This book illustrates how to use description logic-based formalisms to their full potential in the creation, indexing, and reuse of multimedia semantics.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2017, held in Essen, Germany, in February/March 2017.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016.
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.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2017, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in March 2017.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First JARA High-Performance Computing Symposium, JARA-HPC 2016, held in Aachen, Germany, in October 2016.
This book presents the first comprehensive overview of various verifiable computing techniques, which allow the computation of a function on outsourced data to be delegated to a server.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2017, held in Umea, Sweden, in March 2017.
This brief provides a general overview of nonlinear systems that exhibit hidden-attractor behavior, a topic of interest in subjects as divers as physics, mechanics, electronics and secure communications.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference on Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources, IKC 2016, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in September 2016.
This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016.
Chapters "e;Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate"e; and "e;Turing and the History of Computer Music"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.
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.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2017, held in Goa, India, in February 2017.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, WILF 2016, held in Naples, Italy, in December 2016.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges.
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.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2017, held in Paris, France, in January 2017.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, UTP 2016, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2016, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, iFM 2016.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Cryptographer's Track at the RSA Conference 2017, CT-RSA 2017, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in February 2017.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication, SmartCom 2016, held in Shenzhen, China, in December 2016.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2016, held in Moscow, Russia, in November 2016.
This book describes a novel methodology for studying algorithmic skills, intended as cognitive activities related to rule-based symbolic transformation, and argues that some human computational abilities may be interpreted and analyzed as genuine examples of extended cognition.
This book provides a comprehensive collection of methods and approaches for using formal methods within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, the use of which is a prerequisite for usability and user-experience (UX) when engineering interactive systems.
Partition functions arise in combinatorics and related problems of statistical physics as they encode in a succinct way the combinatorial structure of complicated systems.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2016, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2016 as part of ALGO 2016.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshopon Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems, CyPhy2016, held in conjunction with ESWeek 2016, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, inOctober 2016.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, ACALCI 2017, held in Geelong, VIC, Australia, in January/February 2017.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2017, held in Paris, France, in January 2017 and collocated with the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.
This book provides a concise introduction to Pervasive Computing, otherwise known as Internet of Things (IoT) and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) which addresses the seamless integration of computing systems within everyday objects.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation, ISoLA 2014, held in Corfu, Greece, in October 2014, and the 5th International Symposium, ISoLA 2012, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in October 2012.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications, MACOM 2016, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in November 2016.
This festschrift was written in honor of Andrew William (Bill) Roscoe on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and features tributes by Sir Tony Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and Michael Wooldridge.
This contributed volume offers a collection of papers presented at the 2016 Network Games, Control, and Optimization conference (NETGCOOP), held at the University of Avignon in France, November 23-25, 2016.
This book constitutes revised, selected, and invited papers from the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2016, held in Singapore, in May 2016, in conjunction with AAMAS.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the JSAI-isAI 2015 Workshops LENLS 12, JURISIN 9, AAA 2015, HAT-MASH 2015, TSDAA 2015, ASD-HR 2015, and SKL 2015, held in Kanagawa, Japan, in November 2015.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th ECML PKDD Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration, DARE 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016.
This monograph aims to promote original mathematical methods to determine the invariant measure of two-dimensional random walks in domains with boundaries.
This book summarises the state of the art in computer vision-based driver and road monitoring, focussing on monocular vision technology in particular, with the aim to address challenges of driver assistance and autonomous driving systems.
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.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Swarm Intelligence Based Optimization, ICSIBO 2016, held in Mulhouse, France, in June 2016.
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.