Books in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series

This two-volume set LNCS 12645-12646 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021, held in Beijing, China, in March 2021. The 32 full papers and the 59 short papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 225 submissions.

This two-volume set LNCS 12645-12646 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021, held in Beijing, China, in March 2021. The 32 full papers and the 59 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 225 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2020.*The 19 full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2020, which was organized by Linkoeping University, Sweden, and held online during November 23-24, 2020.The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions.

The six volume set of LNCS 12622-12627 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2020, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November/ December 2020.*The total of 254 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 768 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement.

The six volume set of LNCS 12622-12627 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2020, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November/ December 2020.*The total of 254 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 768 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2021, held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in January/February 2021. The 17 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.

This 8-volumes set constitutes the refereed of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2020, held virtually in Milan, Italy and rescheduled to January 10 - 11, 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic.

This 8-volumes set constitutes the refereed of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2020, held virtually in Milan, Italy and rescheduled to January 10 - 11, 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic.

This 8-volumes set constitutes the refereed of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2020, held virtually in Milan, Italy and rescheduled to January 10 - 11, 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic.

This 8-volumes set constitutes the refereed of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2020, held virtually in Milan, Italy and rescheduled to January 10 - 11, 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design, CONVERSATIONS 2020, which was held during November 23-24, 2020, hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

This book constitutes the post proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2020, held online -due to COVID -19- in Nice, France, in November 2020.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking, held in Paris, France, in October 2020.The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2021, which was held virtually during January 17-19, 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2020, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in December 2020. The 20 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. Fact-Checking, Fake News and Malware Detection in Online Social Networks;

The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows: Methods for Socio-Technical Systems focused on instruments, frameworks and re ections on research methodology and also System Security considered security analyses and attacks on security systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Belief Functions, BELIEF 2021, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2021.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2021, which took place virtually during October 11-13, 2021.The 36 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. neural networks and deep learning; representation learning and feature selection;

This book constitutes the 15th edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, MAPC 2020. In the second part, each team contributed a paper describing their approach and experiences with creating a team of agents to participate in the contest.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2021, held in September/October 2021. Internet of Things and computational technologies for collective intelligence;

The volume LNAI 12872 constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2021, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in September 2021.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2021, held virtually in September 2021.The 12 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. theory on conceptual structures, and mining conceptual structures.