Books in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in November 2017.The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2017 held in Dortmund, Germany in September 2017.The 20 revised full technical papers presented together with 16 short technical communications were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The conference cover a range of topics from, e. g., agents, robotics, cognitive sciences, machine learning, planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, and ontologies, with numerous applications in areas like social media, psychology, transportation systems and reflecting the richness and diversity of their field.

The two-volume set LNAI 10751 and 10752 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2018, held in Dong Hoi City, Vietnam, in March 2018. Intelligent Systems and Algorithms in Information Sciences; Intelligent Computer Vision Systems and Applications;

This three-volume set, LNAI 10937, 10938, and 10939, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in June 2018.

The two volume set LNAI 10984 and LNAI 10985 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2018, held in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in August 2018. The 81 papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation, AISC 2018, held in Suzhou, China, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the revised and selected papers from the 6th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems held in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2018, in conjunction with AAMAS 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2019, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2019. The 33 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk in full paper length.

This two-volume set (LNAI 11683 and LNAI 11684) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2019, held in Hendaye France, in September 2019.The 117 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 204 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2019, held in London, UK, in September 2019, colocated with the 28th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the workshops that were held in conjunction with the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2019, in Macau, China, in April 2019.The 31 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 52 submissions. They stem from the following workshops: · PAISI 2019: 14th Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics· WeL 2019: PAKDD 2019 Workshop on Weakly Supervised Learning: Progress and Future· LDRC 2019: PAKDD 2019 Workshop on Learning Data Representation for Clustering· BDM 2019: 8th Workshop on Biologically-inspired Techniques for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining· DLKT 2019: 1st Pacific Asia Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Transfer

The theme of ICCBR-2017, "Analogy for Reuse", was highlighted in several events.These papers, which are included in the proceedings, address many themes related to the theory and application of case-based reasoning, analogical reasoning, CBR and Deep Learning, CBR in the Health Sciences, Computational Analogy, and Process-Oriented CBR.

This open access volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th biennial conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2017, which focused on language technologies for the digital age.

This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multiple-Aspect Analysis of Semantic Trajectories, MASTER 2019, held in conjunction with the 19th European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2019, in W├╝rzburg, Germany, in September 2019.The 8 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. They represent an interesting mix of techniques to solve recurrent as well as new problems in the semantic trajectory domain, such as data representation models, data management systems, machine learning approaches for anomaly detection, and common pathways identification.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-proceedings of three international workshops organized by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, held in Tokyo, Japan in June 2006 during the 20th Annual Conference JSAI 2006.

The papers present current research from a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including data visualization and analysis (mining), knowledge management, as well as Web semantics, and software engineering.

The topics covered are: strategies, indexing, superposition-based theorem proving, model building, application of automated reasoning to mathematics, as well as to program verification, data mining, and computer formalized mathematics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2013, held in Singapore in October 2013, and co-located with the 16th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2014, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2014.

The three volume proceedings LNAI 11906 - 11908 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2019, held in Wurzburg, Germany, in September 2019.The total of 130 regular papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 733 submissions;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2020, held in Evora, Portugal, in March 2020. The 36 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. natural language processing applications;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2016, in conjunction with the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence, ÖGAI, held in Klagenfurt, Austria, in September 2016.The 8 revised full technical papers presented together with 12 technical communications, and 16 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions.The conference provides the opportunity to present a wider range of results and ideas that are of interest to the KI audience, including reports about recent own publications, position papers, and previews of ongoing work.

The three volume set LNAI 9851, LNAI 9852, and LNAI 9853 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2016, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in September 2016.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2014, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in December 2014. The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2015, held in Compiegne, France, in July 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry, ADG 2014, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in July 2014. The papers show the trend set of current research in automated reasoning in geometry.

The three volume set LNAI 9284, 9285, and 9286 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2015. These include 89 research papers, 11 industrial papers, 14 nectar papers, and 17 demo papers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2015, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2015. The 19 full papers and 2 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions.