Books in the Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues series

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2021, held as a virtual event in May 2021 (due to the Covid-19 pandemic).The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions.

This two-volume set LNCS 9094 and LNCS 9095 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2015, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in June 2013. multi-robot systems: applications and theory (MRSAT); mathematical and theoretical methods in fuzzy systems;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2017, held in Sapporo, Hakodate, and Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, in June 2017. The 135 revised full papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions.

This two-volume set LNCS 10305 and LNCS 10306 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2017, held in Cadiz, Spain, in June 2017. Artificial Neural Networks in Industry ANNI'17; Computational Intelligence Tools and Techniques for Biomedical Applications;

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014 in New Orleans, LA, USA in November 2014. The 12 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers cover topics on performance benchmarking and optimization;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, UTP 2014, held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 13, 2014, co-located with the 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2015, held in Nice, France in March 2015. algorithms for semi-structured data mining, algorithms on automata and words; trees, tree languages and tree automata;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2014, held in Filzbach, Switzerland, in June/July 2014.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in March 2015. The 19 papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2014, held in Gebze, Turkey, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2015, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 2015, co-located with the Evo* 2015 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and Evo Applications.

The two volumes LNCS 9041 and 9042 constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2015, held in Cairo, Egypt, in April 2015. natural language generation and text summarization; information retrieval, question answering, and information extraction;

The papers are organized along a set of thematic tracks: program analysis and transformation, constraint handling rules, termination analysis, security, program testing and verification, program synthesis, program derivation, semantic issues in logic programming and program transformation and optimization.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, CIAC 2015, held in Paris, France, in May 2015. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions and are presented together with 2 invited papers.

This monograph proposes a comprehensive and fully automatic approach to designing text analysis pipelines for arbitrary information needs that are optimal in terms of run-time efficiency and that robustly mine relevant information from text of any kind.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2015, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in June 2015. Descriptional complexity serves as a theoretical representation of physical realizations, such as the engineering complexity of computer software and hardware.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2015, held in Brussels, Belgium, in June 2015. The 12 regular papers and 2 tool papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning and Optimization, LION 9, which was held in Lille, France, in January 2015. The 31 contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2015, held on Ischia Island, Italy, in June/July 2015. The 34 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2015, [formerly known as the International Supercomputing Conference] held in Frankfurt, Germany, in July 2015.The 27 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: cost-efficient data centers, scalable applications, advances in algorithms, scientific libraries, programming models, architectures, performance models and analysis, automatic performance optimization, parallel I/O and energy efficiency.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Finite Difference Methods, FDM 2014, held in Lozenetz, Bulgaria, in June 2014. The 36 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2015, held in Listvyanka, Russia, in July 2015. The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions.

This book and its companion volumes, LNCS volumes 9140, 9141 and 9142, constitute the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2015 held in conjunction with the Second BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence, CCI 2015, held in Beijing, China in June 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2015, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2015. The paper are organized in topical sections on biological and cognitive vision; hardware-implemented and real-time vision systems; high-level vision; and vision systems applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Graph Transformations, ICGT 2015, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2015. The 15 full papers presented together with 3 short papers and 1 keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. applications: technical papers, and tool presentations.

They cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.

They cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.

The two-volume set LNCS 9206 and LNCS 9207 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2015, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in July 2015. The total of 58 full and 11 short papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions.