Books in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2020, held in Cardiff, UK, in October 2020. The 13 full papers presented together with one invited paper in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2020, held in Enschede, The Netherlands, in September 2020.The 49 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions.

The LNAI 12299 constitutes the papers of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2020, which will be held online in August 2020. The 42 full papers presented together with 1short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 103 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2020, held online -due to COVID -19- in Bregenz, Austria, in October 2020.

The conference was planned to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings before the conference took place.

Interoperable Data Extraction and Analytics Queries over Blockchains.- Exploiting Twitter for Informativeness Classification in Disaster Situations.- COTILES: Leveraging Content and Structure for Evolutionary Community Detection.- A Weighted Feature-Based Image Quality Assessment Framework in Real-Time.- Sharing Knowledge in Digital Ecosystems Using Semantic Multimedia Big Data.- Facilitating and Managing Machine Learning and Data Analysis Tasks in Big Data Environments Using Web and Microservice Technologies.- Stable Marriage Matching for Homogenizing Load Distribution in a Cloud Data Center.- A Sentiment Analysis Software Framework for the Support of Business Information Architecture in the Tourist Sector

The papers are grouped in topical sections on world wide web, recommendation, query processing and algorithm, natural language processing, machine learning, graph query, edge computing and data mining, data privacy and security, and blockchain.

Software.- Services Computing.- Web Services.- Software Engineering.- Software System Structure.- Software Infrastructure- E-Commerce Infrastructure.- Software Development Techniques.- Designing Software.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ICPRAI 2020, which took place in Zhongshan, China, in October 2020. The 49 full and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2020, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2020, in Lima, Peru, in October 2020. The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Russian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, RCAI 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2020. The 27 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions.

Advanced database and web applications.-Big data.- Data mining.- Machine learning for database.- Data warehouse and OLAP.- Information retrieval.- Data model and query language.- Query processing.- Optimization.- Recommendation systems.- Data quality and credibility.- Multimedia databases.- Temporal and spatial databases.- Data streams and time-series data.- Semantic web and knowledge management.- Graph data management.- Social network analytics.- Bio and health informatics.- Blockchain and parallel/distributed systems.- Security.- Privacy and Trust.- Databases for emerging hardware.

Advanced database and web applications.-Big data.- Data mining.- Machine learning for database.- Data warehouse and OLAP.- Information retrieval.- Data model and query language.- Query processing.- Optimization.- Recommendation systems.- Data quality and credibility.- Multimedia databases.- Temporal and spatial databases.- Data streams and time-series data.- Semantic web and knowledge management.- Graph data management.- Social network analytics.- Bio and health informatics.- Blockchain and parallel/distributed systems.- Security.- Privacy and Trust.- Databases for emerging hardware.

Advanced database and web applications.-Big data.- Data mining.- Machine learning for database.- Data warehouse and OLAP.- Information retrieval.- Data model and query language.- Query processing.- Optimization.- Recommendation systems.- Data quality and credibility.- Multimedia databases.- Temporal and spatial databases.- Data streams and time-series data.- Semantic web and knowledge management.- Graph data management.- Social network analytics.- Bio and health informatics.- Blockchain and parallel/distributed systems.- Security.- Privacy and Trust.- Databases for emerging hardware.

Advanced database and web applications.-Big data.- Data mining.- Machine learning for database.- Data warehouse and OLAP.- Information retrieval.- Data model and query language.- Query processing.- Optimization.- Recommendation systems.- Data quality and credibility.- Multimedia databases.- Temporal and spatial databases.- Data streams and time-series data.- Semantic web and knowledge management.- Graph data management.- Social network analytics.- Bio and health informatics.- Blockchain and parallel/distributed systems.- Security.- Privacy and Trust.- Databases for emerging hardware.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2020, held in Padua, Italy, in September 2020. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: cognitive and computational foundations of brain science;

Algorithmic.- Hypergraph Decompositions.- Multi-Agent Path Finding.- New Constraint Programming Model.- On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems.- Integer programming techniques.- Constrained Clustering.- Deep Neural Networks.- ΓÇóInference and relaxation methods.- Innovative applications of CP/AI/OR techniques.

The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020.

This two-volume set LNCS 12212 and 12213 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July, 2020.* A total of 1439 full papers and 238 posters have been carefully reviewed and accepted for publication in HCII 2020. The papers cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. MobiTAS 2020 includes a total of 59 papers and they are organized in the following topical sections: Part I, Automated Driving and In-Vehicle Experience Design: UX topics in automated driving, and designing in-vehicle experiences.Part II, Driving Behavior, Urban and Smart Mobility: studies on driving behavior, and urban and smart mobility. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things, ICIOT 2020, held virtually as part of SCF 2020, in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2020, held as part of SCF 2020, during September 18-20, 2020.

They cover topics in AI Modeling, AI Analysis, AI and Mobile Applications, AI Architecture, AI Management, AI Engineering, Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), User experience of AI and mobile services.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2020, held as part of SCF 2020, during September 18-20, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Honolulu, HI, USA and was changed to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 16 full and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The topics covered are Big Data Architecture, Big Data Modeling, Big Data As A Service, Big Data for Vertical Industries (Government, Healthcare, etc.), Big Data Analytics, Big Data Toolkits, Big Data Open Platforms, Economic Analysis, Big Data for Enterprise Transformation, Big Data in Business Performance Management, Big Data for Business Model Innovations and Analytics, Big Data in Enterprise Management Models and Practices, Big Data in Government Management Models and Practices, and Big Data in Smart Planet Solutions. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2020, held virtually as part of SCF 2020, in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, STM 2020, co-located with the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Guildford, UK, but had to be moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research Track.- Blockchain Based Full Privacy Preserving Public Procurement.- Comparison of Decentralization in DPoS and PoW Blockchains.- MULTAV: A Multi-Chain Token Backed Voting Framework for Decentralized Blockchain Governance.- Reducing Storage Requirement in Blockchain Networks Using Overlapping Data Distribution.- BBM: A Blockchain-based model for open banking via self-sovereign identity.- ProvNet: Networked Blockchain for Decentralized Secure Provenance.- On the verification of Smart Contract: A Systematic review.- Understanding and Handling Blockchain Uncertainties.- Application Track.- Upgradeability Concept for Collaborative Blockchain-based Business Process Execution Framework.- Analysis of Models for Decentralized and Collaborative AI on Blockchain.- ACCTP: Cross Chain Transaction Platform for High-Value Assets.- Lekana - Blockchain Based Archive Storage for Large-scale Cloud Systems.- Dynamic Role-Based Access Control for Decentralized Applications.- Blockchain Applications in Healthcare - A review and Future Perspective.- Short Paper Track.- Have I Been Exploited? A Registry of Vulnerable Ethereum Smart Contracts.-

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2020, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 5 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of software engineering foundations and applications with a focus on novel approaches for engineering requirements, design and architectures, testing, maintenance and evolution, model-driven development, software processes, metrics, quality assurance and new software economics models, search-based software engineering, benefiting day-to-day services sectors and derived through experiences, with appreciation to scale, pragmatism, transparency, compliance and/or dependability.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Services Computing 2020, held as Part of SCF 2020 in Honolulu, HI, USA in September 2020.. The 8 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2020, held as part of SCF 2020 in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.