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This book contains visionary and best papers from the workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, held in London, UK, during May 29–June 2, 2023.The 12 regular papers, 5 best papers and 7 visionary papers, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of more than 110 contributions to the workshops. They focus on emerging topics and new trends in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems and stem from the following workshops:- Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS)- Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA)- Workshop on Interdisciplinary Design of Emotion Sensitive Agents (IDEA)- Workshop on Rebellion and Disobedience in Artificial Intelligence (RaD-AI)- Workshop on Neuro-symbolic AI for Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (NeSyMAS)- Workshop on Multiagent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty (MSDM)- Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multi-Agent Systems (C-MAS)

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected best and visionary papers from the Workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2022, which took place online, during May 9–13, 2022.The 5 best papers and 4 visionary papers included in this book stem from the following workshops: - 13th Workshop on Optimization and Learning in Multi-agent Systems (OptLearnMAS);- 23rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS);- 6th Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS);- 10th Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS);- 1st Workshop on Rebellion and Disobedience in AI (RaD-AI).There was a total of 59 submissions to these workshops.

Modern complex multi-domain systems require increased efficiency, reliability and availability combined with reduced cost. This book contains papers on mathematical modeling and simulation of processes in various areas: in ecology and the environment, production and energy, information technology, samples of special purpose equipment, and cyber-physical systems. The outcomes presented in the book will be useful to specialists involved in the modeling and simulation of real-world system, management and decision-making models, production models, and software products. Scientists have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the latest research in a variety of solutions proposed by leading scientists and to determine promising directions for solving complex scientific and practical tasks. Chapters of this book contain papers presented at the 18th MODS International Conference, November 13–15, 2023, Chernihiv, Ukraine.

This volume IFIP AICT 693 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KMES 2023, from September 30th – October 1st, 2023, held in Krakow, Poland. The 15 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The accepted papers covered a large scope of topics related to sustainability in various contexts such as smart cities, agriculture, energy and gas production and distribution, industry, management and biodiversity.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference, Évolution Artificielle, EA 2022, held in Exeter, UK, during October 31–November 2, 2022.The 15 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of artificial evolution, including, but not limited to: evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization, coevolution, artificial life, population dynamics, theory, algorithmic and modeling, implementations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 16, which took place in Milos Island, Greece, in June 2022.The 36 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. LION deals with automatic solver configuration, parallel methods, intelligent optimization, nature-inspired algorithms, hard combinatorial optimization problems, DC learning, computational intelligence, and others. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Invited Papers; Contributed Papers.

Modern complex multi-domain systems require increased efficiency, reliability, and availability combined with reduced cost. This book contains papers on mathematical modeling and simulation of processes in various areas: ecology and the environment, production and energy, information technology, samples of special-purpose equipment, and cyber-physical systems. The outcomes presented in the book are useful to specialists involved in the modeling and simulation of real-world system, management and decision-making models, production models, and software products. Scientists have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the latest research in a variety of solutions proposed by leading scientists and to determine promising directions for solving complex scientific and practical tasks. Chapters of this book contain papers presented at the 17th MODS International Conference, November 14–16, 2022, Chernihiv, Ukraine.

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 20th International Conference on Information Technologies and Mathematical Modelling, ITMM 2021, named after A.F. Terpugov, held in Tomsk, Russia, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual mode. The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The conference covers various aspects of information technologies, focusing on queueing theory, stochastic processes, Markov processes, renewal theory, network performance equation and network protocols.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computing, LSSC 23021, which was held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, during June 7-11, 2021. The 60 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 73 submissions. The volume also includes two invited talks in full paper length. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Fractional diffusion problems: numerical methods, algorithms and applications; large-scale models: numerical methods, parallel computations and applications; application of metaheuristics to large-scale problems; advanced discretizations and solvers for coupled systems of partial differential equations; optimal control of ODEs, PDEs and applications; tensor and matrix factorization for big-data analysis; machine learning and model order reduction for large scale predictive simulations; HPC and big data: algorithms and applications; and contributed papers.

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 7th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2022, which was held online during May 18–20, 2022.The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Polyhedra and algorithms; polyhedra and combinatorics; non-linear optimization; game theory; graphs and trees; cutting and packing; applications; and approximation algorithms.

This book features a selection of extended papers presented at the 9th IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KM 2021, and the 1st International Workshop on Energy and Sustainability, AIES 2021, named AI4KMES 2021 and held in conjunction with IJCAI 2021 in August 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Montréal, Canada, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 15 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They deal with knowledge management and sustainability challenges, focusing on methodological, technical and organizational aspects of AI used for facing related complex problems. This year's topic was AI for Knowledge Management, Energy and Sustainable Future.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop post-proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2021, held in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 16 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers focus on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2022, held in Petrozavodsk, Russia, in July 2022. The 21 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88 submissions. The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: ​invited talks; integer programming and combinatorial optimization; mathematical programming; game theory and optimal control; operational research applications.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1565 and CCIS 1566) constitutes selected and revised papers from the 16th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2021, held in Taiyuan, China, in December 2021. The 67 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ​evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence; DNA and molecular computing; ​machine learning and computer vision.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2023, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, during June 5–9, 2023. The 49 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: preconditioning and multilevel methods; fractures and mixed dimensional modeling: discretizations, solvers, and methodology; machine learning and model order reduction for large scale predictive simulations; fractional differential problems: theoretical aspects, algorithms and applications; variational analysis and optimal control; stochastic optimal control and numerical methods in economics and finance; tensor methods for big data analytics and low-rank approximations of PDEs solutions; applications of metaheuristics to large-scale problems; large-scale models: numerical methods, parallel computations and applications; HPC and HPDA: algorithms and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2024, held in La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, during May 22–24, 2024. The 30 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: integer programming; graph theory; parameterized algorithms; approximation algorithms; integer programming for machine learning; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2023, held in Jinan, China, during November 25–26, 2023. The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The workshop focuses on subjects such as novel research, development and application of digital watermarking, data hiding, and forensic techniques for multimedia security.

The volume features high-quality papers based on the presentations at the ICOSAHOM 2020+1 on spectral and high order methods. The carefully reviewed articles cover state of the art topics in high order discretizations of partial differential equations. The volume presents a wide range of topics including the design and analysis of high order methods, the development of fast solvers on modern computer architecture, and the application of these methods in fluid and structural mechanics computations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Workshop, IWDW 2022, held in Guilin, China, during November 18-19, 2022. The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Steganology, Forensics and Security Analysis, Watermarking.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science-Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (IJTCS-FAW 2022), for the 16th International Conference on Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (FAW) and the third International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (IJTCS), held in Hong Kong, China, in August 15-19 2022.FAW started as the Frontiers of Algorithmic Workshop in 2007 at Lanzhou, China, and was held annually from 2007 to 2021 and published archival proceedings. IJTCS, the International joint theoretical Computer Science Conference, started in 2020, aimed to bring in presentations covering active topics in selected tracks in theoretical computer science.To accommodate the diversified new research directions in theoretical computer science, FAW and IJTCS joined their forces together to organize an event for information exchange of new findings and work of enduring value in the field. In addition to four keynote speakers, 26 invited speakers and 19 contributed speakers, IJTCS-FAW2022 organized Forums for undergraduate research, young PhD graduates, young TCS faculty members, female researchers, as well as a forum in Conscious AI and a CSIAM Forum in blockchain.The 19 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Algorithmic Game Theory; Game Theory in Block Chain; Frontiers of Algorithmic Wisdom; Computational and Network Economics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION-17, held in Nice, France, during June 4–8, 2023.The 40 full papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. They focus on all aspects of unleashing the potential of integrating machine learning and optimization approaches, including automatic heuristic selection, intelligent restart strategies, predict-then-optimize, Bayesian optimization, and learning to optimize.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 49th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2023. The 33 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 116 submissions. The WG 2022 workshop aims to merge theory and practice by demonstrating how concepts from graph theory can be applied to various areas in computer science, or by extracting new graph theoretic problems from applications.

This two-volume set, LNCS 13163-13164, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2021, together with the first edition of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ACAIN 2021. The total of 86 full papers presented in this two-volume post-conference proceedings set was carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. These research articles were written by leading scientists in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, computational optimization, neuroscience, and data science presenting a substantial array of ideas, technologies, algorithms, methods, and applications.​

This LNCS 13453 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 48th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2022.The 32 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 96 submissions. The WG 2022 workshop aims to merge theory and practice by demonstrating how concepts from Graph Theory can be applied to various areas in Computer Science, or by extracting new graph theoretic problems from applications.

This book contains works on mathematical and simulation modeling of processes in various domains: ecology and geographic information systems, IT, industry, and project management. The development of complex multicomponent systems requires an increase in accuracy, efficiency, and adequacy while reducing the cost of their creation. The studies presented in the book are useful to specialists who involved in the development of real events models-analog, management and decision-making models, production models, and software products. Scientists can get acquainted with the latest research in various decisions proposed by leading scholars and identify promising directions for solving complex scientific and practical problems. The chapters of this book contain the contributions presented on the 16th International Scientific-practical Conference, MODS, June 28–July 01, 2021, Chernihiv, Ukraine.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of Metaheuristics on 15th International Conference, MIC 2024, held in Lorient, France, during June 4–7, 2024. The 36 full papers presented together with 34 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The conference focuses on artificial intelligence, combinatorial optimization, computer science, graph theory, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, optimization, optimization problems.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of Metaheuristics on 15th International Conference, MIC 2024, held in Lorient, France, during June 4–7, 2024. The 36 full papers presented together with 34 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The conference focuses on artificial intelligence, combinatorial optimization, computer science, graph theory, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, optimization, optimization problems.

The two-volume set LNAI 13588 and 13589 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2022, held in Zakopane, Poland, during June 19–23, 2022.The 69 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Volume I:Neural networks and their applications; fuzzy systems and their applications; evolutionary algorithms and their applications; pattern classification; artificial intelligence in modeling and simulation.Volume II:Computer vision, image and speech analysis; data mining; various problems of artificial intelligence; bioinformatics, biometrics and medical applications.

The four-volume proceedings LNCS 13791, 13792, 13793, and 13794 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2022, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 5-9, 2022. The total of 98 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Award papers; functional and witness encryption; symmetric key cryptanalysis; multiparty computation; real world protocols; and blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Part II: Isogeny based cryptography; homomorphic encryption; NIZK and SNARKs; non interactive zero knowledge; and symmetric cryptography. Part III: Practical cryptography; advanced encryption; zero knowledge; quantum algorithms; lattice cryptoanalysis. Part IV: Signatures; commitments; theory; cryptoanalysis; and quantum cryptography.

This book collects select papers presented at the 7th International Arab Conference on Mathematics and Computations (IACMC 2022), held from 11–13 May 2022, at Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan. These papers discuss a new direction for mathematical sciences. Researchers, professionals and educators will be exposed to research results contributed by worldwide scholars in fundamental and advanced interdisciplinary mathematical research such as differential equations, dynamical systems, matrix analysis, numerical methods and mathematical modelling. The vision of this book is to establish prototypes in completed, current and future mathematical and applied sciences research from advanced and developing countries. The book is intended to make an intellectual contribution to the theory and practice of mathematics. This proceedings would connect scientists in this part of the world to the international level.

This book publishes select papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (FIAM-2021), held at the Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India, from 21–22 December 2021. Most of the papers deal with mathematical theory embedded with its applications to engineering and sciences. This book illustrates numerical simulation of scientific problems and the state-of-the-art research in industrial and applied mathematics, including various computational and modeling techniques with case studies and concrete examples. Graduate students and researchers, who are interested in real applications of mathematics in the areas of computational and theoretical fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, optimization and operations research, numerical analysis, bio-mathematics, fuzzy, control and systems theory, dynamical systems and nonlinear analysis, algebra and approximation theory, will find the book useful.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2022, held as a virtual event, in September 2022. The 33 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The main themes of the selected papers are computability, complexity, algorithms, information theory and their extensions to machine learning theory, and foundations of artificial intelligence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications, NMA 2022, held in Borovets, Bulgaria, in August 2022.The 30 revised regular papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions for inclusion in this book. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: numerical search and optimization; problem-driven numerical method: motivation and application, numerical methods for fractional diffusion problems; orthogonal polynomials and numerical quadratures; and Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods.

This book contains select papers on mathematical analysis and modeling, discrete mathematics, fuzzy sets, and soft computing. All the papers were presented at the international conference on FIM28-SCMSPS20 virtually held at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering, Chennai, India, and Stella Maris College (Autonomous), Chennai, from November 23–27, 2020. The conference was jointly held with the support of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Both the invited articles and submitted papers were broadly grouped under three heads: Part 1 on analysis and modeling (six chapters), Part 2 on discrete mathematics and applications (six chapters), and Part 3 on fuzzy sets and soft computing (three chapters).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2023, which took place in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in March 2023. The 30 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They cover topics such as: computational geometry; string algorithm; optimization; graph algorithm; approximation algorithm; and parameterized complexity.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Metaheuristics, MIC 2022, held in Syracuse, Italy, in July 2022.The 48 full papers together with 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers detail metaheuristic techniques.Chapter “Evaluating the Effects of Chaos in Variable Neighbourhood Search” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book gathers papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Mesh Methods for Boundary-Value Problems and Applications, which was held in Kazan, Russia, in October 2020. The papers address the following topics: the theory of mesh methods for boundary-value problems in mathematical physics; non-linear mathematical models in mechanics and physics; algorithms for solving variational inequalities; computing science; and educational systems. Given its scope, the book is chiefly intended for students in the fields of mathematical modeling science and engineering. However, it will also benefit scientists and graduate students interested in these fields.

This volume constitutes selected papers presented during the 8th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META 2021, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in October 201. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partiqally held online. The 16 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 53 submissions. They are organized in the topical sections on ​combinatorial optimization; continuous optimization; optimization and machine learning; applications.

The two-volume Proceedings set CCIS 1637 and 1638 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2022, held in Jinan, China, during July 8–10, 2022. The 77 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 205 submissions. These papers were categorized into 10 technical tracks, i.e., neural network theory, and cognitive sciences, machine learning, data mining, data security & privacy protection, and data-driven applications, computational intelligence, nature-inspired optimizers, and their engineering applications, cloud/edge/fog computing, the Internet of Things/Vehicles (IoT/IoV), and their system optimization, control systems, network synchronization, system integration, and industrial artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neuro-fuzzy systems, decision making, and their applications in management sciences, computer vision, image processing, and theirindustrial applications, natural language processing, machine translation, knowledge graphs, and their applications, Neural computing-based fault diagnosis, fault forecasting, prognostic management, and system modeling, and Spreading dynamics, forecasting, and other intelligent techniques against coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2022, which took place in Syracuse, Sicilia, Italy, in July 2022. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Optimization and Learning; Novel Optimization Techniques; Logistics; and Applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Iberoamerican Conference and third Indo-American Conference on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web, KGSWC 2022, which took place in Madrid, Spain, in November 2022.The 22 full and 3 short research papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers cover topics related to software and its engineering, software creation and management, Emerging technologies, Analysis and design of emerging devices and systems, Emerging tools and methodologies and others.

This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2023, held in Nový Smokovec, Slovakia, during January 15–18, 2023.The 22 full papers presented together with 2 best papers and 2 best students papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions.This workshop focuses on graphs problems and optimization; graph drawing and visualization; NP-hardness and fixed parameter tractability; communication and temporal graphs; complexity and learning; and robots and strings.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed workshop proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2022, which was colocated with ALGO 2022 and took place in Potsdam, Germany, in September 2022.The 12 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from21 submissions. They focus on topics such as graph algorithms, network design, algorithmic game theory, approximation and online algorithms, etc.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1601-1602) constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2021, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2022. The 124 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: aggregation theory beyond the unit interval; formal concept analysis and uncertainty; fuzzy implication functions; fuzzy mathematical analysis and its applications; generalized sets and operators; information fusion techniques based on aggregation functions, pre-aggregation functions, and their generalizations; interval uncertainty; knowledge acquisition, representation and reasoning; logical structures of opposition and logical syllogisms; mathematical fuzzy logics; theoretical and applied aspects of imprecise probabilities; data science and machine learning; decision making modeling and applications; e-health; fuzzy methods in data mining and knowledge discovery; soft computing and artificia intelligence techniques in image processing; soft methods in statistics and data analysis; uncertainty, heterogeneity, reliability and explainability in AI; weak and cautious supervised learning.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Mathematics and Statistics held on June 24–26, 2023, in Chongqing, China. It presents the most recent research and advances in various areas of applied mathematics and statistics, span from mathematical theory, calculation, modeling, simulation, to applications such as big data and image processing.

This proceedings volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the Dynamical Systems Theory and Applications International Conference - DSTA 2021, held virtually on December 6-9, 2021, organized by the Department of Automation, Biomechanics, and Mechatronics at Lodz University of Technology, Poland. This volume focuses on numerical and analytical approaches, while Volume I concentrates on studies on applications.Being a truly international conference, this 16th iteration of DSTA received submissions from authors representing 52 countries. The program covered both theoretical and experimental approaches to widely understood dynamical systems, including topics devoted to bifurcations and chaos, control in dynamical systems, asymptotic methods in nonlinear dynamics, stability of dynamical systems, lumped mass and continuous systems vibrations, original numerical methods of vibration analysis, non-smooth systems, dynamics in life sciences and bioengineering, as well as engineering systems and differential equations.DSTA conferences aim to provide a common platform for exchanging new ideas and results of recent research in scientific and technological advances in modern dynamical systems. Works contained in this volume can appeal to researchers in the field, whether in mathematics or applied sciences, and practitioners in myriad industries.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2024, held in Weihai, China, during 11-14, July 2024. The 59 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submission. They are categorized in the following sections: Optimization Algorithms; Adversarial Learning, Transfer Learning, and Deep Learning; Signal, Image, and Video Processing; Modeling, Analysis, and Implementation of Neural Networks; Control Systems, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving; Fault Diagnosis and Intelligent Industry & Bio-signal, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The present volume contains a selection of papers from the XVIII International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, and Applications (HYP2022), which was held on June 20-24, 2022 in Málaga (Spain). The goal of this series of conferences is to bring together scientists with interests in the theoretical, applied, and computational aspects of hyperbolic partial differential equations (systems of hyperbolic conservation laws, wave equations, etc.) and of related mathematical models. The chapters in this volume correspond to selected contributions related to numerical aspects and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2024, held in Kanazawa, Japan, during March 18–20, 2024. The 28 full papers presented in this book, together with two extended abstracts of invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. They cover diverse areas of algorithms and computation, that is, approximation algorithms, algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, combinatorial algorithms, combinatorial optimization, computational biology, combinatorial reconfiguration, computational complexity, computational geometry, discrete geometry, data structures, experimental algorithm methodologies, graph algorithms, graph drawing, parallel and distributed algorithms, parameterized algorithms, parameterized complexity, network optimization, online algorithms, randomized algorithms, and string algorithms.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Experimental and Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ICECME 2022), held as a virtual conference and organized by Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on September 14–15, 2022.This book, prepared by international scientists and engineers, covers the latest advances in computational mechanics, metallurgy and material science, energy systems, manufacturing processing systems, industrial and system engineering, biomechanics, artificial intelligence, micro-/nano-engineering, micro-electro-mechanical system, machine learning, mechatronics, and engineering design. This book is intended for academics, including graduate students and researchers, as well as industrial practitioners working in the areas of experimental and computational mechanics.