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This two-volume set LNCS 13192-12193 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future, held in February 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 32 full papers and the 29 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. They cover topics such as: Library and Information Science; Information Governance and Ethics; Data Science; Human-Computer Interaction and Technology¸ Information Behaviour and Retrieval¸ Communities and Media¸ Health Informatics.

This book constitutes the Second Diabetic Foot Ulcers Grand Challenge, DFUC 2021, which was held on September 27, 2021, in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021. The challenge took place virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 6 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. There is also an overview paper on the challenge and datasets and one summary paper of DFUC 2021.

This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the 24th Italian Conference on Geomatics and Geospatial Technologies, ASITA 2021, held as five sessions takind place between 1 and 23 July, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 28 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on ​remote sensing applications; geomatics and natural hazards; geomatics for cultural heritage and natural resources; sensors performance and data processing; geomatics and land management.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th China Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, CWSN 2022, which took place in Guangzhou, China, in November 2022. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 204 submissions, including 87 English papers and 117 Chinese papers. The conference provided an academic exchange of research and a development forum for IoT researchers, developers, enterprises, and users. Exchanging results and experience of research and applications in IoT, and discussing the key challenges and research hotspots, is the main goal of the forum. As a high-level forum for the design, implementation, and application of IoT, the conference promoted the exchange and application of the oriesand technologies of IoT-related topics.

The 39-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 13661 until 13699, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, during October 23–27, 2022. The 1645 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5804 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

The two-volume set LNAI 13612 and 13613 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2022, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in October 2022.The total of 63 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions.The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 34 papers structured into three sections:Machine and Deep LearningImage Processing and Pattern RecognitionEvolutionary and Metaheuristic AlgorithmsThe second volume contains 29 papers structured into two sections:Natural Language ProcessingIntelligent Applications and Robotics

The eight-volume set LNCS 13431, 13432, 13433, 13434, 13435, 13436, 13437, and 13438 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, which was held in Singapore in September 2022.The 574 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1831 submissions in a double-blind review process. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Brain development and atlases; DWI and tractography; functional brain networks; neuroimaging; heart and lung imaging; dermatology;Part II: Computational (integrative) pathology; computational anatomy and physiology; ophthalmology; fetal imaging;Part III: Breast imaging; colonoscopy; computer aided diagnosis;Part IV: Microscopic image analysis; positron emission tomography; ultrasound imaging; video data analysis; image segmentation I;Part V: Image segmentation II; integration of imaging with non-imaging biomarkers;Part VI: Image registration; image reconstruction;Part VII: Image-Guided interventions and surgery; outcome and disease prediction; surgical data science; surgical planning and simulation; machine learning – domain adaptation and generalization;Part VIII: Machine learning – weakly-supervised learning; machine learning – model interpretation; machine learning – uncertainty; machine learning theory and methodologies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Technologies, PDCAT 2021, which took place in Guangzhou, China, during December 17-19, 2021. The 24 full papers and 34 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: networking and architectures, software systems and technologies, algorithms and applications, and security and privacy.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2021, held as a hybrid event in San Francisco, CA, USA, in October 2021.The 36 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers cover topics from foundations of AGI, to AGI approaches and AGI ethics, to the roles of systems biology, goal generation, and learning systems, and so much more.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2022, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in December 2022. The 8 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions.The International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of cloud computing. All topics regarding cloud computing align with the theme of CLOUD.

This book LNCS 13547 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2022, held in Xi'an, China, in October 2022.The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 initial submissions. The papers focus on Cyberspace Safety and Security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability and sustainability issues of cyberspace.

The three-volume sets constitute the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2022, held in Singapore, during August 6–8, 2022. The 169 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 498 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Volume I:Knowledge Science with Learning and AI (KSLA)Volume II:Knowledge Engineering Research and Applications (KERA)Volume III:Knowledge Management with Optimization and Security (KMOS)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, CISIM 2022, held in Barranquilla, Colombia, in July 2022. The 28 papers presented together with 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The main topics covered by the chapters in this book are biometrics, security systems, multimedia, classification and clustering, and industrial management as well as interesting papers on computer information systems as applied to wireless networks, computer graphics, and intelligent systems.

Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 20th AUTEX World Textile ConferenceSelected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 20th AUTEX World Textile Conference (AUTEX 2021), September 5-9, 2021, Portugal (online)

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2022, held in Hagen, Germany, in July 2022. The 24 full papers and 5 short papers accepted for KMO 2022 were selected from 61 submissions and are organized in topical sections on: ​knowledge transfer and sharing; knowledge and organization; knowledge and service innovation; industry 4.0; information and knowledge systems; intelligent science; AI and new trends in KM.

This second volume of Research in Computational Topology is a celebration and promotion of research by women in applied and computational topology, containing the proceedings of the second workshop for Women in Computational Topology (WinCompTop) as well as papers solicited from the broader WinCompTop community. The multidisciplinary and international WinCompTop workshop provided an exciting and unique opportunity for women in diverse locations and research specializations to interact extensively and collectively contribute to new and active research directions in the field. The prestigious senior researchers that signed on to head projects at the workshop are global leaders in the discipline, and two of them were authors on some of the first papers in the field. Some of the featured topics include topological data analysis of power law structure in neural data; a nerve theorem for directional graph covers; topological or homotopical invariantsfor directed graphs encoding connections among a network of neurons; and the issue of approximation of objects by digital grids, including precise relations between the persistent homology of dual cubical complexes.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Services Computing 2021, held as Part of SCF 2021 in December 2021 as a virtual event due to COVID-19. The 5 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. It covers the science and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. The 104 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 180 papers submited for the workshops. This two-volume set includes the proceedings of the following workshops:Workshop on Advances in Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AIMLAI 2021)Workshop on Parallel, Distributed and Federated Learning (PDFL 2021)Workshop on Graph Embedding and Mining (GEM 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning for Irregular Time-series (ML4ITS 2021)Workshop on IoT, Edge, and Mobile for Embedded Machine Learning (ITEM 2021)Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (XKDD 2021)Workshop on Bias and Fairness in AI (BIAS 2021)Workshop on Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (MLCS 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning in Software Engineering (MLiSE 2021)Workshop on MIning Data for financial applications (MIDAS 2021)Sixth Workshop on Data Science for Social Good (SoGood 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning for Pharma and Healthcare Applications (PharML 2021)Second Workshop on Evaluation and Experimental Design in Data Mining and Machine Learning (EDML 2020)Workshop on Machine Learning for Buildings Energy Management (MLBEM 2021)

The two-volume Proceedings set CCIS 1637 and 1638 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2022, held in Jinan, China, during July 8–10, 2022. The 77 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 205 submissions. These papers were categorized into 10 technical tracks, i.e., neural network theory, and cognitive sciences, machine learning, data mining, data security & privacy protection, and data-driven applications, computational intelligence, nature-inspired optimizers, and their engineering applications, cloud/edge/fog computing, the Internet of Things/Vehicles (IoT/IoV), and their system optimization, control systems, network synchronization, system integration, and industrial artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neuro-fuzzy systems, decision making, and their applications in management sciences, computer vision, image processing, and theirindustrial applications, natural language processing, machine translation, knowledge graphs, and their applications, Neural computing-based fault diagnosis, fault forecasting, prognostic management, and system modeling, and Spreading dynamics, forecasting, and other intelligent techniques against coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Reconstruction, MLMIR 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in September 2022, held in Singapore.The 15 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: deep learning for magnetic resonance imaging and deep learning for general image reconstruction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second MICCAI Workshop on Data Augmentation, Labelling, and Imperfections, DALI 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in Singapore in September 2022.DALI 2022 accepted 12 papers from the 22 submissions that were reviewed. The papers focus on rigorous study of medical data related to machine learning systems.

The three volume set LNCS 13554, 13555, 13556 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2022, which took place in September 2022. The conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in a hybrid mode.The 104 full papers and 6 poster papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 562 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Blockchain security; privacy; crypto; attacks; sidechannels;Part II: Anonymity; cloud security; access control; authentication; digital signatures; IoT security; applications;Part III: Formal analysis; Web security; hardware security; multiparty computation; ML techniques; cyber-physical systems security; network and software security; posters.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2022, held as part of Evo• 2022, in April 2022, co-located with the Evo• 2022 events, EvoCOP, EvoApplications, and EuroGP. The 20 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including generative approaches to music and visual art, deep learning, and architecture.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2021, held in Sydney, Australia in February 2022.•The 26 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections in Part II named: Pattern mining; Graph mining; Text mining; Multimedia and time series data mining; and Classification, clustering and recommendation. • The conference was originally planned for December 2021, but was postponed to 2022.

This book features novel research papers spanning many different subfields in bioinformatics and computational biology, presenting the latest research on the practical applications to promote fruitful interactions between young researchers in different areas related to the field. Clearly, biology is increasingly becoming a science of information, requiring tools from the computational sciences. To address these challenges, we have seen the emergence of a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists with a strong background in the biological and computational sciences. PACBB'21 expects to contribute to this effort by encouraging a successful collaboration of researchers in different areas related to bioinformatics. The PACBB'21 technical program included 17 papers covering many different subfields in bioinformatics and computational biology. Therefore, this conference, held in Salamanca (Spain), definitely promotes the collaboration of scientists from different research groups and with different backgrounds (computer scientists, mathematicians, biologists) to reach breakthrough solutions for these challenges.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2021,held in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers focus on Theoretical Foundations in Equilibrium Computation; Machine Learning and Game Theory; Ransomware; Cyber-Physical Systems Security; Innovations in Attacks and Defenses.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2021, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, in October 2021.The 24 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers discuss such topics as ​business intelligence for information and software systems, intelligent methods for data analysis and computer aided software engineering, information technology applications, smart e-learning technologies and applications, language technologies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Russian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, RCAI 2021, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2021. The 19 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The conference deals with a wide range of topics, categorized into the following topical headings: cognitive research; data mining, machine learning, classification; knowledge engineering; multi-agent systems and robotics; natural language processing; fuzzy models and soft computer; intelligent systems; and tools for designing intelligent systems.

This book constitutes selected and extended papers from the Second International Workshop on Deployable Machine Learning for Security Defense, MLHat 2021, held in August 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 6 full papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 7 qualified submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning for security, and malware attack and defense.

The conference on ‘Interdisciplinary Research in Technology and Management” was a bold experiment in deviating from thetraditional approach of conferences which focus on a specific topic or theme. By attempting to bring diverse inter-relatedtopics on a common platform, the conference has sought to answer a long felt need and give a fillip to interdisciplinaryresearch not only within the technology domain but across domains in the management field as well.The spectrum of topics covered in the research papers is too wide to be singled out for specific mention but it isnoteworthy that these papers addressed many important and relevant concerns of the day.

Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 3rd International Scientific Conference of Alkafeel University (ISCKU 2021)Selected, peer-reviewed papers from the 3rd International Scientific Conference of Alkafeel University (ISCKU 2021), March 22-23, 2021, Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf, Iraq

Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Materials (IMM 2021)Selected, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Materials 2021 (IMM 2021), March 1-5, 2021, Yalta, Russian Federation

Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the Internation Conference on Addressing Societal Challenges through Innovation Engineering Research, ICASCIE 2020Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only

This two-volume set LNCS 12861 and LNCS 12862 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2021, held virtually, in June 2021.The 85 full papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Deep Learning for Biomedicine, Intelligent Computing Solutions for SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19, Advanced Topics in Computational Intelligence, Biosignals Processing, Neuro-Engineering and much more.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, held as a virtual event, in July 2021. The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. ITAP 2021 includes a total of 67 papers; they focus on topics related to designing for and with older users, technology acceptance and user experience of older users, use of social media and games by the aging population, as well as applications supporting health, wellbeing, communication, social participation and everyday activities.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, held as a virtual event, in July 2021. The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. ITAP 2021 includes a total of 67 papers; they focus on topics related to designing for and with older users, technology acceptance and user experience of older users, use of social media and games by the aging population, as well as applications supporting health, wellbeing, communication, social participation and everyday activities.

Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the International Conference on Advances in Material Science and Mechanical Engineering (ICAMSME 2020)Selected, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Advances in Material Science and Mechanical Engineering (ICAMSME - 2020), February 7-9, 2020, Vidyanagar, India

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2020, held in Quito, Ecuador, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 53 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topics: communication; computing; e-government and e-participation; e-learning; electronics; intelligent systems; machine vision; security; technology trends.

Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the International Conference on Materials, Computer Engineering and Education Technology (MCEET 2020)Selected, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Materials, Computer Engineering and Education Technology (MCEET 2020), December 19-20, 2020, Sanya, China

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2020, held in Yokohama, Japan, in January 2021. The 10 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 initial submissions. PKAW primarily focuses on the multidisciplinary approach of the human-driven and data-driven knowledge acquisition, which is the key concept that has remained unchanged since the workshop has been established.

The growth of a global digital economy has enabled rapid communication, instantaneous movement of funds, and availability of vast amounts of information. With this come challenges such as the vulnerability of digitalized sociotechnological systems (STSs) to destructive events (earthquakes, disease events, terrorist attacks). Similar issues arise for disruptions to complex linked natural and social systems (from changing climates, evolving urban environments, etc.). This book explores new approaches to the resilience of sociotechnological and natural-social systems in a digital world of big data, extraordinary computing capacity, and rapidly developing methods of Artificial Intelligence. Most of the book's papers were presented at the Workshop on Big Data and Systems Analysis held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria in February, 2020. Their authors are associated with the Task Group “Advanced mathematical tools for data-driven applied systems analysis” created and sponsored by CODATA in November, 2018. The world-wide COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the vulnerability of our healthcare systems, supply chains, and social infrastructure, and confronts our notions of what makes a system resilient. We have found that use of AI tools can lead to problems when unexpected events occur. On the other hand, the vast amounts of data available from sensors, satellite images, social media, etc. can also be used to make modern systems more resilient. Papers in the book explore disruptions of complex networks and algorithms that minimize departure from a previous state after a disruption; introduce a multigrammatical framework for the technological and resource bases of today's large-scale industrial systems and the transformations resulting from disruptive events; and explain how robotics can enhance pre-emptive measures or post-disaster responses to increase resiliency. Other papers explore current directions in data processing and handling and principles of FAIRness in data; how the availability of large amounts of data can aid in the development of resilient STSs and challenges to overcome in doing so. The book also addresses interactions between humans and built environments, focusing on how AI can inform today's smart and connected buildings and make them resilient, and how AI tools can increase resilience to misinformation and its dissemination.

Sir Tony Hoare has had an enormous influence on computer science, from the Quicksort algorithm to the science of software development, concurrency and program verification. His contributions have been widely recognised: He was awarded the ACM's Turing Award in 1980, the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation in 2000, and was knighted for “services to education and computer science” by Queen Elizabeth II of England in 2000.This book presents the essence of his various works—the quest for effective abstractions—both in his own words as well as chapters written by leading experts in the field, including many of his research collaborators. In addition, this volume contains biographical material, his Turing award lecture, the transcript of an interview and some of his seminal papers. Hoare's foundational paper “An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming”, presented his approach, commonly known as Hoare Logic, for proving the correctness of programs by using logical assertions. Hoare Logic and subsequent developments have formed the basis of a wide variety of software verification efforts. Hoare was instrumental in proposing the Verified Software Initiative, a cooperative international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification, encompassing theories, tools and experiments. Tony Hoare's contributions to the theory and practice of concurrent software systems are equally impressive. The process algebra called Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) has been one of the fundamental paradigms, both as a mathematical theory to reason about concurrent computation as well as the basis for the programming language occam. CSP served as a framework for exploring several ideas in denotational semantics such as powerdomains, as well as notions of abstraction and refinement. It is the basis for a series of industrial-strength tools which have been employed in a wide range of applications. This book also presents Hoare's work in the last few decades. These works include a rigorous approach to specifications in software engineering practice, including procedural and data abstractions, data refinement, and a modular theory of designs. More recently, he has worked with collaborators to develop Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP). Their goal is to identify the common algebraic theories that lie at the core of sequential, concurrent, reactive and cyber-physical computations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2021, held in La Spezia, Italy, in December 2021. The 21 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers cover a broad spectrum of topics: Serious Games Applications; Serious Game to Improve Literacy; Technology used for Serious Games; Serious Game Usage; Serious Games Design.Chapters “Cards and Roles: Co-designing Privacy Serious Games with an Online Role-Playing Boardgame'and “An Authoring Tool to Engage Younger Audiences in the Development of Nature Preservation Games: The G4N Toolkit to Game Design ” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2021, which was held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 17 full, 14 short, and 5 practice papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Knowledge Discovery from Digital Collections; Search for Better User Experience; Information Extraction; Multimedia; Text Classification and Matching; Data Infrastructure for Digital Libraries; Data Modeling; Neural-based Learning.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2021, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in August 2021.•The 24 revised full research papers, included in the volume together with 6 short contributions and 7 prototype papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: ​impactful sociotechnical design; problem and contribution articulation; design knowledge for reuse; emerging methods and frameworks for DSR; DSR and governance; the new boundaries of DSR.•Apart from the planned on-site event, the hybrid conference model was explored due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in December 2020.​ Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 24 revised papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are covering the topics of recent advancements in different areas of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, such as statistical, structural and syntactic pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, computer vision, multimedia systems, information retrieval, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conferences ICCASA and ICTCC 2020, held in November 2020 in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 68 submissions. The papers of ICCASA cover a wide spectrum in the area of context-aware-systems. CAS is characterized by its self- facets such as self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, self-protection used to dynamically control computing and networking functions. The papers of ICTCC cover formal methods for self-adaptive systems and discuss natural approaches and techniques for computation and communication.

Touchpad AI series has some salient features such as AI Game, AI Lab. KEY FEATURES (5-7 points)(each point should be 70 characters with space)(to be filled by author) ● National Education Policy 2020 ● AI Game: It contains an interesting game or activity for the students. ● AI Lab: It contains questions to improve practical skills. ● Brainy Fact: It is an interesting fact relevant to the topic. ● AI Glossary: This section contains definition of important AI terms. ● Digital Solutions DESCRIPTION Touchpad Artificial Intelligence series has some salient features such as AI Reboot, AI Deep Thinking, AI in Life, AI Lab and AI Ready which ensures that NEP 2020 guidelines are followed. The series is written keeping in mind about the future and scope that lies in Artificial Intelligence. The knowledge is spread in a phased manner so that at no age the kid finds it difficult to understand the theory. There are some brainstorming activities in the form of AI Task in between the topics to ensure that students give pause to their learning and use their skills to reach to some creative ideas in solving given problems. Every chapter has competency based questions as guided by CBSE to ensure that students are capable of applying their learning to solve some real-life challenges. There are plenty of Video Sessions for students and teachers to go beyond the syllabus and enrich their knowledge. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN You will learn about: ● Communication skills ● Management skills ● Fundamentals of computers ● ICT Tools ● Entrepreneurship ● Green Skills ● Introduction to AI ● Neural Networks ● AI Project Cycle ● Introduction to Python WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Grade - 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Part A Employability Skills a. Unit-1 Communication Skills-I b. Unit-2 Self-Management Skills-I c. Unit-3 ICT Skills-I d. Unit-4 Entrepreneurial Skills-I e. Unit-5 Green Skills-I 2. Part B Subject Specific Skills a. Unit-1 Introduction to AI b. Unit-2 AI Project Cycle c. Unit-3 Neural Networks d. Unit-4 Introduction to Python 3. Part C Practical Work a. Python Practical Questions b. Viva Voce Questions 4. IDEs for Python 5. Projects 6. AI Glossary 7. AI Innovators 8. Model Test Paper 1 9. Model Test Paper 2

This book is a collection of papers devoted to the emergence and development in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences of some of the areas of informatics, including artificial intelligence. The papers are prepared by specialists from the Academy, some of whom are among the founders of these scientific and application areas in Bulgaria and in some cases – in the world. The book is interesting for specialists in informatics and computer science and researchers in history of sciences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th IFIP TC 11 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2021, held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2021.•The 28 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers present novel research on theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT systems. They are organized in topical sections on digital signatures; vulnerability management; covert channels and cryptography; application and system security; privacy; network security; machine learning for security; and security management. •The conference was held virtually.