Books in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computing, BrainComp 2015, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2015. computational models and brain-inspired computing methods with practical applications;

The two volume set LNCS 10072 and LNCS 10073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2016, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2016. The 102 revised full papers and 34 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions.

The two volume set LNCS 10072 and LNCS 10073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2016, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2016. The 102 revised full papers and 34 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions.

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects from educational and game theories, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and systems design.  The 25 papers presented in the 13th issue were organized in topical sections named: learning games and visualization; virtual reality and applications; 3D graphics technology, multimedia computing, and others. 

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Risk and Security of Internet and Systems, CRISIS 2016, held in Roscoff, France, in September 2016.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2016, held in Beijing, China, in November 2016. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2016, held in Cannes, France, in November 2016.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 13International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, OWLED 2016, and the 5th International Workshop on OWL: Reasoner Evaluation, ORE 2016, held in Bologna, Italy in November 20, 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images, CompIMAGE 2016, held in Niagara Falls, NY, USA, in September 2016. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: theoretical contributions and application-driven contributions.

The three-volume set, consisting of LNCS 10116, 10117, and 10118, contains carefully reviewed and selected papers presented at 17 workshops held in conjunction with the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan in November 2016. The 134 full papers presented were selected from 223 submissions.

This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in six workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2016, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in December 2016. The 27 revised regular papers presented together with 14 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions.

It would not only allow one to use data mining techniques in constraint programming to identify and update constraints and optimization criteria, but also to employ constraints and criteria in data mining and machine learning in order to discover models compatible with prior knowledge.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2016, held in Hobart, TAS, Australia, in December 2016. The 40 full papers and 18 short papers presented together with 8 invited short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2016, held in Singapore, Singapore, in November 2016.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2016, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2016. They were organized in topical sections named: large graphs and clutter avoidance; planar graphs, layered and tree drawings; dynamic graphs, contest report.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICISC 2016, held in Singapore, Singapore, in November/December 2016. The 20 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented were carefully selected from 60 submissions. The papers cover topics such as IoT security;

The application ofmultiple computational intelligence technologies, such as fuzzy systems,evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., aims tosupport human and other collective intelligence and to create new forms of CCIin natural and/or artificial systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in March2016. The 42 full papers and 28 poster papers presentedtogether with 3 keynote talks and 6 demonstration papers, were carefullyreviewed and selected from 284 submissions.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Passive andActive Measurement, PAM 2016, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in March/April2016. The 30 full papers presented in this volume werecarefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They are organized intopical sections named: security and privacy;

This book constitutesthe refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on AppliedReconfigurable Computing, ARC 2016, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in March2016. and multicore systems. In addition, the bookcontains 3 invited papers and 8 poster papers on funded RD running and completed projects.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of six international workshops held in theframework of the 7th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT2015, during November 23-24, 2015, in Auckland, New Zealand. The 29 revised full papers presented werecarefully selected from 58 submissions.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Working Conference onRequirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2016, held inGothenburg, Sweden, in March 2016. The papers were organized in topicalsections named: decision making in requirements engineering; open source inrequirements engineering;