Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects

This book offers a distinctive approach to the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2022, which took place in Valletta, Malta, in October 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management, CISIM 2023, held in Tokio, Japan, during September 22-24, 2023.

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 34th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2023, held in Penang, Malaysia, in August 2023: The 7th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems, IWCFS 2023, and The 3rd International Workshop on AI System Engineering: Math, Modelling and Software, AISys2023.

This book provides an insight on the importance that the Internet of Things (IoT) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions can offer towards smart city and healthcare applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of Third International Conference on Information Systems and Design, ICID 2022, which took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in September 2022.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research: Recent Trends, MOTOR 2023, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia, during July 2-8, 2023.

This book gathers papers addressing state-of-the-art research in all areas of information and communication technologies and their applications in intelligent computing, cloud storage, data mining and software analysis.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cybersecurity and Evolutionary Data Engineering (ICCEDE 2022).

This book introduces readers to the minimum description length (MDL) principle and its applications in learning.

The contributions in this carefully curated volume, present cutting-edge research in applied mathematical modeling for combating COVID-19 and other potential pandemics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management, CISIM 2023, held in Tokio, Japan, during September 22-24, 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2023, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2023.

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

This book presents different dietary patterns, some utilizing wild foods and others facing drastically changing dietary patterns, and shows their implications for health in terms of wealth, mutual assistance, food sufficiency and food diversity.

This book presents the frontier research of toxicology and health risk assessment of chemicals.

This book presents the knowledge of rice chemistry and nutrition.

This book offers a fresh look at the global apparel industry, focusing on Korean multinational corporations (MNCs) and their growing role in building regional connections and shaping economic and social development in Asia.

This book presents peer reviewed articles from The XII All Russian Scientific Conference on Current issues of Continuum Mechanics and Celestial Mechanics (XII CICMCM), held on 15-17 November 2023, at Toms in, Russia.

This book is concerned with the varying responses of South American countries to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC), held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 12-15, 2023.

This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT 2023, held in Trier, Germany, in September 2023.

This book integrates the research progress of Tryptophan (Trp) and its metabolites in animal nutrition and human health.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water and associated adverse outcomes is one of the major health issues in more than 50 countries worldwide.

This book constitutes the proceedings of Third International Conference on Information Systems and Design, ICID 2022, which took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in September 2022.

This book charts the fall of productivity growth and the rise of inequality within global economies and societies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops that have been held in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Financial Cryptography, FC 2024, which took place in Willemstad, Curacao, during March 4-8, 2024.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cybersecurity and Evolutionary Data Engineering (ICCEDE 2022).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2023, held in Kolkata, India, during April 27-28, 2023.

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2021, held online in November 2021.

This book is a collection of 20 chapters on chosen topics from cross-section and panel data econometrics.

This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the struggles of youth in India, Myanmar, and Thailand towards the creation of a freer, more inclusive, plural, and equal society.

The five-volume set, LNCS 14081, 140825, 14083, 14084, and 14085 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2023.

This volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2023, which was held in Guangzhou, China, during August 16-18, 2023.

This book explores communication as a key influence on the trajectory of conflicts and crises in the specific context of academia.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2023, held in Kolkata, India, during April 27-28, 2023.

This book constitutes extended, revised, and selected papers from the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2021, held online in November 2021.

This book sheds new light on the interactions between the science of complexity and the science of systems.

This book offers an excellent source of knowledge for readers who are interested in keeping up with the developments in the field of cyber security and social media analysis.

The present book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers presented at the 18th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2021, held as an online web-based event (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) in July 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures, WADS 2023, held during July 31-August 2, 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on AI-assisted Solutions for COVID-19 and Biometrical Applications in Smart Cities, AISCOVID-19 2022, held in November 2022 in Braga, Portugal.

This book examines the study of psychopathy using behavioral ecological framework.

This book extends the theory and applications of random evolutions to semi-Markov random media in discrete time, essentially focusing on semi-Markov chains as switching or driving processes.