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Advances in Geocomputation: Geocomputation 2015--The 13th International Conference (Advances in Geographic Information Science)
by Daniel A. Griffith Yongwan Chun Denis J. DeanThis book contains refereed papers from the 13th International Conference on GeoComputation held at the University of Texas, Dallas, May 20-23, 2015. Since 1996, the members of the GeoComputation (the art and science of solving complex spatial problems with computers) community have joined together to develop a series of conferences in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and the United States of America. The conference encourages diverse topics related to novel methodologies and technologies to enrich the future development of GeoComputation research.
Advances in Information and Communication Technology: Proceedings of the International Conference, ICTA 2016 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #538)
by Van-Nam Huynh Masato Akagi Thanh-Thuy Nguyen Duc-Thai Vu Trung-Nghia PhungThis book features papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICTA 2016), which was held in Thai Nguyen city, Vietnam, from December 1 to 13, 2016. The conference was jointly organized by Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology (ICTU), the Institute of Information Technology - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (IoIT), Feng Chia University, Taiwan (FCU), the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (CCU) with the aim of bringing together researchers, academics, practitioners and students to not only share research results and practical applications but also to foster collaboration in information and communication technology research and education. The book includes the 66 best peer-reviewed papers, selected from the 150 submissions received.
Advances in Information and Computer Security: 12th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2017, Hiroshima, Japan, August 30 – September 1, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10418)
by Satoshi Obana Koji ChidaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2017, held in Hiroshima, Japan, in August/September 2017. The 11 regular papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: post-quantum cryptography; system security; public key cryptosystems; cryptanalysis; and cryptographic protocols.
Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVI: 16th International Symposium, IDA 2017, London, UK, October 26–28, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10584)
by Niall Adams, Allan Tucker and David WestonThis book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, which was held in October 2017 in London, UK.The 28 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The traditional focus of the IDA symposium series is on end-to-end intelligent support for data analysis. IDA solicits papers on all aspects of intelligent data analysis, including papers on intelligent support for modelling and analyzing data from complex, dynamical systems.
Advances in Intelligent Process-Aware Information Systems: Concepts, Methods, and Technologies (Intelligent Systems Reference Library #123)
by Manfred Reichert Gregor Grambow Roy OberhauserThis book provides a state-of-the-art perspective on intelligent process-aware information systems and presents chapters on specific facets and approaches applicable to such systems. Further, it highlights novel advances and developments in various aspects of intelligent process-aware information systems and business process management systems. Intelligence capabilities are increasingly being integrated into or created in many of today's software products and services. Process-aware information systems provide critical computing infrastructure to support the various processes involved in the creation and delivery of business products and services. Yet the integration of intelligence capabilities into process-aware information systems is a non-trivial yet necessary evolution of these complex systems. The book's individual chapters address adaptive process management, case management processes, autonomically-capable processes, process-oriented information logistics, process recommendations, reasoning over process models, process portability, and business process intelligence. The primary target groups are researchers and PhD/Master students in the field of information systems.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies, CSIT 2016, September 6-10 Lviv, Ukraine (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #512)
by Natalya ShakhovskaThe book reports on new theories and applications in the field of intelligent systems and computing. It covers computational and artificial intelligence methods, as well as advances in computer vision, current issue in big data and cloud computing, computation linguistics, cyber-physical systems as well as topics in intelligent information management. Written by active researchers, the different chapters are based on contributions presented at the workshop in intelligent systems and computing (ISC), held during CSIT 2016, September 6-9, and jointly organized by the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine, and the Technical University of Lodz, Poland, under patronage of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. All in all, the book provides academics and professionals with extensive information and a timely snapshot of the field of intelligent systems, and it is expected to foster new discussions and collaborations among different groups.
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 21st Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2017, Jeju, South Korea, May 23-26, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10235)
by Jinho Kim, Kyuseok Shim, Longbing Cao, Jae-Gil Lee, Xuemin Lin and Yang-Sae MoonThis two-volume set, LNAI 10234 and 10235, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2017, held in Jeju, South Korea, in May 2017. The 129 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 458 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification and deep learning; social network and graph mining; privacy-preserving mining and security/risk applications; spatio-temporal and sequential data mining; clustering and anomaly detection; recommender system; feature selection; text and opinion mining; clustering and matrix factorization; dynamic, stream data mining; novel models and algorithms; behavioral data mining; graph clustering and community detection; dimensionality reduction.
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 21st Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2017, Jeju, South Korea, May 23-26, 2017, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10234)
by Jinho Kim, Kyuseok Shim, Longbing Cao, Jae-Gil Lee, Xuemin Lin and Yang-Sae MoonThis two-volume set, LNAI 10234 and 10235, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2017, held in Jeju, South Korea, in May 2017. The 129 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 458 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification and deep learning; social network and graph mining; privacy-preserving mining and security/risk applications; spatio-temporal and sequential data mining; clustering and anomaly detection; recommender system; feature selection; text and opinion mining; clustering and matrix factorization; dynamic, stream data mining; novel models and algorithms; behavioral data mining; graph clustering and community detection; dimensionality reduction.
Advances in Mechanical Engineering: Selected Contributions from the Conference “Modern Engineering: Science and Education”, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 2016 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Alexander N. EvgrafovThis book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership. A broad range of topics and issues in modern engineering are discussed, including dynamics of machines, materials engineering, structural strength and tribological behavior, transport technologies, machinery quality and innovations. The book comprises selected papers presented at the conference "Modern Engineering: Science and Education", held at the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University in 2016 with the support of the Russian Engineering Union. The authors are experts in various fields of engineering, and all of the papers have been carefully reviewed. The book will be of interest to mechanical engineers, lecturers in engineering disciplines and engineering graduates.
Advances in Memristors, Memristive Devices and Systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence #701)
by Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan Christos VolosThis book reports on the latest advances in and applications of memristors, memristive devices and systems. It gathers 20 contributed chapters by subject experts, including pioneers in the field such as Leon Chua (UC Berkeley, USA) and R. S. Williams (HP Labs, USA), who are specialized in the various topics addressed in this book, and covers broad areas of memristors and memristive devices such as: memristor emulators, oscillators, chaotic and hyperchaotic memristive systems, control of memristive systems, memristor-based min-max circuits, canonic memristors, memristive-based neuromorphic applications, implementation of memristor-based chaotic oscillators, inverse memristors, linear memristor devices, delayed memristive systems, flux-controlled memristive emulators, etc. Throughout the book, special emphasis is given to papers offering practical solutions and design, modeling, and implementation insights to address current research problems in memristors, memristive devices and systems. As such, it offers a valuable reference book on memristors and memristive devices for graduate students and researchers with a basic knowledge of electrical and control systems engineering.
Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing and Big Data in the 5G Era (Studies in Big Data #22)
by Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis George Mastorakis Ciprian DobreThis book reports on the latest advances on the theories, practices, standards and strategies that are related to the modern technology paradigms, the Mobile Cloud computing (MCC) and Big Data, as the pillars and their association with the emerging 5G mobile networks. The book includes 15 rigorously refereed chapters written by leading international researchers, providing the readers with technical and scientific information about various aspects of Big Data and Mobile Cloud Computing, from basic concepts to advanced findings, reporting the state-of-the-art on Big Data management. It demonstrates and discusses methods and practices to improve multi-source Big Data manipulation techniques, as well as the integration of resources availability through the 3As (Anywhere, Anything, Anytime) paradigm, using the 5G access technologies.
Advances in Modeling and Simulation: Seminal Research from 50 Years of Winter Simulation Conferences (Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications)
by Andreas Tolk John Fowler Guodong Shao Enver YücesanThis broad-ranging text/reference presents a fascinating review of the state of the art of modeling and simulation, highlighting both the seminal work of preeminent authorities and exciting developments from promising young researchers in the field. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation, the book showcases the historical importance of this influential conference while also looking forward to a bright future for the simulation community. Topics and features: examines the challenge of constructing valid and efficient models, emphasizing the benefits of the process of simulation modeling; discusses model calibration, input model risk, and approaches to validating emergent behaviors in large-scale complex systems with non-linear interactions; reviews the evolution of simulation languages, and the history of the Time Warp algorithm; offers a focus on the design and analysis of simulation experiments under various goals, and describes how data can be "farmed" to support decision making; provides a comprehensive overview of Bayesian belief models for simulation-based decision making, and introduces a model for ranking and selection in cloud computing; highlights how input model uncertainty impacts simulation optimization, and proposes an approach to quantify and control the impact of input model risk; surveys the applications of simulation in semiconductor manufacturing, in social and behavioral modeling, and in military planning and training; presents data analysis on the publications from the Winter Simulation Conference, offering a big-data perspective on the significant impact of the conference. This informative and inspiring volume will appeal to all academics and professionals interested in computational and mathematical modeling and simulation, as well as to graduate students on the path to form the next generation of WSC pioneers.
Advances in Network Systems: Architectures, Security, and Applications (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #461)
by Ali Ismail Awad Maciej Grzenda Janusz Furtak Jarosław LegierskiThis book provides the reader with a comprehensive selection of cutting-edge algorithms, technologies, and applications. The volume offers new insights into a range of fundamentally important topics in network architectures, network security, and network applications. It serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners by featuring research contributions exemplifying research done in the field of network systems. In addition, the book highlights several key topics in both theoretical and practical aspects of networking. These include wireless sensor networks, performance of TCP connections in mobile networks, photonic data transport networks, security policies, credentials management, data encryption for network transmission, risk management, live TV services, and multicore energy harvesting in distributed systems.
Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2017: 14th International Symposium, ISNN 2017, Sapporo, Hakodate, and Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, June 21–26, 2017, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10261)
by Qinglai Wei Fengyu Cong Andrew LeungThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2017, held in Sapporo, Hakodate, and Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, in June 2017. The 135 revised full papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. The papers cover topics like perception, emotion and development, action and motor control, attractor and associative memory, neurodynamics, complex systems, and chaos.
Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2017: 14th International Symposium, ISNN 2017, Sapporo, Hakodate, and Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, June 21–26, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10262)
by Qinglai Wei Fengyu Cong Andrew LeungThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2017, held in Sapporo, Hakodate, and Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, in June 2017. The 135 revised full papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. The papers cover topics like perception, emotion and development, action and motor control, attractor and associative memory, neurodynamics, complex systems, and chaos.
Advances in Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection: 15th International Conference, PAAMS 2017, Porto, Portugal, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10349)
by Javier Bajo Yves Demazeau Zita Vale Paul DavidssonThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017. The 11 revised full papers, 11 short papers, and 17 Demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers report on the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a number of key application areas, including day life and real world, energy and networks, human and trust, markets and bids, models and tools, negotiation and conversation, scalability and resources.
Advances in Production Management Systems. The Path to Intelligent, Collaborative and Sustainable Manufacturing: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2017, Hamburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2017, Proceedings, Part I (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #513)
by Hermann Lödding Klaus-Dieter Thoben Dimitris Kiritsis Gregor Von Cieminski Ralph RiedelThe two-volume set IFIP AICT 513 and 514 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5. 7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2017, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2017. The 121 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: smart manufacturing system characterization; product and asset life cycle management in smart factories of industry 4. 0; cyber-physical (IIoT) technology deployments in smart manufacturing systems; multi-disciplinary collaboration in the development of smart product-service solutions; sustainable human integration in cyber-physical systems: the operator 4. 0; intelligent diagnostics and maintenance solutions; operations planning, scheduling and control; supply chain design; production management in food supply chains; factory planning; industrial and other services; operations management in engineer-to-order manufacturing; gamification of complex systems design development; lean and green manufacturing; and eco-efficiency in manufacturing operations.
Advances in Production Management Systems. The Path to Intelligent, Collaborative and Sustainable Manufacturing: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2017, Hamburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #514)
by Hermann Lödding Klaus-Dieter Thoben Dimitris Kiritsis Gregor Von Cieminski Ralph RiedelThe two-volume set IFIP AICT 513 and 514 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5. 7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2017, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2017. The 121 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: smart manufacturing system characterization; product and asset life cycle management in smart factories of industry 4. 0; cyber-physical (IIoT) technology deployments in smart manufacturing systems; multi-disciplinary collaboration in the development of smart product-service solutions; sustainable human integration in cyber-physical systems: the operator 4. 0; intelligent diagnostics and maintenance solutions; operations planning, scheduling and control; supply chain design; production management in food supply chains; factory planning; industrial and other services; operations management in engineer-to-order manufacturing; gamification of complex systems design development; lean and green manufacturing; and eco-efficiency in manufacturing operations.
Advances in Smart Cities: Smarter People, Governance, and Solutions
by Arpan Kumar Kar M P Gupta P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan Yogesh K. DwivediThis is an edited book based on the selected submissions made to the conference titled "International Conference in Smart Cities". The project provides an innovative and new approach to holistic management of cities physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all domains, typically supported by ICT and open data.
Advances in Social Simulation 2015 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #528)
by Rineke Verbrugge Wander Jager Andreas Flache Gert De Roo Lex Hoogduin Charlotte HemelrijkThis book highlights recent developments in the field, presented at the Social Simulation 2015 conference in Groningen, The Netherlands. It covers advances both in applications and methods of social simulation. Societal issues addressed range across complexities in economic systems, opinion dynamics and civil violence, changing mobility patterns, different land-use, transition in the energy system, food production and consumption, ecosystem management and historical processes. Methodological developments cover how to use empirical data in validating models in general, formalization of behavioral theory in agent behavior, construction of artificial populations for experimentation, replication of models, and agent-based models that can be run in a web browser. Social simulation is a rapidly evolving field. Social scientists are increasingly interested in social simulation as a tool to tackle the complex non-linear dynamics of society. Furthermore, the software and hardware tools available for social simulation are becoming more and more powerful. This book is an important source for readers interested in the newest developments in the ways in which the simulation of social interaction contributes to our understanding and managing of complex social phenomena.
Advances in Soft Computing: 15th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2016, Cancún, Mexico, October 23–28, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10062)
by Obdulia Pichardo-Lagunas Sabino Miranda-JiménezThe two-volume set LNAI 10061 and 10062 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2016, held in Canc#65533;n, Mexico, in October 2016. The total of 86 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions. The contributions were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: natural language processing; social networks and opinion mining; fuzzy logic; time series analysis and forecasting; planning and scheduling; image processing and computer vision; robotics. Part II: general; reasoning and multi-agent systems; neural networks and deep learning; evolutionary algorithms; machine learning; classification and clustering; optimization; data mining; graph-based algorithms; and intelligent learning environments.
Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 15th International Symposium, SSTD 2017, Arlington, VA, USA, August 21 – 23, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10411)
by Michael Gertz, Matthias Renz, Xiaofang Zhou, Erik Hoel, Wei-Shinn Ku, Agnes Voisard, Chengyang Zhang, Haiquan Chen, Liang Tang, Yan Huang, Chang-Tien Lu and Siva RavadaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2017, held in Arlington, VA, USA, in August 2017.The 19 full papers presented together with 8 demo papers and 5 vision papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized around the current research on concepts, tools, and techniques related to spatial and temporal databases.
Advances in Swarm Intelligence: 8th International Conference, ICSI 2017, Fukuoka, Japan, July 27 – August 1, 2017, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10385)
by Ying Tan, Hideyuki Takagi and Yuhui ShiThe two-volume set of LNCS 10385 and 10386, constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Confrence on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. The total of 133 papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 267 submissions. The paper were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: theories and models of swarm intelligence; novel swarm-based optimization algorithms; particle swarm optimization; applications of particle swarm optimization; ant colony optimization; artificial bee colony algorithms; genetic algorithms; differential evolution; fireworks algorithm; brain storm optimization algorithm; cuckoo searh; and firefly algorithm. Part II: multi-objective optimization; portfolio optimization; community detection; multi-agent systems and swarm robotics; hybrid optimization algorithms and applications; fuzzy and swarm approach; clustering and forecast; classification and detection; planning and routing problems; dialog system applications; robotic control; and other applications.
Advances in Swarm Intelligence: 8th International Conference, ICSI 2017, Fukuoka, Japan, July 27 – August 1, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10386)
by Ying Tan, Hideyuki Takagi, Yuhui Shi and Ben NiuThe two-volume set of LNCS 10385 and 10386, constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. The total of 133 papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 267 submissions. The paper were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: theories and models of swarm intelligence; novel swarm-based optimization algorithms; particle swarm optimization; applications of particle swarm optimization; ant colony optimization; artificial bee colony algorithms; genetic algorithms; differential evolution; fireworks algorithm; brain storm optimization algorithm; cuckoo searh; and firefly algorithm. Part II: multi-objective optimization; portfolio optimization; community detection; multi-agent systems and swarm robotics; hybrid optimization algorithms and applications; fuzzy and swarm approach; clustering and forecast; classification and detection; planning and routing problems; dialog system applications; robotic control; and other applications.
Advances in Ubiquitous Networking 2: Proceedings of the UNet’16 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #397)
by Rachid El-Azouzi Daniel Sadoc Menasché Essaïd Sabir Francesco De Pellegrini Mustapha BenjillaliThis volume offers the proceedings of the 2nd UNet conference, held in Casablanca May 30 - June 1, 2016. It presents new trends and findings in hot topics related to ubiquitous computing/networking, covered in three tracks and three special sessions: Main Track 1: Context-Awareness and Autonomy Paradigms Track Main Track 2: Mobile Edge Networking and Virtualization Track Main Track 3: Enablers, Challenges and Applications Special Session 1: Smart Cities and Urban Informatics for Sustainable Development Special Session 2: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles From Theory to Applications Special Session 3: From Data to Knowledge: Big Data applications and solutions