Books in the Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series

This book highlights new trends and challenges in intelligent systems, which play an important part in the digital transformation of many areas of science and practice. It includes papers offering a deeper understanding of the human-centred perspective on artificial intelligence, of intelligent value co-creation, ethics, value-oriented digital models, transparency, and intelligent digital architectures and engineering to support digital services and intelligent systems, the transformation of structures in digital businesses and intelligent systems based on human practices, as well as the study of interaction and the co-adaptation of humans and systems. All papers were originally presented at the International KES Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems 2020 (KES HCIS 2020), held on June 17¿19, 2020, in Split, Croatia.

The book focuses on the real-world case-based crisis management in digital product development. This includes forecasting, responding, and agile engineering/management methods, patterns, and practices for sustainable development. This book introduces a set of case studies for sustainability in management as a blend, the components of which have been carefully selected from a few domains adjacent to digital production such as IT-intensive operation, human resource management, and knowledge engineering, to name a few. The key ingredients of this crisis management framework include information management, tradeoff optimization, agile product development, and knowledge transfer. The case studies this book features will help the stakeholders in understanding and identifying the key technology, business, and human factors that may likely result in a digital production crisis, i.e., critically affect the organization outcomes in terms of successful digitalization and sustainable development. These factors are particularly important for the large-scale applications, typically considered very complex in managerial and technological aspects, and, therefore, specifically addressed by the discipline of IT crisisology.

This book presents the proceedings of the IDEAS Conference, which is intended as a forum for a new generation of researchers.

The topics covered include: software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), future data center networks, 5G/6G mobile networks, QoS/QoE support in future networks, future Internet of things (IoT) networks, network fault management and service availability, and many others.

¿This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium ¿NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,¿ held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26¿28, 2020.Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban¿rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on six major tracks: Innovation dynamics, smart cities and ICT; Urban regeneration, community-led practices and PPP; Local development, inland and urban areas in territorial cohesion strategies; Mobility, accessibility and infrastructures; Heritage, landscape and identity;and Risk management,environment and energy. The book also includes a Special Section on Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in issues concerning metropolitan and marginal areas.

This book gathers high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Smart Trends for Information Technology and Computer Communications (SmartCom 2020), organized by the Global Knowledge Research Foundation (GR Foundation) from 23 to 24 January 2020.

This book gathers a selection of the articles accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Developments (SLERD 2017), held 22-23 June What characterizes smart learning ecosystems?

This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-19), held in Split, Croatia, on June 17-19, 2020.

This book gathers selected papers from the KES-IDT-2020 Conference, held as a Virtual Conference on June 17ΓÇô19, 2020.  The aim of the annual conference was to present and discuss the latest research results, and to generate new ideas in the field of intelligent decision-making. However, the range of topics discussed during the conference was definitely broader and covered methods in e.g. classification, prediction, data analysis, big data, data science, decision support, knowledge engineering, and modeling in such diverse areas as finance, cybersecurity, economics, health, management and transportation. The Problems in Industry 4.0 and IoT are also addressed. The book contains several sections devoted to specific topics, such as Intelligent Data Processing and its ApplicationsHigh-Dimensional Data Analysis and its ApplicationsMulti-Criteria Decision Analysis ΓÇô Theory and ApplicationsLarge-Scale Systems for Intelligent Decision-Making and Knowledge EngineeringDecision Technologies and Related Topics in Big Data Analysis of Social and Financial IssuesDecision-Making Theory for Economics

This book presents high-quality papers from the Third International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI 2018 19), organized by the School of Computer Engineering and School of Computer Application, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, from 21 to 22 December 2018.

This book gathers the contributions presented at the 4th International KES Conference on Smart Education and Smart e-Learning (KES-SEEL-17), which took place in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, June 21-23, 2017.Smart education and smart e-Learning are emerging and rapidly growing areas. They represent the innovative integration of smart systems, technologies and objects, smart environments, smart pedagogy, smart learning and academic analytics, various branches of computer science and computer engineering, and state-of-the-art smart educational software and/or hardware systems. It contains a total of 48 peer-reviewed book chapters that are grouped into several parts: Part 1 - Smart Pedagogy, Part 2 - Smart e-Learning, Part 3 - Systems and Technologies for Smart Education, Part 4 - Smart Teaching, and Part 5 - Smart Education: National Initiatives and Approaches. The book offers a valuable source of research data, information on best practices, and case studies for educators, researchers, Ph.D. students, administrators, and practitioners-and all those who are interested in innovative areas of smart education and smart e-Learning.

This book gathers high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Smart Trends for Information Technology and Computer Communications (SmartCom 2019), organized by the Global Knowledge Research Foundation (GR Foundation) from 24 to 25 January 2019.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th KES International Conference on Sustainability and Energy in Buildings 2019 (SEB19) held in Budapest, 4th -5th July 2019 organised by KES International in partnership with Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK.SEB-19 invited contributions on a range of topics related to sustainable buildings and explored innovative themes regarding sustainable energy systems. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers, and government and industry professionals to discuss the future of energy in buildings, neighbourhoods and cities from a theoretical, practical, implementation and simulation perspective. The conference formed an exciting chance to present, interact, and learn about the latest research and practical developments on the subject. The conference attracted submissions from around the world. Submissions for the Full-Paper Track were subjected to a blind peer-review process. Only the best of these were selected for presentation at the conference and publication in these proceedings. It is intended that this volume provides a useful and informative snapshot of recent research developments in the important and vibrant area of Sustainability in Energy and Buildings.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the KES International Symposium on Smart Transportation Systems (KES STS 2020).

This book presents selected peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Mechanical and Energy Technologies, which was held on 7-8 November 2019 at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the conference "Advances in 3D Image and Graphics Representation, Analysis, Computing and Information Technology," one of the first initiatives devoted to the problems of 3D imaging in all contemporary scientific and application areas.

This proceedings volume contains selected papers that were presented in the 3rd International Symposium on Big data and Cloud Computing Challenges, 2016 held at VIT University, India on March 10 and 11.

The book highlights new trends and challenges in research on agents and the new digital and knowledge economy. It includes papers on business process management, agent-based modeling and simulation and anthropic-oriented computing that were originally presented at the 14th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2020), being held as a Virtual Conference in June 17¿19, 2020. The respective papers cover topics such as software agents, multi-agent systems, agent modeling, mobile and cloud computing, big data analysis, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, social systems, computer embedded systems and nature inspired manufacturing, all of which contribute to the modern digital economy.

This book introduces readers to the methods, types of data, and scale of analysis used in the context of health. Methods include thorough case studies from statistics, as well as the newest facets of data analytics: data visualization, modeling and simulation, and machine learning.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS-12). The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the technologies and applications of this new and dynamic research area.

EMENA-ISTL'18 was a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges in information systems & technologies to support learning.The main topics covered are: A) information systems technologies to support education;

This book introduces readers to the methods, types of data, and scale of analysis used in the context of health. Methods include thorough case studies from statistics, as well as the newest facets of data analytics: data visualization, modeling and simulation, and machine learning.

This book presents methods for full-wave computer simulation that can be used in various applications and contexts, e.g. seismic prospecting, earthquake stability, global seismic patterns on Earth and Mars, medicine, traumatology, ultrasound investigation of the human body, ultrasound and laser operations, ultrasonic non-destructive railway testing, modelling aircraft composites, modelling composite material delamination, etc. The key innovation of this approach is the ability to study spatial dynamical wave processes, which is made possible by cutting-edge numerical finite-difference grid-characteristic methods.The book will benefit all students, researchers, practitioners and professors interested in numerical mathematics, computer science, computer simulation, high-performance computer systems, unstructured meshes, interpolation, seismic prospecting, geophysics, medicine, non-destructive testing and composite materials.

This volume includes 74 papers presented at ICTIS 2017: Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems. The conference was held on 25th and 26th March 2017, in Ahmedabad, India and organized jointly by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) Gujarat Chapter, the G R Foundation, the Association of Computer Machinery, Ahmedabad Chapter and supported by the Computer Society of India Division IV ¿ Communication and Division V ¿ Education and Research. The papers featured mainly focus on information and communications technology (ICT) for computation, algorithms and data analytics. The fundamentals of various data analytics and algorithms discussed are useful to researchers in the field.

This volume includes 73 papers presented at ICTIS 2017: Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems. The conference was held on 25th and 26th March 2017, in Ahmedabad, India and organized jointly by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) Gujarat Chapter, the G R Foundation, the Association of Computer Machinery, Ahmedabad Chapter and supported by the Computer Society of India Division IV ¿ Communication and Division V ¿ Education and Research. The papers featured mainly focus on information and communications technology (ICT) and its applications in intelligent computing, cloud storage, data mining and software analysis. The fundamentals of various data analytics and algorithms discussed are useful to researchers in the field.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Tenth International KES Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services: IIMSS-17. It includes 57 full papers organized into topical sections, ranging from visual data processing to big data analytics, and from multimedia to intelligent and cognitive systems.The conference took place as part of the Smart Digital Futures 2017 multi-theme conference, held in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal on 21¿23 June 2017, which brings together AMSTA, IDT, InHorizons, InMed, SEEL and IIMSS in one venue. It provided an international forum for researchers and scientists to share their work and experiences in the field of multimedia and intelligent interactive systems and services.

This book presents peer-reviewed contributions on smart universities by various international research, design and development teams. Smart university is an emerging and rapidly evolving area that creatively integrates innovative concepts; smart software and hardware systems; smart classrooms with state-of-the-art technologies and technical platforms; smart pedagogy based on modern teaching and learning strategies; smart learning and academic analytics; as well as various branches of computer science and computer engineering.The contributions are grouped into several parts: Part 1¿Smart Universities: Literature Review and Creative Analysis, Part 2¿Smart Universities: Concepts, Systems and Technologies, Part 3¿Smart Education: Approaches and Best Practices, and Part 4¿Smart Universities: Smart Long Life Learning. The book is a valuable source of research data and findings, design and development outcomes, and best practices for faculty, scholars, Ph.D students, administrators, practitioners and anyone interested in the rapidly growing areas of smart university and smart education.

This book gathers the contributions presented at the 4th International KES Conference on Smart Education and Smart e-Learning (KES-SEEL-17), which took place in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, June 21¿23, 2017.Smart education and smart e-Learning are emerging and rapidly growing areas. They represent the innovative integration of smart systems, technologies and objects, smart environments, smart pedagogy, smart learning and academic analytics, various branches of computer science and computer engineering, and state-of-the-art smart educational software and/or hardware systems. It contains a total of 48 peer-reviewed book chapters that are grouped into several parts: Part 1 ¿ Smart Pedagogy, Part 2 ¿ Smart e-Learning, Part 3 ¿ Systems and Technologies for Smart Education, Part 4 ¿ Smart Teaching, and Part 5 ¿ Smart Education: National Initiatives and Approaches. The book offers a valuable source of research data, information on best practices, and case studies for educators, researchers, Ph.D. students, administrators, and practitioners¿and all those who are interested in innovative areas of smart education and smart e-Learning.