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Trends and Future Directions in Security and Emergency Management (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #257)

This book aims to inform about the current empirical results of the work of experts in the field security and emergency management and risk management in connecting science, theory and practice in various fields related to security management and emergency management. The chapters present research work and case studies from international, state as well as regional levels. The book is divided into five sections, which deal with Safety and Security Science, Security and Emergency managment, Threats and Risks, Cyber Risks and Extraordinary Event, Preparation and Solutions. The book is intended primarily for scientific communities established in security sciences, theorists and experts working in various positions and levels of security organizations, universities with specializations in security studies, but also for the expert public interested in security issues or entities directly responsible for security and emergency management.

Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 3 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1161)

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 2020 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’20), held in Budva, Montenegro, from April 7 to 10, 2020.WorldCIST provides a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences with and challenges regarding various aspects of modern information systems and technologies.The main topics covered are A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; and N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.

Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 1 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1159)

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 2020 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’20), held in Budva, Montenegro, from April 7 to 10, 2020. WorldCIST provides a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences with and challenges regarding various aspects of modern information systems and technologies. The main topics covered are A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; and N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.

Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 2 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1160)

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 2020 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’20), held in Budva, Montenegro, from April 7 to 10, 2020. WorldCIST provides a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences with and challenges regarding various aspects of modern information systems and technologies. The main topics covered are A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; and N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.

Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology

Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology provides current and future IDT professionals with a clear picture of current and future developments in the field that are likely to impact their careers and the organizations they work for. The fifth edition of this acclaimed, award-winning book has been designed to help instructional design and educational technology students, scholars, and practitioners to acquire the skills and knowledge essential to attaining their professional goals. In addition to the thorough and comprehensive updates made across the text, this revision adds 24 new chapters covering artificial intelligence, alternative ID models, social emotional learning, return on investment, micro-credentials and badging, designing for e-learning, hybrid learning, professional ethics, diversity and accessibility, and more.By exploring the field’s purpose and history, theories and models, emerging technologies and environments, and continual challenges and newfound concerns, this text provides an integral survey of the field’s contemporary landscape.

Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology

Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology provides current and future IDT professionals with a clear picture of current and future developments in the field that are likely to impact their careers and the organizations they work for. The fifth edition of this acclaimed, award-winning book has been designed to help instructional design and educational technology students, scholars, and practitioners to acquire the skills and knowledge essential to attaining their professional goals. In addition to the thorough and comprehensive updates made across the text, this revision adds 24 new chapters covering artificial intelligence, alternative ID models, social emotional learning, return on investment, micro-credentials and badging, designing for e-learning, hybrid learning, professional ethics, diversity and accessibility, and more.By exploring the field’s purpose and history, theories and models, emerging technologies and environments, and continual challenges and newfound concerns, this text provides an integral survey of the field’s contemporary landscape.

Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference: LinStat, Istanbul, August 2016 (Contributions to Statistics)

This volume features selected contributions on a variety of topics related to linear statistical inference. The peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference (LinStat 2016) held in Istanbul, Turkey, 22-25 August 2016, cover topics in both theoretical and applied statistics, such as linear models, high-dimensional statistics, computational statistics, the design of experiments, and multivariate analysis. The book is intended for statisticians, Ph.D. students, and professionals who are interested in statistical inference.

Trends and Topics in Computer Vision: ECCV 2010 Workshops, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 10-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6554)

The two volumes LNCS 6553 and 6554 constitute the refereed post-proceedings of 7 workshops held in conjunction with the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in September 2010. The 62 revised papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The second volume contains 34 revised papers selected from the following workshops: Workshop on color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision (CRICV 2010); Workshop on Media Retargeting (MRW 2010); Workshop on Reconstruction and Modeling of Large-Scale 3D Virtual Environments (RMLE 2010); and Workshop on Computer Vision on GPUs (CVGPU 2010).

Trends and Topics in Computer Vision: ECCV 2010 Workshops, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 10-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6553)

The two volumes LNCS 6553 and 6554 constitute the refereed post-proceedings of 7 workshops held in conjunction with the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in September 2010. The 62 revised papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The first volume contains 26 revised papers and 2 invited talks selected from the following workshops: First International Workshop on Parts and Attributes; Third Workshop on Human Motion Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation; and International Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity (SGA 2010).

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Trends in Advanced Intelligent Control, Optimization and Automation: Proceedings of KKA 2017—The 19th Polish Control Conference, Kraków, Poland, June 18–21, 2017 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #577)

This volume contains the proceedings of the KKA 2017 – the 19th Polish Control Conference, organized by the Department of Automatics and Biomedical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland on June 18–21, 2017, under the auspices of the Committee on Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Commission for Engineering Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Part 1 deals with general issues of modeling and control, notably flow modeling and control, sliding mode, predictive, dual, etc. control. In turn, Part 2 focuses on optimization, estimation and prediction for control. Part 3 is concerned with autonomous vehicles, while Part 4 addresses applications. Part 5 discusses computer methods in control, and Part 6 examines fractional order calculus in the modeling and control of dynamic systems. Part 7 focuses on modern robotics. Part 8 deals with modeling and identification, while Part 9 deals with problems related to security, fault detection and diagnostics. Part 10 explores intelligent systems in automatic control, and Part 11 discusses the use of control tools and techniques in biomedical engineering. Lastly, Part 12 considers engineering education and teaching with regard to automatic control and robotics.

Trends in Ambient Intelligent Systems: The Role of Computational Intelligence (Studies in Computational Intelligence #633)

This book demonstrates the success of Ambient Intelligence in providing possible solutions for the daily needs of humans. The book addresses implications of ambient intelligence in areas of domestic living, elderly care, robotics, communication, philosophy and others. The objective of this edited volume is to show that Ambient Intelligence is a boon to humanity with conceptual, philosophical, methodical and applicative understanding. The book also aims to schematically demonstrate developments in the direction of augmented sensors, embedded systems and behavioral intelligence towards Ambient Intelligent Networks or Smart Living Technology. It contains chapters in the field of Ambient Intelligent Networks, which received highly positive feedback during the review process. The book contains research work, with in-depth state of the art from augmented sensors, embedded technology and artificial intelligence along with cutting-edge research and development of technologies and applications of Ambient Intelligent Networks. This book is intended to introduce ideas, methods, technologies of the future development of humanity, Science and Technology.

Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: 23rd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2010, Cordoba, Spain, June 1-4, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6096)

Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: 23rd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2010, Cordoba, Spain, June 1-4, 2010, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6098)

Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: 23rd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2010, Cordoba, Spain, June 1-4, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #6097)

Trends in Applied Knowledge-Based Systems and Data Science: 29th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2016, Morioka, Japan, August 2-4, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9799)

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2016, held in Morioka, Japan, in August 2-4, 2016. The 80 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. They are organized in topical sections: data science; knowledge base systems; natural language processing and sentiment analysis; semantic Web and social networks; computer vision; medical diagnosis system and bio-informatics; applied neural networks; innovations in intelligent systems and applications; decision support systems; adaptive control; soft computing and multi-agent systems; evolutionary algorithms and heuristic search; system integration for real-life applications.

Trends in Artificial Intelligence: PeHealth 2016, I3A 2016, AIED 2016, AI4T 2016, IWEC 2016, and RSAI 2016, Phuket, Thailand, August 22-23, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10004)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Pacific Rim Collocated PRICAI 2016 Workshops on Artificial Intelligence, held in Phuket, Thailand, in August 2016.The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The are organized around the following topics: e-health mining; image, information and intelligent applications; artificial intelligence for educational applications; artificial intelligence for tourism; emphatic computing;artificial intelligence and applications.

Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Engineering: Proceedings of ICAETT 2021 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #407)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies (ICAETT 2021), held in Riobamba, Ecuador, on November 10–12, 2021, proudly organized by Facultad de Informática y Electrónica (FIE) at Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo and supported by GDEON. ICAETT 2021 brings together top researchers and practitioners working in different domains of computer science to share their expertise and to discuss future developments and potential collaborations. Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topice-Businesse-LearningIntelligent systemsMachine visionSecurityTechnology trends

Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Engineering: Proceedings of ICAETT 2022 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #619)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies (ICAETT 2022), held in Riobamba, Ecuador, on 26–28 October 2022, proudly organized by Facultad de Informática y Electrónica (FIE) at Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo and supported by GDEON. ICAETT 2022 brings together top researchers and practitioners working in different domains of computer science to share their expertise and to discuss future developments and potential collaborations. Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topics:● Artificial intelligence ● Communications● e-Learning● AT for engineering applications● Security● Technology trends

Trends in Artificial Intelligence Theory and Applications. Artificial Intelligence Practices: 33rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2020, Kitakyushu, Japan, September 22-25, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12144)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2020, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, in September 2020. The 62 full papers and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. The IEA/AIE 2020 conference will continue the tradition of emphasizing on applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas. These areas include are language processing; robotics and drones; knowledge based systems; innovative applications of intelligent systems; industrial applications; networking applications; social network analysis; financial applications and blockchain; medical and health-related applications; anomaly detection and automated diagnosis; decision-support and agent-based systems; multimedia applications; machine learning; data management and data clustering; pattern mining; system control, classification, and fault diagnosis.

Trends in Biomathematics: Selected Works from the BIOMAT Consortium Lectures, Szeged, Hungary, 2019

This volume offers a collection of carefully selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the BIOMAT 2019 International Symposium, which was held at the University of Szeged, Bolyai Institute and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, October 21st-25th, 2019. The topics covered in this volume include tumor and infection modeling; dynamics of co-infections; epidemic models on networks; aspects of blood circulation modeling; multidimensional modeling approach via time-frequency analysis and Edge Based Compartmental Model; and more. This book builds upon the tradition of the previous BIOMAT volumes to foster interdisciplinary research in mathematical biology for students, researchers, and professionals.Held every year since 2001, the BIOMAT International Symposium gathers together, in a single conference, researchers from Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and affine fields to promote the interdisciplinary exchange of results, ideas and techniques, promoting truly international cooperation for problem discussion. The 2019 edition of BIOMAT International Symposium received contributions by authors from 14 countries: Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, India, Italy, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, United Kingdom and the USA. Selected papers presented at the 2017 and 2018 editions of this Symposium were also published by Springer, in the volumes "Trends in Biomathematics: Modeling, Optimization and Computational Problems" (978-3-319-91091-8) and "Trends in Biomathematics: Mathematical Modeling for Health, Harvesting, and Population Dynamics" (978-3-030-23432-4).

Trends in Cloud-based IoT (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)

This book examines research topics in IoT and Cloud and Fog computing. The contributors address major issues and challenges in IoT-based solutions proposed for the Cloud. The authors discuss Cloud smart and energy efficient services in applications such as healthcare, traffic, and farming systems. Targeted readers are from varying disciplines who are interested in designing and deploying the Cloud applications. The book can be helpful to Cloud-based IoT service providers, Cloud-based IoT service consumers, and Cloud service developers in general for getting the state-of-the-art knowledge in the emerging IoT area. The book also provides a strong foundation for researchers to advance further in this domain. Presents a variety of research related to IoT and Cloud computing; Provides the industry with new and innovative operational ideas; Pertinent to academics, researchers, and practitioners around the world.

Trends in Communication, Cloud, and Big Data: Proceedings of 3rd National Conference on CCB, 2018 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #99)

This book presents the outcomes of the Third National Conference on Communication, Cloud and Big Data (CCB) held on November 2–3, 2018, at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Sikkim. Featuring a number of papers from the conference, it explores various aspects of communication, computation, cloud, and big data, including routing in cognitive radio wireless sensor networks, big data security issues, routing in ad hoc networks, routing protocol for Internet of things (IoT), and algorithm for imaging quality enhancement.

Trends in Computational Intelligence, Security and Internet of Things: Third International Conference, ICCISIoT 2020, Tripura, India, December 29-30, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1358)

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Security and Internet of Things, ICCISIoT 2020, held in Agartala, India, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 23 full papers and 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions. The papers are organised according to the following topics: computational intelligence, security, and internet of things.

Trends in Computational Nanomechanics: Transcending Length and Time Scales (Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics #9)

Trends in Computational Nanomechanics reviews recent advances in analytical and computational modeling frameworks to describe the mechanics of materials on scales ranging from the atomistic, through the microstructure or transitional, and up to the continuum. The book presents new approaches in the theory of nanosystems, recent developments in theoretical and computational methods for studying problems in which multiple length and/or time scales must be simultaneously resolved, as well as example applications in nanomechanics. This title will be a useful tool of reference for professionals, graduates and undergraduates interested in Computational Chemistry and Physics, Materials Science, Nanotechnology.