Books in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Serviceology for Services, held in Osaka, Japan, in March 2020.The 16 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. service engineering and implementation.

This first volume of the three-volume set (CCIS 1193, CCIS 1194, and CCIS 1195) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2019, held in Quito, Ecuador, in December 2019. The papers are organized according to the following topics: technology trends;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference On Secure Knowledge Management In Artificial Intelligence Era, SKM 2019, held in Goa, India, in December 2019. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Convergent Cognitive Information Technologies, Convergent 2018, held in Moscow, Russia, in December 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019.The 24 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions (of which 21 papers were rejected without being reviewed).

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2020, held in Cadiz, Spain, in February 2020.

This book presents revised selected papers from the 16th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2019. The 34 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security, CTCIS 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2019. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the third Maple Conference, MC 2019, held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in October 2019. The 21 revised full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected out of 37 submissions, one invited paper is also presented in the volume.

This book constitutes thoroughly reviewed and selected papers presented at Workshops and Doctoral Consortium of the 24th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2020, the 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2020, and the 16th Workshop on Business Intelligence and Big Data, EDA 2020, held in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 the joint conference and satellite events were held online. The 26 full papers and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following satellite events: Workshop on Intelligent Data - From Data to Knowledge, DOING 2020; Workshop on Modern Approaches in Data Engineering and Information System Design, MADEISD 2020; Workshop on Scientic Knowledge Graphs, SKG 2020; Workshop of BI & Big Data Applications, BBIGAP 2020; International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis, SIMPDA 2020; International Workshop on Assessing Impact and Merit in Science, AIMinScience 2020; Doctoral Consortium.

This two volume set (CCIS 1257 and 1258) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2020 held in Taiyuan, China, in September 2020. The 98 papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 392 submissions.

This two volume set (CCIS 1257 and 1258) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2020 held in Taiyuan, China, in September 2020.The 98 papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 392 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: database, machine learning, network, graphic images, system, natural language processing, security, algorithm, application, and education.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications, INTAP 2019, held in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, in November 2019. The 60 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in October 2019.The 11 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Development Informatics Association Conference, IDIA 2020, held in Macau, China, in March 2020.*The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ICT4D: taking stock;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2019, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in October 2019. The 28 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions.

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed short papers of the 24th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2020, held in August 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive Television, jAUTI 2019, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October 2019. The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2020, held in Turku, Finland, in August 2020. The paperd are organized in the following topical sections: improving quality and containing cost in health care and care for the elderly by using information technology;

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, BIAS 2020, held in April, 2020.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Workshops of the 16th European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC: ΓÇï1st Workshop on Articial Intelligence for Railways, AI4RAILS 2020, 1st Worskhop on Dynamic Risk Management for Autonomous Systems, DREAMS 2020, 2nd Workshop on Dependable Solutions for Intelligent Electricity Distribution Grids, DSOGRI 2020, 12th Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2020, held in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshops were held virtually. The 12 full papers and 4 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The workshop papers complement the main conference topics by addressing dependability or security issues in specic application domains or by focussing in specialized topics, such as system resilience.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2020, held in Faro, Portugal*, in September 2020. The 27 full papers and 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tracks and workshops which complemented the 14th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2020, held in L'Aquila, Italy*, in September 2020. FAACS-MDE4SA - Joint Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems and Model-Driven Engineering for Software Architecture;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Conference on Advanced Computer Architecture, ACA 2020, held in Kunming, China, in August 2020. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on: interconnection network, router and network interface architecture; processor, memory, and storage systems architecture;

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2020, held in Krakow, Poland, in October 2020. The 24 full papers and 2 short papers included in the volume were selected from 54 submissions.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2020, held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2020.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three workshops held at the 31st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2020, held in September 2020: The 11th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data, BIOKDD 2020,  the 4th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems, IWCFS 2020, the 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs, MLKgraphs2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held virtually. The 10 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 15 submissions, and discuss a range of topics including: knowledge discovery, biological data, cyber security, cyber-physical system, machine learning, knowledge graphs, information retriever, data base, and artificial intelligence.

The 3-volume set CCIS 1252 until CCIS 1254 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2020, which was held in Hohhot, China, in July 2020.