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This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Asian Conference on ACPR 2019, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2019.
The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They cover topics such as: classification; action and video and motion; object detection and anomaly detection; segmentation, grouping and shape; face and body and biometrics; adversarial learning and networks; computational photography; learning theory and optimization; applications, medical and robotics; computer vision and robot vision; pattern recognition and machine learning; multi-media and signal processing; and interaction.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020. The 7 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 initial submissions.
The papers describe applications of pattern recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance pattern recognition methods are especially encouraged.

The 14 revised and extended papers presented together with an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They present new research and innovative aspects in the field of knowledge management and discuss methodological, technical and organizational aspects of artificial intelligence used for knowledge management.

*The workshop was held virtually.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite events held at the 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2022, during May—June in Hersonissos, Greece, 2022.

The included satellite events are: the poster and demo session; the PhD symposium; industry track; project networking; workshops and tutorials.

During ESWC 2022, the following ten workshops took place:10th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC 2022); 5th International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data (GeoLD 2022); 5th Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics (SeMWeBMeDA 2022); 7th Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data (NLIWOD+QALD 2022); International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (Text2KG 2022); 3rd International Workshop on Deep Learning meets Ontologies and Natural Language Processing (DeepOntoNLP 2022); 1st Workshop on Modular Knowledge (ModularK 2022); Third International Workshop On Knowledge Graph Construction (KGCW 2022); Third International Workshop On Semantic Digital Twins (SeDIT 2022); and the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Industrial Information Modelling (SemIIM 2022).

This book presents a comprehensive guide to the design of playing robots and the related play experiences. Play is a natural activity for building and improving abilities, and it reveals important particularly for persons with disabilities. Many social, physical and cultural factors may hinder children with disabilities from fully enjoying play as their peers. Autonomous robots with specific characteristics can enhance the ludic experience, having implications for the character of the play and presenting opportunities related to autonomy and physical movement, the very nature of robots. Their introduction into play thus provides everybody, and in particular persons with disabilities, new possibilities for developing abilities, improving general status, participating in social contexts, as well as supporting professionals in monitoring progress.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 10th and 11^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2021 and 2022, held in February 2021 and 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conferences were held virtually. Both conferences received in total 204 submissions from which 8 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation in this volume. The papers span a wide range of investigation as well as development lines, which of course always reflect the last trends of research in the pattern recognition community.

Authoring, its tools, processes, and design challenges are key issues for the Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) research community. The complexity of IDN authoring, often involving stories co-created by procedures and user interaction, creates confusion for tool developers and raises barriers for new authors.

This book examines these issues from both the tool designer and the author’s perspective, discusses the poetics of IDN and how that can be used to design authoring tools, explores diverse forms of IDN and their demands, and investigates the challenges around conducting research on IDN authoring.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2024, which was held in Trollhättan, Sweden, during June 3–5, 2024.

The 30 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: DSR for a resilient world (theme track); general track; DSR methods and education; DSR in practice; and emerging topics in DSR.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2024, held in Rabat, Morocco, during May 9-11, 2024. 

The 43 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. They were categorized under the topical sections as follows:

Part I: Digital Transformation, Digital Economy and Investment, Artificial Intelligence and E-learning, E-commerce and Social Media Marketing, Exploring the Nexus of Digital and Sustainable Economies in Developing States and Digital Business Models.

Part II: Application of Machine Learning for Business, Digital Technologies and Innovative Management, Social Networks and Information Technologies, Digital Economy in Emerging Countries Mobile Banking and Digital Assets, Online Session.

This book constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings from the 39th International conference on High Performance Computing, ISC High Performance 2024, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2024. 

The 34 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. These proceedings include papers from the following workshops:-

• Compiler-Assisted Correctness Checking and Performance Optimization for HPC Workshop (C3PO 2024) 
• HPC on Heterogeneous Hardware Workshop (H3 2024)  
• Third Workshop on Communication, I/O, and Storage at Scale on Next-Generation Platforms – Scalable Infrastructures (ISC 2024 IXPUG)  
• HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC 2024)  
• Third Combined Workshop on Interactive and Urgent Supercomputing (CW-IUS 2024) 
• 5th ISC HPC International Workshop on Monitoring & Operational Data Analytics (MODA24)  
• Fourth International Workshop on RISC-V for HPC 
• 2nd International Workshop on Sustainable Supercomputing 
• Second International Workshop on Converged Computing on Edge, Cloud, and HPC (WOCC’24)  

• 8th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization (WOIV’24)  

Chapter “Interactive in Situ Visualization” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The five-volume set LNCS 15674-15678 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2025, held in Røros, Norway, during May 12–15, 2025.
The 60 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. They are grouped into these topical sections: MPC and friends; advanced PKE; security of post-quantum signatures; proofs and arguments; multi-signatures; protocols; foundations of lattices and LPN; threshold signatures; isogenies and group actions; secure computation; security against real-world attacks; batch arguments and decentralized encryption; and cryptography for blockchains.

The five-volume set LNCS 15674-15678 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2025, held in Røros, Norway, during May 12–15, 2025.
The 60 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. They are grouped into these topical sections: MPC and friends; advanced PKE; security of post-quantum signatures; proofs and arguments; multi-signatures; protocols; foundations of lattices and LPN; threshold signatures; isogenies and group actions; secure computation; security against real-world attacks; batch arguments and decentralized encryption; and cryptography for blockchains.

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 745 + 746 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2025, held in Maribor, Slovenia, during May 21-23, 2025. 

The 28 full papers and 7 workshop papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Privacy protection; Industrial and Critical Infrastructure Security; Applied Cryptography; Data and Application Security; and International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security (WNDSS 2025).

The two-volume set LNCS 15385 + 15386 constitutes the proceedings of the workshops and associated events that were held in conjunction with the 30th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Euro-Par 2024, which took place in Madrid, Spain, during August 26–30, 2024.

Overall, the Euro-Par Workshops received a total of 84 submissions of which 60 were accepted for presentation. They stem from the following workshops: 

– The 1st European Workshop on Quantum Computing for High-Performance Computing (EUROQHPC 2024)
– The 19th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 2024)
– The 1st Workshop in High-Performance Computing in Physics (PHYSHPC 2024)
– The 4th Workshop on Asynchronous Many-Task Systems for Exascale (AMTE 2024)
– The 3rd EuroHPC Workshop on Dynamic Resources in HPC (DYNRESHPC 2024)
– The 22nd International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HETEROPAR 2024)
– The 1st Workshop on Next Steps in IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum Evolution: Research and Practice (IECCONT 2024)
– The 1st Workshop about High-Performance e-Science (HIPES 2024)
– The 2nd International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC 2024)

In addition, the proceedings contain 14 poster and demo papers that have been accepted from 30 submissions, and 18 contributions in the PhD Symposium track that were accepted from 22 submissions. 

The two-volume set LNCS 15385 + 15386 constitutes the proceedings of the workshops and associated events that were held in conjunction with the 30th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Euro-Par 2024, which took place in Madrid, Spain, during August 26–30, 2024.

Overall, the Euro-Par Workshops received a total of 84 submissions of which 60 were accepted for presentation. They stem from the following workshops: 

– The 1st European Workshop on Quantum Computing for High-Performance Computing (EUROQHPC 2024)
– The 19th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 2024)
– The 1st Workshop in High-Performance Computing in Physics (PHYSHPC 2024)
– The 4th Workshop on Asynchronous Many-Task Systems for Exascale (AMTE 2024)
– The 3rd EuroHPC Workshop on Dynamic Resources in HPC (DYNRESHPC 2024)
– The 22nd International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HETEROPAR 2024)
– The 1st Workshop on Next Steps in IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum Evolution: Research and Practice (IECCONT 2024)
– The 1st Workshop about High-Performance e-Science (HIPES 2024)
– The 2nd International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC 2024)

In addition, the proceedings contain 14 poster and demo papers that have been accepted from 30 submissions, and 18 contributions in the PhD Symposium track that were accepted from 22 submissions. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First WG 12.13 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Global Security, AI4GS 2024, which took place in Paris, France, on November 19, 2024. 

The 14 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They deal with artificial intelligence for global security focusing on defense, homeland security, cyber security, regulation, and financial security. 

The three-volume set IFIP ICCIDS 748, 749 and 750 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2025, held in Chennai, India, during February 12–14, 2025. 

The 91 papers including 70 regular papers and 21 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 317 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: Computer Vision for Real World Applications.
Part II: Computer Vision for Real World Applications; Emerging Trends in AI for Speech and Text.
Part III: Emerging Trends in AI for Speech and Text; Computational Intelligence for Secure, Smart and Sustainable Applications

This four-volume set constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Advanced Hybrid Information Processing, ADHIP 2024, held in Jiaxing, China, during September 20-22, 2024.

The 115 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions. They focus on the following topical sections:

Part I: Signal Processing and Enhancement; Information Fusion and Integration.

Part II: Information Fusion and Integration; Intelligent Computing and Machine Learning.

Part III: Intelligent Computing and Machine Learning; Applications and Intelligent Systems.

Part IV: Applications and Intelligent Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Engineering for Emerging Technologies, SEET 2025, held at Long Beach, California, USA, during August 11–12, 2025.

The 33 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 147 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections: 

Software Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Quantum Computing, Large Language Models (LLM), Network Security, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Quality, Performance Metrics, Computer Vision.

This book, structured as an edited volume, consists of 12 chapters organized into four key themes: Theoretical Foundations, Human Factors, Application Domains, and Future Challenges. It highlights the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of cyber deception research, offering insights into diverse application areas such as industrial control systems and AI security.

Cyber deception has emerged as a critical strategy for defending digital assets across academia, industry, and government. By creating false information, deceptive environments, or misleading signals, it aims to confuse, delay, or misdirect adversaries while simultaneously gathering intelligence on their tactics. This proactive approach shifts the traditional information advantage from attackers to defenders, strengthening cybersecurity resilience.

Designed as a foundational resource, this book is particularly valuable for students and early-career researchers seeking to understand cyber deception and identify pressing research challenges. It emphasizes the need for context-aware and adaptive strategies to counter the ever-evolving tactics of cyber adversaries. Furthermore, this book advocates for leveraging emerging technologies and interdisciplinary approaches to advance deception techniques. By addressing both current and future challenges, this volume provides a comprehensive roadmap for enhancing cyber deception strategies and fostering the development of more robust and resilient cybersecurity defences.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 2022, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2021.
The 8 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Programming; Cybersecurity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Charting the Way Forward in Education; and Real-World Cybersecurity-Inspired Capacity Building.

Advances in Digital Forensics XVIII describes original research results and innovative applications in the discipline of digital forensics.  In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations.  The areas of coverage include:

This book is the eighteenth volume in the annual series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics, an international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics.  The book contains a selection of eleven edited papers from the Eighteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, a fully-virtual event held in the winter of 2022. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2021, held in Tianjin, China, on October 23, 2021.

The 16 full and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They focus on theoretical and practical aspects of network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability and sustainability of computer networks and systems.

The editors of this State-of-the-Art Survey invited a cross-disciplinary team of researchers to a Lorentz workshop in 2019 to improve collaboration in these areas. Some contributions were initiated at the event, others were developed since through further invitations, editing, and cross-reviewing. This contributed book contains 14 invited chapters that address side-channel attacks and fault injection, cryptographic primitives, adversarial machine learning, and intrusion detection. The chapters were evaluated based on their significance, technical quality, and relevance to the topics of security and AI, and each submission was reviewed in single-blindmode and revised.

The 12 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: protection of cyber-physical systems and industrial control systems (ICS); C(I)IP organization, (strategic) management and legal aspects; human factor, security awareness and crisis management for C(I)IP and critical services; and future, TechWatch and forecast for C(I)IP and critical services.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2021, held in Beijing, China, in November 2021.

The 18 full papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The are categorized in the following topical headings: Forensics and Security Analysis; Watermarking and Steganology.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 24^th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2021, held in Seoul, South Korea, in December 2021.
The total of 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are arranged by topic: Cryptographic Protocol in Quantum Computer Age; Security Analysis of Hash Algorithm; Security analysis of Symmetric Key Encryption Algorithm; Fault and Side-Channel Attack; Constructions and Designs; Quantum Circuit; Efficient Implementation. The aim of this conference was to provide an international forum for the latest results of research, development, and applications within the field of information security and cryptology.

The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The conference covers research in data and applications security and privacy.

The 104 full papers and 6 poster papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 562 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:

Part II: Anonymity; cloud security; access control; authentication; digital signatures; IoT security; applications;

The 7 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2024, held in  Gardanne, France, during April 9–10, 2024. 

The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Analyses and Tools; Attack Methods; Deep-Learning-Based Side-Channel Attacks; PUF/RNG; and Cryptographic Implementations.