Computer modelling and simulation

This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies, from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments.

This bookconstitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference onSupercomputing, ISUM 2015, held in Mexico, Mexico, in March 2015.

Thisbook constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International GI/ITG Conference onMeasurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems and Dependabilityand Fault Tolerance, MMB & DFT 2016, held in Munster, Germany, in April2016.

This edited book aims at presenting current research activities in the field of robust variable-structure systems.

This book presents a unique selection of fully reviewed, extended papers originally presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.

This bookconstitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16thInternational Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2015, held inIstanbul, Turkey, in May 2015.

Thepresent book includes a set of selected extended papers from the 5thInternational Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologiesand Applications (SIMULTECH 2015), held in Colmar, France, from 21 to 23 July2015.

The second edition of this introductory text includes an expanded treatment of collisions, agent-based models, and insight into underlying system dynamics.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conferenceon Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2015, held inMoscow, Russia, in October 2015.

This volume is a collection of researchstudies on the modeling of emotions in complex autonomous systems.

This volume presents a collection of research studies on sophisticated and functional computational instruments able to recognize, process, and store relevant situated interactional signals, as well as, interact with people, displaying reactions (under conditions of limited time) that show abilities of appropriately sensing and understanding environmental changes, producing suitable, autonomous, and adaptable responses to various social situations.

This bookconstitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International JointConference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2015, held in Colmar, France, inJuly 2015.

Distinguishingbetween tangible user interfaces (TUI) and tangible interactive systems (TISs),this book takes into account not only the user interfaces but also looks at howinteraction can be enabled by using digital information through the physicalenvironment.

This book gathers papers presented at the VipIMAGE 2017-VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing.

Focusingon five main groups of interdisciplinary problems, this book covers a widerange of topics in mathematical modeling, computational science and appliedmathematics.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the 10thInternational Conference on Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering(SCEE), held in Wuppertal, Germany in 2014.

This volume contains the lecture notes of the five coursesand one seminar given at the School on Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems(SETSS 2014), held in September 2014 at Southwest University in Chongqing,China.

Make-believe plays a far stronger role in both the design and use of interfaces, games and services than we have come to believe.

This volume is designed as a 12-lecture textbook, which can serve as a course companion, self teaching guide and handbook for basic concepts.

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.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of investment problems pertaining to electric energy infrastructure, including both generation and transmission facilities.

TheseProceedings of the 2015 MICCAI Workshop Computational Diffusion MRI offer asnapshot of the current state of the art on a broad range of topics within thehighly active and growing field of diffusion MRI.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on AdaptiveResource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing, ARMS-CC 2015, held inConjunction with ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC2015, in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, in July 2015.

This book presents a new suite of benchmarks for and examples of porous media mechanics collected over the last two years.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the5th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction, andSimulation, held in Novedrate, Italy, in September 2015.

This textbook reviews the theory, applications, and latest breakthroughsin Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs).

This text reviews the fundamental theory and latest methods for including contextual information in fusion process design and implementation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges, STACOM 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Patch-based Techniquesin Medical Images, Patch-MI 2015, which was held in conjunction with MICCAI2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015.

This thesis proposes a novel Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy, which modifies the usual MPC cost function in order to achieve a desirable sparse actuation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the Third International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2015, held in Angers, France, in February 2015.

This book provides a thorough introduction to the challenge of applying mathematics in real-world scenarios.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedproceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICTSystems, SMARTGREENS 2015, and the 1st InternationalConference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedingsof the 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2015,held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on HybridSystems Biology, HSB 2013, held as part of the ECAL 2013 event, in Taormina,Italy, in September 2013; and the Third International Workshop on HybridSystems Biology, HSB 2014, held as part of CAV 2014, in Vienna, Austria, inJuly 2014.

This volumeof Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains papers presented atthe 1st European-Middle Asian Conference on Computer Modelling, EMACOM 2015.

These transactions publishresearch in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence(CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the semanticWeb, social networks, and multi-agent systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2015, held in Cottbus, Germany, in September 2015.

This volume constitutes the papers presented at the 15thInternational Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2015, heldin February 2015 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

This book constitutes the thoroughly referred post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems biology, HSB 2015, held as part of the Madrid Meet 2015 event, in Madrid, Spain in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015, held in Bolzano, Italy, in December 2015.

This book reports on an in-depth study of fuzzy time series (FTS) modeling.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools, and Applications, SETTA 2015, held in Nanjing, China, in November 2015.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings fo the 14th International Scientific Conferenceon Information Technologies and Mathematical Modeling, named after A.

The work on Autonomic Road Transport Support (ARTS) presented here aims at meeting the challenge of engineering autonomic behavior in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) by fusing research from the disciplines of traffic engineering and autonomic computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of sevenworkshops and a symposium, held at the 34th International Conference onConceptual Modeling, ER 2015, in Stockholm, Sweden.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Large-ScaleScientific Computations, LSSC 2015, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2015.

Thepresent book includes a set of selected extended papers from the 4thInternational Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologiesand Applications (SIMULTECH 2014), held in Vienna, Austria, from 28 to 30 August2014.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the9th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2014, heldin Vienna, Austria, in August 2014.