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This volume constitutes short papers and DETECT 2022 workshop papers, presented during the 11th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2022, held in Cairo, Egypt, in November 2022.The 11 short papers presented were selected from the total of 65 submissions. This volume also contains the 4 accepted papers from the DETECT 2022 workshop, held at MEDI 2022. The volume focuses on advances in data management and modelling, including topics such as data models, data processing, database theory, database systems technology, and advanced database applications.

This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2023, held in Tokyo, Japan, during December 4-6, 2023. The 18 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Evacuation and Emergency Management; Situational Awareness; Social Media; Information Systems; Geographic Information System (GIS); and Healthcare.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computer and Communication Networks: Control, Computation, Communications, DCCN 2023, held in Moscow, Russia, during September 25–29, 2023. The 37 full papers and 4 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Distributed Systems Applications; Analytical Modeling of Distributed Systems; Computer and Communication Networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2024, held in Velizy, France, during May 9–10, 2024. The 28 full papers present here, were carefully reviewed and selected from 174 submissions. The papers focus on innovative research in the field of Advanced Computing and Data Sciences, including areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, cloud computing, computer vision and natural language processing.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 9th International conference, ICOCI 2023, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during September 13–15, 2023.The 55 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers focus on ensuring cybersecurity and privacy, digital media and information literacy, navigating AI development and deployment, harnessing technology for sustainable development, digital healthcare and well-being, education transformation through technology, digital entrepreneurship and innovation.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 9th International conference, ICOCI 2023, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during September 13–15, 2023.The 55 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers focus on ensuring cybersecurity and privacy, digital media and information literacy, navigating AI development and deployment, harnessing technology for sustainable development, digital healthcare and well-being, education transformation through technology, digital entrepreneurship and innovation.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Conference on HPCST 2023, held in Barnaul, Russia, during May 19–20, 2023.The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Hardware for High-Performance Computing and Signal Processing; Information Technologies and Computer Simulation of Physical Phenomena; Computing Technologies in Data Analysis and Decision Making; Information and Computing Technologies in Automation and Control Science; Computing Technologies in Information Security Applications.

This two-volume set LNCS 14465-14466 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2023, held in Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Italy, in September 2023. The 31 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, and one contest report, were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 100 submissions. The abstracts of 11 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: beyond planarity; crossing numbers; linear layouts; geometric aspects; visualization challenges; graph representations; graph decompositions; topological aspects; parameterized complexity for drawings; planar graphs; frameworks; algorithmics.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Space Information Network, SINC 2023, held in Wuhan, China, during October 12–13, 2023. The 8 full papers and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers present the latest research in the fields of space information networks.

This volume constitutes short papers and DEITS 2023 workshop papers, presented during the 12th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2023, held in Sousse, Tunisia, in November 2023.The 12 short papers presented were selected from the total of 99 submissions. This volume also contains the 7 accepted papers from the DEITS 2023 workshop, held at MEDI 2023. The volume focuses on machine learning and optimization; natural language processing; modeling and data management; healthcare applications; data engineering in IoT systems.

This two-volume set LNCS 14465-14466 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2023, held in Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Italy, in September 2023. The 31 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, and one contest report, were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 100 submissions. The abstracts of 11 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: beyond planarity; crossing numbers; linear layouts; geometric aspects; visualization challenges; graph representations; graph decompositions; topological aspects; parameterized complexity for drawings; planar graphs; frameworks; algorithmics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META 2023, held in Marrakech, Morocco, during November 1-4, 2023. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: combinatorial optimization; scheduling; continuous optimization; automatic metaheuristics tuning; optimization and machine learning; and applications.

This open access book constitutes the revised selected papers of the First International Symposium on AI, Data and Digitalization, SAIDD 2023, held in Sogndal, Norway, during May 9–10, 2023.The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers deal with the impact of data and AI on the digital revolution and their contribution to solving societal challenges.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics, CICBA 2023, held in Kalyani, India, during January 27–28, 2023.The 52 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers present recent research on intersection of computational intelligence, communications, and business analytics, fostering international collaboration and the dissemination of cutting-edge research.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics, CICBA 2023, held in Kalyani, India, during January 27–28, 2023.The 52 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers present recent research on intersection of computational intelligence, communications, and business analytics, fostering international collaboration and the dissemination of cutting-edge research.

This book constitutes selected, revised and extended papers of the 7th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2021, held in April 2021, and 8th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, GISTAM 2022, held in April 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic both conferences were held online. The 4 revised full papers presented at GISTAM 2021 were carefully reviewed and selected from the 44 submissions, and 3 papers presented at GISTAM 2022 were selected from the 27 submissions. The papers are centered on urban and regional planning; water information systems; geospatial information and technologies; spatio-temporal database management; decision support systems; energy information systems; GPS and location detection.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium and Workshops on New Trends in Database and Information Systems, ADBIS 2023, held in Barcelona, Spain, during September 4–7, 2023.The 29 full papers, 25 short papers and 7 doctoral consortium included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 148. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ADBIS Short Papers: Index Management & Data Reconstruction, ADBIS Short Papers: Query Processing, ADBIS Short Papers: Advanced Querying Techniques, ADBIS Short Papers: Fairness in Data Management, ADBIS Short Papers: Data Science, ADBIS Short Papers: Temporal Graph Management, ADBIS Short Papers: Consistent Data Management, ADBIS Short Papers: Data Integration, ADBIS Short Papers: Data Quality, ADBIS Short Papers: Metadata Management, Contributions from ADBIS 2023 Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, AIDMA: 1st Workshop on Advanced AI Techniques for Data Management, Analytics, DOING: 4th Workshop on Intelligent Data - From Data to Knowledge, K-Gals: 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs Analysis on a Large Scale, MADEISD: 5th Workshop on Modern Approaches in Data Engineering, Information System Design, PeRS: 2nd Workshop on Personalization, Recommender Systems, Doctoral Consortium.

This volume includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the First International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics, IN4PL 2020, held as virtual event in November 4-6, 2020 and Second International Conference on Innovative Intelligent Industrial Production and Logistics, IN4PL 2021, held as virtual event in October 25-27, 2021.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ​on kernel search based gaussian process anomaly detection; general architecture framework and general modelling framework.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2022, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 26–29, 2022. The 31 revised full papers and 2 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: computer and communication networks; analytical modeling of distributed systems; and distributed systems applications.

This book constitutes the refereed and selected papers presented during the Third International Conference on Internet of Things, ICIoT 2022, held in Chennai, India, in April 2022. The 10 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 100 qualified submissions. They focus on application of IoT in the field of Computer Science and Information Technology as well as on Industrial IoT.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2023, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on September 5, 2023. The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They focus on algorithmic aspects of computing and data management in modern cloud-based systems interpreted broadly so as to include edge- and fog-based systems, cloudlets, cloud micro-services, virtualization environments, decentralized systems, as well as dynamic networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2023, held in Kolkata, India, during April 27–28, 2023. The 47 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers focus on advances of next generation computing technologies in the areas of advanced computing and data sciences.

This book constitutes the revised selected proceedings of Second International Symposium on Biomedical and Computational Biology, BECB 2022, held as a virtual event in August 2022.The 58 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: The Charge Transfer Network Model for Arbitrary Proteins Complexes; A Self-Supervised 3D/2D Registration Method for Incomplete DSA Vessels; The Potential Role of RNA'Writer'TRMT61B in the Immune Regulation of Breast Cancer; Extraction, Composition Analysis and Blood Lipid Lowering Activity of Rana chensinensis Ovum Oil.

This two-volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security, ASCIS 2022, held in Rajkot, India, in November 2022. The 37 full papers and 19 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 206 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence; smart computing; cyber security; industry.

This book constitures selected and revised papers presented at the First International Workshop on Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement, MOVE 2020, held as Virtual Event in October 2020. The 7 extended and revised papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 13 submissions. Along with them, the volume presents 5 invited papers. The volume articles are arranged in the topical sections on complexity of knowledge-intensive endeavors; ontology modeling; enterprise ontologies; knowledge discovery and innovations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2023, held in London, UK, on May 29, 2023 (co-located with 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)).This book contains 10 full papers which are the extended and revised versions of the papers accepted to the workshop.The papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Norms, Social contracts, Institutions, and Privacy; Studies on the notion of Value; and Argumentation and Conventions

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research: Recent Trends, MOTOR 2023, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, during July 2–8, 2023. The 28 full papers and one invited paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 61 submissions. The papers in the volume are organized according to the following topical headings: mathematical programming; stochastic optimization; discrete and combinatorial optimization; operations research; optimal control and mathematical economics; and optimization in machine learning.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2023, held in St. Petersburg, FL, USA, during May 19, 2023.The 8 full papers and one keynote paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The volume contains two sections: keynote and technical papers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2022, held in Tokyo, Japan, during September 13-16, 2022. The 25 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, one report on graph drawing contest, and one obituary in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The abstracts of 5 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: properties of drawings of complete graphs; stress-based visualizations of graphs; planar and orthogonal drawings; drawings and properties of directed graphs; beyond planarity; dynamic graph visualization; linear layouts; and contact and visibility graph representations.

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the JSAI annual conference, JSAI 2022, and the 14th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2022, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 2022. The 18 full papers were carefully selected from 67 submissions and presented during the two events: 16th International Workshop on Juris-informatics, JURISIN 2022, and JSAI 2022 Intenational Session. This papers present discussion on fundamental and practical issues in Juris-informatics among researchers from various backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent technology, logic, and philosophy, including the conventional AI and Law area.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium, UNet 2022, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during October 25–27, 2022. The 17 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. Moreover, 4 additional invited papers have been also considered. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ​Spectrum Management and Channel Prediction, Resource Allocation in 5G/6G, Internet of Things and Vehicular Communications, Artificial Intelligence-Driven Communications, Pervasive Services and Cyber Security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-COLLAB 2022, which took place in Havana, Cuba, in October 2022. The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as emotional interfaces, usability, video games, computational thinking, collaborative systems, IoT, software engineering, ICT in education, augmented and mixed virtual reality for education, gamification, emotional interfaces, adaptive instructional systems, accessibility, use of video games in education, artificial intelligence in HCI and infotainment, among others.

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2021, held online in November 2021. The 26 full papers were carefully selected from 86 submissions. The papers are organized in the volume according to the following workshops: 15th International Workshop on Juris-Informatics, JURISIN 2021; 18th Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, LENLS 18, 5th International Workshop on SCIentific DOCument Analysis, SCI-DOCA 2021; Workshop on Artificial Affective (Kansei) Intelligence, KANSEI-AI 2021; 5th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence of and for Business, AI-Biz 2021.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 53rd International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2022, which took place in Boston, USA, during July 11–14, 2022.The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: education and training; resilience and sustainability; health; and social justice.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2022, which took place in Potsdam, Germany, on September 6, 2022.The 6 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cloud-Based Urban Mobility Services; New Results in Priority-Based Bin Packing; More Sparking Soundex-based Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage and Privacy Preserving Queries of Shortest Path Distances.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Development Informatics Association Conference, IDIA 2022, held in Mbombela, South Africa, in November 2022. The 20 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on​ theories and practices in digital-for-development ecosystems; emerging technologies for transformation, inclusion and sustainable development; privacy and security in digital-for-development ecosystems; human-computer interaction (HCI) for digital inclusion; artificial intelligence (AI) for good.

The two-volume set LNCS 13396 and 13397 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2018 conference which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, in March 2018.The total of 68 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The focus of the conference was on following topics such as computational linguistics and intelligent text and speech processing and others. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: General, Author profiling and authorship attribution, social network analysis, Information retrieval, information extraction, Lexical resources, Machine translation, Morphology, syntax, Semantics and text similarity, Sentiment analysis, Syntax and parsing, Text categorization and clustering, Text generation, and Text mining.

This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2022, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in October 2022.The 23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The papers are categorized in the following topical subheadings: strategic disaster risk reduction; situational awareness; telecommunications, sensors and drones; collaborative emergency management; cybersecurity and privacy; earthquake and climate forecasting; social media analytics; community resilience.

This two-volume set, LNCS 13810 and 13811, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2022, together with the papers of the Second Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ACAIN 2022. The total of 84 full papers presented in this two-volume post-conference proceedings set was carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. These research articles were written by leading scientists in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, computational optimization, neuroscience, and data science presenting a substantial array of ideas, technologies, algorithms, methods, and applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2022, held in Chengdu, China, in August – September 2022.The 19 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: structures in finite fields; efficient finite field arithmetic; coding theory; cryptography; sequences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2022, held as a virtual event in June 2022 (due to the Covid-19 pandemic).The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. In addition to this,1 keynote paper was included in the workshop. The volume contains two sections: Technical papers and Open Scheduling Problems.

This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2021, in Morioka, Japan, in October 2021. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The papers are categorized in the following topical subheadings: Information Analysis for Situation Awareness; Evacuation and Rescue; COVID-19 Issues; and IT Use for Risk and Disaster Management.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference papers of the 4th International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, Blocksys 2022, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2022.The 26 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Trustworthy Systems; Blockchain; Private Computing.

This volume constitutes selected papers from the Second International Conference on Information Systems and Design, ICID 2021, held as virtual event in September 2021. The 24 full papers and 4 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on ​digital transformation of enterprises based on analysis and management tools: practical-focused research; methodological support of analysis and management tools: theoretical-focused research; young scientists research in the areas of enterprise digitalization.

The two-volume Proceedings set CCIS 1675 and 1676 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference, ARTIIS 2022, held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, during September 12–15, 2022. The 72 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 191 submissions. These papers were categorized into 2 technical tracks, i.e., Sustainability and Ethics, Security, and Privacy.

This book constitutes selected revised papers of the 15th International Conference, NooJ 2021, held in Besançon, France, in June 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena. NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, regular grammars, context-free grammars, context-sensitive grammars and unrestricted grammars as well as their graphical equivalent to formalize each linguistic phenomenon. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topics:​ linguistic formalization and analysis, digital humanities and teaching, natural language processing applications.

This book constitutes selected and revised papers presented at the Second International Conference on Communication, Networks and Computing, CNC 2020, held in Gwalior, India, in December 2020. The 23 full papers and 7 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 102 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on wired and wireless communication systems; high dimensional data representation and processing; networking and information security; computing Techniques for efficient networks design; vehicular technology and application; electronics circuit for communication system.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Third International Conference on Innovations in Digital Economy, SPBU IDE 2021, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2021.The 23 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected for publication from 153 submissions. The papers are organized according the following topical sections: economic efficiency and social consequences of digital innovations implementation; regional innovation systems and clusters as drivers of the economic growth during the Fourth Industrial Revolution; industrial, service and agricultural digitalization; response of an educational system and labor market to the digital-driven changes in the economic system; digital transformation trends in the government and financial sector.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics, CICBA 2022, held in Silchar, India, in January 2022.The 21 full papers and 13 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational intelligence; computational intelligence in communication; and computational intelligence in analytics.

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 7th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2022, which was held online during May 18–20, 2022.The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Polyhedra and algorithms; polyhedra and combinatorics; non-linear optimization; game theory; graphs and trees; cutting and packing; applications; and approximation algorithms.