Books in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Workshop on Big Scientific Data Benchmarks, Architecture, and Systems, SDBA 2018, held in Beijing, China, in June 2018. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Space Information Networks, SINC 2018, held in Changchun, China, in August 2018. The 17 full and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions.

This two-volume set (CCIS 955 and CCIS 956) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, ICAICR 2018, held in Shimla, India, in July 2018. The papers are organized in topical sections on computing methodologies;

This two-volume set (CCIS 955 and CCIS 956) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, ICAICR 2018, held in Shimla, India, in July 2018. The papers are organized in topical sections on computing methodologies;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2018, held in Lima, Peru, in September 2018. The 34 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2018, held in Soria, Spain, in May 2018.

This two-volume set CCIS 961 and 962 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, TMM_CH 2018, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2018.73 revised full papers of 237 submissions are included in these volumes. The papers of the first volume are organized in the following topical sections: the project of the rehabilitation of Holy Sepulchre's Holy Aedicule as a pilot multispectral, multidimensional, novel approach through transdisciplinary and cooperation in the protection of monuments; digital heritage; novel educational approach for the preservation of monuments; resilience to climate change and natural hazards; conserving sustainably the materiality of structures and architectural authenticity; and interdisciplinary preservation and management of cultural heritage. And the papers of the second volume are organized in the following topical sections: sustainable preservation and management lessons learnt on emblematic monuments; cross-discipline earthquake protection and structural assessment of monuments; cultural heritage and pilgrimage tourism; reuse, circular economy and social participation as a leverage for the sustainable preservation and management of historic cities; inception - inclusive cultural heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling; heritage at risk; and advanced and non-destructive techniques for diagnosis, design and monitoring.

This two-volume set CCIS 961 and 962 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, TMM_CH 2018, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2018.73 revised full papers of 237 submissions are included in these volumes. The papers of the first volume are organized in the following topical sections: the project of the rehabilitation of Holy Sepulchre's Holy Aedicule as a pilot multispectral, multidimensional, novel approach through transdisciplinary and cooperation in the protection of monuments; digital heritage; novel educational approach for the preservation of monuments; resilience to climate change and natural hazards; conserving sustainably the materiality of structures and architectural authenticity; and interdisciplinary preservation and management of cultural heritage. And the papers of the second volume are organized in the following topical sections: sustainable preservation and management lessons learnt on emblematic monuments; cross-discipline earthquake protection and structural assessment of monuments; cultural heritage and pilgrimage tourism; reuse, circular economy and social participation as a leverage for the sustainable preservation and management of historic cities; inception - inclusive cultural heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling; heritage at risk; and advanced and non-destructive techniques for diagnosis, design and monitoring.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment, HAICTA 2017, held in Chania, Crete, Greece, in September 2017.The 14 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected from the 55 accepted full papers out of 124 submissions. The selected papers span across various subjects, from ICT innovations and smart farming, to decision support systems, as well as precision farming, disease diagnosis using mobile devices, IoT for monitoring and controlling animal production, sensor-based solutions, GIS-based water management, environmental planning, information systems for monitoring of fish stocks and fisheries, information management in the agri-food sector, and forestry planning and management.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Conference on AElectronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2018, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2018. digital public administration, economy, policy; digital democracy, participation, security, communities, social media, activism;

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium, ISICA 2018, held in Jiujiang, China, in October 2018.The 32 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on nature-inspired computing;

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on ICTs for Improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, REHAB 2016, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2016. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE 2018, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in October 2018. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as networking protocols and performance;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational and Information Technologies in Science, Engineering and Education, CITech 2018, held in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, in September 2018.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions.

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, February 27 - March 1, 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security and Privacy, ISEA-ISAP 2018, held in Jaipur, India, in January 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2018, held in Oulu, Finland, in September 2018. The 58 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 241 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on Data Mining, AusDM 2018, held in Bathurst, NSW, Australia, in November 2018.The 27 revised full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. applied data mining; image data mining;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2019, held in Xersonisos, Crete, Greece, in May 2019. The 35 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Gerotechnology, IWoG 2018, held in Caceres, Spain on December 14, 2018, and in Evora, Portugal, on December 17, 2018.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2018, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 59 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Workshop on Software Challenges to Exascale Computing, SCEC 2018, held in Delhi, India, in December 2018.The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions and focus on scientific applications, performance analysis and optimization, science gateways and high-productivity tools and frameworks.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, RiTA 2018, held in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in December 2018.The 20 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions.The papers present studies on machine learning; optimization; modelling and simulation; path planning; neural networks; landmark recognition; and reinforcement learning.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First Iberoamerican Conference, KGSWC 2019, held in Villa Clara, Cuba, in June 2019. The 14 full papers and 1 short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. natural language processing; semantic web description languages;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Human Mental Workload: Models and Applications, H-WORKLOAD 2018, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2018. The 15 revised full papers presented together with one keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods, WBMA 2018, held in Campinas, Brazil, in October 2018.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, on October 23-26, 2018. The 19 full and 16 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th and 5th International Congress on Sports Science Research and Technology Support, icSPORT 2016 and 2017, held respectively in Porto, Portugal, on November 7-9, 2016 and in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, on October 30-31, 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2019, held in Ustron, Poland, in May 2019. It consists of 26 carefully reviewed papers selected from 69 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th China Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, CWSN 2018, held in Kunming, China, in September 2018. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithm for wireless sensor network;