This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, ARC 2020, held in Toledo, Spain, in April 2020. The 18 full papers and 11 poster presentations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: design methods & tools; design space exploration & estimation techniques; high-level synthesis; architectures; applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems, MMB 2020, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in March 2020. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They are dealing with scientific aspects of measurement, modelling and evaluation of intelligent systems including computer architectures, communication networks, distributed systems and software, autonomous systems, workflow systems, cyber-physical systems and networks, Internet-of-Things, as well as highly dependable, highly performant and highly secure systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Model-Based Design of Cyber Physical Systems, CyPhy 2019 and 15th International Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education, WESE 2019, held in conjunction with ESWeek 2019, in New York City, NY, USA, in October 2019.The 13 full papers presented together in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The conference presents a wide range of domains including models and design; simulation and tools; formal methods; embedded and cyber-physical systems education.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Networks Research, MISNC 2019, held in Wenzhou, China, in August 2019. The 15 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: social network, social network analysis, data engineering, data mining, user behavior.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019.The 24 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions (of which 21 papers were rejected without being reviewed). The papers are organized in topical sections on general topics of data analysis; natural language processing; social network analysis; analysis of images and video; optimization problems on graphs and network structures; analysis of dynamic behaviour through event data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2020, held as part of Evo*2020, in Seville, Spain, in April 2020, co-located with the Evo*2020 events EvoCOP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications. The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics, including designing GP algorithms for ensemble learning, comparing GP with popular machine learning algorithms, customising GP algorithms for more explainable AI applications to real-world problems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2020, which was planned to be held in Eugene, Oregon, USA, in March 2020. Due to the Corona pandemic, the conference was organized as a virtual meeting. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: active measurement; security; best practices and conformance; domain names; topology and routing; topology - alias resolution; and Web.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2019, held in Palermo, Italy, in October 2019. The 22 full papers and 13 short papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: M&S of intelligent systems - AI, R&D and application; future challenges of advanced M&S technology; AxS in context of future warfare and security environment (concepts, applications, training, interoperability, etc.).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming, PAAP 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in December 2019.The 39 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The papers deal with research results and development activities in all aspects of parallel architectures, algorithms and programming techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2020, held in Dortmund, Germany, in February 2020. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers address various topics such as big data; database design; dynamics of information; information fusion; integrity and constraint management; intelligent agents; knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge representation, reasoning and planning; logics in databases and AI; mathematical foundations; security in information and knowledge systems; semi-structured data and XML; social computing; the semantic web and knowledge management; and the world wide web.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments, VSTTE 2019, held in New York City, NY, USA, in July 2019. The 9 full papers presented were carefully revised and selected from 17 submissions. The papers describe large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge as well as novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2019, held in Soria, Spain, in October 2019. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers focus on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability; Infrastructures, Energy and the Environment; Mobility and Internet of Things; and Governance and Citizenship.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2019, held in Hangzhou, China, in November 2019.The 12 full papers and 12 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers present applications of semantic technologies, theoretical results, new algorithms and tools to facilitate the adoption of semantic technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, MedPRAI 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in December 2019. The 18 revised full papers and one short paper presented were carefully selected from 54 submissions. The papers are covering the topics of recent advancements in different areas of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, such as statistical, structural and syntactic pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, computer vision, multimedia systems, information retrieval, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Andrei P. Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2019, held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in July 2019. The 18 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers cover various topics related to the Mathematics of Computing, Information Systems, Formal Languages, dependable and fault-tolerant Systems and Network, Automata Theory, and much more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Science, ICDS 2019, held in Ningbo, China, during May 2019. The 64 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 submissions. The research papers cover the areas of Advancement of Data Science and Smart City Applications, Theory of Data Science, Data Science of People and Health, Web of Data, Data Science of Trust and Internet of Things.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Innovations for Community Services, I4CS 2020, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January, 2020. The 16 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers focus on all aspects of: communities and social networks; information and system security; cloud and network security; communication and networks; and data analytics and e-governance.

The three-volume set of LNCS 11953, 11954, and 11955 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2019, held in Sydney, Australia, in December 2019.The 173 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 645 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural information processing techniques across different domains. The third volume, LNCS 11955, is organized in topical sections on semantic and graph based approaches; spiking neuron and related models; text computing using neural techniques; time-series and related models; and unsupervised neural models.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1137 and CCIS 1138) constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cyberspace Data and Intelligence, Cyber DI 2019, and the International Conference on Cyber-Living, Cyber-Syndrome, and Cyber-Health, CyberLife 2019, held under the umbrella of the 2019 Cyberspace Congress, held in Beijing, China, in December 2019. The 64 full papers presented together with 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topics: Cyber Data, Information and Knowledge; Cyber and Cyber-enabled Intelligence; Communication and Computing; Cyber Philosophy, Cyberlogic and Cyber Science; and Cyber Health and Smart Healthcare.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2019, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2019. The 27 full and 15 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers are organized in the following tracks: metadata and semantics for digital libraries, information retrieval, big, linked, social and open data; metadata and semantics for agriculture, food, and environment; digital humanities and digital curation; cultural collections and applications; european and national projects; metadata, identifiers and semantics in decentralized applications, blockchains and P2P systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2019, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2019. The 13 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented in this book together with 4 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers cover topics such as: smart contracts; formal techniques; access control; machine learning; distributed systems; cryptography; online social networks; images and cryptography.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019, held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2019.The 69 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Friendly Robotics.The papers focus on the following topics: perceptions and expectations of social robots; cognition and social values for social robots; verbal interaction with social robots; social cues and design of social robots; emotional and expressive interaction with social robots; collaborative SR and SR at the workplace; game approaches and applications to HRI; applications in health domain; robots at home and at public spaces; robots in education; technical innovations in social robotics; and privacy and safety of the social robots.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2019, held in Tromso, Norway, in December 2019. The 85 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: application and design of innovative learning software; artificial intelligence and data mining in education; augmented and virtual reality in education; computational thinking in education; design and framework of learning systems; educational data analytics techniques and adaptive learning applications; evaluation, assessment and test; innovative learning in education; mobile learning; new perspectives in education; online course and web-based environment; pedagogies to innovative technologies; social media learning; technologies enhanced language learning; and technology and engineering education.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2019, held in Magdeburg, Germany, in September 2019. The 15 full, 15 short, and 7 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: Semantic Web for E-Learning, Learning Analytics, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Assessment and Pedagogical Issues, E-learning Platforms and Tools, Mobile Learning, and Poster Papers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First IFIP TC 14 Joint International Conference on Entertainment Computing and Serious Games, ICEC-JCSG 2019, held in Arequipa, Peru, in November 2019. The 26 full papers, 5 short papers, and 16 poster, demonstration, and workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. They cover a large range of topics at the multidisciplinary intersection of design, art, entertainment, interaction, computing, psychology, and numerous serious application domains. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: mixed reality; virtual reality; entertainment algorithms; game design and development; interaction technologies; measurement and effects; and serious game applications.