This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2018, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2018. The 50 full papers and the 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: computer and communication networks architecture optimization; control in computer and communication networks; performance and QoS/QoE evaluation in wireless networks; analytical modeling and simulation of next-generation communications systems; queueing theory and reliability theory applications in computer networks; wireless 4G/5G networks, cm- and mm-wave radio technologies; RFID technology and its application in intellectual transportation networks; Internet of Things, wearables, and applications of distributed information systems; probabilistic and statistical models in information systems; mathematical modeling of high-tech systems; mathematical modeling and control problems; distributed and cloud computing systems, big data analytics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2018, held in Leipzig, Germany, in September 2018. The 79 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing, including recognition, synthesis, understanding and related domains like signal processing, language and text processing, computational paralinguistics, multi-modal speech processing or human-computer interaction.

There has been a surging interest in developing systems for analyzing big graphs generated by real applications, such as online social networks and knowledge graphs. This book aims to help readers get familiar with the computation models of various graph processing systems with minimal time investment. This book is organized into three parts, addressing three popular computation models for big graph analytics: think-like-a-vertex, think-likea- graph, and think-like-a-matrix. While vertex-centric systems have gained great popularity, the latter two models are currently being actively studied to solve graph problems that cannot be efficiently solved in vertex-centric model, and are the promising next-generation models for big graph analytics. For each part, the authors introduce the state-of-the-art systems, emphasizing on both their technical novelties and hands-on experiences of using them. The systems introduced include Giraph, Pregel+, Blogel, GraphLab, CraphChi, X-Stream, Quegel, SystemML, etc. Readers will learn how to design graph algorithms in various graph analytics systems, and how to choose the most appropriate system for a particular application at hand. The target audience for this book include beginners who are interested in using a big graph analytics system, and students, researchers and practitioners who would like to build their own graph analytics systems with new features.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First APWeb-WAIM 2018 Workshops, held jointly with the Second International Joint Conference APWeb-WAIM 2018 in Macau, China, in July 2018. The 31 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers originating from five workshops present cutting-edge ideas, results, experiences, techniques, and tools from all aspects of web data management with the focus on mobile web data analytics; knowledge graph management and analysis; data management and mining on MOOCs; Big data analytics for healthcare; data science.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop post-proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2017 as part of ALGO 2017. The 23 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. Topics of interest for WAOA 2017 were: graph algorithms; inapproximability results; network design; packing and covering; paradigms for the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms; parameterized complexity; scheduling problems; algorithmic game theory; coloring and partitioning; competitive analysis; computational advertising; computational finance; cuts and connectivity; geometric problems; mechanism design; resource augmentation; and real-world applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Big data Technologies and Applications, BDTA 2016, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2016. BDTA 2016 was collocated with the First International Workshop on Internet of Things, Social Network, and Security in Big Data, ISSB 2016 and the First International Workshop on Digital Humanity with Big Data, DiHuBiDa 2016. The 17 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions and handle theoretical foundations and practical applications which premise the new generation of data analytics and engineering.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2018, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2018. The 21 full papers presented together with 5 poster and 2 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. This conference desired to look for inspiration in diverse areas (e.g., infrastructure and system design, software development, big data, control theory, artificial intelligence, IoT, self-adaptation, emerging models, paradigms, applications and technologies related to Internet-based distributed systems) to develop new ways to design and mange such complex and adaptive computation resources.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International ICT Innovations Conference, ICT Innovations 2018, held in Ohrid, Macedonia, in September 2018.The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. They cover the following topics:sensor applications and deployments, embedded and cyber-physical systems, robotics, network architectures, cloud computing, software infrastructure, software creation and management, models of computation, computational complexity and cryptography, design and analysis of algorithms, mathematical optimization, probability and statistics, data management systems, data mining, human computer interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence, machine learning, life and medical sciences, health care information systems, bioinformatics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2018, held in Paris, France, in July 2018.The 40 full and 18 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The theme of the conference targeted at the intersection of research on novel life-like technologies inspired by the scientific investigation of biological systems, biomimetics, and research that seeks to interface biological and artificial systems to create biohybrid systems.

Research and development on optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks have matured considerably. While optics and electronics should be used appropriately for transmission and switching hardware, note that "intelligence'' in any network comes from "software,'' for network control, management, signaling, traffic engineering, network planning, etc.The role of software in creating powerful network architectures for optical WDM networks is emphasized. Optical WDM Networks is a textbook for graduate level courses. Its focus is on the networking aspects of optical networking, but it also includes coverage of physical layers in optical networks. The author introduces WDM and its enabling technologies and discusses WDM local, access, metro, and long-haul network architectures. Each chapter is self-contained, has problems at the end of each chapter, and the material is organized for self study as well as classroom use. The material is the most recent and timely in capturing the state-of-the-art in the fast-moving field of optical WDM networking.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the First International Conference on Computing, Analytics and Networks, ICAN 2017, held in Rajpura, India, in October 2017.The 20 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Mobile Cloud Computing; Big Data Analytics; Secure Networks. Five papers in this book are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. For further details, please see the copyright page.

This two-volume set LNCS 10954 and LNCS 10955 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 10956 - the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2018. The 275 full papers and 72 short papers of the three proceedings volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 632 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as Neural Networks.- Pattern Recognition.- Image Processing.- Intelligent Computing in Robotics.- Intelligent Control and Automation.- Intelligent Data Analysis and Prediction.- Fuzzy Theory and Algorithms.- Supervised Learning.- Unsupervised Learning.- Kernel Methods and Supporting Vector Machines.- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.- Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.- Gene Expression Array Analysis.- Systems Biology.- Computational Genomics.- Computational Proteomics.- Gene Regulation Modeling and Analysis.- Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction.- Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics.- Structure Prediction and Folding.- Evolutionary Optimization for Scheduling.- High-Throughput Biomedical Data Integration and Mining.- Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications.- Heuristic Optimization Algorithms for Real-World Applications.- Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization and Its Applications.- Swarm Evolutionary Algorithms for Scheduling and Combinatorial.- Optimization.- Swarm Intelligence and Applications in Combinatorial Optimization.- Advances in Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithm.- Advances in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Techniques.- AI in Biomedicine.- Bioinformatics.- Biometrics Recognition.- Information Security.- Virtual Reality and Human-Computer Interaction.- Healthcare Informatics Theory and Methods.- Intelligent Computing in Computer Vision.- Intelligent Agent and Web Applications.- Reinforcement Learning.- Machine Learning.- Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Biological Systems.- Biomedical Data Modeling and Mining.- Cheminformatics.- Intelligent Computing in Computational Biology.- Protein Structure and Function Prediction.- Biomarker Discovery.- Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Theory and Application in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology.- IoT and Smart Data.- Intelligent Systems and Applications for Bioengineering.- Evolutionary Optimization: Foundations and Its Applications to Intelligent Data Analytics.- Protein and Gene Bioinformatics: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications.

This book (CCIS 899) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Applications of Computing and Communication Technologies, ICACCT 2018, held in Delhi, India, in March 2018. The 30 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on communication and system technologies, computing and network technologies, application and services.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practices, WISTP 2017, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 2017. The 8 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: security in emerging systems; security of data; trusted execution; defenses and evaluation; and protocols and algorithms.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security, FNSS 2018, held in Paris, France, in July 2018. The 14 full papers and two short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on secure design and verication; security, privacy and ethics; big data and applications of future network systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Space Information Network, SINC 2016, held in Kunming, China, in August 2016. The 18 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions.The theme of the conference encompasses new progress and development tendency of the space information network and related fields, There were 3 sections in the proceedings of SINC 2016 including the model of space information network and mechanism of high performance networking, theory and method of high speed transmission in space dynamic network, and sparse representation and fusion process in space information.

This two-volume set (CCIS 848 and CCIS 849) constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence, GSKI 2017, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in December 2018.The 142 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 579 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on smart city in resource management and sustainable ecosystem; spatial data acquisition through RS and GIS in resource management and sustainable ecosystem; ecological and environmental data processing and management; advanced geospatial model and analysis for understanding ecological and environmental process; applications of geo-informatics in resource management and sustainable ecosystem.

This two-volume set (CCIS 848 and CCIS 849) constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence, GSKI 2017, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in December 2018.The 142 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 579 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on smart city in resource management and sustainable ecosystem; spatial data acquisition through RS and GIS in resource management and sustainable ecosystem; ecological and environmental data processing and management; advanced geospatial model and analysis for understanding ecological and environmental process; applications of geo-informatics in resource management and sustainable ecosystem.

SAS ODS graphics users will learn in this book how to visually understand and communicate the significance of data to deliver images for quick and easy insight, with precise numbers. Many charts or plots require the viewer to run the eye from a bar end or plot point to some point on an axis, and then to interpolate between tick marks to estimate the value. Some design choices can lead to wrong conclusions or mistaken impressions. Graphic software relies on defaults to deliver something if you make a minimal effort, but that something is not likely to be exactly what you want. Visual Data Insights Using SAS ODS Graphics provides examples using experience-based design principles. It presents examples of bar charts, pie charts, and trend lines or time series plots, the graph types commonly used in business, other organizations, and the media for visual insight into data. Newer graphs are also included: dot plots, needle plots, waterfall charts, butterfly charts, heat maps, bubble plots, step plots, high-low plots, and donut charts. In addition, there are basic tools of statistics: scatter plots, box plots, histograms, fit and confidence plots, and distributions. Author LeRoy Bessler introduces unique creations, including sparsely annotated time series, maximally informative bar charts, better box plots, histograms based on interesting atypical rationales, and much more. The examples use SAS sample data sets as input. Any SAS user can experiment with the code presented to see what else is possible, or adapt it to repurpose the design and apply it with a customized version of that code. What You'll Learn Create graphs that are easily and quickly interpreted, and without ambiguity Supply precise data values that are correct on the graph and correctly associated with the graphic visual elements Take advantage of widely applicable (but not necessarily available elsewhere) design examples Avoid bad practices that are encouraged by poor examples elsewhere Get past sub-optimal designs and results that are built into software defaults Take advantage of less familiar capabilities available in the software Who This Book Is For SAS software users who want to understand their data and/or visually deliver their results

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Workshop on New Frontiers in Quantitative Methods in Informatics, InfQ 2017, held in Venice, Italy, in December 2017. The 11 revised full papers and the one revised short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on networking and mobile applications; applications of quantitative modeling; big data processing and IoT; theory, methods and tools for quantitative analysis.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computer Networks, CN 2018, held in Gliwice, Poland, in June 2018. The 34 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on computer networks; teleinformatics and telecommunications; queueing theory; cybersecurity and quality service.

This two-volume set (CCIS 873 and CCIS 874) constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, ISICA 2017, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2017.The 101 full papers presented in both volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. This first volume is organized in topical sections on neural networks and statistical learning: neural architecture search, transfer of knowledge; evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization: optimal control and design, hybrid methods; data mining: association rule learning, data management platforms; Cloud computing and multiagent systems: service models, Cloud engineering; everywhere connectivity: IoT solutions, wireless sensor networks.

The two-volume set LNCS 10174 and 10175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in March 2017. The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as Cryptanalysis, Protocols, Encryption Schemes, Leakage-Resilient and Non-Malleable Codes, Number Theory and Diffie-Hellman, Encryption with Access Control, Special Signatures, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Real-World Schemes, Multiparty Computation and Primitives.

This two-volume set LNCS 10954 and LNCS 10955 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 10956 - the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2018. The 275 full papers and 72 short papers of the three proceedings volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 632 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as Neural Networks.- Pattern Recognition.- Image Processing.- Intelligent Computing in Robotics.- Intelligent Control and Automation.- Intelligent Data Analysis and Prediction.- Fuzzy Theory and Algorithms.- Supervised Learning.- Unsupervised Learning.- Kernel Methods and Supporting Vector Machines.- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.- Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.- Gene Expression Array Analysis.- Systems Biology.- Computational Genomics.- Computational Proteomics.- Gene Regulation Modeling and Analysis.- Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction.- Next-Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics.- Structure Prediction and Folding.- Evolutionary Optimization for Scheduling.- High-Throughput Biomedical Data Integration and Mining.- Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications.- Heuristic Optimization Algorithms for Real-World Applications.- Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization and Its Applications.- Swarm Evolutionary Algorithms for Scheduling and Combinatorial.- Optimization.- Swarm Intelligence and Applications in Combinatorial Optimization.- Advances in Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithm.- Advances in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Techniques.- AI in Biomedicine.- Bioinformatics.- Biometrics Recognition.- Information Security.- Virtual Reality and Human-Computer Interaction.- Healthcare Informatics Theory and Methods.- Intelligent Computing in Computer Vision.- Intelligent Agent and Web Applications.- Reinforcement Learning.- Machine Learning.- Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Biological Systems.- Biomedical Data Modeling and Mining.- Cheminformatics.- Intelligent Computing in Computational Biology.- Protein Structure and Function Prediction.- Biomarker Discovery.- Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Theory and Application in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology.- IoT and Smart Data.- Intelligent Systems and Applications for Bioengineering.- Evolutionary Optimization: Foundations and Its Applications to Intelligent Data Analytics.- Protein and Gene Bioinformatics: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications.

This SpringerBrief investigates cross layer resource allocation in unlicensed LTE (Long Term Evolution) HetNets. Specifically, the authors study and cover the radio access management of unlicensed LTE to allow efficient spectrum utilization and harmonious coexistence with other unlicensed systems in this brief. Efficient radio access protocols are developed to allow unlicensed LTE users to fair share channel access with unlicensed users in different systems, including Wi-Fi and unlicensed LTE of other operators. An analytical model is developed to study the performance of the proposed protocols. To achieve efficient spectrum sharing among various unlicensed users, the authors further formulate a resource allocation problem based on Nobel Prize winning game theory framework, and propose efficient algorithms to achieve the maximal user utility. Opportunistic traffic offloading from licensed band to unlicensed bands is also investigated, based on the network formation game. By exploiting the characteristics of mobile social networks, the offloading performance can be further enhanced. This brief targets researchers and engineers from both academia and industry interested in the development of LTE over unlicensed bands, as well as the design and implementation of cross layer radio resource management. Students studying electrical engineering and computer science will also find this brief useful for their studies.