Books in the Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues series

The papers cover topics on common principles, algorithms and tools that govern social network structures/topologies, functionalities, social interactions, security and privacy, network behaviors, information diffusions and influence, social recommendation systems which are applicable to all types of social networks and social media.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2017 held in Munster, Germany in March 2017. The EMO 2017 aims to discuss all aspects of EMO development and deployment, including theoretical foundations; parallel EMO models; EMO algorithm implementations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, MACIS 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in November 2017. The 28 revised papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions.

The two-volume set LNCS 10627 and 10628 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2017. The 59 full papers and 19 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2018, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in April 2018. The 63 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. The Symposium is devoted to different areas in theoretical computer science, including, but not limited to: algorithms (approximation, online, randomized, algorithmic game theory, etc.), analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms, automata theory and formal languages, coding theory and data compression, combinatorial algorithms, combinatorial optimization, combinatorics and graph theory, complexity theory, computational algebra, computational biology, computational geometry, computational number theory, cryptology, databases and information retrieval, data structures, formal methods and security, Internet and the web, parallel and distributed computing, pattern matching, programming language theory, and random structures.

This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.The LNCS 10805 and 10806 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2018, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The total of 43 full and 11 short papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 154submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: theorem proving; SAT and SMT I; deductive verification; software verification and optimization; model checking; and machine learning. Part II: concurrent and distributed systems; SAT and SMT II; security and reactive systems; static and dynamic program analysis; hybrid and stochastic systems; temporal logic and mu-calculus; 7th Competition on Software Verification - SV-COMP.

The two-volume set LNCS 10777 and 10778 constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2017, held in Lublin, Poland, in September 2017. The 49 regular papers presented in this volume were selected from 98 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2018, held in Charlottetown, PE, Canada, in July/August 2018.The 23 regular papers presented in this book together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 initial submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2018, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in June 2018.The 47 full papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks and 3 abstracts of fast-track journal papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The conference brings together interested researchers from constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research to present new techniques or applications in the intersection of these fields and provides an opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about techniques in the others, and to show how the integration of techniques from different fields can lead to interesting results on large and complex problems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2018, held in Tianjin, China, in June 2018. The 59 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Communication, WoLLIC 2018, held inBogota, Colombia, in July 2018.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC19), CMC 2018, which was held in Dresden, Germany, in September 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoMUSART 2019, held in Leipzig, Germany, in April 2019, co-located with the Evo*2019 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoApplications.The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method, SOFL+MSVL 2018, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in November 2018.The 11 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: programming and testing; verification and validation; semantics; and blockchain.

The second volume deals with bioinspired systems and biomedical applications to machine learning and contains papers related bioinspired programming strategies and all the contributions oriented to the computational solutions to engineering problems in different applications domains, as biomedical systems, or big data solutions.

The five-volume set LNCS 11536, 11537, 11538, 11539 and 11540 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2019, held in Faro, Portugal, in June 2019.The total of 65 full papers and 168 workshop papers presented in this book set were carefully reviewed and selected from 573 submissions (228 submissions to the main track and 345 submissions to the workshops). The papers were organized in topical sections named:Part I: ICCS Main TrackPart II: ICCS Main Track; Track of Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks; Track of Agent-Based Simulations, Adaptive Algorithms and Solvers; Track of Applications of Matrix Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Track of Architecture, Languages, Compilation and Hardware Support for Emerging and Heterogeneous SystemsPart III: Track of Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science; Track of Classifier Learning from Difficult Data; Track of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence; Track of Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation; Track of Computational Science in IoT and Smart SystemsPart IV: Track of Data-Driven Computational Sciences; Track of Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for Dynamical Systems; Track of Marine Computing in the Interconnected World for the Benefit of the Society; Track of Multiscale Modelling and Simulation; Track of Simulations of Flow and Transport: Modeling, Algorithms and ComputationPart V: Track of Smart Systems: Computer Vision, Sensor Networks and Machine Learning; Track of Solving Problems with Uncertainties; Track of Teaching Computational Science; Poster Track ICCS 2019Chapter "Comparing Domain-decomposition Methods for the Parallelization of Distributed Land Surface Models" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop and Tutorial, FMTea 2019, Held as Part of the Third World Congress on Formal Methods, FM 2019, Porto, Portugal, October 2019. The 14 full papers presented together with 3 abstract papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.

The proceedings set LNCS 11727, 11728, 11729, 11730, and 11731 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2019, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Reachability Problems, RP 2019, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2019.The 14 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers cover topics such as reachability for infinite state systems;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications, QTNA 2019, held in Ghent, Belgium, in August 2019.The 23 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 initial submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2019, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2019. The 22 full and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2019.The 72 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. cognitive and computer vision assisted systems for energy awareness and behavior analysis;

The two-volume set LNCS 11973 and 11974 constitute revised selected papers from the Third International Conference on Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms, NUMTA 2019, held in Crotone, Italy, in June 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, MACIS 2019, held in Gebze, Turkey, in November 2019. The 22 revised papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2020, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2020. The 16 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.

This book collects the refereed proceedings of the 6th Indian Conference on Logic and Its Applications, ICLA 2015, held in Mumbai, India, in January 2015. The volume contains 13 full revised papers along with 3 invited talks presented at the conference. The papers were selected after rigorous review, from 23 submissions. They cover topics related to pure and applied formal logic, foundations and philosophy of mathematics and the sciences, set theory, model theory, proof theory, areas of theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and other disciplines which are of direct interest to mathematical and philosophical logic.

This book constitutes the first of 3 volumes of refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2012, held in Huangshan, China, in July 2012. The 242 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 753 submissions. The 84 papers included in this volume are organized in topical sections on evolutionary learning and genetic algorithms, fuzzy theory and models, swarm intelligence and optimization, kernel methods and supporting vector machines, nature inspired computing and optimization, systems biology and computational biology, knowledge discovery and data mining, graph theory and algorithms, machine learning theory and methods, biomedical informatics theory and methods, complex systems theory and methods, pervasive/ubiquitous computing theory and methods, intelligent computing in bioinformatics, intelligent computing in pattern recognition, intelligent computing in image processing, intelligent computing in robotics, intelligent computing in computer vision, intelligent computing in Petri nets/transportation systems, intelligent data fusion and information security, intelligent sensor networks, knowledge representation/reasoning and expert systems, hybrid optimization, and bio-inspired computing and application.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2013, held in Milan, Italy, in June 2013. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets and related models of concurrent systems are addressed.