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The two-volume set LNCS 12794-12795 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Culture and Computing, C&C 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021.

The three volume-set, LNCS 10991, LNCS 10992, and LNCS 10993, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2018, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2018.

This textbook examines the Hamiltonian formulation in classical mechanics with the basic mathematical tools of multivariate calculus.

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners.

This book surveys new algorithmic approaches and applications to natural and man-made disasters such as oil spills, hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2018, held in Krakow, Poland in March 2018.

"e;There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.

This book analyses interest group communication strategies in parliamentary political systems, and considers how political uncertainty, which emerges from the political process, shapes interest group communication strategies.

This book proposes neural networks algorithms and advanced machine learning techniques for processing nonlinear dynamic signals such as audio, speech, financial signals, feedback loops, waveform generation, filtering, equalization, signals from arrays of sensors, and perturbations in the automatic control of industrial production processes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2018, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2018.

This book introduces and discusses the analysis of interacting many-body complex systems exhibiting spontaneous synchronization from the perspective of nonequilibrium statistical physics.

Following the Great Financial Crisis, the S&P 500 advanced more than 17 percent annualized from February 2009 through June 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2018, held in Washington, DC, USA, in July 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Blockchain, ICBC 2018, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2018, in Seattle, USA, in June 2018.

An "e;installment strategy"e; in its most basic form, combines two options, one long-term position and one short-term.

This book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing (IMECC) of the University of Campinas, Brazil, by offering reviews of selected research developed at one of the most prestigious mathematics institutes in Latin America.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 8.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2017, held in Malaga, Spain, in November 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018 in conjunction with DEXA 2018.

This book contains three well-written research tutorials that inform the graduate reader about the forefront of current research in multi-agent optimization.

This monograph develops a framework for time-optimal control problems, focusing on minimal and maximal time-optimal controls for linear-controlled evolution equations.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Security Applications, WISA 2017, held on Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2018, held as part of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2018, in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

This book addresses and examines the impacts of applications and services for data management and analysis, such as infrastructure, platforms, software, and business processes, on both academia and industry.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2018, held in Sendai, Japan, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Interoperability, InterIoT 2017, which was collocated with SaSeIoT 2017, and took place in Valencia, Spain, in November 2017.

This book deals with a systematic study of a dynamical system approach to investigate the symmetrization and stabilization properties of nonnegative solutions of nonlinear elliptic problems in asymptotically symmetric unbounded domains.

This book contains research contributions from leading global scholars in nature-inspired computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2018, held in Bristol, UK, in July 2018.

This book presents the proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX), which took place in the Brunow Palace in Poland from 2nd to 6th July 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2018, held in Leuven, Belgium, in July 2018.

The LNCS volume 10996 constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, held in Urumchi, China, in August 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.

This book explores how machine learning can be used to improve the efficiency of expensive fundamental science experiments.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, SCN 2018, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2018, held in Wollongong, Australia, in July 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2018, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2018, in Seattle, USA, in June 2018.

The aim of this book is to present different aspects of the deep interplay between Partial Differential Equations and Geometry.

This book describes a systematic approach to risk assessment for complex socio-technical systems like industrial processes, especially innovative ones.

This book introduces a variety of statistical tools for characterising and designing the dynamical features of complex quantum systems.

This book will present the most advanced research on forensic archaeology presented during the annual European meetings in the last 3 years.

Dieses Tutorial hilft nicht nur Ingenieuren und Naturwissenschaftlern beim schnellen Einstieg und der Vertiefung in die Programmierung mit C++.

Dieses Buch aus der Reihe "Studienwissen kompakt" bietet einen Komplettüberblick über alle wesentlichen Teilbereiche des Risikomanagements.

This book offers an organized and systematic approach to poset metrics and codes.

This book provides an integrated framework for natural and artificial cognition by highlighting the fundamental role played by the cognitive architecture in the dialectics with the surrounding environment and consequently in the definition of a particular meaningful world.

This book provides an overview of recent innovations and achievements in the broad areas of cyber-physical systems (CPS), including architecture, networking, systems, applications, security, and privacy.

This book presents an approach to postmortem human identification using dental image processing based on dental features and characteristics, and provides information on various identification systems based on dental features using image processing operations.