Books in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series

This book constitutes the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, which took place in Orlando, Florida, in July 2019.The total of 1274 papers and 209 posters included in the 35 HCII 2019 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5029 submissions.The 55 papers presented in this volume are organized in topical sections as follows: interaction design; cognitive issues in HCI; accessibility and universal access; learning and games; HCI in health and rehabilitation; HCI in business and society; big data, machine learning and visual analytics; and user studies.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2019. The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: parallel algorithms;

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods, WBMA 2019, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2019. The 6 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.Accepted papers focus on agile methods;

The two-volume set CCIS 1142 and 1143 constitutes thoroughly refereed contributions presented at the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2019, held in Sydney, Australia, in December 2019.For ICONIP 2019 a total of 345 papers was carefully reviewed and selected for publication out of 645 submissions.

The two-volume set CCIS 1142 and 1143 constitutes thoroughly refereed contributions presented at the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2019, held in Sydney, Australia, in December 2019.For ICONIP 2019 a total of 345 papers was carefully reviewed and selected for publication out of 645 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Innovations for Community Services, I4CS 2020, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January, 2020. The 16 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on E-Democracy, E-Democracy 2019, held in Athens, Greece, in December 2019. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on rrivacy and data protection;

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. The 9 extended and revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 80 submissions.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Modelling and Development of Intelligent Systems, MDIS 2019, held in Sibiu, Romania, in October 2019. The 13 revised full papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions.

This book presents refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Cyber Security, ACeS 2019, held in Penang, Malaysia, in July-August 2019. The 25 full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2019, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2019. The 32 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2020, held in Bari, Italy, in January 2020. The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully selected from 26 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in December 2019. The 18 revised full papers and one short paper presented were carefully selected from 54 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS 2019, held in Trondheim, Norway, in May, 2019. The 11 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers focus on all aspects of: artificial intelligence; and philosophical and ethical foundations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2019, held in Enshi, China, in August 2019. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Cloud Computing, ICC 2019, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2019. The two-volume set presents 53 full papers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 174 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Cloud Computing, ICC 2019, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2019. The two-volume set presents 53 full papers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 174 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, VJ 2019, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in November 2019. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Games and Theories;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Supercomputing, ISUM 2019, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2019.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2019, held in Liverpool, UK, in July 2019. The 43 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. There were organized in topical sections named: oncology and tumour imaging;

This book constitutesselected, revised and extended papers of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2019.The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on novel approaches to software engineering for the development and maintenance of systems and applications, specically with relation to: model-driven software engineering, requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, service-oriented software engineering, business process management and engineering, knowledge management and engineering, reverse software engineering, software process improvement, software change and configuration management, software metrics, software patterns and refactoring, application integration, software architecture, cloud computing, and formal methods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Latin American High Performance Computing Conference, CARLA 2019, held in Turrialba, Costa Rica, in September 2019. The papers included in this book are organized according to the conference tracks - regular track on high performance computing: applications;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Symposium on High Performance Computing System, WSCAD 2018, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2018. The papers included in this book are organized according to the following topics: cloud computing;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming, PAAP 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in December 2019.The 39 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second CCF China Blockchain Conference, CBCC 2019, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2019. The papers deal with research results and development activities in all aspects of blockchain science and technology.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2019, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2019. The papers are organized in the following tracks: metadata and semantics for digital libraries, information retrieval, big, linked, social and open data;