Communications in Computer and Information Science

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers, workshops and doctoral consortium papers of the 23rd European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2019, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2019.

The 19 short research papers and the 5 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions, and the 31 workshop papers were selected out of 67 submitted papers. The papers are organized in the following sections: Short Papers; Workshops Papers; Doctoral Consortium Papers; and cover a wide spectrum of topics related to database and information systems technologies for advanced applications. 

This two-volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security, ASCIS 2022, held in Rajkot, India, in November 2022. 
The 37 full papers and 19 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 206 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence; smart computing; cyber security; industry.

This book constitutes selected papers presented during the First International Conference on Deep Sciences for Computing and Communications, IconDeepCom 2022, held in Chennai, India, in March 2022.
The 27 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: classification and regression problems for communication paradigms; deep learning and vision computing; deep- recurrent neural network (RNN) for industrial informatics; extended AI for heterogeneous edge.

This book constitutes papers presented during the workshop session titled “CyberSec4Europe - Research to Innovation: Common Research Framework on Security and Privacy” during the Privacy Symposium hosted by Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy, in April 2022. 
The 11 peer-reviewed selected papers present findings, conclusions, research, and recommendations in various security-related areas, from highly technical ones (e. g., software and network security) to law and human-centric ones (e. g., governance and cybersecurity awareness).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2023, held in New Delhi, India, during May 27, 2023.
The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: global platform for researchers, scientists and practitioners from both academia and industry to present their research and development activities in all the aspects of Pattern Recognition and computational Intelligence techniques.

These 2 volumes constitute the selected papers of the 7th International Conference, CHIRA 2023, held Rome, Italy, during November 16–17, 2023.
The 14 full papers and the 29 short papers presented in these books were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers selected contribute to the advancement of research and practical applications of human-technology and human-computer interaction. Different aspects of Computer-Human Interaction were covered in four parallel tracks: human factors for interactive systems, research, and applications; interactive devices; interaction design; and adaptive and intelligent systems. 

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 20th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. 
The 43 papers presented in volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: 5th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good, SoGood 2020; Workshop on Parallel, Distributed and Federated Learning, PDFL 2020; Second Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, MLCS 2020, 9th International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns, NFMCP 2020, Workshop on Data Integration and Applications, DINA 2020, Second Workshop on Evaluation and Experimental Design in Data Mining and Machine Learning, EDML 2020, Second  International Workshop  on  eXplainable  Knowledge  Discovery in  Data Mining, XKDD 2020; 8th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics, INRA 2020. 
The papers from INRA 2020 are published open access and licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. 
The 104 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 180 papers submited for the workshops. This two-volume set includes the proceedings of the following workshops: Workshop on Advances in Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AIMLAI 2021)Workshop on Parallel, Distributed and Federated Learning (PDFL 2021)Workshop on Graph Embedding and Mining  (GEM 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning for Irregular Time-series (ML4ITS 2021)Workshop on IoT, Edge, and Mobile for Embedded Machine Learning (ITEM 2021)Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (XKDD 2021)Workshop on Bias and Fairness in AI (BIAS 2021)Workshop on Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (MLCS 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning in Software Engineering (MLiSE 2021)Workshop on MIning Data for financial applications (MIDAS 2021)Sixth Workshop on Data Science for Social Good (SoGood 2021)Workshop on Machine Learning for Pharma and Healthcare Applications (PharML 2021)Second Workshop on Evaluation and Experimental Design in Data Mining and Machine Learning (EDML 2020)Workshop on Machine Learning for Buildings Energy Management (MLBEM 2021)

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the Second Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, held in San Jose, USA, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual format. 
The 9 full papers and one shoprt paper presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They present most recent research on dependability, reliability, and security to address cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, faults, and errors in networks and systems. 
Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, and 8-10 are published open access under a CC BY license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference On Secure Knowledge Management In Artificial Intelligence Era, SKM 2021, held in San Antonio, TX, USA, in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized according to the following topical sections: intrusion and malware detection; secure knowledge management; deep learning for security; web and social network.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 15th Colombian Congress on Advances in Computing, CCC 2021, held in Bogotá, Colombia, during November 22–26, 2021.
The 8 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Artificial intelligence; educational informatics; and information systems.

This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, EuroCybersec 2021, held in Nice, France, in October 2021.

The 9 papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers focus on topics of security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, Internet of Things, health informatics systems, energy systems, digital cities, digital economy, mobile networks, and the underlying physical and network infrastructures.

This is an open access book.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2021, Virtual Event, during April 28–30, 2021.  The 5 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The proceedings deal with the topics of data processing, cloud computing environments, and services science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2022, held in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, in September 2022.
The 18 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: smart and advanced systems; verification and validation; skills and education; industrial experiences and applications; safety, security and privacy.

This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Emerging Information Security and Applications, EISA 2022, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2022. Due to COVID-19, EISA 2022 was held fully online.The 13 full papers presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 35 submissions. They present a discussion on the emerging techniques, theories and applications to enhance information and application security in practice. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Smart Communication, ICCISC 2022, was held in Dehradun, India, in June 2022.
The 8 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The aim of the conference was to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field of Computational Intelligence and Smart Communication. It also focused on all aspects of computation intelligence and data sciences with modern and emerging computational topics.
The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Wireless Sensor Networks and Computing Technologies; Networks, Security and Privacy Parallel & Distributed Networks; Smart Communication and Technology; and Emerging Computing Computational Intelligence.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference, MCSS 2022, held in Kraków, Poland, during November 3–4, 2022. 
The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research activities in the following topics: cybersecurity, multimedia services; intelligent monitoring; audio-visual systems; biometric applications; experiments and deployments.