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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABs 2016, held in Singapore, in May 2016. The workshop was held in Conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2016. The 10 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from 15 submissions. The topic of the papers is about modeling and analyzing multi-agent systems and applying agent-based simulation techniques to real-world problems, focusing on the confluence of socio-technical- natural sciences and multi-agents systems with a strong application/empirical vein. Special emphasis is given on exploratory agent-based simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social sciences and on using social theories as an inspiration to new frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2016, held in Stirling, UK, in September 2016. The 19 revised full papers and 6 keynotes abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers deal with the application of computational intelligence to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, medicalinformatics, computational approaches to life sciences in general

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 11, held in Nizhny,Novgorod, Russia, in June 2017. The 20 full papers (among these one GENOPT paper) and 15 short papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers explore the advanced research developments in such interconnected fields as mathematical programming, global optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Special focus is given to advanced ideas, technologies, methods, and applications in optimization and machine learning.

This book constitutes thoroughly revised selected papers of the Second International Workshop on Conflict and Resolution in Decision Makrung, COREDEMA 2016, held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in August 2016. The 9 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions.The 2nd International Workshop on Conflict Resolution in Decision Making (COREDEMA 2016) focuses on theoretical and practical computational approaches for solving and understanding conflict resolution.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Risk and Security of Internet and Systems, CRISIS 2016, held in Roscoff, France, in September 2016. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They cover diverse research themes, ranging from classic topics, such as intrusion detection, applied cryptography, formal methods and methodology for risk and security analysis, to emerging issues, such as ransomware and security of software defined networking or virtualization techniques.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2016, held in London, UK, in September 2016. The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers represent well the current breath of ILP research topics such as predicate invention; graph-based learning; spatial learning; logical foundations; statistical relational learning; probabilistic ILP; implementation and scalability; applications in robotics, cyber security and games.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Conference on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2016, held in Crete, Greece, in September 2016 in conjunction with ESORICS 2016, the 21st annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. The 5 revised full papers 2 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 initial submissions. CyberICPS 2016 focuses on topics related to the management of cyber security in industrial control systems and cyber-physical systems, including security monitoring, trust management, security policies and measures.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Workshop on Structures Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method, SOFL+MSVL 2016, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2016. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: modeling and specification; animation and prototyping; verification and validation; and model checking.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd IFIP WG 1.3 International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2016, held in September 2016 in Gregynog, UK.The 9 revised papers presented together with two invited talks, one invited paper and two survey papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and focus on foundations of algebraic specification; other approaches to formal specification, including process calculi and models of concurrent, distributed and mobile computing; specification languages, methods, and environments; semantics of conceptual modeling methods and techniques; model-driven development; graph transformations, term rewriting and proof systems; integration of formal specification techniques; formal testing and quality assurance, validation, and verification areas, broadly falling into three categories: multimedia content analysis; multimedia signal processing and communications; andmultimedia applications and services.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry, WIVACE 2016, held at Fisciano, Italy, in October 2016. The 16 full papers together with 1 short papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. They cover the following topics: evolutionary computation, bioinspired algorithms, genetic algorithms, bioinformatics and computational biology, modelling and simulation of artificial and biological systems, complex systems, synthetic and systems biology, systems chemistry.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, FTSCS 2016, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2016.The 9 revised full papers presented together with an abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on specification and verification; automotive and railway systems; circuits and cyber-physical systems; parametrized verification.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments, VSTTE 2017, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July 2017.The 12 full papers presented were carefully revised and selected from 20 submissions. The papers describe large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge as well as novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 14th European Conference on the Semantic Web, ESWC 2017, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in May/June2017.The volume contains 8 poster and 24 demonstration papers, selected from 105 submissions. Additionally, this book includes a selection of 13 best workshop papers. The papers cover various aspects of the semantic web.The chapter'Scholia, Scientometrics and Wikidata'is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2016, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2016. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. This year papers were solicited into three tracks: Distributed and Mobile, Experiments and Applications, and Wireless and Geometry.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, WILF 2016, held in Naples, Italy, in December 2016. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fuzzy measures and transforms; granularity and multi-logics, clustering and learning; knowledge systems; and soft computing and applications.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2017, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2016.The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They deal with membrane computing (P systems theory), an area of copmputer science aiming to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and the functioning of living cells, as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues or higher order structures. The volume also contains 3 invited talks in full-paper length.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2016, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in July 2016. The 21 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers address topics such as: Fundamentals; Quantum Cognition; Language and Applications; Contextuality and Foundations of Probability; and Quantum-Like Measurements.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12fth International Conference on High Performance Computing in Computational Science, VECPAR 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications; performance modeling and analysis; low level support; environments/libraries to support parallelization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 23rd Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2019. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Third Workshop on Practical Formal Verification for Software Dependability, AFFORD 2019; 8th International Symposium From Data to Models and Back, DataMod 2019; First Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems Workshop, FMAS 2019; First Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains, FMBC 2019; 8th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems, FMIS 2019; First History of Formal Methods Workshop, HFM 2019; 8th International Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains, NSAD 2019; 9th International Workshop on Open Community Approaches to Education, Research and Technology, OpenCERT 2019; 17th Overture Workshop, Overture 2019; 19th Refinement Workshop, Refine 2019; First International Workshop on Reversibility in Programming, Languages, and Automata, RPLA 2019; 10th International Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology, SASB 2019; and the 10th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis, TAPAS 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method, SOFL+MSVL 2019, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2019. The 23 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: testing and debugging, formal verification, problem solving, software analysis and evolution, and software analysis and testing.

This book presents selected papers of 12 Workshops held in conjunction with the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2019, in Macao, China, in August 2019.The workshops included in this volume are: AI4KM 2019: 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management and Innovation.FinNLP 2019: First International Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing.OR 2019: 32nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning.SURL 2019: Second International Workshop on Scaling-Up Reinforcement Learning.First International Workshop on Bringing Semantic Knowledge into Vision and Text Understanding.EASyHAT 2019: First International Workshop on Evaluation of Adaptive Systems for Human-Autonomy Teaming.ACAN 2019: 12th International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations.First International Workshop on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition.HAI 2019:Second International Workshop on Humanizing AI.International Workshop on Language Sense on Computer.AISafety 2019: International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety.DeLBP 2019: 4th International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications, WRLA 2016, held as a satellite event of ETAPS 2016, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016. The 8 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 3 abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers cover several topics such as: foundations; rewriting as a logical and semantic framework; rewriting languages; verification techniques; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2016, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in May 2016. The 22 full papers and 11 short papers presented together with 19 poster abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions.They report on best practices and novel algorithms, results and techniques on networked systems and cover topics such as multi-core architectures, concurrent and distributed algorithms, parallel/concurrent/distributed programming, distributed databases, cloud systems, networks, security, and formal verification.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing, SEMCCO 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015.The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers cover a wide range of topics in swarm, evolutionary, memetic and other intelligent computing algorithms and their real world applications in problems selected from diverse domains of science and engineering.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning and Optimization, LION 10, which was held on Ischia, Italy, in May/June 2016. The 14 full papers presented together with 9 short papers and 2 GENOPT papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers address all fields between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. Special focus is given to new ideas and methods; challenges and opportunities in various application areas; general trends, and specific developments.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the 16th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2015, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in June 2015. The 8 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully and selected from 26 submissions. TFP is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions, described in draft papers submitted prior to the symposium.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, MACIS 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2015. The 48 revised papers presented together with 7 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on curves and surfaces, applied algebraic geometry, cryptography, verified numerical computation, polynomial system solving, managing massive data, computational theory of differential and difference equations, data and knowledge exploration, algorithm engineering in geometric computing, real complexity: theory and practice, global optimization, and general session.

This volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing, held in Pisa, Italy in October 2015.The 18 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from the 30 papers presented at the conference. They cover topics ranging from the world history of computing to the role of computing in the humanities and the arts.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshopscollocated with the SEFM 2015 conference on Software Engineering andFormal Methods, held in York, UK, in September 2015.The 25 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed andselected from 32 submissions. The satellite workshops provided a highly interactive and collaborative environment for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to discuss emerging areas of software engineering and formal methods.The four workshops were: ATSE 2015: The 6th Workshop on Automating Test Case Design, Selection and Evaluation;HOFM 2015: The 2nd Human-Oriented Formal Methods Workshop;MoKMaSD 2015: The 4th International Symposium on Modelling and Knowledge Management Applications: Systems and Domains;VERY•SCART 2015: The 1st International Workshop on the Art of Service Composition and Formal Verification for Self-• Systems.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from 7 workshops that were held in conjunction with the ISC High Performance 2016 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2016. The 45 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They stem from the following workshops: Workshop on Exascale Multi/Many Core Computing Systems, E-MuCoCoS; Second International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale, ExaComm; HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop, HPC-IODC; International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC, IWOPH; Workshop on the Application Performance on Intel Xeon Phi – Being Prepared for KNL and Beyond, IXPUG; Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems, WOPSSS; and International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators, P3MA.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2015. The workshops were co-located with AAMAS 2015, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2015, and with IJCAI 2015, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015. The 23 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 initial submissions for inclusion in this volume. The papers cover a wide range of topics from work on formal aspects of normative and team based systems, to software engineering with organizational concepts, to applications of COIN based systems, and to philosophical issues surrounding socio-technical systems. They highlight not only the richness of existing work in the field, but also point out the challenges and exciting research that remains to be done in the area.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th and 21st International Conference on Formal Grammar 2015 and 2016, collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in August 2015/2016. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 34 submissions.The focus of papers are as follows:Formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmaticsModel-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguisticsLogical aspects of linguistic structureConstraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammarLearnability of formal grammarIntegration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammarFoundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar and linguisticsMathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS 2015, held in Niterói, Brazil, in October 2015. The 15 full papers and 2 invited papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They are organized in topical sections, namely quality of service to withstand faults, component-based software development through research on mathematical models for components, composition and adaptation; rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science, held in Tehran, Iran, in August 2015. The 10 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers feature novel and high-quality research in all areas of theoretical computer science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, TAFA 2015, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015. The workshop was co-located with IJCAI 2015. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers deal with formal theoretical models of argumentation and application of such models in subfields of AI, evaluation of models, both theoretical and practical, and theories and applications developed through inter-disciplinary collaboration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, FTSCS 2015, held in Paris, France, in November 2015.The 15 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk and two tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on timed systems; railway systems; fault tolerance; automotive systems; software and systems analysis; tools.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, ICTERI 2015, held in Lviv, Ukraine, in May 2015. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. The papers are grouped into two parts: ICT in education and industrial applications, and formal frameworks.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Nature of Computation and Communication, ICTCC 2016, held in March 2016 in Rach Gia, Vietnam. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 100 submissions. The papers cover formal methods for self-adaptive systems and discuss natural approaches and techniques for computation and communication.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science, CMCS 2016, colocated with ETAPS 2016, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016.The 10 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. Also included are an invited paper and two keynote talks. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the theory, logics and applications of coalgebras.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the First International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data, MOD 2015, held in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, in July 2015.The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. They deal with the algorithms, methods and theories relevant in data science, optimization and machine learning.

This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in six workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016. The six workshops whose papers are included in this volume are: DataMod, GCM, HOFM, MELO, SEMS, and VeryComp. The 33 full and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. They focus on practical and foundational advances in software technology covering a wide range of aspects including formal foundations of software technology, testing and formal analysis, graph transformations and model transformations, model driven engineering, and tools.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 10th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry, WIVACE 2015, held at Bari, Italy, in September 2015. The 18 papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They cover the following topics: evolutionary computation, bioinspired algorithms, genetic algorithms, bioinformatics and computational biology, modeling and simulation of artificial and biological systems, complex systems, synthetic and systems biology, systems chemistry.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments, VSTTE 2016, held in July 2016 in Toronto, ON, Canada. The 8 full papers together with 4 short papers and 5 invited papers presented were carefully revised and selected 21 submissions. The goal of the VSTTE conference is to advance thestate of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2015, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2015. The workshop was held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, AAMAS 2015. The 12 revised full papers included in this volume ware carefully selected from 22 submissions. The papers focus on the influence of social sciences and multi-agent systems, with a strong application/empirical vein, and its emphasis is stressed on exploratory agent based simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social sciences and using social theories as an inspiration to new frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2015, held in Verona, Italy, in July 2015.The 5 revised full papers presented together with one short tool paper and one invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The workshop contributes to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage, thus providing an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2015, held in Patras, Greece, in September 2015 in conjunction with ALGO 2015. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 2 tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 initial submissions. They cover a wide range of topics in two main tracks: algorithmic aspects of large-scale data stores, and software tools and distributed architectures for cloud-based data management.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Andrei Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2015, held in Kazan and Innopolis, Russia, in August 2015. The 2 invited and 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers cover various topics related to the foundations of program and system development and analysis, programming methodology and software engineering and information technologies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2015, held in Kyoto, Japan, in August 2015. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as theories, algorithms, representations and languages, systems and applications of ILP, and cover all areas of learning in logic, relational learning, relational data mining, statistical relational learning, multi-relational data mining, relational reinforcement learning, graph mining, connections with other learning paradigms, among others.

The six volume set LNCS 11361-11366 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2018, held in Perth, Australia, in December 2018. The total of 274 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 979 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on motion and tracking, segmentation and grouping, image-based modeling, dep learning, object recognition object recognition, object detection and categorization, vision and language, video analysis and event recognition, face and gesture analysis, statistical methods and learning, performance evaluation, medical image analysis, document analysis, optimization methods, RGBD and depth camera processing, robotic vision, applications of computer vision.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems, CyPhy2017, held in conjunction with ESWeek 2017, in Seoul, South Korea, in October 2017.The 10 papers presented together with 1 extended and 1 invited abstracts in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The conference presents a wide range of domains including robotics; smart homes, vehicles, and buildings; medical implants; and future-generation sensor networks.