloud applications; scalable machine learning, analytics and data science; high availability, reliability, failover; transactional models and algorithms for cloud databases; query languages and processing programming models; consistency, replication and partitioning CAP, data structures and algorithms for eventually consistent stores.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Human Centered Computing Conference, HCC 2016, that consolidated and further develops the successful ICPCA/SWS conferences on Pervasive Computing and the Networked World, and which was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in January 2016. The 58 full papers and 30 short papers presented in this volume together with one keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. These proceedings present research papers investigating into a variety of aspects towards human centric intelligent societies. They cover the categories: infrastructure and devices; service and solution; data and knowledge; and community.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data, MOD 2016, held in Volterra, Italy, in August 2016.The 40 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. These proceedings contain papers in the fields of Machine Learning, Computational Optimization and DataScience presenting a substantial array of ideas, technologies, algorithms, methods and applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the First Human Centered Computing Conference, HCC 2014, that consolidated and further develops the successful ICPCA/SWS conferences on Pervasive Computing and the Networked World. The 54 full papers and 30 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 152 submissions. These proceedings present research papers investigating into a variety of aspects towards human centric intelligent societies. They cover the categories: infrastructure and devices; service and solution; data and knowledge; and community.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 12 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015, in Vienna, Austria, in August 2015. The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The volume includes papers from the following workshops: BigDataCloud: 4th Workshop on Big Data Management in Clouds - Euro-EDUPAR: First European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students - Hetero Par: 13th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms - LSDVE: Third Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments - OMHI: 4th International Workshop on On-chip Memory Hierarchies and Interconnects - PADAPS: Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations - PELGA: Workshop on Performance Engineering for Large-Scale Graph Analytics - REPPAR: Second International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing - Resilience: 8th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids - ROME: Third Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many Core Era - UCHPC: 8th Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing - and VHPC: 10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Web Society, ICPCA/SWS 2013, held in Vina de Mar, Chile, in December 2013. The 56 revised full papers presented together with 29 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 156 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on infrastructure and devices; service and solution; data and knowledge; as well as community.

The two volumes LNCS 8805 and 8806 constitute the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 18 workshops held at the 20th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2014, in Porto, Portugal, in August 2014. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The volumes include papers from the following workshops: APCI&E (First Workshop on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry and Engineering - BigDataCloud (Third Workshop on Big Data Management in Clouds) - DIHC (Second Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds) - FedICI (Second Workshop on Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures) - Hetero Par (12th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms) - HiBB (5th Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine) - LSDVE (Second Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P) - MuCoCoS (7th International Workshop on Multi-/Many-core Computing Systems) - OMHI (Third Workshop on On-chip Memory Hierarchies and Interconnects) - PADAPS (Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations) - PROPER (7th Workshop on Productivity and Performance) - Resilience (7th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing with Clusters, Clouds, and Grids) - REPPAR (First International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing) - ROME (Second Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many Core Era) - SPPEXA (Workshop on Software for Exascale Computing) - TASUS (First Workshop on Techniques and Applications for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems) - UCHPC (7th Workshop on Un Conventional High Performance Computing) and VHPC (9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing.

The two volumes LNCS 8805 and 8806 constitute the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 18 workshops held at the 20th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2014, in Porto, Portugal, in August 2014. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The volumes include papers from the following workshops: APCI&E (First Workshop on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry and Engineering - BigDataCloud (Third Workshop on Big Data Management in Clouds) - DIHC (Second Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds) - FedICI (Second Workshop on Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures) - Hetero Par (12th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms) - HiBB (5th Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine) - LSDVE (Second Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P) - MuCoCoS (7th International Workshop on Multi-/Many-core Computing Systems) - OMHI (Third Workshop on On-chip Memory Hierarchies and Interconnects) - PADAPS (Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations) - PROPER (7th Workshop on Productivity and Performance) - Resilience (7th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing with Clusters, Clouds, and Grids) - REPPAR (First International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing) - ROME (Second Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many Core Era) - SPPEXA (Workshop on Software for Exascale Computing) - TASUS (First Workshop on Techniques and Applications for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems) - UCHPC (7th Workshop on Un Conventional High Performance Computing) and VHPC (9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite events held at the 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2021, in June 2021. The conference was held online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.During ESWC 2021, the following six workshops took place: 1) the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning meets Ontologies and Natural Language Processing (DeepOntoNLP 2021) 2) the Second International Workshop on Semantic Digital Twins (SeDiT 2021) 3) the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction (KGC 2021) 5) the 6th International Workshop on eXplainable SENTIment Mining and EmotioN deTection (X-SENTIMENT 2021) 6) the 4th International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data (GeoLD 2021).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2010. The 37 revised full papers presented along with 7 papers from the allocated Dedicated Short Range Communications Workshop, DSRC 2010, were carefully selected from numerous submissions. Conference papers are organized into 9 technical sessions, covering the topics of cognitive radio networks, security, resource allocation, wireless protocols and algorithms, advanced networking systems, sensor networks, scheduling and optimization, routing protocols, multimedia and stream processing. Workshop papers are organized into two sessions: DSRC networks and DSRC security.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2010, held in conjunction with the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2010, in Singapore, September 13-17, 2010. The 14 full papers and two keynote papers were carefully selected and reviewed from numerous submissions. This book considers issues such as appliance; business intelligence; cloud computing; complex event processing; database optimizations; data compression; energy and space efficiency, green computing; hardware innovations; high speed data generation; hybrid workloads; very large memory systems; and virtualization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2010, held in Boca Raton, FL, USA, in October 2010. The 25 revised full papers and the 11 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on attacks and analysis; analysis; authentication, PIR and content identification; privacy; malware, crimeware and code injection; intrusion detection; side channels; cryptography; smartphones; biometrics; cryptography, application; buffer overflow; and cryptography, theory.

The two-volume set LNCS 11233 and LNCS 11234 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2018, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in November 2018. The 48 full papers and 21 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 209 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on blockchain, security, social network and security, social network, microblog data analysis, graph data, information extraction, text mining, recommender systems, medical data analysis, Web services and cloud computing, data stream and distributed computing, data mining techniques, entity linkage and semantics, Web applications, and data mining applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2018. The 20 full and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The book also contains one keynote talk in full paper length. The papers were organized in topical sections named: reasoning; multi-agent systems; robotics; learning; planning; neural networks; search; belief revision; context aware systems; and cognitive approach.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2018, held in Trujillo, Peru,in November 2018.The 41 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning under Uncertainty., Multiagent Systems., Game Theory and Economic Paradigms, Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment, Ambient Intelligence, Machine Learning Methods, Cognitive Modeling,General AI, Knowledge Engineering, Computational Sustainability and AI, Heuristic Search and Optimization and much more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2017. The 69 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 177 submissions. The papers are organized in 16 tracks devoted to the following topics: agent-based modelling for criminological research (ABM4Crime), artificial intelligence in cyber-physical and distributed embedded systems (AICPDES), artificial intelligence in games (AIG), artificial intelligence in medicine (AIM), artificial intelligence in power and energy systems (AIPES), artificial intelligence in transportation systems (AITS), artificial life and evolutionary algorithms (ALEA), ambient intelligence and affective environments (AmIA), business applications of artificial intelligence (BAAI), intelligent robotics (IROBOT), knowledge discovery and business intelligence (KDBI), knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), multi-agent systems: theory and applications (MASTA), software engineering for autonomous and intelligent systems (SE4AIS), social simulation and modelling (SSM), and text mining and applications (TeMA).

The six-volume set LNCS 10404-10409 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017, held in Trieste, Italy, in July 2017. The 313 full papers and 12 short papers included in the 6-volume proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1052 submissions. Apart from the general tracks, ICCSA 2017 included 43 international workshops in various areas of computational sciences, ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational sciences, such as computer graphics and virtual reality. Furthermore, this year ICCSA 2017 hosted the XIV International Workshop On Quantum Reactive Scattering. The program also featured 3 keynote speeches and 4 tutorials.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2017, held in Guilin, China, in June 2017.The 70 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this book werde carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as cognitive radio networks; wireless sensor networks; cyber-physical systems; distributed and localized algorithm design and analysis; information and coding theory for wireless networks; localization; mobile cloud computing; topology control and coverage; security and privacy; underwater and underground networks; vehicular networks; internet of things; information processing and data management; programmable service interfaces; energy-efficient algorithms; system and protocol design; operating system and middle-ware support; and experimental test-beds, models and case studies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2016, held in Bozeman, MT, USA, in August 2016.The 50 full papers and 9 invited papers presented werde carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. WASA is designed to be a forum for theoreticians, system and application designers, protocol developers and practitioners to discuss and express their views on the current trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art solutions related to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of interests include, but not limited to, effective and efficient state-of-the-art algorithm design and analysis, reliable and secure system development and implementations, experimental study and testbed validation, and new application exploration in wireless networks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2015, held in Qufu, Shandong, China, in August 2015.The 36 revised full papers presented together with 5 revised short papers and 42 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 initial submissions. The papers present current trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art solutions related to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of interests include effective and efficient state-of-the-art algorithm design and analysis, reliable and secure system development and implementations, experimental study and testbed validation, and new application exploration in wireless networks..

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in March 2015.The 19 papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in six sessions covering the topics: hardware, design, applications, trust and privacy, real-time issues and a best papers session.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12 European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2015. The 14 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics grouped into five sessions: services and applications, mobility and delay-tolerance, routing and data dissemination, and human-centric sensing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, WASA 2014, held in Harbin, China, in June 2014. The 41 revised full papers presented together with 30 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including cognitive radio networks, wireless sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, distributed and localized algorithm design and analysis, information and coding theory for wireless networks, localization, mobile cloud computing, topology control and coverage, security and privacy, underwater and underground networks, vehicular networks, information processing and data management, programmable service interfaces, energy-efficient algorithms, system and protocol design, operating system and middle-ware support and experimental test-beds and models.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, ASMTA 2014, held in Budapest, Hungary, in June/July 2014. The 18 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers discuss the latest developments in analytical, numerical and simulation algorithms for stochastic systems, including Markov processes, queueing networks, stochastic Petri nets, process algebras, game theory, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2013, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in August 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 18 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: effective and efficient state-of-the-art algorithm design and analysis, reliable and secure system development and implementations, experimental study and testbed validation, and new application exploration in wireless networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling and Applications, ASMTA 2013, held in Ghent, Belgium, in July 2013. The 32 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The focus of the papers is on the following application topics: complex systems; computer and information systems; communication systems and networks; wireless and mobile systems and networks; peer-to-peer application and services; embedded systems and sensor networks; workload modelling and characterization; road traffic and transportation; social networks; measurements and hybrid techniques; modeling of virtualization; energy-aware optimization; stochastic modeling for systems biology; biologically inspired network design.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, ASMTA 2012, held in Grenoble, France, in June 2012. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on queueing systems; networking applications; Markov chains; stochastic modelling.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2012, held in Yellow Mountains, China, in August 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 32 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as cognitive radio networks, cyber-physical network systems, mobile handset networking systems, underwater and radar wireless networks, and wireless and mobile security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2011, held in Xi'an, China, in October 2011. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on attacks; protocols; public-key cryptosystems; network security; software security; system security; database security; privacy; digital signatures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, held in Pathumthani, Thailand, in November 2006. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers are organized in topical sections on service architecture, multicast, performance in WLAN, routing, and multihoming in mobile networks.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2006), which was held in Sorrento, Italy, December, 4–6 2006. Parallel computing has become a mainstream research area in computer s- ence and the ISPA conference has become one of the premier forums for the p- sentation of new and exciting research on all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. We are pleased to present the proceedings for ISPA 2006, which comprises a collection of excellent technical papers and keynote speeches. The accepted papers cover a wide range of exciting topics including architectures, languages, algorithms, software, networking and applications. The conference continues to grow and this year a record total of 277 ma- scriptsweresubmitted forconsiderationbytheProgramCommittee.Fromthese submissions the Program Committee selected only 79 regular papers in the p- gram, which re?ects the acceptance rate as 28%. An additional 10 workshops complemented the outstanding paper sessions. The submission and review process worked as follows. Each submission was assigned to at least three Program Committee members for review. Each P- gram Committee member prepared a single review for each assigned paper or assigned a paper to an outside reviewer for review. In addition, the Program Chairs and Program Vice-Chairs read the papers when a con?icting review - sult occurred. Finally, after much discussion among the Program Chairs and ProgramVice-Chairs, based on the review scores, the ProgramChairs made the?nal decision. Given the large number of submissions, each ProgramCommittee member was assigned roughly 7–12 papers.

This volume LNCS 14413 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference, WINE 2023, in December 2023 held in Shanghai, China. The 37 full papers presented together with 29 one-page abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The WINE conference series aims to exchange research ideas in a diverse area of application at the intercept of theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, operations research, and economics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2022, which was held Troy, NY, USA in December 2022.The 19 full papers presented together with 19 abstracts in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, economics, operations research, and applied mathematics.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 32nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2021, held in a virtual format in September 2021: The 12th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data (BIOKDD 2021), the 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCFS 2021), the 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs (MLKgraphs 2021), the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Clean, Affordable and Reliable Energy Supply (AI-CARES 2021), the 1st International Workshop on Time Ordered Data (ProTime2021), and the 1st International Workshop on AI System Engineering: Math, Modelling and Software (AISys2021). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held virtually. The 23 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 50 submissions, and discuss a range of topics including: knowledge discovery, biological data, cyber security, cyber-physical system, machine learning, knowledge graphs, information retriever, data base, and artificial intelligence.

This two-volume set (LNAI 11055 and LNAI 11056) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2018, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2018 The 98 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The conference focuses on knowledge engineering and semantic web, social network analysis, recommendation methods and recommender systems, agents and multi-agent systems, text processing and information retrieval, data mining methods and applications, decision support and control systems, sensor networks and internet of things, as well as computer vision techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. The 53 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: association analysis; clustering; prediction; classification; schedule and sequence analysis; big data; data analysis; data mining; text mining; deep learning; high performance computing; knowledge base and its framework; and fuzzy control.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the second International Conference on Smart Cities, Smart-CT 2017, held in Málaga, Spain, in June 2017.The 16 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The topics covered include studies and tools to improve road traffic, energy consumption, logistics, frameworks to provide new services and take decisions in a holistic way, driving assistance, electric vehicles, public transport, and surveys on smart city concepts.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2017 held in Dortmund, Germany in September 2017.The 20 revised full technical papers presented together with 16 short technical communications were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The conference cover a range of topics from, e. g., agents, robotics, cognitive sciences, machine learning, planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, and ontologies, with numerous applications in areas like social media, psychology, transportation systems and reflecting the richness and diversity of their field.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2017. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections entitled: resilience; accelerators; performance; memory systems; parallelism and many-core; scheduling; power/energy.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 6.2 International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2016, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in May 2016.The 27 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The topics addressed are: wireless technologies and systems, middleboxes and addressing, energy efficiency, network applications and tools, network protocols, network modeling, wireless sensor networks, and resource management and optimization.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2016, held in Nuremberg, Germany, in April 2016. The 29 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: configurable and in-memory accelerators; network-on-chip and secure computing architectures; cache architectures and protocols; mapping of applications on heterogeneous architectures and real-time tasks on multiprocessors; all about time: timing, tracing, and performance modeling; approximate and energy-efficient computing; allocation: from memories to FPGA hardware modules; organic computing systems; and reliability aspects in NoCs, caches, and GPUs.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science, but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massive data processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, from mathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computational methods, findings and solutions and enabling industrial users to apply techniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computational methods. This issue focuses on the theme of security in computing, a topic of vital importance in the increasingly connected world of today. The 14 extensive papers selected for inclusion in this volume give an in-depth coverage of a number of hot topics in the field, presenting new architectures, novel hardware implementations, cryptographic algorithms and security protocols, and new tools and applications.

This volume 4465 of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series is a coll- tion of the papers of the NET-COOP 2007 conference, a?rst-of-a-series Euro- NGI/FGI Conference on Network Control and Optimization. The event took place in the beautiful city of Avignon, France, June 5–7, 2007, was jointly or- nized by INRIA and the University of Avignon and was hosted by the latter. Internet communications and services areexperiencing an increasein volume and diversity both in their capacity and in their demand. This comes at the cost of an increase in the complexity of their control and optimization, mainly due to the heterogeneity in architecture as well as usage. The need for new ways of e?ectively and fairly allocating resources belonging to a wide set of not necessarily cooperative networks to a collection of possibly competing users is urgent and is the aim of this conference. Speci?cally, this conference aims at developing research on control and op- mization of the Internet, ranging from performance evaluation and optimization of general stochastic networks to more speci?c targets such as lower-layer fu- tionalities in mobile networks, routing for computational grids, game theoretic approaches to access control, cooperation, competition and adversary capacities in diverse environments.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Annual International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2006, held in Xi'an, China in August 2006. The book presents 63 revised full papers together with 2 invited keynote speech abstracts, organized in topical sections on wireless PAN and wireless LAN, wireless MAN and pervasive computing, data management, mobility, localization and topology control, performance modeling and analysis, security and more.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of ten international workshops held in conjunction with the 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2006, held in Sorrento, Italy in December 2006. It contains 116 papers that contribute to enlarging the spectrum of the more general topics treated in the ISPA 2006 main conference.

The proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing provide an overview on supportive software tools and environments in the fields of System Management, Parallel Debugging and Performance Analysis. In the pursuit to maintain exponential growth for the performance of high performance computers the HPC community is currently targeting Exascale Systems. The initial planning for Exascale already started when the first Petaflop system was delivered. Many challenges need to be addressed to reach the necessary performance. Scalability, energy efficiency and fault-tolerance need to be increased by orders of magnitude. The goal can only be achieved when advanced hardware is combined with a suitable software stack. In fact, the importance of software is rapidly growing. As a result, many international projects focus on the necessary software.