This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, WASA 2014, held in Harbin, China, in June 2014. The 41 revised full papers presented together with 30 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including cognitive radio networks, wireless sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, distributed and localized algorithm design and analysis, information and coding theory for wireless networks, localization, mobile cloud computing, topology control and coverage, security and privacy, underwater and underground networks, vehicular networks, information processing and data management, programmable service interfaces, energy-efficient algorithms, system and protocol design, operating system and middle-ware support and experimental test-beds and models.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2013, held in Charlotte, NC, USA, in May 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of biomedical databases and data integration, high-performance bio-computing, biomolecular imaging, high-throughput sequencing data analysis, bio-ontologies, molecular evolution, comparative genomics and phylogenomics, molecular modeling and simulation, pattern discovery and classification, computational proteomics, population genetics, data mining and visualization, software tools and applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in November 14-17, 2022. The 30 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: AI and disease; computational proteomics; biomedical imaging; drug screening and drug-drug interaction prediction; Biomedical data; sequencing data analysis.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2021, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2021. The 51 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: AI and disease; computational proteomics; biomedical imaging; drug screening and drug-drug interaction prediction; Biomedical data; sequencing data analysis.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in December 2020. The 23 full papers and 18 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: genome analysis; systems biology; computational proteomics; machine and deep learning; and data analysis and methodology.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2020, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic COCOON 2020 was organized as a fully online conference. The 54 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. The papers cover various topics, including algorithm design, approximation algorithm, graph theory, complexity theory, problem solving, optimization, computational biology, computational learning, communication network, logic, and game theory.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2019, held in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2019. The 22 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: genome analysis; systems biology; computational proteomics; machine and deep learning; and data analysis and methodology.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2018, held in Beijing, China, in June 2018.The 24 full and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 138 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: network analysis and modelling; genomic data analysis; cancer data analysis; structure and interaction; HPC and CryoEM; machine and deep learning; data analysis and methodology; analysis and visualization tools; and RNA-Seq data analysis.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2017, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May/June 2017. The 27 full papers presented together with 18 short papers and 24 invited abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. They cover topics such as: biomarker discovery; biomedical databases and data integration; biomedical text mining and ortologies; biomolecular imaging; comparative genomics; computational genetic epidemiology; computational proteomics; data mining and visualization; gene expression analysis; genome analysis; high-performance bio-computing; metagenomics; molecular evolution; molecular modelling and simulation; next-generation sequencing data analysis; pattern discovery and classification; population genetics; software tools and applications; structural biology; and systems biology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2014, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in August 2014. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. There was a co-organized workshop on computational social networks (CSoNet 2014) where 8 papers were accepted. The papers cover the following topics: sampling and randomized methods; logic, algebra and automata; database and data structures; parameterized complexity and algorithms; computational complexity; computational biology and computational geometry; approximation algorithm; graph theory and algorithms; game theory and cryptography; scheduling algorithms and circuit complexity and CSoNet.