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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Gerotechnology, IWoG 2019, held in Caceres, Spain, in September 2019.

This book explores the universe and its subsystems from the three lenses of evolutionary (contingent), developmental (predictable), and complex (adaptive) processes at all scales.

Since the last financial crisis, much work has been undertaken to strengthen the ability to respond to distress in the EU financial system.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2020, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in April 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Cryptographer's Track at the RSA Conference 2020, CT-RSA 2020, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in February 2020.

The book gives a broad overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept from various angles.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, HCI-CPT 2019, which was held as part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, in Orlando, FL, USA, in July 2019.

In the era of big data and real-time monitoring, vast amounts of information are generated every second through sensors and advanced tracking systems.

This book presents high-quality, original contributions (both theoretical and experimental) on software engineering, cloud computing, computer networks & internet technologies, artificial intelligence, information security, and database and distributed computing.

This book presents high-quality original contributions on positive systems, including those with positivity in compartmental switched systems, Markovian jump systems, Boolean networks, interval observer design, fault detection, and delay systems.

This book presents a new methodology with reduced time impact to address the problem of analog integrated circuit (IC) yield estimation by means of Monte Carlo (MC) analysis, inside an optimization loop of a population-based algorithm.

This three volume set of LNCS 12207, 12208 and 12209 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

This book gives the definitive mathematical answer to what thermodynamics really is: a variational calculus applied to probability distributions.

This book covers the essential concepts and strategies within traditional and cutting-edge feature learning methods thru both theoretical analysis and case studies.

The three-volume set of LNCS 11272, 11273, and 11274 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2018, held in Brisbane, Australia, in December 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2019, held in Cairns, QLD, Australia, in October 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Data and Information in Online Environments, DIONE 2020, which took place in Florianopolis, Brazil, in March 2020.

This book gathers state-of-the-art research contributions written by academics and researchers, which address emerging trends in system design and implementation for the Internet of Things (IoT), and discuss how to promote IoT technologies and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2020, held in London, UK, in June 2020.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2019, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in August 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed pChania, Crete, Greece, in May 2019.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Advanced Networks and Systems, NEW2AN 2018, the 11th Conference on Internet of Things and Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2020, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in October 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2019.

This book addresses the challenges and opportunities of information/data processing and management.

Estimation and Inference in Discrete Event Systems chooses a popular model for emerging automation systems-finite automata under partial observation-and focuses on a comprehensive study of the key problems of state estimation and event inference.

This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the ninth edition of the conference that took place at the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris on December 18-19, 2018.

The three volume-set LNCS 11476, 11477, and 11478 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2019,held in Darmstadt, Germany, in May 2019.

This book presents new findings in industrial cyber-physical system design and control for various domains, as well as their social and economic impacts on society.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on  Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2018, held in Poitiers, France, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite workshops held around the 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2019, in Bogota, Colombia, in June 2019.

This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems - from the emergence of thought to the formation of social relations and the structure of societies.

This textbook offers readers a self-contained introduction to quantitative Tamarkin category theory.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2018, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in December 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

Gathering the proceedings of the 12th CHAOS2019 International Conference, this book highlights recent developments in nonlinear, dynamical and complex systems.

This book, drawing on recent literature, highlights several methodologies for the detection of outliers and explains how to apply them to solve several interesting real-life problems.

This book gathers papers presented at the International Conference "e;Vision Zero for Sustainable Road Safety in Baltic Sea Region"e;, held on December 2018 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Security Standardisation Research, SSR 2018, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in November 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop, IOSec 2018, sponsored by CIPSEC, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 2018.

A number of dramatic changes are currently reshaping infrastructure, a sector that investors and asset managers have traditionally considered to be a safe harbor in the field of alternative investments.

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The book presents new results and applications of the topological derivative method in control theory, topology optimization and inverse problems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second  Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2019, held in Soria, Spain, in October 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2018, held in Jeju, South Korea, in October 2018.

The three-volume set of LNCS 11921,11922, and 11923 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2019, held in Kobe, Japan, in December 2019.

This book explores the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies, an area that has been generating considerable research.

This book focuses on the theoretical side of temporal network research and gives an overview of the state of the art in the field.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of NetSci-X 2020: the Sixth International School and Conference on Network Science, which was held in Tokyo, Japan, in January 2020.