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This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2020.

This updated textbook covers digital design, fundamentals of computer architecture, and ARM assembly language.

This volume, SGIoT 2020, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Internet of Things, SGIoT 2020, held in TaiChung, Taiwan, in December 2020.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 12th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines (SYROM 2017), that was held in "e;Gheorghe Asachi"e; Technical University of Iasi, Romania, November 02-03, 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2017, held in Dalian, China, in December 2017.

This book provides a quantitative overview of corporate risk management for both financial and non-financial organisations.

This book presents mathematical models of mob control with threshold (conformity) collective decision-making of the agents.

This book covers newly developed and novel Steganography techniques and algorithms.

The two-volume set LNCS 10769 and 10770 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2018, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in March 2018.

This book is a tribute to Professor Laurent Praly and follows on from a workshop celebrating the occasion of his 60th birthday.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Eurasian BIM Forum on Advances in Building Information Modeling, EBF 2021, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during November 11-12, 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Cryptographer's Track at the RSA Conference 2018, CT-RSA 2018, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in March 2018.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2020, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in April 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th Annual IFIP WG 11.

This book presents a modern perspective on the modelling, analysis, and synthesis ideas behind convex-optimisation-based control of nonlinear systems: it embeds them in models with convex structures.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6st International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2020, which took place in Xi'an, China, in November 2020.

The three-volume proceedings LNCS 12491, 12492, and 12493 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2020, which was held during December 7-11, 2020.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our "e;petroleum economy.

This volume is part of collection of contributions devoted to analytical and experimental techniques of dynamical systems, presented at the 15th International Conference "e;Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications"e;, held in Lodz, Poland on December 2-5, 2019.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2022, which was held in Rennes, France, during April 20-22, 2022.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, held as a virtual event, during June-July 2022.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 40th MAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics, CICBA 2021, held in Santiniketan, India, in January 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 6.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2021, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2021.

This superbly illustrated book examines all aspects of the use of modern post-mortem imaging in forensic investigations, which has flourished since the introduction of multidetector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks, DiCES-N 2022, held in Bizerte, Tunisia, in February 2022.

The three-volume set LNCS 10624, 10625, 10626 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2017.

This book celebrates Professor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar's outstanding achievements in systems, control, robotics, statistical learning, computational biology, and allied areas.

Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of "e;30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics"e; held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting.

This book provides novel approach to the diagnosis of complex technical systems that are widely used in various kinds of transportation, energy, metallurgy, metalworking, fuels, mining, chemical, paper industries, etc.

This book collects together lectures by some of the leaders in the field of partial differential equations and geometric measure theory.

This proceedings constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Communications and Networking, ChinaCom 2021, held in November 2021.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COIN 2017, co-located with AAMAS 2017, and the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2020, co-located with AAMAS 2020.

This book provides engineers and researchers knowledge to help them in system reliability analysis using machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, genetic algorithm, information theory, multi-criteria decision making, and other techniques.

We describe in this book recent advances in fuzzy sets theory, fractional calculus, dynamic systems, and optimization.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks, AICON 2020, held in December 2020.

This book provides a self-contained presentation on the structure of a large class of stable processes, known as self-similar mixed moving averages.

This book presents the Proceedings of the 54th Winter School of Theoretical Physics on Simplicity of Complexity in Economic and Social Systems, held in Ladek Zdroj, Poland, from 18 to 24 February 2018.

This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2017, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2017, held in Sydney, Australia, in March 2017.

This book focuses on the application and development of information geometric methods in the analysis, classification and retrieval of images and signals.

This three volume book set constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security, ML4CS 2020, held in Xi'an, China in October 2020.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2020, which took place during December 15-18, 2020, in Sonepat, India.

This book systematically interprets and documents new, unifying principles and basic laws describing the most relevant aspects of hierarchy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference, MCSS 2022, held in Krakow, Poland, during November 3-4, 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2020, held as a virtual event, in September 2020.

This book aims to bring together the latest innovative knowledge, analysis, and synthesis of fractional control problems of nonlinear systems as well as some related applications.

This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.